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		<title>Ansar Abbasi’s bachay ki dua</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 08:06:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah Khan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In his incomparable poem, “Bachay ki dua” or a “Child’s supplication”, (Baang-e-Dara)  Iqbal presented in 12 lines what should be the mission of any child from his early life. We have read this poem all our lives and without doubt, it is one of the simplest, yet best, poem written by Iqbal. Ansar Abbasi, the [...]]]></description>
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In his incomparable poem, “<em>Bachay ki dua</em>” or a “Child’s supplication”, (Baang-e-Dara)  Iqbal presented in 12 lines what should be the mission of any child from his early life. We have read this poem all our lives and without doubt, it is one of the simplest, yet best, poem written by Iqbal.</p>
<p>Ansar Abbasi, the apex investigative editor of The News, known for his vitriol against the democratic dispensation and wish for a Taliban style of “Gavernance” in Pakistan, has been at the forefront of running a campaign against the PPP along with his gang members like Ahmed Noorani, Umar Cheema, Usman Manzoor from his newspaper and sister TV channel. It is also speculated that he has roots with banned outfits like Hizbut Tahrir and there is empirical evidence that he supports the cause of all Jihadi outfits.  In his weekly article in Daily Jang, which appears on Monday, he tries to act like a “God Fearing” social reformer as he knows that Jang’s readership is tilted towards the right wing. Whether he is one, only Allah knows, but his writings do not reflect that!</p>
<p>His article on May 14, 2012, is titled “<a href="http://e.jang.com.pk/05-14-2012/karachi/pic.asp?picname=1044.gif" target="_blank">Meray liye Allah hee kaafi hay</a>” which is the urdu translation of a Quranic verse “<strong>Hasbi Allah </strong><strong>wa ni&#8217;mal wakil</strong>”. In his article, Ansar Abbasi has recounted the threats he has received and all the conspiracies, threats, abuses that has endured in the last many years because he considers Journalist as an “Ibadat”. His “Ibadat” is that he keeps a watchful eye in “public interest” on governments of the day. He even mentions that in his career it is “<strong>quite possible that his information is inaccurate, his sources may be tainted, my analysis can be wrong, but he never writes because of ill-will and personal interest</strong>”. He even has to write that “<strong>Rizq is something that Allah provides and that despite of all the efforts to stop his Rizq, he is committed because he has faith in Allah</strong>!”.</p>
<p>Now let us ask Mr. Ansar Abbasi, if Rizq is provided to you by Allah, then who provides Rizq to all those against whom you write and speak? If you believe that you are doing a mission, then those against whom you write and speak also believe that they have a mission to complete, don’t they? If you believe that for you “Allah is enough” then this is what others also believe. In essence, what kind of an article is this? come out of this love for yourself. As they say “<strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Apnay baray mayn khush fahmi aur doosron kay baray mayn gahalat fahmi</span></strong>” destroys a person and so it seems that Ansar Abbasi is now using a public forum to prove that his “Intention is always right” and that he is a good man!</p>
<p>Ansar Abbasi should recite Allama Iqbal’s Bachay Kee Dua every day. Hopefully, he will improve because with his “good intentions” he is supporting the cause of Taliban and the Jihadi extremists who are trying their best to destroy our nation and send us into dark ages. Remember, “<strong><em>Zalim ka saath denay wala bhee Zalim hay</em></strong>!”</p>
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		<title>Zaffar Abbas, Dawn&#8217;s editor or chief of Shia Ghetto Police?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Mar 2012 09:45:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jehangir Hafsi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Related posts: Misrepresentation of Shia genocide In the last week, DAWN has published atleast 2 articles/editorials that dishonestly obscure the carnage faced by the Shia Muslims across the lenght and breadth of Pakistan. Last month, Huma Yusuf&#8217;s dishonest and lazy articulation was deconstructed here. Similarly, just a few days ago, Naziha Syed Ali wrote similar [...]]]></description>
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<p><strong>Related posts:</strong> <a href="http://criticalppp.com/archives/tag/misrepresentation-of-shia-genocide">Misrepresentation of Shia genocide</a></p>
<p>In the last week, DAWN has published atleast 2 articles/editorials that dishonestly obscure the carnage faced by the Shia Muslims across the lenght and breadth of Pakistan.</p>
<p>Last month, <strong><a href="http://criticalppp.com/archives/70496">Huma Yusuf&#8217;s dishonest and lazy articulatio</a>n</strong> was deconstructed here. Similarly, just a few days ago, <strong><a href="http://criticalppp.com/archives/74216">Naziha Syed Ali wrote similar rubbish</a></strong> which dishonestly presented the carnage against Shias as symmetric violence between Sunnis and Shias. Nothing is further from the truth and it is both disappointing and troubling to see media dishonesty on this topic.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.dawn.com/2012/03/20/sectarian-vigilantes.html">Dawn&#8217;s editorial today</a> is the latest article in Dawn&#8217;s drive to twist and misrepresent Shia genocide in Pakistan. Here is a relevant excerpt:</p>
<blockquote><p>AS reported in this paper on Friday, police officials believe that in Karachi, gangs of four to five men usually carry out targeted <strong>sectarian killings without any planning or formal instructions</strong> from major sectarian outfits. The rise in this trend of communal vigilantism is cause for concern, especially considering the extent of sectarianism in this country. Police officials say that Sunni sectarian groups such as the Sipah-i-Sahaba/Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat and its deadly offshoot Lashkar-i-Jhangvi have begun to target ordinary members of the Shia community, whereas in earlier decades mostly Shia professionals and scholars were killed. Conversely, Shia militants, apparently working under the banner of Sipah-i-Muhammad, have concentrated their attacks on SSP activists. Until 2008, most victims of sectarian violence in Karachi were Shia; however, as the report notes, the past two years have witnessed an increasing number of SSP workers killed, indicating that Shia militants have begun to strike back. As the state has failed to punish sectarian killers, this is the natural outcome.</p></blockquote>
