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Preview of Looming Democracy - Two Months of PPP in the Limelight

Salim Chauhan December 29, 2007

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#86 Posted by tvarad on December 31, 2007 9:30:38 pm
Salim Chauhan

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If I were Mushy, I would send the entire bill to PPP and put their leaders in jail until they paid for the damage they have caused - we can't bring back the dead, but we sure can make the living pay for their sins."

Did it every occur to you that Mushy and his fauji counterparts have sabotaged legitimate political activity so thoroughly that it is causing people to take the law into their own hands?

If I were a Pakistani, I would start a concerted attempt at de-fanging the army which comprises of nothing but surrender monkeys whose only claim to fame is, as the cliche goes, how successful it is at conquering Pakistan every couple of years.
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#85 Posted by tvarad on December 31, 2007 9:18:58 pm
Salim_Chauhan:

"There is no shortage of excuses that committed right-wing Hindutva type BJP/RSS/VHP/JS/BD/SS/SP orange brigade cheerleaders have in their warchest for killing thousands of Muslims, tearing down Babri Masjid, and electing Modi so many times that he makes Guiliani look like a virgin."

Actually the best thing Modi has done is put a stop to the constant whining of rabble-rousing Muslim medieval revisionists who want to pass off their backwardness as somehow the fault of everyone else. No one gives a s**t for this argument except for the flaky English media who wouldn't know what secularism is if it bit them on their big fat behinds. My fondest and forlorn hope is that the Muslim intelligentsia (an oxymoron, I know) start looking inward after the recent happenings in the land of the pure but why do I have the feeling that it will cause them to furiously start digging into the hole they are in?

And watch out, Modi will soon be coming to a small Mohalla called New Delhi near the UP heartland.

P.S.
Here's the difficult word for you to practice on today:

from Websters: in·tro·spect
Pronunciation: "in-tr&-'spekt
Function: transitive verb
: to examine (one's own mind or its contents) reflectively introspect intransitive senses
: to engage in an examination of one's thought process and sensory experience
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#84 Posted by Salim_Chauhan on December 31, 2007 9:05:08 pm
zensufi #65 {"I agree with you, Salim, that there was/is no need to plunder the city and innocent people in the name of mourning. Unity, Faith, and Discipline - ...Pakistan mein na unity hai na discipline, magar bohut faith hai... destructive faith it seems."}

Zensufi Sahib,
Good observation. Exactly, my point. Why all this chaos, disorganization, and totally crazy behavior. It's a good thing that Pakistan doesn't have liquor everywhere, wait on second thought, maybe that's the problem. Just look at Hamidumdum Sahib - I have never seen that perfect gentleman ever beat an old airconditioner senseless.
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#83 Posted by Salim_Chauhan on December 31, 2007 9:01:04 pm
#68 krashid1961,
Paki redneck it is for these goons who get drunk on assassination.
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#82 Posted by Salim_Chauhan on December 31, 2007 8:58:37 pm
PM #69 {"The muffuking mobs attacked Edhi Centres and amubulances, for crying out loud!!! If these are the awam for which democracy is being fought, please, I'll take the dictator anytime. And don't give me that shyte about how lack of democracy CAUSES these travesties. "}

PM,
How are you? Can you believe it? How will we feel the next time we feel like donating money to Edhi foundation because there aren't enough ambulances in Pakistan? This behavior of PPP goons sucks. :(
If I were Mushy, I would send the entire bill to PPP and put their leaders in jail until they paid for the damage they have caused - we can't bring back the dead, but we sure can make the living pay for their sins.
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#81 Posted by Salim_Chauhan on December 31, 2007 8:49:47 pm
Saharanpuri #73 {"Hv u been to SRE or any connection with it.Where does your family roots lie?In SRE we have a huge population of Garha muslims.
I always find your articles very informative n bold .ur not afraid of speaking bluntly it may rub some people in a wrong manner but its all very factual.Keep it up"}

Saharanpuri Sahib,
Yes, I have passed through SRE a couple of times - nice big train junction there. I have relatives in the western UP area, but my roots are in Jaipur and southern UP near Agra. Thank you for your kind comments. Speaking bluntly gets me in a lot of trouble on Chowk, but I feel better about shaving myself. :)
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#80 Posted by Salim_Chauhan on December 31, 2007 8:29:34 pm
tvarad #78 {"Modi being re-elected three times shows that people are sick and tired of Indian Muslim leaders games. "}

