tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6077923011882920088.post6019524962750594652..comments2023-08-14T03:00:01.875-07:00Comments on Now.I.Have.Said.It: Empathy, anyone?..Anniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10603867355876030251noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6077923011882920088.post-16914628214560131172009-09-23T14:47:17.868-07:002009-09-23T14:47:17.868-07:00The situation was far worst in 1995 ... you litera...The situation was far worst in 1995 ... you literally gotta blame the corrupt politicians for misleading others. they do these because they have nothing else to do, no goals of future to look forward to.<br /><br />People have forgotten tehzeeb, talim and tarbiyat not because they belong to a political party, but they've forgotten it as a human being.Nabeelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17350990439729881786noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6077923011882920088.post-71640615118603764982009-09-22T04:24:07.433-07:002009-09-22T04:24:07.433-07:00@Mighty.... *blush.giggle.chuckle*
@Salman ...
I...@Mighty.... *blush.giggle.chuckle*<br /><br />@Salman ...<br /><br />I,m not justifying MQM's actions. I'm just trying to hint at a simple thing. Oppression breeds oppression. Look at wht is being done to the minorities in our country. For the love of Allah, the shit pakistani muslims pulled in shantinagr, back in 97...<br /><br />its like a never ending thing. This needs to stop somewhere...<br /><br />@M4...Thanks a lot. Its so frusrating to see this same pattern, being repeated , across the globe. Its ironic when it is happening in a country like ours which was made for this exactsame reason; a country based on the warm-fuzzy concept of the "islamic brotherhood".... "peace for all"<br /><br />Peace...One day...Anniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10603867355876030251noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6077923011882920088.post-41441152807034785492009-09-20T07:42:36.585-07:002009-09-20T07:42:36.585-07:00Oh Annie, what an insightful and enlightening read...Oh Annie, what an insightful and enlightening read. And I thought that only we, across the border, had to battle with inner-racisms, cultural conflicts, caste politics and a simmering rage, which has been pent up for so long that it's finally started to boil over.<br /><br />Peace. This is what the world needs. This is what we all deserve.Mamma mia! Me a mamma?https://www.blogger.com/profile/04136269509737254271noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6077923011882920088.post-12012786672939662342009-09-19T12:25:00.328-07:002009-09-19T12:25:00.328-07:00Well...that's a good analysis of the way MQM c...Well...that's a good analysis of the way MQM came out to be what it is now. However, the line of argument can be adopted on ALL social, political issues of modern day and every wrong done by every single person in any society can then be blamed on what? The circumstances that made the person or the group do that?<br />Since all stand even in that line of argument, let's just drop it and move to the present. How exactly are we to improve things NOW, in today's world.<br />Well...the first thing would be that all political gurus of Pakistan, particularly Punjab may simply let go of their long-bred hatred for MQM. What MQM would be required to do, in return, is to shun it's terror-politics in Karachi and invite other parties into the scene to end it's self-chosen isolation.<br />The wrongs done have been from both sides. Muhajir population was forced to bring out a residue of this sort after what they faced at Pakistan. However, the backlash from MQM has also been a terrible saga of terror in Karachi, which lost it's status of 'city of light' for many long years.<br />Let's just hope things melt down to a better future for all stakeholders here.Salman Latifhttp://www.salmanlatif.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6077923011882920088.post-87192024716925424662009-09-18T16:39:31.084-07:002009-09-18T16:39:31.084-07:00*cringe*
I'll try and forget you said that......*cringe*<br /><br />I'll try and forget you said that... you don't go comparing men of vision like Herr Furher (Adolf Bhai) to the blimp whose only claim to fame is the word "AAAUUUUUUUUUURRRRRRRRR!!!!"Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6077923011882920088.post-45899762375712903342009-09-18T00:16:48.516-07:002009-09-18T00:16:48.516-07:00I think he's kinda hot...
Pakistan's ans...I think he's kinda hot... <br /><br />Pakistan's answer to Fuhrer of Germany.Anniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10603867355876030251noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6077923011882920088.post-83476702958870339442009-09-18T00:14:21.697-07:002009-09-18T00:14:21.697-07:00You have to admit thought... Altaf 'Bhai' ...You have to admit thought... Altaf 'Bhai' is too funny... :DAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6077923011882920088.post-54035738654977240372009-09-18T00:10:40.182-07:002009-09-18T00:10:40.182-07:00Thanks for pointing that out; Every political part...Thanks for pointing that out; Every political party in our country has a violent side. <br /><br />The issue here is that everyone keeps talking about them and Altaf Bhai and what criminals they are etc etc ... <br /><br />But noone stops to think of, how all these Mahajirs became like this?.. <br /><br /><br />its all too blakh... sad and pathetic..Anniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10603867355876030251noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6077923011882920088.post-51068851787183398732009-09-16T13:11:29.521-07:002009-09-16T13:11:29.521-07:00Having lived in Karachi for nearly two-and-a-half ...Having lived in Karachi for nearly two-and-a-half years, my experience with the MQM was pretty much hands on. As a journalist, I also had the oppurtunity of interacting with some their leaders. The impression that I take away from both these experiences highlights a complex, yet disturbing duality, one which is characteristic of nearly all political parties in contemporary Pakistan. <br />On one hand, we have the militant, oft violent side of the MQM. But the same can be said of the PPP (remember when BB died), the PML-N (they were the architects of lawyers' movement and the recent power riots), the BNP, PkMAP, JI etc.<br />But in the case of the MQM, this side manifests itself in a rather unforgiving manner. When they go into action, they don't discriminate between innocent bystanders and their intended targets. It's mayhem, the kind we saw on May 12. But if you were on the receiving end of something like the 1992 operation, you'd also have a fire of vengance burning inside you.<br /><br />On the other side is their political prowess. As a political party, the MQM is one of the most (if not the most) well-disciplined and organised outfits in the country. At the helm of their public image campaign is the man who leads by example, City Nazim Mustafa Kamal. Also indicative of their roots in the people is the fact that sector in charges, who operate on a purely local level, rank higher than even party MNAs. For example (although I'm not 100% sure on this one), Deputy MQM Parliamentary Leader Haider Abbas Rizvi has been elected from the Gulistan-e-Jauhar/Gulshan-e-Iqbal constituency. But he is still answerable to his Jauhar sector in charge, making redressal of grievances a truly grass-roots affair for the party.<br /><br />It's a Catch-22. Do you let a party with a fascist and even seperatist past rise so high in national politics, because they shed their purely 'Mohajir' mantle long ago when they decided to go national. I guess that's a question for wiser people to answer. Right now, all I know is that good, or bad, the MQM is here to stay.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com