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@स्वरूप जोशीHey Joshi, Thanks for passing your tho...

2009-02-23T12:27:00.000+05:30

@स्वरूप जोशी
Hey Joshi, Thanks for passing your thoughts, here is my response.

The paradox? I had to explain all the history in order to prove my point. I believe no one is so naive to believe what i say in my blog, things have to be proved with minute details :)

1. We had discussed about "dar-ul-harb and dar-ul-islam" before see here. What I all want to say is, religious fanatics's misinterpretation of the sacred texts and subsequent cruelty in the name of got has created a mess. Problem is bigger, solution must be extraordinary, the world has not yet arrived at the doors of solution for this issue and one can hope that the time will definitely come.

2. You should ask this question in indian context too. who is electing criminals in our parliament? who is electing people who doesn't desrve to make laws for us? Perhaps that would give you a compassionate answer.

3. I thought Part-1 would have given (in detail) the reasons for harboring the terrorists. What we and rest of the world need is the solution to the problem, not incinerating it over and over again.

4 and 5. well, thats bit exaggeration, wait and see, SWAT is the precusror to something unprecedented. I would say, time is the only answer.

6. I had picked that from a history text book. I thought i had put that in quotes but missed it. Sorry for that, it should have been, quote "mutineers considered him as a symbol of "united India" against the foreign (British) rule." unquote. :)

I couldn't ignore the paradox in your writeup(s).Y...

2009-02-22T23:59:00.000+05:30

I couldn't ignore the paradox in your writeup(s).
You say "What we need is not the prolonged postmortem of the past", but yourself give the point-wise details of mistakes committed in in Pak's past. Your title suggests that we need to look into Pak history to understand today's situation, but you advocate "rigorous pursuit of new opportunities to bring the peace". You look a bit too confused in this couple of posts. What are you trying to suggest -
World should not pressurize Pak for action against terrorists ?

I disagree on some of your statements, too :
1. "The roots of Pakistan's problems can be traced to undivided India's Freedom Movement"
> actually it goes still deeper. it goes right into the concepts of dar-ul-harb and dar-ul-islam. rehmat ali (mentioned in part-1) had nothing else in his mind.

2. "the crisis in Pakistan is not because of the innocent civilians but because of its rulers"
> and whence cometh the ruler?
one can understand if a leader or two were abnormal. but the same policy for 6 decades !! aam-pakistani-aadami can't do away with that, just like we can't do away with our leaders - corrupt & all.
beyond a point, this argument makes no sense that people are good, leaders are bad. arre bhai, who is making them the leaders ? if 'yathaa raajaa tathaa prajaa' is true, so is 'people get the leaders they deserve'.

3. "Passing the blame on Pakistan is not going to do any good"
> you've used this 'passing the blame' phrase more than once. it has a connotation that we are a part of the crime as well, and now that the act is caught, are making pak a scapegoat. you obviously know that that's not the case. the blame is being squarely put on pak because they are harboring terrorists.

4. "World need to understand that, Pakistan need some time to clean up the mess created by dictators"
> and what good are they going to make of this time ?
swat, once called switzerland of pak, is already under sharia. are you expecting decline in the no. of terrorists being parceled to our country as more and more of the earth comes under sharia ?

5. "Peace does not come from the barrel of a gun but is achieved when cultural differences are respected and the fundamental rights of all are recognised and upheld"
> and pak under sharia is going to do that !!??

6. -last but not the least - "..mutineers considered him as a symbol of "united India""
> nothing's more painful and shameful when we ourselves call our first freedom struggle a mutiny !!
i hope this was just a slip-of-pen from you.

I think you are right in saying "Today, the crisis...

2009-02-22T10:12:00.000+05:30

I think you are right in saying "Today, the crisis in Pakistan is not because of the innocent civilians but because of it's rulers and their narrow motives." Today the civilian government is handicapped and is under tremendous pressure from both inside fundamental Terror groups, now Taliban, us and rest of the world. More pressure will weaken the moral strength of the government and this will lead once again for dictatorship. Rather military support and providing governing guidelines will change the life of "Aam Aadmi" in Pakistan.