Absolutely, laws are made for people not people for laws -- and laws that are no damn good, like the blasphemy laws are detined for the dustbin of history, just like those who formulated such laws.
The Pakistani had suffered a humiliating defeat, it's very reason for existence had been, successfully, shown to be hollow -- The Pakistani state, as a successor to a colonial state (and in many ways just as colonial) never enjoyed the kind of legitimacy it always should have had and so with the defeat engineered by political elites in what was then West Pakistan, the Pakistan state sought a new narrative, a narrative that allowed it to b that cohesion in society and garner legitimacy -- The traitorous megalomaniac Z. A. Bhutto had calculated that with East Pakistan (the Majority of Pakistan) out of the way, he at the helm of his feudal based party could control what was left of Pakistan in the West -- The Islamist political parties had other plans.
The radical Jamaat e Islami had earned respect by the Pakistan army in particular, for the assistance it offered to the armed forces in their desperate struggle to contain the Mukti Bahini -- And the Islamists had a partner in the person of one General Zia ul Haq, fresh from the killing of thousands of Palestinians, some circles argue that the Pakistan army have killed more Palestinians than Israeli army ever did --
The Islamist political parties and Zia made short work of the Traitor, they then embarked on the project to make what was left of Pakistan in their radical image, the Soviets entrapped themselves and the "ally", US came calling - Islam-ism was grand, and Mujahideen all the rage (Bartenders in NY began serving a nasty, smelly martini called the "Muj") -- Iran went "Islamic" (read Shi'ah) - US money, and especially Saudi money, Egyptian and Israeli arms poured in Pakistan, an entire generation of Pakistanis learnt that it was better to be dead than prosperous and learned.
So while what passes for intellectual elites among Pakistan's so called establishment thought they will use Islam as a force or instrument of social cohesion and increase the legitimacy of the state and the reach of the state in the lives of ordinary Pakistanis, the Islam-icans had a project of their own, they were and are patient, they allowed the uniformed goons to imagine enemies where ever they choose, whether in Karachi, Kabul or in Kashmir -- all the while the Islamican project to Tribalize and then break what was left of Pakistan into fiefdoms in which and through which, radicalized armed "revolutionaries", new Muslims, if you will, would be unleashed on innocent Muslim societies first but then the entire world -- this strategy was in line with the two Jihad the Wahabi waged to secure control over all others on the Arabian Peninsula - this strategy is now close to bearing fruit, though some find such fruit , bitter.