Introduction     West to India is Syria & its population consists of 74% Sunni Muslims and 16% of Shia Muslims. So, what I mean is - Sunni population is in majority but even after being in majority, the government in Syria belongs to Bashar Al-Assad, who is a Shia Muslim. And the important positions in his party are held by Shia Muslims. So, the first question is - why did this happen? So, in year 1970 the current president of Syria - Bashar Al-Assad's father Hafez Al-Assad had a strong hold in Syria's military. And the Syrian air force was headed by him as well. So, on 13th November 1970 he caused a coup & declared himself as Syria's president now, he became the president but he knew it very nicely that the majority in Syria is of Sunni population. So, the Sunni led party could come in power anytime. So, after becoming the president he started making his power even stronger & he focused a lot on the areas with Sunni majority. He even assigned intelligence age