Absolutely, and while the social/cultural/ideological aspects of these problems require long term solutions, there are immediate steps that can be taken at the Federal and Provincial level to start to counter these issues, and foremost among them IMO are police reforms and making the FIA, NAB and IB autonomous and neutral agencies and increasing their budgets and training/interaction with Western LEA's and intel agencies.
Not only would reforms in these agencies hopefully put an end to certain powerful individuals protecting extremists, but also increase the faith of the population in the law enforcement and justice system, which is bound to play a longer term role in changing attitudes, when people have confidence that LEA's will hold the rich and poor equally accountable for their actions.
I beg to differ my friend. What pakistan is witnessing today is well documented in history.
In short,
Whenever and wherever religion has been mixed with poilitics, the result has been devastating. I'll give a few examples to make my point.
1. For many centuries, the Church was actively involved in politics and strangulated progress by its dogmatic views. It was people like DaVinci who ushered in a fresh thought into the system and ended the dark ages and then came the renaissance and human civilization moved forward since then. Consequently, the church lost its grip on the populace. Im not, by any means, implying that it was christianity's fault. NO. It was the fault of those who took christianity to the people namely, the church.
2. For many centuries in hinduism, many malpractices such as sati etc. were followed rigirously. Then came the british and a process of change in Hindu society began. Today, things like sati are almost non-existent while caste, which is a deeply ingrained phenomenon in Indian psyche, is on decline. It will take time of course since such old things do not die instantly but it is on decline. The fault was never of hinduism, but of those who took the religion the public, namely the higher castes, the pandits etc.
3. In the same way my friends, Pakistan must also work towards keeping religion at least two feet away from politics. Religion is a great thing as long as it is followed at an individual level. But the day, one mixes religion with politics is the day when all this decay declines.
That's exactly what Zia did. Pakistan's foundation was based on islam no doubt. But Zia gave political space to those whose job it was to take Islam to the people, namely the mullahs. as a result, these mullahs exploited Islam to their own benefit and to suppress the common man under their own grip.
This is as you can see, a very clear pattern of religion being misused throughout human history.
So my friends, the solution lies in undoing things as an impact of which this problem arose in the first place.
Stop mullahs, madrassas or whatever they are, from misusing religion and this problem will be solved. this is the only and sureshot solution.
it has worked in in past in strikingly similar circumstance in civilizations across the world, there's no reason why it wouldn't work in Pakistan.
I didn't want to hurt anyone but if anybody is hurt, then I apologise in advance but I stand on my point.
An honest view from a common Indian.
Regards.
