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Wars always have an ugly fall. Their backlash is a plague.
Punjab and rest of Pakistan is suffering from
the backlash of wars - the cold and hot wars, the prox y and
cozy wars - launched by the establishment
consisting of migrated Punjabis and Urdu speaking majority.
Today, the common Punjabi along with
the others in Pakistan is harvesting the crime, which they never
sowed. Their only sin was the
sycophancy for the criminals, who preferred to be mercenaries of
Jihad than that of becoming kings of
cultural ethos of Indus civ ilization.
The divided Punjabi society is at odds with each other.
Exporting Taliban to Pashtun, Baloch and
Sindhi societies has infected Punjab so much that the term
Punjabi Taliban was tossed a couple of
years ago by Pakistani politicians and media. This has increased
the intolerance in whole Pakistan and
flooded hatred in Punjab, not only in the form of v ictimizing
minorities, but also harassing women and
children. The number of honor killings, rape cases, and acid
attacks taking place there in a year is
higher than that of Sindh, Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
provinces.
There is another factor too, which needs to be foc used. The
Jihadi missionary, thousands of Madrasas
and religio-cultural influence of conservatives have changed the
cultural fabric of Punjab to a greater
extent and of the other provinces to some extent. The
missionaries in Pakistan are converting those
who are already Muslims since centuries from Sunni Hanafia or
Shia Jafferi sects of Islam to the
Salafism or Deoband both in Pakistan have radical background.
Why should anyone be allowed to
use Pakistani or Afghanistan soil for the Arab nationalist war
under the cover of radical Islam against
the West in the name of Jihad?
When it comes to Punjab the liberal urban elite keep silent.
Salman Taseer, the slain Governor of
Punjab, was the only one who spoke boldly and was killed; but
this politically less-entity Punjabi
middle class remained practically unmoved. A handful of civil
society alone protested in the province.
It was not due to fear of life alone; it was due to fear of
revolting against the Punjabi dominated civil
and security establishment, the intolerant and fanatic large
number of the population in the province
and against those who were not only created from their land, but
also fought everywhere in their
broader interests.
In this situation, minorities in Pakistan especially Christians
in Punjab province are hopeless. Hindus
in Sindh are lucky that Sindh is defending its secular
credentials, but for how long the marginalized
and oppressed Sindhi people will keep on being Don Quixote.
Talbanization in Pakistan should not be taken for the engagement
of T aliban on the western fronts. It
has new meanings, which wear many social connotations. It is the
Talbanization of Pakistani society
and the state apparatus, especially of Punjab, which has
culminated into the militancy at Afghanborders.
The plate of Pakistan is not empty yet. In Udero Lal town near
Hyderabad of Sindh, Hindu Temple
and a Mosque are under one roof near the saint Jhooley Lal,
where common Sindhis from both of the
beliefs mostly visit, pay homage and perform their religious
prayers. Let the sanity come out of an
exceptional village of Sahiwal district in Punjab where Muslims
and Christians share same graveyard,
and when Milad and Christmas coincided in 2009, the joint
celebrations were carried out.
It is Punjab and its middle class essentially who needs to
emerge against this in association with the
other ethnicities. T hey need to re-federate Pakistan on the new
lines of equality, liberalizing state and
materialize judicious share of power and resources between
federating provinces besides securing and
developing minorities.
It is highly important to legislate for the protec tion of
minorities, and repealing laws that can victimize
them; however, it is more important to undergo the process of
liberalizing, if not secularizing Pakistan
society. This is the only way out. All other roads lead to the
worst forms of anarchy.
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Zulfiqar is a political analyst, researcher and rights activist,
having academic background of
Philosophy and Development Studies. Organized and led massive
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