‘Go Musharraf Go’
By A Khokar • Jun 15th, 2008 • Category: Politics • 14 Comments •To what avail is our chanting of rowdy slogans; Go Musharraf Go? When we have already crowned knowingly or unknowingly a bigger evil; the known abettors and accomplice to replace a lesser evil that we know- Musharraf ; by means of elections to govern us! We can always enchant even more riotous slogans to defunct Musharraf because his ‘way in’ is through a coup but what about the ‘way in’ that we our selves have granted and endorsed to a group with their well known agenda to act as US proxy? They are also here carrying the same known baggage and the terms (as are in place) as of Musharraf, with their unflinching committal to the west. We ourselves have crowned them to the seat of power as our newly elected leaders [1].
We may be inclined to malign and curse Musharraf for his purported bad deeds but; are we not aware of the facts that on the international front we have under taken some works; to act as ‘Front State’ in the ‘Global War on Terrorism’ as a US proxy. We have certain obligations to fulfil. The new government has announced absolutely no change in foreign policy which means that a status quo will be maintained at all levels. Isn’t it that being totally ignorant of the factual situation, our rowdy slogans that we are enchanting so riotously seem very superfluous? Where as the new government is in place but our national out look at the international level remains the same [2]. Haven’t we seen the most extravagant and effusive ‘Long March’ availing a free wheeling full media coverage and how it was hijacked before it could reach even its destination- Islamabad. Sadly so it turned into a ‘milli bhagat’. All the hopes went dashed before its night vigil was even over.
If we only understand that our international obligation as a nation to act as ‘front state’ in ‘War against Terrorism’ is to keep the flag of anti terrorism [3] unfurled and get paid. Some 8-10 billion dollars have already been pelted at our doors to keep this flag up and high, on our porous Pak-Afghan borders. (7.5 billions is on offer for the new government). This act of keeping the flag of Terrorism or anti terrorism high and also to keep ear marked a segment of our own people, labeled as ‘Terrorist’; ironically where this implied tactic gets us paid our spoils; it also extends an excuse to ‘US lead Allied’ and NATO forces to keep their war on Terror as well as subjugation of people in our neighbourhood[4] On. It enables and facilitates them to build their anchorages and bases to expand US hegemonic adventurism in this area; the area which is so rich and abundantly bestowed with natural economic resources. Haven’t we noticed that when ever Pakistan tries to enter in some peace agreement with the aggrieved groups in FATA and other; it is straight away objected to, by the Allied Forces lest their purported stance on ‘War against Terror’ gets diminished?
These Elections were a mere window dressing of democracy, replacing the tyranny of ‘dictatorial regime’ of Musharraf with an authoritarian oneof PPP+ Nun league. It may not bring well wished expected change in the destiny of our peoples that they were so earnestly looking for.
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[1]“khud kardaa ra Illajay naistt.” [2]Kaatal kahan badaltay hain faqatt cheray badaltay hain Ajab hey apna saffar keh faslay bhi saath chaltey hain-Habib Jalib
[3] or say Terrorism which has infested our society with extremism and anarchy.
[4] Middle East, Afghanistan and part of cenral Asia
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EK Aur Dhoka
The nation was seen mobilized on right direction and in support of such a noble cause; but ‘As Usual’; a great chance to bring about the ‘Reformations’ in the country has just been wasted in mukmukka and useless Rhetoric!
Abaid ullah Aleem comes to mind;
*Guftaar say zakhmoun ka rafoo chaetay hain
*Yeh;siasat hey; tu kiya kahain nadani ko?
*They want to satisfy and heal the inflictions with soothing words and pep talks:
*If this is called politics; then what will you call a Nonsense?
LONG MARCH WAS A TOTAL FLOP IN EVERY RESPECT, IN EVERY ASPECT.
AFTER THIS LONG MARCH (WHICH WAS THE LAST CARD TO SHOW OFF) CH. IFTI, CH AITAZO, NAWAZOO, IMRANO, QAZIO, RETD. GENERALS HAS NOTHING LEFT IN THEIR POCKETS.
