well it was really nice to hear at samaa tv ANKAHI with faisal…..im a student n also do ma bznuss i hardly watch any political talk show but just listening to u on show was to ma umost surprise the way u think u talk was awesome but it was a bit disapointing thing for me that ur from Q league to be frank…im not in plitics neither hav any affiliation with any party….but for Q league there is huge amount of hatred not in ma heart but all ma freinds family and the people i know…why it is so? there are few reasons..the most imp was i guess LAL MASJID operation…can u justify that operation was rite?……but reading about your career and education was great that in our parliment there are also people like u….i wish u all the best
My name is Bilal and i am a student of Electronic Engineering. I watched Your Interview and Many speeches and now i realize that someone has awaken from our public to speak for us.
My Question is that when Your government was in Power then the Rate of flour was around Rs.20. People in opposition used to scream on roads for such prices and now when prices have raised above Rs.35, no one cares now or people have lost their hopes.
Kindly explain the role of Judges in our politics. I bet they are playing side role in a horror movie. Besides speaking against the President and the Ex-Government they have nothing to do.
Asslamoalaikum w/w!
Dear Marvi,
I just want to acknowledge the path and trend you have set for the rest to follow by presenting your self for accountability this shows the courage and your commitment towards this country. I feel proud that people like yourself are part of our country and INSHALLAH this country will show to the rest of the world with people like you “We are the best and we can lead from the front”.
Warm regards
Hi how r u. I saw ur program on express tv and stunned to hear ur views and knowledge. Alao i am surprises to see that u have made ur own website and professionally u r a professional banker and a good manager.
I am amechanical engineer and belongs to sukkur
From where do u belog? Alao why having such bright career in banking, why u chose to be a politician?
Well Done Marvi. We Feel Proud of you. Hope 10% of our Elected Elites were as Qualitatively Educated, Aware, Interest Oriented and Responsible as you. Keep the Family Flag Flying.
I may not be a Muslim Leaguer But I’m Sindhi, Pakistani,Muslim who belives in the oneness of Pakistan but only as a Loose Federation,based on Human Dignity and not a Religious State but a Muslim State with all rights to Minorities. Let Religion be between Men & God & not a Business of the State.
Corruption be declared as a Crime, NRO’s be changed into NRC likes of South Africa. Bureaucracy be answerable to the People, Judges should go thru rigirous process before being appointed.Good Luck & God Bless
Regards
Mushtaq Talpur
Very nice website and idea ,should be adopted by other members also , Through Internet Barack obama won U.S Election and one can not demise the power of internet
i saw ur prog at sama tv yesterday jo ap bolrahi thi woh khyal ap ko apni dour-e-hukomat mai kis liye ni aaya ab batee karne sy koi fayda nai hai awam ap logo ki hi tarha is hukomat ko bhi yah daygi aap sub politions pakistan ki jan chordy ar ghar mai batkar dekhe srif sub bekar hai srif batee karwalo bus jo apne mulk ko nai sawar saka woh kaak kuch bhala kare ga aare 5 saal mai tu bacha bara ho jata hia ap log srif larne mai ak dosare par ilzam lagane mai ar kis k account mai kya hai srif is mai time ziya kare for god say leave PAKISTAN
“… and that I will preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. May Allah Almighty help and guide me (A’meen).”
Above are the sentences taken from the oath of a Member National Assembly (MNA) that you have included in your introduction’s page.
Please tell me honestly, don’t you think your party did exactly opposite of it by accepting the Nov. 3 actions of Musharraf.
This is a nice step taken by you. But, one thing I would like you to make sure is that, this website should be used for interaction between you and the people, and not for your media publicity.
I m glad to see you leaving farzana raja answerless on some news channel where she could not respond to your questions about their party fake promises made during election campaign,with public for achieving power only .Like every political party in the country always leaving nation disappointed after being elected.
watching your interviews n views on politics i am surprised to see that still some good dedicated ,energtic leaders like you, are there in the country who has scientific modern ways of interacting people specially young generation.
we expect you, the only one, will definitely address the issue of latest alarming developments on our borders of afghanistan which is leaving pakistanis, the nation having no respect coz when a leader like karzai lol pointing towards pakistan forgetting all the sacrifices of pakistani nations and specially his in competency to handle the country’s situation, proves what our govt is waiting on why don’t they quit apologizing attitude why don’t they face world head to head.
Holding the light of hope may you survive longer for the nation n whole country
May Allah bless pakistan n rest of the world with peace & prosperity n give you the real strength to lead the nation as a true leader in the right direction of optimism
I am busy working on inter faith dialogue, national security strategy and strategy to manage extremism. Its a national cause in these trying times. Your comments on these would be most valuable to guide me in the right direction. Thankyou…
dear Marvi,
i am a resident of Gilgit Baltistan. I would like to extend my respect, encouragement and thankfulness on presenting the issues of GB in the parliament. it is indeed your kindness otherwise no one has spoken on the floor of assembly for GB.
regarding interfaith dialogue, as resident of one of the most effected regions of Pakistan, my suggestion would be that government should nationalize all the mosques and Imam Barghas in Pakistan, with proper training of Masjid imams and a clear direction should be given to them.
Try to engage people on commonalities between the faiths, like ethics, Humanity and social relation of man with society etc. with in the islam sects in minority are vulnerable and have reservations with the system. they must be heard and their ambiguities must be cleared.
well this is my contribution and will come up with some more in future.
Regards.
P.S. your effort is highly appreciated in the student circle of GB. Keep it up, and try to meet youth frequently instead of politician because they will steer you according to their needs.
muhtrama marvi sahiba app pakistan ki rehney wali hai jaha per bohat kam log appna nam english likhna parna jantey hai
appki web sight mukmal english main hai jis ki waja sey english najaney waley log app ki masrofiat our app key kam sey na waqaf hai- ies ley ies ko urdu main bhi montqil karey our appni websight ki print midia our electronic mida per publicity karey jis sey appki websight per aney walo ki tadad bhar jey gi jis ki waja sey app ko appni sight key ley ieshtharat(add) miley gey jis ki amadani sey app gurba-o-masakin key ley kam kar sakey gi- zaheer abbas lahore
Contrary to your statement the first Urdu poet was Wali Dakhni who is said to have said the first urdu-persian blend sher:
Khudaya babakshad bur haal-e-man
Budha houn maiN aur jawaan hai dulhan.
Marvi Ji first of all i wish you all the best for your contribution and hard work, and may Allah give you success in every positive step you take… as you are working on a strategy to manage extremism, i’d give you my personal view on this…
Who is a terrorist or extremist?
A person who ’s killing for food, religious freedom, his lawful rights in society?
Ask urself Miss/Mrs Marvi, a common person if has to wait for years in courts for justice. A innocent youth going behind the bar, gets killed or robbed and waiting for justice, Where as he sees the real corrupt gets the leadership of the country and escapes the country when caught guilty and once they return they get the leadership again. A country where we have no social and financial insurance. Being however literate I would personally even prefer a Sharia Law and Jirga system to get the results as early as possible. These people are not terrorists they are holding guns to protect their rights, they are fighting for their heritage, religious and cultural freedom.
You people are forcing them too much to adopt you people and so inviting problems to yourself. Don’t send the troops to kill them, sort out your judicial system, protect your borders from all around provide education to everyone in easy means and provide equal employment opportunities raise the common man’s life standard and it may take a few years but would result without shedding any blood. And one more thing to add here… please don’t get the people so complex ed by showing off the luxuries, stop sending your own children to foreign universities, instead raise the standard of your own here. Our most educated class, who if serves their own country could make a huge difference prefers going abroad and serve those foreign countries WHY? money maybe is one of the facts but the what matters the most is the social justice, law n order and system what attracts them. In our country, what do we have here? Just a few hotels, cafes, restaurents, bowling allays (not affordable for common man) Golf Clubs (just for a particular class) Gyms, Sport Clubs again for supreme class, grounds? too conjusted or small… attractions? ohhh hardly we have a poor zoo and indian cinema these days… what about our art and historical buildings? yes in poor condition now. Actually our government doesn’t have any master plan for the infrastructure of towns and cities. People don’t trust anyone of you now. You are frustrating the people too much, don’t you see? No planning for generating electricity, no proper water and sewerage systems, no atta no ghee… the rich gets richer and a poor gets poorer. Than our managenet class drivin huge cars and a majority hasn’t even got money to buy shoes. Isn’t it forcing them to do kidnappings, killings and robberies to enjoy those luxiries or just to provide food to their children n emselves? buT hey not to forget if they get caught they will be out behind bars, but if a big robberer from our political parties do multi billion robbery doesn’t even get noticed. Dont you feel ashamed when you see a kid begging on the road side? when a dog lies dead on roads for days? when u see people supplying goods on donkeys to make their living and a brand new Lexus/Bmw/Mercedes with a special number worth a fortune passes by it. If our leaders could rather step into their shoes and think of their feelings only then they would be called AWAMI leader.
If we just uprise the standard of lives of people we can make a huge difference. But sigh, Your government had the best of opportunities but now we have foreign forces on our borders, no economy, no industries, no investments, stock exchange fallin low… too risky isn’t it… but we still have a HOPE! Every person i bet in this country is living with one hope, waiting for that one person to come forward to solve their domestic issues and then maybe we would even someday forget the word terrorism and extremism and might even change the meaning of it that we find in oxford’s new edition today.
Hi Marvi, I am a doctor by profession, my nature of work related to Science in general and Medicine in specific have brought me closer in the loop of some Nobel Laureates, in common communication and frank hours with them, I frequently encounter situations where I am asked about the Status and Role of Women in Politics and Society in Pakistan….I had very few good examples….and that too were from much faded past….now that I have you on our side I feel we have got really strong and genuine women leadership to brag about… =)
God knows how excited and happy I was to see you that day at Sama and then Lucman’s Show…I texted all my contacts on my cell to watch what are you standing for….amazing and marvelous job Marvi…Serving such an ideal role is never an easy task.I am proud of you and whole nation is proud of you!
Thanks for being there for all the Pakistanis….We are with you and may God be with you….
There was a comment on Urdu aspect of this website. I completely agree it must be done fast. In that spirit and on that advice from all of you, I have decided to write in Urdu newspapers as well (articles). The first one is on interfaith dialogue and intrafaith dialogue. Unfortunately I havnt figured out how to post a Urdu blog on this blog so till I get round this technicality I am putting a translation in English. The original is available in Nwaqt dated 22 July. Inshalla we will have a proper website not just blog where Urdu will be available and frankly so should all of this material be available in all the National languages I have proposed in the bill. Eventually will get round to it. Tks
Salam,
This is Muhammad kamran from Geneva,Switzerland. I am persuing my master in management & Leadership. I am a frequent user of internet Blogs,TV Talk shows, and anynews related to my country,Pakistan.
