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The only way to tackle terrorism in Pakistan is to reform or close down Madrasas

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Ok, I was trying to give you a realistic answer.
Anyway, let me know, what your dream answer is?

If i knew, i wouldn't have asked for it.

Please refrain from quoting people unnecessarily if you don't have the ability to participate in a meaningful exchange of words based on the topic at hand, using logic, facts or clarity.
 
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Replace imam and replace syllabus or make mandatory for existing imam to take a course set my government.


@M.SAAD
Madrassahs provide free education, food and meals to the children who usually belong to poor families, only a few madrassahs like madrassahs run by Mullah Abdul Aziz need to be closed. Not all madrassahs are involved in terrorism and many madrassahs provide a good future free of cost to poor families whose children would be child laborers otherwise.
 
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Cant believe the current state of affairs the country is in right now, people still have a soft corner for all this...

Whole nation is at fault .
 
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Cant believe the current state of affairs the country is in right now, people still have a soft corner for all this...

Whole nation is at fault .
Hi,

The massive generalization you made shows how much ill-informed you are on this subject

Sad state of affairs indeed, People with enormous ignorance and lack of knowledge have now come out to speak about the sensitive subjects. No background history of Islam, no background knowledge of country's history . Just sheer ignorance thats all.

A very sad state of affairs indeed
 
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not shut down bomb every madrasa and wipe out it from earth then think abut peace

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this can be called peaceful madrasa
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Lagta hai kafeel iqama renew krke de rha Khan sahb ka
 
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What are the job prospects ?

Which all company recruits them and whats the usual job profiles or designations?

Good question. Opportunities were too much earlier but the scope is not that much now. Hiring is open for ME countries only. In early 80's or 90's they were hired by US MNC's but now due to recession they are moving to Middle East countries. They are appointed as Lead or System Integrator based on their experience. Good thing is one can easily get onsite.
 
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Literally all kids from Low-Med income familys.
I am guessing none of the pakistani members here studied in a madrasa... does it mean all of you here are rich?
the demography of most Indian members is middle class... am sure
 
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What has this to do with shutting down madrassahs? The similar BS logic is given by outsiders who label all Muslims or all Pakistanis terrorists just because many terrorists happen to be Pakistani nationals.

This just proves that madressahs in their current status are producing a generation of young men who have a completely different world view and with a militant structure in place in Pakistan they are willing to enforce that world view with the help of barrel of gun....
Having a uniform education system would be ideal.... if not the govt. should atleast take these madressahs under its control and reform the syllabus.

I am guessing none of the pakistani members here studied in a madrasa... does it mean all of you here are rich?
the demography of most Indian members is middle class... am sure
Most of these kids would be from the tribal areas or from rural areas of Kashmir maybe Southern Punjab.
There are madressahs in my city but what you will find is not a single local enrolled their.
 
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Terrorism is not linked with Madrssas It is linked with proxies

America doesn’t know its real enemies

By:Shahab Jafry



Every country where the US has intervened has been worse off because of it

It is surprising how US intelligence agencies’ inability to differentiate between Taliban and al Qaeda – despite 12 long years of war in Afghanistan – is confounding the road to disengagement in late 2014. It has also complicated shutting down Guantanamo Bay, something President Barack Obama promised on his first campaign trail. And much worse, it has led to near-complete breakdown in communication with the most important partner in the war – Pakistan. Hence the recent scramble towards a workable solution in Brussels.

Yet Brussels was predictably, perhaps deliberately, vague. Kerry thought, after “extensive talks”, that “results are what will tell the story, not statements and press conferences”. And Karzai’s “let’s hope forward for the best” was pretty much the same as our foreign secretary Jilani’s “We are looking forward to a very productive and forward-looking session”. If the past provides any insight into the present, Karzai and Pakistan’s foreign office exchanged accusations, Kerry sat wide-eyed, and Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani chain-smoked. The result? More power to the Taliban.

After ISAF lost steam on the field some years ago – British forces in Helmand even bribed local Taliban to the tune of some millions to point their guns the other way – the new approach has been reconciliation with certain pockets of Taliban. But which former Taliban chieftains to take on board and what to offer them, has only increased differences within the coalition. First the Americans and Afghans pressured Pakistan into releasing high profile detainees, then the Americans flew a few to Qatar, and then Karzai got upset over being kept in the dark about the Doha initiative, and then the process unraveled. All the while, Washington refused to entertain Kabul’s requests regarding Taliban prisoners held at Guantanamo, even after the CIA cleared them of serious charges.

