Pakistan goverment agrees to accept enforcement of Sharia

[Shammu]

Govt accepts Lal Masjid demands: All issues settled: Shujaat

By Syed Irfan Raza

ISLAMABAD, April 24: The government has agreed to accept all demands put forward by the Lal Masjid management, including the enforcement of Sharia in the country.

The second round of talks started on Tuesday night when Pakistan Muslim League president Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain paid a surprise visit to Lal Masjid and met its in-charge Maulana Abdul Aziz and deputy in-charge Maulana Abdul Rashid Ghazi.

The PML chief assured the mosque administration and girl students of Jamia Hasfa that the government was ready to accept all their demands, including the enforcement of Sharia.

more......... http://www.dawn.com/2007/04/25/top2.htm


*****note this is the same guy (Lal Masjid) who just called for Jihad against Musharaff*****

Lal Masjid cleric calls for 'jihad' against Musharraf regime

By ANI
Tuesday April 24, 11:18 AM
Islamabad, Apr 24 (ANI): Maulana Abdul Aziz, the chief cleric of the controversial Lal Masjid, has reportedly said that Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf's regime was "un-Islamic", and that it was obligatory for every Muslim to wage jihad against it for rule of law and speedy dispensation of justice.

He also said that Musharraf regime had failed to give the desired results.

"The government is un-Islamic and the present system and political hierarchy have failed to deliver," the Daily Times quoted Aziz as saying in an interview.

He added: "We have no intention to wage a war against the government leading to a bloodbath. However, if it launches a crackdown on Jamia Hafsa or Lal Masjid, of course our movement would automatically turn into a militant movement."

more......... http://in.news.yahoo.com/070424/139/6ewp0.html

In other words; terror and intimidation works

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Islamists' 'Death By A Thousand Cuts' Strategy Gains Another Slice

By Steve Schippert

Pakistan Muslim League president Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain visited Lal Masjid (Red Mosque) and conveyed to its two leaders that the Pakistani government has accepted all of Lal Masjid’s demands, including the implementation of Sharia Law in Pakistan. It is another example of the Musharraf government’s inability to contain the pro-Taliban and pro-al-Qaeda Islamist movement inside Pakistan. While ceding real estate to the Taliban-al-Qaeda alliance through the various ‘peace accords’ that handed terrorists South Waziristan, North Waziristan and Bajour agencies is troubling in its own right, this latest set of concessions is more troubling still.

First, it occurs not in the wild tribal areas that the Pakistani government exerts little control over. Rather, this latest concession takes place right in downtown Islamabad, Pakistan’s capital city.

Second, it cedes not territory but ideological ideals to violent Islamists aligned with the Taliban and al-Qaeda. Ideological ground is exponentially more difficult to regain once ceded than real estate.

more............. http://analysis.threatswatch.org/200...to-red-mosque/

This is one of those articles and is an example of the intimidation and terror I was talking about.

More muscle to Pakistan's madrassas
By Kanchan Lakshman

A macabre video circulating in Pakistan shows the gruesome death of Ghulam Nabi, a Pakistani militant accused of betraying a front-ranking Taliban leader who was killed last December in an air strike in Afghanistan.

The video, obtained by AP Television News in Peshawar, capital of Pakistan's North West Frontier Province (NWFP), on April 17, shows a 12-year-old boy slashing at Nabi's neck until the head is severed. A voice in Pashto identifies Nabi and his home at Kili Faqiran village in Pakistan's Balochistan province.

During a televised address to the nation as far back as January 12, 2002, President General Pervez Musharraf warned that the greatest danger facing Pakistan came not from outside, but from Pakistan's own home-grown Islamist radicals - "a danger", he said, "that is eating us from within".

This danger, more than five years later, has assumed menacing proportions. The rapid escalation of violence orchestrated by Islamist extremists across Pakistan in recent times and cumulative efforts to further radicalize the country have now led Musharraf's military regime to revisit the idea of madrassa (seminary) reforms.

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/ID25Df02.html