نصرت جاوید نے اپنے زیر نظر کالم میں ‘مایا خان’ کے متنازعہ شو اور اس غیر زمہ دار خاتون کو نوکری سے فارغ کرنے کے بعد ہماری اورمیڈیا مالکان کی توجہ ‘قومی غیرت’ سے لبریز ان اینکرز کی طرف دلائ ہے جوپوری قوم کو اشتعال اورجوش دلا کر ‘ریٹنگ اور دولت کمانےمیں مصروف ہیں۔ مایا خان کا تو احتساب ہو گیا، اچھا ہوا، مگرجن غیر زمہ دار اینکرز نے چار ماہ تک ‘میمو’ کے نام سے پوری قوم کو ایک ہیجان میں مبتلہ رکھا، یا جب سے عوامی جمہوری حکومت آئ ہے، این آر او کے نام سے مسلسل سازشی مہم چالائ ہے۔ ان کا احتساب کون کے گا؟

عوام نے جن سیاست دانوں کو انتخابات اورضمنی انتخابات میں بری طرح رد کیا’ اور ان کی ضمانتیں تک ضبط ہوگئیں، ان کو سازش کے زریعے قوم پر مسلط کر دیاگیا۔ مقصد محض جمہور ی حکومت کو پروپیگینڈہ کرکے ختم کرنا تھا۔ آج یہ اینکرز’ریٹیگ بڑھانے کی سازش میں راولپنڈی کے ایک ‘سیاسی یتیم’ کا سہارا لے رہے ہیں۔

Source: Daily Express

Editor’s note: The Baloch Students Organisation (BSO) has threatened that it will suspend transmission of private television channels across the province to protest ‘failure to properly highlight the plight of the people’. LUBP supports this protest and regretfully notes  that Pakistan’s mainstream media as well as 98% of Pakistani bloggers (barring some Baloch websites, LUBP, Pakistan Blogzine, Al Ufaq, a few others) have kept shameful silence on the ongoing target killing of hundreds of Balochs by Pakistan army and its various agencies and proxies. In fact some “liberal” Pakistani journalists in “progressive” English media have actively misrepresented the situation in Balochistan and at least indirectly justified the target killing of the Baloch youths and intellectuals.

We condemn silence and blackout of Pakistani media over recovery of mutilated and bullet-riddled bodies of Baloch missing persons and the ongoing and systematic target killing of the Balochs. Baloch are subject to enforced disappearances and bullet-riddled bodies found daily but Pakistani media is not highlighting this crime aganst humanity. Recently a petition to recover a Baloch journalist, Javid Naseer Rind, was grossly ignored by the media and human rights organizations, which resulted in his tragic murder. Joint secretary of Baloch Students Organization-Azad, Shafi Baloch, and dozens of other members of BSO have been killed by Pakistani agencies. Pakistan army is doing to the Baloch everything they did to they Bengalis, they will never learn lessons! Equally shameless are those bloggers and journalists who whine about one Afia Siddiqui in the US captivity but silent on killing of Baloch women by their own army. Why are media and bloggers not going beyond tokenism (a couple of tweets, once in a year column) on the continual killings and oppression of the Balochs, anti-Taliban Pashtoons, Shias and Ahmadis? It’s not only Pakistan’s mainstream media, Pakistani bloggers too are shamelessly silent on the ongoing Baloch genocide by army. Several ‘leading’, ‘award winner’, ‘activist’ or ‘media critic’ blogs have completely wiped out the Baloch genocide from their list of topics. (Adapted from various comments on Twitter. End note)

QUETTA: A student organisation in Balochistan has threatened that it will suspend transmission of private television channels across the province to protest ‘failure to properly highlight the plight of the people’.

“Baloch people are being subjected to enforced disappearances and their bullet-riddled bodies are turning up daily. But media is not highlighting this crime against humanity,” Javed Baloch, general secretary of the Baloch Students Organisation (BSO-Mohyuddin), said at a news conference at the Quetta Press Club on Sunday.

He said that at a central committee meeting of the organisation, members had decided that transmission of all TV channels will be shut from February 1. “Transmission will be closed in Balochistan and Baloch-dominated areas of Karachi as well,” he said.

Baloch said that media airs worthless reports as breaking news for hours but completely ignores the province which is suffering very serious crises. “BSO condemns the silence and blackout of the media over recovery of mutilated and bullet-riddled bodies of Baloch missing persons and the target killing of political opponents.”

The student activist said that BSO will meet cable operators to persuade them to suspend transmission. “Policymakers are insensitive to the problems of Balochistan and we believe that this attitude will lead to dismemberment of Pakistan. The media should play its role and review its policy on Balochistan.” (Source)

Another Taseer killed in Karachi (30 January 2012)

DAWN’s continual slide is best encapsulated in some of the editorial and opinion pieces today.  For instance, Huma Yusuf’s “Sectarian Scourge” is a typical example of the intellectual dishonesty, lazy research and deliberate obfuscation that is prevalent amongst much of Pakisan’s media.  Much of what she has written has been deconstructed in Intellectual dishonesty in misrepresenting Shia massacres in Pakistan.

The most problematic aspects of her article need to be highlighted:

1. Obscuring and diluting the victims:  Shia Muslims are the largest victims of this violence; something that Huma conveniently omits in her article
2. Obscuring the antagonist:  While Huma at least mentions the Sipah-e-Sahaba and its militant wing, Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, she fails to mention that this group is now operating as Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat (ASWJ). She vaguely refers to the fact that this group is the most prominent partner of Al Qaeda and the Taliban.  She fails to mention that this group is behind some of the most heinous acts of terrorism in Pakistan. Most importantly, she fails to mention that it is this group that is not only killing Shia Muslims but is also targeting Ahmadi Muslims, Christians, Barelvi Sunni muslims and even moderate Deobandi Sunni muslims who disagree with them.

Throughout the article, Huma fudges and dishonestly presents some crucial facts.  For instance, she rehashes the two most common false hypothesis that are peddled by Pakistan’s pro-establishment media.

One hypothesis is that the ongoing Shia genocide inPakistanis an outcome of an Iran-Saudi Arabia proxy war.  As per this biased hypothesis, a post-revolutionary Iran had to be checkmated by the Ummah and Saudi Arabia and Iraq under Saddam stepped up to the task. This half-baked idea completely fails to take into account the Theri massacre of 118 Shias on Ashura in Khairpur in 1963. Or the burning of the Ali Masjid in Ali Basti, Golimar in 1978; two years before the Iranian Revolution!

Similarly this dishonest hypothesis fails to take into account why Shias are being targeted, oppressed and killed in Muslim countries ranging from Morocco to Malaysia.  It is truly callous and insensitive to explain this away as an Iran-Saudi proxy war!

Like other dishonest media commentators, Huma Yusuf engages in the same tactic of attempting to misrepresent the ongoing Shia massacres as “sectarianism”; a tag that falsely portrays Shia killings as a symmetric conflict which it clearly is not!

Throughout the Muslim world, Shias are suffering due to this false binary based on the dubious scholarship that is being propagated by Ms. Yusuf.  It is one thing to be critical of Iran’s human rights record, its policy for joining the nuclear club and the theocratic disposition of a select bunch of clerics like Khamenai.  It is another to equate Iran with Saudi Arabia; a global funder of terrorism and extremism.  Sadly, in the intellectual and moral wasteland of the Pakistani media, this false binery is par for the course.

The other false hypothesis rehashed by Huma is that sectarian outfits flourished in Punjab “where Shia landlords stirred resentment among lower-middle class Sunnis”. Once again, the problem with this dishonest, shoddy and lazy analysis is that once deconstructed, its absurdist foundations point towards a disturbing bias.  This theory makes no sense of why Jihadi militants have attacked Shia villagers in Parachinar and Gilgit since the 1980s!  Aside from this, the Shia-landlord-in-Jhang-resentment theory sounds absurd when used to explain the massacres of Shia doctors and lawyers inKarachi; victims who have no connection with the dynamics of Jhang!

