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Pakistan's Flawed and Feudal Princess

William Dalrymple January 11, 2008

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#65 Posted by hamidm2 on January 12, 2008 10:35:56 am
Re: # 40

zeemax,

"Only when US is destroyed will we achieve independence.

I'm convinced of this now. And it's easy to do it. "

......... spoken like a true jihadi - a man who beats his wife and kicks his dog ..... mian ji, get some viagra and stop blaming it on her and the poor dumb beast .......
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#66 Posted by ejazharoon on January 12, 2008 10:38:15 am
Guys, all this whodunnit speculation re Ben' Bhu's demise makes you all sound delusional. Who cares? She's dead. I don't care if there were gunmen behind the grassy knoll or if there was a silver bullet fired by Oswald, the fact remains that Ben' Bhu' was no Kennedy (and no Mother Teresa either) and she has now left the building. RIP.
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#67 Posted by hamidm2 on January 12, 2008 10:39:29 am
Re: # 63

zeemax,

........ if you know who did it, why don't you tell the rest of us ...... i think you are on a slippery slope to join hamid gul and other crazies ...... holy mother of mo ! what the hell is wrong with you guys !
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#68 Posted by zeemax on January 12, 2008 10:43:29 am
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#69 Posted by zeemax on January 12, 2008 10:45:14 am
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#70 Posted by zeemax on January 12, 2008 10:46:10 am
#67 Posted by hamidm2,

I told you my friend, in post #1.
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#71 Posted by zeemax on January 12, 2008 10:49:42 am
But the bomber yes ... Many people say 'He was wearing a white scarf around his head'.

Abey chutyo .... that was a 'Kafan' he was wearing around his head. Sar par Kafan. Got it?
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#72 Posted by rf786 on January 12, 2008 11:02:19 am
Writer of this article demonstrates classic gora mentality with Indian infatuation thus everything Pakistan represents has to be bad.

{The building is a giddy pseudo-Mexican ranch house with white walls and a red tile roof. There is nothing remotely Islamic about the building}

Has the writer ever gone too Saudi Arabia or any other Gulf Arab state? Seems not, but this again shows the writers hidden biases.

{She spoke English fluently because it was her first language. She had an English governess, went to a convent run by Irish nuns, and rounded off her education with degrees from Harvard and Oxford.}

So a desi had it better than this moron.

{It was difficult to image any of her neighbouring heads of state- even India’s earnest Sikh economist, Manmohan Singh, talking like this.}

According to the writer poor Indians do not get to eat or like Baskin and Robbins. What a moronic interpretation.

{However the very reasons that make the West love Benazir Bhutto are the same that leave many Pakistanis with second thoughts. Her English may be fluent, but you can't say the same about her Urdu which she spoke like a well-groomed foreigner: fluently but ungrammatically. Her Sindhi was even worse: apart from a few imperatives, she is completely at sea.}

And Sonia Gandhi is fluent in Hindi? If the voter does not give a damn, then there is nothing wrong. What is wrong is painting people in a multi-ethnic state with languages.

{The whole painted vision reminded me of one of those aristocratic Roman princesses in Caligula.}

Caligula? Not only is this guy a bigot but also a shameless pervert.

Benazir was not perfect, made her share of mistakes but she was after all the elected representative of pakistan and headed probably the single largest political entity. She belonged to the feudal class not by choice but by birth and that the writer and many other critics cannot comprehend that these feudals have the same right as any other person to contest elections.It is for the people to decide, not some shallow, bigoted, sorry excuse of a writer.

Finally, the writer is riding the same populist propaganda that the Jihadist are coming the Jihadist are coming. Yes, Pakistan faces serious concerns and its leaders have failed to deliver even the basic necessities, yes the rightest have become stronger but they will not be the victors. The victors will be the nationalists. What the writer has completely failed to understand is the fractured ethnicity of Pakistan that has been compounded by BB assassination. Today, the smaller provinces have become ever so more sensitive of their future. Then again, the stupid moron would not know this for his interpertations are based on his drawing room chit chats with his elitist contacts.

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#73 Posted by rf786 on January 12, 2008 11:05:16 am
Re: # 69

{I haven't beaten any wife so far, and there have been three.}

THREE.....YA DA MAAN....Salam hai aapke azmat per. Have been or still holding on to all three positions?
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#74 Posted by zeemax on January 12, 2008 11:12:15 am
#73 Posted by rf786,

Now, there is one for every mealtime.
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#75 Posted by Dash_Dot on January 12, 2008 11:15:01 am
Re: # 74 what about your bedtime? Or is it ovaltine/Hor_licks time 8-()
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#76 Posted by rf786 on January 12, 2008 11:18:03 am
Re: # 74

Aap Mahaan hein...product diversification and no dieting...awesome...
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#77 Posted by zeemax on January 12, 2008 11:22:15 am
khurram,

There was one shot by the shooter (in the black suit and sunglasses), then a pause, then three shots in rapid succession. After the first shot, the sniper homed in. The first shot and the pause was the cue.

But, the brilliance was in the 'kafan posh' behind the dandy assassin. He didn't know he was there.

That's what makes it a very complicated hit. Perfectly executed. No one will know who did it.
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#78 Posted by zeemax on January 12, 2008 11:26:35 am
Actually, I have reason to suspect the dandy assassin shooter was MQM recruited for the job .... but he got blown to bits just for providing a cue.
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#79 Posted by rf786 on January 12, 2008 11:29:59 am
Re: # 78

A little bird tells me that the assassin was a burly Punjabi sent by the Sharif's and blown to pieces cause they did not have time to arrange for Saudi visa.
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#80 Posted by hamidm2 on January 12, 2008 12:55:12 pm
Re: # 78

zeemax,

.... do you think it was the same man who did 9/11 and 7/7 ? ......... and who killed that horse in lahore ?...... do you think the french did it to spite the british ? .... and what about sheik rashid - he doesn't live far from where bb was killed ? .......... you know that she spurned him many years ago ? ......... and what about safdar the halwai who has a shop just across the street? ...... rumor has it that his sister's brother-in-law is a havaldar in the isi ........
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