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| Islam first Pakistan later: Maulvi Faqir |
| 2008-04-19 |
| A senior Taliban leader said on Friday that the removal of President Pervez Musharraf, a review of the country’s foreign policy and the enforcement of Shariah law in the Tribal Areas were required for lasting peace in the country, adding that “Islam comes first, then Pakistan”. “These three demands are a must for a lasting peace in the settled and Tribal Areas of the NWFP,” Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) leader Maulvi Faqir Muhammad told a jirga near Khar, regional headquarters of the Bajaur Agency. The TTP organised the jirga to brief people on their policy. He said the Taliban were following a ceasefire and that was why “there was a marked change in the security situation across the country”. However, he said jihad against the United States would continue. Losses: He said, “The US-led war in Afghanistan is actually aimed at destroying Pakistan. The Pakistan Army has suffered losses more than any other army after Musharraf committed Pakistan to the war on terror.” He told Reuters that the money offered by the US on Bin Laden’s head was “not even worth his cap”. The jirga concluded on an agreement demanding the government to replace the Frontier Crimes Regulation with Shariah law. MNA Akhunzada Chattan, who is from the Pakistan People’s Party, was among the signatories to the agreement. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 removal of President Pervez Musharraf, a review of the country’s foreign policy and the enforcement of Shariah law in the Tribal Areas were required for lasting peace in the country, adding that “Islam comes first, then Pakistan”. From his point of view, he is right. In this modern era of global transport and communications, Islam will not survive unless they can somehow do exactly what he has proposed. They are in a losing battle and they know it. The problem with Islamists is that they will happily blow everything to Hell rather than acknowledge that the modern world is washing over them like a rising tsunami. |
| Posted by: Woodrow Slusorong7967 2008-04-19 10:26 |