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Dear Readers,
While All Things Pakistan has remained alive and online, it has been dormant since June 11, 2011 - when, on the blog's 5th anniversary, we decided that it was time to move on. We have been heartened by your messages and the fact that a steady traffic has continued to enjoy the archived content on ATP. While the blog itself will remain dormant, we are now beginning to add occasional (but infrequent) new material by the original authors of the blog, mostly to archive what they may now publish elsewhere. We will also be updating older posts to make sure that new readers who stumble onto this site still find it useful.
We hope you will continue to find ATP a useful venue to reflect upon and express your Pakistaniat. - Editors
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Hello,
I am a mumbaikar as well. Thank you for this blog. I read an interesting comment about how media manipulates opinion in India. This is sadly true. There exists a lot of anti-Pakistan propoganda. But to be frank this is the only pro-India blog/article of Pakistani origin I have ever seen. After the Mumbai attacks I saw a clipping of Geo TV which I believe is a Pakistani news channel in which they had invited the Pakistani defence analyst to express his views regarding the attacks and India’s accusation. He pointed at Mohd. Ajmal Kasab’s picture and said that this man was an Indian and the terror striked were conducted by the Indian govt. 9/11 style. This convinced me that both India and Pakistan are victims of the state propoganda. Both the countries need to change their politicans and leaders if they want peace.
A wonderfully balanced and well-written article on the issue by Gen. Talat Masood in the Daily Times.
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2008\12\18\story_18-12-2008_pg3_2
@Danish Burki
Are you telling me this “Ajmal Amir” fellow registered to vote in Pakistan? If this existence is really confirmed how about a picture of his parents, their house, their profession or business, his friends? his life??
I dont accept a few paragraphs in a vague article as proof.
For a few posters here especially those that feel an anger towards India espe for its Kashmir policies/ alluding to so called ‘mistreatment’ of Indian Muslims,I have some observations. Some of these may be wrong and some quite simplistic in conclusions, but I encourage any sane/non name calling corrections. Also I agree that any govt’s policies are never without any adverse reaction from somewhere and certainly Indian bureaucrats and politicians have misserved the great people-whether Muslims or Hindus.
Now lets talk about the amusing charge of ‘Muslims in India are mistreated so they are rising up in revolt’…
In any country, especially one with India with huge population competing for limited resources including jobs, education opportunities, land etc; there are bound to be feelings of deprivation/injustice etc. But many of times it is due to sub continent
An excellent article:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/dec/12/mumbai-arundhati-roy