John Samuel! please be Just

Submitted by Mustapha Babagana (Nigeria), Sep 8, 2005 at 06:07

To say there are more than 40% of illiterates in Pakistan's Population depends on the way you define illiteracy. So many people are making a serious mistake in defining civilisation, advancement, literate or illiterate. Some link civilisation to the mode of dressing, while some termed you illiterate if you don't speak English. I don't know which criteria did Mr. John Samuel followed in concluding that more than 40% of Pakistanis are illiterates?

And to say Pakistan have been very friendly with Bin-Laden, and many other terrorists leaders is also a wrong notion, because was US not very friendly with Bin-Laden when Afganistan was fighting the Soviet?

Also to say the Madrassas in Pakistan are teaching extremism to the innocent kids indirectly promoting the next-gen terrorists is not true, because Madrassas do exist over 1000 years & is it not known to teach extremism till 9/11? Almost in every Muslim nation there are Madrassas with their local way of teaching. They don't even know what is ammunition, talk less of suicide bombing, unless if you want to involve them (into terrorism) by forcefully stopping them from their traditional way of learning.

Also to say Pakistan made major contributions to Al-Qa'ida before 9/11 is unreasonable, because I may ask "has US not made a major contribution to most MEMBERS OF AL-QA'IDA & TALIBAN before 9/11, especially during Afganistan fight with USSR?

Also to say Pakistani intelligence worked directly with jihadi groups in Kashmir and Afghanistan is a sort of hiding the reality, this is because has US not trained Usama and other Mujahiduns in fighting the Soviet? But one may say today the US has nothing to do with those Mujahidun, I can say yes because it has no interest in them now, but Pakistan still needs them.

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