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| Pro-Taliban cleric Mulla Fazlur Rahman |
Source/Credit: Central Asia Online | Ahmadiyya Times
By Adnan Adil | November 26, 2010
Edited by Ahmadiyya Times
ISLAMABAD – Maulvi Faqir Muhammad, the deputy chief of Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan warned the government of serious consequences if it grants amnesty to the woman sentenced to death for blasphemy against Prophet Muhammad, BBC Urdu reported.
Faqir Muhammad, talking to BBC Urdu from an undisclosed location, said the Taliban would resist any move to pardon Asia Bibi, who was convicted by a lower court on blasphemy charges in Nankana Sahab, near Lahore.
Faqir Muhammad said Pakistan was an ideological state and said that a pardon because of foreign pressure was not acceptable.
Some extremist groups in Pakistan would like to see the Taliban version of Islam enforced in Pakistan.
Pakistan's Federal Minister for Tourism Maulana Attaur Rehman has recently likened Taliban's to the best example of Islam in practice.
“Ulema [clerics] and Taliban are the true followers of Islamic ideology and America is the biggest terrorist of the world, which is creating hatred against them,” Minister Rahman said to a public gathering.
-- Edited Ahmadiyya Times
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