Goodbye Pinky

Farewell to light in the dark
A sad day for Pakistan, let us hope the forces of intolerance, repression and ignorance not win because f her demise, many a twisted mind will be celebrating in the caves of tora bora.

I’m no fan of dynastic politicians, simply because I think it’s another form of corruption, it tends to crowd out more talented individuals but, in emerging democracies it’s to be expected because people tend to identify with personalities rather than policies.

hamid writes "....... for a person who failed to get tenure at a community college in mississippi"

I have never been to mississippi, neither have I ever worked at a community college

Hamid: "........ don't push your luck, otherwise we will get you kicked off ....... "

Just as my original post stated the we is shaken to the core by my writings and will do anything and everything to try to rid these streets of me.

Re: # 99


tahmed,

..... almost everyone in pakistan knows that a 'bhutto' has to lead the ppp just as a 'wali khan' has to lead the anp ......makhdoom amin fahim will be the candidate for pm and zardari will try to act out sonia gandhi's role until rahul is ready to take charge (i do agree that he is a bad choice, but the ppp has no other options unless they want turmoil in the family and rank and file of the party) ....... wake up and smell the kava, but first crawl out from under the rock ! .

....... sometimes you drive me nuts with your naivity and scare the crap out of me .... i ask myself: is this what i will be like in a couple of years ?! (i started getting the aarp magazine last year)

Re: # 98

tahmed,

.... it seems that you are totally out of touch with the reality of pakistan - when was the last time you were there ?

#96 hamidm: actually, it is more like musharraf needs a zardari to cling to power. and no doubt, for the extremely reasonable rate of 10%, zardari will oblige.

and please restrain from passing your negative comments on the people of Pakistan. That merely adds insult to their injury caused by the characterless babu class.

SO sad,while India is busy in celebrations of New Year, thinking ideas, creative constructions, working for new projects in pipelines,for establishing new industries and improving existing Industrial GIANTS(as far as south east Asia is concerned) like Bollywood showbiz and IT, we r whirling in viscious circle of choosing bad leadership, creating more political jokers, incessant political debates religious manzras, and cheap political soap operas.
T.S.Elliot wrote:
I can see more and more clearly
the many many mistakes I made
The mistaken attempts
to correct mistakes
By methods which proved to be
regularly mistaken

Nikhat Riaz

Re: # 90

nikhat bibi,

...... i agree with you in principle, but unfortunately ppp needs a 'bhutto' to maintain its vote bank .... that's just the way it is

delusional masadi

" I know I am a very influential writer and my writing has affected you and shaken the core of your previous (uninformed) belief, " ........

....... for a person who failed to get tenure at a community college in mississippi, masadi mian sure has delusions of grandeur ! ....... look mian, 'publishing' on chowk and lulu.com does not qualify as 'writing' ...... and even on chowk, i think that the distinguished readership would rank you at the bottom and most wish that you would simply go away ...... i myself have called upon chowk management to ban you, but for some perverse reason they keep you around ........ don't push your luck, otherwise we will get you kicked off .......

With the brain of PPP Aitzaz Ahsan in Musharraf's vindictive gulag -- now even his phone lines are cut -- it will be another Musharraf's conspiracy to unleash Zardari on the hapless PPP. But nobody can take his right to grieve for his wife.

Will someone call Hillary and Edward to get Aitzaz Ahsan out -- from the bloody claws of that decaying demonic dictator.

U know I think we all should email sms at mass scale on media, to journalists to sherry Rehman or whoever we can reach to,PPP or anti PPP just 4 the sake of Pakistan..that pllllleeeeease save us from ZARDARI senior and his future malacious plans. This is age of information , we could certainly make a notion and move PPP guys to stop this madness and nonsense.I just do not understand how come senior original PPP workers can digest this declaration.
Nikhat Riaz

#90 Nikhat: The Bhuttos should have quit while they were ahead, i.e. with national - indeed world-wide - sympathy and sorrow at BB's assassination.

In putting the scoundrel 10% zardari forward, they have ensured that only fools will be looking to this family for leadership. Democracy does not apply to national elections only - it applies to party leadership too.

