An Open Letter to Mian Nawaz Sharif

"Capitalism is evil," says new Michael Moore film
"Capitalism is an evil, and you cannot regulate evil," the two-hour movie concludes.

"You have to eliminate it and replace it with something that is good for all people and that something is democracy."

The bad guys in Moore's mind are big banks and hedge funds which "gambled" investors' money in complex derivatives that few, if any, really understood and which belonged in the casino.

Meanwhile, large companies have been prepared to lay off thousands of staff despite boasting record profits.

The filmmaker also sees an uncomfortably close relationship between banks, politicians and U.S. Treasury officials, meaning that regulation has been changed to favor the few on Wall Street rather than the many on Main Street.
"Democracy is not a spectator sport, it's a participatory event," he told a news conference. "If we don't participate in it, it ceases to be a democracy. So Obama will rise or fall based not so much on what he does but on what we do to support him."

Moore also warned other countries around the world against following the recent U.S. economic and political model.

Re: # 46 well than lets also admit that ZAB was alos one , BB was also one....The criteria u are using applies to all.

Re: # 50

Arab bosses? I think it is your Rehman Malik massaging the arab cocks right now. Aren't these fukking Arabs the same who are harboring the known terrorist like your Musharaf who will soon be tried for his crimes against humanity?

#47 no system is so corrupt that it matches a traitor like you - who dares call our soldiers napak for defending the nation from the taliban butchers and their arab bosses.

#44 the only "butchers", you lackey of the taliban rats, are your taliban and arab gods who have invaded Pakistan.

Re: # 47 I agree with you as you mentioned.'' the system is so corrupt and so powerfull that it has become impossible to reform it''...its not like these guys are promised of 120 virgins in heaven and now hey are reformed,thay are part of that corrupt system.

Re: # 28

The poor fukk may or may not be a hypocrite but there is no arguing that the system is so corrupt and so powerfull that it has become impossible to reform it. The inevitability of self-destruction is written on the wall and this is just a matter of time.

Re: # 44 Well said,..I am not saying that its wrong to have independent judiciary but lets admit these guys,chief justice etc are hypocrites.

LIKE FATER LIKE SON !
EDITORIAL DAWN.COM
On the wrong side

Dawn Editorial



In what is becoming common practice, yet another legislator of the PML-N is reported to have fallen on the wrong side of the law. Anjum Aqeel Khan stands accused of ugly rowdiness after failing to have his way at a college in the capital. Despite his claims that he was only trying to help one of his constituents seeking admission to the college, his deeds have once again raised the issue of action against errant lawmakers.

The PML-N occupies the moral high ground in national politics to such an extent that people expect it to act swiftly in such cases. In a couple of cases, it has indeed done just that. A few months ago, it forced its legislator from Rawalpindi to resign his National Assembly seat after his involvement in an exam scandal. More recently, it made one of its Punjab legislators relinquish her post for using a stolen credit card. However, some other incidents have gone unpunished. A Punjab minister got away with two brawls in full public view. A provincial legislator accused of raping a woman in Lahore was not even arrested before he struck an out-of-court deal with his accusers many days after the incident.

Instead of trying to punish or absolve all its erring cadres on its own, the party should have allowed the law to take its course in each case. By turning over the erring legislators to the police and the courts it would have easily avoided the charge of being choosy, and by being neutral would have helped restore the much-needed trust in the judicial system. After all, a functional legal system does not involve political parties taking up police and judicial responsibilities. The PML-N that claims to stand by the rule of the law should know better.

Re: # 42

Revival of judiciary by americans? are you one some kind of dope? Americans sent their butchers like Negroponte for preventing exactly that from happening. It is another thing that choudry was either bought or threatened enough later so that now he does not touch any of the sensitive issues like disappeared pakistanis and torture of pakistani citizens etc. or trial of Musharaf which is claerly witten in law and constitution, instead Supreme court is now fully engaged in non judicial issues like price control flour and recovery of sugar. Is there any one straight is this penchod cesspool of a country?

re: #37

Sharifs blundered by going to Saudi Arabia in 2000... they faced criticism in media and lost heavily in 2002 elections. But they have turned a chapter since then... they shook hands with Benazir, signed COD... joined lawyers movement and have taken a principled pro-Democracy, pro-judiciary, nationalist stance. This is why they came back so strongly in 2007 elections.. are probably going to sweep the next one.

