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Reform need for Muslim World discussed in Pakistan
KARACHI, April 06, 2011 (PPI): “Changes taking place in the Middle East and North Africa have shown that people cannot be ruled through despotic and suppressive means for long and that International players are always alert and prepared to manipulate a situation in which actual stakeholders fail to deliver.”
This was the consensus among leading scholars, experts and diplomats at a conference held at the Institute of Policy Studies.
Ambassadors of Libya, Palestine and Iran and a number of experts and analysts including Tanvir Ahmad Khan, Tariq Fatemi, Talat Masood, Hamid Gul, Asad Durrani, Saadia Abbasi, Khalid Rahman, Dr. Rifaat Hussain, Professor Khurshid Ahmad, Nigerian scholar Bakar Najmuddin and others dilated upon various aspects of recent phenomena in the conference titled as “Changing Dynamics of Middle East and Emerging Scenario”. Conference was jointly organized by the Institute of Policy Studies and Defence and Strategic Studies Department of Quaid-e-Azam University.
Speakers said that in view of undemocratic, tyrannical and extraordinarily long dictatorial regimes in the region such change was neither unexpected nor abrupt. “Lava in the oppressed masses was in fact waiting for an opportunity to erupt and it exploded with tremendous force”, said Professor Khurshid Ahmad.
The phenomenon that started from Tunisia soon spread to whole the region is “in fact attempt of the people to become masters of their own destiny” in the words of General (retired) Talat Masood.
The speakers however felt sorry for the Muslim nations and particularly the Arab world for not understanding the popular sentiment and introduce reforms that could guarantee rights, freedoms and equal opportunities to the people. “It was again disappointing that they could not take care of the situation themselves when Libyan regime started killing the demonstrators. Their inability and failure created the gap that was filled by the Western powers that have their own agendas to impose in the region”, said Ambassador (Retired) Tariq Fatemi.
Security and foreign policy experts were generally in agreement in condemning the use of force against Libya. They said that cliché like democracy and human rights did not actually demonstrate the real intentions of France, UK and United States. “Why did they not intervene when democracy was not allowed to take its course in Algeria, Palestine and Egypt and why doesn’t the so called international community establish no-fly zone over Gaza if it is concerned with systematized killings and human rights?” asked Barrister Saadia Abbasi.
Ambassador (Retired) Tayyeb Siddiqui remarked that targets chosen by the international forces had clearly shown that they were interested in destroying the military might and industrial establishments instead of protecting civilian rights. “Had Libya not abandoned its nuclear program in 1990s, no country would have dared to attack its territory” he maintained.
Ambassador (Retired) Tanvir Ahmad Khan said that the course chosen by Western powers in Libya are commencement of a new world order in which military intervention shall be used as a weapon of change by the mighty nations. He said that resolution passed by the Security Council against Libya was so vague in its contents that it may be invoked by anyone against any other and “Pakistan should not consider itself an exception in view of ambitions of neo-colonial powers”.
Commenting upon the role of Pakistan in the whole scenario, foreign policy experts said that Pakistan should not avoid taking sides with respect to indigenous movements in the countries of the region. “Mercenaries are being recruited from Pakistan and being sent to Bahrain which if allowed to continue shall be a grave mistake”, said General (retired) Hameed Gul.
It was also proposed that Pakistan should not support international aggression against Libya or any other nation. Above all Pakistan needs to draw lessons from the whole situation. It was agreed that if rights of the people are denied and living is made difficult then mass uprising cannot be avoided. Similarly moves of international actors have to be monitored carefully and responded carefully and collectively by the Muslim world to avoid further loss of sovereignty, resources and lives.
This was the consensus among leading scholars, experts and diplomats at a conference held at the Institute of Policy Studies.
Ambassadors of Libya, Palestine and Iran and a number of experts and analysts including Tanvir Ahmad Khan, Tariq Fatemi, Talat Masood, Hamid Gul, Asad Durrani, Saadia Abbasi, Khalid Rahman, Dr. Rifaat Hussain, Professor Khurshid Ahmad, Nigerian scholar Bakar Najmuddin and others dilated upon various aspects of recent phenomena in the conference titled as “Changing Dynamics of Middle East and Emerging Scenario”. Conference was jointly organized by the Institute of Policy Studies and Defence and Strategic Studies Department of Quaid-e-Azam University.
Speakers said that in view of undemocratic, tyrannical and extraordinarily long dictatorial regimes in the region such change was neither unexpected nor abrupt. “Lava in the oppressed masses was in fact waiting for an opportunity to erupt and it exploded with tremendous force”, said Professor Khurshid Ahmad.
The phenomenon that started from Tunisia soon spread to whole the region is “in fact attempt of the people to become masters of their own destiny” in the words of General (retired) Talat Masood.
The speakers however felt sorry for the Muslim nations and particularly the Arab world for not understanding the popular sentiment and introduce reforms that could guarantee rights, freedoms and equal opportunities to the people. “It was again disappointing that they could not take care of the situation themselves when Libyan regime started killing the demonstrators. Their inability and failure created the gap that was filled by the Western powers that have their own agendas to impose in the region”, said Ambassador (Retired) Tariq Fatemi.
Security and foreign policy experts were generally in agreement in condemning the use of force against Libya. They said that cliché like democracy and human rights did not actually demonstrate the real intentions of France, UK and United States. “Why did they not intervene when democracy was not allowed to take its course in Algeria, Palestine and Egypt and why doesn’t the so called international community establish no-fly zone over Gaza if it is concerned with systematized killings and human rights?” asked Barrister Saadia Abbasi.
Ambassador (Retired) Tayyeb Siddiqui remarked that targets chosen by the international forces had clearly shown that they were interested in destroying the military might and industrial establishments instead of protecting civilian rights. “Had Libya not abandoned its nuclear program in 1990s, no country would have dared to attack its territory” he maintained.
Ambassador (Retired) Tanvir Ahmad Khan said that the course chosen by Western powers in Libya are commencement of a new world order in which military intervention shall be used as a weapon of change by the mighty nations. He said that resolution passed by the Security Council against Libya was so vague in its contents that it may be invoked by anyone against any other and “Pakistan should not consider itself an exception in view of ambitions of neo-colonial powers”.
Commenting upon the role of Pakistan in the whole scenario, foreign policy experts said that Pakistan should not avoid taking sides with respect to indigenous movements in the countries of the region. “Mercenaries are being recruited from Pakistan and being sent to Bahrain which if allowed to continue shall be a grave mistake”, said General (retired) Hameed Gul.
It was also proposed that Pakistan should not support international aggression against Libya or any other nation. Above all Pakistan needs to draw lessons from the whole situation. It was agreed that if rights of the people are denied and living is made difficult then mass uprising cannot be avoided. Similarly moves of international actors have to be monitored carefully and responded carefully and collectively by the Muslim world to avoid further loss of sovereignty, resources and lives.
