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Shame

Topic started by krbhatti on Jul 9, 2008 3:32:37 am

http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=200879\story_9-7-2008_pg3_7

S hame!

Sir: “Whom the gods wish to destroy, they first make mad,” said classical dramatist Euripides centuries ago, and that seems correct given the situation in our country. We the people of Pakistan must be mad, literally, as we have still not figured out which side we stand on in this daily showing of blood and carnage. Mr Ejaz Haider in his column (“Be done with this confusion”, July 8, 2008) pointed to the same madness and indecisiveness of ordinaries and not so ordinaries alike.

No country of the size and population of Pakistan can succumb to this level of confusion, chaos and cruelty where the participants of Lal Masjid congregation pass by the dead and wounded policemen with grins on their faces unless there is something horribly wrong with the collective psyche of the nation. Shame on all that smiled at this horrible attack; and shame on those who trained them to value humanity as such. Shame on those military masterminds of past who empowered them to become what they are today. Shame on the politicians who nurtured and protected them. And of course, shame on me for being part of a nation that can jam the roads (and justifiably so) over a single incident in faraway Scandinavia, but choose to ignore what people do to them in the name of religion.

But the biggest culprits of all are our electronic media anchors, who spread this confusion out of their sheer incompetence or to further their own agenda. Shame on them all. They have chosen not to inform the nation about the actual environment in which this war on terror is waged.
KHALID BHATTI
Via email

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Post by akcheema on Jul 9, 2008 6:02:07 am
my general advice would be to chill the geordie accent simply facilitates the process flag objectionable content

Post by Dash_Dot on Jul 9, 2008 6:01:32 am
putting a hand on the thigh...so big deal. A fatherly gesture, nothing more I am sure.....but gosh the mileage and the tons of trees chopped down for this story....the mind boggles flag objectionable content

Post by nb on Jul 9, 2008 5:59:47 am
good for you flag objectionable content

Post by akcheema on Jul 9, 2008 5:58:59 am
all I was speaking of is something meaningful flag objectionable content

Post by nb on Jul 9, 2008 5:58:33 am
she accused him of putting his hand on her thigh when they were discussing something academic. children??? never heard that one flag objectionable content

Post by Humsab on Jul 9, 2008 5:57:52 am
BHOOP DUKHI, AWADHOOT DUKHI, DUKHI RUNK BIPARIT KAHE KABEER YE SAB DUKHI, SUKHI SANT MUN JEET Translation:-The king, the beggar and the saint all of them experience distress and sorrow. Happy and content is he, who controls the mind Regards flag objectionable content

Post by nb on Jul 9, 2008 5:57:31 am
dots did flag objectionable content

Post by Dash_Dot on Jul 9, 2008 5:57:17 am
nb is it true that Bloom messed with the Wolf after you mentioned I googled it and refreshed my memomry...lots of things were writen about sometime back....including possible children etc etc flag objectionable content

Post by akcheema on Jul 9, 2008 5:55:56 am
who said anything about the dress ??.........certainly not me flag objectionable content

Post by Dash_Dot on Jul 9, 2008 5:55:46 am
nb dont get me started on Lancashire Roses roses indeed flag objectionable content

Post by nb on Jul 9, 2008 5:54:23 am
how should i know how geordies dress we dress well in lancashire flag objectionable content

Post by akcheema on Jul 9, 2008 5:53:38 am
nb........just forget about your puritanical upbringing for once for heaven's sake flag objectionable content

Post by nb on Jul 9, 2008 5:52:16 am
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Post by Dash_Dot on Jul 9, 2008 5:50:52 am
thats right cheema... meaningful indeed I remember the first day I was in Newcastle many moons ago....and it was a friday. I walked from work towards centre of town and it was deember. Bigg Market was where all the people in dept said to meet up...so I walked...and was confronted by a bevy of women...dressed geordie eestyle..me in ten layers of woollies and coats....they .... yes, cheema better stop the anecdote before I get slammed flag objectionable content

Post by akcheema on Jul 9, 2008 5:46:17 am
dashy................what I couldn't give for having a meaningful conversation with a geordie chick flag objectionable content

Post by nb on Jul 9, 2008 5:45:27 am
dots, i am not used to needing a coat flag objectionable content

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