For that matter, why did a class struggle assume an element of anti-Shia bigotry? If sectarian groups flourished in Pakistan due to feudal resentment, why did they not target feudalism!  Quite the contrary actually.

Sectarian groups flourished in Pakistan because the civil-military establishment needed them for its expansionist policies in Afghanistan and India and for undermining the political process.  These groups flourished immediately with the military coup of Zia-ul-Haq in 1977; a coup which lead to the shelving of wide ranging Land Reforms by Prime Minister Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto; a landlord with Shia leanings.

In attempting to misrepresent groups like Sipah-e-Sahaba that emerged from Jhang, as modern day Marxist rebels, media commentators like Huma have exposed their sectarian bigotry.  If Sipah-e-Sahaba is the anti-feudal group, why is it that the same 2-3 Shia feudals still thrive in Jhang today.  Wouldn’t land reforms as opposed to senseless violence be a better way to end feudalism! Did this group ever target Sunni feudals in the rest of Pakistan?

Dare one ask, did this anti-feudal group ever target the Pakistan Army; the institute with the largest land holdings in Pakistan? Malik Ishaq, the leader of Lashkar-e-Jhangvi was transported in a military helicopter to negotiate with terrorists in 2009; a fact that is clearly lost in the maze of dishonest journalism here!

In Jhang itself, no such resentment existed pre-Partition.  Post Partition, many East Punjabi migrants imported their anti-Shia bias but until the advent of Zia-ul-Haq, these resentments remained dormant and the “lower-middle class migrants” had by then developed into a weathly trading community in the most affluent province inPakistan.

When urban centric media commentators resort to such intellectual dishonesty, they not only open themselves up to charges of alleged bias and prejudice, they also highlight the pathetic state of a compromised and deeply biased media  industry inPakistan.

Nonetheless, Huma Yusuf’s opinion piece is not simply a crass example of bigotry and shoddy scholarship; it is also an example of the typical obfuscation that Pakistan’s powerful corporate media engages in to support the continuing goals of Pakistan’s powerful military establishment.  Shia muslims are being killed inPakistan because the establishment still views their killers as “strategic assets” for its “strategic depth” policy.

Blaming the politicians is another dishonest tactic that obscures the real reason why extremist Deobandi militant groups thrive in Pakistan and continue their genocidal policy towards Shias.  Therefore equating the killers with their victims and maligning Iran and mainstream political parties are necessary tactics by Pakistan’s journalists in order to obfuscate the role of the establishment and deflect genunine criticism away from them.

حضرت ابن انشا نے تو عرصہ پہلے فرمایا تھا کہ ‘سب مایا ہے ‘، ہم عموما بات سمجھنے میں وقت لگا دیتے ہیں لہٰذا بڑے عرصے دبدبا میں رہے کہ پتا نہیں کس کی بات کر رہے تھے. اترپر دیش میں اگر کوئی کہے کہ سب مایا ہے تو لوگ سمجھتے ہیں کہ مراد مایا وتی سے ہے. مگر جیسا کہ ہوا کرتا ہے بہت سی باتیں تجربے سے سمجھ آتی ہیں، کچھ آپ بیتی سے کچھ جگ بیتی سے، ویسے تو ‘آنکھ جو کچھ دیکھتی ہے لب پے آ سکتا نہیں’ مگر لب پر آئے نہ آئے سمجھ ضرور آ گیا ہے کہ سب مایا کیوں ہے. ابن انشا تو پریشان رہے کہ:

جس گوری پر ہم ایک غزل ہر شام لکھیں
تم جانتے ہو ہم کیونکر اس کا نام لکھیں

آج کے عاشق کو تو غم سے نجات ملی، لوگ باگ صرف نام ہی نہیں پوری ثابت سالم گوری کو ٹی وی پر دیکھ لیتے ہیں  اور آج کے ناصح ایسا انتظام بھی کر دیتے ہیں  کہ عاشق صرف گوری ہی سے نہیں بلکہ عاشقی سے بھی کھنچے کھنچے پھریں بلکہ گوری کے خاندان والوں کے ڈر سے سچ مچ شہر سے دور کٹیا بنا کر رہیں  اور پھر کہیں  :

جب دیکھ لیا ہر شخص یہاں ہرجائی ہے
اس شہر سے دور اک کٹیا ہم نے بنائی ہے
اور اس کٹیا کے ماتھے پر لکھوایا ہے
سب مایا ہے

ویسے تو سبھی کچھ مایا کا پھیر ہے بلکہ ہیر پھیر ہے، پیٹ کی دوزخ ہو یا روئے زمیں پر فردوس بریں سب مایا کے کارن ہے، یہ مایا جال نہ ہوتا تو انسان کچھ اور ہوتا.  یہ مایا جال بھی عجب شے ہے، انسان کیا کیا نہیں کرتا اس مایا کے لئے، اپنے جیسے انسانوں کو پیس ڈالتا ہے، رگڑ دیتا ہے، مار ڈالتا ہے، ذلت کے گڑھوں میں پھینک دیتا ہے، انسان ہو کر انسانیت کی تذلیل کرتا ہے مگر سوچتا ہے تو بس مایا، چاہتا ہے تو بس مایا.  اور مایا کے ساتھ مایا ہو تو پھر کیا کہنے، جیسا کہ کہتے ہیں ‘مایا سے مایا ملے کر کر لمبے ہاتھ’، بس جناب مایا ہو یعنی سرمایہ ہو اور کسی مایا سے مایا ملانے والے کا سایہ ہو  یعنی کہ کیمرہ ہو اور دوسروں کی بے عزتی خراب کرنے کا لائسینس یعنی بزعم خود دوسروں کی اصلاح کا حق اور اپنے حق پر ہونے کا یقین  تو کچھ بھی ممکن ہے، جن کو چاہو ٹھیکیدار بنا کر اوروں پر چڑھ دوڑو, بس چپڑی اور دو دو  مثلا کسی ہوٹل میں پنہنچ جائیں اور پکڑ لیں کسی بیچارے کھانا کھاتے شخص کو اور شروع ہو جائیں کہ یہ کوئی کھانا کھانے کا طریقہ ہے، پہلے بسم اللہ پڑھی تھی؟ یہ چپڑ چپڑ کر کے کیوں کھا رہے ہو؟ اور یہ لقمہ لیتے وقت ناک نکوس کر،  ہونٹ بھینچ کر اور دانت باہر نکل کر منہ کیوں کھولتے ہو؟ بلکہ منہ کھولتے ہی کیوں ہو؟ کوئی صاحبہ اس کہ بعد چپڑ چپڑ کھانے کے معاشرتی نقصانات اور آنے والی نسلوں پر ہونے والے بڑے اثرات پر لیکچر دیں ؟ اور کوئی اور بیچ بیچ میں ان کی بات کاٹ کر اس بیچارے کو کوستی رہیں, پھر برابر بیٹھے سخص پر پل پڑیں اور اس کے کھانے کو عذاب کر دیں، یونہی کرتے رہیں تاوقتیکہ ہوٹل کے تمام گاہگ کھانا پینا چھوڑ گول نہ ہو جائیں، بیرے باورچی کھانے میں گھس کر اندر سے تالا ڈال دیں اور ہوٹل کا مالک گله چھوڑ کر جائے نماز پر بیٹھ جائے اور خدا سے اس عذاب سے نجات کے لئے براہ راست رجوع کرے، کام ہو گیا؟  اب اس کو اخبار میں چھپوا دیں، ٹی وی پر چلوا دیں، انٹرنیٹ پر پوسٹ کر دیں، مزے کریں، مایا ہی مایا ، واہ واہ ہی  واہ واہ .

