Sidra’s Reviews > Islam, Politics And The State: The Pakistan Experience > Status Update

Ayub Khan decided to put Islam in the service of his own election campaign and got 'ulama to give fatwas declaring that the election of Fatima Jinnah would be un-Islamic because a woman could not become the head of an Islamic state. Of course, the supreme irony was that the Jamii'at-i-Islami, reversing its previous stand on the issue of a woman becoming head of state, came out in support of Fatima Jinnah.