THEY SHOULD DIE IN “CHULOO BHAR PANI MEIN”
THEY HAD ALREADY SUFFERED THE ECONOMY OF PAKISTAN SINCE MARCH 2007. THEY ARE THE AGENTS OF INDIA AND “MULK DUSHMAN” PEOPLE.
PAKISTANIS MUST BRING THEM ALL TO JUSTICE BY BLACKENING THEIR FACES, RIDING ON DONKEYS WITH SHOE GALANDS ON THEIR NECKS AND TAKING THEM ON EVERY CORNER OF THE COUNTRY WITH THE PEOPLE STONE TREATING AND SHOE TREATING THEM.
THESE MUST NOT BE SPARED AND FORGIVEN NOW OTHERWISE THEY WILL CREATE AN ATMOSPHERE WHEN IT BECOMES IMPERATIVE FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT TO IMPOSE ANOTHER MARIAL-LAW ON PAKISTAN
o There are 89 separatist movements in India in 2007 …from Bihar to
Kashmir Assam etc….
o Do you see on any Indian channel showing… 250 million people
sleeping on footpath?????
o Zee India never showed killing of Kashmiris and the attack on GOLDEN
TEMPLE, killing of Sikhs in Indian soil.
o How many Israeli channel shows killing by Israeli soldiers???? When
they kill Palestinians?????
o Have you ever seen Indian president or politician been given
GALEE on TV channel during live coverage????
o Any killing by Irish republican army???
o 30,000 rape cases in USA do you see on TV???? but you see Muktaran
Maee on GEO, CNN, BCC
o Why geo was not concerned with Benazir wealth and property?? And
Nawaz Sharif property??
Ø WHO is GEO???? Just think???? They telecast false news about
emergency and stock market crashed in Pakistan…
o Do you know Kamran Khan was getting RS 25 lakh per month,
o Do you know DR Shahid Masood, was a member of NSF student party (a
political left wing student party against Pakistan and Islamic forces….
with RS 22 lakh per month and home in Dubai and Karachi. multiple visa …
o Same amount been paid to Hamid Meer editor ausaf……even Nadia
Khan with Rs 6 lakh per month…. Such huge amount just for free???????
o When they were not able to broadcast the 8 hour cricket match they
said they lost 1 billion rupee and just imagine without any money just
for free they were broadcasting judge activity for free, Nawaz Sharif for
free and Benazir for free…… all… 36 hour coverage just for
free????????????????? By a private channel!!!!!!!!!!!!!
o 50 percent Indian dramas on geo and 25 percent with mix cast (Indian
and Pakistani) and Indian films (which are ban in Pakistani cinema are
been broadcasted by geo)
Geo did not showed any good news like Islamabad, Peshwar Motorway
but instead it showed dead people in Karachi…. they never discuss 5.1
billion dollar of oil refinery in Hub.
By Fatir,
SHAME ON YOU, GEO
YOU MUST BE BANNED AS YOU ARE WORKING AGAINST THE INTERESTS OF PAKISTAN AND BRINGING DOWN THE NAME OF PAKISTAN IN INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY IN JUST YOUR VENDETTA AGAINST PERVEZ MUSHARRAF
The historic long march not only put tremendous pressure on three key individuals and institutions to withdraw their support to President Pervez Musharraf and let the deposed judges be restored, it also raised the popular profile of the PML-N supreme leader Nawaz Sharif.
Even stalwarts of pro-Musharraf PML-Q admitted to this correspondent that pressure on the president had mounted to call it a day because of the successful long march, which raised the heat on him.
“The sole purpose of the long march was to intensify pressure on Musharraf to quit because Nawaz Sharif, the main player behind this show, pressed this demand more than calling for the reinstatement of the deposed judges,” a PML-Q leader said on condition of anonymity.
However, former information minister Muhammad Ali Durrani did not agree. “If any pressure was exerted by Friday’s protest, it was on parliament and the government, not Musharraf,” he told The News.