<p>This dishonest drivel not only obscures the violence against Shias by ISI-backed Jihadist groups, it also obscures the role of these Jihadists in the massacre and oppresion of Ahmadis, Sunnis (Brehvis), Christians, Hindus, Pashtuns etc. It also attributes the Shia genocide to the majority of moderate Sunnis who have already rejected and dissociated from Pakistan army backed Jihadip-sectarian terrorists.</p>
<p>There is a common thread of dishonesty in the recent articles by DAWN:</p>
<p>1. Limiting the attention to Karachi and completely ignoring the large scale massacres of Shia Mulims over the rest of Pakistan;</p>
<p>2. Wiping out the role of an ISI-supported ethno-fascist party (MQM) which has actively prevented the Shias from mobilizing peaceful protests;</p>
<p>3. In most instances, obscuring the voice of the victims;</p>
<p>4. Obscuring the role of the pro-Jihadist Islamo-fascist judiciary which has released self-confessed mass murderers who boast about killing Shias;</p>
<p>5. Obscuring the fact that after every Shia massacre, it is Shia youth who are picked up by the law enforcement agencies;</p>
<p>6. Obscuring the fact that Shia lawyers who strive to prove the innocense of illegally detained Shia youth have themselves been targetted on several occassions.</p>
<p>Under Zafar Abbas, brother of ISPR General Athar Abbas, DAWN has continued its downward slide in terms of journalistic ethics and standards and today, barring the odd exception, it can be described as an ISPR mouthpiece.</p>
<p>Founded by the Shia Jinnah and owned by a Shia business family for much of its times, DAWN has printed the most anti-Shia articles in the recent past. For Pakistan&#8217;s varied Shia communities, a Shia sellout like Zaffar Abbas is no different from those few Jews who collaborated with Nazis in the genocide of their own people. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_Ghetto_Police">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_Ghetto_Police</a></p>
<p>Shame on you DAWN. With a rag like yours, is it any wonder that a few Shia youth have taken to vigilantism to protect themselves from total destruction&#8230;.</p>
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		<title>A rejoinder to liberal fascist critique of sister Naziha Syed Ali &#8211; by Syed Riaz Al-Malik Hajjaji</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Mar 2012 11:35:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jehangir Hafsi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Related article: Naziha Syed Ali justifies Shia genocide in Pakistan as tit-for-tat violence I want to commend sister Naziha for presenting the ongoing genocide of Islamo Marxist groups like Sipah Sahaba/Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat by the All-Powerful Rafzi (Shia) lobby of Pakistan. Everyone in Pakistan knows that the Peaceful Pious Patriots of Lashkar-e-Jhangvi are no [...]]]></description>
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<p>I want to commend sister Naziha for presenting the ongoing genocide of Islamo Marxist groups like Sipah Sahaba/Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat by the All-Powerful Rafzi (Shia) lobby of Pakistan. Everyone in Pakistan knows that the Peaceful Pious Patriots of Lashkar-e-Jhangvi are no match for the powerful, well armed and well funded Rafzi militias of Sipah Mohammad. Given the Rafzi threat, one can understand why sister Naziha tries to present this genocide as a two-way “tit-for-tat” conflict but in reality, we all know that it is the Rafzis, Qadians, Christains, Hindus, Baloch and Barelvi Sunnis who are committing the genocide of pious ISI-backed Islamo Marxist groups like Lashkar-e-Jhangvi. If you don’t believe me or Sister Naziha, please refer to the twitter account of the Tehrik Taliban Pakistan which is presented in this article:</p>
<p><a href="http://pakistanblogzine.wordpress.com/2012/03/16/naziha-syed-ali-misrepresents-shia-genocide-in-pakistan-in-dawn-article/">Pakistani Taliban join Twitter, threaten rights activists</a></p>
<p>Then you will realize how Sister Naziha and Tehrik Taliban Pakistan are not so far off in their views, Jazakallah! Like comrade Ali Sher Haideri of SSP, sister Naziha has also kept Rafzi name and background and has done a fantastic job of exposing Rafzi complicity against the allies of pious peaceful Taliban and Al Qaeda in Pakistan.</p>
<p>For those of you who don’t know, this Rafzi lobby lead by Jinnah hijacked the Pakistan Movement. Yes, it was not Rafzi Jinnah who was responsible for Pakistan but Islamo Marxist luminaries like Dr. Israr Ahmad, historian Safdar Mahmood, Maulana Shabbir Ahmad Usmani and Hamid Nizami of Nawa Waqt.</p>
<p>Today, it is real liberals like Naziha Syed Ali, Raza Rumi and Najam Sethi who are subtly doing the job of damage control against Paak Fauj. If it was not for them, the liberal fascist narrative would have taken hold and this would permanently damage the Islamo Marxist movement of groups like PML N, PTI, SSP-ASWJ-LeJ, JuD-LeT, JM, HuM, General Hamid Gul, JI etc. As per the liberal fascist narrative, it is the Christains, Qadians, Hindus, Moderate Deobandis, Barelvis, Rafzis, Pashtuns, Baloch who are being victimized by peaceful ISI-backed Islamo Marxist groups like Sipah Sahaba. In reality it is the exact opposite!</p>
<p>That is why I appreciate how sister Naziha has presented this; especially how her column starts with the appreciation of the grief bourne out by the Marxist workers of Sipah Sahaba. It is the liberal fascist media that is distorting this issue by referring to isolated incidents in Parachinar, Quetta, Rahim Yar Khan, D.G. Khan, D I Khan, Kohistan etc. In reality we all know that it is not peaceful TTP or Al Qaeda or LeJ that is responsible; in reality Rafzis were killing each other because they ran out of TTP’s to kill.</p>
