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Pandora Box of Television in Pakistan

Shahnawaz Farooqui February 21, 2007

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#211 Posted by Tehsinabbasi on March 1, 2007 10:49:53 am
#209 #210 by zeemax

Yup! After a while you cant keep all these idiots straight. I was hoping to keep it all in Urdu where it is ‘bud sey budnam bura’ but as you can tell Punjabi oozed out.
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#210 Posted by zeemax on March 1, 2007 10:18:48 am
#208 by Tehsinabbasi

Correction .. it is ‘bud nalon budnam bura’
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#209 Posted by zeemax on March 1, 2007 10:14:56 am
#208 by Tehsinabbasi

Oh .. sorry .. it was that idiot hassanmehmood .. apologies .. somehow sounded the same but it wasn`t .. :~)
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#208 Posted by Tehsinabbasi on March 1, 2007 9:23:10 am
#205 by zeemax

Arey nahin bhai! They say ‘bud namon budnam bura’ aap tau hamein nankurda gunahon ki bhi saza dey rahey hain. Khuda ka khof keejeyay.
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#207 Posted by arjun2 on March 1, 2007 5:40:22 am
#206 by zeemax on March 1, 2007 1:37am PT



No wonder they lost the war .. hmmm


Really...that would make the paki army the south asian version of the village people...
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#206 Posted by zeemax on March 1, 2007 1:37:29 am
#200 hamidm2,

Are you biased against homos? It just transpired that the very first US war wounded hero in Iraq turned out to be one and campaigning for gay rights. That must make you something of a traitor, wouldn`t it?

No wonder they lost the war .. hmmm
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#205 Posted by zeemax on March 1, 2007 1:29:57 am
#193 by Tehsinabbasi

.... err .. aren`t you the same person who claimed Lahore was developed through money `looted` by Punjabis from Karachi?
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#219 Posted by HasanMahmood on March 1, 2007 1:57:29 pm
By the way zeemax, they have not lost the war. they are still killing innocent people and nobody is there to stop them. So stop being an idiot and post something intellligent. Saying that a soldier is gay which is why America is losing this war is asinine. If that would be the case most of the vaderas will be failures and you will not even consider yourself a success (which I am sure you do)
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#204 Posted by tahmed32 on February 28, 2007 3:55:14 pm
#203 you are welcome. have a nice day.
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#220 Posted by PewResearch on March 1, 2007 2:44:47 pm
Re: # 204 Tahmed

At what age did you learn the art of double-speak? What was the inspiration? I know that you are squirming under the harsh glare of some pointed questions, but wishing `nice days` wont wish the questions away!
Ciao
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#202 Posted by tahmed32 on February 28, 2007 3:48:15 pm
#201 Not fooled by your empty rhetoric

In case you didnt notice, that post was addressed to a fellow pakistani. and in case you didnt notice i ignored your earlier post addressed to me. and you still think i am trying to fool you by my ``empty rhetoric``. :-)

i couldnt care less what you think. ok?
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#203 Posted by PewResearch on February 28, 2007 3:53:21 pm
Re: # 202 Tahmed

``In case you didnt notice, that post was addressed to a fellow pakistani.``

Thanks for confirming a lingering suspicion - that you say different things to different people and are not above massaging the truth to fit your needs.

Ciao.
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#198 Posted by spider on February 28, 2007 4:44:37 am
``In our national history it will always be remembered that when America and its local agents made up their minds to dismantle a Quranic law, they used TV as a weapon and dissolved centuries’ old understanding in one month.``...although I agree with you that the television medium can and is used to mould the thinking of its viewers, I think what you`ve taken here is an extreme stance. Yes, the establishment-local or foriegn-does used the media to advance its msg, but that happens in every country and part of the world. Take US`s Fox news for example. Also, about cooking programs you say ``This is a conspiracy to systemize gluttony``...I think you`re just imagining things or being just paranoid...
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#197 Posted by tahmed32 on February 27, 2007 7:19:55 pm
TehsinAbbasi: I agree with you in #192. Muslims in the subcontinent have a history of romanticizing the ``muslim glories``, and of getting the cold water of reality hit them over and over again (the Khilafat Movement being a classic case).

This is not an academic problem, but a significant practical problem for muslims - by romanticizing the Ottoman Empire, e.g., we forget that it was at root a brutal kingship that has no place in a civilized society today. The sharia laws are laws formed by qadis appointed by the khalifa, the latter ensuring that the concept of a parliament to form laws never took place. The animosity towards the US is rooted in the fact that the US has for two centuries been the leading nation in the path away from kingships and the primitive societies they were based in.
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#196 Posted by arjun2 on February 27, 2007 7:15:00 pm

killing one single soul




China hasn`t killed a single soul?...so according to the practitioners of the religion of peace, tibetans don`t have souls...that`s ok...but what about the whole bunch of muslims the chicoms have whacked?
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#195 Posted by tahmed32 on February 27, 2007 7:11:24 pm
Urstruly: I agree with you when you advise zeemax that ``I do not consider any one of them my adversaries.``. Only paper tigers think that words are punches that you throw at each other on chowk, rather than a means to express ourselves and no less and no more.

While you object to my saying that you have nothing but negative things to write about the country you have chosen to come and live in, I dont think that there is one post you have ever written in the 7 years on chowk that has anything positive to say about the US.

Show me one single post, one single sentence where you have something good to say about the country you have lived in and raised your children in over the past 7 years and I will say that your objection is not totally invalid.

Failing the above, I challenge you to write one single post saying something genuinely positive about this nation.

Failing that, I think you will be less outraged at my pointing out this thing.
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