Terrorism and Mother tongue

Terrorrism is the biggest phenomenon of tthe contemperory Pakistan and has affected every facet of current life of the nation and is impacting advesely upon the future prospects of the nation. The question, which is relevent to ask, is why this thing has spread with such a force in the country, selectively in the length and breadth of it. One obvisious answer is the state sponsored introduction of a particular brand of terrorrism which was used to serve the  purpose of producing Talban for American use in Afghanistan in the 1980s, securing Zia's regime by way of hunting down libeal political forces in the country in those days, helping Saudia to have a sense of security at home by way of spreading their tentacles in the Muslim world, through the spread of a particular brand of Islam.

But why this phenomenon spread selectively in Pakistan in the sense that frormer NWFP fell completely under it's sway; next was Punjab with massive inroads in its South; and Sindh and Balochistan remained relatively unaffected, except Pakhtoon belt of the latter - though intellectual and ideological support of the phenomenon continued to come from urban centres of Pakistan including karachi. One reson for this is that in Sindh medium of education was Sindhi and Urdu, both mother tongues of the two major communities of the provoince, that's Sindhi speaking and Urdu speaking people.

From above it is easy to conclude that those people, who are taught in their mother tongue,  imbibe their cultural values with it,  which are  not easy to overwhem by the mechanations, which the state used in the times of Zia to spread this form of Islam. From the same it is easy to arrive at the conclusion that if the people of  Punjab and KP  had been taught in their mother tongues- the poetry and culture as enunciated by  Baba bulleh shah and Rehman baba and Khushal khan khattak -  it was not possible for these people to easily fall prey to the propaganda of a Moulvi!

But thses people were taught in Urdu,  which was equally foreign to them,  therefore the values of these peope broke down under the onslaught of a well orchestrated propaganda and they lent themselves to the business of Talbans to kill an to crush.

 If  the people in Sindh, which has emerged unscathed in this mushroom growth of sectarian form of religion, are deprived of virtues of tolerance, which are simply bubbling through each couplet of Shah latif, Sachal and Sami and scores of others, then they would also have fallen to this virulent propaganda in exchange of promise of paradize, which is not a bad bargain for an uneducated or semi educted person going through the drudgery of life on daily basis!

Same holds true for the Urdu speaking part of Sindhis where the followers of Ghalib and Mir did not succumb to the religious propaganda and did not lend themselves to the process of sucide jackets and bomb blasts. Thanks to it's culture and values, as imbibed by people of Sindh through their mother tongue, predomonnantly sindhi, sufi sindh stood for tolerance, side ny side with the whole world - some times even ahead of every body, where the sanctity of human life and it's inviolable status was steadfastly heldonto by the people of Sindh -  as if they were ahead of the vrirulence around them, despite their personal lives, which the state had failed to improve!