This deal is a disgrace, and is plainly, despite Fawad Chaudhry’s denial, a capitulation to the rioters. Barring Asia Bibi from leaving the country contradicts her acquittal — if she has committed no crime according to Pakistani law, why are her movements being restricted? Even worse, barring her from leaving the country grants tacit permission to Tehreek-i-Labaik to hunt her down and murder her.
Pakistan is not an ally of the United States and has not been for a considerable period, if, indeed, it ever was. The treatment of Asia Bibi ought to be the occasion for the official ending of this sham alliance.
“Asia Bibi: Deal to end Pakistan protests over blasphemy case,” BBC, November 3, 2018:
Pakistan’s authorities have struck a deal with a hard-line Islamist party to end a protest over the acquittal of a Christian woman convicted of blasphemy.
As part of the deal, proceedings will begin to bar Asia Bibi from leaving the country.
The government will also not prevent protesters legally challenging the Supreme Court decision to release her.
Asia Bibi was convicted in 2010 of insulting the Prophet Muhammad, but was acquitted earlier this week.
Like all establishment media outlets, the BBC assumes that everyone is Muslim and always refers to Muhammad as “the Prophet Muhammad.”
The ruling enraged some in the majority-Muslim country.
Hardliners who support Pakistan’s blasphemy laws have been taking to the streets since Wednesday’s ruling.
Pakistani Information Minister Fawad Chaudhry told the BBC, “We had two options: either to use force, and when you use force people can be killed. That is not something a state should do… We tried negotiations and (in) negotiations you take something and you leave something.”
He defended the agreement against allegations the government was capitulating to extremists:
“We need to take steps against extremism, we need to take steps against such kind of violent protesters and we need to come up with a permanent solution. Right now this is not a cure. This is firefighting, what we are doing. The cure is the real thing and our government is committed to the cure.”
He clarified that the decision on whether or not to bar Asia Bibi from leaving the country would be made by a court, and added the government would “take all steps necessary” to ensure Asia Bibi’s safety.
What’s in the deal?It was reached between the government and the Tehreek-i-Labaik (TLP) party, which led the mass protests, local media report.
Under the agreement, as well as beginning legal proceedings to put Asia Bibi on a list which would ban her from leaving Pakistan, the government will also not block a review petition filed against the verdict.
The deal also envisages that all protesters arrested since Asia Bibi’s acquittal will be released, and any violence towards them will be investigated….

Ragdoll says
“You take something and you leave something”……. If his idea of negotiating is to stop her from leaving the country, review the acquittal and pardon all the protesters arrested for violence, I’d hate to see what his idea of giving up everything is!!
That’s not a deal, that’s total capitulation.
mtman2 says
President Trump should quietly call Pakistani leadership + in no uncertain terms tell them that Bibi + her entire family will be delivered into safe U.S. hands there(SEALS) + given true assylum here in America- or else they get nothing else from U$ + WE will favor India from now on.
Moreover WE want a guarantee all Christians + others will not suffer such barbaric treatment but that they can freely come here.
Further any interference in our access the Afghanistan will be considered an act of war
gravenimage says
+1
Anne Smith says
Excellent comments.
Britain stills foolishly gives aid we cannot actually afford to Pakistan.
A decent government would stop it totally, not just because of this but because we are borrowing to fund it and our own country is creaking at the seams, everything is falling apart. Time to spend on our own people.
Mirren10 says
I would change ‘foolishly’ to *insanely*. Pakistan has a nuclear capability. What sane polity would even dream of negotiating with a country that has shown itself to be totally unworthy of trust? Oh, right, Teresa May. 🙁
Maran says
+1
PRCS says
Is anyone really surprised by this?
Leon Degney says
NOPE!
Westman says
If the religionists can make the Pakistani government cave on this, overruling the supreme court of Pakistan, then Pakistan is on the road to revolution and war with India. It is only a matter of when. Perhaps, sadly, that is what will be required – dying en masse – for Pakistan to give up an ideology that demeans all unbelievers to a status below animals and conveys a false superiority to the believer. Such beliefs will always lead to conflict with other nations and will likely lead to disaster for any nation, holding such an attitude, which does not actually possess that superior force.
BC says
India has big problems with its own Muslim population
Tony says
Total disgrace that Asia faced charges in the first place. Religion of peace? What utter bullshit, fools.
Malcolm Jackson says
Poor woman. Trapped in this Islamic hell hole which is Pakistan.
Nigel Farage does not have a problem with Islam, so I suppose everything will be OK.
jewdog says
Legal rights are the mark of a civilized society, which is what Pukistan is not.
