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| Govt cannot arrest Khadim Hussain Rizvi because of Faizabad agreement, says Sanaullah |
| 2018-05-12 |
| [DAWN] Punjab 1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard 2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers 3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots.... Law Minister Rana Sanaullah on Friday said the government can not arrest Tehrik-e-Labbaik Pakistain (TLP) chief Khadim Hussain Rizvi because of the Faizabad agreement, which had contained a provision for the withdrawal of all cases against TLP leaders. "The government is not backing off, but there is an agreement carrying the signatures of the guarantor [an intelligence chief] and [representatives of] the government and we have to abide by it," Sanaullah said while speaking to the media. Rizvi, along with other leaders who participated in the Faizabad sit-in led by Tehrik-e-Labbaik Ya Rasool Allah (TLYRA) last year, has been declared a proclaimed offender by an anti-terrorism court. The sit-in, after turning violent following a crackdown by police, had concluded with an agreement wherein the government capitulated to most of the protesters' demands, including that of the removal of then law minister Zahid Hamid. Maj Gen Faiz Hameed of the Inter-Services Intelligence ...the Pak military intelligenceagency that controls the military -- heads of ISI typically get promoted into the Chief of Army Staff position. It serves as a general command center for favored turban groups such as Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Mohammad, tries to influence the politix of neighboring countries, and carries out a (usually) low-level war against India in Kashmir... (ISI) had signed the agreement as its ’guarantor’. Regarding the recent attack on Interior Minister Ahsan Iqbal and the attacker's link with Tehrik-e-Labbaik, Sanaullah said that security should be beefed up and the mindset giving rise to such incidents should be corrected instead. He demanded that the elements involved in "creating the mindset", which includes "some elements within the state", be held accountable instead. |
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