ہمارے معاشرے میں خرابیاں تو ضرور ہیں مگر ان سے بھی زیادہ ان خرابیوں پر رونے والے ہیں، راستی کے وہ ٹھیکیدار جو رائی کا پربت بناتے ہیں پھر چیختے چللاتے ہیں. کہتے یہ بھی ہیں کہ جو چلتا ہے وہ بکتا ہے یعنی جس کی ضرورت ہوتی ہے وہ شے مارکٹ میں کامیاب ہوتی ہے. ہمارے ذرائع ابلاغ پر جو کچھ دکھایا جا رہا ہے اگر اس کو ڈیمانڈ اور سپلائی کی نظر سے دیکھیں تو  سامعین و قارئین کی ضروریات کا اندازہ لگایا جا سکتا ہے.  یقینی طور پر ایسے لوگ بھی ہونگے جو یہ سب ہوتا دیکھ کر یہی سوچتے ہونگے کہ  ‘حیران ہوں دل کو روؤں یا پیٹوں جگر کو میں’ مگر ان کا نوحہ گر یعنی ذرائع ابلاغ تو لمبے لمبے ہاتھ مارنے میں لگا ہے کہ مایا سے مایا ملتی رہے اور جیون گاڑی چلتی رہے،  حقیقت تو یہی ہے کہ ‘سب مایا ہے’ .

The entire episode has re-exposed the uncritical nature and selective morality of Pakistan's urban elites.

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Javid Naseer Rind, another Baloch journalist kidnapped and silenced by the Deep State

In the last two days, Pakistan’s liberal elites and rights activists on social media (Twitter in particular) were seen extremely worried about the daughter of an ex-army soldier Shamsul Anwar, a resident of Rawalpindi. He had a great story to tell us all that what he did for the nation and what is being done with him. Well, this is a HEART BREAKING NEWS that: Shamsul Anwar is a BIG FRAUD.

His daughter (Madina Anwar) was NOT AT ALL KIDNAPPED but left home on her own. She got married and was living not very far from her parents house, this was disclosed by the DSP in a press conference today.

While we really appreciate all those who after reading his story tried to help him, a few things are worth noting:

1.  The quality of reporting in Pakistan’s English media is as poor as it is in Urdu press. The story was published in one of Pakistan’s most circulated English newspapers, The News (of the Jang Group), filed by Shakeel Anjum (who is known for dubious journalism not unlike Ejaz Haider and Ansar Abbasi). It is the same newspaper which is supervised by Najam Sethi who is a political advisor to the Owner-Chief Editor.
2. The same story was uncritically published by other English newspapers e.g.,  Pakistan Today and Express Tribune etc in a copycat manner.
3. Pakistan’s urban elites on Twitter used this story to further furnish and promote their (shallow) philanthropic credentials while conveniently ignoring the fact that MOST of them routinely ignore, deny or obfuscate authentic stories of the Baloch, Pashtun and Shia target killings by army and its Jihadi-sectarian proxies. For example, none of them campaigned for the safe release of Javid Naseer Rind, a Baloch journalist kidnapped and subsequently killed by the ISI.
4. The episode effectively exposes and undermines the urban legend that Pakistan’s English press is more progressive and responsible than the Urdu press. Both are two sides of the same coin. Similarly, “liberal” bloggers such as Dr. Awab (Teeth Maestro) and “conservative” bloggers such as Dr. Aisha Aijaz (My Bit for Change) seemed to converge on this issue (not unlike their converged silence on target killings of Balochs, Pashtuns and Shias by Pakistan army and proxies) thus demonstrating the falsehood of the liberal-conservative binary.
5. In a nutshell, the entire episode has re-exposed the uncritical nature (sheep character) and selective morality of Pakistan’s urban elites.

Here is a comment by Sherish who is a writer at Tribune:

 “I also did a story on him last year and supported him a lot. Every day he used to come to my office with new story, and sometimes he used to come with his wife and children and i never sent him back empty hand..i also collected money to get food items for him….i never shared this with anyone but now this man made me to disclose all this…..as he instead of being thankful to me tried to defame me….He also approached me to do a story on his daughter but i refused. This person has really made me to stop helping needy people through writing.”

Another relevant comment:

 “He sold her daughter last year to a tribe in Peshawar, they took her away. he talked to them to send her back and he will pay them but they said okay pay us, he raised money via this drama and then achanak hee hype mach gai, the whole social media knew about it and ansaar bruney got involved, and then today they got to know its a drama. police arrested him and they went to Peshawar for negotiation and a jirga took place and they said to marry the girl and send her back with her husband, she was married and sent back now police will be looking to help get the money back to donors.”

It’s a moment to cry perhaps, but more importantly to critically reflect! We were so worried then got happy but what that man, the media and so called activists have done to the whole nation is clearly disappointing and disturbing.

This was a shameful act by that man, he wasted our trust. However, our trust was also hurt by the selective morality of those who showed hyper-activity to help an ex-soldier, a resident of Rawalpindi, the very people who fail to show similar concern about hundreds of Balochs, Pashtuns and Shias who are routinely kidnapped or/and killed by the Deep State and its various proxies and agencies. (Adapted from beats24x7)

US Ambassador Ryan C Crocker, Gen Jahangir Karamat, US Defence Attaché Col Gene McConville and Najam Sethi at the latter’s residence. (2007)

There are many points of merit in Mr. Najam Sethi’s editorial for The Friday Times (TFT, 6-12 Jan 2012).

While there are some crucial omissions, one must give Mr. Sethi credit for stating a few bold things. The problem is Mr. Sethi himself fails on many of these counts.

In the last year, he has:

1. Stated the following in his September 23rd editorial: “there is only one institutional force that can establish the writ of the state and restore law and order. That is the Pakistan Army.”

2. Promoted the works of a controversial Indian author who has sought to dilute the role of the Pakistan Army in the 1971 genocide in East Pakistan

3. Been a part of the “elite” panel of “journalists/analysts/ex-military bureaucrats that have argued for supporting the Taliban as an instrument of Pakistan’s (read military establishment’s) policy in Afghanistan

4. Shifted the blame for Pakistan’s military’s actions on to the elected government.

So it is heartening to see that Mr. Sethi has laid down a criteria that exposes himself; even if that criteria has omitted some crucial points.

For starters, when talking about the danger to journalists, Mr. Sethi has highlighted the name of a Punjabi victim of the ISI and not a Baloch or Pashtun victim! His discourse is typically Punjabi-urban centric and unfortunately often laden with contempt for the PPP which derives its electoral strenght from Sindh, Southern Punjab and many areas of FATA, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Balochistan, Azad Kashmir and Gilgit Baltistan.

Mr. Sethi has also conveniently omitted how the media along with the judiciary has played a crucial role in slandering all those journalists who have taken a line that differs from that of the establishment. It is the Punjabi-Jamaat-e-Islami dominated media that has reinforced the grotesque criteria used to malign journalists with a differing viewpoint.

The most troubling element in Mr. Sethi’s simplistic definitional article is the implicit false liberal-conservative binary and selective posturing. The false binary that comes across is that those who don’t brazenly reinforce the jingoism of the Urdu press are the victims, the CIA agents. Nothing could be further from the truth.

For starters, the psuedo liberal or life style liberal journalists who are being lionised in this false binary of being CIA agents are far more subtle and insidious in their support for the military establishment. Like Najam Sethi, they will continue to selectively undermine the elected PPP government, heap mostly unsubstantiated abuse on its leaders and like Sethi, occassionly offer token, diluted and vague criticism of the military establishment.

Hence the false binary that journalists like Najam Sethi are CIA agents is ludicrous on many levels. For one, calling someone a CIA agent is reflective of a conspiracy theory laden and xenophobic mindset and hence does not constitute a credible argument against the inconsistencies and pro-army scholarship of Mr. Sethi. Secondly, when viewed in the context of his career, Mr. Sethi comes across as a journalist who has preferred military dictators to elected governments.

Furthermore, the selective posturing is limited to highighting the threats on Mr. Husain Haqqani’s life. There is little if any mention of the ongoing army-backed judicial coup and how the media and judiciary are cohesively undermining the PPP government.