JAG says
Anjuli Pandavar says
Thank you.
gravenimage says
Thanks for that link.
Joy DB says
I wish my French weren’t so rusty, and I don’t read Magyar (I THINK the subtitles were in Hungarian?)! But I could make out some of it, and the photography was grim, indeed. In fact, this subject so incenses and also saddens me that I couldn’t bear to watch more than the first 10 or 15 minutes of the video! Poor Asia – if she’s not rescued – and SOON!! – I fear that she’ll be lynched!! Those savages all deserve to die an instant, but painful, death!! How can she be helped from the outside?
JAG says
Az ENSZ , az Európai unio, a vezető nyugati politikusoknak , a Soros féle ngo-nak csak 1 keresztény nő.
Nem számít mi lesz Asia Bibi-vel.
Citizen go:
-Biztonsági cégekkel léptünk kapcsolatba. Biztonsági szolgálatra és testőrökre Pakisztánban és Európában is szükség lesz.
-A hazaszállítás lehetőségeiről légitársaságokkal és magánvállalatok pilótáival egyeztetünk.
-Szeretnénk, ha minél több ország menedékjogot ajánlana Asiának, és nyomást gyakorolna Pakisztánra az elengedéséért.
-Petícióban fogjuk kérni a hét során Asia Bibi és családja elengedését.
Segíteni – pénzt küldeni: https://go.citizengo.org/hu-oct-18-fd-PR-EZ-AsiaBibi_LP-One-Time-Donations-HU.html?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTkRVM01tWTRZV1UxTnpsaiIsInQiOiJPQTZQQ0pKaFJ6WEJTSFhDT3oyU1ZUUDQ0UFwvMzNVVDNXeGJsYmRvT3V0alp0bytiYXNnNUhWaXNpT000VHhqM243aVV6bHBRQWhTWkZRQ1VrQm5yMENMUitQenJHQ3oyNjZnS2hLRmtVTzlLYmxDZEZmYWJGV0NhSlNMRDFubjkifQ%3D%3D
– petíciót aláírni: https://citizengo.org/en/freedom-asia-bibi-new-evidence
CogitoErgoSum says
Lebel, are you monitoring this? Here is your chance to make some comments about hate and bigotry and ethnic cleansing and deportation. Oh wait ……. deportation? They don’t even want to discuss deportation. They want nothing less than DEATH for Asia Bibi. Don’t you have anything to say about this? You’ve been watching Jihad Watch since 2004. Aren’t you watchilng now? Where are you, Lebel?
mortimer says
Yes, lebel, tells us about why BLASPHEMY CANNOT BE FORGIVEN BECAUSE ONLY MOHAMMED CAN FORGIVE BLASPHEMY … inconveniently Mohammed is dead … OH, WELL! I guess the Pakis will just have to EXECUTE AN INNOCENT WOMAN THEN.
Right, lebel?
So you see, lebel, Islam cannot be intellectually defended. You certainly cannot. Your DISTRACTIONS are NOT proper *ARGUMENTS* … but RED HERRINGS.
James Lincoln says
Silence from lebel tells it all.
gravenimage says
Yep.
Walter Sieruk says
It should be made clear and likewise the about news report about this Muslim malice in Pakistan that Islam ,as shown by the awful malice -filled Muslims with all their Islamic hate against this Christian woman that Islam in not a rational religion .Those Muslims as well as other Muslim, in other places and times have proven the Islamic is based on strong hateful emotions and powerful feeling of malicious spite . and not ,at all, based on reason or logic. Likewise . such incidence as this also prove that Islamic is not really a peaceful religion ,as some claim, but and religion of violence.
Walter Sieruk says
The news report of about this large Muslim mob, in Pakistan, who have banded together all against this one lone Christian woman is a reminder , somewhat , of the words contained in the Bible in Psalm 94:21.
For in the Bible it is written “They band together against the righteous and condemn the innocent to death.” [N.I.V.]
In addition to this it should be futher explained that the only real reason that Islamic nations as Pakistan has such absurd things as “blasphemy laws”, in the first place ,which warrant death, by that Islamic government , for those who might critics Islam . Likewise the citizens of such Muslim countries who are themselves Muslims are become so very offended and enraged if a person might question or criticize Islam, no matter how mild those questions or t criticism s might be, the Muslims of those nations engage in violent against those who might or had questioned or criticized Islam
This is ,very much , a strong reminder that the Christian man, Roger Williams , who was the founder of the State of Rhode Island was someone who had the wisdom and understanding to make a valid and true statement which is “That religion cannot be true which need such instruments of violence to uphold it.”
mtman2 says
President Trump should quietly call Pakistani leadership + in no uncertain terms tell them that Bibi + her entire family will be delivered into safe U.S. hands there(SEALS) + given true assylum here in America- or else they get nothing else from U$ + WE will favor India from now on.
