The Moosavi Peace Formula is a Pakistani plan to address the threat of terrorism that was put forth in 1997.
History
In 1997, the then Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Pakistan Syed Sajjad Ali Shah took suo-moto notice and asked for suggestions for curbing terrorism. A high level delegation of Tehreek e Nifaz e Fiqah Jafariya led by the then Vice President Allama Taajud Din Haidery met with the Ali Shah on 21August1997 and presented its anti-terrorism/peace formula, recommended by TNFJ chief Agha Syed Hamid Ali Shah Moosavi. Almost all the steps recommended in the formula were adopted by the Government of Pakistan’s anti-terrorism policies. Plans such as National Internal Security Policy and the National Action Plan are among the examples. Moosavi Peace Formula also received significant amount of coverage and discussion mostly in the national print media including Daily Jang and Daily Nawa-e-Waqt of 22August while Daily Dawn of 23August1997 besides others. The Moosavi Peace Formula included a detailed account of the origins and root causes of terrorism. It also presented a detailed strategy and steps required to eradicate terrorism from Pakistan. This formula was presented to the Supreme Court by TNFJ leaders Allama Taj-ud-Din Haideri, Syed Mazhar ALi Shah Advocate, Syed Shujaat Ali Bukhari, Allama Qamar Zaidi and Allama Saqlain Bukhari.
Major points
Root causes
International Colonial Powers' fear related to Pakistan which leads them punishing Pakistan.
India never accepted the existence of Pakistan and takes advantage of incidents occurring in occupied Kashmir.
Activities of foreign secret agencies
Distraction from the national issues, specifically the nuclear capability and Kashmir issue
Illegal settlement of foreigners
Different sections occupied by elements representing feudalism and dictatorship.
Flourishing cultures of Ignorance, illiteracy, unemployment, Kalashnikov and drugs heroin
Appointments of incompetent people in civil administration.
Confrontation between government and opposition.
Hypocritical policies of politicians.
Key Recommendations
Government must avoid begging from international colonial powers.
Pakistan’s founding ideology must declare that Islam is a complete code of life and ensures protection of the rights of everyone including minorities and considers all kinds of oppression as a major sin.
Government must establish friendly relations with India, must demand from India to stop intervening in Pakistan and resolve the issue of Kashmir in accordance with the wishes of Kashmiris and United Nations resolutions.
Government must protest to the home countries of those creating unrest in Pakistan.
Clarify to the world that Pakistan’s nuclear capability is aimed at strengthening Pakistan, while the issue of Kashmir is an issue for the Islamic world and therefore ask the Islamic world to pay attention. The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation must be told that Pakistan is being illegitimately punished on this issue therefore, the Islamic world must urge India in this regard. Government and opposition must adopt a joint strategy on Kashmir issue.
Illegitimately-settled foreigners must be sent back to their homelands.
Elements representing feudalism and dictatorship must be excluded from electoral politics for ten years.
Bold and practical steps must be taken to resolve core issues including poverty, unemployment and insecurity.
Government and opposition must demonstrate courage and separate themselves from the religio-political and sectarian groups involved in electoral politics.
Government must ban participating in electoral politics on religious, sectarian or linguistic basis instead of national service. An anti-sectarian bill declare that Sunni and Shia are the established sects of Islam and calling any of them non-Muslim or attacking their worship places must be considered as an attack on Islam and treatef as a crime deserving punishment. Furthermore, all schools of thought must act in accordance with their ideologies and must not intervene in one another.
Electronic and Print media must stop offering media coverage to extremist elements so that such elements can be discouraged.
Foreign funding to religious and political parties operating in Pakistan must be protested against at diplomatic fronts. The Government must investigate how exactly some elements shifted overnight from extreme poverty to excessive richness. In this regard, Tehreek e Nifaz e Fiqah Jafariya voluntarily presents itself for audit.
Civil administration must be purified: justice and fair play must prevail.
Government and Opposition must operate within their boundaries and demonstrate courage to respect and tolerate each other.
Rulers and politicians must avoid hypocrisy. People of Pakistan must rely upon Almighty Allah only and condemn extremist and terrorist groups.
Hate material
The government banned several religious books, however the ban was mainly imposed based on complaints received against any book and law enforcement lacked a proper justification to declare a violation of the hate material law. MPV also proposed comprehensive criteria and well-defined guidelines to declare any script as a violation. Guidelines and recommendations presented in this regard include:
Fundamental books of any sect must be exempted from the ban.
Books that mention the sayings and quotes of Mohammed and his Ahl-e-Bait must not be banned.
Basic books of history such as Hayat ul Qaloob, Jilaa ul Ayoon, Anwar un Nomaniya must not be banned.
Books written before partition must not be banned to avoid sectarian rifts.
Any book written in response to another book must not be banned without banning the book to which it responds.
Books written after 1977 to aggravate sectarianism can be banned. However, banning books that were written centuries ago cannot be justified.
Punishment for the crime of disrespecting Mohamed should be permanent.
In Fiqah Jafariya, the punishment of disrespecting Ahl-e-Bait is the death penalty.
Some groups demanded to impose the death penalty. However, none of the courts during the eras of Mohamed or his companions announced death punishment for such cases.