Creating false binaries and selective posturing makes some of us skeptical of Mr. Sethi’s claims. However, unlike his insensitivity to elected PPP leaders, one should take him at his word and wish him the full security that is the right of every Pakistani. It pains many when Najam Sethi, Ejaz Haider and Hamid Mir engage in such acts being apologists for genocidal anti-Ahmadi, anti-Shia Lashkar-e-Jhangvi. It disappoints us when they line up with the military establishment to heap slander on the PPP government. It is a matter of concern for us when in their intellectual dishonesty, they distort and omit crucial facts to shift the blame of the wrongs of the military on to elected governments.

Their blaming-the-victim tactics are a disgrace to journalism as is their participation in caretaker governments that followed the coups undertaken against the 1996 PPP government. However criticism against these characters must be based on principles and not silly slander (CIA agent allegations) and threats. We condemn both.

After the ouster of the Military regime in 2008- Pakistan faced ultimate challenges in various forms.  Aftermath of martial law, for sure was deleterious, it may take a decade to overcome its effects and miseries. Elections in 2008 itself proved the anti Martial law stance of people, and the majority of Peoples Party in elections signified the credibility of PPP among the poorer population in the rural and urban areas. It is really strange- that whenever Pakistan came under martial law, PPP was the party to restore the democracy in Pakistan- Zulfiqar Bhutto took over the government after Ayub Khan and Yahya khan, Benazir Bhutto after Zia Ul Haq and now Gillani after Pervez Musharrf. Long story short- PPP has always been the savior of democracy in Pakistan and for restoration of democracy it has sacrificed blood of PPP martyrs, which even the enemies, endorse, who, of course had put the poor NLI into the furnace of Kargil war and got them massacred by not accepting them their force personals as POW’s.

It will be unfair to judge the performance of PPP government, excluding the current challenges in Pakistan. Be it internal security issues, terrorism within and across the borders, active anti-democratic forces, international interests, or commodity prices in international market. Considering all above mentioned factors- and if we come up as an unbiased opinion about the performance of PPP- we will realize that they did better than anyone else in this country in its history.

To name few of the accomplishments of the current government:

18^th amendment- Which turned Pakistan from semi-presidential to a Parliamentary republic was declared invincible even by the champions of the sabotaging and scoundrel journalists in media. Few of the pseudo-Intellectuals/ Anchorpersons, who hosted shows in private channels, portrayed Pakistan on the verge of collapse and their politically panditized assessments proved to be fake when the president of Pakistan approved the 18^th amendment. Constitution of Pakistan was restored and we expected media to devise programs to appreciate this action of government, instead they remained mum and dug for other allegations. In my opinion, just to keep democracy intact, was rather much than an achievement.

Gilgit-Baltistan Package gave the identity and right of legislation to the natives who were deprived of basic rights. Starting from Bhutto till today- PPP has always served areas of need and no wonder, PPP swept elections in 2009 in Gilgit-Baltistan, but none of the stalwarts of the yellow journalism even appreciated this step of the PPP government, rather they labeled elections as totally rigged. But what about the victory of PPP in Gilgit-Baltistan when they had a majority of seats even in martial law? Which itself tells you the credibility of the opportunists who are trying to destabilize the democracy with maligned and vested interests and intentions.

Baluchistan package, was an effort to strengthen the under developed and largest province which is the major source of Gas production in Pakistan. The aim of this package was to lessen the grievances of Baluch tribes about their long standing disparities. President of Pakistan, on behalf of the State tendered apologies to the people of Baluchistan, and Baluchistan was granted 5000 instant jobs as part of this package. This package may not be, all what people of Baluchistan deserve, but to begin with it is a significant step forward.

To rest with the Energy crises as one of the failures of PPP government is mere allegation. Electricity crises began in the Musharrf’s long time regime of so called enlightened moderation. Although there are few shortcomings to overcome the electricity crises, but it may need sometime. If we go back to the second government of Benazir Bhutto- Tharr coal project was started but unfortunately the government succumbed to the conspiracies and the subsequent government blindly stalled the project. But still we blame PPP for the shortfall- And then followed by Musharraf decade of rule not a single project was established. Recent inauguration of 4500 MW, Diamer-Bhasha dam in Gilgit-Baltistan is one of the major steps of the current government to meet the demand and supply in the country. Another megaproject of Bunji Dam, generating 7000 MWs, is likely be inaugurated this year. And there are many smaller projects under progress.

Furthermore, Provincial Autonomy, FATA reforms, Educational Reforms, Health Sector reforms, NFC awards, Police reforms, Labor reforms, and Benazir Income Support Program providing financial support to 3.5 Million families, are the marked achievements of PPP government worth discussion.

Before we make a prejudiced assessment- we should look at the ground realities and the history- A party which sacrificed it charismatic leaders like Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, Benazir Bhutto and rest of Bhuttos, sacrificed jiyalas for democracy, for independent judiciary, survives all the military regimes, time of oppression and suppression, thick and thin, but resolved to stick to its manifesto. Whose leaders had to face the torments of jail for decades for mere accusations, only party to face both internal and external threats, the only party which has face bomb blasts even for minor gatherings?

Considering the sacrifices, above mentioned few of the major accomplishments, deliberately ignored by the media. Dark side is always highlighted and bright side is constantly ignored, based on the personal liking and disliking of few individuals. The essence of this write up is to do the justice to what they have rendered so far for the people of Pakistan, and to view a bit of bright side and appreciate the good steps of the present Government. It carries my personal views and observations, my democratic right to express my own views.

Writer is a scholar, majoring in Health Policy Management and Administration from Oklahoma University, based in USA, can be reached at mzaeem@ouhsc.edu , zaeemzia1983@gmail.com

Source: Pakistan Blogzine

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Husain Haqqani, memogate and urban elites’ pandemonium on Twitter

 Mullen throws Husain Haqqani under the bus

Mansoor Ijaz saga: An example of media mismanagement by PPP

Qasida-e-Husain-Haqqani – by Malik Siraj Akbar

I have no major issues with personal clouts and tribal loyalties as long as such clouts and loyalties are used for collective, not personal, benefit. However, questions arise when individuals with shady past and dubious present misappropriate intellectual and political capital of a political party to create and activate a media tribe to promote their personal interests while ignoring or even suppressing issues of more urgent and collective importance.

Take, for example, the case of Pakistan’s ambassador to the USA, Mr. Husain Haqqani (the person who manufactured and distributed offending pictures and documents about Shaheed Benazir Bhutto and Begum Nusrat Bhutto), who has a dedicated lobby of propagandists, urban-centric “liberal” opportunists (some of whom are clearly pro-military establishment) and ambitious flatterers who hang around him on Twitter and also in Islamabad or Washington D.C., not missing out a single opportunity to praise him, eulogizing his real and imaginary services to Pakistan or Pakistan Peoples Party. This network also includes genuine liberal progressive writers whose anti-establishment stance is being manipulated to support Haqqani’s career interests. President Zardari is abused by some of their friends (e.g., Ejaz Haider and Tammy Haq), Benazir Bhutto is cursed (e.g., Murtaza Razvi’s article on Nusrat Bhutto’s death), PPP is blamed (e.g., the blaming the victim brigade’s columns on Taseer’s murder), who cares? as long as the Namoos (honour) of Haqqani is carefully guarded. Clearly Mr. Haqqani has misappropriated the PPP’s intellectual capital and naive followers to develop and promote his personal career and guard his personal honour. Sadly, some sincere progressive writers and columnists too have allowed themselves to be used for career promotion and defence of Mr. Husain Haqqani.

