Let's Go Fly a Kite: Not in Some Parts of Pakistan: Boy, 12, Jailed for Kite Flying

Sense prevailed and the judge went to the jail himself, to get the boy out.

The minor was arrested under Pakistan's [Punjab] Kite Flying Act.

See below for short on a reward offered for informing on those found involved in the flying, manufacture or sale of kites.


GUJRANWALA: Sunday morning witnessed the end of the detention of a twelve-year-old boy who was jailed for fulfilling his hobby – kite flying.

Arsalan, a resident of College Road in Gujranwala, was sent to the Central Jail by the Model Town police under Kite Flying Act.

After Gujranwala Sessions Judge Rashid Qamar learnt about the incident, he went to the Central Jail himself in order to free the boy.

Qamar said that the Kite Flying Act was not applicable on twelve year olds and handed the boy to his family members.

He also summoned Magistrate Shahzad Ahmad and SHO Model Town, seeking an explanation.

Currently, the Punjab Prohibition of Kite Flying (Amendment) Bill, 2009 forbids committing or abetting the act of kite flying and/or manufacture and sale of kites. Pak.Trib


Re-ward

FAISALABAD: District Coordination Officer (DCO) Naseem Sadiq has Thursday announced to reward with cash prizes starting from Rs10,000 [£70 /$110 /83 EURO] people who provide information about manufacturing and sale of equipment used in kite flying.

Prospects of Pakistan's Islamist resurgence - The Rise of the Crescent Moon in Pakistan's Politics

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More on Pakistan's history and Islam and the state.

Faith, Maududi insisted, was more than a “hotchpotch of beliefs, prayers and rituals.” Islam was, in fact, “a revolutionary ideology which seeks to alter the social order of the entire world and rebuild it in conformity with its own tenets and ideals.” Even the word ‘Muslims', he argued, denoted not a community of believers, but an “international revolutionary party organised by Islam to carry out its revolutionary programme.”

In March 2010, a jihadist convention held at Kotli drew speakers from terrorist groups linked to many of the same political formations.... The Lashkar's Muzaffarabad-based leader Abdul Wahid Kashmiri addressed the Pakistan government: “you beg water from India, whereas we are battling to levy jizya [a tax on conquered non-Muslims]”.

Even though Islamists have enjoyed only limited electoral support, they have shaped the state's destiny. The country's liberal democratic politicians must confront them or prepare to see them take power.

Early in 1939, on the eve of the great war that would lead on to the death of the British empire and the birth of his homeland, the politician and religious ideologue, Abdul Ala Maududi, delivered a lecture that has become a foundational text for South Asia Islamism.

Faith, Maududi insisted, was more than a “hotchpotch of beliefs, prayers and rituals.” Islam was, in fact, “a revolutionary ideology which seeks to alter the social order of the entire world and rebuild it in conformity with its own tenets and ideals.” Even the word ‘Muslims', he argued, denoted not a community of believers, but an “international revolutionary party organised by Islam to carry out its revolutionary programme.”

Ever since December, the world has watched, with ever-growing concern, the growing momentum of the Difa-e-Pakistan (Defence of Pakistan) — a new Islamist coalition that represents the full flowering of Maududi's vision.