April 7, 2016
By IANS, New Delhi
Pakistan on Thursday said (click here) the dialogue process with India had been suspended and there was no question of allowing an NIA team to visit Islamabad to probe the Pathankot terror attack.
Pakistan High Commissioner Abdul Basit also said that the arrest of an alleged Indian spy, Kulbushan Jadhav, proved Islamabad's allegations that New Delhi was causing unrest in Balochistan.
Asked at the Foreign Correspondents Club about a meeting between the foreign secretaries of the two countries, Basit said: "There is no meeting scheduled for now. I think at present the peace process is suspended.
"India is not ready as yet," Basit said, but quickly added that "we can only resolve issues through dialogue".
This is the first official word from Pakistan about the latest breakdown in the now-on-now-off peace process with India.
After a team of Pakistani officials visited Pathankot to probe Indian charges that Pakistani terrorists were to blame for the January 2 attack, New Delhi had expected Islamabad to allow a National Investigation Agency (NIA) team to visit that country to take the investigation forward.
There are the efforts by the United Nations and others to settle a peace between India and Pakistan, but, get this; there is a secular movement throughout the region.
April 7, 2016
By Ellen Barry and Maher Sattar
New Delhi — Men armed with machetes have killed a secular activist at a crowded intersection in Dhaka, the Bangladeshi capital, a police official said on Thursday, the latest in a series of grisly attacks on intellectuals and bloggers who have written critically about militant Islam on social media.
Clean shaven is affiliated with a notable political/religious ideology.
Witnesses said a group of clean shaven men surrounded Mohammad Nazim Uddin, a law student, as he walked on the street around 8:30 p.m. on Wednesday and slashed his head, then shot him when he fell to the ground, said Syed Nurul Islam, the deputy commissioner of police for Wari, the area of Old Dhaka where the killing took place.
Mr. Uddin, 26, was a convinced atheist who frequently expressed his views on Facebook, often posting as many as five times a day. His family had asked him to stop, fearful that the posts would make him a target, and for about four months, ending in January, he had complied, said Gulam Rabbi Chowdhury, a childhood friend.
“To tell the truth, he was always a little detached from his family; he had trouble with them because of his views on religion,” Mr. Chowdhury said. “He was very outspoken. He didn’t worry about whether you were with him or not.”...
This phenomena regarding the eruption of secular values isn't just local to India or Pakistan. I think there is exploration within these countries with dispelling radicalism. I suppose secularism is viewed as radical itself, but, there are citizens feeling strongly about it to put their lives on the line. AND, there are those that simply won't discuss it except where they find safety. At the very least, these folks that found radical religious beliefs an interesting way to control the masses are worried.
If the secularism movement continues it will have the power to end the differences between religion as well as the killing that which accompanies it. Deash has been a real reality check for these countries. If the secularists are moving forward, religion will rest in the place where it belongs within the belief of the soul of the INDIVIDUAL based in RELIGIOUS CHOICE. Holy men will finally have their 'safe haven' in practicing religious values that protects the soul without having to run revolution in order to survive the day.
These countries will finally have a generation in the future that is safe from death for their religious beliefs. Part of the turbulence in these countries is religious intolerance. In that religious intolerance is generations and generations of hatred and violence. (Think Ireland). The goals of the people should be education and their future with real lives based on moral grounds and dare I hope no more Poppy Economies, too.
Lahore (Dunya News) – Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) (click here) chief Sirajul Haq said that the religious parties want imposition of Islamic system in the country and not liberal and secular state, Dunya News reported Saturday.
The Jamaat-e-Islami leader addressed Nizam-e-Mustafa Conference in Mansoora.
Haq said that women criticised the Women Protection Bill the most.
Clerics, attending the conference stated that they wanted a country that functions on Islamic principles and not liberal and secular. Punjab government’s Women Protection Bill, they all agreed that is against Islam.
Clerics belonging to more than 20 religious parties stated that they would fight efforts aimed at making Pakistan a liberal country. The country was established in the name of Islam and the same system would prevail, they added.
Jamaat-e-Islami chief denounced Prime Minister (PM) Nawaz Sharif’s statement about liberal Pakistan. The JI leader also criticised Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari’s call for alliance among secular parties....
There are some sweeping dialogues going on after recent violence.