While Ambassador Hussain Haqqani has played an important role in serving Pakistan’s and PPP’s interests in Washington, D.C., the due credit for his performance goes to President Asif Zardari who is the main mind behind political manoeuvring and policy making in the last four years.  While Mr. Haqqani is an able executioner, as he was in his capacity as an assistant to Ghulam Ishaq Khan, Nawaz Sharif  and previous masters, the key role of President Zaradri is being diluted and completely put aside by the Namoos-e-Haqqani Network (NHN) on Twitter and also in mainstream media. For them, and also for our esteemed Ambassador, it is sufficient if his own Namoos (honour) is carefully guarded by the likes of Ejaz Haider, Ayesha Tammy Haq and others, some of whom are known for their deep hatred of the very leader (President Zardari) and the party (PPP) he is duty-bond to serve. For Haqqani, his own Namoos is the first and last priority, the rest is simply disposable!

Such network has been able to thrive because of a naive decision by the PPP leadership to accommodate the Ambassador’s wife in the President’s media team. It is, therefore, no wonder that many of the Namoos-e-Haqqani Network loyalists, columnists, bloggers and Tweeps show little to no interest in highlighting the  military state’s role in murder of PPP leaders (Benazir Bhutto, Salmaan Taseer, Shahbaz Bhatti) and atrocities against the Baloch, Pashtuns, Shia Muslims, Ahmadiyya Muslims and others, which have gained further momentum since the PPP came to power in early 2008.

The NHN has taken little to no interest in highlighting the plight of thousands of the Balochs, Pashtuns and Shia Muslims who have been mercilessly butchered by Pakistan army and its proxy jihadi organizations (TTP-SSP-LeJ etc).

Barring a token statement or two, the Namoos-e-Haqqani Network has done nothing to highlight the ongoing persecution and murder of Toori Pashtuns (Shia Muslims) of Parachinar who remain besieged by the ISI-Haqqani Taliban for the last four years. In fact one of their paid operatives (ironically a  Toori Shia) is seen actively promoting and defending the honour of ISI. Similarly, the NHN has kept tight-lipped on the ongoing massacres of thousands of Baloch nationalists who are fighting for their basic human rights.

As a recent example of how the NHN operates in Pakistan’s mainstream media and also on Twitter, consider the case of how NHN members have been activated to defend the honour of Husain Haqqani in response to the Mansoor Ijaz saga and Imran Khan’s speech. Read again, the emphasis is not on defending the honour of Pakistan, or that of President Zardari, the emphasis is clearly on defending the honour (Namoos) of Mr. Haqqani. In fact the Mansoor Ijaz saga is a vivid example of mismanagement of media by friends and defendants of Mr. Haqqani with considerable damage to PPP’s interests.

While there are many examples on Twitter, let me cite only a few tweets. Note how one flatterer bestows Hussain Haqqani and his wife with the title of Mr. Pakistan and Mrs. Pakistan, a proposal which is hurriedly endorsed by the ‘Mrs. Pakistan’.

mSaleemJaved Saleem Javed
Out of despair? RT @mazdaki: Imran Khan targeting @husainhaqqani is slanderous , pathetic & desperate #fail #ptijalsa

akchishti akchishti
So when are we giving this couple @husainhaqqani @fispahani Mr & Mrs. Pakistan award? seriously!

fispahani farahnaz ispahani
sweet thought! RT @akchishti: So when R we gving ths couple @husainhaqqani @fispahani Mr & Mrs. Pakistan award? srsly!

dasghar Dilawar Asghar
@husainhaqqani I wud ditto what @adnanrasool sd and wht @akchishti just sd that both u and @fispahani R Mr and Mrs Pakistan in their own way

fispahani farahnaz ispahani
Bless u.! ! MT @dasghar: @husainhaqqani I wud ditto wht @adnanrasool & @akchishti just sd that both u & @fispahani R Mr & Mrs Pakistan

With reference to the NHN activities in response to Mansoor Ijaz saga, it will be useful to reproduce the entire article because of which Mr. Haqqani and his defendants deemed it appropriate to criticize Mr. Ijaz:

Time to take on Pakistan’s jihadist spies

By Mansoor Ijaz

Source: Financial Times

Early on May 9, a week after US Special Forces stormed the hideout of Osama bin Laden and killed him, a senior Pakistani diplomat telephoned me with an urgent request. Asif Ali Zardari, Pakistan’s president, needed to communicate a message to White House national security officials that would bypass Pakistan’s military and intelligence channels. The embarrassment of bin Laden being found on Pakistani soil had humiliated Mr Zardari’s weak civilian government to such an extent that the president feared a military takeover was imminent. He needed an American fist on his army chief’s desk to end any misguided notions of a coup – and fast.

Gen Ashfaq Kayani, the army chief, and his troops were demoralised by the embarrassing ease with which US special forces had violated Pakistani sovereignty. Inter-Services Intelligence, Pakistan’s feared spy service, was charged by virtually the entire international community with complicity in hiding bin Laden for almost six years. Both camps were looking for a scapegoat; Mr Zardari was their most convenient target.

The diplomat made clear that the civilian government’s preferred channel to receive Mr Zardari’s message was Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the US joint chiefs of staff. He was a time-tested friend of Pakistan and could convey the necessary message with force not only to President Barack Obama, but also to Gen Kayani.

In a flurry of phone calls and emails over two days a memorandum was crafted that included a critical offer from the Pakistani president to the Obama administration: “The new national security team will eliminate Section S of the ISI charged with maintaining relations to the Taliban, Haqqani network, etc. This will dramatically improve relations with Afghanistan.”

The memo was delivered to Admiral Mullen at 14.00 hours on May 10. A meeting between him and Pakistani national security officials took place the next day at the White House. Pakistan’s military and intelligence chiefs, it seems, neither heeded the warning, nor acted on the admiral’s advice.

On September 22, in his farewell testimony to the Senate armed services committee, Admiral Mullen said he had “credible intelligence” that a bombing on September 11 that wounded 77 US and Nato troops and an attack on the US embassy in Kabul on September 13 were done “with ISI support.”Essentially he was indicting Pakistan’s intelligence services for carrying out a covert war against the US – perhaps in retaliation for the raid on bin Laden’s compound, perhaps out of strategic national interest to put Taliban forces back in power in Afghanistan so that Pakistan would once again have the “strategic depth” its paranoid security policies against India always envisioned.

Questions about the ISI’s role in Pakistan have intensified in recent months. The finger of responsibility in many otherwise inexplicable attacks has often pointed to a shadowy outfit of ISI dubbed “S-Wing”, which is said to be dedicated to promoting the dubious agenda of a narrow group of nationalists who believe only they can protect Pakistan’s territorial integrity.

The time has come for the state department to declare the S-Wing a sponsor of terrorism under the designation of “foreign governmental organisations”. Plans by the Obama administration to blacklist the Haqqani network are toothless and will have no material impact on the group’s military support and intelligence logistics; it is S-Wing that allegedly provides all of this in the first place. It no longer matters whether ISI is wilfully blind, complicit or incompetent in the attacks its S-Wing is carrying out. S-Wing must be stopped.

ISI embodies the scourge of radicalism that has become a cornerstone of Pakistan’s foreign policy. The time has come for America to take the lead in shutting down the political and financial support that sustains an organ of the Pakistani state that undermines global antiterrorism efforts at every turn. Measures such as stopping aid to Pakistan, as a bill now moving through Congress aims to do, are not the solution. More precise policies are needed to remove the cancer that ISI and its rogue wings have become on the Pakistani state.

Pakistanis are not America’s enemies. Neither is their incompetent and toothless civilian government – the one Admiral Mullen was asked to help that May morning. The enemy is a state organ that breeds hatred among Pakistan’s Islamist masses and then uses their thirst for jihad against Pakistan’s neighbours and allies to sate its hunger for power. Taking steps to reduce its influence over Pakistan’s state affairs is a critical measure of the world’s willingness to stop the terror masters at their very roots.