TV Air Head,
There is no shortage of excuses that committed right-wing Hindutva type BJP/RSS/VHP/JS/BD/SS/SP orange brigade cheerleaders have in their warchest for killing thousands of Muslims, tearing down Babri Masjid, and electing Modi so many times that he makes Guiliani look like a virgin.
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#79 Posted by Salim_Chauhan on December 31, 2007 7:15:39 pm
#77 kulharee {"Now questions:
Is this about you or about Benazir? "}

Kala Harry Payee,
Being a lowly commoner I had to use the first person singular. Had I been a vaDera or even a Nawab, I would have said "We." Thanks for your concern. :)

BTW, this is about neither BB nor me. It's about the horrible behavior of her supporters after her sad demise.
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#78 Posted by tvarad on December 31, 2007 5:32:36 pm
Salim_Chauhan "#56 tvarad {"150 million or so Muslims in India who decide to stay and share it's joys and pains will attest to that."}

Tvarad,
Good point, but did you count the ones in Naroda Patya who are no longer around to attest to their share of joy and pain? :("

Tsk. Tsk. Tsk. Just can't get out of your victim mode can you? You see, in India we still have this Mohajiri rump which, after having got a separate country as well as "separate but equal laws", still thinks it's been given a raw deal and so it goads and goads until it gets a Godhra and it's aftermath.

Modi being re-elected three times shows that people are sick and tired of Indian Muslim leaders games.
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#77 Posted by Kulharee on December 31, 2007 2:22:07 pm
Salim let me first quote some of your incoherent thoughts: Then ask you one question.
First some quotes:

"… I had been feeling guilty for….. I almost felt ….

….I joined my compatriots in mourning…. I was rudely brought back to reality by ….. grief was not obvious to me.

I started reviewing the short….. …… I sighed with relief as the familiar presence of Pakistani paramilitary forces …."

Now questions:

Is this about you or about Benazir?
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#76 Posted by hamidm2 on December 31, 2007 2:10:55 pm
Re: # 75

romair, you idiot ! ......

.......stop digging your hole deeper ..... you need to go back and take statistics 101 ..... stop it, before i slap you ...... jeez! .. what a moron !
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#75 Posted by bulleya on December 31, 2007 11:44:02 am
hamidm mian#: "now we have you with your 1+1=3 math.."

i forgot to put this on slides...i didn't realize that a power point jockey would be reading it......the math is quite straight forward, though perhaps difficult for powerpoint specialists to understand......it is explained below....it requires a bit of division and subtraction.....i hope you haven't forgotten that from your uet days......

......very few pakistanis vote......there is nothing stopping them from voting....they just don't do it....because they have lost faith in any of the leaders.....of those who vote, ppp generally gets 30%.......hence it is quite comical to assume that it has the support of 30% of pakistan.....it has support of 30% of those who vote......which comes out to around 10%+ of the total eligible voters.....
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#74 Posted by bulleya on December 31, 2007 11:39:27 am
dullabhatti #: "if PP gets 30% of polled votes, with a margin of few percentage points, PPP has 30% of Pakistanis of any age as supporters regardless whether they voted or not."

actually this is not correct.....the fact that so many people do not vote in pakistan is actually an indication that they do not support any of the candidates.....i.e. they have given up on the voting process.......
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#73 Posted by saharanpuri on December 31, 2007 11:34:27 am
Re: # 46

Well Salim Chauhan Saab you seem to hv superlative knowledge abt UP towns.Yes I am from Saharanpur but sorry to say that like other places in UP thanks to last 15 year misrule of Mulayam singh Yadav/mayawati/Kalyan singh it has gone to dogs.On the otherside of Jamuna Abdullahpur which was just a village in 1947 has turned out to be much more modern Yamunanagar.Hv u been to SRE or any connection with it.Where does your family roots lie?In SRE we have a huge population of Garha muslims.
I always find your articles very informative n bold .ur not afraid of speaking bluntly it may rub some people in a wrong manner but its all very factual.Keep it up.
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#72 Posted by jang on December 31, 2007 11:12:04 am
there is always this shyte about paki percentages which is comfusing...for a long time there was this thing about 3% religious party vote and now we have lal masjids, dead PM, Swat pulice thanas etc. so lets not get all hung-up about these percentages..if 3% can influence so can 9 or 10

may be a little less than 3 but still..
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#71 Posted by hamidm2 on December 31, 2007 5:48:13 am


captain cluleless,

..... quit before some math teacher slaps you silly ! ........ first we had masadi with his mills and boon nonsense and now we have you with your 1+1=3 math ...... you guys are a threat to the development of our children and should be banned from public view ! ..... at this rate we will have poser khalid rearing his ugly head again to torture us with his gibberish .........
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