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Court to decide whether Aasia Bibi will be placed

on ECL, says religious a airs minister
Sirajuddin | November 06, 2018

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Federal Minister for Religious Affairs and Interfaith Harmony Noorul Haq Qadri. — Photo courtesy of DawnNewsTV

Federal Minister for Religious Affairs and Interfaith

Harmony Noorul Haq Qadri while speaking to the
media on Tuesday said that the court would decide on
the matter of placing Aasia Bibi's name on the Exit
Control List (ECL).

The government and Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) had

on Friday reached an agreement after which the latter ended
its three-day-long nationwide protests against the Supreme
Court's acquittal last week of Asia Bibi who had been
sentenced to death in 2010 for blasphemy.

One of the points both parties agreed on was that the

government would "initiate the legal process" to place Aasia
Bibi's name on the no-fly list.

When asked whether her name had been placed on the ECL,
Qadri said: "If you read the agreement, you'll see it says that
legal process will be undertaken to place her on the ECL."

"When there are cases in the Supreme Court and high court,
the court itself says that so-and-so should be placed on the
ECL. So we will follow that process."

"The TLP also said that some miscreants used their platform
to damage public property and had behaved inappropriately.

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The state will take action against them," he added.

"We stand by the agreement, and it will be acted upon," Qadri

asserted.

When asked whether the TLP would be banned, the minister

said that there was no plan to ban the TLP.

"However, if someone's intentions or designs are in conflict

with the national narrative and policies, then hopefully steps
will be taken against them," he replied.

Qadri said that the role of the state and the government is like
that of a mother, and the government's first responsibility is to
restore peace.

The minister said that the government was formulating

strategies in anticipation of similar situations in the future.

Qadri also commented on the recent death of Maulana Samiul

Haq calling it a unfortunate incident, and described it as part
of a greater conspiracy.

Chief of his own faction of the Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam, Maulana

Samiul Haq was assassinated in his house in Bahria Town on
November 2.

Qadri said that Prime Minister Imran Khan had given orders
for an investigation into the murder of Maulana Sami while he
was still on his trip in China.
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