Hypocrisy or National Integrity ?

Hypocrisy or National Integrity ?

More the 100 people lost their lives due to production of fake medicines or some people say expired medicines in PIC(Punjab Institute of Cardiology) , Religious Extremism is at its peak , Hafiz Saeed the leader of a banned outfit is rallying in various cities of Punjab along with other banned outfits such as Sipah Sahaba and minorities are being threatened by these outfits to stop practicing , openly in cities as in Rawalpindi , JUD(Jamaat u Dawa) has decorated the city with banners and posters and are inviting citizens to strike against Mosque of Ahmadi Jammat in Satellite town Rawalpindi . In major cities like Lahore Most of Auto Rickshaws are advertising the hatred campaign against India sponsored by JUD. All Punjab Government can do is that they can ban concerts to cope with growing extremism and radicalism in Punjab and they can provide full proof security to Mansoor Ijaz , if he visits Pakistan , but what about people who use their provided expired medicines and lose their lives ?

 Recently Three Shia lawyers were killed in Karachi after three members of Sipah Sahaba were killed. In Quetta they are killing people upon sectarian differences on regular basis , Point is our agencies know everything as they claim , they can track Hussain Haqqani’s and Mansoor Ijaz’s memos , they can yell as loud as they can on Shahadat of Soldiers by America by calling it as “Attack on Sovereignty and National Integrity” but what about these innocent people ? Who get killed every day, and leave the agencies every kid knows who kill them. Where is the inquiry report of Dr Bakir’s death? Where is inquiry report of killing of Hazara Tribe people in Baluchistan? Lahskar e Jhangvi claimed responsibility, and leader of Lashkar e Jhangvi was also arrested on charges of planning bomb blast on Shia Sect Procession but he was released very soon and raised signs of victory. It’s ironic when no one speaks on rapidly growing hold of banned outfits, for which purpose they are being used? Everyone knows who was involved in making these radical outfits .Pakistan Army is operating bravely in tribal areas against extremists and miscreants, but what about extremist miscreants who are active in major cities mostly of Punjab? Then we talk about foreign allegations related to producing terrorism, when thousands of people gather on a call of banned outfit in major cities and chant slogans against India, America and after this they decorate cities with banners spreading hatred against other sects then what whole world will say about us? So all we can do is , we can follow Quaid’s philosophy and “Unity , Faith and Discipline” , As long as we act like hypocrites and conduct operations against selective people and support selective groups for political goal scorings we cannot achieve anything but destruction.

Syed Foaad Hassan

Bureau Chief (Weekly Education Informer)

2011 A year for Extremists

Syed Foaad Hassan

Last year (2011) was kind of year of extremism in Pakistan as past few years but in 2011 some really thought provoking incidents took place and growing extremism in our society is strengthening its roots in Educational Institutes too . Many cases of blasphemy law were lodged against little kids on spelling errors or for having minority background, Police registered cases under the blasphemy laws against a student and his father in Khushab and a headmaster in Gujrat, all three of them belong to a minority sect, A student at the Sir Syed Girls High School in Pakistan Ordnance Factories (POF) colony Havelian, accused of blasphemy for erroneously misspelling a word in an Urdu exam while answering a question on a poem written in praise of the Holy Prophet (PBUH) and some more incidents too but major incident of 2011 was murder of Governor Punjab Salman Taseer and hatred among Mullahs and various religious parties against those who were speaking against self-confessed murderer  of Salman Taseer , Favorists of Mumtaz Qadri (self-confessed murderer of Salman Taseer) organized rallies in whole country and defended the murderer , This hatred started a new discussion among masses and then people who tried to favor Taseer were threatened and forced by favorists of Qadri. So after Two major sectarian differences that are commonly discussed in schools and colleges another religious difference caught us and it was Pro-Qadri and Anti Qadri and children asks questions about murder after they discuss  about this issue in school , parents are afraid of telling their children that you have to condemn murder because they are afraid of reaction of extremists because in Pakistan now extremists are majority and liberals and moderates are minority and in Pakistani democracy , Majority is like Zeus of Minorities and for those who think in a different way so they have to bow to masters . This issue was not over when Minister for Minorities affairs Mr Shahbaz Bhatti was gunned down in Islamabad and same discussions started again, Few people condemned this too but majority of Mullahs , Religious parties did not even condemn this act of barbarism . Why we have such extremist mind set in our society and now this extremism is diffusing into educational Institutes of Pakistan, Recently a student of COMSATS University Lahore was forced to quit and officials were forced by protesting students in campus to struck off this student , she belong to a minority sect and blasphemy charges were lodged against her too. Atleast educational institutes could be made secular so that children from any background, religious cast and sect can study and serve Pakistan. Incidents of Punjab University when a religious group attacks another group of students who belong to different sect threaten future generation and is a sign of Lack of Moral Courage among society, Parents, Teachers and Government should jointly ponder upon this situation and can teach Morality.

