E/CN.4/1996/95/Add.1 page 16 introduced to inculcate tolerance through preaching. In addition, the Government has forbidden the carriage of weapons at religious demonstrations. 75. Regarding religious schools, the Special Rapporteur has been informed that the authorities have been trying to make their financial support conditional on a say in teaching programmes, in order to offset political militancy. As pointed out by the authorities, Koranic schools, which have grown exponentially compared with public sector schools, have long been in receipt of finance from abroad, especially from Saudi Arabia. 76. With regard to publications, the authorities have introduced controls banning over 1,500 publications considered to create intolerance by inciting their readers to murder and persecutions. Publishers are threatened with arrest if they commit the above offences or adopt attitudes leading to such offences. 77. In the area of interfaith dialogue, a code of conduct has been drafted in conjunction with the leaders of the different religious communities with a view to preventing any intolerance. 2. Required measures 78. From the point of view of non-governmental sources, there is a need to change or even to abrogate some existing laws or parts of them (e.g. the laws on blasphemy, separate elections, the declaration of Ahmadis as a non-Muslim minority, the reference to religion on passports, the mention of religion in identity card application forms, or the laws on evidence), with a view to introducing new legislation which would be fairer to all components of society. 79. In this respect, some sources advocated a separation between State and religion, particularly as a source of law, in order to avoid any State interference in determining the content and mode of expression of religions and in order to establish clearly a citizenship entailing identical rights and duties for all regardless of religious persuasion. Opinion was also strongly in favour of promoting a culture of tolerance through the media, especially television, and through education at school and in the family. 80. Regarding the changes in blasphemy law proceedings (see under blasphemy law and related jurisprudence, paras. 14-16), the Ministry for Foreign Affairs assured the Special Rapporteur that the legal amendments would be introduced in 8 to 12 months’ time. IV. CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS 81. With regard to legislation, the Special Rapporteur would like to point out that an official or State religion in itself is not opposed to human rights. The State should not, however, take control of religion by defining its content, concepts or limitations, apart from those which are strictly necessary, as provided in article 1, paragraph 3, of the Declaration on the Elimination of All Forms of Intolerance and of Discrimination Based on Religion or Belief, and in article 18, of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. On 20 July 1993, the Committee on Human Rights adopted