Re: Pakistani sikh Love For Pakistan
Even today Taleban enjoys support from within your government establishment - if you consider ISI part of the establishment. They run a protection racket that ruins whole communities. And you start talking about Aurangazeb history.
I grant it that Taleban does not represent Pakistan. Pakistani people are bound to be not too unlike a lot of Indian people for obvious reasons of ethnicity, geography, religion and culture. And both are stupid and dumb in terms of mob mentality when it comes to religious war.
But the essential difference is minorities are in danger in India only when such mob hysteria happens - whereas in Pakistan, whether it is at the hands of Taleban or sheer intolerance exhibited by the forces that stress the 'Islamic' part of the country's name, it seems to be an everyday misery.
Ok now your really trying way to hard.
Just because there are those who have supported the Taliban, doesnt mean the Pakistan govt is influencing Taliban policy... The Taliban in the tribal belt are a criminal organization which has nothing to do with anthing but themselves. And I dont consider ISI as a part of the establishment. The very notion is ridiculous and could only have been concocted by the feverish mind of an Indian who places far to much stock in Indian misinformation and propaganda. If the ISI or the Pak govt truly wanted to impose a tax on minorities, they could have done it on their own, and they wouldnt have limited it to just the Sikhs in the Tribal belt.
Many of those who comprise your govt also support, or sympathize with Hindu extremists. It no secret. You could deny it as much as you like.
That does not however mean that your govt is actively supporting Hindu extremist ideology as policy.
Granted the nature of problem in Pakistan is of a different caliber then in India, but the problem isnt with us, we acknowledge we have problems; its with Indians who refuse to acknowledge their own problems and begin dictating to others.
I cited Aurangzeb as a history lesson. Sikhs in the Tribal belt lived in the the tribal belt for so long because they were granted saftey under the hospitality of Pashtun tribesmen. So before you begin vilifying the Pashtuns, due to the antics of criminals like the Taliban, you should know off and appreciate thee tolerance of the Pashtuns. The Sikhs have lived in the Tribal belt for centuries, safe among the Pashtuns, even during the height of the ethnic cleansing. The PASHTUNS are more noble thus then even you Indians with your occasional mob mentality.