<p><a href="http://criticalppp.com/archives/tag/riaz-malik">Riaz Malik archive on LUBP</a></p>
<p><a href="http://pakistanblogzine.wordpress.com/tag/riaz-malik/">Riaz Malik archive on PB</a></p>
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		<title>Shaheen Sehbai’s Asif Zardari Phobia</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Mar 2012 06:47:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ahmed Iqbalabadi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pakistan’s top fiction writer, Shaheen Sehbai, who should be writing novels than editing newspapers while sitting in Dubai is in deep shock for the last many months. having written many a script that has never taken off, he is now forced to write his reports and involve the name of President Asif Zardari for one [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><div id="attachment_73960" class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 190px"><a href="http://criticalppp.com/archives/73959/ss-3" rel="attachment wp-att-73960"><img src="http://cdn.criticalppp.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/ss.jpg" alt="" title="ss" width="180" height="232" class="size-full wp-image-73960" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Sehbai suffers from PPP-phobia</p></div><br />
Pakistan’s top fiction writer, Shaheen Sehbai, who should be writing novels than editing newspapers while sitting in Dubai is in deep shock for the last many months. having written many a script that has never taken off, he is now forced to write his reports and involve the name of President Asif Zardari for one reason or the other. The report on Sunday, March 11, 2012 appearing in The News and Jang is no different.</p>
<p>He has given an account of how Mehran Bank was established which tells us about the coercive tactics of former strong man, Jam Sadiq Ali. He has, however, chosen to include President Asif Zardari, his late mother and step brother in the account, which can have no connection other than to show that he knows all!</p>
<p>One must also ask him, why has he spoken about this matter after 21 years? Isn’t it your responsibility to come out with the facts like a journalist should? Oh no, we forgot, Shaheen Sehbai is not a journalist. He is a novelist. And we all know novelists do not present facts but rather share the things “revealed” on them!</p>
<blockquote><p><strong>How Mehran Bank was issued a licence by the State Bank</strong><br />
-by Shaheen Sehbai</p>
<p>Source: http://images.thenews.com.pk/11-03-2012/ethenews/e-97145.htm</p>
<p>DUBAI: How did the Mehran Bank come into being and how power-drunk politicians misused their power is a mystery which has not been revealed in detail so far but has acquired immense relevance at a time when all secrets are being revealed by key players, like peels of an onion.<br />
While today Mehran Bank chief Yunus Habib is confessing his crimes, seeking forgiveness from God and all others, blaming everyone, I have been witness to a sordid episode which occurred in March of 1991 at the official residence of Jam Sadiq Ali, the then chief minister of Sindh who had been installed after Benazir Bhutto’s first government was ousted in August 1990 and Asif Ali Zardari was jailed in Landhi by Jam Sadiq Ali.<br />
In this episode I am going to reveal, senior journalist and anchor Nusrat Javeed, late Azhar Sohail and a couple of then junior reporters Faraz Hashmi, now with BBC and Shakeel Shaikh, now chief reporter of The News in Islamabad, were also present or around, as part of a delegation of journalists which Jam Sadiq Ali had invited to Sindh from Islamabad.<br />
How many of our colleagues remember this episode is not clear but I have vivid memory. Our delegation was the first to force Jam Sadiq Ali to allow us to see Asif Ali Zardari, for the first time, in Landhi jail in the gruelling hot weather of March. Current senior politician Imtiaz Sheikh of PML-Functional was then the personal secretary of Jam Sadiq Ali and was always available at his home till late at night.<br />
During our one-week tour of Sindh, we were at Jam Sadiq’s residence in Karachi and enjoying a good spirited evening helped adequately by the then Sindh Information Secretary Salim Gul Sheikh. One quiet man was sitting in the corner with a mobile phone and did not speak a word for hours. Suddenly Jam Sadiq Ali asked him what was going on and then he opened up.<br />
He was Mr Yunus Habib. He told Jam Sadiq Ali his application for a license of Mehran Bank was not being approved by the State Bank of Pakistan, at that time led by Imtiaz Alam Hanafi as Governor.<br />
Why it has not been approved, Jam asked. “I don’t know Sir, but Hanafi Sb is the problem,” he said.<br />
Jam Sadiq Ali, who has now been accused by Yunus Habib of receiving Rs150 million for helping the Mehran Bank, asked his PS to get him Governor Hanafi on the phone. It was about 11 pm or so at night.<br />
Within minutes the PS said he could not get through to Mr Hanafi as probably he had gone to bed. Jam Sadiq asked his PS to call his No 2, an adviser of the State Bank. The line went through and Jam Sadiq told the Adviser in front of all of us. “Listen you fool, tell your stupid Governor who is sleeping, that I, Jam Sadiq Ali is calling. Tell him to do the job of Mehran Bank now as I have said so many times. Otherwise also tell him that we know when his son goes out of home and where he goes and when he returns.”<br />
This short call was a direct threat from Jam Sadiq Ali, who was considered a mafia Don, a tyrant and everyone was scared of his ruthlessness at that time. We were amused at the way he handled the issue.<br />
The next day our delegation had to visit the State Bank and we saw the room of that adviser and some of us gate crashed. We asked him what had Jam Sadiq Ali told him last night about Mehran Bank. The Adviser was so scared and nervous that he virtually threw out everybody from his room and wanted us to tell him how we knew about the call. He then begged that his name may not be given as he would be punished by Jam Sadiq Ali.<br />
