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Ama Adam yaar,

I get it. Manto is a jooti that wants to be put on head – but because of some unknown reasons, most Pakistanis don’t want to!

I like your description of the food thaali.

And what’s the big deal with Aishwarya Rai – don’t the Pakistanis have movie actresses of their own to fantasize over?

Your own women are not good-looking enough?!!!

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BJ sahib,

Sure we have some very good looking women, BUT Ash is Ash, dont u agree? Kajra rai kajra....

coooooooooooooooool man! the picuture you got absoulotly matched with youth!even though it catches me .... even though i don`t want to be the part of whatever you described .... but still it catches me somewhere around ...... i start with peace tv and then it goes on ....... though i feel guilty in my heart ..... but nature cannt be changed but it can be controled .... so . let see ........ how many of us can control after a good article ..... i appreciate you man .... you did your best ...... that was one of the best i`ve ever read on chowk ........

and bjkumar ...... that was an article nothing was offensive in it ...... don`t take it personally ........

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nice thing !!!
stil i don`t much agree wid the point of view you usually send via ur writing
but still nice piece ,well written

Very nice...............that was an accurate description of the images conjured through the ``mind-filter`` that has been implanted in every Pakistani since his childhood.....................

Great article...

Adam khan,

An excellent summation of the cable mania...

The oddest thing I find is those people who love Indian movies the most, are the people who are taken by religious programming and are generally the ones who want to go to war with India.

To these people Aishwariya Rai will always be better than ZQ or Vaneeza or Aaminah Haq or Iman Ali or Tooba or Sunita Marshall... Pakistani models who far outshine Aishwariya Rai in beauty and brains in my opinion (others don`t have to agree with this assessment) ... probably because to these same people, the thought of Pakistani (and/or Muslim) models is disturbing whereas a Hindu/Indian model/actress is acceptable because in their minds every model/actress to them is a slut. It is thus fair that you`ve not mentioned Indus Music, Aag, Style Duniya, Fashion TV Pakistan, Aaj, Play and TVOne... Pakistani channels which Arsalan types skip when channel flipping...

Adam Khana Saeb,

Get Arsalaan the Discovery, History and National Geographic too. Looks like he`s watching too much trash! As for Baba Jee, best for him are a pack of `duk cigratoona`.

Clicking off channelism of life is not a dilema for young Arslan of Pakistan. Immunity of problems through media take over is present all over the world! Americans the civilized are the most devotee to Television with highest individual percentage of hours/day plus the highest number of channels to browse through. Despite being so much showered by media beams they an average kid still lacks a global thinking, he cant deduce a political axiom outside the terroritriese of his state and the country.
However a poor Arslan of the street of Pakistan can debate over Afghan to Palestine issue recklessly just because he is taught that way and have many social enigmas of society that relates to him that gets dissolved. And the feeling of opression as a Muslim is the connection that is cabled in his/her mind and he find himself rightly associated with the slogans of war.

My SWITCHING experience:

SWITCH!!!

Geo TV: Aamir Liaqat Hussain, pretending to weep because of emotions, whole two mullahs are sitting on his left and right: munkir nakeer? Reason for emotions: A filthy christian has embraced Islam and telling his story to enlightenment over the phone. Kalima was taught by a Shia aalim on left and Sunni on right.

When the program will finish, These Ulemas will again start ``Sahaba and Ahl e bait`` histoire again.

SWITCH!!!

Geo Super: Pakistan won against Lanka. Shoaib Akhtar Smoked Canabis. Yaar Ramzan da kujh tay khayal kerna si.

SWITCH!!!

QTV: A bearded mullah reciting a naat...

SWITCH!!!

Dr Zakir Naik... First thought: Mother Fucker...

SWITCH!!!

CNN: A report on Islamism... Mother fuckers: Yahood o Hanood...

SWITCH!!!

Z-Smile: Indian Sense of humor sucks...

SWITCH!!!

Punjabi Stage Show: Our sense of humor starts from vulgarity... Ends at the same point...

SWITCH!!!

Another Local Channel with a mullah reciting Naat

SWITCH!!!

BBC: Yahood o Hanood...

SWITCH!!!

PTV Aftari time... Someone cooking something Italian... Hot Sexy Host has bomb blown hairstyle...

SWITCH!!!

Ashwariya praying that she should not be made daughter in agla janam...

SWITCH!!!

Shah Rukh Khan is Don... Doesn`t look like one... Why do girls like him that much... How many girls have he screwed so far? Why is my count so low? Am I that ugly?


SWITCH!!!

Virtual University: Teaching HR management...

SWITCH!!!

Virtual University 2: Teaching economy: Much beter than PTV 2 where they used to teach Tractor Chalana...

SWITCH!!!

Amitabh Bachan... Old movie... He is Sapahi, his brother chor... Rekha is the heroine... Singing Song with Amitabh... She is laying in a garden with flowers on her face. Amitbh picks them one by one with his lips and puts them on her lips... and then he reaches her lips to kiss.. Suddenly a bang in background, shows a green mountain... I SWITCH!!! Dad enters the room...

SWITCH!!!

SWITCH !!!

Dad leaves the room...

SWITCH Back to see if Amitabh and Rekha are still in the scene...

WTF!!! Now, it is Amitabh against 30000 gangsters all alone... mard e Mujahid Jaag Zara, Ab waqt e Shahadat Hay aaya...

SWITCH!!!

cable sucks...

Why is Aftari that far..

SWITCH OFF...


Dad Goes

bj, smartsyco, Fumair, Manto, Arjun, Ballukhan, Thanks for the appreciation.


bjkumar Sahib: I chose Ashwariya because of the song ``Ishq Kamina``. In his dream Arsalan hears it as ``Main Kamina`` because despite building a mosque and owning an Enzo he is still not satisfied with himself. Reason being the poor old Baba jee.

This piece is about the propensity of us Pakistanis to turn away from the problems in which we can make a differnce and to get hyper over ones that we cant do anything about.

Chowk-Staff: Thanks for the quick response to the problems with the italics.

Thanks. I enjoyed it! Nicely used literary device, too.

Re: # 11 So much for the trash but nothing for serious hardcore sciences and technologies.I can remember the series ``Mechanical Universe`` by Prof. David Goldstein aired by PTV some years back.This is what i call imparting knowledge.I learned my concept of Resonance from that series which my Physics teacher couldn`t pushed through my head despite his best efforts.And till late in my engineering career i used to think in two dimensions coz the books or the visual aids were lacking in graphics quality.VU has different agenda or audience but why doesn`t some ``channelwalla`` bothers to invite some professors or doctors once a while from home or abroad and discuss some serious and thought provoking cutting edge technologies or have them deliver lectures.Why we are so much obsessed with trivialities and hair splitting the non-issues.

.......very nice

Very well written, and i really enjoyed reading it...

good work, keep it up!