Karzai says will change Shi'a law if unconstitutional

Under the Afghanistan constitution, no law may contradict shariah law. Since the rape law is merely an application of verse 2:223 from the quran:

Your wives are as a tilth unto you; so approach your tilth when or how ye will

I doubt that they will find it contradicting their constitution. Reuters

KABUL (Reuters) - Afghan President Hamid Karzai promised Wednesday to make changes to a new law for Shi'ite Muslims, if any part is found to violate the constitution, after provisions on women's rights caused an international uproar.

Karzai said he had met the justice minister and the country's most senior religious leaders to discuss the law, which has already been passed by parliament and signed by Karzai but has not yet come into effect.

The law is meant to legalize minority Shi'ite family law, which is different than that for the majority Sunni population.

But it has provoked an outcry among Afghanistan's Western allies concerned about its potential impact on women's rights in the former Taliban state. U.S. President Barack Obama has called the law "abhorrent."

Karzai last week said Western concerns about the new law were "inappropriate" and may have been based on "misinterpretations," but has ordered his government to check it does not violate the constitution or Islamic law.