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Do You Have a Substitute?

Salman Aneel November 4, 2007

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#17 Posted by arjun7 on November 4, 2007 9:05:46 am
Isn't Bilal Mushlet going to write another "He had no choice" article?
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#18 Posted by Kamath on November 4, 2007 9:17:17 am
Re: # 14 Salaam ahmedmadani:

Hey: Why do you keep on quoting Jinnah's words of yesteryear as though he is still living among you? Why don't you leave him alone in his grave? Don't Pakistanis have a bit of their intelligence to carry on forward with the business of the nation.?

Pakistan belongs to Pakistanis and don't drag the ghost of Ma Jinnah here for the rot thatr has crept into the nation in the past 60 years?

Wa Salaam.
Kamath
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#19 Posted by Skeptical on November 4, 2007 9:19:48 am
Today is the sad day in our history. I really do not know why we are wasting our energy on comparisons between NS, BB and Musharraf. Why in the first the question is being put up that who is a better alternate among these? The central question is that Judiciary has been purged and with that common man has lost recourse in case his fundamental rights are usurped. Pakistan has become effectively a police state with no semblance of any justice for the people. For any one who supports this scenario and endorses Musharraf on the pretext that he is a viable option or for that matter liberalism’s pragmatic hope unfortunately does not even know what liberalism is all about. We Pakistanis are made to understand by the elite of this country that the only way of living in this country is to keep ourselves depoliticized and turn our eye blind to the question of fundamental rights. Just live our lives and pray that we do not have an encounter with law enforcement agency-because if we do, there is absolutely no hope for our survival. The recourse is no longer there. The stupid argument about Jihadism should not be debated- judiciary was not purged because of that but to merely extend the rule of an individual who regrettably is the worst of all our rulers.
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#20 Posted by Skeptical on November 4, 2007 9:26:57 am
Re: # 17
Good question arjun. Yeah he should write another one and lets see how he defends his father this time. May be he will say that all the bomb blasts were being done by CJ and Musharraf had to remove him so that Pakistani forces are safe from extremist attacks. May be that Judiciary can be independent only in western countries- here we do not have appropriate political environment to take such a risk. After all we are cattle and donkeys and we should be abused with absolutely no recourse. I am sure that Mr Bilal Musharraf will take on similar line of "defence"
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#21 Posted by Urstruly on November 4, 2007 12:01:58 pm
Re: # 19

I spare no effort to emphasize the sad truth that a corrupt westernized ruling elite will never let go of common citizen of Pakistan from their talons of oppression. THe merciless massacre of 1500-2000 school children in Islamabad was indictive of the fact that to what extent they will go to maintain the status quo of lawlessness and oppression.

But this latest attrocity by this ruthless class upon the people of Pakistan should be cause for celebtaion for all those citizens who love Pakistan. It is a victory for the people of Pakistan that the first brick of the wall of oppression and deceit that napak fouj and this corrupt elite had tried to confine Pak society in has collapsed. All their efforts to legitimize a corrupt and vicious dictator have failed. NOw it is clear as bright sunlight where nationally and internationally each and every individual stand. Thos countries and individuals who support this murderer are on one side and the people of Pakistan are on the other.

WE the people of Pakistan will win because no one in the history of mankind has ever been able to defeat people who stood up for themselves.

