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" ISLAMIC CONSTITUTIONS INDEX AND THE CONSTITUTION OF PAKISTAN ISLAMIC CONSTITUTIONS INDEX AND THE CONSTITUTION OF PAKISTAN By Kamran Adil, Police Service of Pakistan While Newt Gingrich, the former Speaker of the House of Representatives and the Republican Party Presidential candidate in 2012, observed that Shariah was a mortal threat to the survival of freedom in the United States, some academics in the US have tried to take a more objective and serious look at Shariah. Two researchers have jointly published a research paper in which they have developed a new Islamic Constitutions Index (ICI); the instant article will briefly explore the research conducted by them and will examine the findings of the research vis- -vis the Constitution of Pakistan. The Islamic Constitutions Index In an article styled as 'Measuring Constitutional Islamization: the Islamic Constitutions Index', Ahmed I. Dawood and Moamen Gouda from the University of Chicago have proposed the Islamic Constitutions Index. The final draft of the article is available on internet, however, where exactly it will be published is not yet known. The internet version of the article shows that it is divided into five parts. A synoptic look at the parts of the article will help better explore the gist of the article: part one of the article is devoted to the relationship of constitutionalism and Islam; part two elaborated the framework of Shariah; part three explained the model Islamic Constitution (which was developed by the scholars of Al-Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt in 1977 and has been used as a template for the research); part four described the methodological details of the empirical analysis, and part five recorded the concluding findings of the research. The methodology of the research needs some…