The question to this young woman is everything else going on in Pakistan in general and Islamabad in particular is it following the foot steps of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH). Are our politicians using the Prophet Muhammad’s (PBUH) as role model? These young men and women are the future leaders of this country. Now you know where you are heading.

Balloting was closed 5:00 Pakistan Time. Five minutes after the closing of the balloting GEO TV Channel has started running a news strip that Jang Group conducted a survey in NA-55 area  asking people to whom they will vote.

The question is why they have to run this survey on the balloting day. What were the motives behind this survey? By the end of they day people will know the actual results.
There is no problem conducting such surveys as such but we don’t know whether this was really a survey. This may be a paid service provided to a political party for propaganda. Let us see if some information comes out from any corner of the new arena.

The problem I see is that day before yesterday on GEO TV channel program CapitalTalk Hamid Mir invited a couple of news analyst including Irfan Siddiqui, Haroon Rasheed and one analyst from Karachi studio. Shaikh Rasheed Ahmed accused Hamid Mir that he intentionally arranged this anti Shaikh Rasheed program. Shaikh Rasheed also accused Irfan Siddiqui that he is on the payroll of Noon League.

Anybody and everybody is entitled to have his or her opinion what ever they like. The question is either TV channels should show they are neutral and they bring the news from both sides of table or openly announce the channel is a political activist channel who pays the money they will broadcast the program for them.

GEO TV Channel has played a role of political activism in the media. GEO TV has  broadcast the propaganda against Pervaiz Musharraf and now a days against Asif Ali Zardari. Sharif Brothers are not angles but GEO did not say anything about their activities when Noon League was in power and his running away from Pakistan to Saudi Arabia. NRO also made it possible for Sharifs to come back to Pakistan. Now they say they are anti-NRO.
Do GEO get the money from political parties to run the program for or against their opponents.
We don’t know.

This is a big question and very disturbing.

Few months back Rahman Malik, Interior Minister was claiming and following up some where between 1200 and 1500 missing persons.

Let us go back a little further.

During Pervaiz Musharraf's time opposition leaders were claiming thousands of people have been handed over to United States by Pervaiz Musharraf in exchange for money. All these political leaders were saying with such a confidence as they have a proof of it.

Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudary, Chief Justice of Pakistan Supreme Court was issuing suo moto every day to officials of Ministry of Interior of the government of  Pervaiz Musharraf to present the missing people in his  court or at least their where about.

We hear every day, now a days judiciary has become independent. What independent Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudary has done so far on this subject since Pervaiz Musharraf has left.

Is it not fact that Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudary was issuing all the suo motos just to take revenge of his personal animosity with Pervaiz Musharraf.

You see how dishonest as a nation we are to our selves.

This is one the problems. Who needs to maintain this register of missing people in Pakistan?

Here is a news item published recently in the Arab press.

Saudi Arabia and Egypt has proposed to create an “Office for Arab Satellite Television” to supervise the satellite broadcast of Arab TV Channels. This proposal will be discussed in the meeting of Information Ministers of Arab League countries going to be held in Cairo on January 24, 2010.

An organization named Reporters Without Borders based in Paris, France said this is to implement censorship on TV broadcast. They claim this proposal is particularly targeted at Qatar-based Al-Jazeera, the Palestinian Hamas group’s Al-Aqsa TV and Hezbollah’s Al-Manar channel.

Supposedly these TV channels criticize Arab governments.  I don’t know they criticize as a matter of policy or they broadcast news and commentaries which go against Arab governments or the Arab governments don’t like their people know.

Irrespective of any country, region or language there should definitely not be any censorship but at the same time TV channels and their broadcasters should also be responsible, reasonable and rational. They should not criticize for the sake of criticism.

Obviously, there would always be difference of opinion on many issues in any country of the world. A holy responsibility of the media is to present the pros and cons of both sides and let the audience decide and form their own opinion.

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Does Mr. Aitzaz Hassan wanted to say that Sindh is Pakistan now?

We could not understand any other meaning of his statement.

Maulana Muneeb Rehman on GEO TV and other Ulema and Maulvies and Mullahs are making statements that according to Qura'an and Hadith "anybody who killed one person he killed whole human beings".

Barak Obama, also referred to this Quranic teachings in his address in Cairo.

The question is when Christians and Qadianis were murdered within the boundaries of Islamic Republic of Pakistan at that time no A'alim, no Maulvi and no Mullah said anything about these murderers. Nobody gave any reference of Qura'an and Hadith. It seemed that killing of Christians and Qadianis was Ok with the Ulema and the government of Pakistan.

In fact, Aamer Liaquat Hussain, a self appointed A'alim said openly in his program 'Alim on Line' on GEO TV that killing of Qadianis is acceptable in Islam. On Youtube you can see the clips of that program. No Aalim, no Maulvi and no Mullah said anything against Aamer Liaquat Hussain. Christians and Qadianis are not human beings?

This is Islam as interpreted in Pakistan.

Islam is very flexible religion anybody can interpret the way he likes. When Iraq attacked Iran in 80s both countries declared it is Jihaad.

When Aamer Liquat Hussain declared on GEO TV that killing of Qadianis is acceptable. That was his interpretation of Islam.

When Taliban or other extremists Mullahs use the same Islam to attack and kill other people then why you seek fatwas against them. You did not sought fatwas against Aamer Liaquat Hussain and other murderers of Christians and Qadianis. In fact supported the killers.

Will these type of fatwas are going to stop the terrorists from their actions. I don't think so. Then why we are kidding ourselves.

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This evening a high level meeting of Pakistan Peoples Party leadership took place in Islamabad and the news came that PPP has decided not to present the NRO Bill to parliament.

Earlier a meeting was also held between Yousaf Raza Gilani and PPP's coalition partners in the Federal Government, namely MQM, ANP, and JUI-F.

PML-N, PML-Q and MQM openly and clearly announced that they will not support the bill in the parliament. ANP and JUI-F will announce their position tomorrow.

Present situation is that PPP don't have the necessary votes to get this bill passed through the parliament. Therefore, they have decided not to present this bill to the house. This is this evening's news. Situation will be quite fluid in the coming days.

PPP has been doing quite a maneuvering but it seems they have not been able to muster the support necessary to pass the bill. Another rumor is that PPP is engaged in buying some members. But it seems very unlikely that they will get enough members on their side.

This ordinance (NRO) was issued by Ex. President Pervaiz Musharraf as part of political deal dictated by USA, UK, Saudi Arabia and UAE. There may be others but these are the names which have come out so far.

Our media is repeatedly blaming Pervaiz Musharraf that he was the proponent of the deal and the ordinance. Insiders know that this was America's idea to bring the political process back to the arena and these were conditions put forth by Benazir Bhutto. In my previous post I have already mentioned the back ground of the NRO. Nawaz Sharif got the benefit that he returned to Pakistan three years ahead of the end of his contract.

No matter what the media say the facts remain the same.

Now we will have to see how the situation unfold. Theoretically all the cases of corruption and wrong doings (mostly financial) which will open up again and we will have to see who are going to be affected. The list of the beneficiaries is not known to public yet. But it seems it will be open.

First casualty may be Asif Ali Zardari.

Let us hope for good. It seems there is going to be some serious cleaning.