Victory or Death.
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#22 Posted by RajeshSandhu on November 4, 2007 12:14:35 pm
Congratulations
Mr President, I just wanna extend my heartfelt congratulations to you for conquering Pakistan yet again with the help of Pak Army.
With your earnest efforts and military support we will achieved what we Indians have pathetically failed to accomplish so far.
Remember, our and yours ultimate goal should be total dismemberment of Pakistan. We are extremely grateful to you for doing what we had assumed impossible.
Please ensure that each and every institution of Pakistan is corrupted, destroyed and gutted to ashes before leaving. A friend like you is hard to find. Crush Pakistan and bloody Pakis. Teach them a lesson they should never forget in life. Show them the power of people, over and over again as you have already thankfully doing.
Mr President, corrupt the very soul of the nation so thoroughly that they lose the last rationale to survive as a nation state. Sir, please keep on distorting the vision of so-called Pakistan; continue destroying its identity beyond recognition. How? Exactly as you have been doing ever since. You
Gravest treachery should be presented as patriotism. Long Live Patriots aka Afgans et al.
Your personal interests, your private ambitions are supreme national interests. Period. Crush all those fool heads who dare to protest as you did in Karachi- twice.
Kindly take this emergency theatre as a God-sent gift to you for completing the project bestowed upon you 8 years back. You kill its soul; we will take it out physically. Together we will wipe the bloody Pakis out from the face of earth.
I am sure that India will confer the highest civil and military awards on your departure (shortly).

Rajesh Kumar Sandhu
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#23 Posted by Skeptical on November 4, 2007 12:24:03 pm
Re: # 21
People will not rise-that is the sad part. For people to rise collectively, they should be led by organized political parties. These parties already are siding with the military junta. I am tired of the word "bloody revolution"- it simply is not happening as the conditions for collective action are simply not there. Just raising rhetoric about a revolution wont make it happen. Musharraf is here to stay and he will stay here because sold out politicians who command street power are siding with him. A large part of urban middle class though resenting Musharraf will never come out. Middle class just talks and seldom indulges in activism.
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#24 Posted by bjkumar on November 4, 2007 12:24:56 pm

#22
Nice middle name!
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#25 Posted by Skeptical on November 4, 2007 12:29:27 pm
Re: # 22
This more or less sums it up.... brilliant satire. Some times I am amazed that indians are actually more aware about us than we are. You talk about taking us physically- my dear I wont be surprise that after some time you will find people inviting indians to take over Pakistan.
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#26 Posted by tahmed32 on November 4, 2007 12:31:07 pm
Sandhu #22 "Remember, our and yours ultimate goal should be total dismemberment of Pakistan."

Please be fair. He has had only 8 years in which he has done such a great job of destroying national institutions and fanning extremism. Give him time and in due course he will make your dreams come true.
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#27 Posted by tahmed32 on November 4, 2007 12:34:04 pm
Another Great Terrorist Caught by the Enlightened Moderate: Chairman Human Rights Commission of Pakistan Asma Jehangir. Pakistanis can now sleep easy, knowing that they can safely do honor killings without being viciously attacked by Terrorist Jehangir. Wow!!
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#28 Posted by dullabhatti on November 4, 2007 12:34:42 pm
musharraf saada sher ay
vardi ohday taiR ay
hath ohday wich ganna ain
hun nahray launa manaa ain

Mushy di double game ain
ikk paasay gora ay(Bush)
doojay paasay maim(BB) ay
dohaN wichkaar awaam ay
pasay baiTha Taliban ay
hor hunn koi chaara nai
marshal law bina guzaara nai.

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#29 Posted by Skeptical on November 4, 2007 12:35:19 pm
Re: # 26
He still needs time!!! What is left by the way before Mr Rajesh Kumar Sandhu's dreams actually come true....
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#30 Posted by dullabhatti on November 4, 2007 12:40:55 pm
did anyoen ntoice now that mush is in complete control, Taliban just released the captured soldiers...on the other hand Asma Jagagirs and Aitzaz Ahsans' are being arrested. So is this marshal law due to terrorism? think Not.
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#31 Posted by Skeptical on November 4, 2007 12:41:38 pm
Re: # 27
Yeah that woman is steel and brave unlike BB who is a sold out woman and who instead of leading protests is trying to eek out her share in rosy futur days.
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#32 Posted by dullabhatti on November 4, 2007 12:44:21 pm
so BB is hoping to be civilian adminstrator under marshal law? what a shame on daughter of Bhutto, the shaheed. May be she should share this post with Ejaj-ul-Haq.:-)
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