We forgot about the incident as Mehran Bank had not been born then and we were dealing with larger issues of interviewing Asif Ali Zardari in Landhi jail, for the first time. We returned after a week and I wrote a series of 7 columns in a week, blasting Jam Sadiq Ali and his administration. It was also for the first time that anyone had visited the mother of Asif Ali Zardari near the Avari Hotel home and saw the miserable plight she was living in with Muzaffar Tuppee, the stepson.<br />
A few months later, probably in late August or September 1991, we heard that the Hamid Hanafi, the son of the State Bank Governor Imtiaz Alam Hanafi had been kidnapped in Karachi while he was going to his office or returning home. It was big news. The boy remained a hostage for a few weeks and was then released quietly.<br />
Shortly afterwards we also learnt that the State Bank had issued the license of the Mehran Bank to Yunus Habib and formally the bank was launched in early 1992. Then started all the political wheeling and dealing.<br />
A key player of Mehran Bank at the time, who now resides in Dubai, confirmed to me on Friday that not just Rs150 million were paid to Jam Sadiq Ali for Mehran Bank but a big house in Karachi was also given to him by Yunus Habib.<br />
This Mehran Bank insider also confirmed that the kidnapping of the son of the State Bank Governor was also linked to the bank licence.<br />
With such criminal beginnings it is not surprising that Mehran Bank became a key player in politics of deceit, fraud and criminal dealings to make or break political and popular governments. And it was the best tool for non-political players to use against friends and enemies alike.</p></blockquote>
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		<title>Najam Sethi uses 80-20 mix to dilute Shia genocide in Pakistan</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Mar 2012 13:31:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Abdul Nishapuri</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a recent article highlighting refined tactics of urban elite affiliates of Pakistan army, Sarah Khan writes: Traditionally lifestyle liberals in Pakistan use an 80-20 mixture formula, i.e., they inject the 20% pro-military establishment discourses within the 80% objective facts or neutral assessments in their articles. Of course we agree with the 80% of their [...]]]></description>
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<p>In a recent article highlighting refined tactics of urban elite affiliates of Pakistan army, <strong><a href="http://criticalppp.com/archives/69608">Sarah Khan writes</a></strong>:</p>
<blockquote><p>Traditionally lifestyle liberals in Pakistan use an 80-20 mixture formula, i.e., they inject the 20% pro-military establishment discourses within the 80% objective facts or neutral assessments in their articles. Of course we agree with the 80% of their content, however, it is the 20% part (e.g., Taliban = Pashtoon, or, sectarian clashes between Sunnis and Shias, or, involvement of RAW in Balochistan, or, politicians are corrupt etc) which makes them more refined, opaque and dangerous than their right-wing affiliates of the Deep State.</p></blockquote>
<p>In his talk-show titled Aapas Ki Baat (Geo TV) on 28 February 2012, Najam Sethi misrepresented Shia genocide by referring to vague sectarianism, Sunni vs Shia violence. He provided unhindered and unprecedented opportunity in his program to SSP-ASWJ&#8217;s terrorist leader Ahmed Ludhianvi to spread propaganda to Pakistani and international audience.</p>
<p>In the first few minutes of the program, Najam Sethi identified major players and factors behind Shia Muslims massacres in Pakistan and highlights the unholy link between SSP-ASWJ and Al Qaeda. This (80% segment) is good because it challenges the so called analysts who misrepresent genocide of Shia Muslims as a proxy war between Iran and Saudi Arabia. However, Sethi went off the track when he said violence in Pakistan started with the import of Iranian revolution in late 1970s.</p>
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<p>However, resorting to his tradition of 80-20 mix (mixing 20% of disinformation in 80% of information), Sethi used Sunni-Shia sectarianism terminology to hide the fact that ASWJ-SSP terrorist represent their mentors in Pakistan army, <strong><a href="http://criticalppp.com/archives/71673">not Sunni Muslims</a></strong>. </p>
<p>In the latter half, he deemed it fit to allow his program to be hijacked by SSP-ASWJ&#8217;s leader Ludhianvi. </p>
<p>Instead of speaking to the slain community (Shias), Sethi deemed it fit to speak to their killer, Ahmed Ludhianvi, allowing him to freely relay his propaganda and hate on international circuit.</p>
<p>Why is Najam Sethi terming State-sponsored Shia-genocide as Sunni-Shia violence (Shia Sunni Larai Jhagra)?</p>
<p>Why does not he ask Ludhianvi why he went to receive LeJ chief Malik Ishaq from Kot Lakhpat if he does not endorse LeJ&#8217;s terrorism?</p>
<p>Aapas ki baat: 28 Feb part 4</p>
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<p><strong>The Friday Times</strong></p>
<p>Taking lead from Najam Sethi&#8217;s dishonest misrepresentation and dilution of Shia genocide in Pakistan, several authors in The Friday Times (chief editor: Najam Sethi) have published misleading and non-representative articles in the current issue (March 2-8, 2012) of the TFT. A detailed criticism of TFT can be read at the following link: <strong><a href="http://pakistanblogzine.wordpress.com/2012/03/02/the-friday-times-misrepresents-the-suffering-of-pakistans-shias-and-ahmadis/">The Friday Times misrepresents the suffering of Pakistan’s Shias and Ahmadis</a></strong>.</p>
<p><strong>Najam Sethi faces tough questions on Twitter:</strong></p>
<p>Abbas Raza ‏ @iamabbasraza<br />
Dear @najamsethi u took SSP/LJ terrorist live in ur show. I cant remember u interviewing anyone in AKB ever before. #Double Standards?</p>
<p>Najam Sethi ‏ @najamsethi<br />
@iamabbasraza No double standards. SS called. Wanted right to respond to serious allegations. We took call. Did you believe Ludhianvi or me?</p>
<p>29 Feb Abbas Raza ‏ @iamabbasraza<br />
@najamsethi Funny no one else got this chance ever before on ur show.” u got a text” and then u took him live. anyways thanks 4 ur reply sir</p>
<p>29 Feb Najam Sethi ‏ @najamsethi<br />
@iamabbasraza If leader of any party calls during my program and wants to come online for defense, I will welcome it! Good for my show!</p>
