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A judge declares a person wajibul qatal and the state carries out the punishment.
By saying, so and so is a kaafir, you are making an observation. Because definition of Imaan and Kufr are in the Qur'an and based on those definition anyone can make an observation.
For example: according to the Qur'an the Christians are kaafirs because they commit shirk by taking Jesus as a deity. They believe in trinity and therefore, their tawheed is no longer valid.
Similarly, In the Qur'an the Jews are declared kaafirs because they corrupted the Sharia of Musa and took their rabbi's as lawgivers. Allah declares them as kaafirs because their rabbi's would make laws contrary to the Sharia of Musa.
Today, when we say: Jews & Christians are kaafirs, we are not deciding, we are not judging, we are merely making an observation:
Jew = belief in Talmud = laws contrary to Sharia = Kafir.
Similarly, we know that the current parliament and constitution of Pakistan is based on British law and it mentions Islam only nominally. In reality, Pakistan's laws are based on man made laws. Which is similar to the kufr of the Jews who took their rabbi's as lawgivers beside Allah.
Therefore, any rational Muslim who knows this about Pakistan acknowledges that anyone involved in the system is by default a kaafir.
Whether all of them are waajibul qatal? That's not the concern of the individual. Because there is no Islamic state that governs all the people of Pakistan where people can be punished for apostasy.
Only a legitimate Islamic state with proper scholars can appoint judges who are capable of issuing rulings against criminals, sinners, apostates etc.
Since there is no government, the issue of waajibul qatal is totally out of order.
However, corrupt, criminal and deceiving groups and movements misguide people to justify their political interests by claiming certain people are waajibul qatal. As if individuals without any authority are allowed to carry out punishments against other individuals.
Islam is entirely based on laws and laws are there to be implemented by a legitimate government. We don't have vigilante systems and we are not allowed to become prosecutor, judge and executioner.
The problem with ISIS is that they are former secular Baathists who have adopted Al Qaeda style Islamism in order pursue their own political goals. In reality, they don't have any Islamic scholars, their understanding of religion is based on politics. They declare people as kafirs only because people won't accept their government and their political views.
ISIS applies the same reasoning as Al Qaeda: Ends justify the means. This corrupt concept was first made popularized by Ikhwanul Muslim in Egypt. Later it was imported in South Asia by Jamaatis. Today most Islamist groups in our region have some form of "ends justify the means" concept in their politics and dealings.

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