Extremism

Are Pakistanis extremists?
By Zubeida Mustafa | 8/1/2012 12:00:00 AM

at that place are two ways of effecting a change in a society: from stature to freighter or from bottom to top.

Conventionally, it has been believed and development and political strategies are based on this public opinion that changes at the top and the trickle-down effect result create an repair at the bottom, where it is admited.

Unfortunately, this approach has failed in our case for two reasons. First, in the absence of statesmanship in the leadershiphip and its corruption, the vested interests at the top support the status quo. Hence they obstruct changes in the placement or their policies for the benefit of the majority. Second, there is no pressure or assume from below to force those at the helm to mitigate themselves and the system they administer.

Most human rights activists fighting for change dramatise the top-down approach. This means that any change in mental capacity comes about in a small class which the leaders can afford to ignore. Hence my scepticism of this approach, which includes advocacy as has been practised in Pakistan. This was my reaction when I received a lovely book from the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, Inteha Pasandi sey Nijaat Mumkin hai.





The optimistic tactile property of the title at least forces one to read it in the hope of finding solutions. Experts such as LA. Rehman, Dr Mubarak Ali, Dr Pervez Hoodbhoy, Dr Mehdi Hasan, etc, give an excellent analysis of the extremism and militancy that plague this country today.

Will those who need to be convinced read this book? Or will this be another attempt to preach to the already reborn? If the idea is to remove the authorities to accept the enlightened suggestions typeset forward in the book, it is doubtful if these words ofwisdom will really change anything. Policymakers are the ones who are supposed to act when you demand a new social contract, revision of our textbooks or the excogitation of economic justice by reforming our social and...If you want to get a full essay, order it on our website: Orderessay



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