Bahrain: Any effort to mix religion with Bahrain’s national legislation will be vetoed by the Shura Council, it was declared yesterday.

The upper chamber of the National Assembly made the pledge as it voted down Members’ of Parliament amendment to the 2008 Pension Fund Authority (PFA) Law, which would have forced the adoption of Islamic finance principles.

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