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The Unfinished Agenda
he Chief of Army Staff (COAS) of the Pakistan Army,
TGeneral Raheel Sharif, addressing a conference at the
National Defense University in Islamabad, Pakistan on June
3, 2015, said that Pakistan and Kashmir were inseparable, and
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that Kashmir was “an unfinished agenda of partition.”
The above statement of the Pakistani General tells us much
about the Muslim mind of the present times. It is symbolic
of why Muslims all over the world are engaged in violence,
some being actively involved, while others think along those
same lines.
Apparently, there are different groups within the Muslim
community, but they all have one thing in common, that is,
every group has an “unfinished agenda” which it is actively
engaged in trying to achieve. The motivation to strive for this
task begins first at the level of the mind, then is soon verbalized
in the form of complaints and protests. Finally, it takes the
form of violence.
What is this unfinished agenda? For some Muslims it is the
unfinished agenda of Pakistan, for others it is the unfinished
agenda of Palestine, for yet others it is the unfinished agenda
of the Khilafat and, for yet others, it is the unfinished agenda
of the Shariah. These are the unfinished agendas for which
Muslims of the present times are fighting against supposed
enemies. Yet, even after a long passage of time, none of these
groups has been successful in achieving its declared goal.
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