Monday, October 28, 2019
عمران خان کو رہا کرو
وزیر اعظم صاحب کی صحافی حضرات سے ملاقات ہوئی۔ وہاں انہوں نے بتایا کہ ان کا کوئی اختیار نہیں ہے کہ نواز شریف کو گھر جانے دیں یا ان کی بیٹی کو ان سے ملنے دیں۔ لیکن اسی شام خبر آئی کہ وزیر اعظم نے پنجاب کے وزیر اعلیٰ عثمان بزدار کو فون کر کے کہا ہے کہ مریم نواز کو ان کے والد سے ملنے دیا جائے۔
تحریکِ انصاف کے فیسبک گروپس میں جا کر دیکھ لیں، یا ان کے حامیوں سے بات کر کے دیکھ لیں، ان کا یہی کہنا ہے کہ نواز شریف ڈیل کر کے پاکستان سے جا رہا ہے۔ ساتھ وہ اس بات پر بھی کامل یقین رکھتے ہیں کہ عمران خان این آر او نہیں دے گا، یعنی یہ ڈیل عمران خان سے نہیں، کسی اور سے ہو رہی ہے۔
کچھ جو ذرا زیادہ ہی ’باخبر‘ ہیں، وہ آج کل دعوے کرتے دکھائی دیتے ہیں کہ کسی ’انتہائی اہم شخصیت‘ نے سابق وزیر اعظم نواز شریف سے ملاقات کرنی تھی جس کے لئے یہ بیماری کا ڈرامہ رچایا گیا اور ان کو اسپتال منتقل کیا گیا کیونکہ اس ’انتہائی اہم شخصیت‘ کو نیب کے دفتر میں نواز شریف سے ملاقات کرنا نامنظور تھا۔
ہمیشہ سچ لکھنے والے اور سچ کے سوا کچھ نہ لکھنے والے باخبر صحافی صالح ظافر نے جنگ اخبار میں یہ رپورٹ دی ہے کہ آرمی چیف جنرل باجوہ کی مولانا فضل الرحمان سے ملاقات ہوئی ہے جس میں جنرل صاحب نے مولانا کو واضح الفاظ میں بتا دیا ہے کہ عمران خان جمہوری طور پر منتخب وزیر اعظم ہیں اور کسی صورت ان کی حکومت نہیں ہٹائی جائے گی۔
اس سے کچھ دن پہلے باجوہ صاحب ہی نے ایک ملاقات میں کاروباری حضرات کو بھی ڈانٹ پلائی اور ان کو بتایا کہ وہ بالکل کسی ایسی تحریک کا حصہ بننے کی کوشش نہ کریں کہ بعد میں پچھتانا پڑے۔ انہوں نے یہاں بھی اپنے عمران خان کے پیچھے کھڑے رہنے کے عزم کو دہرایا۔ اس سے پہلے اسد عمر کو کس طرح وزیرِ خزانہ کے عہدے سے ہٹایا گیا، یہ بھی ہم سب کو یاد ہے۔
تو عمران خان صاحب کیا کر رہے ہیں؟ معیشت میں ان کا بندا ہٹا کر کسی اور کو لگا دیا گیا ہے۔ کاروباری طبقے سے معاملات آرمی چیف طے کر رہے ہیں۔ مولانا کو ڈانٹ ڈپٹ کرنے کا فریضہ بھی وہی انجام دے رہے ہیں۔ نواز شریف سے معاملات بھی ’انتہائی اہم شخصیت‘ ہی کر رہی ہے۔ تو پھر اس آزاد منش شخص کو جو کسی کی نہیں سنتا، اور سن بھی لے تو کرتا ہمیشہ اپنی ہے، جس کو نیچا نہیں بٹھایا جا سکتا، جس کو کنٹرول نہیں کیا جا سکتا، کیوں یوں ہاتھ پاؤں باندھ کے بٹھایا ہوا ہے؟
آپ نے جو کرنا ہے کرو۔ بس ہمارے بہادر، نڈر کپتان کو جانے دو۔ عمران خان کو رہا کرو۔
Ahmadi Muslim Scientist Abdus Salam - The first Pakistani Nobel laureate few have heard of
By Samira Shackle
Until Malala Yousafzai won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2014, there had only ever been one Pakistani Nobel laureate: the scientist Abdus Salam, who won the physics prize in 1979.
But despite being the first Pakistani to win a Nobel, his historic achievement was not celebrated in his home country. Instead, he was largely ignored due to his religious identity.
Even today, his pioneering contributions to physics are barely discussed in Pakistan.
A new documentary on Netflix, Salam, The First ****** Nobel Laureate seeks to restore Salam's legacy.
Salam shared the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physics with Sheldon Glashow and Steven Weinberg for his contribution to the electroweak unification theory.
His work paved the way for the 2012 discovery of the Higgs boson particle, which gives all other particles mass, and he helped define theories still in use today, such as the theory of the neutrino.
