Dr. Ayesha Siddiqa, teaching defense and strategy to Pakistani students,
calls names to Pakistan's Founding Father and the national poet. [anger]
And Prof. A. H. Nayyar, an alumni of the largest university in Islamabad, is
asking followers to fake evidence against Pakistan's founder in order to
show him to young Pakistanis as someone who was more English than the English.
What's eating Prof. Nayyar and Dr. Siddiqa is that there is a revival taking
place among young Pakistanis, the single largest group in a population of
170 million. The revival is unprecedented and seeks to renew faith in
Pakistan. It is a reaction to anti-Pakistan reports and think-tank findings
mainly in the United States over the past three years that sought to dismiss
Pakistan as a nation on the verge of collapse. Pakistanis have also been
galvanized by evidence showing Indians exporting terrorism into Pakistan
from US-controlled Afghanistan.
The evidence against both teachers, presented here for the first time,
indicates a major problem facing most Pakistani colleges and universities. A
small but noisy group of professors is encouraging students to attack the
very foundations of the Pakistani state.
This is alarming considering the timing and the regional instability
resulting from America's Afghan war.
Both Dr. Siddiqa and Prof. Nayyar have access to one of the most influential
Pakistani seats of learning, the Quaid-e-Azam University in the heart of the
Pakistani capital. Both of them are also known to hold what many describe as
views more sympathetic to Pakistan's regional detractors.
Dr. Siddiqa's statement was part of a discussion she had with an Indian
journalist on Facebook on Feb. 10, 2010. A screen shot can be seen with
this report.
Prof. Nayyar's statement came in a discussion on Feb. 8, 2010 by members of
an Internet mailing list called Socialist Pakistan News
. A screen shot is
provided.
Bashing Pakistan, its history, the Pakistan Independence Movement, the
Founding Fathers, and the country's military are common themes among some of
these university professors. Coincidentally, most of them also happen to be
very supportive of American and Indian criticism of Pakistan. In Dr.
Siddiqa and Prof. Nayyar's cases, both of them are active members of
so-called peace groups that explicitly embrace Indian hegemony in the
region.
[anger] http://aq-lounge.blogspot.com/
calls names to Pakistan's Founding Father and the national poet. [anger]
And Prof. A. H. Nayyar, an alumni of the largest university in Islamabad, is
asking followers to fake evidence against Pakistan's founder in order to
show him to young Pakistanis as someone who was more English than the English.
What's eating Prof. Nayyar and Dr. Siddiqa is that there is a revival taking
place among young Pakistanis, the single largest group in a population of
170 million. The revival is unprecedented and seeks to renew faith in
Pakistan. It is a reaction to anti-Pakistan reports and think-tank findings
mainly in the United States over the past three years that sought to dismiss
Pakistan as a nation on the verge of collapse. Pakistanis have also been
galvanized by evidence showing Indians exporting terrorism into Pakistan
from US-controlled Afghanistan.
The evidence against both teachers, presented here for the first time,
indicates a major problem facing most Pakistani colleges and universities. A
small but noisy group of professors is encouraging students to attack the
very foundations of the Pakistani state.
This is alarming considering the timing and the regional instability
resulting from America's Afghan war.
Both Dr. Siddiqa and Prof. Nayyar have access to one of the most influential
Pakistani seats of learning, the Quaid-e-Azam University in the heart of the
Pakistani capital. Both of them are also known to hold what many describe as
views more sympathetic to Pakistan's regional detractors.
Dr. Siddiqa's statement was part of a discussion she had with an Indian
journalist on Facebook on Feb. 10, 2010. A screen shot can be seen with
this report.
Prof. Nayyar's statement came in a discussion on Feb. 8, 2010 by members of
an Internet mailing list called Socialist Pakistan News
. A screen shot is
provided.
Bashing Pakistan, its history, the Pakistan Independence Movement, the
Founding Fathers, and the country's military are common themes among some of
these university professors. Coincidentally, most of them also happen to be
very supportive of American and Indian criticism of Pakistan. In Dr.
Siddiqa and Prof. Nayyar's cases, both of them are active members of
so-called peace groups that explicitly embrace Indian hegemony in the
region.
[anger] http://aq-lounge.blogspot.com/
