3 Pakistanis nominated for Nobel Peace Prize 2012.

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1: Abdul Sattar Edhi:

Pakistani philanthropist known for international humanitarian work. He is the founder and head of Edhi Foundation, a non-profit social welfare program in Pakistan. Together with his wife, Bilquis Edhi, he received the 1986 Ramon Magsaysay Award for Public Service.

He is also the recipient of the Lenin Peace Prize and the Balzan Prize. In 2006, Institute of Business Administration Pakistan conferred a honoris causa degree of Doctor of Social Service Management for his services. In September 2010, Edhi was also awarded an honorary degree of Doctorate by the University of Bedfordshire.

Edhi Foundation runs the world's largest ambulance service and operates free old people's homes, orphanages, clinics, women's shelters, and rehab centers for drug addicts and mentally ill individuals.It has run relief operations in Africa, Middle East, the Caucasus region, eastern Europe and US where it provided aid following the New Orleans hurricane of 2005.

In November 2011, Edhi was recommended for a Nobel Peace prize by the Pakistani Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gillani.


2: Professor Dr. Tahir-ul-Qadri

Muhammad Tahir ul-Qadri (in Punjabi and Urdu: محمد طاہر القادر&#1740 (born February 19, 1951, Jhang, Pakistan) is a top Pakistani Islamic (Sufi) scholar and former professor of international constitutional law at the University of the Punjab.Qadri was recently described by the CNN-IBN as the 'International Peace Ambassador'.Qadri was nominated for the 2012 Nobel Peace Prize.

Qadri is the founder of Minhaj-ul-Quran International, a broad-based global Sufi organization[8] working in the fields of welfare, human rights and education. Its objectives are the promotion of a moderate vision of Islam.

The establishment of good relations and understanding between communities and religions,and the education of youth through "employing the methods of Sufism".He also founded The Minhaj University of which he is the head of the Board of Governors, as well as an international relief charity, Minhaj Welfare Foundation.

Qadri was also the founding chairman of the political party Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT), although he is no longer involved in politics. Qadri spoke at the World Economic Forum in January 2011.

Qadri views an Islamic state as a Muslim-majority country which respects freedom, the rule of law, global human rights (including religious freedom), social welfare, women's rights and the rights of minorities.He also claims that the Constitution of Medina "declared the state of Madinah as a political unit". He also mentions that the Constitution declared the "indivisible composition of the Muslim nation (Ummah)".

With respect to the Constitution of Medina, Qadri says: "This was the constitution, which provided the guarantee of fundamental human rights in our history." He believes that "a constitution is a man-made law and by no means it can be declared superior to a God-made law."
He believes in the Sovereignty of God’s law, that the Qur'an and Sunnah equates to State law, and that Islam encourages political activity. Qadri sees Islam as a faith which allows political participation. He believes in democracy and human rights, and argues that rights are defined in Islam by the Qur'an and Sunnah


3: Imran Khan

Cricketer turned politician Imran khan is 58 years old and now is the chief of Pakistan's most popular political party - Pakistan tehree-e-Insaaf or Movement for Justice.

Khan is also an internationally recognized philanthropist & human rights activist. Khan built Pakistan's first charity cancer hospital and cancer research center.

He also built Pakistan's first university in a rural area. Besides that he is the most successful cricketer in Pakistan's history and an international cricket hall of famer. Khan studied at oxford and now is the chancellor of the University of Bradford UK.





Peace and the prize


M Saeed Khalid
Thursday, April 12, 2012

The list of nominations for this year’s Nobel Peace Prize is closed. The Norwegian panel that confers the Prize has merely announced that 231 nominations were received from all over the world, and it has added some names on its own. The information about the identity of candidates has, therefore, come from those nominating or supporting certain candidates.



Abdul Sattar Edhi, Anna Hazare, Tahirul Qadri and Imran Khan are said to be among the nominees. Edhi’s admirers launched a campaign to collect thousands of signatures in support, but his name does not figure in the media’s pick of prominent candidates which include Moncef Barzouki, human rights activist and now president of Tunisia, Bill Clinton, WikiLeaks ‘whistleblower’ Bradley Manning, Bill Gates, former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl and peace activists from Russia. The eventual winner may be someone among these or entirely different. Guessing the winner is a hazardous undertaking because the committee is extremely secretive and capable of giving surprises to confound the speculators.



