Adil Najam
Urdu columnist Hasan Nisar is known for his outspoken view. He can sometimes be a loose canon, but whether you agree with him or not (and I do not as often as I do) he makes you think. He certainly does that in this outburst on a TV talk show (this is an old recording, but I do not know from exactly when).
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I like how Nisar points out that higher education is the key for success in pakistan and muslim ummah.
@MK
I wish you were right and speaking uncomfortable truths was as easy as you say it is. I wish it were but if it were more would be doing it. I wish more were doing it. Maybe you should start doing it too, if it is that easy. If more people did, the world would be a better place.
What Hasan Nisar is doing is the easiest thing to do in this world. Acting morally correct in a debate is the poorest defence.
Not to say that he is wrong in saying what he is saying. But for point scoring in a debate it is the easiest thing to do. Unfortunately all of us do this (as i am doing right now by writing this comment). What no one is willing to answer is the right question and then the right answer. I think it is here where we lack the essential structure in our TV shows. very few of these are not response driven.
I think our emphasis should be on finding answers nor crticising what has been happening before us. History is its own judge no one needs anyone like Nisar to judge it.
What Hasan Nisar had to say has already been commented on by other posters… I would just like to point out the makeup of the guests and the audience… three of the guests wear the sort of beards only committed right wingers wear… and the audience is made up of incredibly shabbily dressed kids… even ten years ago, this would have been impossible…
I look at recordings of television shows from the 70s and even the 80s, and the well-dressed, articulate guests are a sight to behold… somewhere along the line, these mullahs, mullah wannabees and mullah sympathizers were given a stamp of approval of which they were completely undeserving…
Baat tau theek kar raha hai banda. He is hitting the nail on the nose. Yes, I mean, nose.
@ Harris Siddiqui
I agree with your comments and you’ll be pleased to know that there are plenty who are calling him traitor on the YouTube channel…never takes them long to notice right?…:)
Very powerful stuff. He is saying what so many of us are thinking.
Thank yo ATP for posting this. We need to pass this one around and make people start thinking rather than just pointing fingers.
Although Mr. Nisar makes some valid points about introspection, there are unignorable pointers to the involvement of RAW and CIA towards the development of the likes of Taliban and the BLA.
Although I agree that by addressing social injustices and lawlessness in Swat and Balochistan (and indeed the rest of the country) we need to take away the fuel from the fire, overlooking the hands that light the fire would be a very grave mistake.