Moreover WE want a guarantee all Christians + others will not suffer such barbaric treatment but that they can freely come here.
Further any interference in our access the Afghanistan will be considered an act of war
Walt Parkman says
And if in the future, the rioters demand that Pakistan nuke India, will the government capitulate then too?
Salome says
Perhaps India’s preemptive retaliation might be the means by which Pakistan deservedly suffers the fate of Sodom and Gomorrah if one hair of Asia’s head is harmed.
Michael McGrath says
Is there something in International Law that would allow a military (small unit) Special,Op’s,from several Countries to rescue this woman ?
Salome says
Probably not, but who cares! The difficulty would be more with rescuing a civilian woman in ill health from a prison and getting her safely out of the country (with her family, moreover). Much easier for special ops to go in and assassinate someone.
underbed cat says
Her crime besides being a Christian is to express herself …….when it comes from a Christian in sharia based countries such as Pakistan, she convicted for a comment. I hope that President Trump could rescue her from this fate of the the brutal islamic mobs. Pakistan held OBS, kept his location
“sanctuary” hidden…and is no ally to the U.S. Once you understand sharia the doctrine from which was formed it changes the picture that the pious appearing work so hard to deny with controlled behavior, and information warfare that the media may be paid to ignore. In my opinion. How do we get her out where no tolerance prevails.
James Lincoln says
President Trump should immediately tweet about the situation of Asia Bibi – and include some remarks about it during his next rally.
Turn this into an international event.
gravenimage says
**Yes**.
Guy Forester says
Per the Propaganda and LIes minister: “We tried negotiations and (in) negotiations you take something and you leave something.”
The above statement in reality means: Asia Bibi will have her freedom taken away and will be left dead.
Obama, when are you going to speak out about this? You and all of the previous presidents that stupidly thought that Krapistan would be a good ally and a counter to the PRC built this. Supposedly Krapistan and the PRC are now working together. China is currently purging their own muslim population. I hope Krapistan and the PRC try to see who is king of the Poop Pile. What’s few nukes between “friends”?
Resistance is not futile says
And imagine Pakistan actually possesses nuclear weapons.
jewdog says
That’s so they can nuke blasphemers.
Elisha says
Hang the “blasphemer”, worship the pedophile?
Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil;
Who put darkness for light, and light for darkness;
Who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes,
And prudent in their own sight! – Isaiah 5:20-21
gravenimage says
Pakistani government capitulates to rioters, bans Asia Bibi from leaving country, reviews her blasphemy acquittal
………………..
Just repulsive–but no surprise.
Jeremiah says
Has any Christian thought of extracting her?
gravenimage says
Many people above–no doubt some of then Christian–have talked about getting her out of Pakistan.
Horseman says
There are some really shithole places on this planet!
Alain Lenferna de la Motte says
History has shown that Islam cannot be trusted. Taqiyya.
J.W.K. says
And let us nit forget the Feminists who are silent as the grave, and the UN, which is for all their blather about human rights, silent.
[UN really stands for USELESS NUCKLEHEADS, as their silence plainly shows]
Where is Amnesty International?
With the other SJWs no doubt!
SHAME ON ALL OF THEM!!!!!
gravenimage says
Amnesty International *has* commented on this–but they are just putting a happy face on it. I have not seen that they have acknowledged what danger Asia Bibi remains in:
“Pakistan: Aasia Bibi verdict is a landmark victory for religious tolerance”
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2018/10/pakistan-aasia-bibi-verdict-is-a-landmark-victory-for-religious-tolerance/
J.W.K. says
Let us not forget the Feminists who are silent as the grave, and the UN, which is for all their blather about human rights, silent.
[UN really stands for USELESS NUCKLEHEADS, as their silence plainly shows]
Where is Amnesty International?
With the other SJWs no doubt!
SHAME ON ALL OF THEM!!!!!
J.W.K. says
Don’t forget the Feminists who are silent as the grave, and the UN, which is for all their blather about human rights, silent.
[UN really stands for USELESS NUCKLEHEADS, as their silence plainly shows]
Where is Amnesty International?
With the other SJWs no doubt!
SHAME ON ALL OF THEM!!!!!
gravenimage says
I’m for equal rights for women, and I’m speaking out here.
JAG says
UN?
António Guterres, President of the Socialist International, then
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).
Amnesty? Soros NGO ?
