Dear Mr. President-elect:
It may please you to know that 72% of the people in Pakistan voted for you in the online poll of Vote for President. The world voted 87% in the same poll. You can view the results on country to country basis on voteforpresident.org.
Like the overwhelming majority of the Americans and the people around the world, Pakistan also looks ahead to HOPE and CHANGE in the role of the United States as a super power for promoting peace, prosperity and brotherhood across the continents. The World have had enough of conflicts, wars and destruction. It is now the time to build the world and improve upon the inter-state relations.
By voting you to the White House, the Americans earned immense applaud and appreciation from the rest of the world. The people of the United States have proved that the American values are still in place. The American people handed down a new era of HOPE and CHANGE to fellow beings not only in the US but across the lands and seas of the Mother Earth as well.
As you know, our part of the world comprising Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran, India, Russia, Central Asian Republics and China have assumed singular importance for the US and the West. You also stated in your statements during the election campaign that your government's focus will shift from Iraq to Afghanistan and Pakistan.
There are divergent views among the people in Pakistan with regard to the War on Terror in the tribal belt. Many aspects of the war remain unexplained to the Pakistanis. Many issues involved in the War on Terror on Pakistan-Afghanistan fragile and porous border remain unresolved. A great majority of Pakistanis are certainly against terrorism in any form and against any country. There is hell of a difference between terrorism and oft-repeated 'Jihad.' Nowher in the history of Muslim rule spread over the past 1400+ years, one can find a period of terrorism in the name of 'Jihad.'
It appears from the media reports that the whole issue of terrorism is camouflaged in many forms and factors. There are Al-Qaeda, Afghan Taliban, Pakistan Taliban, foreign infiltrators and a host of other groups and sections of people embroiled for known and unknown reasons.
As the pressure builds up in the tribal belt from the US and Pakistan military operations, the people in other parts of Pakistan are subjected to terrorist attacks and many innocent lives are lost, private and public property is damaged and the people are scared.
Before you ascend to the White House, it might be a good opportunity for you to visit Pakistan any time before Jan 20, 2009 to gather first-hand information from more than more source. That will certainly help you and your administration to review the government policy and frame a new policy, more objective, unbiased, and practical. Rest assured, we are with you in your fight against terrorism but we need to know who and where are the terrorists and how they can be eliminated with the least loss of innocent lives, civilian and military, and spread of terrorism in other parts of Pakistan and Afghanistan.
I am the Founder & Moderator of the largest online forum on good governance in Pakistan where the learned people from almost all segments of our society including intellectuals, educationists, civil society activists, media persons, politicians, parliamentarians, religious scholars, businessmen, industrialists, authors and writers, civilian bureaucracrats and military officers, diplomats etc. exchange their views and opinions as well as suggestions and recommendations on key national and international issues.
On behalf of the Good Governance Forum and on my own behalf, I most sincerely extend our most cordial invitation to you to visit Pakistan as the future President of the United States of America and be our Guest of Honour at a special session of the forum at Karachi or Islamabad, if the security concerns do not permit your visit to Karachi. Our learned members would have the rare opportunity of listening to the US President-elect and putting across their considered views in the larger interest of both the countries and the region as a whole.
I sincerely wish you every success in your sincere endeavours for a Better America and a Better World.
Kind regards.
Mumtaz A. Piracha
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