TLP leader Khadim Hussain Rizvi passes away at age 54

[yasir]

Pakistan is one of the few countries where respect for religious figure is such a big issue in 21C that there is capital punishment in constitution. This just shows backwardness and extremism of general culture. The fact that you cannot even criticize Blasphemy laws, forget about getting rid of it, tells you how bad the situation is

Why Prophet or any religious figure should not be criticized?? - Religion is biggest political framework in the country, if you cannot criticize it, then what’s the point of politics?? - How one can change and amend that framework... Now one would say, we have prefect divine book and law, it does not need amendments, that itself is a backward and argument of ignorance, nothing is prefect, everything needs continuous improvement and naturing ...Pakistani society and people are protecting and respecting ignorance and dogma, that is bedding ground for extremism... There is a reason Pakistan top all extremist indexes, even the ones maxes by our friends like China as well

Qadari, Rizvi are ordinary people, not even educated ones, but have very devoted following... A random guy kills somebody in name of Prophet, he becomes instant well Little Prophet, they would have Mazar, big funerals, barsies and what not. I am not sure if our land was that back 500 years ago... We are going through age of ignorance and extremism

 

[saeedhk]

As I had expected, there is a power struggle for the TLP leadership now. Rizvi’s son is the new TLP chief but today, Pir Afzal Qadri - Khadim’s right hand- has said that the son has no right over the leadership. He said that Rizvi’s son was very incompetent and a narcotics user. He added he does not accept him as the chief.

All these mullahs are hungry for money and power!

 

[Abdullah719]

Controversy erupts over Khadim Hussain Rizvi’s successor claims

LAHORE: On Wednesday, former patron-in-chief and founding leader of the Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP), Pir Afzal Qadri, stirred a controversy around the group’s leadership, when he questioned the succession of the “mentally unstable” Saad Hussain Rizvi to lead the party after the death of Khadim Hussain Rizvi.

Pir Afzal Qadri, in a video clip of him addressing his congregation, questioned the religious credentials of Saad Hussain Rizvi, alleging that he was even a Hafiz (an individual who knows the Quran by heart).

Qadri, who claimed to be the mastermind behind the group and reiterated his contribution to the party, for which he alleged that the late Khadim Rizvi was “credited for”, stated that it was “mutually agreed upon between him and the late party chief that nepotism would not be allowed within the party, and the leadership not passed down to relatives of founders”.

Qadri stated that “I was the one who ran campaigns for Mumtaz Qadri and against Asia Bibi. I have been nominated in 106 cases due to this movement. After the hanging of Mumtaz Qadri, everyone thought it was the end of the movement, but I was the one who renamed it and carried on”.

Qadri claimed that Khadim Rizvi was aware that his son was “incompetent” and used to request him to “pray for Saad”, who he alleged was mentally unstable, an addict and had not even completed his education.

Party spokesperson Zubair Ahmad stated that Qadri had resigned from the party in May 2019, after he was held and captured by the authorities in a crackdown, adding that Saad Rizvi was elected by the party’s consultative body (or Shoora) prior to the funeral of the late chief.

Ahmad added that the Shoora is the only body that is empowered to elect the party chief, and based on the near-unanimous consensus of the party’s members, Saad Rizvi is now the “legitimate leader”, stating that “such attempts to create controversy could only be regretted”.

https://www.brecorder.com/news/4003...s-over-khadim-hussain-rizvis-successor-claims

 

[Abdullah719]

Qadri stated that “I was the one who ran campaigns for Mumtaz Qadri and against Asia Bibi.”

Wearing it like a badge of honor…

 

[MenInG]

LAHORE: Prime Minister Imran Khan on Thursday said that as decided in a renewed agreement with the Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan, his government would take the matter to parliament before April 20, the new deadline set for the implementation of the TLP’s demands.

The TLP had been threatening to stage a sit-in in Islamabad to protest against the PTI government’s failure to implement the agreement reached with it on Nov 16, which included demands like “expelling the French ambassador, severing ties with France and boycotting French products”, within three months through parliament.

