[DAWN] The government is reluctant to register a case against the Shohada Foundation and students of Jamia Hafsa... the Islamic nunnery maintained by Lal Masjid....
on charges of waging war against the state and inviting the self-styled Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling
Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
Death Eater group -- commonly known by its Arabic acronym Daesh -- to avenge Operation Silence, which was launched against the Lal Masjid
...literally the
Red Mosque, located in Islamabad and frequented by all sorts of high govt officials. The proprietors, Ghazi Abdul Rasheed and Maulana Abdul Aziz Ghazi, unleashed their Islamic storm troopers on the city, shutting down whorehouses and beating people up who weren't devout enough. The Musharraf govt put an end to the nonsense by besieging the place. Abdul Aziz Ghazi was nabbed while he was trying to escape dressed up like a girl. BBC reported that the corpse count at 173, but other claims, usually hysterical, say there were up to 1000 titzup. Among their number was Abdul Rashid Ghazi. Everyone then said tut-tut and what a nice guy he had been...
in 2007, officials of the interior ministry and coppers told Dawn.
Shohada Foundation is a domino mask of Lal Masjid.
In December, the Shohada Foundation had issued a blurb and a video message, inviting the head of Daesh to come to Pakistain to avenge the deaths of their brethren.
After the blurb and video message went public, a report was prepared by Superintendent of Police City Rizwan Omar Gondal and sent to Inspector General of Police Tahir Alam Khan for further legal action.
The prosecution department also suggested that because the matter related to the illusory sovereignty of the country, the case should be sent to the appropriate forum and legal advice sought before proceeding further.
The legal opinion was then sent to the interior ministry with the recommendation that a case be registered under the suggested PPC sections, officials said, adding that so far, written directives in the case had yet to be issued.
According to an official from the interior ministry, "coppers reminded a senior government functionary in a few meetings, but were asked to wait for a response. Now, whenever the senior functionary is reminded about the matter, he expresses his displeasure in no unclear terms."
The official said that the last time the case was mentioned, the functionary had replied that "The government has categorically denied the presence of Daesh in the country and the government strongly and firmly stands by this denial."
"Taking legal action against supporters and followers who had pledged allegiance to Daesh would lead to a panic and the issue would be unnecessarily highlighted," the official quoted the functionary as saying.
"Those who pledge support to Daesh or distribute literature or carry out wall-chalkings should not be booked now, because that would only spread fear among the populous."
A senior police official, speaking on condition of anonymity
... for fear of being murdered...
, told Dawn that, "The police had done their job in the first week of January, but high-ups are refusing to register a case."
Sarfaraz Hussain, who deals with the media on behalf of the interior ministry, denied that the ministry had issued any such directives in this case. Adeel Sattar, another ministry official, refused to comment on the matter.