Seeking to combat growing sectarian violence, Pakistan on Thursday said it plans to bring a legislation to ban declaring Muslims of other sects as ‘kafirs’ or infidels.
In a meeting chaired by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, the country’s top civil-military leadership also approved a nationwide crackdown against financiers of sectarian violence that has claimed many lives in the past. Sources privy to the meeting said the new legislation to ban ‘Takfir’ or declaring Muslims of other sects as ‘kafirs’ was discussed during the meeting held to review the
progress of National Action Plan (NAP) — the country’s 20-point counterterrorism strategy adopted earlier this year to eliminate extremism and militancy.