ANP says that they support Taliban’s Adl because it is an old agreement signed in 1994, allowing speedy justice, and judges appointed by Peshawar High Court.
He said under Nizam-e-Adl agreement of February 16, 2009 addition was made fixing time limit to decide cases and appellate bench of Peshawar High Court in Mingora Swat. PHC has benches in Abbottabad and Dera Ismail Khan. Head of Qazi Courts will be appointed by the NWFP government in consultation with PHC, he added.
ISLAMABAD, April 19 (Xinhua) – A top Pakistani cleric, who struck a deal with the government to enforce Islamic system and end fighting in the northwest in February, Sunday asked withdrawal of all judges from parts of the northwest, declaring their system as un-Islamic.
“I ask all the judges in Malakand division to withdraw from the area by April 23. If they did not the government will be responsible for any consequences,” said Sufi Muhammad, chief of the banned Tehrik Nifaz-e-Shariat Muhammadi (TNSM).
He told a huge public meeting in Mingora, the main city in the restive Swat valley, that the current judicial system in supreme and high courts was un-Islamic.
He said that only Islamic judges or Qazi had the right to deliver verdicts and other judges had no right to work in the region.
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President Awami National Party (ANP) Asfandyar Wali Khan on Saturday strongly defended Nizam-e-Adl agreement in Swat and said there was no justification for criticism, as this law exists in Malakand after it was signed in 1994 when late Benazir Bhutto was the prime minister and Aftab Ahmed Khan Sherpao was NWFP chief minister.
“The issue at this point is not debate on the Nizam-e-Adl. This was implemented in Malakand in 1994, and 1999. However, at the time, the elected representative had executive control over the area,” she said.
It is clear that ANP does not know what it is talking about. They have surrendered to Taliban and are only trying to save their faces by justifying their support of Taliban.
ANP is not a paramilitary force nor does it have armed gangs to fight Taliban. They are a political party and they have lost lot of their workers killed by Taliban. If state institutions with capability and responsibility of taking on Taliban are not willing to do that then ANP cannot do anything.