You are an imressive debater and talkative person.Good to see at leaset some one talking in various political aspects.
However, i would be sad to say that you are on the wrong side of the table.Your base is based on wrong elements which are the sturbness of our pesident Musharaff.I might sound anti-musharaff to you but there are many realities and facts. You spend most of your time to defend an illgitimate person who is no in no means favourable for our people.Current surveys does show this all clearly. Second, you are with the party, PMLQ has the biggest corrupt leadership.I do have reservation about other parties, but let’s talk about you and your party here.
You are right on target when you are poiting out some work of malfunctioning Govt.Neverthless, The contribution of musharraf and PMLQ has a vibrant role in al this.I am not satisfy with current govt performance as well as the role of musharrf. Only few name i can admire in politics Imran Khan, Javed Hashmi, Mehmud achakzai, Mushahid hussain, Qazi Hussain, Aitzaz ahsan, Shahbaz sharief (good with low level governance)Anwar baig. There may be many more but these looks sincere to me.
What i suggest you is to join a right platform where you may not become a member of assemble but you will have respect among people. PTI seems to me the best whose leader is full of principle.Imran khan is the man trustworthy for pakistan and he is one of the honest and faithful politicians.
You may enjoy your seat in assembly but will never gain respect by supporting a dictator who has occupied the country and spoiled our constitution.
koiey hamrey wazer-e-kharja janab shah mehmood sahab sey pochey jnab app 115 din main sey kitney din pakistan rahey hai our konsa teer mara hai sewa ies key app ney hamrey peassy sey mouj ki our wqat barbad kia .jis oil minster ko yeh pata na ho key sui geas key 5rupey bharney hai yaa 13 rupey.raja sahab bijli ki kimat bhara rahey hai our ies garib mutasir nahi hoga (hahhahahha)lagta hai jo gareb mar gey hai our qabar main aram kar rahey hai who ies mehngai sey mutasar nahi hongey. koiey in hukmranoo key agey band bandey aey Allah in per 58-2b muslat kar dey punjab key CM sahab ki koiey nahi sonta on key kehney atta sasta nahi horaha crime hai her roz sirf lahore main lakhoo key ho rahey hai our CM sahab sirf hasptaloo per chapey mar rahey hai
It was really a wonderful article titled INTRAFAITHS AND INTERFAITH HARMONY in Nawa e Waqt. Yeah, its right time to do something which can work out or prove fruitful in wiping out the lable of terrorist from Pakistani nation.
You have highlighted in your article Christianity, Islam and Budhism and remaining in other religion and stunningly leaving out Hinduism, which is one of the major religions in the world. The teachings of hinduism are also for peacful society. It is one of the most flexible religion. This is not I am sying as a hindu or being baised but its true.
So I think dialogue with the believers of hindu faith can prove healthy in this regard. Not necessarily hindus from India, but from Nepal also.
Another thing you have mentioned that ban must be imposed on the pseudo sholars like Salman Rushdi and Taslima Nasreen. I think those books should be banned which are blesphamous while other books which are worth readable should be allowed.
I think it is apt time we must develope soft image, and we must be enlightendly moderate, not westernized. Its great dilemma that we misinterpreted what Gen Pervaiz Musharaf said of this coined term. We took it as westernization rather than being enlightened moderate.
So its my requet to you to coin a new term for this so that it may be taken positively to develope the constructive thinking among Pakistanis.
The omission on Hinduism in the inter faith article is regretted and was not a deliberate miss. Enlightened moderation is a good term and doesnt need recoining, just a better understanding is required that it does not mean westernization as you pointed out.
Thanks for your kind reply and heeding my request. I too agree that we need a better understanding to understand the term enlightened moderation. I dint mean at all westernization of this coined term but what I feel mostly people took it otherwise.
We need to revise our Quaid’s words of secular Pakistan. MP Bhandara did his level best in making so but people culdn’t understand him or didnt like him to do so.
I really appreciate the effforts which are being put by the young parliamentarians like you for the well being of this nation.
May God give you courage and stramina to work more.
Hi,
Can you please reply an earlier mail regarding energy sector. Bhasha dam is not the panacea and there is a lot that needs to be done even when oil prices fall below 100USD.
Also can you raise the issue that 3.78 liters (a gallon) of gasoline costs USD 3.9 with 12% tax … why the same costs USD 4.6 with 15% tax in Pakistan? Along with a claim that prices are subsidized?
Thanks,
Zubair
Agreed Mr Zubair. I have raised similar pricing issues earlier also. I am personally working on alternative energy mechanism as part of National security strategy. Your advice will be helpful on my gmail address.
AoA
An apparently bizarre exertion by a parliamentarian keeping in view, traditional and conventional outfits however without any exaggeration, hats off to an awesome exercise by a civilised soul. Though we all are educated, I am afraid fewer meet the minimum standards of cultured entities.
Irrespective of your affiliations with whatever people are shouting about, I reckon you are wise enough to carry on composing yourself. Having said that, I and every one should fully respect the existence of different wings and let everyone to merge towards the prosperity of the nation with their pace and strength. Ofcourse controversial notions are or atleast should be to establish a constructive arena for every stakeholder and to address the demands of the nation.
I donot want to be cynical at this stage, however I love to, when fabricated applauds are on air, whispers of so-called successes are echoing and above all hollow slogans of sincerity and prosperity are sprinkling like rains in monsoon season. I fully understand the dilemma of international politics and indeed Asian spheres witness much dark clouds and I am afraid, complex forecasts.
No harsh feelings please, it’s not for you. It’s my general comment. I donot expect a sincere Politian, get something out for yourself and for your close circles but I would request not to betray the ordinary person like myself. Donot give us any hope, if the clouds donot have silver linings. We are very emotional and with every murmur, we think “He/She is the ONE”. I may continue about this sometime, if get any and would love to.
Now something about new induction in the town of conspiracies and concealed “causes”, I remember you from “Off the Record”, the one accompanied by Gen. Talat and Mr. Fatimi. I found you a bit struggling with these highly skilled blokes, though you had vigilant and sharp analyses of the facts. The next one with Mrs. Haqqani deserves to be in my collectable, you were on fire. It’s a beginning, learning is till death as we learn how to. I am sure you do get some time to see your videos/comments and find how it was and how it could be? I donot want be one of those who think they are pretty good in giving suggestions, irrespective of their disturbed lives. But I believe
“Still waters run very deep”
And there is always a time for still water to expose it’s depth.
My schedule to writing you is alarming, but it was a good fun. All the best!!!
See you later.
Take care and keep praying
ALLAH HAFIZ
Its good watching you on Geo Tv and and on Ajj Tv in two different shows. So broad, candid and shrewed were your counter arguments that it really perplexed the counterparts.
Being in opposition will really provide you a nice opportunity to learn and make you politically matured person. This tenure will make you politically ripened by the end of this so-called coalition led govt.
I do agree that if Marvi Memon is in politics its not because of her father’s “ashirwad” on her but I think you are there because of your own abilities and gutts.
Its good listening you that you know Sindhi as well.
salam,
i am dr rizwan from muzaffarabad AJK. telling u frankly i realy hate the policies of PML Q but i am really surperised to see the behaviour of MMA and your other collation partners and i very carefully listen to you at different talkshows your most of the points are valid and authentic. i wish you all the best and say keep it up its nice to see a young talent hope u will continue to oppose for constructive purposes.
you are the only one pml Q candidate who impresd me. i hope the people like you in all different parties unite and soul out this our deadly country to life again
I do not consider President Musharraf a dictator. PML has elected him for 5 years and he is an elected President. I will defend what I feel is best for Pakistan’s national interest and security. One should respect difference of opinion and refrain from emotional accusations.
salam,
hope u r fine n in best of ur health i wana tell u about a girl who belongs to muzaffarabad unfortunately 4 months back while coming back from pindi to muzaffarabad some people fired her car n she got spinal injury. now she is paralysed she is on wheel chair. but that courageous girl is determined and wana continue her study. the administration of ayub medical college is resistant for her studies . i request you to please raise the issue. she is a student of 3rd year MBBS in ayub medical college abbottabad. its not the matter of a girl but any ammendment in study procedure will help alot of handicap students who wanaa become useful citizen but our system is discouraging. please do think on it we all do alot for healthy people but no one is there to raise issues of handicap. i am waiting for ur reply . if u can do anything in it i send u detailed mail.
hoping for a positive response
take care
Allah hafiz
It is really hurting that if somebody is doing something good and mingling up with general public via this electronic facility then we must take care of our emotional affiliation.
No Parlimantarian ever dared to interact like Marvi Memon with public and replying the queries. Its something daring and gesture of goodwill on her part. So, rather becoming negative and biased we must develope a positive and constructive thinking which may help us as well our young, energetic and enthusiastic parlimentarians to do something for this country.
This Iam saying being a representative of young educated Paksitanis so please heed my words.
AoA
What a grin?
Ms. Marvi, once again exploiting the best of available political catches and her vocal cords-thanks to lozenges, her “19 hour work day” and aides. It’s difficult to explain to a layman but what a pity to convince parliamentarians about the constitutional position of Mr. President? Without blowing any controversial notion, I do concur Mr. Musharraf’s constitutional position as the President of Pakistan-it is fairly and explicitly constitutional however on moral grounds, I do reserve my rights to comment. What a wacky idea to use a word “morality” in politics, it just needs “modality”-a substitute of old friend “Routee, Kupraa aor Makan”. How come someone could forget to comment about the existence of PML (Q) in future, while doodling meticulously on papers? Probably the existence of PML(Q) is a bright hope, I am not sure for Pakistan but yes it is a bright hope and an easy stair to climb with limited visionary eyes and abundance of deceiving ears.
Dr. Firdous is unfortunate for having Mr. Zardari, her words and explanations seemed strayed. It’s what I call lack of farsighted leadership. If it had been Ms. Farzana Raja, it would not have been an easy nut to crack.
Tahmina Appa, a seasoned politician-adorable-a lady who knows when and how much to speak. She also knows how to tantalize aggressively, followed by restricting others to their sheds. I remember she compelled Ms. Marvi twice to remain in her state of silence. Though she belongs to a clan who depict dark times but still she knows how to cash the historic events including atomic explosions. There is a lot to extract from her.
