Amrika, Pakistan, Islam and everything in between
Pmln . We made roads and motorways
Ppp . We cried about rights for the liberals.
Pti . We will fix all this
Jui . We defended rights for terrorists
Ji. We just complained
MQM. We kill until we r in the government
The awam is still waiting for some relief. نه بجلی نہ پانی نه سستا کهانه
But still bhutto zinda hai. Pmln peeling bar teesri dafa vizer e azam bani. Aur blah blah blah
Nothing solid but bakwas
Lagay rahoo
When we hit a 1000 dead then maybe we will do something about it. Until then we will just sit and watch. I don’t get it, Pakistan as a nation had become so ineffective that we can’t even fix our own house. I think the word castrated comes to mind.
Our Armed forces can’t deal with the issues of security, Pakistani people are confused about whom to ask for help, we hate American help but can’t live without it. It is like a drug addict in denial that he/she is a drug addict but keeps taking them. The nation as a whole cannot seem to decide what we need. I feel we are like ME, when I want to study, I just around topics and subjects, never able to concentrate on anything. Pakistani nation is exactly like me, they can’t seem to decide what to do. Here are few steps I think that would solve this issue.
Then what we do are a couple of years of planning.
I can keep on going talking about some common sense stuff that can be done about Pakistan but I am sure everyone can come up with these ideas except the losers who sit in power in Islamabad, they can just figure out to give awards to their supporters in national Assembly to keep the government from not working.
I know what would happen to us if these guys will stay in power. DOOMED is the word that comes to mind :(. Inshallah Allah will rid these losers of Pakistan, I can only pray and vote for Imran Khan 🙂
http://www.dawn.com/2011/09/08/isi-briefs-cj-on-parties-involved-in-karachi-unrest.html
General You are Tubed!
by Adnan Gill
Like mortals, political parties also go through life-changing events that can elevate their virtually unheard leaders into the stratosphere of prominence and idolization; similarly, it can throw a crown-bearer of a party into the dark depths of ignominy and oblivion. There was a time when it used to take a war or a catastrophe to bring a leader to fame and recognition, or contempt and disgrace. Now, fame and disgrace lay only a blog or YouTube away. In this day and age of satellite TV, cell phone cameras, and internet portals, political carriers are made or trashed at the speed of light.
Megastar Cricketer Imran Khan with global following of millions of fans was virtually an unknown in the cutthroat world of politics. Then came the May 12 Karachi carnage. Dozens upon dozens of MQM workers indiscriminately shooting their political opponents were caught by the prying eyes of digital cameras. Despite the government’s best efforts to hide the reality by shutting down the cable operators, within minutes the bloodbath was viewed on YouTube by shocked audiences around the world. This time, MQM which prided itself for bringing a revolution through the wizardry of electronics was fatally stung by the wizardry of information technology. MQM and their infamous leader Altaf Hussain were effectively ‘Tubed’. Cognizant to the potency of YouTube, now MQM volunteers are trying to drown the information through coordinated spamming attacks. At regular intervals, they upload dozens upon dozens of short pro-MQM video clips on YouTube under every possible Tag related to the Pakistani politics. But despite their best efforts bloggers like GeoPakistani.com and PkPolitics.com have marginalized MQM’s spamming attacks by providing an alternative portal for the Pakistani news and views.
Where YouTube drove the last nail in MQM’s political coffin, it plucked Imran Khan from obscurity and pushed him into the every-day vocabulary of emotionally drained and frustrated Pakistanis who were waiting for a political messiah to lead Pakistan into an era of stability and prosperity.
Blogs and YouTube once again played a pivotal role when the Pakistani establishment tried to hide the truth through the news blackout when the police busted open the heads of lawyers and journalists in a brutal crackdown outside the Supreme Court. Countless video clips and still photographs on the Internet left no doubt in anybody’s mind that the crackdown was premeditated. The global community was left flabbergasted to see how there were more policemen (both in uniform and civvies) than protesters. These well-armored policemen were not only armed with batons and teargas, but they had their pockets filled with stones that they showered on the protesters without any regard to age, gender, or profession. Within hours, the pictures of stone-throwing policemen shamelessly beating and dragging hapless women were flashed around the world. One such picture which stood out was of a policeman hurling a baseball size stone on a woman as she covered her head with her hands while desperately running away from her attacker. Arguably, the glory days of government’s monopoly on tailored information were long gone, and this time the Government was ‘Tubed’.
To the credit of MQM, it was quick at recognizing the awesome potential of YouTube to disseminate information at demand that is why it vainly tries to control the damage through the spamming attacks. However, the Pakistani establishment has not shown any signs of learning a harsh lesson from its mistakes. On November 3rd, once again, it fallaciously tried to gag the news and information about the latest crackdown on the Pakistani judiciary, lawyers, journalists, students, cherry-picked opposition leaders, human rights activists, and anyone else whom the General Musharraf deemed to be a hurdle in his lifelong rule.
The General did not realize that the Pakistani public stepped into the information age years ago. Despite government’s best efforts to rob the truth from Pakistanis, the public circumvented the information vacuum through the satellite dishes, SMS messages, phone cameras, blogs, e-mail circuits, and most importantly through video portals like YouTube.