Clearly, Mr. Mansoor Ijaz’s article is an expression of the fact that it is not Pakistan’s civilian government but its army, ISI in particular, which is responsible for an on-going support to Al Qaeda and Taliban. What’s wrong in such position? Yet, for the defendants of Mr. Haqqani, it is more important to defend his career interests even if that has to be at the cost of truth and principles. Here are six snapshots, three are newspaper items and three are blog posts, which effectively antagonized Mansoor Ijaz forcing him to reveal some more discomfiting details of the memogate:

Mehmal Sarfraz writes in Daily Times (Editorial, 1 Nov 2011):

Mr Khan’s speech started with attacks against President Zardari and the Sharif brothers. His repetition of the false story pertaining to Ambassador Husain Haqqani about a nonexistent letter was uncalled for. Mr Khan should not bend facts to suit his case.

http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2011\111\story_1-11-2011_pg3_1

Dr Mohammad Taqi writes in Daily Times (No he Khan’t, 3 Nov 2011):

The PTI leader has been hanging out with Sheikh Rashid of Rawalpindi and early in his speech hit a low that even the foul-mouthed Rashid might envy. Imran Khan’s accusation against Ambassador Husain Haqqani, making wild allegations and that too based on a story by Mansoor Ijaz — a discredited ‘mediator’, neo-con sympathiser and proponent of Bush’s Iraq war — was simply pathetic. One wonders about his motive to quote a person who boasts of ties to both India and global jihadists. While a separate column is needed to address this issue, it just goes to show the shallowness of the PTI leader and that in his desperation for power he can stoop to any level.

http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2011\113\story_3-11-2011_pg3_2

Kamran Shafi writes in Express Tribune (3 November 2011):

Then he goes and badmouths our ambassador to the United States, let us not be afraid to name him, Husain Haqqani, by calling him the US ambassador to the US, i.e. a US stooge. As if this was not enough, he quotes from a controversial article by someone who has been much talked about in the press and in other public forums in the United States, let us not be afraid to name him either: Mansur Ijaz, saying that Haqqani asked Ijaz to deliver a letter to the Americans from Asif Zardari begging them to save him from Pakistan’s army generals.

Now then, let alone doing a 10-minute internet search and finding out exactly who Mansur Ijaz is, if Imran or his advisers had thought about this matter for 10 seconds before putting it in his speech, it would have become clear even to them that there was something very, very wrong with this storyline. If Haqqani is a US stooge, why would he need someone like Ijaz to deliver Zardari’s letter to the Americans? Elementary what, Imran?

As for Ijaz, I will only quote from the Roanoke Times, a newspaper out of Virginia. On December 26, 2001, President Clinton’s former national security adviser, Samuel ‘Sandy’ Berger, called Ijaz’s allegations “ludicrous and irresponsible”, when Ijaz said that the Clinton administration had ignored several offers from the Sudanese government to share intelligence on Osama bin Laden.

According to the same paper, Susan Rice, who served as assistant secretary of state for African affairs from 1997 to 2000, and is now the US ambassador to the UN, said about Ijaz’s claims that the “White House was not looking for foreign policy assistance from Ijaz”, “We did not need, nor would it have been appropriate for us to use a private citizen… ”.

http://tribune.com.pk/story/287082/welcome-imran/

Tarek Fatah writes in the Huffington Post:

Both Admiral Mullen and Islamabad denied that any such back door diplomacy had taken place, but the denials could not put out the fire. What was ostensibly written as a critique of Pakistan’s jihadi extremists in fact turned out to have the exact opposite effect. In a country where anti-Americanism is rife, the elected civilian government was made out to appear as lackeys of the U.S.

Could the writer have intended to weaken the government and strengthen the military? Mansoor Ijaz is not new to controversy. According to the International Herald Tribune‘s Pakistan edition, “a deeper look into Ijaz’s background provides evidence that this hasn’t been the first time the influential businessman has raised controversy concerning his alleged role as a secret international diplomat.”

The IHT discloses that :

“In 1996, he was accused of trying to extort money from the Pakistani government in exchange for delivering votes in the US House of Representatives on a Pakistan-related trade provision. Ijaz, who runs the firm Crescent Investment Management LLC in New York, has been an interlocutor between U.S. officials and foreign government for years, amid constant accusations of financial conflicts of interest. He reportedly arranged meetings between U.S. officials and former prime ministers Benazir Bhutto and Nawaz Sharif. He also reportedly gave over $1 million to Democratic politicians in the 1990s and attended Christmas events at former President Bill Clinton’s White House. Ijaz has ties to former CIA Director James Woolsey and his investment firm partner is Reagan administration official James Alan Abrahamson.”

Anywhere else a civilian diplomat warning directly or indirectly against a military coup would not be deemed wrong in itself. But in Pakistan, a civilian Prime Minister was toppled and arrested (Nawaz Sharif, in 1999 by General Musharraf) for simply trying to assert civilian control over the military. Even if Zardari and his diplomat had, as Ijaz claims, asked Ijaz to contact the American government to use its influence against a military coup, there was nothing unlawful or unconstitutional in what he did. But in Pakistan, Ijaz’s claims have provoked circumstances that are threatening at least the sacking of a respected ambassador and possibly undermining civilian rule.

Knowing the workings of Pakistan’s intelligence services, Ijaz’s article could have been part of a plan by the ISI to destabilize Pakistani democracy once again. http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/tarek-fatah/pakistan-news_b_1095960.html

Sabahat Zakariya writes in Express Tribune – Blog (1 Nov 2011):

The speech was full of feel-good optimism as was expected and required. Talk of corruption, delivering rights to the poorest in the society and anti-Zardari sentiment elicited the most visible roars of approval. Personally speaking, I was disappointed at his resorting to lies about Hussain Haqqani’s nationality but heartened by his passing mention of minority and women’s rights. http://blogs.tribune.com.pk/story/8695/how-imran-khan-won-me-over/

Pakistan Media Watch – Blog writes in “Media Conspiracies and Imran Khan” (31 October 2011)

In an otherwise straightforward speech in Lahore on Sunday, Imran Khan alluded to a conspiracy theory of Mansoor Ijaz that this blog has discredited not only once, but twice already. One can give Imran Khan the benefit of doubt, though, as there is a history of examples of journalists feeding Imran conspiracies, possibly as an attempt to curry favour with the PTI chief. As we stated before, “Whether or not you support Imran Khan, all political leaders need to be given the facts, not led by their noses on a wild goose chase”. As Imran’s political influence grows, it is important that he – and all political leaders – be able to make decisions from factual information, not conspiracies. Otherwise, the consequences can be disastrous.

http://pakistanmediawatch.com/2011/10/31/media-conspiracies-and-imran-khan/

I repeat: I have no major issues with personal clouts and tribal loyalties except when such clouts and loyalties are based on misappropriation of a political party’s intellectual and political capital for personal benefit while discarding the collective benefit.

Now let me ask: why is no such tribal support activated to mourn Ajmeer Shah? Why is such tribal loyalty absent when human rights activists and media persons misrepresent Shia genocide by the ISI backed TTP-SSP-LeJ as routine sectarian violence between Sunnis and Shias? Why is the NHN nowhere to be seen when dumped, deshaped dead body of journalist Javid Naseer Rind is found? Politically speaking, why does the NHN go into hiding when Mosharraf Zaidi, Ejaz Haider, Najam Sethi etc manufacture most poisonous and slanderous attacks on President Zardari? Where do they vanish when Murtaza Razvi writes a hateful post against Benazir Bhutto on the death of her own mother, Begum Nusrat Bhutto? Is the honour of Husain Haqqani more important than the honour of Shaheed Rani?

I hope someone may help me in findings answers to the above questions.

Note to NHN propagandists: I believe in political, non-violent struggle against the oppressors and the opportunists. In this respect my ideal is not Al Zulfiqar but Benazir Bhutto who waged a peaceful struggle against military dictators (General Zia, General Musharraf) as well as against opportunists (Jatoi, Khar, Ramay, Aitzaz Ahsan etc) within her own party. I hope Pakistan Blogzine will be kind enough to publish this post discarding all pressures and blackmailing by the NHN.