Omar Vandal and Zakir Thaver, the co-producers of the Netflix film, were drawn to the story as young Pakistani scientists studying in the United States.
They first heard of Salam when they read his obituaries in 1996.
"We were both science students and the tragedy is that it was not until we left Pakistan that we truly discovered Salam and his story," said Vandal.
"His story had been largely erased back home. He is not a part of the public dialogue at all."
Most, if not all, scientific enterprise and infrastructure in Pakistan owes its origin to Salam.
ZAKIR THAVER, CO-PRODUCER OF NETFLIX DOCUMENTARY
The reason for this is that Salam belonged to the Ahmadi minority, a sect of Islam that has long been persecuted in Pakistan and around the Muslim world.
The Ahmadiyya movement was founded in 1889, by Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, who died in 1908. His followers believe that he was a prophet. Most Muslims believe that the last prophet was Muhammad, who died in 632, and thus view the Ahmadis as heretics.
"His faith was a huge part of who he was. It was very deep, very enlightened and very personal," his son, Umar Salam, told Al Jazeera. "For my father, religion and science are complementary – different types of belief system that together comprised a world view."
Controversy over the position of Ahmadi Muslims in Pakistan continued throughout Salam's life.
Born in 1926 in the city of Jhang, then part of British India, he went to university in Lahore before winning a scholarship to the University of Cambridge in the UK.
After completing his studies, he returned to become a professor of mathematics.
He decided to leave after a series of violent anti-Ahmadi riots swept across Lahore in 1953. He went back to the UK, first to Cambridge, and then to Imperial College London where he helped to set up the theoretical physics department.
Salam loved Pakistan. He found worldwide scientific respect, yet not in his own country.
BASHARAT NAZIR, PRESS SECRETARY OF THE AHMADIYYA MUSLIM ASSOCIATION UK
Although he had left Pakistan, Salam remained closely involved with his country's most significant scientific projects.
In 1961, he established Pakistan's space programme, and in the 1970s, he was - more controversially - involved with efforts to build a nuclear weapon.
"Most, if not all, scientific enterprise and infrastructure in Pakistan owes its origin to Salam," said Thaver.
In 1974, a law was passed declaring Ahmadis non-Muslim.
It was only at this point that Salam severed ties with the Pakistani government.
In later life, he spoke out against nuclear weapons.
When Salam won the Nobel Prize in 1979, he quoted verses from the Quran. The world saw him as the first Muslim to win a Nobel Physics prize, but his own country did not.
A repressive law further restricting the religious freedom of Ahmadis was passed in 1984.
He never criticised nor even mentioned any aspect of his treatment; nor did he ever express any resentment.
UMAR SALAM, ABDUS SALAM\'S SON
In addition to his research, Salam was passionate about encouraging scientists from similarly disadvantaged backgrounds.
In 1964 he founded the International Centre for Theoretical Physics in Trieste, Italy, to support scientists from the developing world.
"He was warm, loving and often very funny," said Umar Salam. "He was a tireless worker, rising at 4am each morning and constantly travelling. He was not necessarily a model parent - he was simply himself. He believed in things and in people, and he made you want to do the same."
Salam's dedication to Pakistan never wavered; although he was offered British and Italian citizenship, he always retained his Pakistani passport.
"He never criticised nor even mentioned any aspect of his treatment; nor did he ever express any resentment," said Umar Salam.
When he died in 1996, Salam was buried in the Pakistani town of Rabwah, the centre of the Ahmadi community. His gravestone described him as the first Muslim Nobel laureate.
The word "Muslim" was soon scrubbed out by local authorities.
"Salam loved Pakistan. He found worldwide scientific respect, yet not in his own country," said Basharat Nazir, press secretary of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Association UK. "Peace is something that has been denied Salam in life as in death."
There are an estimated 10 million Ahmadis worldwide, based in 200 different countries, but the majority - around 4 million - remain in Pakistan.
They still face persecution, both at a state level and from vigilantes.
In 2010, a Taliban attack on two Ahmadi mosques in Lahore killed 93 people; in 2012, more than 100 Ahmadi graves were desecrated in the city.
More than 200 Ahmadis are currently in prison on charges related to their faith - it is illegal for Ahmadis to describe themselves as Muslim or to perform Muslim rituals.
Next month, the UK All Party Parliamentary Group for the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community is expected to publish a report on human rights violations against Ahmadis in Pakistan.
"It reflects how a community that helped found the country has become persecuted, explicitly targeted by federal laws," said Nazir.
This continued discrimination and controversy made it difficult for the documentary makers to obtain funding from within Pakistan.
"We were offered lots of funding provided we did not touch on the Ahmadi issue. That was a no-go for us," said Thaver.
But now that the film has been made available on Netflix, it is being watched in Pakistan.
"As you would expect, there has been anger from some quarters, but overall the reaction has been positive and there are questions about what we have lost out on," said Vandal. "People are convening in groups to watch the film, it is being screened at homes and in academic institutes. Salam is back in the imagination of the people."