“We will do it. However, I want to tell the TLP people that no other government has done as much as this government to check this menace. We are not doing it for the TLP but because it is part of our faith. This (blasphemy) is a planned conspiracy, which keeps repeating itself in the West and disturbs peace.

“I was the one who wrote to the OIC, to the United Nations and heads of Islamic states to take up the issue. Only I and (Turkish President Recep Tayyip) Erdogan took up the matter on the world forums. Unless 20 to 25 heads of Muslim countries take up and pursue it seriously, international impact required to do the job may not be created,” he said.

The prime minister was speaking during an interview to a TV channel after the government held negotiations with the TLP as a result of which the religious outfit agreed to postpone its protest till April 20 and allow the government more time to implement the agreement it had signed last year.

Agreement reached between government and religious outfit to meet demands by April 20

The prime minster reminded the TLP that it must not forget that no one had done more than him to internationally highlight the issue of blasphemy, not because of the TLP but because it was an article of his faith.

As the three-month deadline, falling on Feb 16, neared, the government engaged the new TLP leadership, after the death of Khadim Hussain Rizvi, to give it time for meeting their demands. After getting an additional guarantee (from the prime minister), the TLP agreed to postpone its protest and allow time (till April 20) to meet “all its demands or risk the TLP returning to Islamabad for protest”.

The agreement was signed by Interior Minister Sheikh Rashid and Minister for Religious Affairs Noorul Haq Qadri from the government side and by Mohammad Shafiq Amini, Ghulam Ghous Rizvi and Ghulam Abbas Faizi on behalf of the TLP.

Thursday’s agreement is an extension of the previous one, signed on Nov 16, 2020, when the TLP picketed Faizabad interchange, cut off the twin cities from each other and the rest of the country to protest French President Emmanuel Macron defending his country’s freedom of speech in the wake of killing of a teacher who had shown blasphemous caricatures of the Holy Prophet (peace be upon him).

As the deadline of Feb 16 neared, the federal government went into talks with the TLP on the issue. According to the TLP, the government team expressed its inability to “implement” the agreement and wanted the TLP leadership to stop protesting it. “The TLP, however, refused to budge and warned the government to act or risk protest,” said a video message released by the party.

After protracted rounds of negotiations, the government team agreed to meet all the demands by April 20. However, the TLP wanted to have additional guarantees because “it were the same ministers who had signed the previous agreement but were unable to implement it. The TLP wanted the prime minister himself to be part of the agreement and commit himself to the cause,” the video message said.

According to a Dawn.com report, the new agreement said: “Negotiations have been going on between the Government of Pakistan and TLP on this problem for a month during which the government has reaffirmed its resolve. Terms of the [previous] agreement will be presented in parliament by April 20, 2021, and decisions will be taken with the approval of the parliament.”

It also said that names of TLP members that had been placed on the Fourth Schedule of the Anti-Terrorism Act (ATA) would be removed.

According to the ATA 1997, any individual placed on the Fourth Schedule or watch list is bound to inform the respective police station before leaving their hometowns and after return and about their activities.

Published in Dawn, February 12th, 2021

 

[saeedhk]

^ Isn’t this blackmail? When poor Hazaras were asking the PM to pay them a visit, they accused them of blackmail. Now, PM Imran has woefully surrendered and he has accepted all the TLP demands. Why such double standards? This shows again that PM Imran is a meek leader who fears the right-wing too much!

 

[Free Hit]

^ Isn’t this blackmail? When poor Hazaras were asking the PM to pay them a visit, they accused them of blackmail. Now, PM Imran has woefully surrendered and he has accepted all the TLP demands. Why such double standards? This shows again that PM Imran is a meek leader who fears the right-wing too much!

You are being very biased and maybe clueless of the ground realities.

Government has signed an agreement and TLP is going per the agreement and now showing further leniency.

Whatever their conditions are government need to handle it craftly.

It is impossible to control TLP if they hit the streets. You must be hubristic to not accept this fact.

 

[saeedhk]

You are being very biased and maybe clueless of the ground realities.

Government has signed an agreement and TLP is going per the agreement and now showing further leniency.

