Despite the issue of the Ahmadi community having been settled through a constitutional amendment, a section of the clergy has kept the pot boiling in order to maintain its nuisance value.
Source/Credit: Pakistan Today
By Editorial | September 9, 2015
"Despite the issue of the Ahmadi community having been settled through a constitutional amendment, a section of the clergy has kept the pot boiling in order to maintain its nuisance value."
A vital section of the National Action Plan (NAP) which had remained ignored so far has been taken up for implementation. Finally, the civil and military authorities have sent a clear and firm message to those running the seminaries. They have to get their madarssas registered, reveal the sources of their funding and get their accounts audited. In case any of the madrassas was found to be involved in any kind of terrorist activity, including sectarian attacks, it would be subjected to treatment being meted out to the terrorists.
Despite enjoying the army’s backing, the government had continued to neglect the task of streamlining the working of the seminaries and evolving an effective mechanism of oversight. It had assigned the task to the Interior Ministry which handed over the hot potato to the Ministry of Religious Affairs. The two ministries wasted over eight months, hardly proceeding beyond impotent pronouncements. The Interior Ministry was as unwilling to proceed against the transgressing seminaries as it was to take action against the TTP. That the COAS had to be present when the seminary representatives were issued the directives was indicative of the lack of nerve or fear of defiance on the part of the government. This also underlined the tendency of the government to yield the turf to other institutions rather instead of undertaking bold action when required by national interest.
Despite the issue of the Ahmadi community having been settled through a constitutional amendment, a section of the clergy has kept the pot boiling in order to maintain its nuisance value. The day the organisers of the seminaries were issued a warning, a section of the extremists specialising in baiting another minority announced at Chenab Nagar that they would not sit quietly till the final resolution of this “mischief”. Unless the government deals with this brand of the extremists with an iron hand, there is a likelihood of others similarly challenging the NAP’s agenda of putting an end to extremism and terrorism.
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