Source: Pakistan Blogzine

Imran Khan’s PTI rally in Lahore on 30 October 2011 offered the best of both worlds, i.e., a free concert in which singers including Shehzad Roy, Shah Zaman and the band, Strings, performed to entertain people from Lahore as well as other areas including Khyber Pakhtunkwa and FATA. The rally also offered an avenue for Imran Khan and his followers to demonstrate their Islamist credentials, e.g., the way Imran Khan chose to offer prayers on the stage in full view of about 100,000 audience while they keenly awaited his speech, which too he carefully started with a Quranic verse. Conspicuous within the crowd were Islamist slogans of Al-Jihad (holy war against USA, India and others) and banners against US-led drone attacks on Taliban and Al Qaeda.

The event was generously covered in media by some known pro-Islamist and pro-establishment journalists, e.g., Haroon Rasheed, Mujibur Rehman Shami, Muhammad Malick, Shirin Mazarai and others. On Twitter, such propagandists were assisted by urban liberal elites (aka fake liberals) including but not limited to Mosharraf Zaidi, Ayesha Tammy Haq, Omar Waraich and their paraphernalia.

Enjoy the pictures. Some comments inserted below have been directly copy-pasted from PTI official facebook page to show the level of discourse within PTI followers.

PTI Concert:

Wiki Doublex L wOw….. I love yOu lAGaaa rAeyeeee lAGaaa rAeyeeeee……..
19 hours ago · Like · 1 person

‘Talha Jutt’ HE ROX
16 hours ago · Like

Imran Malik hmmmmm gr8
12 hours ago · Like

Zulfikar Ali Malik tnx to cam mr shahzad roay p.t.i is it the right way for save pakistan
11 hours ago · Like · 1 person

Malak Waleed Yousufzai cheeeeeeeeeeeeetaaaaaaaaaahhh…..

Mehdi Abbasi string…love u guys…
13 hours ago · Like · 5 people

Kashif Saleem KaimKhani end krdia bhai log .. .
12 hours ago · Like · 2 people

Mudassar Younis Thanks for being there
11 hours ago · Like · 4 people

Razia Iqbal main bhi dekhonga tumm bhi dekhoge inshallah
10 hours ago · Like · 2 people

Zuhaib Khan inshaallah
9 hours ago · Like

Nosheen Atta welldone strings inshaAllah hum sab hi dehkain gay …..u guys did a great job
9 hours ago · Like

Liaqat Ali Khan inshallah ye change sab paki dekheen ga
5 hours ago · Like

ALi GEe Realy Nice Guys Gr8 job Dear
3 hours ago · Like

Atif Bash SHAHZAD,STRINGS,SHAHZAMAN ALL PUTTING thier carriers online by comin in ptis jalsa it would have been gr8 if ALI AZMAT WAS THERE COZ HES ENERGETIC N ALL OF HIS SONGS R POWERFUL

Maya Feroz Strings?
20 hours ago · Like · 2 people

Fahad Bin Maqbool yes
20 hours ago · Like · 1 person

Sheharyar Ahmed Siddiqui Just loved ‘Mein to dekhunga’ with over 200K Passionate Pakistanis!!
19 hours ago · Like · 4 people

Wiki Doublex L wOw ♥ ♥ str!nGs ♥ ♥ “lOve YOu”
19 hours ago · Like · 3 people

‘Talha Jutt’ WAT THE………… CONCERT tha???
bataya kyun nahi
16 hours ago · Like

Omar Rashdi Awesome performed…
14 hours ago · Like

Wardah Awan thats why i love em! always in the right places…..supporting the right causes! ….Strings!
13 hours ago · Like

Shakila Wali strings i love them )
3 hours ago · Like

Mujassim Shah jalsa kam musical concert ziada tha …………hahahahhaha

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PTI Jihadis

Sohail Ghani Shah: Pakhtuns speaking against Drowns

Sultan Ul Arfeen: Inshallah Pakhtonkhawa is gonna be the solid ceter of PTI

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PTI Propagandists:

Farjad Ali: gud to seee u guysss….!

Shahid Ali Rind: ab karloo mulqi tarekh ke sabh se baree party ke jalse par tabsara

Noman Rasheed Dr. Shahid Masood !!
14 hours ago · Like · 8 people

Asfandyar Ali ‎Dr. Shahid Masood: nice picture
13 hours ago · Like · 2 people

Ahsan Malik Thank you. At last the civil society is on the bandwagon of change )
13 hours ago · Like · 3 people

Sajid Malik gorgeous
13 hours ago · Like

Ali Adnan the only bad one at Jalsa
13 hours ago · Like

Aneela Rana Thx 4 coming Dr sab .
13 hours ago · Like · 3 people

Aqueel Zafar Awan Jillnay Walay ka moun kala…
13 hours ago · Like · 2 people

Zia Ahmad Thanks Dr Sb …. one of my fav
11 hours ago · Like

Zubair Khan Thanks for support to Imran always
11 hours ago · Like

Umer Butt Dr sb thanks
10 hours ago · Like

Liaqat Ali Khan Geo dr,shahid masood , u r also real pakistani anchor

Irfan Kareem The Real Opinion Makers !!!

Nomi Khan Likex1000!

Maya Khan GREAT

Tabsum Reha ‎4 black mailer haram ki aulad

Fateh Ullah Khan Kundi ‎@Tabsum..i can’t say anything about the others but as for as i know Dr Shahid Masood is a nice person..

Ahmad Lodhi haroon ur rasheed is gud 1

Fahad Shaikh ‎@ Tabsum Reha… Dislike your abusive words..1000 times !!!!!!1

Tayyaba Shahid frst tme media playing o gud job….
13 hours ago · Like · 35 people

Muzzamil Hameed looking kool – haroon rashid , mujeeb ur rehman shami , muhammad malik and shahid masood
13 hours ago · Like · 8 people
Abubakar Shahid, Waseem Ijaz, Chanda Sahil and 8 others like this.

Shahid Shabbir Ch they are witnesses…………………..IMRAN breaking the records……..
13 hours ago · Like · 10 people

Mansoor Ahmed Shahid Masood another repectful figure as long as he is repecting Imran Khan !
13 hours ago · Like · 6 people

Aasim Butt Haroon Rashid is the awesomest ever. they all should become politicians and get tickets for elections from PTI
13 hours ago · Like · 7 people

Junaid Abdul Wahid all are fabulous persons! I truly love imran and these guys!
13 hours ago · Like · 1 person

Khurram Shehzad Pti MashAllah proud of Pakistan…………
13 hours ago · Like · 1 person

Saud Soudi yar ya geo ky hai sari..
12 hours ago · Like · 1 person

Saud Soudi tv ky hai
12 hours ago · Like

Nabeel Anjum Thnx mujeeb ur rehman for attending our jalsa
12 hours ago · Like

Rana Naveed Idrees media witnessing the history
12 hours ago · Like · 2 people

Rehan Sadiq LONG LIVE PAKISTAN LONG LIVE IMRAN KHAN
12 hours ago · Like · 2 people

Rao Umair every patriot is wth imran including media icons!
9 hours ago · Like

Raza Hassan may Allah bless u all the……….. analysts,
9 hours ago · Like

Strong Pakistanii Paripeaker thanks to all
8 hours ago · Like

Muhammed Bilal Asmat mashallah…. it looks like the analysts and the journalists are also willing for the change…
6 hours ago · Like

Liaqat Ali Khan welcom ,haroon rasheed ,mujeeb ur rehman,moh,malik and dr,shahid masood in PTI jalsa
6 hours ago · Like · 1 person

Nauman Khan Nice to see these people in Rally. …
5 hours ago · Like

Aamir Hussain abe ye log khaha the?
4 hours ago · Like

Safi Khan top journalist of Pakistan…love that they are supporting IK
4 hours ago · Like

Anjum Farhan Karim Good to see them attending the Jalsa.
4 hours ago · Like

Addey Roy people who love pakistan
4 hours ago · Like

Muhammad Kashif may be madia is also seeing the change at u and i have seen
4 hours ago · Like

Junaid Islam hahah… Dr.Shahid as usual smiling pose …..(Junaid Likes)
3 hours ago · Like

Mirza Arshad Ali every one attended
3 hours ago · Like

Sajid Malik Now media is on right path
3 hours ago · Like

Alamzaib Khan Mahsud Isf very nice …they are a very good observers in media…so nice to come in jalsa
2 hours ago · Like

Muhammad Khawar Best of luck Imran khan. U will be getting on there.
2 hours ago · Like

Raheel Khan very nice
2 hours ago · Like

Rao Xenon Hassan hahha..shahid masood sab bara pose amr rahay hy
2 hours ago · Like · 1 person

Atif Bash dr sahab is young again all r lookin in gr8 mood
2 hours ago · Like

Naveed AfzaL I am waiting for Ansar Abbasi comments on JALSA
2 hours ago · Like

Faisal Omar I am glad to see you all together there.
about an hour ago · Like

Usman Farooq Butt THE master mind INALABIIS are here
about an hour ago · Like

Assam Ahmed ‎@usman farooq: LOTA PARTY STAY AWAY FROM OUR KHAN
about an hour ago · Like

Shahbaz Iqbal very nice job by media personals..

