Saturday, April 16, 2016
Non state fanatic actors in Pakistan are trying to hijack Islam further by increasing pressure on the duly elected democratic governments to punish those who are not Sunis and especially those who are not Muslims. If one reviews the intention of Mohammed Jinah - the founder of Pakistan - one will find that the idea of creating Pakistan was predicated on the principle of secularism - which means all people irrespective of their faith and religious practice, will have equal rights and freedom of speech. Unfortunately, by the passing of time, that fundamental principle has been lost in the shuffle and the fundamentalism has taken over the lives of minorities in Pakistan. It is a shame. Unfortunately, the elected government in Islamabad - which is on a shaky grounds these days due to leaks revealed from the Panama Papers- is incapable of controlling these non state actors because the latter has the in-built blessing of the nexus of Pakistani military/ISI. So what is the solution to control this wave of religious ( if that is the right word to use in Pakistan) fanaticism? Since Pakistan is a nuclear nation, it is important to find a solution to control these non state actors failing which the time is not too far when those nukes can be found in the lap of these non state actors and then one does not have to talk about the aftermath of their use. It will be a devastating scenario for the world for a long time to come. There is a time now and now only that the civilized world wakes up and put all sorts of pressure on the Pakistani military to withdraw their support to these non state actors and dismantle their operations once and for all from the territory of Pakistan. Needless to say, still lot of petro dollars are funneled to these non state actors by the Suni governments which ought to be stopped right away. The ball is in the court of civilized nations to join hands and eradicate this Islamic fundamentalism from the face of this earth.
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