#73 hamidm: a vote for republicans is a vote for musharraf as far as i am concerned. and given the ideologues in this party who make even a village mullah in pakistan seem educated, given their miserable record the past 8 years, your confidence in 4 more years of a republican white house is..er..misplaced, imho.

and in any case, maccain may be a "good man", but he barely tied with Clinton for second place in the "Pakistan Test" presented by the Washington Post editorial yesterday:
Excerpts:
The Pakistan Test
Some presidential candidates show they can respond quickly to a foreign policy crisis. Some flunk or foul.
Saturday, December 29, 2007;

THE ASSASSINATION of Benazir Bhutto presented U.S. presidential candidates with a test: Could they respond cogently and clearly to a sudden foreign policy crisis? Within hours some revealing results were in. One candidate, Democrat John Edwards, passed with flying colors. Another, Republican Mike Huckabee, flunked abysmally. Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican John McCain were serious and substantive; Republicans Mitt Romney and Rudy Giuliani were thin. And Barack Obama -- the Democratic candidate who claims to represent a new, more elevated brand of politics -- committed an ugly foul.

Let's start with Mr. Edwards, who managed not only to get Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf on the phone Thursday but also to deliver a strong message. The candidate said he had encouraged Mr. Musharraf "to continue on the path to democratization [and] to allow international investigators to come in and determine what happened, what the facts were." Those are words the Pakistani president needs to hear from as many Americans as possible. ...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/28/AR2007122 802445.html

Re: # 89Good Lord did u hear about the will? We have to bear Asif Zardari now till Bilawal completes his studies!!! My my. I really feel something fishy about this 'Will' . They say Benazir mader her will only 15 days back...I could hardly believe that she would have made that horrible mistake of assigning it to Zardari in any circumstances. If she had seen the coming risk of her possible assassination she certainly would have mentioned in her 'will' the correct approach to elect her successor as she knew Bilawal is young and fATIMA AND bHUTTO jUNIOR ARE FROM ANOTHER PARTY. Zardari!!!!!!!!!!! of all the great living PPP leaders.theek hai Punjab da sheir(Mustafa Khar) is old and BB had her political differences with him but Makhdoom Amin Faheem, Yousuf Raza gillani, Aitzaz ahsan , Nisar Khoro...how could these guys will work with ZARDARI????????? God! No wonder now Zardari wants quick elections so he can be the next PM God forbid..Benazir made many mistakes during her life and therefore strayed away from ZA Bhutto's path, lost loyal sincere PPP workers(Uncles)but this.........?But who can guarantee the credibility of that 'wILL'???????? "Ajab teiree qudrat ajab teire kheil,
Chichoonder ke ser mein chamnbeilee ka teil"
Sorry for such offensive comments for ZARDARI supporters.but is there any one really?

Nikhat Riaz

Re: # 88

"anyway right now it is not the time to debate upon IK's politics or exhumation of MAJ politics,but focus on murder of Benazir, future of Pakistan and substantial work for the unity of Pakistan. let's talk about Ik someother time."

Well said, many thanks.

Re: # 86 Dear just because IK has not opposed the "religious extremisim" and does not support "war on terror" (the popular thing these days)in a way u guys sees it does not mean he has no principles. It's just that you see the whole scenario with a different filter and anti PPP policies, anti King's party people (including me) have different perspectives. On grounds of principles you cant beat IK and he certainly comes up at the level of our dear founder. You might disagree with him but the way MAJ fought his battle legally and within constitutional frame work on ideolgies which he believed, bring him very close to IK.
anyway right now it is not the time to debate upon IK's politics or exhumation of MAJ politics,but focus on murder of Benazir, future of Pakistan and substantial work for the unity of Pakistan. let's talk about Ik someother time.
Nikhat Riaz

#83 Posted by zeemax on December 30, 2007 12:45:19 am
... and the poster at #81 fits in that category as well.

dude....u r the one after whom this category originated. calling taliban freedom fighters and not terrorists....this can only come from demented idiot like you.