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| Pak manufactures, appease terrorist organization | | Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan getting undue favours from Imran Khan | | Avinash Azad
Early Times Report
Jammu, Apr 29: Imran Khan led government in Pakistan is openly supporting terrorist organizations to encash their vote bank.
An incident of appeasement of the extremist group came into light this April when the government banned a far extremist right-wing fundamentalist group known as Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) on 15th April for its violent activities and started backdoor negotiations and agreements a week later. Even Prime Minister Imran Khan went a step ahead and said that TLP and his government have the same objectives.
The Pakistan government had started appeasing TLP after it threatened to launch an agitation against Pakistan government for maintaining good relations with France, despite that country indulging in blasphemy.
The TLP has been demanding expulsion of the French Ambassador. The government decided to bring a resolution before the Parliament in this regard. Pakistan's decision to bring a resolution demanding the expulsion of the French Ambassador to Pakistan is the latest in a long series of surrenders to the group and its radical agenda.
After the lapse of time to introduce the resolution, violent protests started again in which many people died and thousands were injured in violent clashes. As a result of this violence, the police arrested the TLP leader Saad Rizvi and other protesters.
Because TLP has a stronghold in public and has support across the country, Imran Khan does not want to upset its voters by ignoring the demand of the TLP.
By toeing their line he is also trying to prove himself as a good Muslim who cannot tolerate any blasphemous act. Imran Khan knows that this is the time to capitalize on the votes of TLP supporters. In the past also Imran Khan has supported the actions of TLP.
During the Faizabad sit-in in November 2017, the TLP was similarly indulged, perhaps on account of its potential to destabilize the PML-N government and cut into the party’s vote bank. The dharna, based on an entirely specious pretext, saw traffic between Rawalpindi and Islamabad brought to a halt for 20 days, causing huge inconvenience to citizens. The impasse was resolved only after a humiliating climbdown by the government when an army-brokered deal was negotiated with the protesters, who were given envelopes full of cash for travel expenses. PTI chief Imran Khan, in the opposition at the time, took an equivocal stance instead of condemning the TLP. If he had paid heed to history, he would have realized that if his ambition to come to power was realized, the ultra-right group would become a thorn in his side as well. But that would have required a far-sighted clarity of thought.
Later Imran Khan by appeasing the TLP leader said that the objectives of his government and TLP are the same.
He stated “the biggest effect will be that after great difficulty our economy is rising, the large-scale industry is getting up after a long time, people are getting jobs, wealth is increasing in our country, our exports are rising and after a long time, our rupee is strengthening. If we send the French ambassador back and end relations with them then this means we will break relations with the European Union”.
Pakistan has ignored the fact that terrorism is promoted by extremist ideologies. The central issue is not one of state capacity, but an unwillingness of Pakistan’s present government to paint all jihadist groups with the same brush. It has failed to recognize the linkages in ideology that connect them all and to acknowledge how those ideologies find a breeding ground in Pakistan’s laws, educational curricula, politics.
The underlying roots of extremism in Pakistan is its curricula, the way its politics works, and its laws, which have all prepared its people to sympathize with the propaganda of extremist groups. Pakistan’s claims about India deserve to be heard and investigated, as the international community ignoring them only worsens Pakistan’s sense of victimhood, but that does not absolve the state of its own policies that have fostered extremism and allowed terror groups to proliferate on its soil. |
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