sherry lai-day!

Apparently some people seem to be quite concerned about the terrorists & the coverage they demand on various media forums.

“If the media presents terrorists as heros and glorifies the menace, it would have negitive impacts on the society” -                         Sherry Rehman – InformationMinister

Nahhh… Stop! You really think so, miss oh so Sherry ? How much more of ”negitivity” , remains to be further injected as yet?

The Media aint “glorifying” shit! Its termed as highligting of real issues that we are posed against & it certainly is the need of the hour or else it must have took another 6 months or so for MR Rehman Malik to speak up. The captivation of a whole region as vast as ‘Swat’ , by some dumb yet ‘killer’ beardbearing rebels is not some dust that can be swept under the (already very dirty)carpet. Its ‘Huge”, and deserves all the due attention from the media aswell as the governing bodies.

The “glorification”, as you say, is the only weapon that the civilians of Swat & the adjoining under seige areas have to their favour. If it wasnt for this glorification  probably even you as the info minister would not have been able to come at par with the gravity of the situation, since at most, you are too self indulged with your “surkhi powdar” & designer “Channel” Shades.  

Its this hype on the issue, generated over the past few weeks in Print, web & TV that has finally managed to raise some eyebrows, consequently resulting into an overdue but a well deserved debate in the parliment as to, ‘how’ and ‘what’ needs to be done about the already atrophic scenario of  the north.

However I found the mood & tone a bit too funny(read: gay) to resist bursting into an, ”LOL”, in which the Interrior Advisor addressed the situation. (yet, better funny then never)

“The militants must surrender or run away for they are harming the people, the law enforcement agencies and impending economic development” -  Rehman Malik, Interior Adviser. awww… how gay & thoughtful of you Mr Adviser.

Swat, once that used to be a serene valley. Where all that flows now are streams of fresh blood, that of the natives who are literally slaughtered by the dozens day in & day out. The Very escorts who once vowed to be saviours of the land & people have calmly resorted by abondoning and consequently rendering the unfortunate as orphans in their own home(land).

 If the Army, is incompotent to  counter such a low-scale internal insurgency then how is it even vaguely possible for us to expect them to defend our borders against the far more sophisticated foreign armies of gigantic magnitude?

I wonder…

Is The honourable President & PM of this godforsaken country… deaf,dumb or blind? Perhaps they are just under the influence of the very nortoirously common syndrome found amongst our rulers known as, “Look-I-am-So-Cool-That-I-Just-Dont-Give-A-Fuck-About-my-Motherland”. I mean how could the head of state be so cool with what is happening to his land & people.

“We would not allow anyone to endanger our sovereignty and we would defend our motherland.” - Asif Ali Zardari (Jan:29:2009)

               Does Swat not fall into your jurisdiction or defination of “motherland“; Mister Preident?

If one comes to think of it, It took merely a few weeks for the Taliban to grip the whole of swat & adjacent localilities in their clutches of terror, in total absence of any strong opposition & retaliation from the Peace bearers & Law inforcing agencies of the country. In such an ideal situation for the militants how much time would it take them to sway their uber wrath on the whole of country? 3 months, could be 6? Godfrobid, if so it happens.. we would be sprung back to the midival times in a jiffy.

We dont want our schools to be turned into piles of rubble. We dont want the rights of our women & children to be quashed down. We are not slaves & hence cannot be ordered by any authority as to what we should do & who to oblige by. We dont want to abondon our fancy HighDefination LCD Tv’s. We dont want our highspeed DSL Internet connections to be suspended for life & most certainly we dont want to grow beards on gunpoint. Obviosuly none of you “people”, neither would i ever want any of that being ACTUALLY happening to us. NOW DO WE?

But we dont seem to shed a tear or even care a wee bit as to what happens to the peace-loving masses of the North. Arent they classified as “US”?  Ah, well who cares.. i have bigger issues of my own to deal with, “meri bijlee janay wali hai paanch minute may, aur mera ipod bhi charged nahi hai” ( the electricity is about to go out in about five minutes  & my ipod aint charged). Sad isnt it? =(

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