Daily Times: By Yasser Latif Hamdani: After the Lahore High Court’s verdict, Mr Sharif’s bravado is calculated to rally the people of Punjab behind the PML-N
‘Shahinshah-e-Punjab’
Shahbaz Sharif is the great Muslim ruler of the mighty province of Punjab in this ‘Islamic’ Republic of ours, or at least he likes to think so. He thinks and acts not as the elected chief executive of the largest province of the country, responsible to the provincial Assembly, but more as a despotic Mughal emperor.
Maybe the ‘Hakim-e-Ala’ has heard the saying of the Ummayad Caliph Umar Bin Abdul Aziz who said that he was responsible even for a dog starving on the banks of Dajla. Religious minorities, forced or otherwise, in the province of Punjab are treated worse than even animals. At least that is what Chief Minister Sharif’s conduct makes us believe. The last years of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz’s (PML-N) government in Punjab have been the worst for religious minorities in the province since the bloodletting in the immediate aftermath of partition in 1947. Then at least you had men like Iftikhar Mamdot, Mian Iftikharuddin and Sir Francis Mudie in the government of Punjab who made every effort to stem the massacre of Hindus and Sikhs. Mr Sharif’s government is either unable or unwilling to act.
Categories: Ahmadis And Pakistan, Ahmadiyyat: True Islam, Asia, Attitude, Behaviour, Double Standard, Hypocrisy
I sent this letter to the Newspaper (not sure if they will publish it):
Dear Sirs,
Yassar Hamdani describes well the behavior of the Mighty Ruler of Punjab. Unfortunately, he is not that mighty. If he was mighty and even if he felt mighty he would have the courage to for instance come to the rescue of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Minority. Only politicians that are insecure ‘have to’ hide away from such tasks. Really mighty and self-confident was for instance a Frontier Tribal Leader, who was invited to London to attend a ‘Khattam-un-Nabi’ (anti-Ahmadiyya) conference. While in London he went to pay respect to ‘his old friend the Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at, in spite of the objections and protests from his hosts who had paid his ticket to London. His answer was: ‘He is my old friend and I will not leave London before paying my respects to him’. This is Mighty. This is someone who has self-confidence.
Rafiq A. Tschannen, Amman, Jordan
There is a statement of Shehbaz. Sharif on record that why these extremists would attack Punjab and us we are their friends (or something like that). His law minister Rana Sana has open relationship with the extreme fanatic terrorists and election alliances with them. No wonder his area is not a big victim of terrorism as all the other provinces are. It is not surprising that leaders of Punjab like Taseer and Bhatti are brutally killed there is no serious attempt on the Sharif brothers or other rightwing leaders. The secular democrats know full well the connection between the terrorists and Sharif brothers and would not forget that in the next elections either. These political offspring of Dictator Zia are equally responsible for the current strength of terrorists.