The best way to know the self is feeling oneself at the moments of reckoning. The feeling of being alone, just with your senses, may lead you to think more consciously. More and more of such moments may sensitize ‘you towards you’, towards others. We become regular with introspection and retrospection. We get ‘the’ gradual connect to the higher self we may name Spirituality or God or just a Humane Conscious. We tend to get a rhythm again in life. We need to learn the art of being lonely in crowd while being part of the crowd. A multitude of loneliness in mosaic of relations! One needs to feel it severally, with conscience, before making it a way of life. One needs to live several such lonely moments. One needs to live severallyalone.

Thursday, 6 October 2016

HOW GENERAL ZIA-UL-HAQ CREATED AL-QAEDA

According to this video clip from a Pakistani news channel, General Zia-Ul-Haq, Pakistan's military ruler from 1977 to 1988, chose a group of 100-200 mercenaries from group of prisoners in Saudi Arabia who had been given death sentence by beheading to start its offensive against Russian invasion of Afghanistan.

Now Saudi Arabia follows the concept of Islam where blood money can rid you of gallows. Someone who has been awarded death sentence, if he pays monetary compensation as agreed by the victim(s), his life is spared. This practice is widely misused, especially by the wealthy.

General Zia chose such prisoners making it clear to them that General Zia now owned them and they had been given a lease of life to work it in the service of Allah. And the task was to wage war against the USSR's invasion and rule in Afghanistan. That was the beginning of era of Mujahideens in Afghanistan that still haunt the world.

After the Afghan war ended in 1988, these mujahideens organized themselves in different groups giving rise to terrorist groups like Al-Qaeda in 1988 and Taliban in 1994, the beginning of the modern terrorism warfare in the world that has spread across the continents now. And according to history, something that this video clip also talks about, its seeds were sown by General Zia-Ul-Haq.


 HOW GENERAL ZIA-UL-HAQ CREATED AL-QAEDA

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