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Media: The more things change...

Beena Sarwar November 30, 2007

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#33 Posted by tahmed32 on December 2, 2007 11:51:34 am
hamidm: That is an interesting thought process - make your views a function (inverse, in this case) of another man's views. hmmmm.....
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#34 Posted by tahmed32 on December 2, 2007 11:52:03 am
#33 is wrt hamidm #32
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#35 Posted by nasah on December 2, 2007 1:04:34 pm
Re: # 32 33

change it man change it right now -- inversely or directly.

now hamidm says -- "Reinstate the Supreme Court and Restore the deposed judges"

hamidm zindabad! Maulana Fazooloo murdabad!
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#36 Posted by nasah on December 2, 2007 1:09:26 pm
Re: # 31

"on behalf of my president i would like to thank the horrible hindoos for their kind thoughts:"(himdm)

instead of 'Horrible Hindoos -- 'Surrundering Sikhs'
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#37 Posted by nb on December 2, 2007 5:07:09 pm
#27 yes, zeemax, amazingly they do. I have no idea why, but they do.
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#38 Posted by nasah on December 2, 2007 6:51:05 pm
Re: # 28

the phrase is Nehruvian Fabianism -- lazy stagnant Laissez-faire -- not zealot murderous Stalinism -- and it did work for its time.
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#39 Posted by AlephNull on December 2, 2007 7:05:21 pm
nasah #38:

{{the phrase is Nehruvian Fabianism -- lazy stagnant Laissez-faire}}

It's stagnant state socialism, not laissez-faire! Nasah sahib, how could you?
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#40 Posted by nasah on December 2, 2007 7:35:11 pm
Aleph -- not in terms of business by any means -- it was regulated to the hilt -- but socially.
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#41 Posted by HP on December 2, 2007 10:08:50 pm
#30 Posted by zeemax
"if I didn't know how crazy you can be, I would actually think you are quite ignorant."

The problem with you my friend is that you have no idea what the political concepts are. Your reliance on TV and newspapers makes you appear a simpleton rather than someone who understands what a particular phrase means and what historical contexts are all about.

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#42 Posted by zeemax on December 3, 2007 3:03:46 am
#41 Posted by HP,

I'm sure you're right, but it appears you say different things to different people, HP Sain:

#43 Posted by HP on December 2,
#42 Posted by majumdar
Dada,
The one thing you forget to mention that while the Soviet intervention led to its own disintegration, the other interventionist in Afghanistan, Pakistan too is fighting to keep its geographical integrity.
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#43 Posted by majumdar on December 3, 2007 3:17:21 am
Zee sahib,

I think I will go with HP sain here. Indeed it is true that Pakistan is having to fight for its borders but the situation is nowhere as desperate as you think it is. The havayoons are getting a beating in FATA lately. Of course they will remain a strong force in the countryside and also plague Pakistan with random acts of bombing.

Regards
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#44 Posted by tahmed32 on December 3, 2007 3:22:04 am
#35 nasah: in other words, when mullah fazloo flips, hamidm will flop. and when mullah fazloo flops, hamidm will flip.

Thus: while mullah fazloo flip-flops, hamidm flop-flips.

Please dont encourage hamidm to continue his flop-flipping on musharraf when i am trying so hard to get him to start using his own mind.
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#45 Posted by tahmed32 on December 3, 2007 3:23:40 am
majumdar: looks like musharraf has fooled not just bush (who is easily fooled it seems) but also zeemax into thinking that the maulvis are anything more than convenient fools who helped keep him in illegal power for 8 years.
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#46 Posted by majumdar on December 3, 2007 3:38:33 am
Tahmed sahib,

Re: #45

The ease with which the havayoons took over the Swat valley and almost the same ease with which the kanjaroon Army has retaken the valley makes your theory very plausible indeed.

Regards
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#47 Posted by tahmed32 on December 3, 2007 3:49:04 am
majumdar: Also see lal masjid: There, it is clear that mush found it convenient to let the mullah brothers fool themselves into thinking that they were some kind of khulafa-i-rashidoon. In fact they were merely convenient means for musharraf to intimidate people in Islamabad and direct attention away from the Chief Justice's rejection of Mush's bid to remain in uniform and remain president for another 5 years.
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#48 Posted by rf786 on December 3, 2007 5:51:18 am
Re: # 47

tahmed32,

Life is not a clustering of linear events, most of the time events are random and like someone very rightly said, change is the only permanent thing.

Establishment was not only behind the Ghazi brothers, they are the one's who created them. But like many of their other frankenstain's, Ghazi brothers too felt that they were above the law and demanded their pound of flesh without realizing change of winds, or may have known and resisted. Rest is history.

What was his name, CJP is now redundant. Your attempts to revive his memories with such fondness may be honorable but of little purpose. More importantly, Whats his name Ex-CJP is not the savior, had he been honorable Chief Justice of PAKISTAN he would have resigned once he was vindicated. But that was not to be, and he too will be remembered for his politcal shenanigans.
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