Implementation of International Human Rights in Pakistan: Finding a Balance between Western Conceptions and Islamic Law
Implementation of International Human Rights in Pakistan: Finding a Balance between Western Conceptions and Islamic Law
Sana Khan
 
Abstract: Despite incorporating fundamental rights in its Constitution and being a signatory to multiple international human rights conventions, international human rights rating of Pakistan has not improved. At the broader socio-legal level, the underpinning of modern human rights in Pakistan has become an object of political wrangling between different stakeholders upholding their different versions of human rights. Some hold that the Western conceptualisation of human rights should be accepted and implemented. Others argue that Western conceptualisation of human rights is not in accordance with Shariah, and Shariah based approach to the understanding of modern human rights should be adopted. This article argues that the implementation of international human rights in Pakistan cannot be achieved without undertaking a serious debate aiming to assess reconciliation between Islamic and Western human rights values. Outlining the broader framework for such debate, this article analyses the challenges and possible solutions to finding a balance between Islamic and Western inspired human rights discourses in Pakistan.

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