Pakistani ex-Dictator Threatens Nuclear Attack:
KARACHI: Former military ruler Gen (retd) Pervez Musharraf said on Wednesday that Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is an enemy of Pakistan and Muslims, urging the Indian premier to change his anti-Pakistan attitude, DawnNews reported.
- Speaking to an Indian news channel, the former president said that Pakistan would never neglect the defence of its eastern borders and added that
the country would not hesitate in using the nuclear bomb against India if the need arose.
- Musharraf, who ruled Pakistan as a military dictator and later as a civilian president between 1999 and 2008, said that India was attempting to destabilise it's South Asian neighbour through a proxy war.
- The former army chief fought against India in 1965 and 1971 wars and led Pakistan’s armed forces in the 1999 Kargil conflict.
- The former president is currently residing in Karachi where he is receiving treatment at PNS Shifa after undergoing a heart ailment in the midst of a number of cases against him. He is also facing a high treason trial for imposing an state of emergency in the country.
http://www.dawn.com/news/1139652/modi-an-enemy-of-pakistan-and-muslims-musharrafOh yes, as if Musharraf loves India and is very pro-Hindus.That is a Good thing to Indian and Indians., then the present hind India government better listen to Musharraf and don't play political point scoring games...
Any way let me read Nadeem Paracha on
Political Islam: An evolutionary historywell he is using pictures of Historical figures to write that article, here I am going paste the pictures and those who are interested go to link and read it..
12th century Islamic thinker, Imam Ghazali, who advocated an end to 'ijtihad' (independent reasoning) with the view that Islamic thought had reached completion.
The founder of Pakistan, Mohammad Ali Jinnah, tried to bridge the political gap between Muslim Nationalism and Liberal Islam in South Asia.
The founder of modern Turkish nationalism, Kamal Ataturk, was one of the staunchest expressions of Liberal Islam (in the political context).
Iranian thinker and activist Ali Shariati expressed revolutionary Islam through Marxist symbolism. He was assassinated in 1975 by the agents of the Shah of Iran.
A 1970 poster of the Young Socialist Alliance, an international group of leftist student outfits allied to Ba’ath/Arab Socialist parties and regimes in Egypt, Syria and Iraq, and with the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO).
Poet, painter and author, Hanif Ramay, is considered one of the main ideologues and theorists of modern Islamic Socialism in Pakistan. He was one of the founding members of PPP.
Gamal Abdul Nasser (right) with famous Marxist revolutionary, Che Guvara, in Cairo (1960).
Some observers have defined the violence associated with ‘Neo-Fundamentalism’ as an anarchic and desperate symptom foretelling the collapse of Political Islam.
Post-Cold War Islamism triumphed at the polls but failed at governance. Muhammad Morsi, a member of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood, was elected President of Egypt in 2012. Within a year he fell from grace as millions of his opponents took to the streets demanding his resignation. He was ousted in a military coup in July 2013.
Egyptian Islamic ideologue S. Qutb (right) with an American intellectual in 1950. He was hanged by the government of Gamal Abdul Nasser in Egypt in 1966 (on charges of treason and inciting violence).
Prolific author and Islamic scholar, Abul Ala Maududi was one of the first major ideologues of what became to be known (in the West) as Islamism.
Poet-philosopher, Muhammad Iqbal (1877-1938), tried to bridge the universalism of Pan-Islamism with the Muslim nationalist identity that South Asia was trying to shape up.
Sir Syed Ahmed Khan was one of the early architects of Muslim Nationalism (along with Syed Ameer Ali). Pan-Islamists and orthodox clergy criticised him for adopting the ‘Western concept’ of nationalism for the Muslims of South Asia.
Pioneering 19th Century Pan-Islamic thinker Jalaluddin Afghani. Though he advocated the infusion of modernity in traditional Islamic thought, he was critical of India’s Muslim Nationalists because he thought they were reducing the Muslims of South Asia as a nation confined to South Asia.
Members of the Tableeghi Jamat in Pakistan. The Jamat is one of the largest Islamic evangelical movements in the world. Observers have described it as a genuine ‘Islamic fundamentalist’ movement but with no political agenda.
well with those guys Nadeem wrote that article on Political Islam and its evolution.. it is a good one to read on History of Political Islam..
Topic: Pakistan: The Nation.. The Politics... and The Religion