Posts Tagged ‘declan walsh’
Reality check: How many in Imran Khan’s PTI rally in Lahore?
"Imran Khan's Lahore rally was the biggest-ever show of political power in decades." The above and similar discourse is currently being injected in Pakistani and international media in the aftermath of a PTI rally in Lahore (30 October 2011) which was successfully engineered and enacted by Pakistan's security establishment as a warning message [...]
“The blaming the victim brigade” and Shahbaz Bhatti’s murder
Related posts: Three musketeers and the “PPP abandoned Salmaan Taseer” narrative An open letter to President Zardari — by Shahid Saeed "Civil" Society must stop blaming the PPP: A rebuttal to Naveen Naqvi and the 'Twitter Opportunists Club' Here are some recent examples from foreign and Pakistani media which represent a typical [...]
On the so called ISI-CIA rift on the Raymond Davis issue
Related articles: General Kayani allowed US special forces to secretly operate in Pakistan WikiLeaks unmasks who are our real puppet-masters? On Declan Walsh’s latest scoop: ‘Raymond Davis is a CIA spy’ LUBP Archive on Raymond Davis The Raymond Davis saga has soured the relationship between the ISI and CIA. Or so the ISI and [...]
On Declan Walsh’s latest scoop: ‘Raymond Davis is a CIA spy’
Related articles: LUBP archive on Declan Walsh On the so called ISI-CIA rift on the Raymond Davis issue Foreign journalists in Pakistan: Embedded in the narratives of military establishment Yesterday, Declan Walsh published two stories in the Guardian (20 Feb 2011) revealing an explosive truth, i.e., Raymond Davis is a CIA spy. The [...]
Selective ray of hope emanates from Veena Malik to Declan Walsh – by Sana Jokhio
After partially waking up from the deep denial of the extremists, Pakistan’s educated elites (commonly known as FCS, i.e., Fake Civil Society) and their English-speaking media counterparts are once again falling back on narratives that are full of omissions, falsehoods and half-truths. In the aftermath of the tragic murder of Governor Taseer, [...]
Lahore shooting by Raymond Davis and “the legal issues to settle”: Some questions for Ejaz Haider
Once again, Ejaz Haider's choice of topic and narrative is strikingly similar to the topic and narrative chosen by Ansar Abbasi, Hamid Mir etc, something which has forced me to write this post. First of all, I must thank Mosharraf Zaidi who thus introduced Ejaz Haider's recent article in the Express Tribune newspaper: mosharrafzaidi [...]
Three musketeers and the “PPP abandoned Salmaan Taseer” narrative
Related posts: The blaming the victim brigade and Shahbaz Bhatti's murder An open letter to President Zardari — by Shahid Saeed “Civil” Society must stop blaming the PPP: A rebuttal to Naveen Naqvi and the ‘Twitter Opportunists Club’ The aim of this post is to highlight and confront the "PPP abandoned Taseer" narrative which is [...]
Some gems from Declan Walsh’s article promoting Sherry Rehman
Related articles: Foreign journalists in Pakistan: Embedded in the narratives of military establishment and urban elite In response to Declan Walsh’s article on Karachi’s deadly divide – by Shaista Aazar I could not agree more when I read this line in Declan Walsh's article on Sherry Rehman (Guardian, 23 January 2011): "A sense of [...]
Taseer’s murder: A plan well executed
Related article: Salman Taseer: Another victim of the deep state, its ideological and political faces – by Shaista Aazar How fake is “civil society’s” liberal agenda? – by Shakeel Arain It is becoming increasingly apparent that shaheed Salman Taseer's murder and the events before and after his death were an outcome of a carefully [...]
Foreign journalists in Pakistan: Embedded in the narratives of military establishment and urban elite
Through LUBP, we have been successfully confronting and exposing the pro-military establishment and pro-urban middle class narratives of the Pakistani print and electronic media (including Pakistani blogs). (see some examples here, here and here) However, the role of foreign media in Pakistan, as embedded in and reinforcing the military [...]
In response to Declan Walsh’s article on Karachi’s deadly divide – by Shaista Aazar
Sheen Alif is as an avid LUBP reader who has written this piece exclusively for LUBP. He maintains his own blog titled "Backbenches". I am writing this post after reading a recent article by Declan Walsh, the Guardian correspondent in Pakistan. In his article, Walsh talks about the ethnic divide in Karachi, but it seems his analysis is plaqued [...]