Shakil Alam Now pakistani Media got to know the voice of nation
Yesterday at 7:40am · Like · 16 people

ظفير حسين All Four Journalists are very good…..
Yesterday at 8:03am · Like · 11 people

Waqas Azeem waaaoooo good to see them here
Yesterday at 8:05am · Like · 4 people

Shoaib Kahoot Ahmad all four big journalist
23 hours ago · Like

Asad Ullah Sheraz wow great media man its a achivement too
23 hours ago · Like · 3 people

Adv Mumtaz Ghauri inqalabi journalist in inqalaab……………
23 hours ago · Like · 1 person

Muhammad Zubair ‎Shahid Mian
22 hours ago · Like

Haroon Latif waoo Haroon Rasheeed…he is a gr8 man.
22 hours ago · Like · 4 people

Shahid Mian I.saw.them.there
22 hours ago · Like

Umair Hameed Haroon Rasheed Gr8 Journalist ,,, May Allah give him Long life and healthy
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22 hours ago · Like · 6 people

Zarghoon Khan Safi Haroon Rasheed..;) My Neighbor ♥
22 hours ago · Like

Imran Khan nice to see them specialy Dr. Shahid sab and Haroonul Rashid sab…. i love them all
22 hours ago · Like · 1 person

Rateej Ubaid that’s nice
22 hours ago · Like

Ch HumzAnis aala PTI
22 hours ago · Like · 1 person

Ghulam Murtaza SALUTE 2 ALL…MR HAROON RASHID(DAILY JUNG NEWS) ..MR MUJEEB UREHMAN SHAMI (DAILY PAKISTAN NEWSPAPER)..MR SHAHID MASOOD (ARY) AND MR KAMAL (Geo TV..THE NEWS )
22 hours ago · Like · 2 people

Çhärmîñg Jüñâïð Salute to Dr. Shahid Masood
21 hours ago · Like · 1 person

Nomi Khan Salute to all four journalist!
21 hours ago · Like · 1 person

Humayun Jafri Haroon rasheed is a great man?? He also took plots from govt in the past.. man without character
21 hours ago · Like

Hafiz Ahmed I love chacha Haroon Rasheed….. ♥
21 hours ago · Like · 1 person

Qaiser Nadeem Butt Nice to see them there
20 hours ago · Like · 1 person

Hafsa Mahmood oh ho ya bhe ayn han
20 hours ago · Like

Asadullah Khan nice one… honest journalist support honest politician…
20 hours ago · Like · 1 person

Muhammad Siddique Brave personalities.Missing Kamran Khan & Hamid Mir.
19 hours ago · Like

Sehr Kashif gr8 to see them together here on P.T.I stage
19 hours ago · Like

Mehmood Moodi shahzada yar main ne apni zindagi main itna brave aur sacha man nai daikha.Hounerable Sir Haroon-ur-rasheed sb.fakhr-e-sahafat.
18 hours ago · Like

La Dla gr8 yar
18 hours ago · Like

Sharjah King Maker agar pade leke log agy ahain tu mulk k halat aur hoon gy
16 hours ago · Like

Ali Zulfiqar Zabardast Haroon Rasheed is realy a nice human being…..
15 hours ago · Like · 1 person

Adeel Pak First time in history that Senior News anchors supporting a party

Inam Khan iron lady… very patriotic intellectual who is a pain in america’s a…

Yamun Yameen shereen mazari rocks

Aim Imran looks like Dr. Shahid Masood …
Yesterday at 8:00am · Like · 9 people

Maryam Zulfiqar thats him
Yesterday at 8:01am · Like · 6 people

Waqas Azeem good to see him here,keep it up Dr. Shahid…
Yesterday at 8:02am · Like · 2 people

Shabana Faryal Yes it is Dr. Shahid Masood.
Yesterday at 8:03am · Like

Aslam Shah Good to See Him…
23 hours ago · Like · 1 person

Ux Haroon Zabardast…
23 hours ago · Like

Faisal Zia the true anchor attendig a real hero’s JALSA
23 hours ago · Like

Prince Pakistan Ye chamcha hai.. Sad to see him here
22 hours ago · Like · 1 person

Imran Khan wow gud to see Dr. Shahid Sab and Haroonul Rashid also in the background……dats nice to support our loin IK
22 hours ago · Like

Ghulam Murtaza HMMMM WE ARE ALL WITH U …
22 hours ago · Like

Abdul Wahab Khan outstanding person we want him in PTI ………
21 hours ago · Like

Nomi Khan Haroonul Rasheed a true PTI supporter!
21 hours ago · Like

Zain Ali ye pehlay n league ka pakka chamcha tha but lagta he ab party change kare ga. chalo dair aaid durrust aaid
21 hours ago · Like

Zain Ali ganjay thaa, lotay thaa. geo imran geo pakistan. nai subha mubarak
21 hours ago · Like

Somi Malik Lookin great sir
20 hours ago · Like

Zeeshan Yousaf thanks Dr. Shahid Masood
19 hours ago · Like

Muhammad Alee Hassan Raza hmmm … Dr. Shahid Masood
19 hours ago · Like

Sehr Kashif good good Dr.sahib …keep it up plzzzzzz n join P.T.I

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Asfandyar Ali ‎Dr. Shahid Masood: zabardast
23 hours ago · Like · 19 people

Iftikhar Khan Shahid Masood should join PTI and politics!!
23 hours ago · Like · 11 people

Saad Khan straight forward people join together
23 hours ago · Like · 2 people

Meher Ansari Dr,sahab good
23 hours ago · Like

Ali Owais Banth hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
23 hours ago · Like

Muhammad Imran SADAAA HAQ AITHEY RAKH……..
22 hours ago · Like · 2 people

Amin Jee proud to be PTi…..
22 hours ago · Like

Rateej Ubaid PTI chaa gaye hay
22 hours ago · Like · 1 person

Mohtasim Abdullah Janjua Imran ko lana hah Nawaz zardari ka zamana purana hah
21 hours ago · Like · 4 people

Nomi Khan Dr. Shahid Masood: Great we have seen you in Peshawar and now in Lahore. Salute to you on being a straight forward person.
21 hours ago · Like · 3 people

Haroon Rasheed Qureshi dr shahid masood wating u—come & join pti.
20 hours ago · Like · 1 person

Umer Jalal Alvi Dr. Shahid Masood plz join P.T.I
19 hours ago · Like · 2 people

Sehr Kashif OOOoooooo….. good Dr.sahib…. u should join P.T.I
19 hours ago · Like · 1 person

Hina Noor wow he joined PTI glad to see dat salute to him
16 hours ago · Like · 1 person

Sohail Zarrar Dr masood are from ARY or GEO or PTV or Express tv
16 hours ago · Like

Farheen Khan He was there in his personal capacity. Waise he works for Express news