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Reflecting "a divergent view from the official stance over the killing of Bin Laden," and probably one that is more popular with the people of Pakistan than that official stance.
Prayers for Bin Laden in National Assembly Published: May 11, 2011
Parliamentarians were stunned on Tuesday when a lawmaker led prayers for al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden, defying calls from Deputy Speaker Faisal Karim Kundi that he needed permission to do so. At the National Assembly session, Maulvi Asmatullah, an independent candidate from NA-264 stood up and said Bin Laden had reportedly been given funeral services by the Americans and “we should pray for him”.
The prayer service hardly lasted a minute in which two JUI-F legislators from Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, former federal minister Attaur Rehman and Laiq Muhammad Khan, participated.
The deputy speaker was administering the proceedings on a private members day, but he could not convince the lawmakers to stick to the rules of business. Osama bin Laden was killed in a US operation in Abbottabad in the early hours of May 2.
Earlier, Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani said in the National Assembly that “Osama bin Laden was the most wanted terrorist and enemy number one of the civilized world.
Elimination of Osama bin Laden, who launched waves after waves of terrorist attacks against innocent Pakistanis, is indeed justice done. However, we are not so naïve to declare victory; missions accomplished, and turn around.”
The first of its kind prayer service at the floor of the National Assembly reflected a divergent view from the official stance over the killing of Bin Laden..
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The photograph in a Beijing tabloid showed a baby playing with an Osama doll. The picture was not from the back alleys of Afghanistan but boomtown Hangzhou in east China. When Pakistan Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani travels to China next week, he will get a respite from the global censure of Islamabad’s anti-terror policies. On the Chinese Internet, online polls are recording sympathy among hyper-nationalist fringe groups for the slain ‘anti-US warrior’.
“China and Pakistan are good neighbours, friends, partners and brothers,’’ said the foreign ministry spokesperson Jiang Yu this week.
The outpouring of sympathy for Pakistan is not limited to China’s official circles and the media, which views the US raid as violation of Pakistan’s sovereignty. Sixty per cent of 500,000 people polled by Hong-Kong based Phoenix television “agreed that Laden’s death was a sad event,’’ said the Global Times. The respondents called Laden an ‘anti-US warrior’. Only 18 per cent said they were happy that the terrorist is dead.
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These cultures dont have the superior morals as westerners. Honoring Bin Laden? They should instead honor and respect slave owners and traders like George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, mass murderers like Cecil Rhodes, American presidents and Israeli leaders.
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