Adil Najam
This video of Mr. Asif Ali Zardari losing his cool during a speech and angrily shouting “Shut Up” to someone in the audience has been making the rounds.
If authentic, and it seems to be, the video is striking, but also sad, to see. There is not much that one can say by way of comment. Such behavior is embarrassing for any politician, but especially for the President of a country.
In fairness, I should add that I have not (yet) been able to find any information on the context of this: where was this, what did the person in the audience say (it was probably a pretty demeaning thing in itself), and - most importantly - what did Mr. Zardari say immediately after this.
I think the last of the above is especially important. It does disturb me that in all the versions of the video I found on the net the video ends abruptly after he utters the killer words: “Shut Up.”
I certainly hope that his immediate reaction was to stop, realize his mistake, and apologize. If he has not yet, he should.
i think adil is being sly with the people on this blog. Adil, I think you are just conducting your human behaviour experiment by posting this item.
Clearly there is not enough information to form a conclusive opinion about the context of the utterance of the words “shut up”. People who have comments, are extrapolating using the model of Zardari that they have in their minds. I too have not heard the full speech and do not know the actual context of this snippet.
But if i were to give the due benefit of doubt then there is a possiblity that the “shut up” was part of the speech itself, probably refering to on of the shut-up calls that democracy has received from the power brokers in pakistan.
my 2 cents
He seemed to pick only one poor soul in all that commotion. Not that it made any difference :P
I guess the likes of Mr. Zardari have/will realize that “jab awaam bolne lagegi tab shut up karna mumkin nahin” :D
more links for video?
This dude is crazy. But more like I would have to give him credit. He has been a target of selective justice. Anyways I would be more interested right now in the current extremism issue rather than just as individual telling another to SHUTUP!!
@Zecchetti.
Well , thats going to be a seperate debate. I might comeup with too much stats. I understand that missing people case is severe. But there were good things too. With the current era, we dont have any improvement. Things are getting worst everyday. Musharaf’s time was bad for lower and lower middle class but atleast middle class was enjoying a cash flow. there were opportunities that helped people survive. Now please dont think about recession, I still could not figure out how recession applies to Pakistan. We can talk about it sometime when ATP starts a comparison poll.
Can we see the rest of the video? Someone in the crowd was irritating him and so he had to react. Such outbursts are nothing new to world leaders.