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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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@Faraz
believing in “god” is a very subjective matter.. and I have personally no problem with people who believe that playing dead all their lives will please their “god” .. I believe in “god” too..
its the fear of dancing in this country which is the problem.. the fear of being happy.. in public !!
The problem in our country is that the dead people want to force the alive ones to play dead too !!! and since the take over of the religious goons on this country their fear tactics are are only now being exposed, and consequently loosing their grip.. maybe the two extremes have to be born in order for a balance to take place..
if the religious goons live and let live… we wouldn’t be having this discussion.. I would rather have been cringing and fuming over these guys in dancing to a foreign MNC rather than a local one :D
Salman, no matter what ridiculous labels you put (admirable, heartening etc.) on this paid-for dance show, and no matter how much you deride religion, the average Pakistani does believe in a “god.” You should read the article posted here by Dr Aslam about “Pseudo-Pakistaniat.”
Highly admirable…
to my religionized fellow Pakistanis.. who are all cringing over what is so admirable and heartening about this… let me clarify..
its heartening that there are people still ALIVE in Pakistan .. who embrace life as it is.. and don’t play dead as supposedly required by “god”
its heartening that these people seem to even embrace death at the hands of my fellow religionized Pakistanis.. that is what makes them ALIVE ..
chalo ab sub mil ker haath uthao .. may the 60-year-old fear of our religionized goons on our society be danced away.. Ameen
Nice. Very Nice.
Nice. Good to see this. Although as others said, better music and better dancing abilities needed.
Also, I wish more people from the crowds would join in. I would.