There are certain laws which explicitly written in Quran which does not need various interpretations, no one from Pakistan or the rest of the world has authority to change them, so if a country try to apply a certain law from the Quran to the people, yes they can protest within the boundaries of human decency, they can bring counter argument or leave the country, every nation is different with different culture and its people can adopt to those rules to a certain degree, For example I can never enforced Hijab on US society even if US someday becomes fully Islamic country, because its so radically diverse society and people there will always be those who will never get comfortable with those laws or restrictions, And that is why we as Muslims have a Objective Moral Authority or Law or Code which we are suppose to refer back to and that is Quran, and Sunnah. Would those rule and regulations work in 21st Century ? again that part is subjective, sometimes State show leniency towards protests against such rules and sometimes State use its power to enforce Law, it happens in every country. Russian enforce their law by force, US and West do the same, ME , India , East Asian countries.
The idea of Ummah (One nation) for all Muslim was an amazing concept if it could've worked, but it was never meant to work after the death of Prophet and first two Caliphs, the door for Fitnah was opened when Majoosi Lulu put the dagger in Umar Ibn Khattab RA back, Its been long time since we have a powerful Islamic leader or empire that enforced the will of state without having issues from within and outside, there is no universal one Ummah that a Muslim who is looking to live by the law of Quran can look to and find refugee, our leaders were bought/killed/turn on each other from a long time, people misuing and abusing the law itself plays a huge part in what people see and why they feel uncomfortable in even acknowledging the reality that certain laws are in Quran which like it or not, a Govt that claim to be run on Quran/Sunnah must implement even if it means they have to force it. Perfect example for it was Riba wars which was fought against the Apostates by Abu Bakr RA, no man in this world alive or dead can claim to be better than Abu Bakr RA apart from Rasool Allah and other Prophets, and when he tried to argue with them using logic and rationale they still refused to pay Zakaat, if he did nothing then just like a domino effect the entire Region and all those tribes will eventually have their own things which they change and Islam was lost in time. Today although we have more information available to us but in reality we are today more ignorant of the Laws and understandings of the text, and then we have those Idiots who will come and say, why we have to abide by those rules when we don't believe in your Quran/Sunnah etc, some say we have our own Prophet, some say Imam some say Walking Quran etc, but all of them insist of claim the Title of the only righteous sect, Then on top of that we have those lost causes who say, oh why implement one rule from Quran when rest of them are ignored, so just because other rules are ignored you can't even try to implement one? Qurban jaon esi Souch pe.
Women have every right in Islam a true Islamic state (which doesn't exist) but today certain people wants to see everything as a competition, Allah does not want men and women to be a VS or duel he wants us to be partners and live on equal terms, he assigned certain roles to men and certain roles to women, and we are not the ones to question his will, because if someone Question the will of Allah over his own desire or think his/her subjective moral values surpass Quran than 21 toppo ki saalmi esi souch ko and if you are so confident that you have unlocked the secret of happy and progressive life than show me one country that can claim that its a Perfect dystopian society where river flows and rain ruby's, every society has its short comings, and just because from a different country and its prospectus those short comings does seems much but from their on POV they sure are. America, Premarital sex is not a issue in US society, women having sex as young as 11 or 10 or 14, young children opening selling their bodies on tiktoks or Onlyfans, public nudity, drinking from a third world country these problems looks extremely personal to those who are dealing with it, if someone's daughter is stripping for money that his issue not mine, if someone daughter is sleeping with a married man that's their problem not mine, but when see the widespread affect of those issues in the American society and you talk the people who are actually suffering from it, you see they won't describe US anywhere near Perfect country nor society, its just the matter of prospect and that is why Quran was sent down to set a standard for all mankind if not then at least all Muslims, but we have made a joke out of it unfortunately.