Pakistani authorities demolish 70-year-old mosque of minority Ahmadi Muslims
The community laments the government’s decision to arrest one of its members who filmed the demolition.
A 70-year-old worship place belonging to Pakistan’s minority Ahmadis has been demolished by the authorities in Punjab province, the community members said on Monday.
Pakistan’s Parliament in 1974 declared the Ahmadi community as non-Muslims. A decade later, they were banned from calling themselves Muslims. They are banned from preaching and even from travelling to Saudi Arabia for pilgrimage.
Ahmadi community spokesperson Saleemduddin said the worship place, which has been destroyed, was located in Bahawalpur district’s Hasilpur village, some 400 kms from here.
“The assistant commissioner of Hasilpur along with Baldia workers attacked the 70-year-old Ahmadi place of worship in Murad district and destroyed parts of the building without notice,” Saleemduddin said in a tweet.
“It is important to note that this place of worship is built on property owned by the community... It has remained the same over past many many decades,” he said.
The minority community lamented the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) government’s decision to arrest one of its members who filmed the demolition.
“Instead of initiating action against those involved in its demolition, police have arrested Ahmadi who filmed this attack under baseless charges,” Saleemduddin said, asking “how on earth filming something on a public space falls under this law?”
Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan often boasts about his government’s commitment regarding protecting the rights of minorities in the country.
“It is a shameless act by Pakistan’s govt. Where is your naya Pakistan. This is the naya Pakistan. Shame on you. @ImranKhanPTI,” Ahmadi activist Namatulla Nawaz said in a tweet.
The Ahmadi community has repeatedly been targeted by Islamic extremists, who view them as heretics.
Last year, the government cancelled the appointment of U.S.-educated economist Atif Mian to the Economic Advisory Council after it surfaced that he belonged to the Ahmadi community.
In Pakistan, around 10 million out of the 220 million population are non-Muslims.
According to the 2017 census, Hindus constitute the largest religious minority (5 million) in Pakistan. Christians make up the second largest religious minority, with almost the same number (4.5 million) and their concentration is mostly in urban Sindh, Punjab and parts of Balochistan.
Ahmadis, Sikhs and Parsi are also among the notable religious minorities in Pakistan.
https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/pakistan-authorities-demolish-70-year-old-mosque-of-minority-ahmadis/article29813908.ece
بےنظیر بھٹو کی زندگی پر فلم، مہوش حیات نے لب کشائی کردی
پاکستانی فلمی دنیا کی مشہور اداکارہ مہوش حیات بہت جلد ملکی تاریخ کی
لالی ووڈ کی 36 سالہ اداکارہ نے غیر ملکی نشریاتی ادارے کو اس حوالے سے انٹرویو دیا ہے اور بتایا ہے کہ وہ جلد بے نظیر بھٹو کی سوانح حیات میں ان کا کردار نبھاتے ہوئے دکھائی دیں گی۔
مہوش حیات کا کہنا تھا کہ یہ ایک ہیرو کی کہانی ہے، بے نظیر بھٹو میرے لیے ایک ہیرو ہیں، میں ان سے بہت محبت کرتی ہوں۔
انہوں نے مزید کہا کہ ان کی سوانح حیات کی کہانی میرے لیے بہت ہی متاثر کن ہے۔
اداکارہ کا یہ بھی کہنا تھا کہ یہ موجودہ نسل اور آنے والی تمام نسلوں کے لیے ضروری ہے کہ وہ پاکستان کے لیے محترمہ بے نظیر بھٹو کی خدمات، انکی جدوجہد اور ان کامیابیوں کے بارے میں جانیں۔
اپنی گفتگو کے دوران ان کا یہ بھی کہنا تھا کہ بے نظیر بھٹو کو پہلی مسلم خاتون وزیراعظم ہونے کا اعزاز بھی حاصل ہے۔
مہوش حیات کہتی ہیں کہ بے نظیر بھٹو کا کردار نبھانا ان کے لیے سب سے مختلف کام ہوگا، بلاشبہ اس کردار کو سلور اسکرین پر لے کر آنا بہت مشکل سفر ہوگا۔
گزشتہ برس مہوش حیات نے انسٹا گرام پر ایک پوسٹ کے ذریعے بے نظیر بھٹو کی سوانح حیات پر بنائی جانے والی فلم کے بارے میں بتایا تھا۔
انہوں نے یہ بھی بتایا تھا کہ وہ اس سوانح حیات میں سابق وزیراعظم بے نظیر بھٹو کا کردار نبھاتے ہوئے دکھائی دیں گی۔
اس اعلان کے بعد سابق وزیراعظم کی بیٹی بختاور بھٹو زرداری کا شدید ردعمل سامنے آیا تھا جس میں انہوں نے کہا تھا کہ ان کی والدہ کی زندگی پر فلم بنانے کے لیے ان کے اہل خانہ سے اجازت طلب نہیں کی گئی
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