The News Shamefully Advocates Elopement & Sex as “Few Moments of Divinity”!!!

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The shaded passages are the reflections of Seema Abbasi and Shehzad Amjad on the love affair of Riffat Afridi and Ahsan. The young woman was a teenager (probably 16-year old). He eloped with her, contrived a marriage document and later received a bullet from one of the girl’s “wronged” relatives.

 

And what is the News’ reflection:

 

·         Sex relations (joys of passion) are all right!

 

·         A 33-year old man can elope with a 16-year old girl, never mind the age difference between the two.

 

·         Sex relations are a “few moments of divinity” (Divinity means quality of being: the divinity of Christ; of god or goddess)

 

Would you call it irony or the theater of absurdity that after violating all the moral norms, the writers of the piece feel “morally obliged” to support such cases of irresponsible sex which throws families into violent spasm and shame and destroy the lives of innocent youth!!!

 

Or is it that Seema Abbasi and Shehzad Amjad are making up for their own personal failings of youth by using Ahsan and Riffat as guinea pigs? – the editorial staff of the esteemed News would know better!!!

Shehzad Amjad Calls Pakistan’s Destiny As Neurotic!!!

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·         He is worried about South Asia (translation: India), Pakistan is not his concern!

 

·         For the Muslims who led the Pakistan movement and still believe in its ethos he uses the phrase “medievalistic warriors of faith.” – In other words for Shehzad Amjad and the editorial staff of the News both Jinnah and Iqbal were medievalists!

 

Facts That Shehzad Amjad Conveniently Forgets!

 

·         Other than an instance or two while the Muslims were fighting the British colonialists, the Hindus were stabbing them in the back

 

·         Where would he put Jaswant Singh’s and Shiva Ji’s revolt against Aurangzeb?

 

·         The Hindu rise and the crushing blow it had from Ahmad Shah Abdali?

 

·         Or what the Indian and British connived against the Muslims? (not to mention Nehru’s bootlicking of Mountbatten!!!)

 

Shehzad Amjad of the News Refers to Pakistan as a “Contradiction” and “Psychological Non-Existent”

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The shaded passages say:

 

·         Pakistan is finished

 

·         It is psychologically non-existent

 

·         It suffers from crises because it is a “state of non-being”

 

·         Had it been a genuine state, it would have had no problems.

 

·         And since it is “non-existent,” its map can be redrawn

 

The News’ writer visualizes Pakistaniat (Pakistan and Pakistanis) as contradiction [translated: Marxism]

 

Shehzad Amjad of the News Wants Kashmir Out of Pakistan!!!

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The above passages openly say

 

·         Kashmir does not belong to Pakistan

 

·         Pakistan is a bad dream. Why would the Kashmiris opt for Pakistan?

 

·         Bangladesh is the result of Pakistani exploitation (never mind the Indian aggression)

 

Who is Shehzad Amjad to decide for the Kashmiris that they should not join their Pakistani brothers?

 

What moral grounds he has to make judgment on Pakistan? Is he not parroting the Indian theme being sold to Kashmiris?

 

·        All told, what is bad about Pakistan. Is it not a fact that Pakistan is one of the three democracies in the Muslim countries?

 

·         That Pakistan has a higher per capita income in South Asia

 

·         That Pakistan enjoys better health, food and lifestyles than any other nation in South Asia

 

·        That Pakistan has worked relatively harder for Muslim unity and given support to Muslim causes all over the world. Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan is one of the most cherished moment for humanity.

 

·         That the Pakistan despite economic downturns is big on compassion for fellow Muslims all over the world.

 

·        That Pakistan has supported the oppressed all over the globe – financially, morally, and even militarily

 

·         That Pakistan is a nuclear power with budding missile technology

 

Shehzad Amjad may not know it because of the Indian blinders on his eyes, but the Kashmiris can see for themselves because they have thrown away their’s. He also does not know because of his secular orientation that nations and their aspirations are not always measured in material terms nor are the material considerations the prime over of important historical events. Kashmiri Muslims and Pakistani Muslims are one in Islamic Brotherhood.

