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Interview with the Vamp

Bina Shah May 24, 2005

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#21 Posted by UmerMurtaza on May 26, 2005 1:26:28 am
Re: # 20

Are you a slave? Is it possible for you to outgrow yourself and stop being led by others` agenda? Is it possible for you to say, `Hey I`m an Indian, but that doesn`t mean I have to foam at the mouth every time Pakistan is mentioned. I`m an Indian but I don`t have to feel that pang of jealousy. Just because I am an Indian, when a good looking actress comes to Pakistan, I don’t have to stick Ashwariya up everyone`s bund. Just because some odd Westerner may praise the Pakistani people, I don’t have to bring LeT into the equation. Hey, I may be an Indian, but if some guy commits the true Original Sin of praising Pakistan’s improving economy, I don’t have to jump up and down like a tattu and start putting the person down.

Learn from the dogs. Even they have a personality.

Be a man...hell, be a woman. Just be yourself. Has any other country, with an exception to Iran, offered space to those refugees? Has India? You guys are 7 times bigger, a trillion times more populous and according to those who chart and read the stars, India is the next best thing since sliced bread.

Pakistan has, in whatever capacity, offered 3 MILLION refugees a space for over 25 years now!!! The result has been the Kalashnikov-drug culture. Yet the country has been hospitable enough to offer their Afghan brethren space. In that time, it not only has shared its space, it has shared its grain, its produce and I’m sure there are incidences of food shortages due to the refugee crisis.

This is Pakistan. Before you opened your mouth, did you ever bother thinking that this country doesn’t even look after its own? And yet you’re expecting for the refugees what exactly: free housing facilities? Double glazing in their mud brick abodes? A chauffeur driven donky cart? Perhaps a Mauritanian slave to hold your opium joint and another to place a crystalline rose petal on your tongue? A silk-whip threaded with gold to whip your wife into shape?

And what the hell was this:

‘Afghan men, women and children are abused by pakistanis often subjected to verbal abuse and humiliation.’

NO! really?!? That’s some awesome accusation. What did they call them: kutta, billi. bhosdi ka? Teri maan da samonsa? Teri pan da flooda? Teri tee da chhola? Was the above phoosy (a fart if you may) your trump card, that something-up-your- sleeve, your secret weapon? Yeah, I can feel the Pakistani UNHCR authorities quaking in their boots. Haha.

Umer M.
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#20 Posted by cayenne on May 25, 2005 5:14:54 pm
The sole reason for this hedonistic witch turned angel of mercy`s visit to pakistan was due to the fact that there are more than three million Afghan refugees in pakistan, living in squalor in refugee camps.Afghan men, women and children are abused by pakistanis often subjected to verbal abuse and humiliation.And, that was the reason for Ms .Jolie to call on Aziz.To make light out of the suffering of the afghan refugees and to portray this visit as an affirmation by Ms.Jolie of pakistan as a nation is a perverse violation of the truth,by this author and many other paks on this site .

And, the truth is that this visit was intended to act as either a wake-up call or warning about the treatment of Afghan refugees in pakistan.This essay is in bad taste.
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#19 Posted by DoubleC on May 25, 2005 2:00:44 pm
Bina,

Enjoyed it!!!

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#18 Posted by OzerKhalid on May 25, 2005 10:30:54 am
Miriam your comment:

“Handsome men and honor killings. Sounds like something that should be on a travel brochure. It works on me every time...ahem``.

I take the liberty of presuming you are referring to handsome men ? (LOL) ? And which seductive actors, after Woody Allen ofcourse, titillate your feline oestrogen ??

Methinks that this interview with AJ sounds deadlier than ghee-laden auntie jeeez on a head-long Bollydollywood collision course. Do you not ?

Miriam states `` She’s not just another pretty face that one!``

I totally concurr. Our resident feline vamp du jour, Angelina, can tomb raid me anytime. She is the most seductive vamp in the world !!! Followed ofcourse by the delectable Eva Mendes, Rosario Dawson, Catherine Zeta Jones, Vanessa Williams and the banks of Tyra herself !!

