The Punjab
1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots....
government had filed a petition with the apex court against the decision taken by the Federal Shariat Court (FSC) to include Arabic as a compulsory subject in all school curriculums.
A hearing in the matter was held on Wednesday by a three-member bench of the SC, presided over by Justice Musheer Alam.
During the course of hearing, the court was informed that on October 22, 2010, the FSC had taken the decision to make Arabic a compulsory component of school curriculums across Pakistain and directed federal and provincial governments to take all necessary measures for progress in this regard.
A letter penned by the principal of Oriental College, Lahore, Zahoor Ahmed Azhar, was converted into an application and a decision was taken thereafter by the sharia court.
The letter had termed Arabic as one of the world's top languages and had also referenced General Zia ul Haq
...the creepy-looking former dictator of Pakistain. Zia was an Islamic nutball who imposed his nutballery on the rest of the country with the enthusiastic assistance of the nation's religious parties, which are populated by other nutballs. He was appointed Chief of Army Staff in 1976 by Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, whom he hanged when he seized power. His time in office was a period of repression, with hundreds of thousands of political rivals, minorities, and journalists executed or tortured, including senior general officers convicted in coup-d'état plots, who would normally be above the law. As part of his alliance with the religious parties, his government helped run the war against the Soviets in Afghanistan, providing safe havens, American equipiment, Saudi money, and Pak handlers to selected mujaheddin. Zia died along with several of his top generals and admirals and the then United States Ambassador to Pakistain Arnold Lewis Raphel when he was assassinated in a suspicious air crash near Bahawalpur in 1988...'s decision to declare Arabic a mandatory course from the sixth to the 12th grade.
It had also proposed the use of the Arabic language across various other fields besides education.
The Punjab government's counsellor Qasim Chohan argued that the sharia court did not have the right to make such a decision and that there was a distinction between such matters and those pertaining to religion.
After listening to arguments from both side, the court ruled the sharia court's decision as null and void, saying that such a decision fell outside the sharia court's scope of authority.