Provocative act; Where is the writ of the state when it comes to Maulana Aziz?

[Baby Leone]

MAULANA Abdul Aziz appears to relish provoking the state — and getting away with it. For the third time since Aug 21, flags of the Afghan Taliban were found hoisted on his Jamia Hafsa seminary in Islamabad last Saturday. The cleric, his wife and several madressah students were booked under the Anti Terrorism Act as well as various sections of the Pakistan Penal Code dealing with sedition, rioting armed with a deadly weapon, criminal intimidation, etc.

Videos on social media showed Maulana Aziz openly threatening the police with dire consequences at the hands of the Afghan Taliban. The flags were taken down after senior officers of the Islamabad administration and police held negotiations with the cleric. The FIR, meanwhile, was sealed but the government has decided not to pursue the case.

Interior Minister Sheikh Rashid told a press conference that out of the 511 mosques in the capital, “we have only had issues with one which we resolved through dialogue”.

Read: The people versus Abdul Aziz


Where is the writ of the state when it comes to Maulana Aziz?

While the hoisting of any flag is not a crime per se, in the case of the Afghan Taliban’s flag, the matter is a delicate one with international ramifications and the potential to deeply embarrass the government. But it seems that yet again the maulana, one of the principal figures in the infamous Lal Masjid siege, has been allowed to get away with actions that in the case of ‘ordinary mortals’ would have elicited far harsher reprisal.

The hard-line cleric has managed to evade the law with the dexterity of Houdini. In September 2013, he was acquitted of the last of 27 cases registered against him between 2001 and 2007. He has not kept a low profile since. Several times, he has defied the ICT administration to deliver incendiary sermons at the Lal Masjid, and even allowed the Jamia Hafsa library to be named after Osama bin Laden. Kid glove treatment will only embolden him and others of his ilk.

Published in Dawn, September 23rd, 2021

Provocative act

Afghan Taliban flags have been found hoisted at Jamia Hafsa seminary three times since Aug 21.

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[Sinnerman108]

Sure the write of state can be exercised,

what will follow is hamir mir and ansar abbasi crying about thousands of unmarked graves ( which don't exist) and a fasad of colossal scale
thereby misleading a population of idiots.

 

[Mav3rick]

Instead of 100 FU****S, why not go for 1 concrete action against the agitators for definitive establishment of the writ of state.

 

[Genghis khan1]

Last time mussraf screwed it up. Instead of dealing it properly, he tried to put on a show of force for western audiences and end up giving birth to TTP. Rest is history.

 

[Arsalan345]

This guy is a certified terrorist. He tried to escape in burqa during musharraf raid. He is saudia guy. Nobody can even touch him, not even Imran khan. He is bigger than Pakistan. I say transfer him to India and ask them to handle him. India can surely teach him a lesson. Because of his extremist views and his students, we have made India our bitter enemy. There is still time to look at our policies otherwise this country will become extremist Pakistan.

 

[jamahir]

Last time mussraf screwed it up. Instead of dealing it properly, he tried to put on a show of force for western audiences and end up giving birth to TTP. Rest is history.

Musharraf is one of the best rulers you had, the others being the possible governors Faiz Ahmed Faiz and his comrades in 1951. From my remote POV Musharraf opened up Pakistan for the better. His action against Lal Masjid was good. I wish the Indian military does a similar action against the right-wingers in India.

And how did Musharraf end up giving birth to TTP ?

The current government seems to be just pandering to the extremists - whether it be supporting the Taliban in Afghanistan or ignoring their Pakistani cousins or pandering to Lal Masjid by saying "Oh we have resolved the matter through dialogue" even if this maulana held a machine gun in his mosque in short distance from the police and also threatened them using the name of the TTP and the Afghan Taliban.

 

[Marker]

Too many threads on the same topic. Moderators please merge these threads in one.

 

[Maula Jatt]

Last time mussraf screwed it up. Instead of dealing it properly, he tried to put on a show of force for western audiences and end up giving birth to TTP. Rest is history.

monkeys were already their, doing dank shit - this was just a petty excuse they use

 

[khail007]

Maulana Sahib is the Nawaz Sharif of the religious population of Pakistan. No law on earth is for such filth, they are 'madar pidar azad' people and enjoying their lives on their own whishes. Scores of 'Jamuras' to safeguards their interests against 'plate of biryani/qeemay wala naan' are available to date.

 

[El Sidd]

Interior Minister Sheikh Rashid told a press conference that out of the 511 mosques in the capital, “we have only had issues with one which we resolved through dialogue”

For a government hell bent on single curriculum, this density of mosques in a small city like Islamabad does raise a few questions of all and every sort.

Red Mosque is one of the oldest one in the newly constructed city and would not preach anything different than 510 other mosques.

 

[truthfollower]

Provocative act

EditorialPublished September 23, 2021

MAULANA Abdul Aziz appears to relish provoking the state — and getting away with it. For the third time since Aug 21, flags of the Afghan Taliban were found hoisted on his Jamia Hafsa seminary in Islamabad last Saturday. The cleric, his wife and several madressah students were booked under the Anti Terrorism Act as well as various sections of the Pakistan Penal Code dealing with sedition, rioting armed with a deadly weapon, criminal intimidation, etc.
Videos on social media showed Maulana Aziz openly threatening the police with dire consequences at the hands of the Afghan Taliban. The flags were taken down after senior officers of the Islamabad administration and police held negotiations with the cleric. The FIR, meanwhile, was sealed but the government has decided not to pursue the case.
Interior Minister Sheikh Rashid told a press conference that out of the 511 mosques in the capital, “we have only had issues with one which we resolved through dialogue”.
Read: The people versus Abdul Aziz
Where is the writ of the state when it comes to Maulana Aziz?
While the hoisting of any flag is not a crime per se, in the case of the Afghan Taliban’s flag, the matter is a delicate one with international ramifications and the potential to deeply embarrass the government. But it seems that yet again the maulana, one of the principal figures in the infamous Lal Masjid siege, has been allowed to get away with actions that in the case of ‘ordinary mortals’ would have elicited far harsher reprisal.
The hard-line cleric has managed to evade the law with the dexterity of Houdini. In September 2013, he was acquitted of the last of 27 cases registered against him between 2001 and 2007. He has not kept a low profile since. Several times, he has defied the ICT administration to deliver incendiary sermons at the Lal Masjid, and even allowed the Jamia Hafsa library to be named after Osama bin Laden. Kid glove treatment will only embolden him and others of his ilk.

https://www.dawn.com/news/1647912/provocative-act