Back to Jolie Mademoiselle, she even managed to partially tame Collin Farrell himself....Brad Pitt will require more work. Hint hint Jennifer Annistonakis. Meeeaaaooww !!

But beyond that veneer of sultriness and vials of blood... ...whereas a lot of politicians are stringless puppets in the theatre of life, sometimes it takes a celebrity to hone a cause.

Witness Bob Geldoff and Bono Vox and how their efforts raised millions for Africa, no red tape, no fat cat bureaucrats just people wanting to tilt the balance of inequity. Im sure that Kylie Minogue will now trailblaze a cancer campaign in the footsteps of imperial bat-swinging Imran and star-studded Anastasia. Our resident park and police uniform loving George Michael and Magic Johnson have both unnearthed laudable funds for HIV victims.

Not all stars are Britneyesque Jessica Simpsonettes. These showbiz kitten synthetic starlettes need to wear their corsettes and go save the world. They can do it a-la Tom Cruise Scientology style, Zen-Buddhist Richard Gearing or even a-la Kabala red-banding Madonnaesque.

Take your pick. The possibilities are infinite.

Time is less so.
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#17 Posted by miriamk on May 25, 2005 8:13:31 am
“Handsome men and honor killings”. Sounds like something that should be on a travel brochure. It works on me every time...ahem. I don’t care what anyone says, I like Angie. She’s not just another pretty face that one!
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#16 Posted by ballukhan on May 25, 2005 6:40:32 am
what is this caricature about Angela Julie as a Vampire who wears the skin of her boyfriend and wears the vial full of her husband`s blood....that`s mean and bitchy!!!
BTW Is there something wrong in having film stars diverting the attention of our elites to some tragic facts of life???
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#15 Posted by Saminasha on May 25, 2005 5:51:42 am
Say what you will, Jolie`s got more dap than most politicians and writers....she`s been meeting with various Muslim leaders for the last few months. And Bina, she seems a bit too stock starlet here...this actress/activist is a lot smarter than most people are comfortable with...
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#14 Posted by tahmed32 on May 25, 2005 5:20:41 am
Weird!! Is this a joke?
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#13 Posted by omar_r_quraishi on May 25, 2005 1:48:11 am
bina isnt this more than a bit disingenuous --
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#12 Posted by twintopaz on May 25, 2005 1:30:50 am
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#11 Posted by patwari on May 24, 2005 9:56:33 pm
Being light should not mean being corny...I think Bina Shah you should stick to to your usual style.
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#10 Posted by Nadia_Zehra on May 24, 2005 9:07:30 pm
Gash, thats cool...Fanatical

guess what shaukat aziz was doing then???
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#9 Posted by nauman9 on May 24, 2005 7:01:50 pm
Bina Shah:

Good job.

It was easy on the eyes and easy on the mind.

We need more of that light stuff. It`s getting stuffy here on the chowk.


Regards

Nauman Nisar
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#8 Posted by husnaangelique on May 24, 2005 3:36:02 pm
Bina u r hillarious !!

a few footnotes are in order:

Colin Farrell needs to go down to Walmart buy scissors and chippy chop those eyebrowse ...though he is cute they make the Guinness drinking Irish hunk look half-man half-ape

In satanist pursuits maybe you could have asked Jolie to ally herself with Marylin Manson and Ozzy Osbourne. Together they could devour rats and sell rat and bat blood on e-bay allowing MIT grads to breed a cross species of a novel kind.....

hang on that cross species would be Mr ``Showcute assets`` !!!

Ahhh to see the Mullahs hit the silver screens of Tinseltown after getting their green cards would surely turn Mr (Brad) Smith green with envy...

oh woody allen alas a script awaits you !!
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#7 Posted by Rakaposh on May 24, 2005 3:23:52 pm
that was funny !!!
now do one on Nicole Kidman !!
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#6 Posted by b_banth on May 24, 2005 1:14:56 pm
Simple moral lesson from this article: ITS TIME OF ENLIGHTENED MODERATION, MUSHARRAF`S PROSPECTIVE.
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