The actual Awami National Party (ANP), which is section of the ruling coalition, said it rejected the $100, 000 bounty proposed by Railways Minister Ghulam Ahmed Bilour to anyone who killed anyone behind the "Innocence of Muslims" film.
Bilour invited members of the actual Taliban and Al-Qaeda to join in the "noble deed", and said given the prospect he would personally kill the maker with the movie, which has sparked furious protests along the Muslim world.
"The statement due to Mr Bilour has been rejected because of the party because we believe inside non-violence and our party is well known for that, " ANP spokesman Senator Zahid Khan told AFP.
"This kind of thing is beyond our imagination as it will end the difference in between ANP and extremists. "
Consultations for the matter were in progress, Khan mentioned, but they were being hampered simply because party leader Asfandyar Wali Khan has gone to north america to take part in the actual UN General Assembly.
The ANP is a secular party and holds electrical power in Pakistan's deeply conservative northwestern province Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, where anti-Western feeling runs high as well as the party is under pressure through religious hardliners.
A general election is looming inside the coming months, and analysts say Bilour's move may have been a misguided attempt to outflank the religious right on an issue that has brought about visceral public anger in Pakistan.
The federal government on Sunday rejected the incentive, which Bilour announced a evening after nationwide Friday protests resistant to the film descended into violence as well as looting which left 21 dead and even more than 200 injured.
The US ALL State Department also weighed inside on Sunday, with an recognized calling Bilour's remarks "inflammatory as well as inappropriate".
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