Posted on 11/01/2021 8:08:18 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Islamabad apparently bought peace with the TLP. As in its frequent mobilisations over the last few years, the TLP has once again forced the Pakistani state onto the backfoot and enhanced its own political clout.
A relatively new phenomenon, the TLP, was founded in 2015 by Khadim Hussain Rizvi, a firebrand cleric who died in November 2020. It now has a strong following among Pakistan’s Barelvi sect. At the heart of TLP’s ideology is the protection of the Prophet’s honour and a vigorous defence of Pakistan’s controversial blasphemy laws. In Pakistan, anyone deemed to have insulted Islam or the Prophet Muhammad can face the death penalty under blasphemy laws.
October 2020, Samuel Paty, a French school teacher who had shown cartoons of Prophet Muhammad in a class was beheaded by a young Islamic zealot. French President Emmanuel Macron criticised the Islamists and defended the traditional French principles of secularism. PM Imran Khan denounced Macron’s comments while the TLP organised massive countrywide protests.
The Imran government, caught in a cleft stick, could neither say no to the TLP nor accept its demands. After all, France was a major aid donor to Pakistan, Europe’s leading power, and a permanent member of the UN Security Council. Imran Khan’s government found a way to fudge the issue, and kick the ball into the court of the National Assembly. As the TLP returned to the streets last month, Imran Khan found himself in a pickle again.
Even as it signalled great resolve to put the TLP in its place, the Pakistani government over the weekend quickly turned to the more familiar strategy of accommodation. Saad Rizvi and other leaders of the TLP were brought out of prison to safe houses in Islamabad and the government turned to senior Barelvi clerics to negotiate with them.
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Thanks for this update on the Paki pseudostate.
The Pak military was involved in finding a solution to the issue:
https://www.samaa.tv/news/2021/11/coas-efforts-crucial-for-striking-govt-tlp-pact/
Perhaps they started it as well?
There’s the Baluch ethnic group that lives in parts of Iran and Pakistan, and they are in effect autonomous. The fake state of Pakistan tries to flex muscle there from time to time and generally fails. The Iranian mullahcracy is Shia, and the Baluch are Sunni. From the map I’d guess that’s the really dry expanse that killed a chunk of Alexander the Great’s army with thirst on their way back from India.
today:
Iran's population is majority Shiite but Sunni minorities live predominantly in the areas near the border with Afghanistan. The Sunnis have long complained about discrimination by Iranian authorities. Due to dilapidated infrastructure and a lack of health and educational facilities, the areas near the Afghan border are the poorest and least developed in Iran.
“The Taliban's leadership structures are multilayered, complicated and opaque. That makes negotiations with them difficult, and not just for Iran.”
https://www.dw.com/en/why-iran-fears-chaos-in-afghanistan/a-59630081
Big Al antedates the big old Mo by nearly 1000 years, iow, there was no Islam up in there, or anywhere. Seems likely that there was no dominant religion there, although Persian Zoroastrianism may have existed in the garrison towns and such, along with pre-Zoroastrian religious practices that included Mithraism. Buddhism started early enough that it may have been present here and there, but it wouldn't have been dominant (in India, Buddhism died out by the 12th c) and may have been pretty much invisible.
There was no Islam of any kind, when Alexander the Great blew through there. Islam didn’t appear until the 600s.
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