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Hindutva in Arab States!
The anti-Muslim-and-Islam comments, made by some terrorist-Indians, residing in the UAE have incited a few Arabs, at last.
However, rebuttal of a royal business-woman has created panic in New Delhi. In her Tweet, she categorically pointed towards those Indians, who were involved in crafting and promoting anti-Islam-and-Muslim sentiments.
She warned them of dire consequences certainly. A noticeable number of Indian Hindus founded as exponents of the hate against Islam. So, some of them were deported without (as) punishment.
The terrorist-Indian motives are to create acceptability for the influx of huge Diaspora and then slowly and gradually take over nerve centres of all States – as did by British (fraudulently) in capturing Mughal Empire of India by bagging a small hut for business in Calcutta.
And then, what happened, same is going on in this region with the help of Israel & Co (?!). Over 17.6m Indians are living abroad.
According to World Bank statistics, out of total 9.89m UAE’s population, Indians are 3.5m – serious threat for UAE’s existence de facto. Indeed, over 70% of UAE economy is in control of Hindutva. The education system – backbone of a nation – is mostly run by Hindus owners (!).
O’ Allah! Temples are being built in the UAE, especially in Dubai and Sharjah – whereas, mosques are being demolished in India regularly. Bulk of shopping plazas, restaurants and entertainment centres are being run by Indians.
A sizable Indian-population, slowly and gradually overtaking their economies, job market, education system, hostelling and government jobs even.
Terrorist-Hindus have dared to criticize origin of Islam, and the Holy Prophet (PBUH). Being a Muslim, this scribe is compelled to write – it is time for Middle Eastern governments to think/probe long-term motives of Hindutva.
The ground realities are clearly revealing a strong nexus between Zionism and Hindutva for overpowering the entire region. Therefore, it’s time that Arab world get-up from deep slumber before Hindutva captures them (in toto) with the nexus of Israel & Co. (!!).
M AZAM MINAS
Tatrinote, A K
Diwali
One of the most popular and widely celebrated festivals in Hinduism is Diwali. It marks the victory of good over evil. The day is also celebrated as Kali Puja in the eastern region of India, the Bengal part.
The light of Diwali should be within us. It should symbolise the personal relationship between God and our families.
Firecrackers create a lot of noise pollution and cause a lot of distress to animals and birds. We should avoid them if possible or localize their use in a community to an open field. We should also help to clear up the mess in our neighbourhood once the festivities are over.
On the other hand, we waste millions of rupees on bursting crackers during the festival. Instead of wasting money on bursting crackers, we should use the same money for the uplift of the poor. There are millions of people all over the world who can’t even have two square meals a day.
Instead of spending money on crackers, people should donate the same money to a charitable institution.
JUBEL D’CRUZ
Mumbai, India
Saudi grant
As a source of relief on the economic front, on Wednesday it was announced that Saudi Arabia has agreed to revive its financial support to Pakistan, including about $3 billion in safe deposits and $1.2 billion to $1.5 billion worth of oil supplies on deferred payments.
There is no doubt that this act of generosity will ease the pressure on our trade and Forex accounts due to the surge in prices.
While it is encouraging that this development will bolster our external accounts, it is important to be wary of how we have been down this path before several times. Reaching out to external sources of help in times of crisis is not a sustainable economic policy.
This is now the second financial assistance package that the kingdom has extended to Pakistan in the past three years.
This trend also illustrates how we are unable to weather through such crises independently and have been unable to develop the capacity to absorb such shocks in the past three years.
One consequence of this is that Pakistan will find that there will be political coasts. Time will tell, as it has done before, what they are.
This government success should not disguise its failure to carry out the sort of reforms that make such fancy footwork unnecessary. Indeed, it is not as if Saudi Arabia is unused to Pakistan asking urgently for help.
Only three years ago, in October 2018, it had given a similar package, worth $6 billion, again to help avert an immediate crisis.
At that time, there was some hope that the PTI government might carry out the sort of reforms that would make such emergency help no longer necessary, but now it seems as if the PTI is merely coasting its way to the next election, which is less than two years away.
JAMSHED AAM SIDDIQUI
Lahore