The long march, he said, failed to achieve its objective – instant restoration of the sacked justices. “What is its achievement? What was this exercise all about?” he asked.
Pressure on PPP Co-chairman Asif Zardari, the government, parliament and the Pakistan Army also enhanced, in the words of a PPP leader, to give a ‘decent send off’ to Musharraf or there will be no political calm and stability.
Nawaz Sharif’s powerful call for resignation of Musharraf more vociferously than his demand for return of the judges is unlikely to be accepted unless the Army revokes its support to the president although many people believe that political peace would return (may be temporarily) only after Musharraf’s exit from the scene.
“The long march was a political gimmick to play to the galleries and gain political mileage because an agreement has already been hammered out between the PPP and the PML-N about bringing back the judges and the only question now left is its implementation. The first element of it has been translated into reality when the strength of the Supreme Court judges is being enhanced through the Finance Bill with the consent of the PML-N,” a senior PPP leader said.
He said the announcement that Nawaz Sharif had made on his return from Dubai after holding a crucial round of talks with Zardari was going to be implemented. He reminded that the PML-N leader had accepted the continuation of the judges, who had taken oath under the Provisional Constitution Order (PCO).
“Pressure increased on Musharraf to stand down because the long marchers’ major demand was his resignation but as far as the question of reinstatement of the judges is concerned, he is not the one who has the authority to do so. It is Zardari, his government and parliament that matter more than the president or anybody else,” a PML-Q leader said.
A somewhat frivolous debate has been going on in some talk shows in which questions were raised about the justification to put pressure on the sovereign body, parliament, for return of the judges.
It is a universal democratic practice to stage demonstrations before parliaments to make certain demands of it.
Many raised eyebrows over the abrupt end of the epic long march after the rally because its organisers, especially Aitzaz Ahsan, had announced during his campaign to stage a sit-in before the parliament building and continue it till the acceptance of their demand – restoration of the deposed judges.
Even Jamaat-e-Islami chief Qazi Hussain Ahmad, who significantly contributed to the long march, is disgusted over the non-realisation of the declaration that the long marchers would stage a long sit-in. “I think that now the lawyers cannot achieve it [reinstatement of judges] on the basis of their lies because they are divided now; the People’s Party lawyers are not with them and the ANP lawyers are not with them in the NWFP. The only lawyers supporting their movement are the lawyers of Nawaz Sharif and the Jamaat-e-Islami. And because of this division amongst themselves, they have been planning it [the long march] for one year and now they have done it, they cannot do it again. It is the work of the political parties to arrange if they want the basic objective [to be achieved]. The lawyers’ movement could not succeed without the support of the Jamaat-e-Islami and the PML-N. These were the two parties, which openheartedly supported the movement. The participants were the activists of these two parties,” he told Dr Ahmad Muffaq Zaidan, the bureau chief of Al-Jazeera TV in Islamabad.
The mammoth gathering before the parliament building was an outpouring of the 15-month-long campaign of lawyers and political parties. It was the pinnacle of this struggle. To collect such a huge number of people again will not be possible. But its organisers, chiefly the PML-N, have the conviction that this protest has served the last blow to Musharraf and will force him out of the presidency.
The PPP, the PML-Q and other political parties agree uninhibitedly that Nawaz Sharif is the main gainer of the long march while Asif Zardari is the principal loser. They concede that Musharraf’s political fortunes have further plummeted.
It was the first time in Nawaz Sharif’s political career spanning twenty-five years that his party succeeded to collect such a large number of people at one place. He is known to be a vote-getter, not a crowd-puller. His previous public rallies had not been so impressive compared to assassinated Benazir Bhutto’s meetings.
Never before a sitting federal government put not even a minor roadblock to scuttle a protest that was even going to damage it or a Punjab government fully contributed to its success. This approach and facilitation led to holding, continuation and culmination of the long march in a peaceful manner.
AOM accepts success of Long march only…when people kills others…as done by one party on 12 May 2007 and burning of Lawyers in Karachi.
