We have been hearing about terrorism activities and bomb blasts in our country for many years, so many innocent people have died, many of them badly wounded, lost their loved ones but it seems there is no end to these fundamentalist activities There is always a strange fear around us we have began to be frightened that what may happen to us today? Am I their next victim, what’s our future? What is terrorism? What does it involve? In my mind, terrorism is, "evil, horror, and violence. It is the cruelty of killing mass numbers of people for illogical reasons or in the name of God as we can observe in our nation due to rise of Islamic Fundamentalism Take September 11 2001 into consideration, when two airplanes were hijacked and crashed into the World Trade Center and another into the pentagon. In just two hours, families were torn apart, courage was tested, and the world was shaken forever. That was first international impact of terrorism which took global intention yes it was a rise of Islamic Jihad but in my view Jihad had been started previously when an independent Israel state came into being Palestine and whole Muslim world were not in favor of separate Israeli’s state so it was a beginning of Islamic suicide attacks and this poison slowly increased and even reached to our soil. Pakistan was not a fundamentalist country. After General Zia took power, he tried to impose fundamentalism from the top down. It had few adherents, not more than about five percent of the people, primarily among tribal groups-looked down upon in Pakistani society. General Zia brought Islamic Fundamentalism he Introduced Blasphemy Law in Pakistan that whosoever speaks against Islam will be punished which greatly affected our Christian minority we had very successful and talented people in the past in Navy, Pakistan Air Force and other Government Sectors but due to Islamic fundamentalism they tried to abolish our reputation The Saudis financed madrassas that were accepted by subsequent governments in order to divert scarce funds to nuclear weapons programs, in response to India. Islamic fundamentalism was accepted by elements within Pakistani Security (the ISI) who used these schools to provide “volunteers” to fight against India in Kashmir as well as train to fight a proxy war against Russia Madrasas were set up with foreign funding to prepare fighters for the jihad, but the talibanisation of Pakistan began in earnest when the Taliban seized control of Kabul. Sufi Mohammad launched his Tehrik-e-Nifaz-e-Shariat-e-Mohammadi in Swat, which was financed by criminals who had cases against them in courts of law for murder, rape, kidnapping and other heinous crimes, and sought to escape punishment by subverting the criminal justice system. ‘If Pakistan is seen as an ideological state there will always be people who will demand Shariah if Pakistan was an Islamic state or a secular state guided by the 11th August speech of the Quaid-e-Azam, in which he declared that religion had nothing to do with the business of the state, and that citizens of different religions were equal. Secondly, the ambiguous attitude towards suicide bombers and terrorists had to be discarded. It must be clearly understood that religion does not permit the killing of unarmed civilians. But as far as I am concerned Pakistan is a safe haven for terrorist groups nowadays and everyday we hear about suicide attacks in Lahore, Karachi, Peshawar and other areas of Pakistan who are these people how they get finance to carry on these activities why our Government stays in silent. Prior to 1980, religion was not a controversial issue is Pakistan. However the sectarian anti-Shiite militant groups like the Sipah-e-Sahaba, were preaching hatred against the Shiite Muslims. This sectarian violence came to Pakistan only after the 1979 revolution in Iran, which transformed the nature and magnitude of sectarian violence in Pakistan. This was further aggravated when a sunni-dominated Iraq with the backing of USA and Saudi Arabia which waged a war upon Shiite dominated Iran. These sectarian organizations were instrumental in the transformation of Pakistan into a secondary battlefield which in turn is a major cause of rise in religious extremism and intolerance in Pakistani Society. On one hand Government of Pakistan shows deep relation with America to fight against terrorism but on the other hand it secretly supports fundamentalist groups let’s look into past many horrible activities had been done such as The 7 July 2005 London bombings was carried out by people who are believed to have visited a Pakistani madrassa at some time in their life (which besides this also was training ground for Taliban and Anti-USSR Harkat-ul-ansar), stoking fears that perhaps certain groups in Pakistan were encouraging violent activity. Februarary 22, 2002 The American Journalist Daniel Pearl was kidnapped and murdered in Karachi. 20th September 2008, The Islamabad Marriott Hotel bombing occurred. The 2009 Gojra riots were a series of attacks targeting Christians in Gojra town in Punjab province of Pakistan. A large group of self-styled Islamic scholars today in Punjab who belonged to hard line Salafi tradition of Islam, do openly approve of suicide bombing. The followers of this group believe in waging jihad against The Jews and The Shias and have shown in democracy. The group leaders have preached that jihad should be waged until ‘Islam’ becomes the dominant force in the world. It is totally in conflict with the ideology on which Quid-e-Azam premised his struggle for Pakistan. He did not win Pakistan by waging a bloody Jihad but brought it into being by waging democratic struggle against the British and the Hindus Although fundamentalism has been widely embraced in the Muslim world, and it often promotes hatred of infidels, the vast majority of fundamentalists do not become terrorists, and not all terrorists in Islamic societies are “holy warriors” but we must try to find a solution how we can end terrorism in Pakistan it is a hard question? And perhaps includes end-less debates but all we can do is to hope and pray to our lord Jesus Christ that he brings peace and Justice to this land. Amen (Nabeel Javeed is Vice President of Pakistan Christian Congress PCC- Karachi)