[Assam] Nat Geo: Pakistan's surging fundamentalism vs education

[umesh sharma]

Rajen-da,

About 80% follow - as per the first page of the article .

Umesh

Rajen & Ajanta Barua <barua25 at hotmail.com> wrote:       >It is surprising that most Pakistanis follow Sufism 
  
 Umesh:
 Is this a fact? What percentage are Sufis? Can you  furnish some resource for this? I am just wondering. If it is it is good since  Pakistan is our neighbour.
 Rajenda
  
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   From:    umesh    sharma 
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   Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2007 11:11    PM
   Subject: [Assam] Nat Geo: Pakistan's    surging fundamentalism vs education
   

http://www7.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0709/pakistan/pakistan.html
see    this cover story I read for a job application this weekend

I had just    applied for a 15 day position in Pakistan's Baluchistan province though I had    reservations about whether I would make it alive - having a penchant to send    emails to AssamNet about the living conditions of that area and exposing    myself as an open target to Jehadis/Talibanis in the area. I have a feeling my    application suffered some setback becos I wrote as if I was local guy from    that area and not an outsider going for a cursory visit from US. Sindh also on    the trip is just across the border from Gujarat and Rajasthan. A local guy    perhaps is more likely to have local links which could sometimes turn out to    be dangeorus to others in the visiting party from US etc

It is    surprising that most Pakistanis follow Sufism and that Jinnah wanted a secular    nation where muslims could grow in peace - it is true that despite having    ruled India for centuries muslims are still less educated than an average    Indian - but what about muslims in Pakistan -- is it because of tradition ( I    won't call it religion - even Catholic South America bans abortion and    divorce). Whatever Jinnah might have said ( I don't believe it though it comes    from Nat Geo - he never  seemed committed to it - otherwise why Hindus    would have had to migrate at the time of British withdrawl).

any    comments?

Umesh


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Umesh Sharma

Washington D.C. 

1-202-215-4328 [Cell]

Ed.M. - International Education Policy
Harvard Graduate School of Education,
Harvard University,
Class of 2005

http://www.uknow.gse.harvard.edu/index.html (Edu info)

http://hbswk.hbs.edu/ (Management Info)




www.gse.harvard.edu/iep  (where the above 2 are used )




http://jaipurschool.bihu.in/
       
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