The peace prize has, over time, become the most prestigious of prizes awarded annually in the name of the Swedish scientist Alfred Nobel. It is believed that Nobel included the peace prize to his selection of awards, to symbolically atone for his development of dynamite. Nobel specified in his will that the award must be given for work aimed at promoting “fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses”.



Along the line, the prize panel decided to stretch Nobel’s guidelines to include humanitarian work (Mother Theresa) and environment-related efforts (Al Gore). A number of winners were rewarded to recognise their struggle for human rights and democracy through peaceful means in their own countries rather than on the international level. Andrei Sakharov, Nelson Mandela, Aung San Suu Kyi, Liu Xiaobo were all honoured for their peaceful struggle but in his time, the best known figure for pursuing freedom through non-violent means, Mahatma Gandhi was not recognised by the Nobel jury, despite having been proposed three times.



After his assassination in 1948, the committee stated that it was not announcing the prize for that year as no living candidate was available. It was much later that the committee became enthusiastic about honouring those engaged in non-violent struggle for human rights and democracy in their countries.



Questions are now being asked about the propriety of moving away from the core areas of work related to demilitarisation and peaceful resolution of disputes. The Nobel Foundation is required to respond formally to the charge that it has veered too far from Alfred Nobel’s original mandate. An inquiry is being carried out by the Stockholm County administration, which has the authority to supervise the foundations in its area. Some Nobel watchers feel that the Norwegian Committee would be conscious of the need to choose safely while processing nominations for the 2012 peace prize.



The peace prize jury has also been criticised for awarding ‘aspirationally,’ as in the case of Barack Obama. In selecting Obama for the 2009 prize, the committee caused reactions bordering on shock followed by laughter. Obama was among the first to comment that he did not deserve the honour. That view was shared by 62 percent of his countrymen polled at the time. Obama’s selection was extraordinary because it was based on promises not performance. Some who could not fathom the decision jibed that the committee was just celebrating for Obama not being George W Bush. Now, in the fourth year of his presidency, Obama is carrying on some of the policies he inherited from Bush.



The kindest interpretation of selecting Obama for the prize in 2009 was that the committee wanted to encourage him to work harder for what he advocated or promised at the time. The nomination had been received within days of his inauguration, just before the list’s closure. There was opposition within the committee to consider Obama so early in his presidential term. Only three US presidents had been previously awarded the Peace Prize; Roosevelt (1906) and Wilson (1919) had received the honour during their respective terms, while Carter was given the prize twenty-one years after leaving the White House.



The past precedents did not deter Thorbjorn Jagland, chairman of the committee, who persuaded the critics about the need to honour Obama for having brought a significant improvement in the international climate. The committee’s announcement in Oslo cited Obama’s efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples, his support for using established international bodies such as the United Nations, his commitment to the goal of a world free of nuclear weapons and for reaching out to the Muslim world, as rationale for honouring Obama.



Chairman Jagland might not have been thrilled at what followed. Obama made an “all American” acceptance speech at the ceremony in Oslo. While plugging in the familiar American catchphrases about human values, democracy and peace, he went on to remind everyone of America’s vocation to fight wars against evil. He asserted that war was justified in cases of self-defence, when civilians were being slaughtered by their own government, or a civil war threatens to engulf an entire region. Some commentators said that parts of his sermon echoed what George Bush had said so often. Obama used his oratory skills to punch his nation’s role in ensuring global security and strengthening democracy, putting Iran and North Korea on notice for violating the rules of non-proliferation.



That was then. If the committee finds time to reassess Obama’s credentials today, then those members who opposed his nomination should feel more vindicated than those including the chairman who successfully pushed through his candidature. Obama can undoubtedly claim credit for speeding up the US forces’ withdrawal from Iraq. He appears to be following the general idea of ‘surge and quit’ in Afghanistan as well. But in other cases, he has adjusted his position closer to that of the Republicans. Obama gave up his idea of closing the Guantanamo prison camp and seems comfortable with raising America’s military profile to face an exaggerated threat from China in the Pacific.