<p>&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;</p>
<p><strong>Najam Sethi self-congratulates</strong> himself on his brave stance on &#8216;sectarian violence&#8217;. Hey, you forgot Farhat Taj, Dr. Taqi, Mehmal Sarfraz and quite a few others!</p>
<p>Najam Sethi ‏ @najamsethi<br />
@Nauman_789 I had said more against SSP in ten mins than anyone in ten years! Least I could do was allow them defensive response. Fair?</p>
<p>&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;</p>
<p><strong>Jhangvi media cell celebrates the fact that their terrorist leader was allowed to speak on national circuit in Najam Sethi&#8217;s popular program:</strong></p>
<p>18h Jhangvi ‏ @JHANGVI<br />
نجم سیٹھی آپس کی بات میں اظہار خیال ‎fb.me/1tESBLl9i‏</p>
<p>19h Jhangvi ‏ @JHANGVI<br />
Hazrat Molana Muhammad Ahmed Ludhianvi sb, apas ki bat Geo News 28 February 2012 fb.me/1mDepBhss</p>
<p>&#8230;&#8230;..</p>
<p><strong>This is not Sunni vs Shia Sectarian Violence</strong></p>
<p>Hamid Mir and Najam Sethi in their programs and several authors in Sethi&#8217;s The Friday Times used the Sunni-Shia sectarianism discourse which is tantamount to misrepresentation of Shia genocide.</p>
<p><strong>Shia scholar Allama Nazir Abbas Taqvi slaps those journalists, activists and propagandists who dishonestly misrepresent Shia genocide as Sunni-Shia sectarianism.</strong></p>
<p>This is not Sunni-Shia sectarianism! Allama Taqvi speaks to Metro TV:</p>
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		<title>Cyril Almeida&#8217;s story on Balochistan is attributable to&#8230;?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Feb 2012 12:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Abdul Nishapuri</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cyril Almeida&#8217;s column on Balochistan (Balochistan, the unattributable story, Dawn, 26 Feb 2012) is an example of how Pakistan&#8217;s military establishment manufactures confusion and obfuscation through friendly journalists. The column is an example of how false neutrality and contrarian views are used to obfuscate military state&#8217;s atrocities against innocent civilian (Baloch nationalists in this case). [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://criticalppp.com/archives/73084/cyril-almeida" rel="attachment wp-att-73085"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-73085" title="Cyril Almeida" src="http://cdn.criticalppp.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Cyril-Almeida.jpg" alt="" width="150" height="150" /></a>Cyril Almeida&#8217;s column on Balochistan (<a href="http://www.dawn.com/2012/02/26/balochistan-the-unattributable-story.html">Balochistan, the unattributable story, Dawn, 26 Feb 2012</a>) is an example of how Pakistan&#8217;s military establishment manufactures confusion and obfuscation through friendly journalists.</p>
<p>The column is an example of how false neutrality and contrarian views are used to obfuscate military state&#8217;s atrocities against innocent civilian (Baloch nationalists in this case).</p>
<p>According to Cyril, recent release of a few Baloch missing persons is &#8220;a nod to the pressure from the media and the political chatter.&#8221; Hey, you forgot the US hearing?</p>
<p>Cyril clearly presents and justifies Pakistan army&#8217;s brutal kill and dump policy when he writes:</p>
<blockquote><p>People keep saying that the policy [kill and dump] isn’t working but that opinion isn’t shared by everyone.</p>
<p>There haven’t been any settler killings in 11 months in and around Quetta. Even in the so-called non-tribal belt, the insurgents have been pushed out of the cities and into the hills.”</p></blockquote>
<p>It is the same author who previously justified <a href="http://pakistanblogzine.wordpress.com/2011/08/31/goodbye-professor-saba-dashti%c2%adari-by-jahanzaib-haque/#comment-2103">extra-judicial killing of Baloch intellectual Professor Saba Dashtiyari </a>by citing an unnamed intelligence source who claimed that Dasthiyari had links with Baloch militants.</p>
<p>Dear Cryil: There is no confusion and chaos about the situation in Balochistan except those who want to remain confused or have been tasked to confuse the ordinary public.</p>
<p>Last three paragraph of Cyril&#8217;s column are focused on refuting the claim that &#8216;Musharraf knew Osama was in Pakistan’. This is called halal ki rozi (to earn a legitimate living)!</p>
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		<dc:creator>Sarah Khan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[سلیم صافی پاکستان کے ان صحافیوں میں سے ہیں جن کے پاکستان کی فوجی اسٹیبلشمنٹ کے ساتھ طالب علمی کے زمانے سے گہرے تعلقات رہے ہیں &#8211; زمانہ طالب علمی میں اسلامی جمیعت طلبا میں شامل ر ہے سی آئ اے، آئ ایس آئ اور سعودی عرب کے ایجاد کردہ نام نہاد جہاد افغانستان میں [...]]]></description>
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<p style="text-align: right;">سلیم صافی پاکستان کے ان صحافیوں میں سے ہیں جن کے پاکستان کی فوجی اسٹیبلشمنٹ کے ساتھ طالب علمی کے زمانے سے گہرے تعلقات رہے ہیں &#8211; زمانہ طالب علمی میں اسلامی جمیعت طلبا میں شامل ر ہے سی آئ اے، آئ ایس آئ اور سعودی عرب کے ایجاد کردہ نام نہاد جہاد افغانستان میں شامل ہو کر افغانستان جا پنہچے اور بے گناہ افغانوں کے خون میں اپنے ہاتھ تر کیے -</p>
<p style="text-align: right;">امریکہ پر القائدہ کے گیارہ ستمبر کے حملوں کے بعد انہوں نے جماعت اسلامی سے تو اپنا ناطہ توڑ لیا <span id="more-71958"></span>لیکن فوجی اسٹبلشمنٹ ، خاص طور پر آئ ایس آئی سے اپنے روابط کو مستحکم رکھا -</p>
<p style="text-align: right;">یہی وجہ ہے کہ آج اگر کسی نے پاکستان کی فوج کی خفیہ پالیسیوں کا اندازہ کرنا ہو تو اس کے لیے سلیم صافی اور ان کی طرح کے دوسرے آئ ایس آئی یافتہ صحافیوں کا مطالعہ کافی ہے &#8211; اس طرح کےدیگر صحافیوں میں رحیم الله یوسف زئی، ہارون رشید، جاوید چودھری، مبشر لقمان، انصار عباسی، مجیب الرحمان شامی وغیرہ شامل ہیں انگریزی میڈیا میں اس طرح کے آئ ایس یافتگان میں اعجاز حیدر ، نجم سیٹھی ، موید پیرزادہ، طلعت حسین، نسیم زہرہ ، مشرف زیدی اور سایرل المیدہ کے نام آتے ہیں -</p>
<p style="text-align: right;">آجکل دفاع پاکستان کانفرنسوں کا شور غوغا ہے سب اہل نظر جانتے ہیں کہ دفاع پاکستان کا کاروبار آئی ایس آئ کا شروع کردہ ہے جس میں آئ ایس آئ کی حمایت یافتہ جہادی فرقہ وارانہ جماعتیں سپاہ صحابہ ، جماعت الدعوه ، پاکستان تحریک انصاف ، عجاز الحق ، جنرل حمید گل، سمیع الحق وغیرہ شریک ہیں -</p>
