LUBP- by Ali Lahore: The Oscar winning movie “Lincoln” will soon be available on video. This awesome movie is about one of the greatest presidents of the United States of America. It is also about a president whose fundamental challenge was not international – instead it was domestic. In the midst of a gruesome civil war, when the entire nation was split into two, and it seemed that the federation would come to a crumbling end, Lincoln provides a great example of leadership. His leadership didn’t only save America, it also led to the end of slavery and created one of the strongest unions the world has ever seen. He rescued America from its darkest days and ended the civil war with a glorious victory of the Union forces over the Confederates.
When I watched the movie, I thought about how Lincoln would lead if he became the president of Pakistan.
Just as Lincoln found himself in the midst of a rebellion, an out of control secession attempt, and a society split between polar opposite values during the civil war, if he landed the presidency of Pakistan he would find himself in a terrorist infested, secession seeking, and warring Pakistan. He would observe that the nation is split along religious and ethnic lines and people are killing each other based upon ideologies.
Upon deeper research he would identify the root cause of the problem. He would realize that the Takfiri Deobandi Militant groups have wreaked havoc upon the rest of the country. He would observe that these fanatics want to impose their version of Islam on all others and anyone who disagrees with them is considered a legitimate kill target by them. He would see that there is a real war brewing in Pakistan – a war between the nationalists and the fundamentalists. He would see the nation is divided between two groups: those who want to build Pakistan and those who want to take Pakistan to the stone age. He would realize quickly that nearly 40,000 (Sunnis, Shias, Christians, and Ahmadis) killed by the terrorists were all killed by the same group of Takfiri Deobandi Militant psychopaths. And he would know instantly that confronting them would be his number one priority.
Categories: Americas
An interesting comparative assignment-study of two positions of Abraham Lincoln to be performed by him as the President of United States of America to make it one of the strongest Confederal state system under Presidential democracy and for which he had to sacrifice his life so that USA continues to consolidate itself to become a ‘role model’ of the Confederation. And if he comes here to Pakistan to serve as its President, let it be known to all that the people of Pakistan are the most indisciplined and disorganized lot in the world and they would surely fail all the attempts of Abraham Lincoln aimed to improve the ways of life of the Pakistanis and he will ultimately find that these people are very fond of making upside down of every thing all around with the net result that the Pak people are actually living in ‘dark age’ of 20 hours load shedding.
There is no need to lose hope. An honest man with a will would be able to do everything. So far, the politicians have failed and the army men came to grind their own ax. Most were drinkers and dishonest, not working for the welfare of the people and the country.
A very good example was nearby in India where more were honest than the dishonest. So they struggled along the path of democracy. They (Indians) had more problems than Pakistanis. But they were honest to solve the problems with justice and wisdom. The Pakistani leadership has failed completely and the major cause is the ignorance of the religious scholars who know nothing about the worldly matters or religious matters, peaceful basics of Islam.