Take care and keep praying
ALLAH HAFIZ
P.S: I try to express my unbiased opinion, if contaminated, my apologies. (Capital Talk-30th July 08)
I recently came across an article of yours in The News titled ‘The 100-day Betrayal.’ It’s always good to see that some intellectual gems do make it into our parliament afterall. However, I’m preplexed after finding out that you are affiliated with the PML-Q. This is not to suggest that PML-Q is any better or worse than any other parties in the Pakistani political arena. But I do have a strong, unexplained, negative bias against the Chaudhri brethren. How do you justify yourself in a party that was and is still known as the King’s party and whose leadership is written off by most political analysts as ‘lotas’.
I have also seen your website – a brilliant idea. I would like some sort of reply to the email or through a post on your website on why any Pakistani should believe you on your commitments? What makes you different than others?
Dr Rizwan,
Pls provide me more details on my gmail address so that I can help the girl you mentioned. I have been to Ayub Medical on July 26th in connection with Ayubia accident of Lorali children. Will do what I can.
Well ,1st of all thanks to Allah that some politician finally releazed the need of communication with us ,the awam, and thanks to you for implementing it 1st time .
Marvi you impressed alot cause of your PRE speech work in the form of proofs or reports you bring along with you in TV talk shows.but i feel that sometimes you don t behave in civilized or gentle way.i just saw you last time on capital talk and you talked really fine hope you would continue this .i personally feel great to listen you hope you would try to understand things apart from your POLITICAL AFFILIATIONs but in interest of humans living in this country….
i must say i have seen 1st time some politician other than PRESIDENT OR PRIME MINISTER Who made some inet webspace and this simply shows your modern approach towards politics .I wish you lots of successes on this path of politics,and pray to ALLAH that your all successes become success of PAKISTANI FOLKS too…..and never forget this weblog site ..and keep updating us about your accomplishments.
and one thing more,though i am not advocative or lover of acts done by PML q or PRESIDENT musharraf .but i am appreciating this lady for her courage to speak out loud what she thinks right or wrong .please learn to respect people s ideas and at least say thanks to this lady for her public appearance ,not a single politician has such dare to come and talk in public,or in INET platform.if some one is trying to change TREND of our politics please appreciate him or her .
I have had 3 abnoxious mails through this particular page which I have not displayed since I dont believe in promoting terrible language and twisted thoughts! My only hope is that all parliamentarians come up to the awaam’s expectations so that we are all respected. Written vulgar abuses dont achieve much. If you disagree it can be done in a civilized way too and then it can be published on the page. That is the kind of politics I want to see in Pakistan.
In response to Mr Husnain … He asked
“why any Pakistani should believe you on your commitments? What makes you different than others” … The top of my mind response is….
I hope my commitment is believed, because of the motto which I am trying to follow….
Tangible results not just talk. I am trying to walk the talk. All the meetings I have are with the same purpose. Frankly there is no need for a regular opposition MNA to have meetings with experts to get solutions to our national security including energy and food crisis. Normally thats govt’s job. I am trying to do that and trying to be constructive.
Time will tell. And results will show. So far I have had good progress on lots of issues like for example glaciers/ Disaster management; because I try and push govt towards resolution. Its a new approach. Read the article on food security, read the july 27th diary page, read even the press release trying to warn govt for not being so pro-Indian, read the northern area bill which is the first time in parliamentary history. There are many other examples but its a journey. Everyday I try hard to do something useful. Results not just talk. I am just starting the journey. I know one has to be very persistent to get results. I had to raise glacier issue thrice and scream on assembly floor to get PM to listen and before I got whip in parliament to call disaster management team to resolve issue. Persistence to keep trying till results come in. Its lots of work when one is in opposition because one cant fix issues oneself. One has to push govt to fix, because govt has the power to sign solutions. Much easier to fix when in govt.
Even a simple dinner at any ambassador’s residence is lots of work; to push for constructive collaborations between our two countries. Its not just sushi and small talk! Thats my approach.
Even though I am in opposition and will get no direct credit for my party as a result of the fixes. As long as country wins thats the real and only win. Everyday there is lots that we do which is confidential which I cant post but which is good for Pak. And hopefully one day those pages will also be posted
We all know the issues of Pak. Its pointless arguing over whether we created them or the current govt. What is important is collective wisdom in solving them…Please post solutions on this page so that I can convince govt to fix things accordingly. Let this page be a truly useful excersise for the country
before imaginations run wild…by ‘confidential meetings’ in my earlier post i mean.. opposition’s strategy meetings… those are being recorded too separately and at the right time when my hair is grey enough I will share those too. I see those meetings with leadership as learnings and history in the making. There is a logic to the madness and a logic to each decision and strategy.
As you have given us ,the awaam,a lift by connecting this way ,i want to pose a question ,would you like to do some thing for misplaced individuals ,i know its very sensitive issue but Marvi, that person could be your father or my brother ,if its their turn then one day it would be someone else turn too.i consider you as sensible human and want that you do some thing on this issue as well ,secondly if nothing can be done for them ,then at least support for their families could be arranged ,they are our Muslim brother and sisters they are our responsibility.i don’t know what are your Party s beliefs about this thing but after seeing REFLECTION of nanga parbat in your photo collection i expect a lot from your sensibilities.
AoA
Irrespective of concerns raised about the loyalty of a politician, an educated person should focus on “JOB IS DONE”, whether there appears “Choudharys”, “Mians”, “Newly born Zardari-Bhuttos” or “Mr/Ms Xs”. We are gossiping about educated stuff, are we on the right track of education? I acknowledge the participation of Ms. Memon in three committees including IT which has-I am afraid-something very little to do with education to establish the conscious of youth.
I shuffle and find Dr. Atta-ur-Rehman’s launch of IT tsunami (sorry for this word but it proved an extravagant policy) about seven eight years ago. The misunderstanding of the concept followed by the mismanagement led to thousands of Internet Café with horrendous outcomes which we had witnessed with a deep sorrow. The good we achieved, ofcourse is worth mentioning but it’s not the objective of this post. A country having about 70% habitants in rural areas have limited or no excess to basic education and rest constitutes about 50% literacy rate (definition is negotiable). I am not pessimistic, however we need to re-consider our education policy. I had a chance to have bird’s eye view of the education policy forwarded by Mr. Ahsan Iqbal (65 pages). I could not find any such policy from PML(Q) except one paragraph-of little satisfaction for me-in the manifesto under the head of “Development”. If you have any education policy in hands, would you please share the link.
I feel so much lost sometimes when I try to envisage Ms. Memon-one-size-fitting-all, something is ofcourse better than nothing. I feel sorry when I find lavish spending on the name of foreign scholarships.
We will have hundreds of PhDs by another two or three years- do we have sufficient infra-structure to accommodate them or simply we are trying to facilitate brain-drain?
I appreciate the efforts and do not doubt the sincerity of HEC, are we spending on the right lines?
Do we need to spend millions of dollars to ensure foreign qualified PhD scholars or we can spend this fortune to hire foreigners for our universities and let our universities to establish?
Do we need the cash-flow in IT or for those highly skilled programmes or we can have a balanced scheme for basic grounds as well as for highly skilled plans to raise the conscious of youth?
Take care and keep praying
ALLAH HAFIZ
P.S: Thanks for getting some time for all of us and your tolerance is highly acknowledged.
You look very energetic and enthusiastic with a spirit to do something for this outcast nation. Please do something in the education sector. I belong to Thrparkar and literacy ratio of this desert area, swelterring with the heat of illeteracy anf poverty, is terribly only 17%, where as last PM Shaukat Aziz and CM Sindh Ghulam Rahim both were elected from the same area, however, the former left the constituency. This is what we got from these treahers. I clearly remeber the sppech of Shaukat Aziz made in Mithi, dist Tharparkar, when he made hollow claims that he would make Thar as Dubai. But regret to say there are only two towns which are gifted with river water via a pipeline and rest of the inhabitants have to use the saltish water of the wells. Only four towns and few villages are electrified and remaining are still lying in the darkness of backwardness.
Your party must not forget that you have made a clean sweep by winning 4 provinicial and two national assembly seats from this forgotten territory. Arbab sahib is enjoying a lavishing life in Arabian desert having forgotten his own desert.
Majority of the hidus live in this area so they may not be ignored in this pathetic way.Its my request that you may visit Thar and see the deplorable condition of the people or not then do watch movie Ramchand Paksitani which had been shot in Thar. It clearly depicts gloomy picture of Thar.
Its very perplexing why this region is being ignored by every government- whether for being border area or govt’s biased policies against minorities. I really laud Musharraf for doing something for this region by developing network of roads and water for two towns. In actuality, these facilities were given to facilitate Chinese working at Thar Coal project, but in the long run it would facilitate the locals.
So many things to say but I think brevity is soul of wit. Therefore, some practical implementation must be done.
First of all, nice to see this website and see some educated people in our politics. But i’m not sure what are your reasons to stick with PML Q – they have done enough bad to the country that this party doesn’t deserve to be with.
But at the end i respect your vision and your contitutional right of speech & to be with any party.
You have a flare for misusing statistics – Ever considered working for Shaukat Aziz? Would you approve the kidnapping of Mr. Aziz from UK and bring him to justice in Afghanistan.
first of all i will like to appreciate ur sense of photography..nice nature pics:)
now lets come to point
my point is can u guide me how to enter in pakistani politics?i mean whts the creteria and conditions?and how we start it like how to join any party?whts the procedure and all
it will be nice of u if u guide me
thnks
It’s really startling that you just wiped away my last post from this page rather than replying me. What i wrote was true of my area and what what your ‘respected’ leaders did for this area was also true. Since you always defend your party and your support for it and for Musharraf so I felt it comfortable to ask you aboout our ‘patriotic’ leaders who are now out of country after bagging the money.
I hope there’s is no harshness in my tone but its a question which every person of my area wants to know. So let it be answered.
I have heard and seen you in many a tv interviews… you are a credit to our society.
Can you please find out about Dr Afia,missing for well over 4years…justice and humanity demands that this is corrected, a mention in your newsletter, would be a start.
Thank you,
May Allah bless us in our quest.
Wow i must say this is so nice to see a person from the parliment to be on the internet and listening to the actual ‘awaam’ – so nice of you marvi.. perhaps you should encourage other leaders to open up their blog just like you’ve done.
