Intense blasphemy of the Pakistan army
07 February 2019, 20:05 BDT
Supreme Court condemns Pakistan's powerful army and intelligence agencies In a ruling on Wednesday, the Supreme Court asked these forces and organizations to uphold independence and stay away from their own politics.
The Supreme Court ordered the military and intelligence agencies of a country, which ruled almost half the time since its establishment. The highest court, in a verdict, condemned the role of intelligence agencies in a protest against blasphemy demonstrations held in the country in 2017. The capital of Islamabad was stalled for a few weeks of protests.
The Supreme Court ruling on the Supreme Court website said that if a member of the Armed Forces shelters any kind of politics or seeks to use the media, he will damage the purity and professionalism of the Armed Forces.
Regarding the constitution of Pakistan, the members of the Armed Forces are strongly banned from joining political activities, the government and the army, the navy and the chiefs of the air force have ordered to take action against anyone if they break the oath of upholding the constitution.
The Tehrik-i-Laayak Pakistan (TLP), a lesser-known Islamist group, led the protest in 2017. If the protests take place in violent form, there is an agreement between the army's mediators. The central law minister was forced to resign.
Vicious video seen in the social media about those protests, apparently some soldier was delivering cash in protesters. The idea is stronger that the army is providing support to the protesters. This force then wanted to pressurize the then ruling Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif.
The verdict is also criticized for obstructing the freedom of the intelligence agencies. The Supreme Court said that the intelligence agencies and the media wing of the army can not go beyond their power. They can not reduce the freedom of speech and expression. In September last, The Committee to Protect Journalists said in their report that while the Pakistan army lobbied but effectively preventing the report from being created.
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