Pakistani television commentators and anchors are acting like a herd of sheep. Half a million Pakistanis are homeless. Our media calls them “Internally Displaced Persons” [IDPs] or “tribal refugees”, as if they are some ‘thing’ and not our fellow citizens. We Pakistanis must not let the U.S. and British media numb us into using such terms about our own people. The mistakes of the American and British occupation commanders and soldiers in Afghanistan have led to tragedies in our entire western region. If you can, telephone and email these newspapers and TV anchors. Tell them that you are offended as a Pakistani when they call the Pakistanis in our tribal belt as ‘IDPs’ or ‘Pashtun refugees’. Tell them they must be called ‘Pakistanis in our tribal belt.’ Let’s not compromise on showing compassion to those Pakistanis whose lives have been destroyed because of America’s cruel and unjust war.
Truly admire your patriotism.
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God knows who these news channels are working for.
ReplyDeleteEach day they waste by reporting 'unnecessary' issues. Bollywood headlines.
Our heart cries for each and every true Pakistani who are suffering in the hands of Pakistanis working for the west. May Allah(swt) bless them.
You are doing a great job by making people aware of the suffering of the tribal people in the hands of our government.
Ahmed, good point. In fact its the responsibility of the Pakistani people to comfort their displaced brother. A mass relief exercise is the first step that the Pakistani people need to take the alleviate some of their brothers' miseries. How can Pakistani people eat at their tables knowing that their brothers are sleeping with an empty stomach? Have we lost all semblance of character or moral obligation? Who cares if the government is committing treason after treason. Its each and every common Pakistani's responsablity to assist their brother in strife. People should remember the time of Kashmir earthquake when every Pakistani, went beyond the line of his race and ethnicity to help their fellow brothers of Kashmir. Its now or never and if we don’t lend a helping, we might our lose our Pushtun brothers forever.
ReplyDeleteTo get Pakistan out of this current mess, we need a replacement of current corrupt government with a government formed by selecting well-reputed technocrats of Pakistan. This selection process should be done by the Pakistan Army or under her protection. This view is shared by Ahmed Quraishi, Zaid Hamid and many other faithful Pakistanis.
ReplyDeleteAll the readers of this article, Please join me in spreading this message for the sake of our beloved Pakistan. The success of military intervention to install a government of technocrats SOLELY depends on how much our public is ready for that.
I have created a yahoo group: save our beloved pakistan(http://groups.yahoo.com/group/save_our_beloved_pakistan/?yguid=63739740)
I want the membership to be in 100,000s. Members will recruit more members to this point of view. We are only tasked to win minds. We don't need to lead any processions or get beaten by the police.
Once our target is convinced that Pakistan does not need democracy at this time, then we have attained our goals.We can also use this group to pressure the government to retreat from the wrong decisions. We can flood them with emails, phone calls, letters. The more we are, the more pressure we can exert.