Whatever their conditions are government need to handle it craftly.

It is impossible to control TLP if they hit the streets. You must be hubristic to not accept this fact.

You are accepting that Imran is a coward? Why such double standards? Why can’t he be as nice as he is to the right wing to others such as the current protesting civil servants or the Hazaras?

Why does IK always bend over backward to appease the right wing?

 

[Free Hit]

You are accepting that Imran is a coward? Why such double standards? Why can’t he be as nice as he is to the right wing to others such as the current protesting civil servants or the Hazaras?

Why does IK always bend over backward to appease the right wing?

I agree with you on this! Shouldn’t be double standards

So does TLP leader, he also raised voice for Hazara community and questioned Imran for its incompetence in handling the recent issue.

 

[saeedhk]

I agree with you on this! Shouldn’t be double standards

So does TLP leader, he also raised voice for Hazara community and questioned Imran for its incompetence in handling the recent issue.

Exactly. Immy has once again succumbed to the right wing. History would remember as a PM who was all about building up his pious Caliph-like image and appeasing the right wing.

 

[MenInG]

A review board of the Lahore High Court on Thursday released its detailed order in a case related to the detention of Saad Hussain Rizvi, leader of proscribed Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP), observing that he should be "released forthwith" if he was not required to the government in any other case.

Saad, son of the late Khadim Hussain Rizvi, was taken into custody on April 12 over charges that he had incited his followers to take the law into their own hands as, according to him, the government had reneged on its promise to expel the French ambassador.

The party had been pressing the government for the expulsion of the French envoy to Pakistan ever since blasphemous caricatures of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) were published in France and their publication was supported by the French president.

In its detailed order, the three-member LHC review board led by Justice Malik Shehzad said the government counsel argued that Saad was detained on the basis of district intelligence reports in order to control deteriorating law and order.

"The law officer or representatives of the government who appeared before the board didn’t produce any evidence that detenu (Saad Rizvi) was in contact with any person in the outside world during his detention," the order read, adding that the government had presented one side of its claim regarding law and order which showed its malice.

It further said: “We have noted the Government of Punjab has concealed material facts in its reference because the number of police officers martyred or injured during the incident in question [has] been mentioned in it, but the number of TLP activists or a number of persons from the public who died during the relevant period [has] not been mentioned in the reference.”

It stated that political parties like the PPP, PML-N and Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf had also held protest demonstrations in the past, but none of them were banned nor were their party leaders detained.

The board quoted the government as complaining that Saad sought the expulsion of the French ambassador from Pakistan, however, it said various parliamentarians did not face any proceedings for raising similar clamour.

It said the failure of police to not incorporate Saad's arrest in the cases filed against the TLP leader reflected their “dishonesty”.

It added that the government only wanted an extension in Saad's detention on the basis of “fears”, while no supporting evidence was furnished to support this claim.

Last week, the LHC review board had rejected the Punjab Home Department's request to extend the TLP leader's detention.

In April, a special National Assembly session was convened, in line with the agreement reached between the TLP and the government in November last year to involve the parliament in order to decide the matter of the French ambassador's expulsion in three months.

As the Feb 16 deadline neared, the government had expressed its inability to implement the agreement and had sought more time. The TLP had then agreed to delay its protest by two-and-a-half months to April 20.

A week prior to the deadline, Saad, in a video message, had asked TLP workers to be ready to launch a long march if the government failed to meet the deadline. The move had prompted the government to arrest him on April 12.

Police had swooped on Saad at around 2pm on Wahdat Road in Lahore where he had gone to attend a funeral. Outraged, the TLP had issued a call for countrywide protests.

The next day, police registered an FIR against the TLP chief under sections of the Anti-Terrorism Act. Within the next few hours, protesters took to the streets in Lahore and blocked the Grand Trunk Road at a number of points.

The government had subsequently banned the TLP following the violent protests and sit-ins it staged across the country. The Punjab government has since kept Saad in detention under Section 3 (power to arrest and detain suspected persons) of the Maintenance of Public Order Ordinance, 1960.