Apr 29
I just read
Sujai's post on the possibile turn that Pakistan might take due to the onslaught of the Talibans. None of the possibilities sound very encouraging for Pakistan.
An amusing thought crossed my mind. It is kind of dark humour, really.
Don't you find it amusing and ironical that a country like Pakistan (which means "The purest land" literally) which was formed on the premise of building the perfect Islamic state (
it has that dream even today), is today facing the biggest threat to its survival (bigger than any of the wars since it's inception) not from a non-Muslim country like India, but from a muslim group which believes that the country is
not pure enough?
In fact, the message that Pakistanis are having to convince themselves is that they don't exactly want the state envisioned by the leader of the religion of the state. The arguments that are going on, are less of patriotism (as is the case of a threat to survival of a nation) and more theological. They are actually discussing how Islam should be interpreted into a modern country.
