Govt to unfreeze accounts of TLP seminaries: Sheikh Rashid

[VCheng]

TLP is not TTP.

The problem is not the acronym, the problem is untraceable cash flows to and from religiously motivated pressure groups, and the governments susceptibility to such pressures.

 

[R Wing]

IK govt and Bajwa have consistently mishandled extremism. A few examples that come to mind...

1. Letting PTM contest a seat unchallenged in the election, all that misunderstood brothers nonsense.
2. Buckling to the anti Qaidiyani pressure wrt Atif Mian
3. Negociating with TLP on the French issue in the first place
4. The release of Ehsanullah Ehsan
5. Failure to curb the return of the TTP
6. Failure to launch a full scale operation in Balochistan
7. Failure to fence and mine the border with Iran

Of course our legal system and judicary is to blame too. CJP Drama-baaz Saqib Nisar eventually freed Asia Bibi - but what was done of the 3 judges who convicted her in the presence of such shoddy/flimsy evidence? Or the police who charged her? Nothing. Why were hundreds of terrorists set free by the courts?

The govt itself is now playing a hypocritical role. Saad Rizvi was detained under some flimsy draconion anti terror legislation, they didn't respond to his lawyers and the courts declare his detention illegal months ago. Yet the govt continued. Imran Khan seems to have forgotten how Musharraf arrested him illegally under the same draconion laws in 2007.

You make mistake after mistake - at some point you're so exposed anyone and everyone can have their way with you.

100000% agreed.

You raise some excellent points. There is a really strange culture that has pervaded our entire national character in which the government authorities responsible for the actual crime often get nothing more than a slap on the wrist, if that. The SC recently ordered the demolition of an illegally-constructed building on encroached land in Karachi --- but where is the death penalty or at least 10+ years in prison for the regulatory authorities who approved it / didn't stop it?!

And the grand-daddy of them all: plea bargain. An open invitation for anyone with even a rudimentary understanding of investing to eat money, invest it, earn a profit and return the principal amount in a plea bargain --- no jail, nothing.

What kind of insane system is this?!