As for my comments on inter faith dialogue, national security strategy and strategy to manage extremism, I’d say that the extremists have reached at a point where they are no longer negotiable – they have been brainwashed to hurt Pakistan and Pakistanis. The extremists are like zombies which are ‘laa – ilaaj’ (have no cure). The only solution is, to arrest them, and if they show resistence, then (unfortunately) kill them – and at the same time, go to those places where these extremists are growing up – talk to their children and women and explain to them how those extremists are wrong.. after all, women and children may just be able to get an understanding of what the established extremists do not.
Cheers and keep up the good work.
P.S. I do not believe in any party – as all parties here are based around personal interest – but you sound like you are someone with dedication towards her country and people – so i’d pray that you take over the chaudry brethren soon and become the leader of the party.
And of course, I’d like you to re-think your decision of supporting a dictator so passionately. Do you honestly feel that a man who is ruling on Pakistan using the power of his military uniform is worth your support? Re-think.
Marvi you have all rights to protect and defend Musharaff BECAUSE with out would not have in Parliment. This shows your Loyality:)
However, I do ask, How do you feel to defend a dictator who has only 3% popularity among public. (Latest surveys shows)
You should think about this point before being a blind loyal to your master. This just my humble opinion and advice because i think you can do much better if find the right path.
Well Marvi,
before saying anything i would like to ask whether this place is also available for those who has ideological differences with u??????
To introduce myself,i am shahid from N.W.FP Pakistan.A masters degree holder in Political science and LLB.
I watched u quite a number of times over channels and i think u as a lady with a thinking mind.but i would honestly suggest that insead of going for cliche and taboo works,u better go for something genuine.I would suggest that instead of trusting the knowledge gained by books and by ”Briefings”,u must try real politics.i mean that politics which is called street politics.i know it would be difficult for a person of elite class like u but that is essential if u wana leave some mark.
At the end if u really honour difference of opinion then we can talk
AoA,
Well done mam you did a brilliant job. and i hope it will be very much to support you to find the things whatever that is …. and you make a symbol for all may Allah give us sence how to do their duties.
may Allah bless on you keep it UP……
Party Leadership must be respected and party discipline must be maintained. I have chosen to be in PML due to its links to Quaid’s original party and I am grateful for the PML giving me a chance to be a PML MNA. Leadership bashing in the emails I have received by some of you is not productive activity. I believe there is good in most individuals and one must learn from leadership the good. One must zoom into good and ignore the rest, in general in life. That gets you positive approach.
@ true paki (August 3, 2008 at 7:52 am)
Recently one of my friends, who belongs to a mediocre family, asked me about the shortcuts of getting rich.
“Only two ways, either to have a rich father or father-in-law”, it’s what normally people think at the top of their heads.
“How to be a politician?”, around the horizons of Southeast Asian politics, reality is not very much different from the above-mentioned myth. My dear, do we need to be a politician to recognise our strengths and utilise these for the welfare of our people? I am sure “not”, if we identify our circles of influence irrespective how big or small these are. Having said that, it’s not an easy accomplishment to sustain the integrity of thoughts and ideology, once the mesmerisation of power commences shackling.
@ Kapil Dev (August 2, 2008 at 2:22 pm)
I remember the budget for higher education was Rs. 3.9 billion in 2001-02, which skyrocketed to an astounding Rs. 33.7 billion in 2006-07. The reasons of such an astonishing increase are self-explanatory. We like to charge ourselves as recently labelled by Mr. Gillani before going to USA. (My intentions are not to highlight the reasons therefore I am skipping). I respect Dr. Atta-ur-Rehman a lot but I keep my right to disagree with the policies. Last year, Dr. sb. with his dedicated team of HEC was in Trieste, Italy and raising slogans of hollow successes, including 300 percent increase in research publications, nine new universities will be inaugurated soonish in affiliation with European teaching faculty, a revolution by the return of about 3000 foreign qualified Pakistani PhD students and every year about 1500 PhDs from Pakistani Universities and bla bla bla.
Has he ever thought of “Mr. Kapil Dev” who is demanding a primary school/basic education for his vicinity? It’s a shame to spend Rs. billions on something which could benefit only fraction of fraction at the cost of millions of prospective scientists of Pakistan and who knows leaders of the world. I think it’s enough for the time being to absorb and think “What’s wrong with us”?
@ Marvi Memon (August 5, 2008 at 11:37 am)
The party of Quaid’s ideology, one can quote, may be hundreds of expressions from Quaid’s life which are enough to shatter what PML (at that time used to be “Q”) had been practicing over years and what it is comprised of. I feel sorry for any alphabet of PML due to their birthplaces-GHQ, some have achieved their freedom while for some future will decide. My words start wavering, when I think to advice someone who occupies much higher intellectual position than myself so I leave it to her.
@ All
I had to, in the past, sometimes guide and direct my niece who was 6 years old about four years ago. It sounds bizarre, trying to convince someone considering she is wrong about her political affiliation, whose son is older than my younger niece. A graduate form London must have a vision, I am sure do have, to scan a range from “the best” to “hazardous”. It’s her choice to get satisfaction with “Just OK” as one could think or justified/exaggerated it to “the best”. Let’s leave the politics for politicians and think of/for “awam”!!!
Dear Marvi
I would hmbly disagree wid u regarding ur last post.u said” have chosen to be in PML due to its links to Quaid’s original party and I am grateful for the PML giving me a chance to be a PML MNA”
Well first of all i humbly disagree with ur point that PML Q has any link with Quaid’s original party.u have a right to join any party but linking it to Quaid’s original party is quite a strange satatement.in the true sense of the term it can hardly be called a party.see it was an amalgamation of a number of parties having presence in parliament(not to forget the turncoats of different partis like PPP patriots).after a five year un-intrrupted rule and three prime ministers,it had to face only one general election of 2008.And u know the result.
Moreover may i humbly ask if Marvi memon was not the daughter of Senator Nisar memon then whwther she would ever be able to get a ticket of even a union council.What was the criterion to get a ticket of women reserve seat in parliament????
Hope u wount mind my comment and querry.If anything annoying then sorry
Regards
shahid
AoA
Enough of politics and personal clashes. Let me quote Ms. Marvi Memon (August 1, 2008 at 1:35 pm)
“Let this page be a truly useful excersise for the country”
I would request everyone to help her bringing more productivity to this forum and proper delegation of tasks, and leave the cynical attitude and point scoring tactics for “Gladiators” of the political spheres.
So her Excellency “MNA Marvi Memon”, it would be great if you could update us about the recent two requests
1. By Dr. Rizwan (July 31, 2008 at 12:57 pm) about an injured/ paralyzed 3rd year MBBS student of Ayub Medical College, Abbottabad, who was compelled to abandon her studies by the administration of the college due to tragic mishap.
2. By Ms. Ambar Ghaffar (August 1, 2008 at 2:58 pm) about the missing persons.
You are not accountable to us but we would appreciate, if you could let us know that our “brainstorming” and “trusting Ms. Memon” was not a mistake. We know things are not going to change overnight, but you atleast can share whatever you have done and/or your farsighted approach in few explicit lines. I wonder such electronic gadgets like computers and PDAs are going to substitute Pakistani “street politics” in future, and welcome you being the “innovator”.
Take care and keep praying
ALLAH HAFIZ
Thankyou NSS for bringing the focus back on. I am late on both deadlines given by you all.My apologies. Need more time for them. Have my hands full with current political situation. Tks for your patience.
AoA
It’s alright. Though I am away from my soil for a short while, yet I fully apprehend the existing political whirlpool. Take your time and no need to say sorry, atleast you are one of few, who are in touch with the public and we acknowledge your hospitality.
Despite of his philosophical vision and controversial believes, Socrates is still remembered in history for defending his believes till sipping a pint of hemlock. After Islamabad declaration today, it’s a time for you guys to exhibit courage. It’s nice to hear ex-CM of Punjab and Sh. Rasheed, let’s see how things settle.
Take care and keep praying
ALLAH HAFIZ
Dear Marvi as I have watched the transparency introduced by PML-Q govt erode from the system I am becoming increasingly alarmed by the civil dictators of PML-N and PPP. I will love to discuss with you about forming a political action group that will empower and rally people at grass root level by using IT and mass media. This will be highly philanthropic, legal, in-expensive and revolutionary.
Best,
You have my email address
Just watched a clip of you speaking in Hamid Mir’s Capital Talk. Frankly, I cannot appreciate your support for Musharraf. Opinions aside, it is a fact that Pervez Musharraf dismissed the judiciary in his capacity as COAS.
In any case, you are extremely inexperienced. Your remarks were crude, off the topic, useless, and in one word: pathetic. The very things you accuse the ruling coalition of, were committed by Gen Musharraf. He has admitted selling citizens of Pakistan to the US of A.
It is an absolute waste of time and enrgy supporting you in your endeavours.
Presuming your well intentions for Pakistan, I would wish you well. However I cannot, because what you intend could reverse Pakistan.
Dear Marvi
I m not affiliated with any political party because of so many reasons. To day I saw TV talk show capital talk. I like the way you put your question and answer. Seeing you as a member of parliament make me feel good. In this show you done well. But where were you when Mr. shukat aziz was looting this country? Why did not you raise your voice? For God sake think about this country which came in to being after many sacrifices of our fore father. Please do some real thing for this country. All we are enjoying is due to this country. We have liability towards this land. Please do some thing for the people of Pakistan. India building dams and we are sleeping. CNG stations getting profits 135%. Crude oil price decrease $114 a barrel but no relief to people of Pakistan. Government announce CNG price but CNG owners charging higher rate. Where is writ of the government? I use to listen “MEHDI HASSN MILI NAGMA YEH WATAN TUMHARA HEY, TUM HO PASS BAN IS KEY” and this makes me emotional. I request you to please listen it and advise other fellows to listen.
God bless you.
Dear Miss Marvi Memon,
Today,I watched your speech and Arguments in capital talk to defend Pervaiz Musharaf.
You said that Mr.Musharf has not voilated the constitution.
I pray that you may be abducted by FBI of USA.You may be taken to Bagraam Airbase. Then US troops rape you there for five years
Then you will understand that where Mr.Musharaf has voilated the constitution of Pakistan.This shameless person has sold away ourPakistani sisters and there are still shameless women like who are defending this Rascal.
how will defend the act of Musharaf of selling Pakistani Citizens to USA.If He sells you to FBI for 1 million Dollars then it will be very good deal.
And I assure you one day he will do if he remains in the power.You are really disgusting lady defending such a rascal who sold our sisters and Daughters to U.S.A.
