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When I reached Peshawar I have established contacts with Mr Rob Kall and one of my best friend Weavre Cooper. Weavre Cooper has sent a letter to all her friends asking them to say a few words in favour of peace. Actually I want to publish a supplement in local newspapers through which I shall spread the message of peace and will also earn some money as I have to build a new house for my wife and children. I am publishing her letter with her permission with the hope that it may also be read by Barack Obama, who is my hero like many Americans. I hope he will say a few words in favour of peace. I think someone in the US administration will read the letter. I also want to make a request from all of you to say a few words in favour peace. Your words may make this world a better place where we all will enjoy the life. The following is her letter.
Hello, Friends,
Many of you may remember hearing about my friend Muhammad Khurshid, a peaceworker living in the Pakistan tribal areas near the Afghan border, where so much tension has been focused recently. He’s the courageous founder of Voice for Peace, a small organization that seeks to bring education and the rule of law to his homeland and other troubled places in the world. He has a specific, simple request with which I think some of our members and attenders might be willing to help.
A few days ago, Muhammad Khurshid’s village was mostly bulldozed, destroying his home and many others. He tells me almost half of Bajaur Agency has now been destroyed. As soon as he helped his wife Fatima and their four children flee to a place of relative safety, he responded the only way he knew: by stepping up his pleas for peace and a verbal resolution to the conflict. He is asking us—and anyone else appropriate in the US with whom you can share this request—to send him our short statements in support of peace. He hopes to take these statements to the US Embassy in Islamabad, and to publicize them in other ways to help his neighbors understand that many Americans also want peace. (As needed, the messages will be translated faithfully into Pashto and Urdu.)
When I asked him what should be in the messages of peace, he responded, “I just want what you think about the humanity and world. How the world should be?” It would, of course, be helpful if the statements applied directly to the current situation in Pakistan.
So, if anyone feels able, could you please take a few minutes to send your own personal statement in favor of peace to Muhammad Khurshid at muhammad.khurshid@gmail.com ? To help him recognize and collect the statements, please use “In favor of peace” as the subject line of your e-mail.
Thank you very much to anyone who can help.
In Friendship,
Weavre
Note to anyone who may receive this as a forward: the original request was made March 4, 2009.
· Voice for Peace has a website at http://voiceforpeace.8m.com .
· Here’s an article OpEdNews ran about Muhammad Khurshid and his family last August: http://www.opednews.com/articles/OEN-Colleague-Muhammad-Khu-by-Jan-Baumgartner-080803-950.html .
