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A Review of the Pakistani Government’s “White Paper”: Qadiyaniyyat—A Grave Threat to Islam [ 7 ] Therefore, the current administration should have, with dignity, gone to the courts with indictments and then should have acted upon the decisions of the courts. Yet, as far as the current government is concerned, they firmly believe that the 1974 National Assembly comprised of indi- viduals with atrocious and horrific character who should have no right to be the representatives of Islam. The ‘Pious’ Deeds of the So-Called Majority As far as the Peoples Party is concerned, they were in the majority in the National Assembly. The pictures that have been painted of its federal ministers, provincial ministers, members of national and provincial assemblies—without naming any names—is hard to believe. Since no individual is being named here, I do not feel hesitant to describe some of these allegations to you. The nature of the allegations is such that according to Islamic shar i‘ ah , the perpetrator and advertisers of these allegations should receive a minimum sentence of eighty lashes. If the current government is pro- claiming to support the Islamic shar i‘ ah , it needs to impose the shar i‘ ah upon itself before imposing it on others. If an individual is accused of the crimes mentioned in their White Paper, then, unless four witnesses testify to the accu- racy of the accusations and the accusations are duly con- firmed, as an Islamic government it is under obligation to impose a sentence of eighty lashes on the accusers. In the