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| 2015-01-18 |
| [DAWN] WHEN an ambulance carrying the body of a Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistain ...a Sunni Deobandi organization, a formerly registered Pak political party, established in the early 1980s in Jhang by Maulana Haq Nawaz Jhangvi. Its stated goal is to oppose Shia influence in Pakistain. They're not too big on Brelvis, either. Or Christians. Or anybody else who's not them. The organization was bannedin 2002 as a terrorist organization, but somehow it keeps ticking along, piling up the corpse counts... Lion of Islam hanged in Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... Central Prison is showered with rose petals by well-wishers as pictured in this newspaper on Friday it demonstrates how problematic the death penalty is in religiously inspired militancy and terrorism cases. It clearly cannot be a deterrent for murderous Moslems whose very missions either involve blowing themselves up or launching attacks in which death is a likely outcome. Moreover, the hangings may only be inspiring other would-be More broadly, the question that is still unanswered is, what of the governments National Action Plan and the range of other measures the government is meant to take to combat extremism and dismantle terrorist groups operating on Pak soil? Some initial steps have been taken, but nothing close to a coherent strategy has emerged yet and the government, for all its meetings and blurbs, does not appear to have the will or the capacity to develop one. Where there has been movement, it appears to occur largely because of the militarys initiative or insistence that the civilian-run side of the state take certain steps. Surely, though, a militarised strategy to fight militancy and extremism cannot be a winning strategy. The PML-N government may have only reluctantly, and very belatedly, tried to own the fight against militancy, but being in charge of two governments in Punjab and the centre means the party leadership must play a central role. Where is the PML-N lacking? In nearly every department, starting from the interior ministry, which is still in the hands of a minister who fruitlessly pursued peace talks with the very same |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 The solution is to sentence them to hard labor in a rendition facility in Germany working in a hog farm. That way, no one will touch the body, they can't be a martyr and who's going to throw rose petals on something that smells that bad? |
| Posted by: Bill Clinton 2015-01-18 22:15 |