Protest at the United Nations: Peshawar Church Blast – by Asif Mall
Excellent effort by US based Christian Pakistanis, much appreciated indeed; all the participants deserve an applaud for such a formidable effort – bless them.
There was disagreement among the protestors whether of not have negotiations with Talibans, though its not necessarily a bad thing – as it shows the diversity of opinion and the freedom to express it.
Its regrettable that Hamid Mir managed to confuse the issue of the term ‘minority’ used for Christians while interviewing a female participant, who brought up two nation theory in her response; which was immediately debunked by Mr Mir by pointing out that even Christians supported it. I believe that mentioning ‘Objectives Resolution’ would have been much better, as it declares that religion of the state will be Islam; hence automatically declaring all non-Muslims as minorities & second class citicens.
If Hamid Mir can help us remove Objectives Resolution from the constitution, then we promise never to call ourselves a minority; though fact of the matter is that Hamid Mir himself supports that discriminatory part of the constitution, yet he also has the cheeks to ask us that why we call ourselves a minority.