Re: Pakistan becoming secular under Musharraf.
Where are antumul alone and ar mughal? The hardliners!
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Superb news!
It is also the first time female cadets were guarding the Quaid's shrine.
Pakistan is not becoming secular, it's just that the Musharraf govt is correcting the inequalities created over the years towards minorities and women in Pakistan. The Pakistan movement led by Quaid-e-Azam espoused true Islamic principles when they guaranteed rights for ALL citizens in Pakistan. Now we are reverting back to those ideas.
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Recruiting non-muslims into the army is a secular practice, not islamic. Next you will say that collecting jizya from non-muslims is unislamic. This is probably the saddest day in pakistani history. All the founding fathers must be rolling in their graves!
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Here's one of our fanatics!
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just to point out one of the judges of the supreme court is also a Hindu..which is even bigger news as far as pakistan becoming secular is concerned.
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I am no military man but i find it hard to imagine that our jawans will take orders in crunch situations from females and non muslims. The only reason i say this is because we as a society have an overwhelming Muslim majority. Almost all of the jawans come from rural areas where there are very very few non muslims and they are brought up believing that taking orders from a female is just wrong. I dont know how well it will go. By the way i am completely in favour of Non muslims being encouraged to join army. I am not too keen on women to do it though.
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yeah that will be interesting if it ever comes down to that.these are not high ranked oficers so they won't be giving orders to anyone.but all of this certainly points to the vision that Musharraf has for Pakistan,he wanted to have the religion column in the passports removed too...that did'nt happen beause he could'nt get everybody in his government to agree with that.I think there is a lot more that Musharraf wants to do in Pakistan.. as far as making it more secular is concerned... that he has'nt for political reasons.
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What's secular about Sikhs joining under Musharraf?
Christians joined and served in the armed forces under Zia, yet Zia was never accused of being secular.
Muslim Pakistani jawans have been taking orders from Christian Pakistani officers for decades, I can't imagine it being different with a Sikh.
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maddie I think people are talking about how they would feel in such circumstances. Next we may hear that ppl would nto take orders from sunnis or shias or sindhis or memons.
and those who grow up believing that taking orders from a female is wrong need to grow up. btw there have ben enough women in leadership positions in our country icluding a prime minister that ppl should get it in their heads that they could serve under a woman's leadership.
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that religion column in passport is just absurd. I think he had the right idea to try and get rid of it. Too bad that others cant see that.
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it is the first time its happened that hindus and sikhs have been inducted in the army.it was pakistan army's policy not to do that before.
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That is not factually true.
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Recently,a hindu was inducted in to Pak army.Anybody knows his name
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No news of any Hindu yet, although there's no reason why we couldnt hear of one soon.
The Sikh is GC Harcharan Singh.
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Keeping in view the social norms, at the moment the women inducted are not going into combat arms. So in the years to come the orders taken by women will be no diff than the orders given by women over the past many years in various supporting branches of the Navy and PAF as well as Army Medical Corps. The only women in combat roles thus far are the PAF GDPs and they too are going to remain less than a dozen atleast in the next few yrs. Plus if women have been in ordering positions as country managers OUP, UniLever, Oracle and so on, what's the diff in uniform, while on office duty or in field on combat duty?