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India-Pakistan

Jamaat slams Musharrafâs comment on Tribal Areas future

2003-11-22

The Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) has slammed President Pervez Musharrafâs statement that the tribal system would gradually come to an end, saying the president was âsowing the seed of rebellionâ among the tribal people.

They expect the tribal system to go on forever and ever...

âThe tribal people will not allow anyone to play with their customs and traditions,â Zarnoor Afridi, the JIâs provincial deputy general secretary, said in a press statement on Friday. Mr Afridi predicted that Musharraf statement might lead to an end to his rule. He said the tribal people were united under the banner of the Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal and would resist any attempt to interfere in the tribal way of life. âThe tribesmen will not tolerate the introduction of the system that applies to the settled areas,â he said.

Not that the system that applies in Pakland's settled areas is all that great, but the system of tribal autonomy that prevails now tries to extend the benefits of development without any of the responsibilities that would normally be involved â starting with civilized behavior. They want the roads, but to be able to travel to bump each other off or to smuggle drugs more conveniently. They want the hospitals to bind up their wounds after shootouts. Leaving the tribals on their own leaves them free to continue their Taliban-style ways, to harbor bad guys from across the border and from out of the country. Since the Taliban style is the Jamaat's ultimate objective, their hypocrisy must be pretty transparent, even to the rest of Pakland, where people are normally willing to believe five impossible things before breakfast.

Posted by:Fred Pruitt

#4 > > all the money had been used in polygamous marriages and pilgrimages to Mecca

> But that's not a problem. Nope. Nope. That's what money's for...

Well I can understand people spending money on women (except that they get a BIG surprise, when they lift the burkha) but not people who spend it on making the Saudis fatter

Posted by: JFM 2003-11-22 10:46:03 AM

#3 all the money had been used in polygamous marriages and pilgrimages to Mecca

But that's not a problem. Nope. Nope. That's what money's for...

Posted by: Fred 2003-11-22 8:44:57 AM

#2 made a lot of money in puppy trading ?

Afghans?

Posted by: Shipman 2003-11-22 8:22:40 AM

#1 Afghanistan conceded the tribal areas to the British empire for a limited duration, I think it was 100 years. This treaty is now expired so in theory the tribal areas should be returned to Aghanistan (I suspect that most non-Pashtuns and the reasonable Pahtuns wouldn't want of them in Aghanistan until they are desnutified).

In order to prevent this, Pakitan's politics have had three constants: 1) make Afghanistan a hell hole through provoking civil wars and supporting the most nutso Pashtun and Sunni supremacists
2) Litterally buy the inhabitants of the tribal areas who are free to establish in all of Pakistan, are exempt of taxes, have self-government and are de-facto allowed to engage into all kinds of smuggling and other illegal activity. Not that it benefits the tribal areas so much: I heard of a village where they had made a lot of money in puppy trading but still had no well: all the money had been used in polygamous marriages and pilgrimages to Mecca
3) Fan fundamentalism in those regions in order to
keep nationalism down. Fund the Deobandi school and the hundreds of madrassas who produce thousands and thousands of fanatics dreaming of Islamic unity (meaning no rivalry with the Punjabis who rule Pakistan), willing to keep the NWFP in 11th century and to go kill kaffirs in Cashmere and Afghanistan (including Shias and Sunnis opposing the Taliban)

Posted by: JFM 2003-11-22 2:35:29 AM

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