Clerics in Pakistan have issued a fatwa denouncing terrorism and associated actions. This comes amid rising militant actions throughout the nation.
Islamabad,UPDATED: Jan 10, 2023 08:36 IST
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By Press Trust of India: Pakistan’s famend clerics on Monday issued a fatwa (non secular decree) denouncing terrorism and terror actions, amid a pointy uptick in assaults by militants throughout the nation.
The clerics belonging to a variety of seminaries, together with Darul Uloom Peshawar and Jamia Darul Uloom Haqqania, within the restive Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province issued the fatwa, terming the taking on of arms in opposition to the state’s police and army “haraam” (forbidden) within the Sharia (Islamic legislation), Geo TV reported.
The fatwa issued by the clerics from the militancy-hit province declares that solely the top of the Islamic state has the prerogative to declare “jihad” (holy warfare).
“Not everyone has the right to declare jihad,” the fatwa stated.
It additional stated that taking on arms in opposition to the police and army personnel is in opposition to each the Sharia and the state, and anybody who rebels in opposition to the structure and legal guidelines of Pakistan will probably be punishable by legislation.
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The 14-page fatwa has been signed by non secular students from distinction colleges of thought, together with Maulana Qari Ehsanul Haq, Mufti Subhanallah Jan, Dr Maulana Attaur Rehman, Maulana Hussain Ahmed, Mufti Mukhtarullah Haqqani, Allama Abid Hussain Shakri and Maulana Abdul Kareem, Dawn reported.
The improvement comes because the banned Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) intensified its assaults on safety forces, particularly in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan provinces.
The fatwa got here two days after the TTP chief Mufti Noor Wali Mehsud stated in a video message that his group is “open to guidance” from Pakistan’s non secular students in the event that they consider “the direction of our jihad” is unsuitable.
The TTP, which has ideological linkages with the Afghan Taliban, executed round greater than 100 assaults final 12 months, most of which occurred after August when the group’s peace talks with the Pakistan authorities started to falter.
In November final 12 months, the TTP referred to as off an indefinite ceasefire agreed with the federal government in June 2022 and ordered its militants to hold out assaults on the safety forces.
The TTP, also called the Pakistan Taliban, was arrange as an umbrella group of a number of militant outfits in 2007. Its predominant purpose is to impose its strict model of Islam throughout Pakistan.
The TTP, which is believed to have shut hyperlinks to al-Qaeda, final week threatened to focus on prime leaders of Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s PML-N and Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari’s PPP if the ruling coalition continued to implement strict measures in opposition to the militants.
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Jan 10, 2023