I think it will not be easy for you swallow.and you may remove it from website.But if you are bold and you can defend your self then you should not remove this comments and give me answer
Dear Mam,
I read all above comments there is no doubt that you introduce first time in our politics this kind of discussion where everyone have same right to tell his arguments and whatever he have to ask. But please, please don’t favor that person who is the main reason and have large contribution to collapse the country economically, socially, and esthetically and we all are known about the terrible situation of Pakistan. And as you know the next week position going to submit the charge sheet against him so I think we are afraid that he could use the sword of 58 2B so kindly you people who are the big supporter of him and still defending him let him stop to do that because this time we are could not bear that kind of things with the Pakistan. Because this will be last with the Pakistan and I am afraid too much that we can lost our prestige and our country too. Now we are all wanting the accountable him in the Supreme Court.
At last once again I will appreciate your efforts and hearing the truth.
Regards
hey
I watched your program “capital talk” with Hamid Meer.I was very surprised to see how rudely and shamefully you are defending the case of the General Musharraf. Now you are the next card after Nellofar and Kshhmala.But I am sure after some days you will be with them and accusing the General Musharraf.I must condemn your hypocritical and disgraceful attitude. You don’t deserve for the anydebating shows you actually deserve somewhere else.
Dear Marvi
please try to avoid to act againt the teaching of Holy prophet. (S.A.W)
To day Mr.Iqbal ehsan of PML(N) talking to news men gave the answer to the question about the president for giving a safe passage for his exit. He said this should not be happened and no one left without punishment of his sins. If it happens then every body should given the indemnity and all criminals in prison should be released. I thought he is a reasonable man but he is not. Because he forget about the person whom he and his party members are begging for, is the main beneficiary of “NRO”. And I think he is so innocent that he does not know about the “NRO”. Being Muslim he must know the saying of Holy Prophet (S.A.W) “nations were destroyed because they did not punish elites of society and punish severely to other people.” This NRO will be enough to destroy us as mentioned in Hadith
I’m a fan! I’ve been through your website and seen you a number of times on TV. You’re doing a great job! look forward to seeing you achieving even greater heights.
I must take this opportunity to mention that I also have tremendous respect and regards for your father.
Dear Marvi
In todays Dawn News “OIL MINISTRY ASKED TO CAP SUBSIDY AT RS.140BN” Would you please tell us what is the actual price of oil without adding any tax. This will help me to determin what kind of subsidy is our government is giving to the people of Pakistan. The gasoline price in Canada was Can$1.23 when the crude oil was above US$140. Is Canadian governemnt is also giving subsidy on gasoline? Althouh we are getting oil cheaper because less distance from exporting countries. Please do not fool people of Pakistan. Just do what ever you polititian want to do, the people of Pakistan can’t stop you people from looting this country.
For God sake stop this now and be honest with you job.
helo,
plz raise ur voice angainst the issue of oil prices as oil price has fallen to 116$ but the ministry and ogra are stil sleeping.plz wake them up n remind them that ogra meeting is supposed to take place enery week and its duty is to regulate the oil pricr not just to increase the oil price,also ask them whether they consulted parliment before making the agreement of ending all subcidy with word bank.
with profound regards
shahab
Marvi you did not respond to my last mail, I need your help to find someone who can finance a campaign by a political action group. We want people to realize how much taxes they are paying and what they should expect in return. Moreover we want them to realize that civil dictators can be worse than military dictators.
Dear Marvi!
i appriciate your efforts in regards of National Security and Pakistan’s great intrest…Have seen you a number of time on electronic media and it was great to listen you in there. So honestly, I am happy with the presence of such people in PML Q. I salute you what you , Mr president and other few people (such like you) did , doing and will always do in the graet intrest of our motherland(Pakistan)…. i want to ensure you that there are still Hundered thousand of people in pakistan, love Mr President and want to see him as a president for the rest of their life and abviousley i am one of them. So Weldone and keep Supporting him with same passion and dare. God be with you !
I’ve been watching you on the tv shows defending musharraf. I know you are a great debater, you can leave the opponent speechless but i do not know how musharraf earned sympathy from you. I am not from any Political Party I am from the group, which people call ‘KHAMOOSH AKSARIAT’ who form the ‘AWAAM’.
I have so many things to write but I am unable to write I know it will go astray. I will not say that please change your affiliation, you are justifying wrong acts with lame excuses. just imagine, Prisoner 650 is Marvi Memon, will you have the same feelings regarding musharraf and PML Q. I am not requesting a reply just imagine…..
Dear Miss. Marvi, I saw u first time on Capital Talks of GEO, and I was really impressed by your thoughts and loyelty to Mr. P. Mushharf. I am a fan of President Musharraf too. Not coz of his personality only but coz of his policies too. I had posted many mails to him on his web site, and to PLQ Leader’s web site too. I expressed my views in those about that time’s political senario. Mein syaasat say kuchh ziada waqif nahin. lekin itna bewaqoof bhi nahin k PLMn or PPP ko sachha maan loon. Since last week, when PPP announced the impeachment of President, mein kuchh views share karna chahtaa tha. there were some points i noted durring the announcement of impeachment and after that. I wonder k aapka or President sahab ka think tank in cheezoon ko highlitght kyoun nahin karta.. for instence..
1)) When PPP & PMLn announced the impeachment on the wall behind them they had the pictures of Buhtto’s but not of Qaed-e-Aazam. (((( This should be brought up, as QAED-E-AAZAM K PAKISTAN KA, OR ISKI TAREEKH KA EK ITNA AHAM FAISLAA KIYA JAA RAHA HAI, OR ITNI BHI TOFEEQ NAHIN K UNKI EK TASWEER HI DEEWAAR PAR AAWEZAA’N KAR DE JAAE. may be they will answer to it, K, QAED-E-AAZAM TO HAMAARAY DILOON MEIN HEIN, then the response to it should be, k KIYA BHUTTO, BENAZIR, BALAAWAL OR MIAN SAHAB DIL MEIN NAHIN THAY, K UNKI TASWEER LAGAANAY KI ZAROORAT MEHSOOS HUE???? )))
2)) Impeachment mein har cheez ko uchhala jaa raha hai, even that, the price rise in pakistan is coz of his policies, the load shading is coz of his policies, the appointment of PM Shokat Aziz was his wrong dicission and so on… TOU?? ((( PRESIDENT NAY “”NRO” KIYA THA, JIS MEIN WO SUB LOG JIN PAR PAKISTAN KA PAISA LOOT KAR BAHAR BHEJNAY KA ILZAAM THA, UNKAY TAMAAM MUQADMAAT ADAALAT SAY WAPAS LE LIYE GAE THAY. AGAR EK GHAIR AAENI SADAR KA HAR IQDAAM GHAIR AAENI HAI, TO “NRO” KO BHI GHAIR AAENI QARAAR DENE KI BAAT KYOUN NAHIN KI JAARAHI??? YE BHI IMPEACHMENT KA HISSA HONA CHAHIYE. AGAR SACKING OF JUDGES EK GHAIR AAENI IQDAAM THA? OR ISKO EK EXECUTIVE ORDER SAY WAAPAS LAAYA JAA SAKTA HAI, TO “NRO” BHI USI SHAKHS NAY KIYA THA, KIYA WO EK EXECUTIVE ORDER SAY WAPAS NAHIN KIYA JAA SAKTA? IS PAR PPP OR PMLn KYOUN BAAT NAHIN KARTIEN???
3)) 58-2B,, SADAR K HAATH MEIN EK TALWAAR HAI,, OR IS KO BHI WAPAS LIYA JAANA CHAHIYE, OR YE JO TARMEEM KI GAE THI, IS KA BHI MUAAKHZAA HONA CHAHIYE. AGAR IS KO SEHI MAAN BHI LIYA JAAE? TO YE TALWAAR UNKAY HAATH EMIN “MMA” NAY DI THI, KYA “MMA” KI LEADERSHIP KA BHI EHTASAAB KIYA JAANA CHAHIYE?? K UNHOON NAY US WAQT EK GENERAL KA SAATH KIYOUN DIYA THA?? OR PAKISTAN MEIN JAMHOORIAT K MUSTAQBIL KO KYOUN KHATRAY MEIN DALLAA THA????
4)) PPP OR PMLn RESTORATION OF JUDGES KA SLOGAN LAGAA KAR ELECTION MEIN UTRI THEIN, USKAY BAWAJOOD IN DONOO PARTIES NAY USKO PEECHHAY DAAL KAR, SADAR KI IMPEACHMENT KA MASLAA KHARAA KIYA OR WO BHI 6 MAHINAY K BAAD, KIYA GAURENTEE HAI, K NIYA SADAR LAATAY WAQT YE MAZEED 1 SAAL NAHI LARTI REHEIN GI??? KIYA IS MEIN PAKISTAN KA MUSTAQBAL KHATRAY MEIN NAHIN PAREGA, TO PHIR YE DONO PARTIES ABHI APNA SADAR KYOUN NAHIN ANNOUNCE KARTI, TAKEY AWAAM KO ITMINAAN REHE, K SADAR K MAS-ALAAY PAR YE DONO PAKISTANI AWAAM KI PROBLEM KO PASH-E-PUSHT NAHIN DAALEINGI..
I agree, k shayad ye kuchh itnay strong points nahin k politically is say faeda uthhaya jaa sakay, lekin hamaari awaam ki soch bhi itni deep nahin k wo qanooni complications ko samajh sakay, wo inhi choti choti baatoon say leadar ka intakhaab karti hein. Beside i think k agar in points ko sehi moqay par or sehi tareeqay say project kiya jaae, or with due attitude, to kam az kam, CAPITAL TALK jese program mein atleast ye HAMID MEER ko bhi sochnay par majboor zaroor kareingi, k in topics par PPP or PMLn ka jawaab kiya raha..
IN THE END, I HOPE U WILL READ MY MAIL. AND WILL FIND IT WORTH TO BE READ. AGAR ISKA KOE RESPONSE AAYA, TO INSHA ALLAH, AAENDA BHI AAP SAY COMMUNICATION REHEGA.
SADAR PARVEZ MUSHHRAF KO MERA SALAAM KEHIYE GA, AND I WISH HE WILL WIN THIS BETTLE. AND GOOD TO YOU AND HIM BOTH. ALLAH HAFIZ.
This message is dedicated to Amber who asked me about Dr Afia in round about way and then got sarcastic! and for those who have asked me about Dr Afia in direct way…
PML has taken a stance to defend her. I have said the same on live tv in a press conference yesterday. Our Leader of Opposition said the same on the floor of the house.
