So it is in Sharia to hold a victim's family members at gun point and blackmail them to accept blood money?
According to RD, Gen Pasha facilitated and orchestrated his release. This could not have been without approval of Gen Kiyani. There is nothing wrong with this scenario except the part where RD writes about the family of the victims being forced at gun point by ISI agents to accept blood money. If this is not true then the Army needs to release an official statement, if it is true then we need to know the reasons behind this illegal act.
Common sense tells you that this law in its current form provides a way to the rich & powerful and the dishonest to get away with murder. Don’t know if you have any children. I would prefer to kill the murderer and be hanged rather than accept money as compensation for the deliberate murder of my son. But the fact remains that in Shahzeb murder case the Qisas law used. Do you think there was no intimidation? It is not the Sharia itself but misuse of the Sharia law by the society in general that is the problem.
This is what Supreme Court CJ said:
CJ says God's name being used to evade justice
Dawn.com September 13, 2013
KARACHI: Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry on Friday said pardoning in God's name someone convicted of murder by a court of law was tantamount to evading the law, DawnNews reported.
The chief justice's remarks come days after the parents and two sisters of Shahzeb Khan, who was murdered in cold blood by a business tycoon’s son and his three accomplices, approached the Sindh High Court to seek acquittal of the convicts after pardoning them “in the name of Allah”.
The pardon of the men convicted of
Shahzeb's murder triggered a widespread debate over whether the country’s elite could be held accountable for crimes they committed as the prime accused belonged to powerful feudal families.
Today, Chief Justice Iftikhar was speaking on the matter during the hearing of another murder case.
The chief justice stated that it was wrong to use Quranic verses and religion for personal gains.
He said most suffering individuals and families were usually pressured into pardoning the convict, adding that it was the responsibility of the court(s) to prevent acts that harm not only certain people and families, but society at large from occurring.
Chief Justice Iftikhar declared that if an agreement between the parties fails to bring peace to either of the two, it could not be regarded as such. The agreement between the parties has to be valid for a court of law to allow the pardon for the convict(s).
The chief justice has asked Attornery General Munir A. Malik, all four provincial prosecutor generals and Advocate Shahid Hamid, who is representing a party in the case heard today, for their opinions on the issue relating to pardon in murder cases by September 23.
https://www.dawn.com/news/1042609
If I was sure that Pakistani society was peopled with ‘Sadiqs & Ameens’, I would be all for the Sharia Laws as well. But I know that police lets powerful go free but many innocent are found guilty because people lie under oath of Quran and bear false witness. I also fumed when Raymond Davies went scott free but as long as you have Qisas Law on the statute book, dishonest people will continue to invoke it.
Pakistan was a better place; certainly no worse; before these Laws were instituted by the bigot Zia. I am of the view that if we want to prevent the injustice; either you reform the society or put sufficient safeguards in place else abolish the Sharia Law.
You are welcome to disagree but then why blame Gen Pasha, ISI or Raymond Davis who did what many Pakistanis have been doing for a long time.
