Credits for photos belong to Pervaiz Munir Alvi saheb. He took the photos on his recent trip to Pakistan and graciously shared them with me. The location is the Grand Trunk (now called highway N5) in Punjab.
While we have discussed Declaration of Emergency, Chronology of a Meltdown, mis-treatment of Imran Khan in recent past, one topic that got missed is what’s Benazir Bhutto up to these days? We would like to hear from our readers. Today, on my drive back from office, I was listening to Imran Khan‘s interview on National Public Radio (NPR). On a question of joining forces with Benazir, Imran Khan replied:
“We would love to join Benazir, except we don’t know whose side she is on today….There is a big mistrust of each other among opposition parties these days”.
I agree. What do you think? Above photos are in no way ATP’s endorsement to Benazir. They simply reflect a glimpse of our society. In addition to that, I personally enjoyed reading the slogan: “faisla zameer da….”
Bibi has sold out so far and her cronies in the Pervez People’s Party are complicit in this war crime against the nation. How can anyone EVEN CONSIDER taking parts in elections without a constitution and its worse from the PPP as the 1973 constitution was one of the great achievements of its founder.
I stand by every word I wrote before her arrival in my post titled ‘Welcome Home Benazir Zardari’ and it can be seen via the link here (scroll down for it) http://www.otherpakistan.org/archive.html
Feimanallah
Wasim
Benazir is converting her dollars to euros thats what she is doing. By the way to the people who said that only PPP supporters were locked up – what about all the lawyers, journalists (who witnessed MQM’s enlightened moderation Danda two days ago), human rights activists and PML-N, PONM, ANP & Labour leaders and workers.Also lets also not forget the Justices of the Supreme Court who are locked up in Islamabad.
Meengla
You are right that this will be a betrayal of the people but public memory (including the people who have commented here) is short.
Guess who betrayed the people for the last 8 years: not BB or her corrupt cohorts but Mr Imran Khan who is being projected as Pakistan’s premier politician by this website by supporting the coup, the referendum until he was not ‘made’ the PM.
The MMA that legalized the 17th amendment allowing him to retain two posts.
The honourable judges who upheld his takeover, then allowed him to keep two posts – it is too late now to become martyrs when they had allowed military rule for 7 years! When he fired their chief they all woke up.
The Pakistani diaspora that praised Musharraf to the skies. Read some of the older posts and comments here – talk of being away from the reality!
The NGOs and the so called civil society who time and again said that he was better than the Mullah, pro -women and brought devolution of powers.
Now all of them have woken up from a deep slumber (or shall we say a long honeymoon of collaboration) and realised that there was a dictatorship in the country!
But of course BB is the worst leader, most corrupt, will destroy the country. We have to submit before the sea of wisdom here!
Power seeking is only the preserve of NS, Imran Khan, MMA, Judges and you name it. It is in fact patriotic and good for the country.
When BB makes a bid for it, she is ‘greedy’, a ‘grabber’, a sell out and let us not forget unpatriotic.
Brilliant.
P.S. Interesting to note that the purpose of this post was served – you ask a clever question and unleash the vitriolic against someone you perhaps don’t like but-were-afraid-to-say.
“Objectivity” lies beyond the definition of Pakistaniat.
Ooops! Forgot to address the main question in my post above.
BB’s rhetoric seems to be milder since Negroponte’s visit. Apparantly she is being ‘pursuaded’ to make another attempt at compromising with Musharraf. I think it will be a betrayal of Pakistani people if, through her actions, Musharraf is installed as a president for 5 more years. But my thinking is that she is going to try to kick out Musharraf from power once he doffs his uniform. Only 2-3 days are left before we may know what she is really upto (other than seeking power–which everyone else is doing, by the way!).
I second what Zia says above.
Also, name ONE major politician in Pakistan who has been imprisoned in (mostly real jail, along with torture!) for 8 years: Only Asif Ali Zardari has been through that.
BB’s mistakes are nothing compared with the mistakes of the 8 years of misrule under Musharraf. The economic revival, yes, has been good but Pakistan now faces extreme dangers due to the shortsighted policies of Musharraf.
About NS, well, he ignored small provinces while forming his setup as the PM and is basically a politician of one province and can hardly unite Pakistanis. Besides, his attempts to make himself an ‘Amir ul Mominoon’ through the (then) 13th Amendment shows his mindset-that alone is enough to keep me away from him.
About Imran Khan: I supported him until I saw his interview with Hamid Mir recently (while he was ‘hiding’): Imran Khan tied the violence in NWFP to the ‘fahashi’ going on in the electronic media. I hate to think what he is going to do one he tastes power.