Dear friends,

I sympathize with Dr. Ghazala Anwar, however, I also wish that she should have been sensitive to the operating levels of the political and social culture. I suppose that she would also agree with my position. We may be living abroad, but back home in Pakistan is a  different situation operating at very different levels of sociopolitical culture, which despite international pressure, simply cannot be resolved to our liberal desire, because such situations are cross-generational and are bound to take many more years to be resolved. Obviously, the International Islamic University and HEC in Islamabad were helpless to the demands of the operating levels of sociopolitical cultural levels amid eveidence through student protests against Dr. Ghazala's intellectual position on sexual freedom. Given the geographical location of Pakistan (Unfortunately, geographical loocationj is often discounted in social and cultual relationship, despite its greatest influence) it may take years, before before Pakistanis would open up to social as well as political freedoms that Dr. Ghazala has tried to preach.  Many friends seem to describe democracy in GENERALIZED terms, when . legitimate democracy ought o be juxtaposed against the operatig levels of the sociopolitical culture.  Even in United States or EU, such culture took years to develop. States like Pakistan or Uzbekistan or other developing countries need cross-generatioal years to reach the present day socioplitical democracy that we are trying to impose on newly born post-colonial countries, something which is absurd, because we cannot expect newly borm to act like evolved societies within this democratic ideology.  The mesmerization of democratization appears to be another ideological eutopia, which is not likely to succeed, until societies themsleves grow up graduallu in an evolutionary manner.  I guess that Dr. Ghazala may have to waint to preach her ideas until the locally operating sociopolitical culture is ready to listen and resipocrate to her views.  

I apologize to friends on Writers Forum, who may not agree with me, but everything that I have said is my opinion.  Perhaps, I would also  learn something new on the subject from the constructive criticism, If constructively so, I will respond. Otherwise I won't. I know that we at Writers Forum follow mutually respected exchanges and I respect that.

With kind regards.

Aftab

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