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Impact of 2018 elections on Islamic finance in Pakistan

Pakistan a country dominated by Muslim population is considered to be a center for Islamic Banking and Finance with no Riba, no exploitation, no investment in unethical areas and no speculation but still we are far away from these objectives with Islamic banking still 13% of the whole market and no substance to use it for the people of Pakistan to reduce increasing poverty. Governments come and go with rhetoric’s and no real steps.
In this context 2018 election have been important where some groups are contesting elections using the name of Islam, but in fact practically they have given nothing to the country except terrorism. Islamic religion is a religion for peace and it should have been towed like this.
Let us see how these groups have worked and are working.
Pakistani cleric Hafiz Saeed is one of the most-wanted terrorist suspects. At home, his charities are banned, as is a new Islamist political party launched by his followers.
None of that has stopped Saeed from hitting the campaign trail for Pakistan’s July 25 general election, denouncing the outgoing government as “traitors” and whipping up support for the more than 200 candidates he backs.
“The politics of the foreign servants is coming to an end!” Saeed thundered at a rally this month in the eastern city of Lahore, where supporters showered him with rose petals.
The main race in 25th July vote was between the party of now-jailed former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, which is seeking a second consecutive term despite its leader’s downfall on corruption charges, and the party of former cricket star Imran Khan, perceived as the favorite of the establishment.
But a bumper crop of ultra-Islamist groups also contested the poll, with the potential to reshape the political landscape of the nuclear-armed Muslim country of 208 million people with anti-Western rhetoric and calls for ever-stricter interpretation of sharia, or Islamic law.
The proliferation of religious parties appears to be a fulfillment of a proposal made by Pakistan’s establishment to “mainstream” armed Islamists and other extremists into politics, though the parties and the Establishment deny any links.
After winning few seats, liberal and secular-minded Pakistanis can say the sheer number of religious party candidates, combined with their ultra-conservative rhetoric, has already shifted the agenda in their direction.
With the new parties routinely accusing opponents of blasphemy or treason, mainstream parties have echoed their language in attacking Sharif’s Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N).
“The ostensible attempt to mainstream the religious right-wing is not making these parties take relatively moderate positions,” said Saroop Ijaz, a lawyer for Human Rights Watch. “But rather, it’s radicalizing the mainstream.”
Religious parties – some new, others established – fielded more than 1,500 candidates for national and provincial assemblies, compared with a few hundred in 2013.
While Pakistan has always had Islamist parties, the new entries are notable for their alleged links to militants and their rhetorical attacks on mainstream politicians’ piety or patriotism.
Pakistan’s three main parties all stress devotion to Islam, but the new religious parties portray them especially the PML-N – as leading Pakistan down a Western-inspired path away from the country’s Islamic values.
One new party, Tehreek-e-Labaik Pakistan, campaigned under the rallying cry “death to blasphemers” and had fielded 566 candidates.
Its candidates rail against the PML-N as blasphemers for a small abortive change last year to election law, which was quickly reversed after nationwide protests in which at least seven people were killed.
The change was to the swearing-in oath for candidates – from a religious vow to a simple declaration – stating the Prophet Mohammad (PBU) was God’s last messenger, a central tenet of Islam.
In May, a man police identified as a Labaik supporter shot and wounded then-Interior Minister Ahsan Iqbal as he left a meeting. He told interrogators Iqbal had to die because he was a blasphemer.
Tehreek-e-Labaik leader Khadim Hussain Rizvi condemned Iqbal’s shooting. But this month, he said the party could not be held responsible.
“We didn’t instigate anyone. These are the emotions of the nation,” Rizvi told Reuters, adding. “In a way, it rightly happened.”
Leaders of the mainstream opposition parties all condemned the attack on Iqbal.
Still, Imran Khan has also invoked the blasphemy controversy in campaign speeches, defending such language in a recent interview with Reuters.
“You cannot be a Muslim if you don’t believe that the Prophet (PBU), our Prophet (PBU), is the last prophet (PBU),” Khan said. “So to reiterate and support it is just standing with your faith.”
While Tehreek-e-Labaik is a legally registered party, other movements fielding candidates are officially banned in Pakistan but have bypassed the legal restrictions.
Pakistan’s Election Commission this year rejected Saeed’s Islamic charity’s application to register a political party, the Milli Muslim League, but the group later registered candidates under the name of an existing party, Allahu Akbar Tehreek, which now campaigns with Saeed’s image on its posters.
Another party, the Sunni extremist Ahl-e-Sunnat Wal Jamaat (ASWJ), has also fielded dozens of candidates under a different name, even though it is banned as the political wing of Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ), which has killed hundreds of minority Shi’ite Muslims. The party denies links with LeJ.
Last month, ASWJ leader Muhammad Ahmed Ludhianvi’s name was removed by a caretaker government from Pakistan’s terrorism watch list, cementing his own candidacy.
A spokesman for the Election Commission of Pakistan, Altaf Khan, asked about the banned groups’ candidates, said no illegal group had been registered.
“If some political party is registered with us, and it has come through the (legal) process, what’s wrong in it?” Khan said.
He added that the commission was investigating complaints of banned parties campaigning under different names.
However, the establishment did propose that a plan was pitched as a way to reduce violence and extremism under the model of the Northern Ireland peace process.
Critics say the real goal is for new ultra-religious parties to cut into the conservative base of Sharif’s party and confer legitimacy to Islamist militants the establishment has long been accused of nurturing as proxies in its rivalry with India.
“They have to be taken care of,” political commentator Raza Rumi said of such groups. “So this election is a test case as to how far the goal of mainstreaming these groups can be achieved.” Analysts say even with the increase in candidates, Islamists have not won more than a dozen or so seats in parliament.
But that might not be the point. Pakistani author and analyst Ayesha Siddiqa, a longtime critic of the establishment, believes the establishment, tired of civilian governments challenging its grip on foreign policy and large chunks of the economy, is seeking to weaken mainstream parties.
“They want to alter, engineer the national discourse,” Siddiqa said. “They want to build a new nationalism”.
“They want a new identity, and that is Islamic identity.”
True! but what about Islamic Finance, the basis of Islam, that is altogether missing in these programs and this is the point on which we all need to focus and proceed further. Now the expectations are with the new government to work on Islamic Finance in real terms.

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