Shaping Pakistan

Tariq;

You can cause these sensible voices to reach out to more people that will have an impact on the society at large. There have been many good people, but with their own agenda for power. If you look at the successes of people in the history- they did not want anything for themselves and did not have any agenda for themselves. Tahirul Qadri is doomed for having his own perceived agenda, rather than an agenda for Pakistan. Imran Khan seems to have an agenda for Pakistan, but he has not shown any boldness when bad incidents happen, he is waiting for what others say and then shares his take, that is deficiency in having guts.

 

The successful leader of Pakistani will be someone who has an agenda for Pakistani people and uplifting them economically and socially without anything for himself. If that person appears on the scene, the public will be behind him or her. Any one will succeed if he or she does not have anything to gain but focus on getting Pakistan out of doldrums. This someone will focus on training more people to become able leaders, and he or she is not there for the long haul, and some one who does not have the arrogance to believe that he alone can save Pakistan.

This may be the first time, that the Pakistan Admin has responded to an incident like Joseph Town, and this must be the response to every civil disturbance. They need to act the same when Shia, Ahmadiyya and Hindu communities are harassed to earn credibility. Round up the bad guys as individuals and not give them labels like JI, LeJ etc.. It puts a damper on tensions, people are willing to cheer beating up bad guys, but if you give them an affiliation or a label,  then you have created a division. It's not against bad guys anymore but against a group.

 We can blame Bush for unleashing misery and terror in the world and causing all the death and destruction. Had he done what Obama did, just get the bad guy Bin Laden and the world would have cheered for him and none of the destruction of America and the world would have happened. But blaming others does not solve Pakistan's issues.

 Just go back to 1960 - Pakistan was a fine country! People were great! What happened then? The Zia Bhutto combine are the criminals of Pakistan, they completely brainwashed Pakistanis to believe what they did not believe before 1960. The discrimination against Bengalis, the Hudood laws, the breakup of the nation, and dividing society and pitching one Pakistani against the other. 

Can someone Un-brainwash Pakistanis and restore them to pre-60? They got along fine, the prosperity was there. What is needed is unselfish leaders who can have people focus on what can they do together as individuals for the nation. Someone who can get them off in making other people's life difficult based on Religion.

Some one who has the balls to tell that what you believe is between you and God - and no one is responsible for the other. Whether you are a Christian, Deobandi, Ahmadiyya, Barelavi, Ahle-sunnat,  Shia, Wahhabi, Hindu, Parsee or a Jew,  each one is responsible for his or her own Aamals, and not you. You have no business in the matters of other's faith, let them believe what they believe. For God's sake back off from hounding others with blasphemy, khatimun nabiyeen, apostasy, idol worship, dargah worship and other issues. Because you are not responsible for what one believes, and you have no GD business in meddling with others belief, live your own.

Hamid Mir's piece below is good, while Qadeer khans appeal will hit his fans big time. The more of them speak the greater impact it will have in correcting the course. A movement of good speakers, a movement of leaders who care about Pakistan needs to be encouraged to speak.

I hope Raja Khan Zada, Sajjad Azhar and others from DFW can upload a lot of good in the Pakistani Papers they represent, and TV in Pakistan. This is the least the Dallas Pakistanis can do to focus on well being of all people. I hope Safeee-e-Pakistan will beam back that unified message to Pakistan as well on the March 23.

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On Mar 11, 2013, at 5:28 AM, tariq xxxxx @ wrote from Lahore

one more:
http://jang.com.pk/jang/mar2013-daily/11-03-2013/col14.htm

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From: Tariq..........

Sent: Monday, March 11, 2013 5:27am
 "Mike" <ghousemike@gmail.com>
Subject: two important articles published today [urdu]

http://jang.com.pk/jang/mar2013-daily/11-03-2013/col2.htm

http://jang.com.pk/jang/mar2013-daily/11-03-2013/col1.htm

Inshallah, we will raise voice against this madness !

Hunting down Shias, what can we do about it?

Let's ask our imams to address this issue in our Friday Sermons, and let's go pray Juma prayers with the Shia Muslims, let's show  solidarity with them. That is the least we can do. 

Insha Allah, we will hold a meeting in April about this situation here in Dallas, please come up with simple practical day to day ideas that each one of us can do.

