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masadi mian,

.... talk is cheap, mutton is not ....... tell me, did you try to get to liaqat bagh yesterday or did you stay home and watch the cricket match on dish ?....... nobody i know - and some of them are ppp 'jiyalas' - went out yesterday ...... as my nephew said, 'uncle, jalsay jaloos tau hotay rahtey hain; cricket match kabhi kabhi hota hai"

........ musharraf's timing of the emergency was impeccable - indian cricket tour, wedding season, bakr eid, thanksgiving, christmas , new year's eve, valentines day .......... he know his people very well ...

Re: # 63

this is interesting. would appreciate a link if this incident was covered. also, if karachi is lukewarm, what might be the reasons?

#60 Posted by masadi:

Masadi, Pakistan is shining today like India has been shining over the last few years. The quote below from today's The Sydney Morning Herald clearly indicates that poverty is fast dissapearing in Pakistan:

" General Musharraf's comrades in the military control Pakistan's epaulette empire, a $US40 billion ($43 billion) sprawl of businesses. Controlling about 10 to 15 per cent of the economy, the military is the biggest single stakeholder in Pakistan's booming economy. Property, tourism, construction, transport and telecoms, there is barely a business sector not tinted with some sort of brass hue. The generals even own a popular breakfast cereal brand, alongside bakeries, petrol stations, farms, banks and companies listed on Karachi's soaring stock exchange."

Re: # 63
I am not surprised if he popular in LUMs...
Firebrand radical appeal...
Excellent command of language...
Controversial and unconventional ....
Cool...
Has the ability to give an intellectual rationale to apparently strange opinions!!!!
But then you have yourself written left wing as "left wing"...
And in LUMs left wing is "left wing" in reality....

Mr. Paracha, I have no idea why Chowk has given a midless freak like you a dedicated space. You should stick to making midless Telenor adds.

You say : "To hell with democracy. After all, as most uncivil beings will tell you, it's easy to defend democracy on a full stomach."

To hell with you for making such a comment. Food price inflation can only be countered in a enviroment where there are indpendent instituions. Food price inflation has been the hihghest in DICTATOR Musharraf's reign. In September he announced a ficticious bumper crop only to allow his junta to make money by exporting the grain. This while 70 mio live below USD 2 a day . We have the one of the most adultarated food according to WHO because there is not instition left to consumer rights (thanks to Mushrraf again).

Leave your imagination to your Telenor adds and directing girls and boys running around the trees while it is raining. You are not much good for anything else.

neembu, the episode was filmed by some channels but since they are off, very few actually saw it, even though I think Business Plus did show a clip of it this evening during a short docu they ran on BB.

Seems like NFP , want to dismiss the whole issue as NOT WORTHY following.
Disappointing very disappointing, irrespective of who is at the fore front, whether the Devils is Black Coat , so to speak, or the Civil , One Playcard Society.
Does he has any idea , what are the issues that are involved here..?
I think not.
I have been saying this for long.
Dictators are poison to any society.

The First Dictator, alienated one whole section of this god forsaken unfortunate nation,resulting in separation, inspite
of the fact, that 5 out of 8 earlier PMs , before 55-56 were Bengalis, and Pakistan's second economic plan , was a model taught in countries like Korea.
..this First Dictator had a bit of shame in him , with the first cries of " Ayub Kutta Hai Hai " , he relinquished .

The Second Dictator , tore the very fabric of this so called unfortunate experiment of a nation, into every conceivable division.
Social,legal,provincial,regional,religious, and worst of all ethnic , the fruits of which , .......the society, both civil and un-civil is still bearing.

This Third Dictator has firmly put this 'experiment' on the Path of disintegration , .that is the bottom Line.

...and if some one is Defending , or dismissing such an obvious ... then the bottom line is the only answer.

Re: # 65 Posted by hamidm2 on November 9, 2007 8:40:26 am

[.... talk is cheap, mutton is not .......] How about daal? Good diet these days. Pakistanis will have no cholesterol problem, if they start eating chicken and daal. What do you thnik?

love2love karachi is a very diverse place. The people at the press club being beaten were karachiites... the cops were karaciites ....the ones beating the cops (actually i know from eye witnesses that the cops got beaten up first) were also karachiites.

There isnt a mass cry for democarcy because karachi suffered hugely under BB and benefited under Mush.

Masadi you are correct in suggesting that overall poverty is still shocking in pakistan. The point being made is that using the same standard (which accounts for inflation/purchasing power etc) there is less absolute poverty now than before.

BB launches election campaign !

... okay, how much do you want to bet that musharraf WILL doff his uniform before Nov 15, a provisional government WILL be announced and elections WILL be moved up to Jan 15 ?? ........ i also think that BB will be allowed to have her Long March from lahore to islamabad ...... heck, the spooks will also supply the busses and maybe even a couple of thousand marchers .....

........ at this rate chaudhary shujaat hussain and pervez elahi will be asking to get arrested ... get in line behind imran khan!

here is why .... from NYT:

"But late in the afternoon, the authorities said Ms. Bhutto’s detention could be lifted tonight, and in what appeared to be a carefully stage-managed move agreed on with the government, Ms. Bhutto emerged from her house and made a speech that was broadcast on official Pakistani television.

Ms. Bhutto said she was “listening to the voice of my conscience” and appealed to the government to end the emergency rule. She said that she had not spoken to General Musharraf and would not negotiate with him until emergency rule was ended and the Constitution revived. "

the bed we made

... what a crock of bs and dramabazi!........ can somebody post that picture of benazir and mushy getting married with condi and bush standing behind them ?

.... all we need is fazloo in bed and we will have a perfect menage a trois ....... yuck! what a disgusting thought !

Some one asked about the lukewarm response of Karachi,


Well,the present status of Karachi, is , its unofficially not a Part of Pakistan any more.... PERIOD.

its now ruled by the Zombies of a Loyal British Subject, a proud holder of British Passport, living in SAFE-HOUSE or rather Held by the Govt of Her Majesty the Queen , who was recently officially advised by the Govt of Her majesty the Queen, to restraint himself on the return of BB darling ,with the tacit approval of Mr Bush and Co.

Period.

"Well, the present status of Karachi, is , its unofficially not a Part of Pakistan any more.... PERIOD"


...actually karachi is more pakistan now than it has been in the past. They are actually supporting the army instead of being slaughtered by it. Id say thats a step up.

"ctually karachi is more pakistan "

well thats your POV

Else the exactly opposite response during the CJ - Drama , says something else.

talking about karachi, can you imagine altaph bahi in that bed too ....... poor benazir - she does have bad luck when it somes to men ..... first it was zardari and now she is stuck with these three clowns: mushy, fazloo and altaph bhai ......... maybe she can persuade mario khan .........

hamidm: I think you have caught Nostrodamiusitis from Romair. This is a terrible disease, where the victim starts coughing predictions.

Yesterday you had predicted that Musharraf would let Benazir have her rally today, that a handful of aunties would show up, and everyone would go home. Mush sent thousands of men over instead, arrested 5000 of her supporters, banned BBC and CNN broadcasts..and still couldnt keep Benazir from making a charge through the ranks of his incompetents and actually break through the first "lines of defense".

Today I see you making more predictions...alas. :-(