Whether intentionally or naïvely General Musharraf argued that the populace are supporting his second Martial Law, because they did not come out on the streets. What the General does not realize is that even people in the remotest areas, are busy carrying out a bloodless revolution against his regime through the magic of information technology. Thanks to this magic, once invisible politicians like Imran Khan are addressing the nation from hiding, and the expatriates are organizing protests all around the world. These expatriates are lobbying their respective governments to pressurize the General to, at a minimum, reverse his second Martial Law and most importantly to reinstall the pre-November 3rd judiciary. The outcries of expatriates are already bearing fruits. President Bush has already hardened his government’s stance from pussyfooting around to demanding General Musharraf to take his uniform off, and to hold free and transparent elections on time.
India tried to leash the bloggers, recently Myanmar tried to hide its brutal crackdown on the monks, only to realize that the information genie is out, and it can not be caged. It will be in the Generals benefit to grasp the reality that it is no longer possible to keep 160 million Pakistanis oblivious of the truth through censorship and threats of trials of civilians in the military courts. The historic crash of Karachi stock market is the living contradiction of the myth that information can be controlled.
Whether you realize it or not but General you are ‘Tubed’ too.
http://www.paktribune.com/news/index.shtml?194510
http://statesman.com.pk/opinion/op6.htm
http://owlstree.blogspot.com/2007/11/general-you-are-tubed-by-adnan-gill.html
A lot of bytes already wasted online about the thugs who caused mass murder in Karachi on the 12th of May 2007. MQM has its roots in the exploitation of the Karachi public and migrants from India. Sadly Pakistan never welcomes the immigrants from India properly and the likes of Altaf Hussein benefited from the resentment left in the hearts of such communities.
What happened in Karachi is very sad and shows how fragmented our society is now in Pakistan. To top it all, the unconditional support of the Federal Govt to the MQM thugs is also very alarming. I can’t remember in my life when a party was given such a free hand to massacre fellow citizens in the name of Politics. Maybe like many new things introduced to Pakistan during General Musharraf’s time, this will be a first also.
Youtube is swarming with videos of the atrocities of MQM on that day and still MQM had the audacity to come out with a video trying to proclaim itself as the victim rather than the orchestrate of the mishaps on May 12th. Time will end what will happen to Altaf Hussein and this fascist party but the future doesn’t seem that bright for them.
This month will be remmebered in Pakistan as one of the most unfortunate months in the history of Pakistan. Majority of the Military takeovers have happened in this month, either it was Ayub Khan or Musharraf, all took over Pakistan in this month. October 7th was the declaring of Martial Law that brought Ayub Khan to power, tomorrow it will be the anniversary of Pervaz Musharraf’s sucession to the post.
What have we seen during these seven turbulent years is that It has seen one of the most unpopular regimes in pakistan’s history. Alot of people agree and disagree at the handling of the War on Terror in Pakistan, the war in Waziristan, the troubles in Karachi and allaince with MQM, creation of PML Q and many more issues. Either it is Army’s taking over of the majority of the government ministries or the killing of tribal leaders.
This past Seven years has been constant trouble in pakistan, from Bomb Blasts to balouch uprising. from Book Launches to freedom of press. Alot has changed in pakistan now, some for good and some for maybe not that good. The poor has become more poor while the rich go out to get crores worth of real estate, where the Gas price has gone 2 fold to open leasing of Automobiles clogging up the nations roads. the devastating earth quake in kashmir whose aftermath has been marred with corruption to the Pakistani Cricket team making some progress. It has been interesting days and look even more interesting while watching it from a distance.
October will always have a special place in the heart of the motherland known as Pakistan.
Although i should make it clear that i dont support Mr. Sharif or Mohtarma or Musharraf but i just thought would ask this question to my fellow pakistanis in general.
Arent we tired of all the three above. Whoever supports mr Sharif, i can say he did some good but not all. I was in pakistan as a student and i support his actions for the Nuclear Testing, Motorway projects and stuff but do we forget what happened with Supereme Court Judges, Cheif of Election Comissioner, Importing luxary cars by cancelling duty for a day and then enforcing the duty back on, Qarz utaroo Mulk Sunwaroo money which pakistanis collected at his call, his political partners who were corrupt.
I can rant same kinda info about PPP or MQM or MMA or any political party. I just get amazed at people who want Bibi or sharif’s back in power, how do we forget so fast about what happened and the corruption these person’s government had. I see all those die hard party workers who want to die to their leader but they seem to forget that during their time also wrong was done.
I am not trying to create a provocation just an intellectual arguement about this issue. Help me understand that why Mr. Sharif/Bibi/Any one current in the political spectrum is good.
The last good govt in my lifetime was the interim govt under Mairaj Khalid which actually did work for pakistan although for a very short time.
So rather than trying to prove me wrong or anything please help me understand why anyone in the political spectrum, either they be Choudhry’s, Wadeeray, Generals, Sardars or any Fuedal be accepted as our leaders of pakistan when they are so distant from the actual pakistani person.
No offence meant, just want intellectual conversation.
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