I do not know much about the former Tunisian prime minister and am not unhappy that he has been ousted.
NIDERRAU, GERMANY: This is with reference to your editorial of January 19 titled “Pakistan and Tunisia”.
I do not know much about the former Tunisian prime minister and am not unhappy that he has been ousted. Having said that, Tunisia does have one of the most modern constitutions of any Muslim or African county and I hope that this does not change. When the clerics have a say, and they will now more than ever before, things could take a turn for the worse. The first casualty may well be the country’s secular values and the rights it gives to women. The question that this whole episode brings to my mind is that can Muslim countries have secular values only under a dictatorship?
Sharif Lone
Published in The Express Tribune, January 20th, 2011.