The principle we are defending today versus perhaps when PML was in govt is …whatever the charges against her, she is a Pakistani and needs to be given fair trial to prove her innocence in Pakistan. that is the principle.
By uttering foul and vicious language against me does not solve any problems. I only published that foul language quote to exlain that I feel sorry for people who are so blinded by their hatred that they loose their language balance.
Aoa
Marvi Memon or should i say venom ,How come you contested elections while your father was a caretaker minister . We don’t need to see your loyalty because obviously you were employed by the president in ISPR and then in board of investment. It’s all in the family isn’t it. Father twice federal minister because of close friendship and daughter has two posts and now Mouthpiece MNA . Well done to Musharraf. Friendship is the only merit and nepotism is the only form of government PML Q and musharraf knows. Bibi yaad hai parha likha punjab , rozana ishtihar chalta tha aur phir 18 february kp kia howa.Bibi aap ka ishtihaar bhi rozana har channel pay chal raha . Allah khair karay , pata nahin shayad musharraf sahab ka 18 february say bhi bura haal ho ga , Inshallah ho ga.
Bibi kalay kartoot jab musharraf aur Q league kay saamnay aain gay phir tv pay aana aur apnay musharraf kaygun gaana .Phir dakhain gay.
Haan akhir main aik muhawara “Jab cheunti kay marnay kay din qareeb atay hain tou us kay par nikal aatay hain”
Tumhara musharraf ibrat ka nishaan banay gi . Lal Masjid ki waja say , shortcut aziz ki waja say , america nawazi ki waja say , Dr. Aafia ki waja say . Tumhara musharraf insaani smuggler hay .
Let’s see how far you and your father go after musharraf.
Good bye good riddance
This message is dedicated to all those who have been rude and obnoxious about my defence for the President.
In life I believe in consistency and loyalty to the STATE. My opinion is obviously that President is best for the State versus all those leaders who are selling Pakistan for their own power politics under the garb of democracy. Clearly not everyone agrees with me! But that doesnt mean I loose my belief system. I will fight for what I think is right and thats my right. Just like its your right to express what you feel. Clearly my beliefs are based on certain information and yours on your information. Time and history will show who was on the right side of history and democracy.
Plus I also realize that when the going gets tough then not many people have the courage to stand up for their beliefs. And at this time those who do stand up and fight for what is perhaps not looking so popular, are targeted with all sorts of nasty lies and comments. In my opinion, its best to ignore and not get affected by such yellow dirt.
Daughter of soil name gives me the courage to fight for what I believe is right. You might not agree, but I have shown tremendous tolerance by publishing all the vicious comments thrown at me and for responding.
Dear Marvi
Respose to your coment regarding Dr. Afia. I think every body is innocent unless otherwise proved guilty. Same should be the case of Dr. Afia. And if she is innocent then who is responsible for all the misery she faced. So my advice is do not deviate from the basic principles of humanity.God bless our country and give courage to our leaders to say truth.
salam
pakistan ki siasat main ajj kal hulchul hai sadar sahab key sub khilaf hai oun per ilzamat ki bochar hai ajj pppp sadar ko aieni sadar nahi man rahi jab who asmbli sey vote ley rahey they tuo yeh log kue khamosh bethy they mery kheal sey sadr sahab ko khud tmam jujes ko bahal kar dena chahey kue key agar yeh khud doob rahey hai tuo sub ko sath daboo dey .pehli addalat main NRO key khilaf case chal raha hai our waha in key khilaf fisla aey gaa phir na zardari hoga na main sahab meanoo meanooo karey gey. yaa sadar sahab ja tuo rahey hai amrica ney bhi jawab dey dia hai abb bahdroo ki trah amrica key khilaf sub kuch pakistani awam ko bta dena chahey. abb fata our bajoor main ko karvai kar raha hai yeh jawab kon dey gaa our hukmat sey kon pouchey gaaaaaaaaaaaa waslam
What is your stand on missing person. Do you think Musharraf who handed over these people whether they were criminal or terrorists from pakistan to USA was legitimate. I donot see your stand or your party stand on this issue related to Musharraf, I . Musharraf has agreed he has done that. So is it legal or as per constitution of Pakistan.(remember the oath)
what are the rights of Woman you are fighting for. Can you tell this forum what are the ten things or rights you are fighting for Pakistani woman.
What you think should be done that not only our woman has maximum rights and equal rights and yet out society do not sway to western culture and moral value. How you plan to do that.
I really want to see your perspective on this issue or if you have delivered some speach on the floor or off the floor do let me know.
A O A,
Respected Madam Marvi.
I hope you will be enjoying in the best of your health
I saw you quite a few times on different TV shows,really you have an impressive personalty plus a very sweet voice Mashallah…..but why some people always try to defend a militry dictator….!! !! !!
why….?????????
To all,
Knitted strategies, underlying realities and power politics, I feel sorry when fields are crowded rather over-crowded with players of little relevant capabilities. Very first time, when I had a look of this weblog, I thought it was going to turn the focus to real words, circumventing personal issues and party biases. We worry a lot for what we do not and/or can not do anything. We do have horrendous issues than victimising or abusing the organiser of this blog. Let the politicians to play seek and hide and try to use her presence in an effective way by suggesting for the best.
To Ms. Memon,
Whether we learn from our past or not, we as a nation always remember ruthless mishaps including the one we have witnessed regarding human trade and it’s what Mr. President unconsciously/mistakenly presented in his untimely endeavour of no literal place (It’s what I am saying after going through deeply). I donot wanna portrait a picture, but the fact is you inherit a legacy. Though politics and politician have no definite doctrine system to drive them, however we do atleast, with all differences of opinions I do believe in your personal sincerity when you speak about Kashmir and Northern issues, missing persons, education and “awaam”. You talked about “Belief System”, it demands a lot and irrespective of orientation of such a system, once you have, you should abide by the rules of game. Interesting is to find a giant elephant helpless when tied with a rope, which he could break easily. It’s what they call “Belief System”. I am sure you had heard of this myth, I will send you anyways.
Hope with all these personal allegations, you would stand there firmly with what you hear when you are alone. It’s a peak time for a lot of street gossips, hope as the clouds get thinner and fainted, you would be around/with us to think about us, the “awaam”.
salam,
I have seen you on many talk shows and is very impressed by your logical talk on different issues, but I dont feel it good for the country that talent like you is with that political lobby which has always served the establishment, generals and anti democratic and anti peoples politics. I would like to see you on the forfront of democratic struggle to make our country free from Martial laws, emergencies, black laws and expliotations of the people and small nations. Thanks.
Rahmatullah Turk,
Matiari, Sindh.
I do agree regarding your tolerance of publishing all comments – and this is what makes a good parliamentarian.
I agree that the PPP is in no way better than Musharraf but then Musharraf is in no way better than PPP.. so basically they’re the same.. power-hungry people..
I’m just not in favour of a military dictator ruling a country with a force of a gun.. and someone who is loyal to the STATE understands that the STATE never benefits from a military dictator ruling on people – Mush may have done the right thing to throw out Nawaz’s govt. but he should’ve held elections where a president chosen by people should have been elected (and please dont remind me of that pre-planned thing called ‘referendum’ that mush designed to elect himself).
You are doing a great job defending the President. I like it that you come in well prepared with your facts and then use that to skewer your oponents when they start babbling about how nothing was accomplished in the past 8 years.
You’re going to go far lady. Please don’t switch sides, go to the dark side and turn into a Sherry Rehman. We need young role models like you.
Constructive criticism: Please lose the dupatta on the head. What’s up with that? It reminds me of the phony “Islamic Period” under Zia and Nawaz.
Salam
Its a breath of fresh air listening to you on different talkshows on different channels.Believe me madam you are a nightmare for most of the politicians of Pakistan.I have been recording interviews of many politicians through out my career.even the one which did no go on air,believe me your are a leader in the making and i mean a leader no less than Benazir.
When political parties come under stress,most of the socalled leaders run to the party which is in power,your commitment to your party is adorable.God bless u
I am impressed! and now I have a soft corner for Chauhdries just because of you. Its really amazing to see our politicians on internet having their own blog. Just want to request you one simple thing. We really love our country and hope same from all of the politicians out there. We all know that all of them do corruptions, but please not at the cost of Pakistan’s sovereignty.
We might forgive everything, but we can not forgive anyone who will try to danger the sovereignty of Pakistan for filling his banks. I Love every Pakistani if he behaves like a Pakistani.
I wish you all the best in your Political career, hope to see you leading us towards more progressive and bright Pakistan.
Dear All
Every body is speaking against the president; this is all our present government wants from the people of Pakistan. To divert the attention from the actual problems, government and the allies are quite successful. Is Mr. President advised the government not to decrease the price of petroleum products, and continue the war against terror in northern area. Even he is responsible for the law and order situation in the country. He is responsible for the poor sewerage system of Lahore. And I think more rains are his fault. Our so called government needs an escape goat to put all blames on it. But the fact is that they are all inefficient and liar and greedy. We the people can’t do any thing except pray to the God.
God bless our country and save it from these ………………………..
Mohtarma Marvi Memon, Few years ago I heard you in a function held at Pakistan Institute of International Affairs as I was there being a life member of the institute. Discussion was about immigrants. I found you a very talented and informative, comparetivly in a very young age. Later on I came to USA on scholarship for higher studies of intellectual Property Rights and presently living in Orlando, state of Florida.Although your party lost government but your work and talent is highly appreciated every where. Please keep up for a good cause of the wefare of depressed people of Pakistan. Thanking you, I remain very sincere to you, Sincerely your, KHWAJA AFTAB ALI, Advocate & I.P. Attorney
Dear Miss Marvi,
it is useless to cry over split milk.
you said your party sending some representative to Help Dr.Afia.I just want to ask where were your party leaders,when she was taken away.who had sold her To USA for dollars.Who will blame you for that PML Q leaders or Mr.Musharaf.you have third option to blame.
Then how do you justify this act of these people.so you have some sense you should leave one of them.
So Madam now what you will be says? Finally END of Dictator’s why not he came to parliament and face the impeachment because he knew this time if he goes for impeachment anything can be happen with him. But I appreciate him that he accepted that he also did some mistakes very bravado man but should accountable otherwise everyone will try to do wrong and say SORRY we are all people of Pakistan could not bear the excuses because its already too much Mush. Should be accountable and punish and we want to freeze all his assets and give it to back in the account of Pakistan and please show some strength to the govt. and play your role as a powerful opposition. Because there is also too much BIG and WHITE ELEPHANT in the GOVT. every buddy knows who are waiting to sale out our country…. May Allah SAFE our country from ZARDARI. And his followers AMEEN
Regards
Now musharraf is gone while u were saying that he will not resign. what u say abt that beside saying that he did it for nation.
