The Missing Pakistanis

Dear Kashkin,
Like the way in which beautiful(?) actresses are asked,
"Madam, Apke Khubsoorathi ka raaz kya hai?", I am curious to know what is the secret of so many of your poems being published one after the other (3 right now on the home page itself) in rapid succession?
Lucky you!!

I am glad there are so many Pakistanis who have stood up to Musharraf and his most disgusting of crimes against Pakistan - abducting people without recourse to law.

And now Mush has been defeated on this issue as well by the Chief Justice. Even as the latter is in jail, while the former continues as illegal "president":


Picture of Secret Detentions Emerges in Pakistan By CARLOTTA GALL, New York Times
Published: December 19, 2007

Excerpts:

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Pakistan’s military and intelligence agencies, apparently trying to avoid acknowledging an elaborate secret detention system, have quietly set free nearly 100 men suspected of links to terrorism, few of whom were charged, human rights groups and lawyers here say.Those released, they say, are some of the nearly 500 Pakistanis presumed to have disappeared into the hands of the Pakistani intelligence agencies cooperating with Washington’s fight against terrorism since 2001.

No official reason has been given for the releases, but as pressure has mounted to bring the cases into the courts, the government has decided to jettison some suspects and spare itself the embarrassment of having to reveal that people have been held on flimsy evidence in the secret system, its opponents say.
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"They are releasing them because these cases are being made public,” said Shaukat Aziz Siddiqui, a lawyer working at the Supreme Court who has taken many cases of the missing. “They want to avoid the publicity.”

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Human rights groups and lawyers describe the disappearances as one of the grimmest aspects of Pervez Musharraf’s presidency, and one that shows no sign of slowing.
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The issue of the missing became one of the most contentious between President Musharraf and the Supreme Court under its former chief justice, Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/19/world/asia/19disappeared.html?hp

Pakistan ek khalis kaum hai

Pakistan ek khalis kaum hai
Pakistani khalis insaan hain
ek be-khalis hindu k potay
Iqbal nay iski bunyaad daali
aur mian Jinnah nay is main
khalis hakoomat laa daali

aur hamaray daddon nay kasmain khaaeen -
Pakistan Islaam k insaanon ki jaan hai
Pakistan islam par hamesha kurbaan hai
iska har ek bashinda musalman hai
har bashindo ko Islam par maan hai
is mulk main brabar sub musalman hain

lakin is paak hakoomat main
kitnay paaki kahaan gaaeb ho gayey
jungle ki patjahr main hawwa main kahaan ur gayey
kahaan giray vo kahaan bani kabrain unki
kyaa thaa unka ilzaam is k koee nishaan na hai
maan-baap bahoo-buchay unki yaad main rotay hain
dukh k dariya unki aankhon say nikaltay hain
unki kooe parwah nahin karta
kyon k ye kaum paak hai
aur is ka har insaan paak hai!

Note: Inspired by "The Missing Pakistanis" by kashkin dabruski