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  • Milli Mulsim League
    Milli Mulsim League
`Muslims have dominated Andalusia for eight hundred years, but they have been exterminated by Christian domination. Now it is Christians who dominate Spain, and we should fight to get it back. All of India, including Kashmir, Hyderabad, Assam, Nepal, Burma, Bihar and Junagarh were parts of the Muslim empire, lost because the Muslims abandoned the jihad. Palestine is occupied by the Jews. The holy Qibla-e-Awwal of Jerusalem is dominated by the Jews. Many countries such as Bulgaria, Hungary, Cyprus, Sicily, Ethiopia and Russian and Chinese Turkistan were Muslims, and it is our duty to take them back `. And again: `The issue of Kashmir can not be resolved through talks, not with American mediation, not by dividing the region, but only in one way: jihad, jihad, jihad!` This could be, in a not so sci-fi future, the electoral program of the next prime minister of Pakistan, given that the High Court of Islamabad overturned the decisions of the Electoral Commission and decided that the Milli Muslim League, party founded a few months ago in Lahore, he will be able to participate in the next general election. And the Milli Muslim League is nothing more than the latest avatar of the time of Mohammed Hafiz Saeed, founder and ideologist of Lashkar-i-Toiba. Hafiz Saeed, to be clear, is the man accused of organizing the Mumbai massacre of 2008. While the Lashkar-i-Toiba is an organization that aims to fight for the elimination of Western 'evil forces' and `planting the flag of Islam on Washington, Delhi and Tel Aviv` by defeating those he considers his main enemies: India, Israel and the United States. The sentence that allows the MLM to participate in the elections was issued on the appeal of the party founders, who refer to Article 17 (2) of the Constitution, article that `gives to any citizen who is not a member of the public administration or of the the right to found a political party `. Also, it seems, if on the head of this particular citizen, and of many of his acolytes, a CIA cut of a few million dollars hangs and if it is on the list of international terrorists of the United Nations and the European Union. According to the judges, the decision to ban MML because affiliated to terrorist organizations is `unreasonable, illegal and against the Constitution and the law`: seeing that the Constitution does not explicitly provide for a ban on the candidacy of a citizen on the list of international terrorists, it can not be forbidden to Hafiz Saeed and his henchmen to participate in the elections. On the other hand, a few days before another Court of Justice, that of Lahore, had expressly forbidden the government that 'acting behind US pressure' to arrest the aforementioned Mohammed Hafiz Saeed, even though he has been pretending for years, and has asked for formal clarifications on the government's decision to freeze the funds of the Jamat-u-Dawa and Falayat-i-Insayat: organizations for allegedly social purpose which are headed by Hafiz Saeed and both on the UN list of terrorist organizations. Given the decisions of the judges, there is therefore the concrete possibility that in a few months in Pakistan, a terrorist or, at least one of his straw men, heads a government. Or better: there is a real possibility that the army and the secret services, now fed up with having to keep democratic governments in line with every means, use the most brilliant and representative of their strategic assets in order to govern the country directly without having to resort to unpopular coups d'état. Democratically using democracy to establish a de facto dictatorship. In fact, as the good-minded former secretary chief Hamid Gul said, to beat the West at its own game using its own weapons: right to vote and civil rights. And the Milli Muslim League, which participated in the Lahore local elections before being banned by the Electoral Commission, made full votes. On the other hand, the protection accorded to Hafiz Saeed and his family is certainly not new: the government of Punjab officially finances Markaz-i-Toiba in Muridke, madrasa, and various side activities, which is the headquarters of the Jamat-u -Dawa and other organizations headed by Hafiz Saeed. Just as in Peshawar the local government voted an increase of three hundred million days, in addition to the two hundred and thirty already allocated, to finance the madrasa of Haqqania: the madrasa, in essence, which formed minds like mullah Omar and Jaluddin and Siraj Haqqani. All gentlemen on the list of UN terrorists, all 'strategic assets' of incalculable value for Pakistan. That put on hold by Donald Trump and the international community continues to play the usual game. The fear of the Islamic bomb in the hands of the extremists, in fact, has been until today the worst nightmare of the Americans and of the whole West, which has never taken too hard decisions against Pakistan deluding itself, with the carrot and the stick, of can somehow exercise some control over Islamabad. The clearance of the Milli Muslim League and the refinancing of Haqqania arrive, curiously, the day after the decision taken by the Financial Action Task Force to include Pakistan in a gray list of countries that finance terrorism. On the Fatf decision, also taken with the support of China and Saudi Arabia that traditionally support Pakistan, it would have weighed the repeated refusal of Islamabad to take concrete action against Hafiz Saeed and its organizations and against the Haqqani network. By May, Islamabad is required to present an action plan to counter the financing of illegal activities in the country, and in June the international community could also decide to include Pakistan directly in the black list, in the company of North Korea and Iran , with heavy consequences on the already disastrous economy of the country. The latest decisions of the government and the judges could therefore be read in this key, and as always they are perfectly in line with the unscrupulous strategy inaugurated by General Musharraf and continued over the years by every single executive. Whenever the pressure on Islamabad becomes too strong, the attacks in Afghanistan and Pakistan increase, the terrorist terrorists in the government are agitated. As if to control both the 'strategic assets' and the bomb were not the same people. But every time, at least until today, Washington backtracks. It remains to be seen whether in June, at the next Fatf meeting, the game will work again: if the spectrum of the red beard of Hafiz Saeed and his jihads disguised as social workers in Islamabad will work or if Donald Trump really means what he says.
Francesca Marino
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