Re: karwa hai par sach hai… Egypt: The new India, or the new Pakistan?
well to be honest, i dont care about prosperity, or lack of prosperity, corruption, poverty and what not in the context of discussion that we are having…dont get me wrong, I do care about these issues but these are not the issues that make today’s Pakistan a laughing stock or unbearable in the international community…
every third world country has these problems… lets take india as an example… india probably still more poorer than us at multiple levels…so much corruption in india that it is unbelievable…rapists raping women openly in buses right in the middle of delhi…starvation is still not in control…minorities still getting discriminated…
but the world is not worried abt india..tourists still coming there…investors still coming there…so the fundamental problem with Pakistan is somewhere else… and that is “Political Islamization of the society”..and if i can borrow it from dawn:
***"political islam– a mid-20th century philosophy that advocates the creation of a theocratic government and state through the ‘Islamisation’ of society –was once the vocation of conservative scholars and established political parties such as Abul Ala Mauddudi and Jamat-i-Islami (in Pakistan). However, ever since the late 1980s it has rapidly disintegrated into becoming a bare but populist entity with two prominent strains.
***One strain has striped off this philosophy’s more scholarly aspects and left only its violent jihadist facets intact. This strain can now be found in the barbaric ways of extremist organisations like the Taliban and many of Pakistan’s once state-approved sectarian outfits.
The other strain has been working to turn Political Islam into a populist set of easy-to-digest ideas through which elections can be fought or the military-establishment be infiltrated and used as a patron"***
that is the real problem which makes a society toxic…this element became really pronounced in last 25 years and slowly but gradually ate the fabric of our society..today majority of middle class in Pakistan believes and promotes political islam, shuns secularism , they dont vote for religious parties but they support islamization of society…
even worst, is the educated class who claims that it is against religious extremism and violence and that radicalization is the handiwork of the ‘anti-Pakistan’ and ‘anti-Islam’ elements (mainly foreign) … but practically and quietly, this class supports talibanization at some level…because for them, Pakistan and democracy are not compatible; for them, “democratic pluralism promotes ethnocentricity; and secularism is akin to atheism”
and just look at minorities in Pakistan today…that says it all
that is what makes pakistan so unbearable at international level…