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it makes perfect sense as talibans have been for like 20 years and hitting mazar makes no sense, hitting public places makes more sense.
Bzzzt! Bzzzt! Isn't Pakistan a democracy? So if you think someone is leading you the wrong way, see if you can strike a different path and convince others to follow. If not, you only have yourself to blame, yes?
You don't get it, do you?If only the 1981 coup had been succesful but alas it wasn't, but we will get a chance in future to set things right.
- Tip O'Neill, longtime Speaker of the U.S. House of RepresentativesAll politics is local
You don't get it, do you?
I think this "it's up to the political circles"/"wish coup had succeeded" bit is part of a colonialist/imperialist mentality; you are thinking like a subject or master, not a citizen. Get with it: in a democracy nobody "seizes" government power, it's a contractual arrangement between citizens and the elect.
No wonder terrorists are blowing things up; they see it as asserting their own mastery on the road to power.
Yes, that's what has to be changed.The system suits a particular group and they have been able to coerce the populace into believing whatever illogical rational that is fed to them.
No. The first thing you have to do is choose your principles. You can then try selling that to your neighbors. Even if you fail merely the process will encourage people to think, yes?The first thing that we have to achieve is that we have to alter the mindset of people and that is being done to a great extent.
If the moneyed elite engage in coercion by force that needs to be exposed as publicly as possible. Yet I don't see Pakistanis setting up press conferences in Washington to shine light in such dark places, but rather to denounce the country that tries help them in their battle against darkness itself.In Pakistan, we do not have a contractual arrangement in regards to our government set up but rather a coercion of sorts.
Certainly the elite can do something. Disraeli was instrumental at opening British democracy to the common man. But without support at the grass-roots level, members of Pakistan's elite will not act outside the interests of their class.Democracy here is in name only, slowly things are being done to change all that.
Truly I have not been to Pakistan, but that doesn't mean I can't understand it through study and apply relevant historical analogies. In eighteenth century Britain a highly corrupt political class held people down during a period of explosive population growth, industrial development, military expansion, and armed domestic revolts, consciously supporting religion as a means to increase social control of the masses.Those who have not known a place, do not know how it works.
Labeling a course of action "ineffective" can, by definition, only be applied after the act. "Silly" is what you mean, I guess. Well, if you can show me that my arguments are rot, I'll agree. But if you can't, what does that mean you should do?...it is better to stay away from giving ineffective advice that will only make things worst.
No. The first thing you have to do is choose your principles. You can then try selling that to your neighbors. Even if you fail merely the process will encourage people to think, yes?
If the moneyed elite engage in coercion by force that needs to be exposed as publicly as possible. Yet I don't see Pakistanis setting up press conferences in Washington to shine light in such dark places, but rather to denounce the country that tries help them in their battle against darkness itself.
Certainly the elite can do something. Disraeli was instrumental at opening British democracy to the common man. But without support at the grass-roots level, members of Pakistan's elite will not act outside the interests of their class.
Truly I have not been to Pakistan, but that doesn't mean I can't understand it through study and apply relevant historical analogies. In eighteenth century Britain a highly corrupt political class held people down during a period of explosive population growth, industrial development, military expansion, and armed domestic revolts, consciously supporting religion as a means to increase social control of the masses.
Does that sound familiar to you? If it does, don't you think Pakistan could solve its problems the same way - maybe even faster and better than Britain has - if Pakistanis learned a few lessons from history?
Labeling a course of action "ineffective" can, by definition, only be applied after the act. "Silly" is what you mean, I guess. Well, if you can show me that my arguments are rot, I'll agree. But if you can't, what does that mean you should do?
If you work hard to make democratic principles a reality in Pakistan, not only won't the extremists be motivated to blow things up but the remainder on the fringe will be prosecuted afterward or likely be discovered and dealt with before the act, for many citizens will wish to inform on them, as Pakistan will be one all-inclusive society.what is your point exactly?
If you work hard to make democratic principles a reality in Pakistan, not only won't the extremists be motivated to blow things up but the remainder on the fringe will be prosecuted afterward or likely be discovered and dealt with before the act, for many citizens will wish to inform on them, as Pakistan will be one all-inclusive society.
what my post has to do with zia? i was not born when Zia was reforming or distorting anything around.
read my reply again and try to understand what i said.
This is not the only attack that had taken place. Terrorists have been attacking almost everyone we all have been targeted.
You people blow things out of proportion if the target has some ethnic of sectarian aspect.
Thats it otherwise its simply another terrorist act.
If you work hard to make democratic principles a reality in Pakistan, not only won't the extremists be motivated to blow things up but the remainder on the fringe will be prosecuted afterward or likely be discovered and dealt with before the act, for many citizens will wish to inform on them, as Pakistan will be one all-inclusive society.