Rather than pushing for a just and durable peace in the Middle East, he is preoccupied with keeping the Jewish lobby on his side in an election year. He has barely managed to borrow time for military strikes while applying extremely harsh economic sanctions against Iran. All this does not add credibility to the initial premature act of giving Obama the extraordinary distinction of becoming the only US leader to receive the peace prize in the first year of his presidency.



The writer is a former ambassador to the European Union. Email: saeed.saeedk@ gmail.com

Peace and the prize - M Saeed Khalid

 

[PakiRambo]

Tahir Ul Qadri deserves it the most out of these 3 guys.

 

[DelhiDareDevil]

Imran Khan for Nobel peace prize contender?

Oh come, this award has been a joke, since Obama won it.

In fact it will be that Chinese dude who will win the Nobel peace price, the one that fled to USA after he tried challenging communist China laws.

 

[PakiRambo]

Imran Khan for Nobel peace prize contender?

Oh come, this award has been a joke, since Obama won it.

In fact it will be that Chinese dude who will win the Nobel peace price, the one that fled to USA after he tried challenging communist China laws.

Agreed haha

Let's nominate the guy who hasn't even been elected yet

 

[Kompromat]

These are just nominations , i hope any Pakistani gets the award , it would be an honor for all of us.

 

[newdelhinsa]

My Choice would be Abdul Sattar Edhi.

He is doing Nishkaam Karma.

 

[SMC]

Nobel peace prize has become somewhat of a joke. It's more of a political award now. You need to be pandering to and believe in the typical political beliefs of the western nation-states, and be speaking out countries such as China, North Korea, Iran, or the host of other states or nations not popular in the west. It's anything but impartial now.

 

[pak-marine]

EDHI .... this man has really done a lot for humanity

 

[yyetttt]

I know lots of people gonna vote Imran Khan because of his popularity... But in reality Mr. Edhi really deserves it...

 

[RayKalm]

This is great, I support the 1st and 3rd the most!

Whoever gets it out of these three though, will be a victory for us all!

 

[Kambojaric]

2nd and 3rd would not make my list but Edhi my goodness should have won the prize a long time ago. The man is a legend!

 

[W.11]

Imran Khan for Nobel peace prize contender?

maybe because of his cancer hospital

 

[nitetrogen70]

any of them should win then surely its a win for Pakistan

 

[PakiRambo]

maybe because of his cancer hospital

and what about the other countless people in this world who have made hospitals? Sorry, but simply making a hospital and funding it yourself does not equate someone to become a Nobel peace prize winner.

IK hasn't done anything significant for Pakistan and the world yet, so I don't understand why he's being nominated. If he were to receive the nobel peace prize at this time of his career, that's even worse than when Obama was awarded it.

Tahir Ul Qadri, on the other hand, has been doing lots of work in bringing peace together with Hindus, Christians, Jews and other religions. He is also responsible for his Fatwa on Terrorism and spreading the message of peace globally. Now that is what a Nobel peace prize is about.

Abdul Sattar Edhi is also a very good candidate, as he has provided aid and donations for thousands globally.

 

[RayKalm]

and what about the other countless people in this world who have made hospitals? Sorry, but simply making a hospital and funding it yourself does not equate someone to become a Nobel peace prize winner.

IK hasn't done anything significant for Pakistan and the world yet, so I don't understand why he's being nominated. If he were to receive the nobel peace prize at this time of his career, that's even worse than when Obama was awarded it.

Tahir Ul Qadri, on the other hand, has been doing lots of work in bringing peace together with Hindus, Christians, Jews and other religions. He is also responsible for his Fatwa on Terrorism and spreading the message of peace globally. Now that is what a Nobel peace prize is about.

Abdul Sattar Edhi is also a very good candidate, as he has provided aid and donations for thousands globally.

Imran Khan has brought many Pakistanis together. He's done a lot for the country.

I support all three of them.