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| India-Pakistan |
| Soft-pedalling sectarian groups |
| 2017-01-12 |
| [DAWN] CHAUDHRY Nisar Ali Khan’s remarks in the Senate on Tuesday about sectarianism in Pakistain beggar belief. Not only are they out of touch with reality, they are deeply offensive, and -- given he is interior minister of a country involved in a battle against violent religious extremism -- cause for extreme concern. Responding to the senators’ objections about his meeting last October with the head of the Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat ...which is the false nose and plastic mustache of the murderous bannedextremist group Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistain, whatcha might call the political wingof Lashkar-e-Jhangvi... , Ahmed Ludhianvi, who had arrived as part of a Difa-e-Pakistain Council delegation, Chaudhry Nisar said that banned sectarian organizations could not be equated with banned terrorist groups. The Shia-Sunni conflict, he added, went back 1,300 years. His words outraged members of the Senate, triggering a walkout by the opposition. First, some basic facts. The ASWJ is a sectarian organization that has been banned earlier, initially when it was called Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistain |
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