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They
have murdered Danial Pearl; a journalist and a human
being. The shameless perpetrators call themselves as
Muslims and Pakistanis.
“Killing of one human being is killing of the whole
humanity.” This is what we had been hearing since
our birth in a Muslim society in Pakistan. Fortunately,
we the majority in Pakistan not only hear or say this,
but practice it too. But as is everywhere, here too
we have a few black sheeps or dirty stinking fish out
to pollute the clean tranquil waters. In fact, they
are neither Muslims nor Pakistanis. They are not even
human beings. They are terrorist and terrorists have
no religion or identity. The whole nation is saddened
and condemns this terrorist act. It sure is another
dirty trick of enemies of humanity and freedom to destabilize
the region. We condemn strongly this gruesome act and
the whole nation stand behind the present regime in
their resolve to rid Pakistan of terrorism. Our heartfelt
sympathy to the brewed family and friends of slain journalist.
Elsewhere, the barbaric atrocities are continued to
be committed by Israeli forces in Middle East and by
Indians in Kashmir. Hundreds of innocent lives are being
lost. While the American President has started retracting
his “Axis of evil” rhetoric, the Indian forces
massed on Indo Pak borders are still finding a “face
saving excuse” to retract their unjustified move
forward. We hope Indian leaders shall find some means
to send their forces to peace locations sooner than
later. “We only reacted to Indian move…. Why
they moved to the borders? We don’t know…
How and when should they move back?… We don’t
know. It is their headache… we only know that every
Indian move shall get befitting response from us.”
A Pak official says it all!!!
Happy Eid ul Azha and good reading. |
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Time
has come to say enough, we will not allow exploitation
of fellow citizens. Most blasphemy cases seem related
to property, greed and intolerance. Our judiciary
needs all the help to make them deliver what is “justly”
their duty. If ever there was a need for military
intervention, it is in these cases. From registration
of cases to courts the army should be involved. Cases
which cannot stand upto military scrutiny should be
disposed of with a penalty.
The judges are scared of rabid mullahs and instead
of giving unjust decisions they delay cases with little
regard to people languishing in jails. History records
that the greatest cruelties were done in the name
of religion and that religion and that religion becomes
the last refuge of scoundrels. Ignoring injustice
will lead to more intolerance.
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There
is no doubt that the rapprochement between Pakistan
and Afghanistan is not easy and no one should hope
for a smooth road to this end. But President Pervaiz
Musharraf and Chairman Hamid Karazi have taken a positive
start to rebuild what has been lost. Pakistan and
Afghanistan need to mend fences and work on improving
their ties.
Despite problems between the two countries, there
is much that they share and Karzai’s visit would
give a platform to establish closer links.
During their joint press talk, the two leaders were
aware of the uneasy past between the two countries,
but the welcome aspect was their determination to
start anew, which is the only way out of the acrimony
between Pakistan and the present leadership of Afghanistan.
The two countries need each other and they should
not look to anyone else to achieve harmony in their
relations. It is in the interest of both the countries
to live in peace than doubt each other’s intentions..
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Dr. Jamil Ahmed Khan-Rawalpindi
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The United
States and India, the two largest multi-ethnic democracies
in the world, sharing universal ideals of freedom.
President Bush told this to Vajpayee at the joint
News Conference at the White House. Iran, Iraq and
North Korea are the “Axis of Evil”, and
the most dangerous regimes in the world, Bush declared
in his State of the Union Address. Pakistan continues
to acquire Missile Technology from China clandestinely
says a CIA report to the Congress. Yet President General
Pervaiz Musharraf is a great leader according to the
US. Isn’t hat strange?
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It
is documented fact that people who have lost one physical
attribute, say sight, have keener senses of hearing,
smell, etc. the conclusions of your article follow
along the same lines. To get a heightened sense of
spirituality you have to shut down, or at least muffle,
the physical senses. Like an involuntary muscle made
to move by an expert yogi, this “spiritual”
side of the brain could also be made to function by
some mechanism, such as object focusing, mantra chanting
or, simply, superior mind control. I am not knowledgeable
about other religions, but his concept of God being
in our mind and requiring a physical effort to “fire
up the dormant circuits” was propounded in Zoroastrianism
in about 1500 B.C. and is referred to as the “good”
or “enlightened” mind.
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Nader M. Patel Mumbai, India
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Deep
or neighbourly involvement
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In recent days
the US has vehemently deplored Iran’s interference
in the internal affairs of Afghanistan; whereas being
a neighbour Iran certainly has higher stakes than
the US. This makes one wonder what the deep involvement
of US in the Afghanistan can be called.
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