<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/2ba9e870-b440-40d4-9508-088625f1071f/45159322-BCE2-49CF-8B05-B380BB54442A/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.unpo.org/article.php?id=7219" href="http://www.unpo.org/article.php?id=7219" style="font-size: 11px;">www.unpo.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.unpo.org/article.php?id=7219"><H1> Sindh: A Vision of a Secular Non-Military Pakistan </H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.unpo.org/article.php?id=7219">Mr. Munawar Laghari, UNPO Representative for Sindh, explains the Sindhi position regarding Pakistan, advocating secularism, demilitarization, and women’s rights.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.unpo.org/article.php?id=7219"><EM>The Human Rights Tribune:<O:P _moz-userdefined=""></O:P></EM></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.unpo.org/article.php?id=7219"><SPAN>The Sindhis are a Sufi people from <ST1:COUNTRY-REGION _moz-userdefined="" w:st="on"><ST1:PLACE _moz-userdefined="" w:st="on">Pakistan</ST1:PLACE></ST1:COUNTRY-REGION>. They have come to <ST1:CITY _moz-userdefined="" w:st="on"><ST1:PLACE _moz-userdefined="" w:st="on">Geneva</ST1:PLACE></ST1:CITY> to demand ’the 5 D’s’: De-islamisation, de-militarisation, de-nuclearisation, de-mocratisation and the de-centralisation of their country. And women rights.<O:P _moz-userdefined=""></O:P></SPAN></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.unpo.org/article.php?id=7219"> “I am not Muslim”, he says “but Sufi”. 99.99% of the Sindhi population is Sufi, but you don’t see that in any official statistics. For the government, we are just Muslim”.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.unpo.org/article.php?id=7219">Sufis don’t need a place of worship to pray, they can pray anywhere</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.unpo.org/article.php?id=7219"> “In the countryside, women don’t wear the veil, otherwise how could they work? And in our religion, if a woman is not happy with her husband, she has the right to go and find another man”, he says.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.unpo.org/article.php?id=7219">various dams on the <ST1:PLACE _moz-userdefined="" w:st="on">Indus</ST1:PLACE> has had a terrible impact on our environment, our agricultural lands</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/45159322-BCE2-49CF-8B05-B380BB54442A/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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