tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5848640164815342479.post8276870533138953628..comments2024-03-27T15:36:44.737-07:00Comments on Haq's Musings: Yet another Peace Deal and Shia BlockadeRiaz Haqhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00522781692886598586noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5848640164815342479.post-80047243890094320242008-07-23T13:27:00.000-07:002008-07-23T13:27:00.000-07:00Agreed with you Riaz.Anonymous. Just wanted to be ...Agreed with you Riaz.<BR/><BR/><BR/>Anonymous. Just wanted to be right on the record, I did not imply to justify the actions of Taleban and will feel pretty awkward if it seemed so. I just mentioned the ground realities hoping to be as impartial as possible.<BR/><BR/>But since I seem to have sort of offended you, then yes my statement even holds true on the radicalized Sunnis who when in "majority" persecute innocent Shi'ats who might be in minority at that place.<BR/><BR/>I hope I was clearer now.<BR/><BR/>And once again, Pakistan has become a sandbox for world problems...be it Arab-Persian, or West-East - we are just getting brunt of everything!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5848640164815342479.post-30740411292072751732008-07-12T00:08:00.000-07:002008-07-12T00:08:00.000-07:00Dear Anonymous,The purpose of my writing is to dra...Dear Anonymous,<BR/>The purpose of my writing is to draw attention to what you correctly describe as "pending disaster" and push for quick course correction to prevent it. Each of us needs to do whatever is within our power to point our nation in what we believe to be the correct course.Riaz Haqhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00522781692886598586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5848640164815342479.post-72351976980842440082008-07-11T23:28:00.000-07:002008-07-11T23:28:00.000-07:00Riaz,indeed what you say is the cause and expected...Riaz,<BR/><BR/>indeed what you say is the cause and expected effects. Like a good citizen of this world and that small but great country(PAKISTAN), our concern draws us into brainstorming.Identify the problem correctly, correct solution emerges automatically.What we are doing presently is , weather forecast. study certain conditions and say tomorrow the hurricane strength 5 will hit us.<BR/>Ujmi got into justifying the Taliban actions, interesting logic like Elephant crying being crushed by a rabbit, calling a small hangu and Parachinar group becoming dictatorial.<BR/>Taliban with their brand and style of Islam, were the low intellectual people who got exploited into delivering some body elses agenda.The actions continue, the supporters(type I) and Look other way(type II)as pointed out by you, have accepted surrender as fate accomply, to impending disaster.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5848640164815342479.post-22078304200781197762008-07-11T15:43:00.000-07:002008-07-11T15:43:00.000-07:00Ujmi,Thanks for sharing your thoughts. But I still...Ujmi,<BR/>Thanks for sharing your thoughts. But I still think the fundamental issue is one of intolerance toward anyone different. It could be sectarian or ethnic. This could easily grow into major civil war in Pakistan if the Taliban or similar outfit took control of the reigns in Pakistan. Beyond that, it could engulf the entire region into a major conflagration involving our neighbors in Iran, India, Afghanistan, China as well as the West. The consequences are extremely dangerous for all Pakistanis regardless of ethnicity or religious beliefs.Riaz Haqhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00522781692886598586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5848640164815342479.post-26904142732071991312008-07-11T10:49:00.000-07:002008-07-11T10:49:00.000-07:00Riaz,The Shia-Taleban should be seen in the contex...Riaz,<BR/><BR/>The Shia-Taleban should be seen in the context as the Anonymous said, its a fight for regional superiority between historical arch rivals, Arabs and Persians! <BR/><BR/>Shia's of that area didn't help Taleban during the Soviet invasion, and that is also a decade old problem in the Taleban heart.<BR/><BR/>Another important issue will be that Shia Muslims are majority in Hangu and Parachinar, and as we have seen all over the world, whatever Muslim group is in majority end up dictatorial on other minorities, non-Shia'ts are very often oppressed - which leads to bad blood!<BR/><BR/>Just thought of sharing some random thoughts...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5848640164815342479.post-671599778623123022008-07-11T07:23:00.000-07:002008-07-11T07:23:00.000-07:00Dear Anonymous, Thanks for explaining the context ...Dear Anonymous, <BR/>Thanks for explaining the context of Shia-Wahabi conflict. The larger point of my post was the Taleban's intolerance toward any one that's different from them. Whether it is Shia or beardless men or a woman without a veil etc. etc. They want to impose their medieval, tribal way of life on the world in the name of Islam, and they are prepared to use extreme violence to accomplish it. And some Pakistanis sympathize with them while others tolerate them because they see the Taliban as fighting for Islam against the West. This ambivalence toward the Taliban allows them to operate with impunity and engage in suicide bombings against innocent people and create havoc to achieve their agenda of total dominance under their self-styled "Islamic Rule".Riaz Haqhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00522781692886598586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5848640164815342479.post-5347352304925049272008-07-10T23:04:00.000-07:002008-07-10T23:04:00.000-07:00Riaz,You are looking at the final scene of progres...Riaz,<BR/>You are looking at the final scene of progressive battle of interests but are missing the main move and it,s motives.<BR/>After 1979 Iran,s revolution having met it,s success in Iran, like all revolutions they tried to export it, remember Kaaba,s siege. That became tamgible threat to Saudi Monarchi, and the counter offensive came in shape of promoting Wahabi-isn in Pakistan, followed by Taliban rule in Afghanistan.<BR/>The battle is still between Shia and Wahabi, Talibans are only a tool, with the legacy of some rule style post Prophet time, in which Islam was under threat on daily basis and rulers extreme Terrorising tactics over masses was the best way for continuity.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com