Pakistan to pass law banning terrorists from being Pakistanis

Saturday, 20 December 2008 01:54

Written by essbee, onion uttapam news

Shocked and terribly embarrassed by former Premier Nawaz Sharif's assertion that the arrested terrorist Ajmal Kasab is indeed a Pakistani hailing from village Faridkot of Punjab Province, the government of Pakistan is planning to introduce a bill in its Parliament which would ban all terrorists captured alive or dead on foreign soil from being Pakistanis.

Nawaz Sharif's remarks that the village from which Kasab hailed has been cordoned by the security agencies, apart from causing embarrassment, has put Pakistan's government on defensive, since its President Zardari had brushed aside claims of Kasab being a Pakistani by saying that there was still no 'real evidence' that the terrorists who attacked Mumbai came from Pakistan.

In order to extract itself from the spot Pakistan finds itself in by its constant flip-flopping on the identity of the terrorists and due to the contradictory remarks made by different power-centers of Pakistan, Pakistan's President, Zardari has hit upon a novel idea to solve the problem created by Pakistani terrorists landing up at different parts of the world.

Speaking to press reporters, Zardari said that a new bill will be introduced in Parliament which would completely eradicate terrorists from Pakistani soil. Under the provision of the proposed bill, any terrorist of Pakistani nationality after being caught in the act of inflicting terror, will stop being  Pakistan's citizen the moment he is captured, dead or alive, on any foreign soil.

After the said bill is passed by the Parliament, Pakistan will become the world's first terrorist-free nation, claimed Zardari. "Unless and until a potential terrorist has committed an act of terror and has been caught or convicted of committing such an an act, he cannot be termed as a terrorist. After the act of terror has been committed and the terrorist has been captured or convicted of the act, the terrorist would cease to be a Pakistani with immediate effect" said Zardari.

"Thus under the provisions of this bill, it would become impossible for any terrorist to be a terrorist and a Pakistani at the same time. Once this bill is passed and after my signature is inscribed on it, Pakitan will become the free-world's first nation which will be 100 per cent terrorist-free " added a beaming Zardari.

Zardari also said that there was no question of Pakistan banning Jammat-ud-Dawa, front for Lashkar-e-taiba, despite recent UN security council's ban on the outfit. "After the passing of this bill, terrorism itself will be automatically banned from Pakistani territory. Since it will be impossible for any Pakistani national to become a terrorist, there is no need to ban any organization for sponsoring terror."

According to Zardari, the inspiration to introduce a law to ban terrorists from being Pakistanis came from reports originating from United States that President Bush could be considering granting himself a Presidential pardon for war-crimes committed during his term. "I thought to myself, if the President of United States of America can use legal provisions to pardon himself of past crimes to solve his personal problem of being arrested in future, why can't I make laws to prevent Pakistani terrorists from remaining Pakistani nationals to solve my country's problem of being blamed for sponsoring terrorism due to most of terrorists being Pakistanis."

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ukderebail: Pakistan needs to be renamed

Another way of circumventing the problem is to rename Pakistan as Registan, or Nomad state, where rule of Law has vanished.

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December 23, 2008

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