It’s a free-for-all!
The circus is in town. Tahir-ul-Qadri is back with invaluable suggestions for forming and running a new government. The other usual suspects, to a man, are there too. Suddenly everybody has forgotten that Sipah-e-Sahaba is a banned organisation. The Kashmir jihad may be over but Hafiz Saeed is now determined to teach NATO a lesson. I thought Ijaz-ul-Haq, like most politicians, did not publicly own Zia-ul-Haq anymore. How wrong I was! Hameed Gul and Sheikh Rasheed can never be away from action when national security is at stake. Everybody is using the opportunity to thrash the MFN status awarded to India; this outpouring of outrage may have come now because Kayani took a long time before disliking the proposal – perhaps he was too occupied with the memo thing earlier. Jamaat-e-Islami had helped make it possible for Musharraf to pass the 17th amendment. Before that, it had the best time among the political crowd during the Afghan war; but all of a sudden now it is against the US – as are the other traditional beneficiaries of US aid. It doesn’t matter if none of the 60 parties comprising the formidable Difa-e-Pakistan Council has any seat in the parliament – and they might never have many either. Still, they have delivered time and again as a pressure group. The army itself will come round sooner rather than later, and the NATO supply line will resume as soon as a good bargain is achieved. Where will all this aggression be directed once US again ceases to be our enemy? You don’t need a PhD degree to answer that. By the way, ‘Mullah nassya wich hijab’ fame Abdul Aziz wants to rebuild Jamia Hafsa, for which of course, he has court orders.
Meanwhile, the Ghairat Brigade is not very happy. The president has successfully lobbied in the US leading up to the affidavit of James Jones. The two columnists who were to help guide the SC solve the memo mystery may not be able to do it now. They must be devastated now considering that they were earlier jumping up and down in joyous anticipation. ISPR is adamant that Kayani just had a one minute phone conversation with Zardari, as if it were a crime to talk to the president. A leading Ghairat Brigade trooper reported in the Urdu press that Hussain Haqqani was desperate to get into Zardari’s helicopter but the PM didn’t let him. Since this reporter is notorious for passing his desires off as news, it was most probably a made up story. However, in the unlikely event of it being true, it raises a question: considering that only ISPR could’ve let this news spill, where do these Ghairat Brigade reporters get their stories from?
We have always been used to hearing that despite the best efforts of our enemies within and without, it is only because of our brave army that we are still on the world map. Then there was this welcome addition of the journalist community that started regularly saving the country from untold disasters. It must be said that the journalists have proven their credentials by being properly reverential towards the original saviours. The judiciary has made its entry relatively recently but boy, did they join the club with a bang! We now welcome the cable operators who have passed the ultimate test of patriotism by shutting down the BBC transmission and vowing to do the same with the local channels if a word goes on air against the army. With this quartet in place, our nation is now well and truly secure.
The experts on TV have suddenly stopped advising Hussain Haqqani to sue Mansoor Ijaz and The Financial Times, for they know that any scrutiny of the ISI in a court outside Pakistan can be detrimental to the security of the nation. Of course, Haqqani might still do it if he feels threatened here in the SC, but that is not very likely now. Nawaz will continue using the SC’s shoulder, Pasha will continue investigating the memo, Imran will keep showing his outrage and the Jamaat will become even more desperate. With every passing moment though, the frustration on the part of the above parties is building up. The prospect of Zardari having the last laugh, again, is giving them ulcers. But the most pitiable community is that of our TV anchors.
His adversaries often forget this but Zardari has spent eleven defiant years in jail. He is easily the most strong-nerved politician around. People who hoped he would give in without jeopardising the very existence of a few sacred things around simply don’t understand his temperament. The circus is in town. But so is the president.
The writer is a member of the band Beygairat Brigade that has recently released the single Aaloo Anday.
Woah!!! Very riveting analysis and an even more different conclusion. It's making me reconsider the last para. You have a different eye, waiting for more!!!
Loved it!! May the Ghairat Brigade all go far far away from Pakistan.
LOL! Only in Pakistan do we have such crappy "analysis" praised and appreciated! 😉 A country where pretty much every other vital institution has been destroyed, or is nearing destruction, where maintenance of law & order is a farce, where innocent human beings are picked up by the "agencies" and handed over to foreign countries without any freakin' explanation whatsoever and where corruption and manipulation is the name of the game! Apparently such "entertainment" (this article that is) is a good indicator of the type of confusion that exists in the various segments of our society!
lets all be bheghairat! its the solution to all our problems, lets all polish the boots of USA, lets all wear jeans an drink alchohol and express our freedoms so that our country can prosper! Confused #FakeLiberals
and genuine confused conservatives.
