After the June 4 briefing, no indication emerged of the absorption of the message by the federation or the provinces. The Lal Masjid clerics, with well known links to the warlords in Waziristan, were carrying out their raids into the society of Islamabad, arresting and roughing up citizens without trial and keeping them in unlawful confinement, while the politicians wrangled over their spoils. In the latest incident, the Lal Masjid army of armed acolytes has abducted 12 foreigners from a massage parlour in Islamabad, including nine Chinese citizens.
The Chinese embassy has protested knowing full well that the government will continue in its stance of prostration before the Lal Masjid insurgents. In a scary demonstration, parliament in fact has put on the war paint against the United Kingdom, making demands on it and threatening it with precisely the action that Talibanisation currently is causing inside Pakistan with impunity.
Speakers and ministers, inclusive of the prime minister, are outdoing one another in making extra-legal "vigilante" threats that, far from imperilling the UK, affect the well-being of the minorities in Pakistan frequently targeted by the Blasphemy laws. Clearly, the politician chooses to opt for Talibanisation when he is challenged to save the state from an advanced process of collapse.
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