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Throttled by Fear

In Pakistan, we learn that might is right and when you have might on your side, why compromise? Use violence and political threats, and when you know that fear is a driving force in a nation, you will invariably get your way.

April 14, 2009

| sm | civics and society, politics | Tags: fear, judiciary, media, MQM, nizam-e-adl, pakistan, PML-N, political parties, PPP, PTI, shanakht festival, Sufi Mohammad, Swat, taliban | 2 Comments

The Meek Shall Inherit

It’s not that world leaders don’t know that Israel really broke the ceasefire of the last 6 months, assassinating 5 Hamas generals in November as part of their ongoing extra-judicial assassination campaign. It’s not that they don’t know that the people of Gaza have been slowly starved over the last year and a half by [...]

January 1, 2009

| sm | politics | Tags: bomb, Gaza, Holocaust, India, Iran, Israel, media, Mumbai, pakistan, Palestine, terrorism | Add a Comment

Take the Country Back

Take it back from corrupt politicians. Take it back from greedy zamindars. Take it back from the Taliban. Take it back from money-grubbing religious parties hiding their true personalities behind the garb of Islam. Take it back from petty thieves pretending to care for the nation. Take it back from a media that doesn’t understand the need for positivism in [...]

September 19, 2008

| sm | politics | Tags: bureaucrats, Capital Gains tax, land mafia, media, Ministers, politicians, take back pakistan, taliban, taxes, zamindars | Add a Comment

Black Day

I remember the frenzy with which our Press Hounds fed on the wounds of President Musharraf just a few months back, the harping, the carping, the constant berating. Many ‘journalists’ and hosts showed their ugly sides with bitter recriminations and bilious rumours that they normally substitute for fact. They gave no quarter, then sat back [...]

September 10, 2008

| sm | politics | Tags: accountability, Benazir, conviction, corruption, democracy, dictator, fined, guilty, kickbacks, media, money+laundering, Musharraf, Nawaz Sharif, sentenced, Sherry+Rehman, swiss courts, virtue, Zardari | Add a Comment

The Blind Lead The Blind

Enjoin ye righteousness upon mankind while ye yourselves forget (to practise it)? And ye are readers of the Scripture! Have ye then no sense? – Surah-al-Baqarah, verse 44

July 16, 2008

| sm | politics | Tags: 15:14, blind, corruption, cronyism, democratic, judiciary, KWSB, loyalists, Matthew, media, Musharraf, nepotism, pakistan, PML-N, PPP, Shahbaz, Sind, Zardari. Nawaz | Add a Comment

Get Real, Please

An anchor was recently shocked on his show when a college student called up and threatened to immolate himself if Musharraf was removed from power. At the final of the Asia Cricket tournament in Karachi, when the camera panned to Musharraf seated among the audience, a roar of approval rose from the crowd as they [...]

July 8, 2008

| sm | politics | Tags: BBC, convicted, fined, Gillani, Iftikhar Chaudhry, judges, media, MQM, Mulk Sawaro, Musharraf, Nawaz, NYTimes, PCO, Qarz Utaro, sentenced, Special Report, Surrey Palace | 1 Comment

St Augustine

I got a petition in the mail today: A demand that the government address a looming food crisis, a global phenomenon that has Pakistan in second place as countries that may be the worst affected. Ironically, a news channel flashed a report just yesterday that our fearless new ‘elected’ leaders have just re-opened the export of [...]

May 24, 2008

| sm | politics | Tags: Afghanistan, BB, charter of democracy, coalition, corruption, Dubai, England, export, food crisis, government, judges, KSE, media, Mehsud, Nawaz, pakistan, poverty, starvation, terrorists, wealth, wheat, Zardari | Add a Comment

William Dalrymple and BB

William Dalrymple has posted an article in Outlook India, which is a must-read, especially if we are to avoid re-writing history as our media has managed to do in the last few years…

January 2, 2008

| sm | politics | Tags: BB, media, re-writing history, William Dalrymple | Add a Comment

Cast Ye Doubt On My Faith?

Over the many conspiracy theories and hotly-debated views on various blogs and forums regarding Lal Masjid (LM), few have reacted to the notion that one Muslim has the power to doubt another Muslim’s faith. The common theme among many Pro-Lal Masjid bloggers seems to be that a) the Ghazi Brother’s intentions were pure, so their [...]

July 11, 2007

| sm | civics and society | Tags: assault, bloggers, christian right, collateral damage, community, Conservative, court, decadence, drinking, extremism, fundamentalists, gambling, God, hostages, Islam, Judgement, lal masjid, Liberal, media, molotov cocktails, morality, muslims, pakistan, pornography, Prophet, shame, suicide bombings, terrorism, theft, values, vandalism, weapons of mass destruction, women | 4 Comments

Clerical Islam

Over the past 5 days, we’ve seen the face of clerical ‘Islam’ in Pakistan: a hypocritical movement by power-hungry individuals who are willing to send our sons and daughters to their death, rather than face it themselves. If Abdul Rasheed Ghazi is not afraid of death, why is he so afraid of arrest? If we [...]

July 8, 2007

| sm | civics and society | Tags: Abdul Rasheed Ghazi, Afghan, Blasphemy, Bugti, Christian Church, clemency, clerics, Council, Ghazi, Hindu, hostage, Hudood Ordinance, Imamhood, Islam, Jamaat-e-Islami, kafir, kalima, lal masjid, Law, maulana, media, military, MMA, mullah, muslims, politics, priesthood, Prophet, Qazi Hussain, Quran, religious parties, Sharia, subjugate, Ulema | 1 Comment

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Throttled by Fear

The Meek Shall Inherit

Take the Country Back

Black Day

The Blind Lead The Blind

Get Real, Please

St Augustine

William Dalrymple and BB

Cast Ye Doubt On My Faith?

Clerical Islam

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