Faisal Ahmad Shinwari is the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Afghanistan. He was appointed to the post by Afghan President Hamid Karzai in accordance with the Afghan Constitution approved after the 2001 overthrow of the Taliban government. The Afghan Supreme Court (Stera Mahkama) is the court of last resort in Afghanistan. ... Hamid Karzai (Pushtu: حامد کرزي, Dari: حامد کرزی) (born December 24, 1957) is the current and first democratically elected President of Afghanistan (since December 7, 2004). ... The Constitution of afghanistan became the official law of Afghanistan when the 2003 Loya jirga approved it by the consensus on January 4, 2004. ... Flag flown by the Taliban. ...

By Western standards, he is widely considered to be a very conservative Islamist, and in his short term as chief justice some of the court's rulings include; Islamism is a political ideology derived from the conservative religious views of Muslim fundamentalism. ...

• the court, during the 2004 presidential election campaign, sought to ban a candidate who questioned whether polygamy was in keeping with the spirit of Islam;
• they have called for an end to cable television service in the country, at least pending government regulation, due in part to the apparent influence of films from Bollywood, which were allegedly prurient [1];
• the court upheld the death penalty for two journalists convicted of blasphemy for saying the Islam being practised in the country was reactionary [2];
• they banned women from singing on television [3]; and
• they ruled that a girl, given as a bride when 9 years old and now 13, could not get a divorce from her abusive husband, notwithstanding a law that makes it illegal for girls under 16 to marry [4].

Some Afghan watchers believe that President Hamid Karzai will make reforming the nation's Supreme Court a goal in his first term as democratically elected president. An election to the office of President of Afghanistan was held on October 9, 2004. ... The term polygamy (literally many marriage in late Greek) is used in related ways in social anthropology and sociobiology. ... Coaxial cable is often used to transmit cable television into the house Cable television or Community Antenna Television (CATV) (often shortened to cable) is a system of providing television, FM radio programming and other services to consumers via radio frequency signals transmitted directly to people’s televisions through fixed optical... Typical Bollywood movie poster Bollywood is the informal name given to the popular Mumbai-based Hindi language film industry in India. ... Capital punishment, also referred to as the death penalty, is the judicially ordered execution of a prisoner as a punishment for a serious crime, often called a capital offense or a capital crime. ... Look up Blasphemy in Wiktionary, the free dictionary Blasphemy is the defamation of the name of God. ... Hamid Karzai (Pushtu: حامد کرزي, Dari: حامد کرزی) (born December 24, 1957) is the current and first democratically elected President of Afghanistan (since December 7, 2004). ...