Syed Foaad Hassan

Bureau Chief Lahore

Weekly "Education Informer"

2011 A year for Extremists

Syed Foaad Hassan

Last year (2011) was kind of year of extremism in Pakistan as past few years but in 2011 some really thought provoking incidents took place and growing extremism in our society is strengthening its roots in Educational Institutes too . Many cases of blasphemy law were lodged against little kids on spelling errors or for having minority background, Police registered cases under the blasphemy laws against a student and his father in Khushab and a headmaster in Gujrat, all three of them belong to a minority sect, A student at the Sir Syed Girls High School in Pakistan Ordnance Factories (POF) colony Havelian, accused of blasphemy for erroneously misspelling a word in an Urdu exam while answering a question on a poem written in praise of the Holy Prophet (PBUH) and some more incidents too but major incident of 2011 was murder of Governor Punjab Salman Taseer and hatred among Mullahs and various religious parties against those who were speaking against self-confessed murderer  of Salman Taseer , Favorists of Mumtaz Qadri (self-confessed murderer of Salman Taseer) organized rallies in whole country and defended the murderer , This hatred started a new discussion among masses and then people who tried to favor Taseer were threatened and forced by favorists of Qadri. So after Two major sectarian differences that are commonly discussed in schools and colleges another religious difference caught us and it was Pro-Qadri and Anti Qadri and children asks questions about murder after they discuss  about this issue in school , parents are afraid of telling their children that you have to condemn murder because they are afraid of reaction of extremists because in Pakistan now extremists are majority and liberals and moderates are minority and in Pakistani democracy , Majority is like Zeus of Minorities and for those who think in a different way so they have to bow to masters . This issue was not over when Minister for Minorities affairs Mr Shahbaz Bhatti was gunned down in Islamabad and same discussions started again, Few people condemned this too but majority of Mullahs , Religious parties did not even condemn this act of barbarism . Why we have such extremist mind set in our society and now this extremism is diffusing into educational Institutes of Pakistan, Recently a student of COMSATS University Lahore was forced to quit and officials were forced by protesting students in campus to struck off this student , she belong to a minority sect and blasphemy charges were lodged against her too. Atleast educational institutes could be made secular so that children from any background, religious cast and sect can study and serve Pakistan. Incidents of Punjab University when a religious group attacks another group of students who belong to different sect threaten future generation and is a sign of Lack of Moral Courage among society, Parents, Teachers and Government should jointly ponder upon this situation and can teach Morality.

2011 A year for Extremists

Last year (2011) was kind of year of extremism in Pakistan as past few years but in 2011 some really thought provoking incidents took place and growing extremism in our society is strengthening its roots in Educational Institutes too . Many cases of blasphemy law were lodged against little kids on spelling errors or for having minority background, Police registered cases under the blasphemy laws against a student and his father in Khushab and a headmaster in Gujrat, all three of them belong to a minority sect, A student at the Sir Syed Girls High School in Pakistan Ordnance Factories (POF) colony Havelian, accused of blasphemy for erroneously misspelling a word in an Urdu exam while answering a question on a poem written in praise of the Holy Prophet (PBUH) and some more incidents too but major incident of 2011 was murder of Governor Punjab Salman Taseer and hatred among Mullahs and various religious parties against those who were speaking against self-confessed murderer  of Salman Taseer , Favorists of Mumtaz Qadri (self-confessed murderer of Salman Taseer) organized rallies in whole country and defended the murderer , This hatred started a new discussion among masses and then people who tried to favor Taseer were threatened and forced by favorists of Qadri. So after Two major sectarian differences that are commonly discussed in schools and colleges another religious difference caught us and it was Pro-Qadri and Anti Qadri and children asks questions about murder after they discuss  about this issue in school , parents are afraid of telling their children that you have to condemn murder because they are afraid of reaction of extremists because in Pakistan now extremists are majority and liberals and moderates are minority and in Pakistani democracy , Majority is like Zeus of Minorities and for those who think in a different way so they have to bow to masters . This issue was not over when Minister for Minorities affairs Mr Shahbaz Bhatti was gunned down in Islamabad and same discussions started again, Few people condemned this too but majority of Mullahs , Religious parties did not even condemn this act of barbarism . Why we have such extremist mind set in our society and now this extremism is diffusing into educational Institutes of Pakistan, Recently a student of COMSATS University Lahore was forced to quit and officials were forced by protesting students in campus to struck off this student , she belong to a minority sect and blasphemy charges were lodged against her too. Atleast educational institutes could be made secular so that children from any background, religious cast and sect can study and serve Pakistan. Incidents of Punjab University when a religious group attacks another group of students who belong to different sect threaten future generation and is a sign of Lack of Moral Courage among society, Parents, Teachers and Government should jointly ponder upon this situation and can teach Morality.

Syed Foaad Hassan

Bureau Chief Lahore

 "Weekly Education Informer"