Days of Rage

... what an amazing woman! ...... i wish we had more men like her ......

days of rage, and Asma Jehangir looks really pissed off in that picture!

dear william dalrymple....a wonderful article. enjoyed reading it.
it is sad to see a nation caught between militant muslims and army dictarors...what a choice?
for me democracy is more than elections....in the west democracy prospered in countries where there was
...high literacy rate
...respect for women and minorities
...fight for human rights
and
....a big middle class
for pakistan to have genuine democracy she has to distancce herself from american politics...after first gulf war i had written a small urdu poem that translates as
american foreign policy
whoever sleeps with her
is killed the next morning
but still
there is a long line of lovers
outside her bedroom
i lived in peshawar in 60s and 70s and saw the elctions when zulfiqar bhutto lost elections to mufti mehmood. his taliban used to go from door to door asking innocent people...are you going to vote bhutto or quran?
for democracy people have to believe that human beings are more imprtant than gods....democracy is a secular phenomenon. it is hard to have democracy in a state that has transformed from pakistan to islamic republic of pakistan. i can foresee pakistan dividing further in two pakistans the secular pakistan...with lahore as centre...and islamic pakistan with peshawar as centre...what do you think?
thanks again for this wonderful article....sincerely sohail