Shame on these culprits who do like this and shame on those who supports them.
AOM - i am not too bothered about all the other points but these two points below are worth mentioning.
Why geo was not concerned with Benazir wealth and property?? And
Nawaz Sharif property??
When they were not able to broadcast the 8 hour cricket match they
said they lost 1 billion rupee and just imagine without any money just
for free they were broadcasting judge activity for free, Nawaz Sharif for
free and Benazir for free…… all… 36 hour coverage just for
free????????????????? By a private channel!!!!!!!!!!!!!
There was a general email (forwarded) about zardari’s property details throughout the world…i am sure most of you would have had it…any accountability of how he made all this? and the amount of taxes they are paying?
also, geo tv does get a bit biased at times. also refer my other post else where in the blog. there are a lot of news, events and discussion that prove that.
i wouldn’t go into the argument again of why musharraf should stay and i wouldn’t say he is the ideal person to run pakistan but i would still say he is much better than the others who have ruled in the past!
did a bit of research and found this link giving details of zardari’s assets…never ever mentioned by any tv channel etc…(although not sure how true this is but even ‘10%’ of this would be a lot!)
http://readerlist.freeflux.net/blog/archive/2008/03/18/reader-list-zardari-s-real-strength.html
Mr. Naeem,
If you analyze in this manner then don’t forget to write that still there are lot facts n figures which are unable to come on Media that is specially related to MQM, Musharraf, Military, Interior Sind situation etc etc. Media is also giving full coverage to MQM press conferences in addition to giving time to your mentioned personalities.
As far Cricket match is concerned…its not free telecast… TV company has to provide money in advance and which was paid by GEO and they also booked sponsors. where as other coverage is like normal new coverage and is not dependent of other companies to telecast.
Poor excuses….. Bad.
The descent of the long-marchers on Islamabad, which began Friday afternoon and continued into Saturday, marks an event of immense significance. After decades, ordinary people may well prove the force they wield is mightier than that of dictators and political parties who align themselves with them. Buoyed by the immense crowd, the tone of the key speakers certainly left no doubt that they intended to ensure their target was attained. This goal, as lawyer leader and Supreme Court Bar Association President Aitzaz Ahsan clarified, was the restoration of the pre-November 3 judges and the creation of a welfare state. Mian Nawaz Sharif, who arrived at the venue of the mammoth rally several hours into Saturday, made it clear there would be no safe exit for the president. He also called on parliament to make decisions in keeping with the wishes of the people. He stressed these wishes included the departure of President Musharraf.
Whereas an initial plan to stage an indefinite sit-in at Islamabad was cancelled, with Aitzaz citing resource constraints, the impact of the long march will not dissipate with the dispersal of the hundreds of thousands who participated in it. Figures being projected range from about 200,000 to half a million with the actual figure, most probably, somewhere in between. By any standards, the gathering was huge. More remarkable still was the fact it included so large a cross-section of people, ranging from political workers and lawyers to ordinary housewives and professionals. It seems in many ways extraordinary that an issue which on paper appears to be rather academic – that is the restoration of judges – could have galvanized so many people to come together, braving high heat, hours of travel and the threat of terrorist attacks that now hover everywhere.
What those who had predicted the long march would fizzle out, and the political parties – chiefly the PPP – which distanced itself from it, had not realized that the campaign for judicial restoration has metamorphosed since its earliest days. Today, it has come to represent a struggle by people against oppression, against injustice, against a lack of democracy and against wrong of every kind. The presence of tens of thousands of people under the shadows of the three buildings that represent the institutes of state; parliament, the Supreme Court and the presidency was as such extremely appropriate. The slogans raised hour after hour by the crowd, calling for Musharraf to leave, also made it clear which institution they saw as the main source of anti-people authority.
The results that emerge from the march on Islamabad are yet to be seen. Will President Musharraf, as he has done in the past, simply turn a blind eye to all that has happened and go back to his insistence that people wish him to stay? Has Aitzaz Ahsan emerged as, potentially, the man to lead the country at some point in the not too distant future? Will a newly galvanized PML-N carry on where the long march left off?
