PAKISTAN -- Last month , it was cell phones . Before that it was motorcycles , shawls and jackets . Earlier this past year , it was the BBC , Twitter and YouTube , in 2011 , it was porn web-sights . In 2010 it was Face Book . In 1990s , it was Indian television and musicians with long hair and short . In the 1980s , it was Salman Rushdie's " Satanic verses " and some other less famous writers , back in the 1970s , it was booze in all it's forms . All banned in Pakistan by Pakistan , by more and more Islamic influenced governments and local and national leaders .
In the past few decades Pakistan's state and regional leaders have found ways to restrict , regulate , ban or completely outlaw technology , information , literature , media , and even entire communities . The result !! The Islamic republic of Pakistan , or the nearly total and systematic Islamisation of different regions by different degrees .
Once , this same country was imagined as a secular , democratic haven for India's minority Musslem population , may well have become the land of "bannistan or absurdistan " or simply
a replica of the Taliban regime in Afghanistan back in the 1990s .
In some regions ( north west ) Pakistani Taliban militants , would impose fines or even bomb barber-shops for shaving men's faces , or fixing women's hair .
Regulators and governing authorities ban " marriage ceremonies " as well as " dance parties " and " musical evenings " for citizens inside their own homes . However , birthday parties and Qur'an recitals and religious lectures are generally permitted , but only according to the reigning sect's accepted rituals and rites , ( generally Sunni , and not Shiia , nor Ahmadi .)
We all heard lately of the ban on 170,000 children who were about to get inoculated for polio this past summer , the Taliban and local Musslem authorities banned the vaccination campaign , even though Pakistan remains one of the three countries in the world that still carries the ugly virus .
Musslem militants continue to target and kill anti-polio campaigners , only yesterday 7 more health workers were massacred , all under the headline that the program is a U.S. cover for espionage , and a satanic western plot to sterilize good Musslem men .
IS this Pakistani model to be followed in most of Arabia today ?? Islamic regimes and states are now being established throughout the Arab world , Egypt , Lybia , Tunis , Morocco , Sudan , Syria , Iraq , and not to forget the mother of all in Musslem fanaticism and the very influencing Saudi kingdom , and it's nouveau- riche neighbours around the Persian gulf .
Inspired from some facts collected by S. Khan in Karachi . Thanks for your time and a happier new year to all .
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