After violent protests of TLP-trailers, the government in Islamabad has made a Pact with the Islamists party. Critics say, the authority of the state. Now the Chaos have free reign.
As Prime Minister, Imran Khan, on the 31. October in a televised address to the Pakistani Nation, claimed that he warned the Islamists party, Tehreek-e-and excellence Pakistan (TLP) in front of it, with the state power. On the day the Supreme court had spoken, the Pakistani Christian woman, Asia Bibi, from the accusation of blasphemy. Two upstream instances had you sentenced to death.
Many in Pakistan drew from it the hope that the government would take decisive action against any agitation of the TLP. But a day later, Prime Khan to China, and the hastily mobilized TLP traveled trailer loaded, the three largest cities in the country lahm: they blocked roads and highways, rioted, and damaged private and public property.
Pact with the Islamists
The TLP-party leaders said the judge had lifted the death sentence to unbelievers, and called on their followers to murder them. They called on the military to revolt against the General Qamar Javed Bajwa and the soldiers should remove the army chief. For three days the protests continued, then Khan’s government capitulated to the Islamists and settled on a questionable agreement.
Roadblocks, vandalism, and calls for lynching: the reaction of Pakistani Islamists on the acquittal of a Christian woman
Accordingly, the TLP should finish their country-wide protests – which she did immediately. In return, the government should be imprisoned protesters without charges, an intended appeal against Bibi not to block and to prevent the still imprisoned Bibi from leaving the country.
Death threats against free-spoken
This last part of the agreement could be the most for Bibi the most critical. Her husband, Ashiq Masih, said the family have been receiving for years, death threats: “We are not safe anywhere and are constantly changing our location,” said Masih in an Interview with DW.
Since the acquittal in the murder of the calls of the extremists are also against Bibi’s lawyer, Saif-ul-Mulook. The sat apparently, on Saturday morning to Europe, because, as he told, his wife would be threatened.
Islamists threaten government
“The government has agreed, the agreement within 100 days to implement,” said TLP-the speaker Pir Ejaz Shah. “If you don’t, go to our activists back on the road.”
In an interview with DW, he denied that TLP-top man Pir Afzal Qadri had apologised for the fact that he had criticized the military. Rather, the Shah, had apologized to the members of the government, the TLP that the judgment of the Supreme court have hurt the feelings of Muslims.
Historic Judgment
The Christian woman from the Eastern province of Punjab, was arrested in June of 2009, after neighbors had complained that she had made derogatory remarks about the prophet Mohammed. A year later, Bibi was sentenced – against great resistance from national and international human rights groups – to death for blasphemy. The Supreme court has cancelled this verdict and Bibi due to significant doubts as to the plausibility of the allegations acquitted.
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“It is a historic judgment, and it will help the harmony between the religions of progress,” said Ayub Malik, political analyst in Islamabad, the DW. “Bibi’s case shows how most of the blasphemy cases in Pakistan are constructed.”
The human rights activist Farzana Bari told DW: “It is a lighthouse-judgment. The judges and lawyers have shown great courage. But the Test for the government begins now – with the reaction of the extremists.”
Weakened State
In this Test Khan’s government is now apparently fallen through. The brevity of the period in which the official powers-that-gave ground, distraught and frightened, Pakistan’s Democrats.
“With the agreement, the government has weakened its authority to the extreme,” says Ali K. Chishti, a security analyst from Karachi, DW. “The step will destabilize Pakistan, and there are still more groups, such as the TLP, are blackmailing the state.”
Also living in the Netherlands is Pakistani Blogger Waqas Ahmed Goraya said that the government had “lost her authority”: “what is the reaction of the Pakistani state, if the TLP-chief Khadim Rizvi said this morning to the Caliph and his people on the road send?”, ask Goraya. “All state institutions have avoided the confrontation with the Islamist protest learning. The surrender will make the Islamists more powerful and more resilient.”
Pakistan’s international Isolation
Khalid Hamees Farooqi, a Pakistani Journalist based in Brussels, points to the contradictory signals sent by Pakistan currently: While they cheered in the diplomatic circles of Europe, the judgment of the Supreme court, has damaged the agreement between the government and the Islamists, the country’s reputation.
“The Rulers in Pakistan must realise that such actions by Pakistan to strengthen international Isolation,” said Farooqi of the DW.
Various Islamic groups are calling for in Pakistan, the death penalty for blasphemers
The future for “blasphemy victim”
Open the question of whether the government is going to ban Bibi’s departure actually and prevent. Zahid Gishkori Journalist in Islamabad, does not believe the. He suspects that the government is trying to win time: “Only the Supreme court or the government could have. And I don’t think that Prime-Minister Khan will do that. I do not see that the appeal to the Supreme court to be a success, after all, it was a unanimous verdict.”
Also Analyst Chishti believes that the government is going to prevent their departure. Chishti thought that Bibi currently residing in the Embassy of a friendly country, and there to your papers is likely to wait. Officially, she is still in prison. In any case, but the government had failed: “For other blasphemy victims life will now be even harder. The government has once surrendered more in front of fanatics.”
Experts fear that Pakistan’s control straight into even more Chaos, after the “father of the Taliban” Maulana Samiul Haq on Friday was assassinated by Unknown in Rawalpindi.
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