URL - http://worldmuslimcongress.blogspot.com/2013/03/hunting-down-shias-societys-deafening.html

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Maheen Usmani writes in Dawn,

•  "KARACHI: Hauled off buses, targeted in their clinics, on boulevards, in alleys, in shops, in offices, in processions and pilgrimages, is there any place left safe for Shias in Pakistan? At Ashura, they were chastised for taking out Moharram processions and giving terrorists an open field in which to attack.
• Till yesterday, they might have thought that the inner sanctum of their homes would provide them protection against the growing madness swirling around them. But now the killing fields are their own homes.

• They are hoping for a better tomorrow, but who can blame them for losing hope day by day?

• The founder of Pakistan, Mohammad Ali Jinnah, was a Shia but today he is called a kafir by many venomous Pakistanis.

• Mr Jinnah’s prophetic words “United we Stand, Divided we Fall’’ have never seemed more tragically relevant to the country he founded with such high hopes and aspirations. "

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 If Israel bulldozes the house of a Palestinian, we raise bloody hell and demonstrate big time everywhere, and that is the right thing to do, but when it comes to people in our own backyard, we are totally screwed up. Either we are scared, or simply don't care beyond our own disgusting self. Imagine how the Shia, Ahmadiyya,Hindu and Christian Minorities feel in Pakistan now.

I thank Allah for making me a minority through out my life, so I can feel the anxieties and pain of the fellow beings.

The least we can do is to do the thu-thu (spitting; an act of condemnation in the culture) at the government of Zardari, they have failed to protect the Citizens.  The least we can do is to lend  support to Shia Muslims, so they can feel a bit secure that the ordinary Sunnis are with them.  I hear their cries, the lady in the picture breaks my heart.

Had it not been for the American majority, and the laws of the nations, many Pakistanis would have been harassed. If we want our lives to be not discriminated, we need to stand up for others whose lives are made hell.

Mike Ghouse committed to cohesive societies where no human, has to live in fear of the other. About Mike at www.MikeGhouse.net
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A few of the many pieces where Muslims have spoken against crimes towards Shia.

Hunting down Shias: Society’s deafening silence

KARACHI: Hauled off buses, targeted in their clinics, on boulevards, in alleys, in shops, in offices, in processions and pilgrimages, is there any place left safe for Shias in Pakistan? At Ashura, they were chastised for taking out Moharram processions and giving terrorists an open field in which to attack. http://dawn.com/2013/03/04/hunting-down-shias-societys-deafening-silence/ 

Muslims Condemn Zardari Government for not protecting the Shia ...
“We condemn the harassment and killings of Shia and Ahmadiyya Pakistanis by Sunni Pakistanis. The Jhangvi leaders are saying they will kill more Shias, and are walking around like the beasts on prowl. http://worldmuslimcongress.blogspot.com/2013/02/muslims-condemn-zardari-government-for.html
 
World Muslim Congress : Sunni-Shia strife - The Economist
Muslim scholars, 170 in number and representing nine schools of legal thought (including four main Sunni ones and two Shia), gathered in Amman and declared that, whatever their differences, they accepted the others' ... http://worldmuslimcongress.blogspot.com/2012/07/sunni-shia-strife-economist.html

 
World Muslim Congress : Shias massacred in Pakistan
If we blame the religion, we have passed the buck to an innocent intangible, we need to get the individual bad guys and get them to pay for it. They are not Talibans, not Sunnis, not Shias not... lets develop a mind set to get the ... http://worldmuslimcongress.blogspot.com/2012/03/shias-massacred-in-pakistan.html

Muslim Intra faith dialogue in Houston
SUNNI, SHIA, AHMADIYYA AND WD MUHAMMAD DENOMINATIONS. Describe the outline of the event at the Asia Society. Who will be involved? What is the schedule? What is the format? What is the expected outcome? http://theghousediary.blogspot.com/2013/02/muslim-intra-faith-dialogue-in-houston.html
 
Intra-faith panel discusses peaceful Islamic futures
http://blog.chron.com/sacredduty/2013/02/intra-faith-panel-discusses-peaceful-islamic-futures/   

World Muslim Congress : Saudi Cleric -Shia infidels
THE BIGOTS AMONG US Saudi cleric issues religious edict declaring Shiites to be infidels. The article below is inciting and ridiculous. No Muslim will subscribe to this non-sense unless they are paid to do it. Whatever City ... http://worldmuslimcongress.blogspot.com/2008/01/saudi-cleric-shia-infidels.html