B Law: Blasphemy/Black Law

Bloggers are not calendar freaks, journalists are. So, we don’t have to take a U turn @ the end of every year, which is ‘one of the trade’s oldest rituals’ in journalism as Mr. Aroon Purie will tell you. With no obligation to perform any ritual, let me wish you on 13^th day of Jan a Happy and successful English New Year and New Decade. May you never be a Raja! May there be no Adarsh in India!

            When India is in 87^th row in Transparency International’s corruption Perceptions Index 2010, my fingers have to cross 56 more to reach our neighbor. I have no issue when they are worst corrupted than us but the ideological ebbing in that country made me to write this post. Yes! I am talking about the Islamic Republic of Pakistan and the murder of Taseer…

            We in India have cases of Murder by body guards but here the case is slightly diff. No material add but conflicting ‘oughts’ was following the nine bullets of Qadri. It was a war by Islamic terrorists, not against war on terror but to mould Pak with a Cimmerian vision. Zulfiqar Ahmad rightly pointed out it is vision of a world without modern education, without music, without humour. It is a world where women were imprisoned within the walls of their homes, non believers have no rights, children are not allowed to play and sing, and anything that brings joy is banished. And in that visional world, Salmaan Taseer- the Governor of Punjab had to pay the price for calling Blasphemy Law as Black Law. Principles of chartered accountancy and social accountancy are different!! (here social accountancy is diff what you empathise it.)

            Supporting the parliamentary bill, prepared by Sherry Rehman, to modify the anti-blasphemy law was Taseer’s crime. This bill, which was introduced in 1986 during General Zia-ul-Haq, is yet to be tabled and it seeks to eliminate death penalty for blasphemy.Though the basis of ‘two nation theory’ was Religion but untill mid 70s, religion played a marginal role in Pak polity. But the subsequent proliferation of Islamisation have conferred the Islamic terrorists a degree without Convocation. When non believer’s rights are widely acknowledged, Sharia court sentencing Asia Bibi to death for blasphemy and murder of Taseer for supporting her for presidential pardon is a wrong indication to the Rights philosophy and Liberal World. We are not against the Islamisation of that country but the means they have adopted can perhaps be changed. As a citizen of other country it is of no interest to me but in the era of increasing dependency and increasing cross border Egresses these news can’t be kept off just by turning the pages.