Nauman Naqvi of the News Questions Pakistan’s Survival!!!

FAULT LINES EXPOSED!!!

 

The format is skillfully selected. There is a single question for six participants to answer, with their photographs. All very well educated, which gives a false air of credibility to the material. Their answers are spun around a rationale which has invariably the ability to map out a new consciousness in the readers – a consciousness to dismantle Pakistan as a state. The whole format is suggestive of a managed affair in which the participants (Other than Iqbal Ahmad) take the cue as performers. Their mindset synchronize well with Tariq Ali’s – the inveterate hater of Muslim Pakistan – from whose book the title of the format has been taken. In this introduction to the theme, Nauman Naqvi even quotes Tariq Ali

 

“The question which now increasingly haunts the new generations in Pakistan is not simply whether the country can survive, but whether its existence was necessary in the first place.”

 

Six ideas surface from the highlighted sentences:

 

1.      Pakistan and its people are no co-extensive [translated, they can live anywhere]

 

2.      People are more important than Pakistan [translated, their economic well being matters, which can be sought in any union other than Pakistan.]

 

3.      Pakistan is fictitious, an “insufficiently imagined state” [translated, its Muslimness makes it a fictitious state].

 

4.      Collective consciousness of nation statehood does not exist in Pakistan [translated, first it was the ideological state-based on “communal thinking” – which the old socialists (now liberal democrats) wanted to replace with a secular nation-state, not it is the nation-state which needs to be pulled down].

 

5.      Kashmiris will continue to pay the price for the existence of Pakistan [translated, the Kashmiris right to self-determination owes to the pull they have for Pakistan. Thus, Pakistan must be finished].

 

6.      Pakistan and India represent a cultural unit which is far more stronger than the nation-state [translated, the two should be one].

 

Suggested Remedy

 

Pakistan should merge itself into a South Asian confederation [that is: a template for recreating pre-independence India]. – This is a clear indicidation of the bigotry of the secular press in Pakistan who under the banner of “freedom of speech” are hitting at the foundations of the country and its ideology.

 

Questions

 

For whom exactly is the News International and its staff working for?