The lumping together of Taliban and al Qaeda is a throwback to the days when George Tenet headed the CIA, from a little before till a little after 9/11. And while the Americans could be forgiven for confusing the two groups back then, adhering to the same thesis shows they expect the on ground narrative to fit their understanding of things, instead of the other way around. This inflexibility has also led to sharp differences with Pakistan, and harmed Islamabad’s counterinsurgency (COIN) strategy, which has focused on pitting militant groups against each other.

The Afghan Taliban, though subscribers to the same Wahabi extremism as al Qaeda, do not share the latter’s expansionism. Their “war with the West” is limited to Afghanistan, and will last only so long as foreigners occupy their country. The Americans still do not understand their widening cleavage with al Qaeda, especially since the ‘foreigners’ expanded the theatre of war into Pakistan and bankrolled the TTP. Mulla Omar forbade the Taliban from engaging with the Pakistani military. And the TTP, despite public allegiance to him, favour al Qaeda’s tactics.

The Pakistani intelligence realises that a post US withdrawal clash between the Afghan Taliban and al Qaeda is imminent, which is why it has exploited differences in the two groups, and their proxies, to contain al Qaeda advances in the tribal area. And the Americans, showing little appetite to such developments, have targeted both camps with drone strikes. Some of their initiatives, like focusing exclusively on ‘good Taliban’ pockets bolstered by Pakistan, indicate the CIA might even be deliberately sabotaging the ISI efforts of five or more years. The only outcome can be stoking the insurgency on the Pakistani side till at least the American drawdown.

More recently, the NYT’s report, and Karzai’s admission, of the CIA bringing “millions of dollars”, sometimes in plastic bags, to the Afghan presidential palace, only confirms doubts that the Americans have been without a workable strategy ever since they realised the limits of the military offensive. And since much of the money has gone to tribal chiefs as well as Taliban commanders – as per Kabul’s own admission – the disconnect between Washington’s stated goals and the ground reality has become more apparent.

This failure to really understand the war-on-terror enemy also led the Americans into far worse adventures in the Middle East as it tried to take control of the so called Arab Spring. Libya descended into Salafist chaos as soon as NATO strikes dislodged Gaddaffi, and Washington’s Gulf darlings spared little time in funneling jihadi armies into Syria as world focus shifted to Damascus. Again sticking to the old paradigm – that the old anti-Israel Iran-Syria axis is the biggest enemy – led the Americans to ignore the jihadi threat, and it turned a blind eye to Saudi/Qatari initiative of using religious extremists to unseat the Alawite Baathist regime and weaken their Shi’a nemesis Iran.

The GCC and US/Israeli interests may have been aligned initially, but if the al Qaeda aligned al Nusra front is able to dislodge the Assad regime, Israel and America will have the most to lose, placing them in the same camp as Iran. In one of modern geo-politics’ greatest ironies, the Israelis and their American friends will realise, as soon as petrodollar funded Salafi rockets start landing in Tel Aviv and Tehran, that they have more in common with the biggest regional enemy since the fall of the Shah’s peacock throne than oil monarchies they have held so dear all these years.

In all the wars and ‘interventions’ since 9/11, the Americans and their allies have left every country they have targeted worse off than before, be it Afghanistan, Iraq or Libya. And little will change if they decide to indulge militarily in Syria. And in all these adventures, they have failed to realise that the biggest threat has come from al Qaeda fanatics, and those fanatics have had their bread and butter, and their arms, come from the Saudi establishment and its friends. Yet Washington continues to cajole Riyadh and its allies. It seems America does not understand who its real enemies are.

The writer is Middle East Correspondent, Pakistan Today
 
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People only talk about one type of extremists. What about the ones on this thread, Extremist SECULARISTS? Trying to force their views down our throats. How conveniently blaming my religion for the governments failings, and corruption.

Did Islam tell those in...

Power to steal?
Take kick-backs?
Be Mr. 10%?
Allow foreigners to walk over us and kill us?
Be treacherous and sell our country's name for $25m?
Sit in London and bad mouth us?
Work against the State and sell the country as consultants to enemy countries?
Write books on state secrets?

Our country is very rich, but liars and crooks run it. So, don't you dare blame my pure religion on the actions of the sick and twisted.
 
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