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Potemkin village or relief camp
ever heard of Potemkin villages? they were a myth.
but the PPP government set up something that could be called a potemkin village, sort of. so its not a myth.
how about a new idiom: Gilani’s relief camp
for those of you too lazy to click on that link, read the full story below:
UMERKOT: Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani visited a fake relief camp set up in Kunri on Monday only for the visit.
The prime minister, who was accompanied by federal ministers Syed Naveed Qamar and Syed Khursheed Shah and Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah, arrived by helicopter at the Benazir Government Girls College in Kunri where a `temporary relief camp` had been set up by the administration on Sunday night.
According to sources, the camp housed peasants belonging to areas of some PPP legislators. A number of rain-hit people, including women, who have been living on the road outside the school for the past few days, were barred from entering the premises and were allowed only when some journalists intervened.
The prime minister and his team waved from a distance to people in the camp and the rain-affected people. He shook hands with PPP MPA Nawab Taimoor Talpur and returned to the helicopter.
The people who were expecting to get some relief goods or an announcement in this regard from the prime minister received nothing except the dust raised by the helicopter while landing and taking off.
After the prime minister left the area, the affected people tried to pull out tents but they were attacked by PPP workers with sticks.
foreign aid never comes with no strings attached. thats why people who want to become powerful are advised to despise the free lunch.
in the case of Raymond Davis, Pakistan is being asked to give back the American who killed two Pakistanis. the question here is not who was right and who was wrong. the question is who is feeding whom? without aid Pakistasn will clearly falter economically. that this nation can not afford.
…atleast in the beginning, anyway. and here is one more ; the bigger the change, the bigger the confusion. and here is one more; if you try to change the lifestyles of people in one day, you will surely get “f**k you” from them.
can we apply this lesson to something in Pakistan? hmm… lets see… how about the reforms in bureaucracy. they are still bewildering the people in this country. and the reforms have only lead to more confusion and chaos.
I was walking to my bank when i saw a group of people asking for demonstrating for the hanging of some person who probably had done nothing other than disagree with their preconceived ideas about life should be run.
I have also been looking at the news of one of the severest floods in the history of the country.
If only we could channel our energies to some positive things, we might be able to become a better country.
I dont know how someone would just throw acid on passerby women and then escape. what is happening to this nation as a whole?
things like these just leave me speechless. i mean there are psychos in this world, but God, people doing these acts do not qualify as humans.
the whole episode is sickening.
someone sent me this text message today:
a man died and went to heaven . there he saw a large wall of clocks.
Man: “what are these for?”.
Angel: ” these are ‘lie clocks’.every person has a lie clock. every time you lie, the clock moves.
Man:” whose clock is that?”
Angel: “that is Muhammad Bin Qasim’s clock. its never moved, showing that he never lied”.
Man: “where is Zardari’s clock?”
Angel: ” that is in our office. we use that as a CEILING FAN”.
regardless of going into the humor of this joke, I Was looking at it from another angle. it portrays the general psychology of our nation. it shows us several things about our nations attitude towards world in general.
the first thing is to thrash everyone and anyone who is running the country at the present moment. be it Ayub Khan, Nawaz Sharif, Musharraf, or any other person we have always criticised without giving any alternatives.the personality does not matter. had it been any other person other than Zardari, the joke would have simply replaced his name with that of the other. our whole energies are wasted on getting the incumbant out of the office and getting someone new into it. and once that has happened, the circus repeats.
the second thing is the way we dont really have any Heroes and we try to snatch them from other nations, usually Arabs. to become a hero, the test is simple. one, he should be an Muslim. two, he should have been an Army man.think about Ghaznavis, the MB Qasims etc. little wonder that Armymen have enjoyed the most ruling time in this country. psychologically we are prepared for an Army man to be our hero.
the third thing is that we dont have heroes of our own. so we have to borrow them from other nations. and if we produced someone in this nation, we have made sure that they either go into self-exile (Dr. Salam) or are imprisoned ( Dr. Qadeer). I mean as far as the above joke goes, we could have replaced the name of Muhammad bin Qasim with someone who was much more relevent. I am going to tell you his name: Malik Miraj Khalid. he was from PPP, he had humble backgrounds, and he was an honest man. if you just want to see a former president, try Ghulam Ishaq. whatever his flaws, the truth is that he was an honest man who never made single penny for himself while he was in the government. even his opponents his do not have anything bad to say about his fiscal responsibility. so we have our heroes. we just ignore them and dont give them the proper respect they deserve.
so, this in a nutshell, shows the dilemma of our nation. we have not been able to tell whether we are Pakistanis first or muslims first. we have not sorted out our priorities. we dont know whether we want to be secular or religious. and if religious, what kind of sect? and i think that is the reason we have been behind all the nations.
certainly we have failed in helping to catapult ourselves to the top tier of nations. God has not been of much help either, because after all he says that he helps those who help themselves.
the Court said that it was said in the constitution article 177 that the president would appoint with the due consultation of the Chief Justice of Paksitan (CJP)
we went to the text of the constitution and found the following in the Article 177:
(1) The Chief Justice of Pakistan shall be appointed by the President, and each of the other Judges shall be appointed by the President after consultation with the Chief Justice.
if we look at the words in their proper context, it is seen that the word “consultation” and not “advice” is used. when the president is “advised” by the Prime Minister (PM), he is bound to dissolve the assemblies. but in the case of “consultation” no such binding is necessary. the President, according to the article, makes the appointments. and that is his power to do so.
that is our inference from this article. people might want to make their own conclusions.
Team Pakistan had to go through two humiliating incidents. one was the loss of a match that was the last one in the 5-0 whitewash by the Australians. the other one was when Shahid Afridi was caught biting a ball, was called for ball tempering and was barred from participating in two twenty20 matches.
when two teams collide, one of them wins and the other loses. so whether the team won or lost did not matter much. that it showed a fighting spirit and took the match to the final over was something enjoyable. and even though the team lost, it should be given full points for it. and one rare thing happened with that. someone actually took the blame for it. the Chief Selector of the team resigned.
usually when a match gets interesting, it becomes nail biting. but Ball biting shows the kind of anxiety. it was against the spirit of the game. and banning Afridi for two twenty20 games was the right decision taken by the match referee.
In The Tipping Point Malcom Gladwell talks about the sudden surge in the suicide rates on the Island of Micronesia. earlier there used to be no suicides. but at some point, the suicide rates picked up. no one could understand the reason why it happened? the one possible explanation that was given in the book is this:
the suicide attempts appear in the spirit of initiative on experimental play. thus as suicide grows more frequent,in these communities the idea itself acquires a certain familiarity if not fascination to young men, and the lethality of the act seems to be trivilized.
This, in his words, led to the contagious epidemic of self destruction that led to the life becoming meaningless.
Perhaps this could be one reason that has been neglected when we look at the surging rate of the suicide bombing. we should remember that the suicide rate in Micronesia mainly soared in the teenagers. and when we look at the majority of the suicide bombers, they too are teenagers. so perhaps there could be reason that the recent surge in the suicide bombing is because the rate reached its tipping point. and life has become meaningless for these suicide bombers.
or there could be other reasons. but this could be one of them.
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