Adil Najam
Ms. Asiya Nasir – Christian Member National Assembly (MNA), elected on a reserved seat from NA-322 (Balochistan-III) on an MMA (Mutihada Majlis i Amal; a coalition of religious parties) ticket, interestingly with JUI(F) affiliation – made this hard-hitting and courageous speech on the floor of the Pakistan National Assembly on March 4 before leading a token walk-out of minority and other members from the Assembly on the issue of Shahbaz Bhatti’s assassination.
The speech should be listened in full, not just for its heartfelt passion and its cry of pain, but also because no matter how much you think you know about Pakistan, you are bound to learn things you did not know. Asiya Nasir speaks to us not simply as a Minority or Christian MNA, but as a Pakistani. And it is as a Pakistanis that we must respond.
The 30 year old Asiya Nasir – wife of Nasir Masih and mother of a son and two daughters – has much to say and ask that we really have no response or answers to. But we should all be grateful to her for raising her voice as a Pakistani and asking questions that we have ignored – indeed, hidden – for too long. We are better off today because these questions have been asked.
From a normal Pakistani’s point of view, liberals are politicizing the issue. We need to revisit our definitions of freedom of expression, and its boundaries, in a more logical manner. That would surely bring us some good.
I agree with my friend, Ahsn, let’s rename Pakistan first, I suggest to call it “Minoritistan” or “Aqliyatistan”(In Urdu). After all Jinnah “day dreamed” to get a separate state where only minorities can be respected and saved and majorities could be humiliated and killed. I think this is the why we are living in a country where some Pub Drawing room experts are more concerned about minority. After who gives a damn if some gora (within) Pakistan kill few Majority community people or some goras across border kill hundreds of Majority community people by Drones. Oh wait! Since our friends believe in giving rights to minorities, Reymond is an American hence a minority in Pakistan therefore we should let him go to his homeland. After all this is Jinnah’s “Minoritistan”. Cheers!
AHsn Sahib, isn’t the word سناں or سنان , meaning the point of spear or a sharp spear, and not ثنا , which means prayer?
ہم تمکو بتاتے ہیں تقدیرامم کیا ہے
شمشیروثنا اوّل طائوس و رباب آ خر
Dear MQ,
Glad to see you back. It appears to me that you are still in the period of ” طائوس و رباب “. Perhaps it is time to come back to
“شمشیروثنا ” and take another start to build the nation.
@Abramovich
“He gave his life for a “brand new bullet proof car”!!”
Yes, it may be true as well as any other reason. But the bare fact is that a HUMAN (good or …) was assassinated by another HUMAN (bad or …)
“Your word against mine…? haha”
I am very much aware that my word can not be the ONLY one and yours may not be the LAST one.
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