<p style="text-align: right;">آئ ایس آئ کے ہمدرد صحافی آج کل دفاع پاکستان کونسل کی شان میں قصیدے لکھ رہے ہیں اور ان قصیدوں کی آڑ میں در اصل مذہبی فرقہ واریت پھیلانے والی دہشت گرد تنظیموں کو پاکستان کے عوام کے لئے قبل قبل بنانا چاہتے ہیں -<a href="http://jang.net/urdu/archive/details.asp?nid=596320"><strong> جنگ اخبار میں گیارہ فروری</strong> </a>کو شایع ہونے والا سلیم صافی کا مضمون بھی اسی مقصد کے لئے لکھ گیا ہے جس میں صافی صاحب نے پاکستان کے سب سے متشدد گروپ سپاہ صحابہ کی صفائی پیش کی ہے &#8211; چند اقتباسات حاضر خدمات ہیں -</p>
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<p style="text-align: right;">یوں ہر پاکستانی کا حق ہے کہ وہ اس کے وجود اورکردار سے متعلق سوال اٹھائے لیکن جس بنیاد پر اس کے خلاف رحمن ملک اور میڈیا کے بعض حلقوں نے شور اٹھا رکھا ہے‘ وہ نہایت لغو اور فضول ہے ۔ ان کو اعتراض ہے کہ بعض کالعدم تنظیمیں دوسرے ناموں سے دفاع پاکستان کونسل کے پلیٹ فارم سے متحرک ہوگئی ہیں‘ اس لئے اس کونسل کا راستہ روک دینا چاہئے حالانکہ میرے نزدیک اس کونسل کی واحد خوبی یہ ہے کہ وہ کالعدم تنظیموں کو مین اسٹریم میں لا اور ان تنظیموں کے رہنماؤں کو شیخ رشید احمد اور اعجاز الحق جیسے پرویز مشرف کی ٹیم کا حصہ رہنے والے سیاستدانوں کے ساتھ بٹھا رہی ہے ۔<br />
جن تنظیموں کو کالعدم قرار دیا گیا ہے‘ ان میں تین قسم کی تنظیمیں شامل ہیں۔ جہادی تنظیمیں فرقہ وارانہ تنظیمیں اور علیحدگی پسند قوم پرست تنظیمیں۔ اب کوئی جہادی تنظیم ایسی نہیں ہے جس نے بحیثیت تنظیم پاکستانی ریاست کے خلاف جنگ کا اعلان کیا ہو۔ تقریباً تمام تنظیموں کے رہنما گزشتہ دس سالوں میں پاکستان میں رہے، ان میں سے بعض جیلوں میں بھی رہے اور عدالتوں کا بھی سامنا کیا لیکن کسی کو سزا نہیں ہوئی۔ لال مسجد کا واقعہ ہو یا جی ایچ کیو پر حملے کا‘ ہر موقع پر ان تنظیموں کے رہنماؤں نے حکومتی اداروں کے ساتھ تعاون کیا۔ اگر جیش محمد ‘ حرکة الانصار یا کسی اور جہادی تنظیم کے بعض وابستگان القاعدہ کے ساتھ منسلک ہوکر ریاست پاکستان کے خلاف جنگ کے مرتکب ہوئے ہیں تو اس طرح تو جماعت اسلامی اور جے یو آئی جیسی تنظیموں سے بھی بعض لوگ ٹوٹ کر وزیرستان منتقل ہوگئے ہیں یا پھر پیپلزپارٹی‘ ایم کیوایم اور بلوچ قوم پرست جماعتوں کے بعض وابستگان بھی سنگین جرائم کے مرتکب قرار پائے ہیں۔ اگر یہاں چند افراد کی غلطی کی سزا پوری تنظیم کو نہیں دی جارہی ہے تو پھر جہادی تنظیموں کے ساتھ یہ امتیازی سلوک کیوں؟ جہاں تک فرقہ وارانہ تنظیموں کا تعلق ہے تو یہاں پر بھی سپاہ صحابہ کے ساتھ امتیازی سلوک روا رکھا جارہا ہے۔ جس طرح سپاہ صحابہ کے وابستگان نے نئے نام سے کام کا آغاز کردیا ہے‘ اسی طرح تحریک نفاذ فقہ جعفریہ بھی نئے نام سے متحرک ہے جو متحدہ مجلس عمل اور اس کے ذریعے پارلیمنٹ اور حکومت کا بھی حصہ رہی ۔ اب اگر وہ قابل اعتراض نہیں تو پھر سپاہ صحابہ کے ساتھ یہ امتیازی سلوک کیوں؟ اگر ایسا ہوتا کہ ملک میں مسلک اور فرقے کی بنیاد پر تنظیم سازی کی اجازت ہی نہ ہوتی تو پھر سپاہ صحابہ کو بھی اجازت نہیں ہونی چاہئے تھی لیکن اگر اس وقت بھی ملک میں فرقے اور مسلک کی بنیاد پر ہزاروں تنظیمیں سرگرم عمل ہیں تو پھر صرف ایک تنظیم نشانہ کیوں؟ رہ گئی بات بی ایل اے جیسی تنظیموں کی‘ تو تماشہ یہ ہے کہ جو لبرل عناصر جہادی اور دینی تنظیموں کی سرگرمیوں پر معترض ہیں‘ وہ بھی یہ مطالبہ کررہے ہیں کہ بلوچ تنظیموں کو مذاکرات کے ذریعے راضی کرلیا جائے۔ میں خود بھی ان لوگوں کا ہمنوا ہوں اور اپنا بھی یہ مطالبہ ہے کہ طاقت کے استعمال کی بجائے سیاست اور مذاکرات کے ذریعے بلوچ نوجوانوں کو راضی کرکے مین اسٹریم کا حصہ بنا لیا جائے لیکن اپنا مطالبہ یوں مختلف ہوجاتا ہے کہ میں اس فراخدالی کا مظاہرہ جہادی اور دینی تنظیموں تک دراز کرنا چاہتا ہوں لیکن بعض لوگ ایک طبقے سے متعلق فراخدلی اور دوسرے سے متعلق تنگ نظری کا مظاہرہ کررہے ہیں۔<br />
<a href="http://criticalppp.com/archives/71958/ss4-2" rel="attachment wp-att-71966"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-71966" title="ss4" src="http://cdn.criticalppp.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/ss4.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="375" /></a>اگر جہادی اور فرقہ وارانہ تنظیموں پر پابندی کا مثبت نتیجہ نکلا ہوتا تو میں بھی اس کو برقرار رکھنے کا مطالبہ کرنے والوں میں شامل ہوتا لیکن ہم دیکھ رہے ہیں کہ اس نام نہاد پابندی سے انتہاپسندی اور دہشت گردی میں اضافہ ہوا ہے اور کسی طرح کی بہتری سامنے نہیں آئی۔ وجہ صاف ظاہر ہے، جب آپ کسی کو آزادانہ طور پر سیاسی طریقے سے رائے کے اظہار اور اپنے نظریات کے پرچار کا موقع نہیں دیں گے تو پھر وہ دوسرے راستوں کی طرف جائے گا۔ اگر ان تنظیموں کے قائدین کو آزادانہ طور پر سیاست کرنے دی جائے گی تو وہ انتہاپسندی اور دہشت گردی کی طرف جانے والے لوگوں کو بھی اپنے ساتھ منسلک رکھ کر مین اسٹریم میں لائیں گے لیکن جب ان کے پاس پُرامن سرگرمیوں کے لئے پلیٹ فارم نہیں ہوگا تو ان کے باقی ماندہ کارکن بھی تشدد کی طرف جائیں گے۔ ایک زمانہ تھا کہ عوامی نیشنل پارٹی اور بلوچستان کے بعض قوم پرست کابل میں بیٹھ کر پاکستان بم بھجوایا کرتے تھے لیکن جب ان لوگوں کو مین اسٹریم میں آنے کا موقع دیا گیا تو آج وہ پُرامن جماعتیں تصور کی جاتی ہیں۔ اگر جہادی اور فرقہ وارانہ تنظیموں کے بعض لوگ تشدد میں ملوث پائے گئے ہیں تو یہی کام کسی زمانے میں پیپلزپارٹی کے زیرسایہ الذولفقار تنظیم نے بھی کیا اور یہی پارٹی آج حکومت کررہی ہے۔ ایم کیوایم پر بھی تشدد کا الزام ہے لیکن جوں جوں ایم کیوایم مین اسٹریم میں آرہی ہے توں توں اس کے تشدد کا پہلو مدہم ہوتا جارہا ہے۔ ہمیں سمجھ نہیں آتا کہ یہ آزمودہ نسخہ جہادی اور فرقہ وارانہ تنظیموں سے متعلق کیوں نہیں آزمایا جاتا اور انہیں دیوار سے لگانے کی کوشش کیوں کی جارہی ہے؟جیش محمد‘ حرکة الانصار اور البدر مجاہدین جیسی جہادی تنظیموں کا معاملہ تو یوں بھی زیادہ تکلیف دہ ہے کہ ان کے وابستگان کو ہمارے ریاستی اداروں نے بالاتفاق اس کام پر لگایا۔ انہیں مراعات بھی ملتی رہیں اور شاباش بھی دی جاتی رہی۔ آج بھی کہیں نہ کہیں ان لوگوں سے بوقت ضرورت ملک کے وسیع تر مفاد میں کام لیا جاتا ہے لیکن دوسری طرف پابندیاں لگا کر ان لوگوں کو خواہ مخواہ تشدد پر ابھارا جاتا ہے۔ یہ ملک سب کا ہے، بہتر یہی ہوگا کہ سب شہریوں کے ساتھ ایک جیسا سلوک کیا جائے ۔ تمام کالعدم جہادی اور دینی جماعتوں پر پابندی ختم کردی جائے، سب کو عام معافی دی جائے۔ سب پر یکساں طور پر لاگو قاعدہ اور ضابطہ بنا دیا جائے پھر جو بھی قانون کی خلاف ورزی کرے ‘ اسے سزا دی جائے اور جو لوگ قانون کا احترام کریں وہ کسی بھی جماعت یا پس منظر کے حامل ہوں‘ ان کو اپنی مرضی کے مطابق سیاسی اور دعوتی سرگرمیوں کی اجازت دی جائے۔ افغانستان کا نقشہ بدلنے کو ہے، امریکہ وہاں سے نکل رہا ہے اور دو تین سال بعد خطے کی حرکیات یکسر بدل گئی ہوں گی ۔ اس نئی بساط کے بچھنے سے قبل ضروری ہے کہ ہم بھی داخلی محاذ کی طرف توجہ دیں اور پہلا کام یہ ہونا چاہئے کہ ریاست سے باغی عناصر کو عام معافی اور ان کی تنظیموں پر عائد پابندیوں کا خاتمہ ہونا چاہئے۔ سخت قوانین بناکر ان پر عمل درآمد کو یقینی بنایا جائے اور اس کے بعد کوئی خلاف قانون کام کرے تو اسے سخت سزا دی جائے ۔ اگر قومی دولت لوٹنے والوں اور ہزاروں انسانوں کو قتل کرنے والوں کو ”این آراو“ کے تحت نہ صرف معافی مل سکتی ہے بلکہ وہ پاکستان کے سیاہ و سفید کے مالک بھی بن سکتے ہیں تو پھر جہادی اور دینی تنظیموں کے بارے میں ایک اور این آر او کیوں جاری نہیں ہوسکتا۔ حالانکہ اول الذکر لوگوں نے جو کچھ بھی کیا بدنیتی کی بنیاد پر کیا جبکہ موخرالذکر لوگوں کا کام جتنا نقصان دہ ہے ‘ شایداتنا ہی ان کی نیت نیک ہو۔</p>
