murali772 - 16 October, 2008 | Bangalore | Culture | Religion | Analysis | terrorism | violence | Everything else

The power to change the fortune of nations lies with the people. The citizens of Pakistan have just raised millions of hopes around the world that they don’t want to be crushed under the weight of extremism.
    
In an unprecedented gesture that has attracted a greater popular participation from the average Pakistani than ever before, 63 million Pakistanis have signed on to a unique anti-terror signature campaign.
    
It’s actually a full third of Pakistan’s entire population. Billed as the biggest lobby effort anywhere in the world, Pakistanis signed on to a petition called “Yeh Hum Naheen (This is not us)” through just four weeks in the past couple of months. It’s been the strongest signal from Pakistanis — you could almost call it the cry of a nation tarred with a deadly brush — that they don’t want fundamentalism or terrorism to be known as the Pakistani way of life.
 
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http://epaper.timesofindia.com/Repository/ml.asp?Ref=VE9JQkcvMjAwOC8xMC8xMiNBcjAwOTAw&Mode=HTML&Locale=english-skin-custom

A heart-warming development, indeed!   

Muralidhar Rao

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