But perhaps most intriguing of all will be the impact on the PPP – the party that terms itself a party of the masses, yet removed itself from their midst as these masses converged on Islamabad. Within the party the voices critical of the manner in which Asif Ali Zardari has handled matters are rising. Some believe a split may not be far off; others say it is still not too late for the PPP to jump onto the long march bandwagon by beginning the process to impeach the president. But Zardari, who delivered a talk to Steel Mill workers in Karachi as the long marchers shook Islamabad, will have to make truly heroic efforts if his party is to recover from this latest debacle. The PPP, at present, is regarded as having allied itself with the presidency for reasons of expediency. After the long march, there is growing conviction that this is the losing side.
Parliament too, as the body representing people, needs to rise up to its role. All eyes will be on it during the days ahead. The people have shown they are capable of demanding their rights. Parliament needs to prove it is capable of delivering these to them.
Saleem - i totally agree to what you are saying. But in order to be bias, there has to be an equal coverage not one sided. And the word ‘equal’ is the key.
Regarding cricket match..its just an example. I am sure there are legal intricacies so wouldn’t go into details of how much it costed geo. but sometimes geo just goes to the extreme. for example at one point in time they even skipped their regular 9pm news to show lawyers speeches!! now no one wants to keep listen to their crap! they dont bring out the true facts at all times. Most of the time they do but when it comes to politics i think they are a bit biased.
Naeem, I tell you…very few people in whole pakistan are unbiased. If you want to see then observe people in relations even. Friends gets bised for those, who helps them more, mother gets biased for that son who give her money more and lot more.
Geo was in start bised towards Musharraf and I myself had serious reservations that why he licks Musharraf so much…then it turned other side. Even today, our media not covers all social issues. I just pray thet now media should behave like young man…not like child.
Dear All,
After this that a planned deposition of President Pervez Musharraf and his over throw through a street mob has since been foiled successfully; at present although we don’t expect any other internal crisis at a larger scale to erupt but an encroaching invasion (situation is developing) on our western borders in the wake of ‘Global war on terror’ by the NATO and Afghan Forces is most eminent; which our feet dragging government may not be able to handle the situation or exert the required control to under take such eventualities.
Most probably the over all command in such scenario will be taken over by the Military to handle the situation as ce takers. The signs are very much there; so President Pervez Musharraf may resume the full command to train his muscles again and may not be going as yet as expected.
In the wake of event of recent Long March, that when the transition of power from the military to the civilian was on; a mishap of judicial crisis was exaggerated and blown up into a catastrophic crisis. Long march primarily initiated by the Judiciary zealot in support of the deposed judges was politicized and later hijacked by Nun-league (the rival party of PPP in the race of grab of absolute power) to oust the President by creation a street power on false pretext and grab the seat of power [1] of President during the turmoil. This plot has since been foiled by counter moves and situation turning into mayhem and anarchy has been saved.
For instance Geo TV, the cohort media channel of vested parties since hired for propagation and telecasting of special programmes (as it was telecasting as a pirate station from Dubai Media centre in disguise), to de-crown President by means of street agitation was effectively put off air, a day before final offensive move was to be launched.
In the light of forth coming war like scenarios building up; nation needs a leaders who are men with the steel nerves and posses the will power to deliver with total authority; which in present civilian leader ship… it is totally found absent.
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[1] The executive power invested in president; vide clause 58(2) B and its grab…in tact.
Ooops;
I apologise for the few grammatical mistakes in above post. Comments were posted in a hurry!
Hi, I cant say about Geo News.But we are facing a lot of problems die to black polices Mr. president.What is NRO?Is it good for pakistan or poor people of Pakistan?Hazrat Muhammad(SAW) said many nations have destroyed because if a powerful person makes mistake,was forgiven but a poor was punished.
I think in present politics only Mr.Imran Khan Is on Truth..