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<p style="text-align: right;">اپنے اس کالم میں صافی صاحب ارشاد فرماتے ہیں:</p>
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<p style="text-align: right;">سپاہ صحابہ اور دیگر جہادی فرقہ وارانہ جماعتوں کا کام جتنا نقصان دہ ہے اتنی ان کی نیت نیک ہے &#8211; اس اعتبار سے جتنے جس لشکر جھنگوی، سپاہ صحابہ کے دہشت گرد نے بریلوی، شیعہ ، احمدی یا مسیحی قتل کیے ہیں اتنا ہی اس کو نیک نیتی کا ثواب مل رہا ہو گا &#8211; کیا کہنے ہیں دہشت گردی کی حمایت اور اس کو خوبصورت بنا کر پیش کرنا اسے ہی کہتے ہیں -</p>
<p style="text-align: right;">سپاہ صحابہ کے دہشت گردوں کے اپنے جائز حقوق کے لیے لڑنے والے بلوچ نوجوانوں سے کیا موازنہ &#8211; بلوچ حریت پسند پاکستان کی فوج سے لڑ رہے ہیں جبکہ سپاہ صحابہ کے دہشت گرد پاکستان کے طول و عرض میں بے گناہ شیعہ مسلمانوں کا قتل ام کر رہے ہیں -</p>
<p style="text-align: right;">سلیم صافی صاحب نے اس بات کو مکمل طور پر بھلا دیا کہ سپاہ صحابہ کا نشانہ کوئی خاص تنظیم تحریک جعفریہ وغیرہ نہیں بلکہ تمام شیعہ مسلمان ان کے نشانے پر ہیں ان کا شیعہ کافر کا نعرہ پاکستان اور دنیا بھر میں رہنے والے ہر شیعہ کے خلاف نفرت کا اعلان ہے جس پر عملدرآمد سپاہ صحابہ کے دہشت گرد بے گناہ شیعوں کو قتل کر کے انجام دیتے ہیں -</p>
<p style="text-align: right;">سلیم صافی صاحب نے بد دیانتی سے کام لیتے ہوۓ سپاہ صحابہ کا موازنہ شیعہ مسلمانوں سے کیا ہے &#8211; پاکستان کے سنی مسلمانوں کی اکثریت بشمول بریلوی، دیوبندی اور وہابی مسلمان سپاہ صحابہ کی پر تشدد اور نفرت انگیز کار وائیوں کی مذمت کرتے ہیں اور ان کو رد کرتے ہیں &#8211; سپاہ صحابہ کسی مذہب یا فرقے کی نمایندہ نہیں ہے &#8211; بریلویوں کی تمام جماعتیں سپاہ صحابہ کو دہشت گرد سمجھتی ہیں &#8211; دیوبندیوں کی سب سے بڑی جماعت جمیعت علما اسلام فضل الرحمان گروپ نے سپاہ صحابہ کو ہمیشہ رد کیا ہے &#8211; اہلحدیث ان کو اپنے سات منسلک کرنا گوارا نہیں کرتے &#8211; سپاہ صحابہ دہشت گردوں کا کسی مسلک یا مذھب سے کوئی تعلق نہیں -</p>
<p style="text-align: right;">سپاہ صحابہ اور شیعہ مسلمانوں کے درمیان تشدد کا موازنہ بد دیانتی پر مبنی ہے &#8211; یہ ایسا ہی ہے جسے ہم اسرایل کے جنگی جرائم کا موازنہ فلسطینیوں کو تشدد سے کرنا شروع کر دیں یا کشمیر میں حریت پسندوں کے تشدد کا موازنہ بھارت کی جارحیت سے کریں &#8211; تشدد ہر طرح کا قبل مذمت ہے لیکن حقیقت یہ ہے کے پچھلے تیس سال سے پاکستان میں شیعہ مسلمانوں کا قتل عام ہو رہا ہے جس کی ذمہ دار صرف اور صرف سپاہ صحابہ اور اس کے پیچھے موجود پاکستان کے فوجی خفیہ ادارے ہیں -</p>
<p style="text-align: right;">آپ نے شیعہ مسلمانوں کو سپاہ صحابہ کے ساتھ کھڑا کرنے کی کوشش کر کے پاکستانی اسٹیبلشمنٹ کی اسی روایتی پالیسی کی ترجمانی کی، جس میں وہ نام نہاد توازن اور برابری کا فارمولا قائم کرتے ہوئے فرقہ پرستوں کو اسلام پرستوں کے ساتھ، دہشتگردوں کو امن پسندوں کے ساتھ، پاکستان دشمنوں کو محب وطن تنظیموں کے ساتھ اور قاتل گروہوں کو مقتول فریق کے ساتھ کھڑا کرتے ہیں</p>
<p style="text-align: right;">کیا آپ نہیں جانتے کہ <strong><a href="http://islamtimes.org/vdcay0n6i49new1.zlk4.html">شیعہ مسلمان خواہ ان کا تعلق کسی تنظیم سے ہو یا نہ ہو، ہمیشہ ر دہشتگردی کا شکار ہیں</a></strong>۔ کیا کسی شیعہ تنظیم نے دیوبندی کافر کا نعرہ بلند کیا؟ کیا پاکستان کے شیعہ پاکستان کے شہریوں یا فوج کے خلاف کسی بھی طرح کی دہشت گردی میں ملوث رہے ہیں؟ شیعہ لیڈرز نے کبھی دہشتگردی کرنے، دہشتگردی سوچنے اور دہشتگردی کا پرچار کرنے کی تعلیم نہیں دی۔ انہوں نے خودکش حملوں جیسی اذیت ناک دہشتگردی کے باوجود اپنے لوگوں کو صبر کی تلقین کی ہے اسی وجہ سے ان کے مسلک میں موجود انتہاپسند معتدل شیعہ قیادت کے مخالف ہیں۔</p>
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<p style="text-align: right;">لیکن دوسری طرف سپاہ صحابہ کی بنیاد ہی دہشتگردی پر رکھی گئی ہے، آج بھی لشکر جھنگوی کا سربراہ ملک اسحاق اور سپاہ صحابہ کا سربراہ محمد احمد لدھیانوی مل کر جلسے کرتے ہیں اور شیعوں کو قتل کرنے کا واضح اعلان کرتے ہیں۔ سپاہ صحابہ اور لشکر جھنگوی کے قاتل کے ہونے میں اس لئے شائبہ نہیں کہ آپ کے سامنے انہوں نے نہ صرف شیعہ مکتب فکر بلکہ اہل سنت بریلوی، دیوبندی اور اسلام سے باہر قادیانی، عیسائی و دیگر مذاہب کے پیروکاروں اور پاکستان کے مہمانوں کا قتل عام کیا ہے۔ اگر شک ہے تو خود مولانا مفتی حسن جان پشاور کا قتل، مولانا فضل الرحمن پر قاتلانہ حملے، جماعت اسلامی اور جے یو آئی کے متعدد افراد کے بہیمانہ قتل کے واقعات کا مطالعہ فرما لیں۔</p>
<p style="text-align: right;">ف سپاہ صحابہ کسی مسلک یا مکتب کی نمائندگی نہیں کرتی۔ مسلک دیوبند کی نمائندہ جماعتیں جے یو آئی (ف) یا پھر جماعت اسلامی ہے۔ ان جماعتوں کو صرف مسلک دیوبند کے پیروکار نہیں بلکہ تمام مسالک اور مکاتب کے پیروکار تسلیم بھی کرتے ہیں اور ان کا احترام بھی کرتے ہیں۔ لیکن سپاہ صحابہ کو دوسرے مسالک تو درکنار خود دیوبندی حضرات بھی اپنا نمائندہ یا ترجمان تصور نہیں کرتے، بلکہ انہیں انتہا پسند اور دہشت گرد کہتے ہیں۔</p>
<p style="text-align: right;">اس حقیقت کے موجودگی میں آپ کی طرف سے شیعہ مسلمانوں اور سپاہ صحابہ کو ایک ہی پلڑے میں تولنا کس قدر زیادتی ہے؟</p>
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<p style="text-align: right;">سپاہ صحابہ نے اپنا منشور نہیں بدلا، اپنا جھنڈا نہیں بدلا، اپنے غلیظ نعرے نہیں بدلے، اپنا طرز عمل نہیں بدلا، حتٰی کہ اپنی دہشتگردانہ کارروائیوں سے بھی توبہ نہیں کی، بلکہ حال ہی میں لشکر جھنگوی کے سربراہ کی رہائی کے بعد ہونے والے جلسوں میں دہشتگردی کو ازسرنو شروع اور منظم کرنے کے اعلانات کئے ہیں۔ اس واضح فرق کے بعد بھی آپ سپاہ صحابہ اورشیعہ مسلمانوں کو ایک صف میں شمار کریں تو اللہ ہی حافظ ہے؟</p>
<p style="text-align: right;">دوسری طرف سپاہ صحابہ کی بنیاد ہی کفر کے فتوے کے اوپر رکھی گئی۔ آپ کی سماعتوں میں وہ نعرہ ابھی تک نہیں گونج رہا کہ ’’کافر کافر شیعہ کافر۔ جو نہ مانے وہ بھی کافر‘‘ یعنی پورا عالم اسلام جو شیعوں کو کافر نہیں مانتا وہ بھی کافر ہے؟؟ کفر اور اسلام کے واضح فرق کے باوجود بھی آپ شیعہ مسلمانون اور سپاہ صحابہ یعنی قتل اور مقتول کو مساوی قرار دیں تو اس سے بڑی ناانصافی کیا ہو گی؟</p>
<p>Source: <a href="http://pakistanblogzine.wordpress.com/2012/02/12/saleem-safi-defends-sectarian-terrorists-of-sipah-e-sahaba/">Pakistan Blogzine</a></p>
<p>In the following video, SSP leader Ahmed Ludhianvi explains that SSP and ASWJ are two names for the same organization, and that the Difa-e-Pakistan Council is a project aimed to provide legitimiacy to SSP-ASWJ and bring it to power.</p>
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		<title>Nusrat Javed on mourning anchors and their favourite politician</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 02:55:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Junaid Qaiser</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[نصرت جاوید کا شمار شعلہ بیان اور مرثیہ خواں؛ قومی غیرت کے نام پر &#8216;ریٹنگ، دولت اور شہرت کےپیچھے ہلکان ہونے والے&#8217; اینکرز میں نہیں ہوتا، بلکہ ان کا شماران دوچارصحافی حضرات میں ہوتا ہے، جو عقل واستدلال، منطق اور سیاسی تاریخ کے حوالوں کے سہارے کمرشل مگر غیر زمہ دار میڈیا میں اپنی جگہ [...]]]></description>
