Pakistan's Deputy Attorney General to clean shoes at Amritsar's Golden Temple

ravage · March 27, 2012, 11:55am

Really positive and brave step from a proud man. Though I wish some real Generals felt their failure to protect Pakistanies as keenly.

After spending several hours polishing the shoes of worshippers at Gurdwara Sisganj in New Delhi on Monday, where he was part of a Pakistan Supreme Court Bar Association delegation, Muhammad Khurshid Khan left for Amritsar, home of the Golden Temple and the centre of the Sikh religion, to clean thousands more.
**He began his service pilgrimage after Jaspal Singh, one of three Sikh men kidnapped by Taliban militants in Peshawar in 2010, was murdered. The other two men were rescued by the Pakistani Army. Since then he has visited Sikh temples or Gurdwaras in Pakistan and India to declare his opposition to terrorism through ‘sevadari’ – service – to other religions
**Mr Khan said he was so upset by the killing and his fear that it associated his own Muslim faith with terrorism that he went to sit on the steps of Peshawar’s Gurdwara Bhai Joga Singh. He felt a sense of peace, he told The Times of India, and resolved to visit other places of worship, including Hindu temples and Christian churches to offer his help.
“I am a Muslim, not a terrorist; I am a Khan, not a terrorist; I am from Pakistan, but not a terrorist,” he explained.
The Taliban had damaged Pakistan’s ‘pluralistic’ heritage – there are still Christian, Hindu, Sikh and Jain communities throughout the country – but it was unfair “to tarnish a whole community for the sins of a few,” he said.
He visited his local Gurdwara every day for two months, where he read the works of the Sikh gurus, including Guru Nanak, and polished shoes. In both India and Pakistan, shoes are regarded as dirty, and touching the feet of another is an act of self-abasement and respect.
He was on Monday night travelling from New Delhi to Amritsar after India’s Sikh prime minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, indicated he had no objection to him continuing his pilgrimage at the Golden Temple.
Paramjeet Singh Sarna, president of Delhi’s Sikh Gurdawara Management Committee, said Mr Khan’s actions had moved Indian Sikhs.
“There is always this underlying impression that every Pakistani is a radical but people like Khurshid have changed this image. His act has a message for the entire humanity. Although he as an individual didn’t hurt or kill anybody he has shown remorse for the innocent victims of the Taliban in Pakistan, including a Sikh, by performing community service. We are thankful to him for everything he has done for the minorities in Pakistan,” he said.

Pakistan deputy attorney-general to clean shoes at Amritsar Golden Temple - Telegraph

Ali_Syed · March 27, 2012, 12:12pm

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I agree with you, who will feel the pain of thousands of pakistanis killed during the past 10 years?

Amal · March 27, 2012, 2:49pm

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I am deeply moved by Muhammad Khurshid Khan’s acts of ‘savadari’. It shows in how many ways an ordinary Muslim and Pakistani pays the price of bestial actions some terrible brutes do in the name of Islam.

Ali_Syed · March 27, 2012, 3:39pm

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Pakistani bureaucracy ki definition:

Apnay Awam Kay liyay jootay
aur dushmanoun Kay jootay saaf

Anwer_Pasha · March 27, 2012, 3:43pm

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Mush and his supporters ?

ravage · March 27, 2012, 5:55pm

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Im sorry but I might be misunderstanding you. Are you referring to the sikhs at the golden temple as the dushman? you might have missed the part of the story where he has been going to temples/churches across the country doing the same thing over an extended period of time. Or are minorities the dushman now.

xguru · March 27, 2012, 7:41pm

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Whatever makes him happy. I personally would have found another way but not up to me to judge his actions.

Ali_Syed · March 27, 2012, 10:21pm

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I am referring to india which our higher authorities refer to as an enemy, on the one end our bureaucracy sucks the blood of our nation and on the other hand they are willing to lick the shoes of their perceived enemies.

TLK · March 27, 2012, 10:30pm

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All he is doing is to put effort to clarify the negative image of Pakistanis. What is wrong with that? I respect him for doing that.

ravage · March 27, 2012, 11:15pm

Re: Pakistan's Deputy Attorney General to clean shoes at Amritsar's Golden Temple

a) You'd have to have some basis to say this particular individual referred to indians as enemies. Otherwise they are not his 'perceived enemies'.
b) Even if he or his office at some point referred to India as the enemy (which I would be surprised, since Pakistan hasnt referred to India in those terms in a while, and the attorney general isnt a particularly india centered office), he might not consider worshippers at a sikh shrine to be enemies.
c) This is just criticism baraye criticism. Give credit where its due.