Prohibition Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ====Pakistan==== {{Further|Temperance movement in India}} Pakistan allowed the free sale and consumption of alcohol for three decades from 1947, but restrictions were introduced by [[Zulfikar Ali Bhutto]] just weeks before he was removed as prime minister in 1977. Since then, only members of non-Muslim minorities such as [[Hinduism|Hindus]], [[Christians]] and [[Zoroastrianism|Zoroastrians]] are allowed to apply for alcohol permits. The monthly quota is dependent upon one's income, but is actually about five bottles of liquor or 100 bottles of beer. In a country of 180 million, only about 60 outlets are allowed to sell alcohol. The [[Murree Brewery]] in [[Rawalpindi]] was once the only legal brewery, but today there are more. The ban officially is enforced by the country's Islamic Ideology Council, but it is not strictly policed. Members of religious minorities, however, often sell their liquor permits to Muslims as part of a continuing black market trade in alcohol.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/03/10/1047144915849.html?from=moreStories |title=Lone brewer small beer in Pakistan |newspaper=theage.com.au |date=2003-03-11 |access-date=2010-04-25}}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page