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نصرت جاوید کا شمار شعلہ بیان اور مرثیہ خواں؛ قومی غیرت کے نام پر &#8216;ریٹنگ، دولت اور شہرت کےپیچھے ہلکان ہونے والے&#8217; اینکرز میں نہیں ہوتا، بلکہ ان کا شماران دوچارصحافی حضرات میں ہوتا ہے، جو عقل واستدلال، منطق اور سیاسی تاریخ کے حوالوں کے سہارے کمرشل مگر غیر زمہ دار میڈیا میں اپنی جگہ بناۓ ہوۓ ہہں۔  نصرت جاوید صاحب &#8216;حادثاتی یا سفارشی&#8217; نہیں، جواینکر بننے سے قبل &#8216;ڈاکٹر یا سرکاری افسر&#8217; تھے، بلکہ&#8217;بولتا پاکستان&#8217; سے قبل ایک طویل عرصہ تک وہ عملی صحافت سے منسلک رہے ہیں۔</p>
<p>نصرت جاوید نے اپنے زیر نظر کالم میں &#8216;مایا خان&#8217; کے متنازعہ شو اور اس غیر زمہ دار خاتون کو نوکری سے فارغ کرنے کے بعد ہماری اورمیڈیا مالکان کی توجہ &#8216;قومی غیرت&#8217; سے لبریز ان اینکرز کی طرف دلائ ہے جوپوری قوم کو اشتعال اورجوش دلا کر &#8216;ریٹنگ اور دولت کمانےمیں مصروف ہیں۔ مایا خان کا تو احتساب ہو گیا، اچھا ہوا،  مگرجن غیر زمہ دار اینکرز نے چار ماہ تک &#8216;میمو&#8217; 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؟</p>
<p>عوام نے جن سیاست دانوں کو انتخابات اورضمنی انتخابات میں بری طرح رد کیا&#8217; 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&#8217;ریٹیگ بڑھانے کی سازش میں راولپنڈی کے ایک &#8216;سیاسی یتیم&#8217; کا سہارا لے رہے ہیں۔<br />
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<p>Source: <a href="http://www.express.com.pk/epaper/PoPupwindow.aspx?newsID=1101440387&#038;Issue=NP_LHE&#038;Date=20120202#.TyqIP3yYPIo.facebook" target="_blank">Daily Express </a></p>
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		<title>February 1: We support Baloch students&#8217; protest against biased media</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 08:21:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Abdul Nishapuri</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Editor&#8217;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&#8217;s mainstream media as well as 98% of Pakistani bloggers (barring some Baloch websites, LUBP, [...]]]></description>
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<p><strong>Editor&#8217;s note:</strong> 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&#8217;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 &#8220;liberal&#8221; Pakistani journalists in &#8220;progressive&#8221; English media have actively misrepresented the situation in Balochistan and at least indirectly justified the target killing of the Baloch youths and intellectuals.</p>
<p><a href="http://criticalppp.com/archives/70663/baloch_students" rel="attachment wp-att-70801"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-70801" title="Baloch_students" src="http://cdn.criticalppp.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Baloch_students.jpg" alt="" width="128" height="128" /></a>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, <a href="http://pakistanblogzine.wordpress.com/2011/11/05/javid-naseer-rind-another-baloch-journalist-silenced-by-the-deep-state/.">Javid Naseer Rind,</a> 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&#8217;s not only Pakistan&#8217;s mainstream media, Pakistani bloggers too are shamelessly silent on the ongoing Baloch genocide by army. Several &#8216;leading&#8217;, &#8216;award winner&#8217;, &#8216;activist&#8217; or &#8216;media critic&#8217; blogs have completely wiped out the Baloch genocide from their list of topics. (Adapted from various comments on Twitter. End note)</p>
<blockquote><p><strong></strong><strong>QUETTA: </strong>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’.</p>
<p>“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.</p>
<p>He said that at a central committee meeting of the organisation, members had decided that transmission of all TV channels will be shut from <strong>February 1</strong>. “Transmission will be closed in Balochistan and Baloch-dominated areas of Karachi as well,” he said.</p>
<p>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.”</p>
<p>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.” (<a href="http://tribune.com.pk/story/328916/demanding-attention-baloch-students-want-tv-blackout-from-feb-1/">Source</a>)</p></blockquote>
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		<title>Media Review: DAWN&#8217;s insensitive portrayal of Shia killings</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 09:01:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jehangir Hafsi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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<p>DAWN’s continual slide is best encapsulated in some of the editorial and opinion pieces today.  For instance, Huma Yusuf’s “<a href="http://www.dawn.com/2012/01/30/sectarian-scourge.html">Sectarian Scourge</a>” 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 <a title="Permanent link to Intellectual dishonesty in misrepresenting Shia massacres in Pakistan" href="http://criticalppp.com/archives/57886">Intellectual dishonesty in misrepresenting Shia massacres in Pakistan</a>.</p>
<p>The most problematic aspects of her article need to be highlighted:</p>
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<li>Obscuring and diluting the victims:  Shia Muslims are the largest victims of this violence; something that Huma conveniently omits in her article</li>
<li>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.</li>
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<p>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.</p>
<p>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!</p>
<p>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!</p>
<p>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!</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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!</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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&#8217;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?</p>
<p>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!</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
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