National Assembly passes Nizam-e-Adl resolution

We want to take the house into confidence. We don't want to bypass

 the parliament,’ Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani told lawmakers. 

ISLAMBAD Pakistan's parliament on Monday passed a resolution urging the president to endorse a controversial deal for Islamic law in Swat that has sparked alarm about emboldening Taliba hardliners.Parliamentary affairs minister Babar Awan submitted a resolution to the lower house seeking approval for President Asif Ali Zardari to ratify Sharia Nizam Adl Regulation 2009, in accordance with legislative practice.Monday's vote comes just days after pro-Taliban cleric Sufi Mohammad, who signed the February agreement with the local government, lashed out at Zardari for not ratifying the deal and withdrew from Swat in protest.Sharia courts have already started working in Swat, a former ski resort ripped apart by a nearly two-year brutal insurgency, but where the North West Frontier Province (NWFP) government says the deal can bring peace.‘We want consensus of the whole nation. We want to take the house into confidence. We don't want to bypass the parliament,’ Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani told lawmakers.‘We appreciate the sacrifices made by the people of North West Frontier Province in the war on terror.‘We are committed to implement the system and the whole nation should support it,’ he added before the regulation was unanimously approved by a voice vote among those lawmakers in the chamber.Karachi-based Muttahida Qaumi Movement, a member of the coalition, abstained.‘We have our apprehensions, we will not take part in the vote,’ said MQM leader and cabinet minister for overseas Pakistanis, Farooq Sattar.Thousands of Taliban followers spent nearly two years waging a terrifying campaign to enforce sharia law in Swat -- beheading opponents, bombing girls'