Why he wasted these 4-5 months n put our economy in turmoil
my name is Shoaib Khan and work as an IT Manager here in Australia for a company. First of all i would like to saulute you for the hard work you doing for pakistan with your body and sole.
i am amazed of your boldness, speeches, facing media, talk shows and best of the best you are supporter of Musharraf who is my ideal, and who grew Pakistan in last 9 years. i wish he was there till the end. but unfortunatly we live in a country which is full of corrupt people and corrupt, illitrate politician like Nawaz Sharif and Zardari.
i also read about you getting emotional on Musharraf resignation. i can understand your pain for the country.
i wish you all the best along with Musharraf and your party. and i hope you guys come back and save the country from these looters.
one more thing i don’t know how to say but you can assume that i am your greatest fan in the world.
Allah Khafiz
Last comment on 14th aug??? I am wondering peope has already forgotten Marvi:)
Well, i just came to share your grief about your master. Sad day but i hope you will not get disappointed and keep competeing in elections and we will get an opportunity to interact with you through this forum.Let’s see!!!!!
Why do not ak your so called popular MUSHaraff to come and join PML and stands in elections???
I get bored with political talk and usually avoid watching TV talk shows which are all stereotyped. However I watch your shows with interest. You are very articulate, logical and speak with sincerity and passion. You can express your point of view in a few words, which is quality of a good speaker. Being a childhood friend of your father, I have known you as a baby and as a school girl. Let me say you had germs of a good speaker from the very early age. I am sure you have a very bright future in Pakistani Politics.
Now a confession. Although I liked you very much, you never earned my respect because I am against dictators and all those who support them. But now I salute you because you have stood with a fallen man when most of his closest allies have left him. This human value I admire the most. Keep it up.
Thankyou to all those who feel I showed loyalty despite tough times. And special note for Mr Arshad who thinks President wasted 4 months of nation. It was coalition govt who put country through waste of time impeachment process which proved damaging for our economy. Time will tell all Pakistanis the coalition govt’s real motives.
i m kayoom from merciless territory of one of the most familiar part of pakistan.i m simply graduate,nowadays i m on the way to competative exams.actualy when i cam to know abt ur comments regarding the price hiking,inflation at a high,truely speaking i realised tht yet there is existence of a such sor of women who devoted herself for the moral right of people.it really hurted me lot wen i was told abt the resignation of president.i want to ask one question tht why the members of ur party r dispursed?
In Beijing, world celebrates human achievement while in Islamabad we are stuck with politics
I wish our people and our leaders would understand that having political differences should not stand in the way of appreciating progress
Thanks to President Musharraf export revenue more than doubled, foreign direct investment increased from a meager $1 billion to $8 billion, and the Karachi stock exchange was widely touted as one of the best performing markets in the world.
This is a man who gave Pakistan a free television news culture and oversaw the freest election in our history.
This is a manufactured political crisis that will embolden Pakistan’s ill-wishers and will sadly assure foreign investors that Pakistan is no place for their business.
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan—At the dawn of the Beijing Olympics, talk of Pakistan’s chances at field hockey glory have taken a back seat to the de-facto national sport: Politics.
Beyond the hype, it’s time to take a moment and examine the situation. It seems as if the nearly divorced coalition has decided to stick together in pursuit of the President’s impeachment.
One would be convinced of their genuine commitment, if not for the fact that the last such joint press briefing was to announce the Murree Declaration, now defunct.
But it’s important to look behind this smokescreen. After all, why would it take marathon talks if there weren’t serious problems behind the scenes?
Farooq Naik, the law minister, was kicked out of the talks—twice.
According to a report in the Daily Times, Shahbaz Sharif felt that Naik could not be trusted amidst the Sindh High Court judges’ fiasco, and asked Zardari to remove him from the negotiations not only in the Prime Minister’s House, but also at Zardari House.
I suppose it’s acceptable in political circles to ask your host to kick out his own guest.
In any case, a draft was agreed upon and presented to the nation for all to see. On the face of it, the case seems compelling for the common man: Musharraf has acted unconstitutionally, is responsible for the economic crisis, and he must go in order for democracy to flourish. A legal expert would be needed to examine the complex constitutional question, such as if the PCOs of 1999 and 2000 (both validated by the Supreme Court) are fair game for impeachment.
As for the economy and the democracy argument, things are a bit clearer.
It is hard to dismiss the vast economic improvements of Pakistan since 1999, and to float it as possible grounds for impeachment is laughable. Almost every major macro-economic indicator points to the economic turnaround of the past decade. Even if the 20-fold increase in foreign reserve levels can be whisked away as a byproduct of foreign aid, what about the results? On the business side, export revenue more than doubled, foreign direct investment increased from a meager $1 billion to $8 billion, and the Karachi stock exchange was widely touted as one of the best performing markets in the world. The National Commission for Human Development was conceived, helping achieve poverty reduction, a rise in literacy, and a 600% increase in funds for development programs. I wish our people and our leaders would understand that having political differences should not stand in the way of appreciating progress and pursuing our national interests; the economy being supreme.
As for democracy, it seems ironic that an elected President who oversaw the fairest elections in Pakistan’s recent history is being cited as a hindrance for democracy by two unelected politicians.
But even more important is the fact that the duly elected Prime Minister, as well as the leading party’s president (also an elected member of parliament) were both not present in the talks.
Makhdoom Amin Fahim has gone as far as to publicly separate himself from the Government, denounce the march to impeachment, and plead the Government to take notice of a very serious and rapidly deteriorating security and economic situation. He supposedly has even met with PML-Q leadership, which must have political analysts grabbing their calculators to re-analyze the number game in the event of some treasury members abstaining from an impeachment vote.
Critics of President Bush often rightfully say that the war in Iraq was a “war of choice.” The impeachment saga is no different. In the face of unprecedented security threats in the tribal belt, with growing reports of foreign interference to destabilize the country, and an ever-worsening economy, this manufactured political crisis will embolden Pakistan’s ill-wishers, and will sadly assure foreign investors that Pakistan is no place for their business.
No matter how impeachment goes, no one seems to win, as Pakistan is definitely the one to lose. Let’s hope at least our Olympic team can change that.
Indeed, yesterday was a very sad day for all Pakistan and President lovers. We have been deprived of a great leader in the name of democracy. But let me say, all it happens because of we silent majority who never cast its vote. If this silent majority cast its vote in Feb 2008 election, the situation might be different. He was the man who have a vision on each and every problem of the nation whether it is water, electricity, education and health etc. He took the economy on its peek and its benefits were supposed to tickle down to the poor during this five years which unfortunately have been given to the corrupt political leaders in the name of democracy. Democracy in Pakistan itself is joke, where people doesn’t know for whom they are casting their votes due to illiteracy. They have been asked just to put the stamp on such and such election symbol; where the vote is casted not on the basis of parties manifestos, but on the basis of different affiliations i.e. religious, baradri, under the influence of Sardar, Vadera, Jagirdar and so on. That’s why, during last 61 years, we are having politicians from the same segments of the society for whom the politics is business and trade who either way whether they come into the power or remain in opposition, make money and accumulate their bank balances and assets. Their parties are their properties i.e. PPPP, PML(N), PML(Q), APN, JI(F) of their family and run by the family members only one after the other. The history reveals that only 30 to 40% registered voters cast their votes which is divided into number of political parties. Keeping in view the influence of aforementioned segments, official and unofficial riggings, the party who gets hardly 10% votes claims the majority party having overwhelming majority for forming the government. The remaining 70%/60% registered voters who do not cast their vote and unregistered voters are given no value and its impact is totally ignored. The dilemma of our nation is that we were sleeping on 13th August, 1947 and when woke up next morning we got a new country called Pakistan. If we go through the history, we will find that only a handful personnel from the existing Pakistan region took the part in Independence movement. That’s why majority of us and especially our leaders don’t have national spirit. We and our leaders always keep in our minds our own interest and benefits only. Whatever has happened with President Musharaf provides us an opportunity to think about the lake of sincere leadership, our political environment, the character and attitude of our politicians and above all is this the true democracy? Our leaders are making the general public fool in the name of democracy and enhancing their wealth and assets. Now the destiny of our nation and country is in the hands two unelected corrupt leaders. President well said in his last address to the nation “Pakistan Ka Khuda Hafiz”. I strongly believe that without eliminating feudal and bradri systems, increasing literacy level and cultivating national spirit we cannot have a true democracy. It seems only my dream since the power brokers in our country can never do it or allow to to it. In fact, it seems that our country is in the grip of different kind of mafias i.e. politicians, drug, land, food/grains mafia, stock exchange mafia etc and they are playing their respective roles for their own interest and gains. General public cannot do any thing to get any relief or to get rid of them unless and until there should be a bloody revolution in which at least 20/50 lakhs should be killed. There is no other option to save the country.
sorry me itna para likha nahe hon jo aapse english me mokhatib hosako is leye aapse urdo me apni awaz pohanch raha hon .
marvi sister ham 15 loog yahan hen kuwait me jismese 7 loog musharraf ko nahe manty magar ham 10 loog musharraf ke bohat sakht hami hen eak bat jo aapse kehna he wo ye jab aapko bolty howe dekhty hen na dil khush hojata he aap yaqeen nahe karogee ke lagta he wo sab baten jo ham kehna chahty hen aap ki zabaan se ada hoty hen .hamid mir ke progaram capitaltalk wah kia bat aap ne kis tarhan se sadar e mumlikat difa kia he baji aap yaqeen nahe karoge ous be zamir insaan ko achchy tarhan aapne chup karwaya or jo doshmane pakistan they unko bhe sahe tarhan chup karwaya ( we all prawod of really u the best spoter of musharraf & pakistan thnx sister) or akheer me ham sab ki doa he khuda aap ko ishe taerhan such bolne ki himmad de (ameen)we ham loog aapko shehzadi bolaty hen jab bhe aap TV pe aty ho ham sab kam choor ke aapko sunne aty hen eak such jo aapko bhe manna parega wo ye aapki team me aap or mushahid hussain ke sewa sab bekar hen na bol sakty hen na samjha sakty he na he apne muaqqaf ka difa karsakty hen .kheer aap hamary himmad ho or hamry zuban ho jo ham yahan sochty he wo sab aap wahan bolty ho thnxxxxxxxxxx
apna bohat khayal rakhna
((_()_)) hafiz
I am deeply shocked to hear your views on current Pakistan politics. Looking at your educational background, one would think that you will come up with ideas which are liberal, democratic and invite others to think. But unfortunately you have sided yourself with someone who has caused major destruction to the pakistan politics and society. Future generation will never forgive what Mufharaf has done in his 9 years as the most powerfull person in pakistan’s establishment. Its shame to see such a young person like you wasting her energies for a cause which has failed time and again. I can only wish you best of luck, may be you can use your energies in more positive way. You could have done (and may have done already) much better without your father’s influance which led you to the become MNA and that is from PML Q as well……what a shame…
what do you think there is no liability on president mushraff for his previous odds done to pakistan. Following this prcedence all the criminals under trials in various courts should also be freed what about the downing of atlantic aircraft by india in the face of kargil. your comments please.
