Zia’s Islamization paired economic liberalization with punitive religious law that stripped women’s legal protection

Evidence

However, neoliberal economic policies were not matched by social liberalism. The 1980s also saw Zia’s infamous “Islamization” campaign of legal and educational reforms. These reforms included the imposition of a strict, punitive, religiously sanctioned penal code to be implemented by sharia courts. The most controversial components of this Islamic law code were the Hudood Ordinances, which prescribed harsh punishments for offenses. The new code also discriminated against women, stripping them of much legal protection and reducing the value apportioned to a woman’s testimony in court to half that of a man’s. — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 387

Categorization

• XREF: Background relevant to Hamid’s contexts in The Reluctant Fundamentalist and general Pakistan history framing; gives factual grounding for the reader’s novels about Pakistan. — connects to: State Islamization policies backfired by graduating Islamist militants into the system; Bhutto’s Islamic socialism was supplanted by Zia’s US-backed liberalizing military rule. — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 386; Zia’s 1977 coup and Islamization drove educated Pakistanis to emigrate — Junaid Rana, Terrifying Muslims: Race and Labor in…, 580 (+2 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: State Islamization policies backfired by graduating Islamist militants into the system; Bhutto’s Islamic socialism was supplanted by Zia’s US-backed liberalizing military rule. — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 386; Zia’s 1977 coup and Islamization drove educated Pakistanis to emigrate — Junaid Rana, Terrifying Muslims: Race and Labor in…, 580 (+2 more)