Moral of the story: Criticism is not a bad thing. And only stupid people don't change their minds.

Altaf can learn a lesson or two from the Sharifs and expand his political clout by aligning his politics with rest of Pakistan.

Re: # 37
Khyber
Americans have done a few good things in Pakistan. Revival of judiciary is one. It is vitally important to have a strong judiciary if we want to see corruption reduced and violators of public trust sent to jail.

Re: # 34

and do you know Human rights watch for pakistan calls mqm a Mafia which has held hostage population of karachi through terror.

Re: # 37

yeah we know you didn't wanted a free judical system in 1997 nor now it dosen't suit your illigitmate mafia activties.

Re: # 37It is like saying that ZAB was born in 1966. Where was he before that? Why did he join Ayub's cabinet? Why did he work for him for 8 years and then suddenly discovered socialism?
Khyber, frankly if history has to be the way to judge, frankly no one comes clean. And mind you I can ask a series of questions about Benazir also starting from her deals with Ghulam Ishaq Khan in 1993 to Musharraf in 2007.
If things are getting back on track as far as judiciary is concerned, it is better to appreciate it rather than saying that "where was that gang in 1997?"

Frontier Post Article
Yet another PML-N broil
The Shalimar police of the federal capital on Wednesday registered a criminal case against Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) MNA from Islamabad, Aqeel Anjum Khan, for damaging government property at the Federal Government College for Boys in F-10/4 and misbehaving with senior academicians and other teachers. Police booked the MNA and his accomplices who entered the college and damaged property. They claimed the MNA had gone to the college to secure admission for a student that the college admission committee had refused on merit. Complainant Professor Malik Ahmed Khan, in a written complaint, informed the police that the PML-N MNA along with his personal assistant and around 15 unidentified men entered the college and began damaging property after exchanging harsh words with the administration. The case against the MNA is yet another incident of a PML-N legislator's involvement into a brawl that is usually associated with the indulgence of gangsters in the street crime. The party had to expel an MNA on the charge of indulging in a fake examination. It was followed by the resignation of PML-N MNA Shumaila Rana on the allegation that she purchased certain things from a departmental store on a stolen credit card. A week later an MPA from the same party from Muzaffargarh tore the uniform of a police official when he stopped him from entering the Chief Minister House in Lahore. Still more, another Punjab legislator from Faisalabad, Shafiq Gujjar, was booked on the criminal charge of unruly behaviour when his armed guards thrashed a police commando and snatched the service revolvers of two other policemen when they tried to prevent them from illegal firing in the air during an independence day rally at Koh-i-Noor Chowk (Crossing) on August 14. This state of affairs is highly deplorable when legislators of this political party, always championing the cause of accountability, rule of law and good governance, are invariably found behind one incident of breach of law or the other. The rise of this uncalled for trend within the PML-N only shows that the party leadership has not been able to inspire and subject its office-holders and legislators to a strict political discipline that is pre-requisite to the development of democracy without which the objectives of the "Charter of Democracy" are difficult to achieve. It is all the more shameful of law-makers of party which is in power in Punjab and yet have, in most cases, targeted law enforcers of the province where law and order should have been their paramount responsibility. This conduct alone makes the mockery of political and democratic norms that should have been the hallmark of the political organisation which has repeatedly been touting for the supremacy of state institutions. It is time that the party leadership should proceed against such elements for breach of the party discipline and lowering the prestige of the auspicious legislature in the public. The leadership must also think if the aberrant legislators are fit for the job of law-making. This thinking will initiate accountability within the organisation and political parties owe such a responsibility to the electorate.