 

It is a real shame to see a majority of the journalists of our country being ignorant about the News’ anti-Pakistan and Pro-Indian agenda?

 

Shehzad Amjad Calls Pakistan’s Claim to Kashmir as “Dehumanized”!!!

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The embossed passages reveal a disturbing mindset

 

·         It seeks to derail the Kashmir issue by taking it out of the United Nations’ purview.

 

·         It aims at divesting the Kashmiri issue of a legal basis provided by the UN resolutions.

 

·         It preempts Pakistan from helping the Kashmiris

 

·         It makes fund of our historic consciousness, of our self-respect and pride as a people in the stream of history

 

·         It does not believe in the Muslimness of the Kashmiri and Pakistani people, their cognate nature of oneness

 

·         Pakistanis suffer from “aimless delusion of grandeur” [Never mind the tautology of empty-headed combination of “aimless delusion”. Delusion being an insane state of mind has no aim or aimlessness].

 

·         Worse, it is a shameless effort at alienating Kashmiris from Pakistan by telling the that the community they wish to join stands “discredited” in terms of its ideology.

 

·         Pakistan is a “morally backward” nation [because of Islamic morals]

 

·         Pakistan’s ideology is a “collective psychosis bred by incessant propaganda of an authoritarian [military] and scheming [security agencies] establishment]  

 

·         According to Shehzad Amjad’s dim-witted hypothesis, a country’s ideology can stand “discredited” because the majority of the people are considered to be the “poorest of the poor” – never mind the ideology of the countries that are below Pakistan in terms of poverty…what about them Mr. Shehzad Amjad?

 

All other peoples have the right to strengthen themselves by coming together but not the Muslim peoples of Pakistan and Kashmir.

 

One wonders’ who is footing the bill for Shehzad Amjad’s lousy ruses?

 

Shehzad Amjad of the News Hits Hard on the Kashmir Issue

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One may call this piece appalling but that still would be euphemism: if its purpose was to degrade our nationhood and to denounce the Kashmiri Muslims struggle for self-determination, then certainly it has accomplished it. For example, read Amjad’s question to Nandy, “Would you like to draw a parallel between Kashmir and Karachi?” The question is incongruous to the theme of the interview which deals with development. But Amjad would like to put it in his mouth so that he could abuse us. Amjad calls him “the Socrates of modern (?) India.” Here is what Mr. Socrates says: “Kashmir is a pathology produced by the denial of rights to the Kashmiris. “ Meaning thereby, it is an in-house problem which has nothing to do with brutalizing the Kashmiris, raping their women, burning their houses, and killing their youths. Also it has nothing to do with the Indian occupation of a foreign land.

But it is on Karachi that Amjad’s “Socrates” pours out his venom, revealing his distorted sense of reality and his heritage of hatred for Pakistan.

 

“Karachi,” says he, :”is a product of South Asia’s pathetic search for building perfect nation states in the region. In the sense that Mahajirs were uprooted by the dream of an ideal nation-state which never came.”

 

Amjad should have called off the interview at this point, but why should he let the occasion go if it can be used to degrade his people further. He asks Nandy, “how do you see the future of Jinnah and Gandhi?” Nandy thinks “Jinnah was a modernist and Gandhi was a counter modernist.” But after having said that, Nandy true to his Indian biases prefers Gandhi as “relevant to the future of South Asia.”

 

Shehzad Amjad of the News Hankers Against Pakistan!

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The shaded passages in the text carry a number of contradictions. For instance, if the agencies (which one ISI, IB, MI?) are running a parallel government, they should not be “unleashing nasty spate of half truths, official lies and propagandistic claims of national progress.” For these are more in the interest of the government in power than of these agencies. Unless it is proved that the agencies have their agenda, the paranoia of a parallel government is at best facile.

 

Implied Message

 

·         The agencies are bad because they are engaged in undermining the democratic process, and thus destroying the nation [why would the agencies do that, the piece insinuates but spells not].