Lets bash Islam and lets bash the army! Let us be behghairat as this will help our country grow economically and will end terroriskm, lets just talk crap about rightwingers and make jokes of mullahs , this will make sure unemployment and loadshedding ends. BEHGAIRATI is the solution for a prosperous Pakistan! Jiye Zardari… sorry.. I meant jiyee bhutto
Lets make fun of humanity and talk of Pakistaniat and Islam….and make fool out of people for 6 decades. And when people start to realize and retaliate, make comments that "confused fake liberals" trying to solve Pakistan's problems (Or Pakistani Problem). So the advice by the Righteous Right-Wingers is that ' hear no evil, see no evil and speak no evil" when it comes to the Mother of all Evils.
The trolls are out in full force! Means you've struck a nerve, well done! 😉
those cheap Pakistani trolls always showing patriotism hump! Well done you have striked their nerve, it means that the conservative nature of Pakistanis and mullahs will embrace liberalism. By bashing islam and army you have made mullahs realise they are wrong and will openly change from ghairat brigade to beghairat bridage.
Mr ali , i hope u are paid by Pakistan Today and not by zardari or Zumarad Khan or Farzana raja
You're still here? ALI AFTAB I MEAN THIS GUY CAN NOT EVEN WRITE ENGLISH IN PROPER GRAMMAR AND HIS GHOST WRITER IS WRITING ALL THIS BULLSHIT ON HIS BEHALF?
AND MIND IT BEFORE CALLING QADRI A CLOWN, YOU LIBERALS PRAISED HIM WHEN HE QADRI TASEER'S KILLER A RECKLESS CREATURE?
P.S IVE HEARD THAT THIS BASTARD ALI IS AN AHMEDI
LET ME TRACE YOU AND I SWEAR I'LL FUCK UR MUM BEFORE UR EYES ASSHOLE
@Mr. Saeed Ikram, I know i will sound totally cliche Pakistani conspiracy theorist and I am only saying it because the above analysis makes me sick and I wish to insult the writer in as civil yet as harsh a manner as I possibly can so here it goes – I think the writer in question might be getting paid by elements outside of our borders.
Yes indeed he is an agent of Istamaari and taghooti quvvat because ALLAH SWT speaks to all the Righteous Right-Wingers and whispers in their ears about the only truth. So this guy is in fact paid jointly by the Hindu, Qadiyani, Nusrani, Yahudi, Kafiri, Amriki, Sehuni, Soviet-Communist (not the Chinese Communist) lobbies.
Mr. Saeed Ikram knows it and thanks for facilitating him unveil the TRUTH!
good job!! …… it is gud to read a balanced view of things……..
Dr Tahir ul Qadri is Need of Time. Dr Qadri taken good step against corrupt electoral system. He do not needs of Govt but He just want to change the corrupt system from Pakistan. He has great vision. Nutral person having no jealousy in heart can only understand him.
Dr Tahir-ul-Qadri is obviously right to say that the real change is not possible through current electoral system. This curropt electoral system was geared towards protecting the interests of the ruling elite with nothing to offer to the poor masses. While the other parties are just trying to remove the current govt and not going to change the SYSTEM.
Pakistani nation should wake up and stand up against this corrupt electoral system.unless we dont reject this corrupt system no change will come.we should Dr..Tahir-ul-Qadri for this cause.he has capability to deliver and alternative system.if you contets 100 elections in this corrupt system nothing will change. reforms in electoral system are must!
wonderful analysis! Army should envision the collateral damage that would ensue if triple 111 Brigade ( As the connotations have been changed so i would call it ghairat brigade) embarks on any (mis) adventure….
All leaders are just trying to cash the hot issues of traditional political approaches this & this…etc except there is a unique & true voice coming that is giving the message of highlighting root cause of all the problems in Pakistan , means..," Monopolistic corrupt electoral system" …..well said dr.tahir ul qadri , …no doubt if root cause is removed then rest we can hope for better…..Imran khan & other true change seekers in country can sustain & result their hopes otherwise if things remains unchanged then situation would be more worst & disappointing …..!
Marvellous analysis ALI! Keep pouring them in
The mentality of the writer depicts the true sickness prevailing in our country. Such an imbecile analysis… Useless to read.
Ali ! u had the knack of writing as well …surprised and happy to know this … All the best
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