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" ISLAMIC PROVISIONS IN THE CONSTITUTION OF PAKISTAN, 1973 ISLAMIC PROVISIONS IN THE CONSTITUTION OF PAKISTAN, 1973   By   Asif Saeed Khan Khosa, Advocate, Supreme Court of Pakistan.   There are different theories as to why the Muslims of India demanded a separate homeland for themselves in the first half of this century. Some believe that it was for economic reasons and others maintain that it was purely on religious compulsions. However, the fact remains, and there is no denying it, that it was in the name of Islam that Pakistan emerged on the map of the world and the grund norm of the new State and its society, which came to be known as the Ideology of Pakistan, was nothing but Muslim faith. Before embarking upon the task of framing of our first Constitution this ideology was translated into words in precise form by the first Constituent Assembly of Pakistan in a resolution passed by it in the year 1949. This resolution, known as the "Objectives Resolution", provided as follows:   "Whereas sovereignty over the entire universe belongs to Allah Almighty alone and the authority which He has delegated to the State of Pakistan, through its people for being exercised within the limits prescribed by Him is a sacred trust;   This Constituent Assembly representing the people of Pakistan resolves to frame a Constitution for the sovereign independent State of Pakistan;   Wherein the State shall exercise its powers and authority through the chosen representatives of the people;   Wherein the principles of democracy, freedom, equality, tolerance and social justice as enunciated by Islam shall be fully observed;   Wherein the Muslims shall be enabled to order their lives in the individual and collective spheres in accordance…