 

·         Since two-nation theory is not believed anymore, Pakistan has lost its validation.

 

·         Pakistan has not progressed at all; it is a failed nation.

 

Method in Madness

Agencies and armed forces are the eyes, ears and muscles of a nation. Ridicule and undermine them, and the nation will fall to espionage and subversion of foreign powers.

 

The invalidation of the two-nation theory is a wish as well as a target. [How did the writer come to this conclusion?] Did the Pakistanis tell him that they do not want to be Muslims anymore? Because after all, what is Two-Nation Theory other than an ideational separation of Muslim and Kafir as two nations.

Shehzad Amjad of the News Rapes Pakistan’s “Historical Catastrophe”

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In this piece, the News writer carries his theme to absurdity. Doubtless, when someone has “foreign” cause to serve, sensitivity and fairness are last.

 

True! Pakistanis are not angels (the world is neither) but magnifying an isolated incident of a one-year old child’s sexual abuse as “nation-state that continues to exist in a ridiculous time warp” and “fed with total lies” is simply indicative of a sick psychotic mindset which has lost its sense of humanity and proportion. Only pro-Indian bigots and fanatic Indophiles like Shehzad Amjad and the News’ editorial staff can do a thing like this.

 

His other concern is how to safeguard the image of RAW as a decent Samitarian, harmless even helpful to Pakistan. What is RAW and what it has been doing, he should read Brigadier Tirmidhi’s Profile of Intelligence Agencies and Ashok’s Inside Raw.

 

What does the News aim at:

 

·         Demean Pakistan in the eyes of the readers by blowing up an individual incident over Pakistan’s ideology and history

 

·         Safeguard RAW’s image so that it continues its subversion (read: sectarianism, brutality, unrest, self doubt in the Pakistanis)

 

Shehzad Amjad & Shahzareah Hussain of the News Disemboweling The Two Nation Theory

“The Two Nation Theory Could Not Provide Honor, Dignity & Freedom To the Muslims of Subcontinent”

Shehzad Amjad and Shahzareah Hussain

Excerpt: Why did the Bengalis separate from Pakistan? Who is happy in Pakistan? Are the Baloch happy? Are the Sindhis happy? Are the Pakhtoons happy? Are the Seraiki happy? Are the Mohajirs happy? Do the ethno linguistic minorities feel happy or relieved? Are the religious minorities happy? Do Pakistan women feel secure or even respected? And are they equally treated? Was Pakistan made for the feudals, military generals or the Punjabi establishment?…In a hard talk conducted via email, Political Economy poses some of the thorniest questions and makes the controversial leader of  ‘Mohajirs’ respind like he has never done before.

(Source: The News, September 3, 2000)

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This is a full page interview. Some questions are outrightly sinister and are formulated to get a desired response – in line with the News’ mindset – that is to finish Pakistan. For exampe read the following questions:

Q. What if the Mohajirs of urban Sindh fail to attain their rights in the next 7-10 years. Would MQM then try to organize a secessionist force? Some people in Karachi think that their city could, at some point, emerge as the Hong Kong of South Asia? Please comment.

Q. From a student leader at Karachi University who rode a Honda 70 in the late 1970s to a firebrand leader of the MQM living in exile in London, you have come a long way. Would you like to sehd some light on your dreams and aspirations as a young man and your experiences of injustic and exploitation that led you to form APMSO and later the MQM. Your party policies and programmes are overtly secular, but still you have chosen to give yourself a religious aura by becoming a ‘Pir Sahib.’ Why? Moreoever does your seeking exile in London imply history turning a full circle.? The leader of the younger generation of the creators of Pakistan going back to the capital of Great Britain. Does this not imply symbolically that the question has yet to be settled?

Besides the above, look at the caption, which negates Pakistan itself, and was picked up because it embraces the political philosopy of the News and its editorial staff. Unfortunately, they have become the foul mouthpiece of the secularist movement for the break up of Pakistan.