The “Talibanisation” of Pakistan…
…is now a REAL possibility.
Close on the heels of mention in my last post about the Pakistani moral police, I came across this piece of news in today’s newspapers: “Pakistan minister earns clergy’s wrath for hug“. The report said:
“…A Taliban-style Islamic court here has issued a fatwa against a woman minister for posing in an “obscene manner” with French paraglider pilots and called on the Pakistan government to sack her.
The decree against tourism minister Nilofar Bakhtiar was the first to be made by the self-styled court at the Lal Masjid since mullahs announced its formation on Friday…”
While the Pakistani government ”condemned the fatwa”, it said it will try and resolve the issue with negotiations (Did someone say something about not negotiating with a guy who has a gun to your head?).
Later in the morning, came across this: ’Pak govt hand-in-glove with jihadis‘. To quote,
“…The top rights panel in Pakistan has accused the government for being hand in glove with the radical Islamists and encouraging the Talibanisation of the country while attacks on minorities, particularly Hindus in Sindh, continue unabated…”
The report slammed the government’s inaction following the raids on DVD and music shops and said, “The lack of action after the excesses committed by the female students of the Jamia Hafsa in Islamabad exposes the deep-rooted links between the military and religious jihadi groups in the country”
The HRCP said the dire warnings of forced Islamisation, suicide attacks and the setting up of a Qazi court by the clerics running the controversial Lal Masjid are even grimmer.
“…The panel report has also highlighted the attacks on non-Muslim citizens across the country. “False cases have been registered against Hindus in Sindh, where they have been especially targeted as a means of political victimisation” the statement by the HRCP said. It has also mentioned “attacks on temples, churches and other places of worship.”
Some of you may remember the article in Outlook on “Sindh’s Stolen Brides” and my post on this topic which the report commented on, “The trend of forced conversions, especially of young women, is continuing most notably in Sindh,” the HRCP said.”
Connect the dots - and be really worried.
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