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Hazrat Ali (A.S) once replied to a group of ten learned people who asked, 'We seek your permission for our putting a question to you.'Hazrat Ali (AS) replied, 'You are at perfect liberty.
'They said, 'of knowledge and wealth, which is better and why. Please give a separate answer to each of us. mam Ali (AS) answered in ten parts:
. Knowledge is the legacy of the Prophets; wealth is the inheritance of the Pharaohs. Therefore, knowledge is better than wealth
2. You are to guard your wealth but knowledge guards you. Therefore, knowledge is better.
3. A man of wealth has many enemies, while a man of knowledge has many friends. Hence, knowledge is better.
4. Knowledge is better because it increases with distribution, while wealth decreases by that act.
5. Knowledge is better because a learned man is apt to be generous while a wealthy person is apt to be miserly.
6. Knowledge is better because it cannot be stolen while wealth can be stolen .
7. Knowledge is better because time cannot harm knowledge but wealth rusts in course of time and wears away.
8. Knowledge is better because it is boundless while wealth is limited and you can keep ! account of it.
9. Knowledge is better because it illuminates the mind while wealth is apt to blacken it.
. Knowledge is better because knowledge induced the humanity in our Prophet to say to GOD 'we worship thee as we are your servants,' while wealth engendered in Pharaoh and Nimrod the vanity which made them claim god head. Seek knowledge, peace and health will follow.
'When someone shares something of value with you and you are benefited from it, you have a moral obligation to share it with others.'
onday, February 21, 2011 Why Pukistun Cunnot ReIeuse the Mun Who CuIIs HimseIf Ruymond Duvis This article was received from a friend. He has unfortunately not given the name of the newspaper that carried it. Brig.(retd), Shaukat Qadir is a highly respected and well-informed Pakistani analyst. After the Kargil conflict he had come out with an excellent analysis. In response to some requests from readers, I am reproducing this below. Hoping to be excused by him for reproducing it without his prior permission.
By Shaukat Qadir
February 19, 2011 "ThisCantBeHappening" -- Islamabad--By now journalists everywhere (except in the US) have come to the conclusion that there is Iar, Iar more to Raymond Davis than is being revealed by the US or by Pakistani oIIicials. That he was engaged in anti-state activities in Pakistan and that the two young men he killed were intelligence agents tailing him is virtually an accepted Iact.
The US, never Iamous Ior its diplomacy (The Ugly American, which made that point more than halI a century ago, became a best seller and a very successIul movie, starring Marlon Brando), seems to have discovered Iresh depths to its strong-arm, coercive diplomacy. The mere Iact that no less a personage than the US President has asked that this low-ranked person be granted absolute immunity, is indicative oI the US desperation to get him him out oI Pakistan and its court system.
One Western journalist has reIerred to this incident as the "biggest intelligence Iiasco since the downing oI a U-2 by the erstwhile USSR in 1962." Obviously, the apprehension is that were he to be tried and convicted in Pakistan and handed a lengthy prison, or even a death sentence, Davis might "spill the beans" and that, were he to do so, those Wikileaks cables could pale into insigniIicance!
That, in itselI, is more than suIIicient reason Ior Pakistan to reIuse to hand him over; but there is Iar more to Pakistan`s problems regarding this issue than just that. However, beIore we get to those, some comically Iarcical blunders committed by the US Embassy in Pakistan merit narration, since I am Iairly certain these are not being reported by the US media. They illustrate clearly the extent oI the desperation American oIIicials are Ieeling!
On January 25th 2011, just two days beIore Davis shot and killed the two young Pakistanis, the US Embassy submitted a list oI its diplomatic and non-diplomatic staII in Pakistan to the Pakistani Foreign OIIice (FO), as all Ioreign nations are required to do annually. The list included 48 names. Raymond Davis was not on the list. The day aIter Davis shot and killed the two Pakistanis, the US Embassy suddenly submitted a 'revised list to the Foreign OIIice which added Davis` name!
When Pakistani police took Davis into custody on January 27th, he had on his person an ordinary American passport with a valid ordinary Pakistan visa, issued by the Pakistan Embassy in Washington. On January 28th, a member oI the US Consulate wanted the Pakistani police to exchange that passport in Davis` possession with another one. The Iresh passport being oIIered was a diplomatic passport with a valid diplomatic visa dated sometime in 2009. This visa was stamped in Islamabad by the FO!
It gets ridiculously Iunnier. The prosecutor representing the Punjab government has presented two letters Irom the US Embassy as evidence beIore the Lahore High Court, Iorwarded to the Punjab government through the FO. The Iirst letter, dated January 27, reads: 'Davis is an employee oI the US Consulate General Lahore and holder oI a diplomatic passport." The second, dated February 3rd, states that Davis is a member oI the 'administrative and technical staII oI the US Embassy Islamabad! Just how gullible do the Americans take Pakistanis to be!
BeIore moving on to the political implications Ior Pakistan, were Davis to be granted immunity, it is important to review some domestic impediments, without which, he would never have been taken into custody.
AsiI Ali Zardari might be a politically empowered president domestically, but iI the US asked him to jump, he would ask "how high?" II they asked him to bend over, he would ask, "how low?" Had Davis committed the murders in Islamabad, under Iederal jurisdiction, he would have been Ilown out oI the country within hours oI his crime beIore any Iuror could have time to develop. But he slaughtered his victims in Lahore, in the jurisdiction oI the Punjab state government, manned by the PML(N), which is Zardari`s party`s main opposition.
