Dr. Jai Maharaj
2005-05-11 22:59:00 UTC
PAKISTAN - ISLAMIC PASSPORTS ARE BACK
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Pakistan: Islamic passports are back
Forwarded message from Bipin ***@virgin.net
Monday, May 9, 2005
Pakistan: Islamic passports are back
Religion is back in Pakistani passports. Yielding to
pressure of Islamic fundamentalists, the government has
revised its decision to bring the format of the national
passport in line with the global standards for travel
documents, which do not include information about the
holder's religion. After only three months, there are
Islamic and un-Islamic passports again.
In January 2003, Paksitan's National Data Authority
"NaDa" had released the new type of machine-readable
passport with seven columns, which is meantime used by
most countries in the world. Fundamentalists missed the
"eighth column" that was revealing the religion of the
holder in the old passport. This Islamic addition had
been introduced by military ruler General Zia-ul-Haq in
1980, who was responsible for shaping the "Islamic
Republic of Pakistan" according to fundamentalist wishes.
With violent protest and the announcement of "million-
men-marches" all over the country, Islamic extremists
under leadership of the six-party alliance Muttahida-
Majlis-e-Amal (MMA) bullied the government into revising
the passport change. In a hurry, the NaDa adapted its new
software to accommodate the eighth column. And since 28
March 2005, religion is back in Pakistani passports - "on
popular demand", as the government says. Prime Minister
Shaukat Azis, advised by a five-member ministerial
committee, assured that the missing of religion was
caused by a deplorable "clerical mistake" of the
government of his predecessor. He promised to correct
this mistake by stamping the religion of the holder in
all the seven-column passports that were issued between
January and 28 March.
Since the elections in October 2002, the fundamentalist
alliance MMA occupies nearly one forth of the seats in
the National Assembly. Their influence on the government,
however, is far bigger than their official representation
could justify, as they use the violence of rampaging mobs
to press their demands. Calling police forces back, the
government uses to give them a free hand. They are
campaigning for nothing less than a Taliban Pakistan
according to the model of the North-West Frontier
Province (NWFP), the traditional hotbed of
fundamentalism, in which the MMA swept the elections in
2002. They abolished civil liberties in the NWFP by
implementing Shariat (Islamic Law) and establishing a
copy of the Taliban's dreaded "Department for the
Prevention of Vice and the Promotion of Virtue".
Visit:
http://www.vandemataram.com
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"Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not so send
peace, but a sword.
"For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the
daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in
law.
"And a man's foes shall be they of his own household.
- Matthew 10:34-36.
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Facts about terrorist Islam and Muslims
http://www.flex.com/~jai/satyamevajayate
Pakistan: Islamic passports are back
Forwarded message from Bipin ***@virgin.net
Monday, May 9, 2005
Pakistan: Islamic passports are back
Religion is back in Pakistani passports. Yielding to
pressure of Islamic fundamentalists, the government has
revised its decision to bring the format of the national
passport in line with the global standards for travel
documents, which do not include information about the
holder's religion. After only three months, there are
Islamic and un-Islamic passports again.
In January 2003, Paksitan's National Data Authority
"NaDa" had released the new type of machine-readable
passport with seven columns, which is meantime used by
most countries in the world. Fundamentalists missed the
"eighth column" that was revealing the religion of the
holder in the old passport. This Islamic addition had
been introduced by military ruler General Zia-ul-Haq in
1980, who was responsible for shaping the "Islamic
Republic of Pakistan" according to fundamentalist wishes.
With violent protest and the announcement of "million-
men-marches" all over the country, Islamic extremists
under leadership of the six-party alliance Muttahida-
Majlis-e-Amal (MMA) bullied the government into revising
the passport change. In a hurry, the NaDa adapted its new
software to accommodate the eighth column. And since 28
March 2005, religion is back in Pakistani passports - "on
popular demand", as the government says. Prime Minister
Shaukat Azis, advised by a five-member ministerial
committee, assured that the missing of religion was
caused by a deplorable "clerical mistake" of the
government of his predecessor. He promised to correct
this mistake by stamping the religion of the holder in
all the seven-column passports that were issued between
January and 28 March.
Since the elections in October 2002, the fundamentalist
alliance MMA occupies nearly one forth of the seats in
the National Assembly. Their influence on the government,
however, is far bigger than their official representation
could justify, as they use the violence of rampaging mobs
to press their demands. Calling police forces back, the
government uses to give them a free hand. They are
campaigning for nothing less than a Taliban Pakistan
according to the model of the North-West Frontier
Province (NWFP), the traditional hotbed of
fundamentalism, in which the MMA swept the elections in
2002. They abolished civil liberties in the NWFP by
implementing Shariat (Islamic Law) and establishing a
copy of the Taliban's dreaded "Department for the
Prevention of Vice and the Promotion of Virtue".
Visit:
http://www.vandemataram.com
End of forwarded message
Jai Maharaj
http://www.mantra.com/jai
Om Shanti
Hindu Holocaust Museum
http://www.mantra.com/holocaust
Hindu life, principles, spirituality and philosophy
http://www.hindu.org
http://www.hindunet.org
The truth about Islam and Muslims
http://www.flex.com/~jai/satyamevajayate
The terrorist mission of Jesus stated in the Christian bible:
"Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not so send
peace, but a sword.
"For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the
daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in
law.
"And a man's foes shall be they of his own household.
- Matthew 10:34-36.
o Not for commercial use. Solely to be fairly used for the educational
purposes of research and open discussion. The contents of this post may not
have been authored by, and do not necessarily represent the opinion of the
poster. The contents are protected by copyright law and the exemption for
fair use of copyrighted works.
o If you send private e-mail to me, it will likely not be read,
considered or answered if it does not contain your full legal name, current
e-mail and postal addresses, and live-voice telephone number.
o Posted for information and discussion. Views expressed by others are
not necessarily those of the poster who may or may not have read the article.
FAIR USE NOTICE: This article may contain copyrighted material the use of
which may or may not have been specifically authorized by the copyright
owner. This material is being made available in efforts to advance the
understanding of environmental, political, human rights, economic,
democratic, scientific, social, and cultural, etc., issues. It is believed
that this constitutes a 'fair use' of any such copyrighted material as
provided for in section 107 of the US Copyright Law. In accordance with Title
17 U.S.C. Section 107, the material on this site is distributed without
profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included
information for research, comment, discussion and educational purposes by
subscribing to USENET newsgroups or visiting web sites. For more information
go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml
If you wish to use copyrighted material from this article for purposes of
your own that go beyond 'fair use', you must obtain permission from the
copyright owner.
Since newsgroup posts are being removed
by forgery by one or more net terrorists,
this post may be reposted several times.