The comments Bilwal Bhutto Zardari has made on the Capital Punishment awarded to Kulbhushan Jadhav
in a Court Martial (under military act) re-enforce my initial impression or conclusion that the PPP chairman has earned this position not on the basis of his personal qualities of mind but for the simple reason that he is son of Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto. Had he been just Asif Ali Zardari’s son he would have been a non-entity.
The PPP’s opposition to Capital Punishment is known to us, but to make Bhutto’s hanging a reason to revolt against one of the key tenets or doctrines of Islam is in the very least unfortunate, and in reality damnable.
The PPP leadership has always thrived in a wide-spread and passionately adopted pretense to liberal thinking. ZAB had welded the PPP to Islam by making it a key component of its philosophy, but in an atmosphere of polarization, the PPP continuously drifted away from the teachings of Islam and embraced liberalism which in essence was ‘permissiveness’ or a license to deviate away from the known fundamentals of morality.
The subject here is Capital Punishment which is practically an ingrained component of Islamic Laws. The entire behavioral morality of Islam is built on Crime and Punishment. Killers and traitors in Islam are entitled to only one punishment, as per Quranic injunctions as well as the practices of the Holy Prophet (PBUH). The classical example in this regard is the beheading of the entire Bani Quraizah tribe for the crime of treachery and treason against the state of Madina.
The Jews have not forgiven Islam for this singular act. But hasn’t Israel eliminated every single soul even suspected of having been sympathetic towards anti-semiticism?
Zardari is no more than an opportunist whose religion, like that of MNS, is Money-Making. But Bilawal is Oxford-educated. He should have built Islamic barricades in his mind against ‘ideas’ that look appealing in the domain of high idealism.
It is a harsh statement that I am making. But Bilawal needs conversion to Islam if he seriously dreams of becoming a leader of this nation. He is young. Imran Khan at best has fifteen more active years in politics. By that time Bilawal will be in early mature middle age— with a world of opportunities before him.
A converted or born-again Bilawal can end up in the seat his mother and her father once occupied.
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