Interview with the Vamp

Excellent piece, very well written!
Bina you captured the mockery in few words. Thums-up!

Pakistan didn`t support Taleban merely for self-interest. Involved also were religious convictions. That Punjabi brat, Mullah Ziaul-Haq once said to Selig Harrisson that Pakistan will integrate all Central Asia upto Aral under the flag of Islam.

Not even David Letterman or Jay Leno can beat this! Great Stuff, BS, Keep it up!

fuck, fuck fuck fuck fuck all vamps boyeeee!!

This is an imaginary interview why people are rolling up sleeves and getting into serious discussion about Taliban and politics. Give me a break!

Cayanne,

Regarding the Afghan refugees, a few clarifications:

It started with the Soviet-Afghan war. Brezniev (sp?) himself quoted the CIA covertly supporting the pre-79 nascent mujahideen factions (6 months before the war) so that the puppet communist government in Afghanistan would collapse. This would force the Soviet military to step onto the Afghan soil and the Americans would have had their Bear trap set.

Also, because the Mujahideen used the villages as their hiding bases, the Soviets decided to bomb the shit out of those places so that the mujahideen would be flushed out. The resultant native villagers would flee to Pakistan and create the refugee burden. This move was intended to stop Pakistan from supporting the covert war. This, in around 1985, was responsible for the biggest wave of refugees.

During ’85, the process of Talibanisation had begun in the tribal belt but let’s not forget that the ‘2 bullets + 2 guns = 1 dead Russian’ textbooks were published in the States. The total cost of the project was 50 million dollars.

Then the dumb Mujahideen (89 – 92) decided to bomb each other which further worsened the situation and brought more Afghanis onto the Pak soil.

Then in 1994 the Taliban came to power (and believe it or not, the very first mission of the Taliban was supported by our very own Benazir).

The Taliban brought peace and stopped the gandu warlords fighting over little boys’ ani. But, being dumb and head-strong like they all are, power got to them and they changed for the worse.

And I believe Musharraf had told them on many occasions (prior to 9/11) to calm down in terms of their policies.

As for creation of Taliban, yes Pakistan had a BIG hand. Whether it’s wrong or right is one thing but Pakistan had to preserve its interest. There are bigger problems in this world and they are the hippy environmental issues but certain states refuse to bow down because it’s in their economical interests.

Just thought I’d get things in perspective for you.

first of all i would like to congrats you.............you have done a great job........you asked some awesome question and i believe that you would hve mad her confuse aswell........and musharaf is handsome........laugh out loudly..................
well actually every person who takes step into politics deffinately a handsome guy....because he does a great job for himself...................mind it.......that democracy hit only for pakistan.........so don`t mind others.................i read your each and every article you come up everytime with different and nice topic.................keep it up!

Very well written--congrats.
committing atrocities on innocent civilians of their os called enemy countries and then shedding crocodile tears is very old policy of the imperialists.After bombing Vietnam for years,they sent toys to their orphaned children and now similar tamaasha in Afghanistan.
Bina`s satire is to the point and exposes the wolves in sheeps` skins.

Bina, that was funny. enjoyed it, thoroughly.

Umer M, #21, You are hillarious!!!

Haha seriously. Asking me if I`m jealous of Ms. Jolie is like asking if I like chocolate - personally I don`t think someone like me could even compete with the looks of Angelina. But I do like to poke a bit of fun at celebrity culture and this was a statement to both the hijinks of celebrities as well as the journalists who worship them. I do admire Angelina Jolie for coming and highlighting the situation of the Afghan refugees quite a lot, so no nard feelings either way - I hope.

Re: # 25

Bina Shah you eagerly type ``But I do like to poke a bit of fun at celebrity culture and this was a statement to both the hijinks of celebrities as well as the journalists who worship them``

Do note that the abovementioned ``poking of fun`` tarrs most celebrities with the narrow brush for uncalled scepticism. It is this very intrusiveness and sarcasm by the paparazzi which bogged down Princess Diana to the Parisian bridge`s-end and nearly crippled the Posh-Becks marriage. It certainly did not help Shahrukh and Aishwarya.

I realise this article is being tongue-in-cheek, but other journalists get empowered by such poking fun and satire using it as an accomplice to veer toward what is known as ``gutter press`` slagging off any celeb in sight whilst also raising them to cult status.

# 23 -- if you say so

Oh it was just a bit of fun...keep your hair on peoples...

``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. ``

Well said........Gere came to India for HIV..........infact Amitabh and Shahrukh did great jobs for the polio program...............and Ash and others did pitch in for the eye donation program.......Yes it does feel bad and humiliating when some white man comes and tries to hold a mirror at the brown sahibs who claim to have done a great job in upholding their civilizations and religions...................................................let us admit that we are all $hit pots who cannot run a decent municipal service than mouthing profanities at others..........

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.

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.