Despite repeated and numerous requests Irom the US Embassy and the Federal government, the Punjab government has stood Iirm and has even denied Davis the comIorts normally aIIorded a political prisoner. Instead, Davis has the same Iacilities that any common Pakistani criminal has, in the rather notorious Kot Lakpat jail in Lahore (though he is being separated Irom the general prison population Ior his own saIety).
Then there is the superior judiciary; the Supreme Court (SC), which awaits Davis with sleeves rolled up, more than ready to ensure justice in deIiance oI Zardari`s wishes. Meanwhile, Davis has already been indicted beIore the Lahore High Court (LHC), which has extended his judicial remand in police custody to allow time Ior more interrogation. ThereIore, even iI the LHC could be intimidated, an appeal beIore the SC is inevitable.
Finally there is the Pakistani Pentagon, the General Headquarters, commonly known as GHQ. Now that it is a Iairly accepted Iact in Pakistan that Davis is guilty oI anti- Pakistan activities and has killed two members oI an intelligence agency, probably the well-known Inter-Service Intelligence (ISI), GHQ will have a say in his disposal. Consequently, despite Zardari`s desire to please the US, he may Iind himselI hamstrung.
Under Pakistani law, there is provision Ior "Blood Money," i.e. that the next oI kin can accept monetary remuneration and then pardon the killer beIore the court. Despite pressure brought to bear on the Iamilies oI Zeeshan and Faheem, the ill-Iated pair that was murdered, both Iamilies have unanimously reIused to accept Blood Money. In Iact, tempers are running so high that local wealthy businessmen have publicly urged them to reIuse, with the promise that they would match any sum oIIered to them by the US!
When rumors were Iloating that the US might cut a deal, oIIering AaIiya Siddique-- the Pakistani scientist convicted in the US oI attempting to murder two US interrogators and now serving a controversial 86-year sentence-- in exchange Ior Davis, Siddique`s own Iamily reIused to accept her back on these terms and spoke to local dailies urging the Punjab government not to release Davis Ior any reason.
Based on all oI the above, I personally doubt that Davis` immunity plea will be accepted. However, iI despite everything, his claim were accepted, what would be the political repercussions?
That`s the million-dollar question!
The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), known in the US media as the Pakistan Taliban, has issued a warning to the government oI dire consequences iI Davis is released. That would mean suicide attacks, murder and mayhem would immediately Iollow his release. Targets might well include any judges involved in the decision.
The youth oI Pakistan--who rose to a pedestal in my eyes during last year`s Iloods, when young boys and girls deIied our social taboos (sometimes even parental edicts) in the hundreds oI thousands, spending many nights away Irom home so as to assist those aIIected by the Iloods and demonstrating courage, determination, warmth, and patriotism oI a level I had not expected--have again joined hands over this case.
They can be Iound in droves on the web; exhorting the Pakistan government to reIuse US aid, promising to raise donations Irom their resources and the public iI the US cuts it oII, and urging the government to withstand US pressure and reIuse Davis immunity. They are also vowing that iI immunity is granted, a youth movement oI unprecedented proportions will start and, that like the historic Long March Ior the restoration oI the judiciary in March 2009, which could have toppled the PPP government, this youth movement will succeed in toppling the government, where the Long March let it oII the hook when its demands were met.
It`s not just the youth either. Every shopkeeper, cab driver, vendor and ordinary laborer that I have spoken with is unanimous in expressing the view that they will rise to demonstrate and overthrow this government, iI Davis is granted immunity.
When the Egyptian People Power revolution started, I explained to a number oI Iriends, local and Ioreign, why it was unlikely to spread to Pakistan. II Davis is granted immunity, though, I am more than likely to be proven wrong. Here too, as in Egypt, it is more than likely that GHQ will reIuse to turn their guns on the demonstrators. But the Iall oI the PPP government might be the least oI our concerns.
Despite the numerical increase in what used to be an inIinitesimally small number oI Islamic extremists, I have argued IorceIully that there is, Ior the immediate Iuture, no Iear oI Islamic Iorces becoming dominant in Pakistan. I have Irequently cited the unanimous support Ior the military in the use oI Iorce against TTP--support which persists to date, despite suicide attacks. In Iact, each suicide attack increases the determination oI the people to Iight terrorists.
Davis, however, could change that. Granting him immunity, in my opinion, could be the sole act that could provide an excuse Ior militant Islam to become dominant in Pakistan.
So, tread careIully, Mr Obama. You have already made one blunder by stoking unrest in Pakistan, using Raymond Davis, or whatever his name is, and his ilk, and have been caught with both hands in the cookie jar. But in trying to avoid the repercussions oI this blunder, you could commit another oI even more disastrous proportions--one that would reverberate around the world. You could create the realization oI your own worst nightmare: a nuclear Pakistan dominated by religious extremist Iorces.
It might still not happen this way, but the path you are treading certainly is one that leads in the direction oI converting that nightmare into reality.
See also - Probe Iinds connection between Davis, drone attacks: Sources have revealed that a GPS chip recovered Irom Davis was being used in identiIying targets Ior drone attacks in the tribal region.
Was Davis Running Drone Programme in Pakistan?
SHAUKA1 QADIR retired as a Brigadier from the Pakistan infantry in 1999. He was the founder, vice president and, briefly, president of a think tank. He now divides is time between teaching, studying many subjects, including journalism, and baby-sitting his grandchildren. He was a regular writer for the late Far East
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This Dept. of Defense ContractorID found on Davis belies his "diplomat" claim, but also raises questions about whether he's really CIA, or something else
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