Abu Zolfiqar
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If you are genuinely interested in the phenomenon, please pick up a copy of " The Logic of Collective Action" by Mancur Olson -- I guarantee you will be richly rewarded, to begin with you will have a deeper understanding of why minorities succeed where majorities will always fail
Anyway, what do you make of Ms. Bukhari's piece above
i "sympathise" with a lot of her views.....truth is, we do have a bad habit of pointing fingers rather than introspecting. It's a bad habit, one at our own peril and detriment.
We are far from perfect. Pakistan is still a young country. Look at a developed country like the USA. They had to go through tea party movements, Boston massacre, Civil war, slavery/segregation (leading up to civil rights movement); they had to deal with the Mccarthy era --which was a very dangerous period in the country.
they've been through helluva lot more than we have, and that is why they are RELATIVELY more mature than we are (in some ways believe it or not i think we are ahead -- e.g. family values)
I dont subcribe to the "deductionist" approach of labelling members of our armed forces as jihadists or jihadist sympathisers. That's a pure nonsense. The training imparted doesnt allow for that. And if there are such elements in the armed forces, they ought to be removed and choose other paths in life. True soldiery does not involve politics or emotion to get in the way.
we need to recognize our faults......we need to correct them. We should use this dark period in our history in a productive way. Some may simply see it as a sad period in Pakistan's slightly troubled history. But why not see it as an educational period as well.
What Pakistan has been enduring for the past few years ---no other nation on the earth could ever endure. They would have collapsed, the people would be decaying. Whereas Pakistanis have shown incredible resilience in the face of natural as well as manmade disasters (some which were imposed on us and beyond our locus of control to stop them -- while others (a good number of them) we brought upon to ourselves)
we need to get our priorities in order......and countries (nearby and far away) should cooperate and be useful, rather than add to the problems.
as for minorities in Pakistan --- they are as much Pakistani as the 'majority' .......their patriotism has been displayed time and time again, and anybody who dares question someone else's faith or beliefs should be ridiculed. Live and let live.
because in the end --- united we stand, divided we fall. Only we can be our best advocates.