Is there any serious movement to separate Sharia from the Afghan judicial system?
A [Judge Hashimi]: No. Sharia is not against human rights, so the current system and binding law is suitable for Afghanistan and its people. In the current framework, we can maintain our judicial system. Q [Abraham_Lincoln]: I understand that establishing an independent and strong judicial system takes time. So, in order to facilitate the process, it might be useful if a team of legal experts from western countries would stay in Afghanistan for a while and provide advices to Afghan legal experts there. Do you think such an arrangement would be helpful? Or, do you think that such an arrangement would be rather harmful and that a task of establishing the judicial system should be carried out only by Afghan legal experts? What kind of support can foreign countries possibly do for Afghan judicial system? I would appreciate your advice. Thank you. A [Judge Hashimi]: Western countries can be most helpful in providing assistance with the physical aspects of the judicial system – providing equ