"You're stupid, not secular, if you support Pakistan terrorists." (click here)
"Should Pakistan be a secular state?" (click here)
By IANS, New Delhi
Pakistan on Thursday said (click here) the dialogue process with India had been suspended and there was no question of allowing an NIA team to visit Islamabad to probe the Pathankot terror attack.
Pakistan High Commissioner Abdul Basit also said that the arrest of an alleged Indian spy, Kulbushan Jadhav, proved Islamabad's allegations that New Delhi was causing unrest in Balochistan.
Asked at the Foreign Correspondents Club about a meeting between the foreign secretaries of the two countries, Basit said: "There is no meeting scheduled for now. I think at present the peace process is suspended.
"India is not ready as yet," Basit said, but quickly added that "we can only resolve issues through dialogue".
This is the first official word from Pakistan about the latest breakdown in the now-on-now-off peace process with India.
After a team of Pakistani officials visited Pathankot to probe Indian charges that Pakistani terrorists were to blame for the January 2 attack, New Delhi had expected Islamabad to allow a National Investigation Agency (NIA) team to visit that country to take the investigation forward.
There are the efforts by the United Nations and others to settle a peace between India and Pakistan, but, get this; there is a secular movement throughout the region.
April 7, 2016
By Ellen Barry and Maher Sattar
New Delhi — Men armed with machetes have killed a secular activist at a crowded intersection in Dhaka, the Bangladeshi capital, a police official said on Thursday, the latest in a series of grisly attacks on intellectuals and bloggers who have written critically about militant Islam on social media.
Clean shaven is affiliated with a notable political/religious ideology.
Witnesses said a group of clean shaven men surrounded Mohammad Nazim Uddin, a law student, as he walked on the street around 8:30 p.m. on Wednesday and slashed his head, then shot him when he fell to the ground, said Syed Nurul Islam, the deputy commissioner of police for Wari, the area of Old Dhaka where the killing took place.
Mr. Uddin, 26, was a convinced atheist who frequently expressed his views on Facebook, often posting as many as five times a day. His family had asked him to stop, fearful that the posts would make him a target, and for about four months, ending in January, he had complied, said Gulam Rabbi Chowdhury, a childhood friend.
“To tell the truth, he was always a little detached from his family; he had trouble with them because of his views on religion,” Mr. Chowdhury said. “He was very outspoken. He didn’t worry about whether you were with him or not.”...
This phenomena regarding the eruption of secular values isn't just local to India or Pakistan. I think there is exploration within these countries with dispelling radicalism. I suppose secularism is viewed as radical itself, but, there are citizens feeling strongly about it to put their lives on the line. AND, there are those that simply won't discuss it except where they find safety. At the very least, these folks that found radical religious beliefs an interesting way to control the masses are worried.
If the secularism movement continues it will have the power to end the differences between religion as well as the killing that which accompanies it. Deash has been a real reality check for these countries. If the secularists are moving forward, religion will rest in the place where it belongs within the belief of the soul of the INDIVIDUAL based in RELIGIOUS CHOICE. Holy men will finally have their 'safe haven' in practicing religious values that protects the soul without having to run revolution in order to survive the day.
These countries will finally have a generation in the future that is safe from death for their religious beliefs. Part of the turbulence in these countries is religious intolerance. In that religious intolerance is generations and generations of hatred and violence. (Think Ireland). The goals of the people should be education and their future with real lives based on moral grounds and dare I hope no more Poppy Economies, too.
Lahore (Dunya News) – Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) (click here) chief Sirajul Haq said that the religious parties want imposition of Islamic system in the country and not liberal and secular state, Dunya News reported Saturday.
The Jamaat-e-Islami leader addressed Nizam-e-Mustafa Conference in Mansoora.
Haq said that women criticised the Women Protection Bill the most.
Clerics, attending the conference stated that they wanted a country that functions on Islamic principles and not liberal and secular. Punjab government’s Women Protection Bill, they all agreed that is against Islam.
Clerics belonging to more than 20 religious parties stated that they would fight efforts aimed at making Pakistan a liberal country. The country was established in the name of Islam and the same system would prevail, they added.
Jamaat-e-Islami chief denounced Prime Minister (PM) Nawaz Sharif’s statement about liberal Pakistan. The JI leader also criticised Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari’s call for alliance among secular parties....
There are some sweeping dialogues going on after recent violence.
"You're stupid, not secular, if you support Pakistan terrorists." (click here)
"Should Pakistan be a secular state?" (click here)
