tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20989892.post6844290488915872582..comments2024-01-14T00:24:34.640-08:00Comments on Moments of Tranquility: A Dark Day in Pakistan's History - Karachi BurningFawad Zakariya http://www.blogger.com/profile/16008069828182560496noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20989892.post-46204473839814993262007-05-15T09:16:00.000-07:002007-05-15T09:16:00.000-07:00Albela Rahi,Thanks for your kind acknowledgment of...Albela Rahi,<BR/><BR/>Thanks for your kind acknowledgment of my reponse. I appreciate your coming to the blog, thoughtfully engaging with the content and caring about making a better Pakistan a reality.<BR/><BR/>RegardsFawad Zakariya https://www.blogger.com/profile/16008069828182560496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20989892.post-50743945648024965602007-05-15T01:30:00.000-07:002007-05-15T01:30:00.000-07:00Fawad,Wonderful response. I was not at all insinu...Fawad,<BR/><BR/>Wonderful response. I was not at all insinuatiing any form of personal moral heckling, which I too believe is wrong. But I do take your point and will find another avenue to channel the humble suggestions.<BR/><BR/>Take care,<BR/><BR/>Albela RahiAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20989892.post-18874715248762800102007-05-14T16:54:00.000-07:002007-05-14T16:54:00.000-07:00Anonymous,I appreciate your kind words about the b...Anonymous,<BR/><BR/>I appreciate your kind words about the blog but given your specific comments about a personal relationship I believe it would have been more appropriate if you had revealed your identity.<BR/><BR/>However, here is my response: I am personally acquainted with General Musharraf's son. In our few interactions he has been personally cordial with me and my family but has never asked for my views on the Pakistani political landscape or expressed his own views. I am a passionate believer in freedom of expression and publicly state my views as candidly as I can on my blog and any other outlets that will publish me. However, I do not believe in personal moral heckling. Every private individual is answerable to their own conscience. It is through my public writings that I hope to influence as many people as possible to see things my way.Fawad Zakariya https://www.blogger.com/profile/16008069828182560496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20989892.post-59961361896718236972007-05-14T02:41:00.000-07:002007-05-14T02:41:00.000-07:00Well posted Fawad, had posted comments on your pre...Well posted Fawad, had posted comments on your previous article right after this happened and see that u may not have read or commented on that. <BR/><BR/>The time is right for the President to avert the approaching doom, step forward admit his lack of judgment in sacking the CJ and mend his ways, believe me he will go down a hero.<BR/><BR/>For this as Eqbal Ahmed put it 'Read and intervene, don't just become consumers of knowledge' - I urge you to get the message through Bilal Musharaf to his father, as he probably listens to no one else (he has shown that). This matter is too big for silence, it will not go away. The good general must see the folly in his ways and Bilal may be ours (and 160 million Pakistanis) only hope in stopping this madness in Pakistan, else countless children will be orphaned and a hundred Edhi drivers burnt alive.<BR/><BR/>Pls post your decision on the blog, here is a moment, you a thinking person must show that you can act. You are doing an outstanding job by articulating your thoughts and saving this for our children who may never know what u and I felt and, thought and what we said- you are saving history for posterity.<BR/><BR/>But the day you put the blog on the web, it’s not yours, so listen and act. I apologize if I am being presumptuous and assume that you have not already done so. But I believe Bilal is an honorable man so he would act. If you are already doing so pls post on your blog. Else we the reading public will continue to ask this of you. As the net is not yours and this blog is not yours...its ours, you are just a historian.<BR/><BR/>God bless you and keep posting.<BR/><BR/>Albela RahiAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20989892.post-30256984727715209342007-05-12T21:50:00.000-07:002007-05-12T21:50:00.000-07:00Zakintosh,Thanks for your comments as always. It m...Zakintosh,<BR/><BR/>Thanks for your comments as always. It must really cause pain to Karachiites to see their city turned into an ethno-political cauldron once again. I sincerely hope that Karachi does not return to its dark days. What surprised and encouraged me today was the number of Urdu-speaking Karachiites who expressed their deep anger at MQM on the "All Things Pakistan" blog. I am not sure how representative an English blog site is of the general sentiment but it would be interesting to hear what Karachiites generally symathetic to MQM really feel.Fawad Zakariya https://www.blogger.com/profile/16008069828182560496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20989892.post-83081927750362922212007-05-12T19:49:00.000-07:002007-05-12T19:49:00.000-07:00The Aaj TV saga was the weirdest real-life drama I...The Aaj TV saga was the weirdest real-life drama I have ever watched. For a TV station to be under siege and attack before the eyes of a million viewers <I>and</I> for the situation to continue worsening for 7+ hours without any response to the calls for help was mindnumbing.<BR/><BR/>I 'messaged' several influential friends fairly early, expressing my disbelief, and the most common response was on the order of "So, what's new?"...<BR/><BR/>The government has 'condemned the attack and promised to investigate', just as it did when 6 policemen ransacked the offices of Geo TV - again in full view of an audience. So far there has been no report on who ordered that action, although it should have taken less than 15 minutes to ask the policemen and to retrace the orders to the original source, if different from the investigators.<BR/><BR/>It is certainly time for an end to <I>this</I> chapter of the continuing farce of Pakistan.Zakintoshhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16878739501457502905noreply@blogger.com