Not Muslim, non-minority.
Abraham Fox says
This is not a capitulation by the Pakistan Government but rather the passing of the buck to the crowd. Pakistan Government can’t execute Aisi without global condemnation so it ‘releases’ her and will let the mob kill her. These jackasses are so transparent. They think that talking to the West like they talk to their own will be convincing. Unfortunately this is not true because in the West we have a higher IQ and education level than the average Pakistani.
Felix Quigley says
gravenimage says
Nov 3, 2018 at 10:54 pm
Pakistani government capitulates to rioters, bans Asia Bibi from leaving country, reviews her blasphemy acquittal
………………..
Just repulsive–but no surprise.
But why does not Gravenimage take up immediately the position of Guy Forrester above who does not defend China against Islam? WTF!
gravenimage says
What? Is Felix Quigley castigating me because I did not immediately reply to a specific post?
What I almost always do on a thread I have not posted on yet is read the story, go to the bottom of the thread, and post a comment purely on the content of the story. That is what I did here with the comment of mine that he cites. One can check and see that that was my first post on this story.
Then–time allowing–I read the comments of other posters, and reply to some of them based on what they have to say. I post on Jihad Watch a great deal, but I do not reply to every post on here. Indeed, it would not be possible to do so. This would be hundreds–sometimes thousand–of posts every day.
Moreover, even if time allowed, I do not feel the need to reply to every single post here. Many times I would have nothing to add.
Then, I specifically took a close look at Guy Forester’s post, above. He criticizes the Pakistani authorities, Obama’s silence, and the PRC enabling Pakistan. I see nothing to criticize Guy Forester for here–all of these things are quite true.
Note that *nowhere* does Guy Forester say that he wants to see China or the Chinese people harmed by Islam–he is just criticizing the Chinese authority’s policies regarding Pakistan.
Note that Jihad Watch *itself* has criticized China’s enabling of Pakistan–and Islam in general. Here is one story:
“China ‘building goodwill’ in state-sponsor of jihad terror Pakistan”
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2018/04/china-building-goodwill-in-state-sponsor-of-jihad-terror-pakistan
I criticized China’s enabling of Jihad in Pakistan on that thread myself.
More to the point, Felix Quigley *himself* criticized Chinese policy towards Pakistan–and Chinese Communist policy towards their own people–on that same thread. His post is near the bottom of the comments thread, from April 4, 2018 at 12:32 pm.
So his implication that if one criticizes the policies of China that one wants China brutalized by Muslims is obviously not the case.
I am a steady critic of Communist China and their brutal treatment of their own people and their neighbors–but I have said many times that there is nothing wrong with China that would not be made worse by Islam. This is true virtually everywhere.
Here is just one example of my condemning Jihad savagery against Chinese people:
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2017/02/china-muslim-murders-eight-in-knife-attack-in-xinjiang#comment-1618373
There are many, many more.
So I’m not sure what Felix Quigley’s point is here.
James Christian says
SEND IN SEAL TEAM 6 and rescue this poor lady!
Patricia Compton says
Does anyone want to start a petition to President Trump to intervene on this woman’s behalf and safely bring her and her children to the US? I’m not good at wording the petition but maybe I will try.
JAG says
The peace, love religion
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSlFcnntcFo&feature=youtu.be&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTkRVM01tWTRZV1UxTnpsaiIsInQiOiJPQTZQQ0pKaFJ6WEJTSFhDT3oyU1ZUUDQ0UFwvMzNVVDNXeGJsYmRvT3V0alp0bytiYXNnNUhWaXNpT000VHhqM243aVV6bHBRQWhTWkZRQ1VrQm5yMENMUitQenJHQ3oyNjZnS2hLRmtVTzlLYmxDZEZmYWJGV0NhSlNMRDFubjkifQ%3D%3D
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/nov/02/outrage-as-pakistani-government-vows-to-stop-asia-bibi-leaving?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTkRVM01tWTRZV1UxTnpsaiIsInQiOiJPQTZQQ0pKaFJ6WEJTSFhDT3oyU1ZUUDQ0UFwvMzNVVDNXeGJsYmRvT3V0alp0bytiYXNnNUhWaXNpT000VHhqM243aVV6bHBRQWhTWkZRQ1VrQm5yMENMUitQenJHQ3oyNjZnS2hLRmtVTzlLYmxDZEZmYWJGV0NhSlNMRDFubjkifQ%3D%3D
John Hagg says
Speaking the Truth about Islam and Muhammad is a crime and blasphemy. As long as you tell lies in Islam, you are ok. But when you start speaking the truth,you are in trouble.