Dear Marvi,
I think you got wrong agenda with wrong people. I don’t know but when defend Dictator Musharaf, i feel pitty for you.
I have heard you on TV “Shows”. Frankly speaking your talk is not that much effective. You always cry. hmmm.
I hope you will get some knowledge with time.
Bi bi musharaf. May God take the revenge from you of slaughring thousands of innocent people!
Marvi Weldone I have seen you on interviews on Pakistan television shows, and you are doing a difficult and excellent job as an opposition member. Keep it up!
Again I have some comments swearing at me for defending ‘dictator’ and other comments which express support for President Musharraf.
I was sitting in the Assembly yesterday and looking around myself… mostly (not completely)where ever I look everyone is wanting iktidaar and perks. We discussed tourism yesterday but the burning issues of food, energy, security, extremism get left behind. Some Advisor will stand up and glorify his achievements in one small area ignoring larger picture. Another will get up and blame it all on 8 years!
I have raised all the real issues but they dont come to forefront because govt pushes them out of agenda and when I tried to link ..how can you expect tourism to increase when extremism sectarian violence during your 5 months is on rise, I got told not relevant. Very frustrating.
I have also come to another conclusion… those who see good in President Musharraf’s era cannot change their minds and those who see bad in it cannot change their minds (just yet). Its best if we use this forum for solutions of above issues.
This morning the chap at the petrol pump I go to regularly, at the shop inside, spoke up after months; saying you ask good questions in the assembly but you get no answers. I was happy to see that the debates are watched. But saddened to see the helplessness. He is as convinced as I am that the real issues are not being debated and people play politics for wrong reasons as well as the fact that this discussion in assembly doesnt put any binding pressure for resolution even if real issues are discussed. So much for parliament’s real supremacy.
I am also asked by some why should we believe you when all politicians have failed us. My answer to that is I am trying very hard to push right agenda for discussion and solution when all of what the forces are trying to do is musical chairs. The real success rate is not the talkshows or the speeches, its getting solutions to the real problems resolved by govt. That is an uphill task. The silent majority must help us. I never give up and I dont like despondency. But I am a realist.
If you say you care about the country pls help me get solutions to the real issues implemented by this govt; by writing solutions and ideas. It doesnt matter whether you hate my leadership or like my leadership. Solutions to real issues pls. Govt has wasted enough time horsetrading and pushing vendetta politics first.
Madam
It is very refreshing to have explored a website that is being run by a living “on the job” parlimentarian.
I have not been able to read all of your replies and comments but even then it is provides solace.
Since you are an educated woman and coming from a noble background we expect you to do nobler things.
Here are some half cooked pointers:
You should try to make education, healthcare and social justice your prime targets to acheive. These are burning issues and have received no importance from the leadership that is worthy and revolutionizing the affairs prevelant in this country. For starters look for cheap construction solutions for 2/3 room basic health units in rural areas 9this can also go for housing) where people are dying just beacuse of insufficient health services. Provide special funds for the “real poor” and smart kids to acheive scholorships. One way would be to hold competitive exams for all classes all over pakistan for kids belonging tocertain income group. There could be a model tests run at various locations, shouldn’t be difficult.
I am sure you have plenty of issues at hand and workin on those but at the same time lets make this site a home turf for floating genuinely realistic solutions to facilitate for basic needs of all.
Hidden Activities Of Mr. Zard……..Aari & Mr. Shar…..If
Peoples Party’s so called Chairman Mr. Aasif Ali Zardari, is looking for an exit from his party, from Pakistan’s present mess and from active politics,Most probably, people of Pakistan might get sudden news that Mr. Zardari is seriously ill and would be away for som time from active politics,(and that ’some time’ might be forever) .in fact, Aasif Ali Zardari and Mr. Nawaz Sharif are virtually dead, gone, bifurcated,Pakistan’s some channels (so-called) anchor mafia and press are keeping them alive, trying to infuse life in their dead bodies, Everyday some popular and experienced pesons Newspapers put some headlines to boost the marale of the public. in fact, some (so-called) press and media’s ugly survivel is that of Mr.Zardar and Mr.Sharif,to keep the hot issue alive, like (under observation) Mr. Iftikhar Chaudhary, who is History now,Aitezaz Ahsan, would you bet your Bar-at-Law degree on that?ZARDARI BUSY CHECKING HIS BANK ACCOUNTSThe so-called Co-Chairman of peoples part has made than a dozen visits to London, Dubai and other parts of the world on record(no one knows how many hidden,secret visits elsewhere) after the assassination his wife.The Peoples Party’s loudspeaker like Sherry Rehman, (Sher Bano) Farhatullah Babar and many other use to giving justification that, Zardari’s these trips to the public through the some so-called media by saying that since ,Zardari is playing the part of both the mother and the father to his children after the (sad) assassination of Great Benazir Bhutto, so he has to be away to take care of his children, Bullshit!
They are no more children, They have attain pubirty, They are big kid, teenagers, grown up in the West. Aasif Zardari does not need to baby sit them or push feeders in their mouths, Thease are lame excuse. Zardari goes abroad ever now and then to check his bank accounts and count his properties,thans to Presiden Pervez Musharraf’s NRO! Pervez Musharraf and his alies would die deaths that would be an example for the world.and very sorry, Let me tell you that all of we and our political leaders are ugly,corrupt,freaky, stinking, and haggard, these race of we and leaders would die miserably and helplessly in leprosy,heart attackes,cancer, diabetes,HIV, and other painful .HUNDRED(100)days of senseless and empty slogans1, How many times Nawaz Sharif and Aasif Zardari had meetings in Lahore,Islamabad, Bhurban, Rawalpindi and Dubai and London.etc?2, How many times Aasif Zardari and Nawaz Sharif left for Dubai,London on record and secret visitis other destinations?3, Who is the man in power.PM Gilani or Governing party’s so-called Co-Chairman?4, The Costs of each and every utilities soaring,Like Gasoline has juggled at 70 to 78 PKR, Dollar has jumped to 74.89 Rs agains PKR.5, The innocent 99.99% of the peoples of Pakistan have been pushed towards pain, just empt, baseless, egoistic,dirtful claims and statements by these leaders,which are being heard to masses, Aasif Zardari repeatedly says Shaheed this, Shaheed that, jeay Bhutto, jeay Benazir, President House would be echoing with the slogans of Jeay Bhutto,nothing else? President would be the party’s worker. all the lollypops, drama are being played with the struggled workers, all Bullshit, my……..? (advance sorry)6, Believe us that Aasif Zardari, Nawaz Sharif, Pervez Musharraf and other political shungens have no interet in Great Pakistan, or Peoples or their own parties as wel, but Mr. Iftikhar Chaudhary,, all otherrs and Aasif Zardari just taking care of bank accounts and properties all over the world.
7, Zardari did not choose to become a Prime Minister in the first place, as he wanted privacy and confidentiality to organize his bank accounts and properties all over the world.a little bird has told us that as soon as Aasif Zardari is free, he would kick out the Yousuf Raza Gilani from PM House.8, The man known as Mr.Ten percent(in recent past) knows that waiting for 8-9 years for Bilawal is along time, when Bilawal will finish his education and get training to enter politics, not to mention that the sword of the real Bhuttos hangs on his head. A day is about to come when Aasif Zardari has to leave the fake combine slogan of Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, when the real Bhuttos move for the Kill.A piece of our Humble advice for Namaz Sharif Learn a lesson from Saddam Hussain’s breaking neck!……………
To anum1 (August 20, 2008 at 10:53 am) and Salman Mansoor (August 20, 2008 at 11:24 am)
I wish I could comment/rectify the facts about KSE, visionary leadership, freedom of information media, mega projects bla bla bla in last nine years, however I feel we should respect to the sentiments of Ms. Marvi Memon (August 21, 2008 at 2:31 am). She is “absolutely” right when she mentioned
“If you say you care about the country pls help me get solutions to the real issues implemented by this govt; by writing solutions and ideas.”
To Ms. Marvi Memon
We have following pending questions; pls get some time to address these. Give your personal opinion, even though very briefly. I fully concur, these questions have nothing to do towards the betterment of existing situation but I am sure it would bridge the gap and prove as a deposit of trust between you and your readers, ultimately a way forward to a cordial and healthy discussion about the real issues.
1. By Dr. Rizwan (July 31, 2008 at 12:57 pm) about an injured/ paralyzed 3rd year MBBS student of Ayub Medical College, Abbottabad, who was compelled to abandon her studies by the administration of the college due to tragic mishap.
2. By Nasir (August 11, 2008 at 8:31 am ) “Would you please tell us what is the actual price of oil without adding any tax”.
3. By tehmoor (August 13, 2008 at 4:26 pm ) “What is your stand on missing person. Do you think Musharraf who handed over these people whether they were criminal or terrorists from pakistan to USA was legitimate”.
4. By tehmoor (August 13, 2008 at 4:26 pm ) “what are the rights of Woman you are fighting for.”
5. By abdul qayoom (August 20, 2008 at 8:18 am) “why the members of ur party r dispursed?”
6. saeed kayani (August 20, 2008 at 2:47 pm) Why not Mr. Musharraf to put forward for the trial for his actions like red mosque, trading of human beings, violent exercise of force in northern areas, house arrest of judges and what about Akbar Bugti (late)? If indemnity to Mr. Musharraf then why not to all the criminal facing trials at the moment?
7. NSS-Yesterday I had a look of 31 members announced by Dr. Mirza for Kashmir committee. It was bizarre not to see you in the list while Mr. Nakai and Begum Atiya etc were there from PML. I am sure Kashmir issue is one of your strengths and for such a sensitive issue, we needed a young, motivated and determined person like yourself. Were the members picked by Mrs. Speaker or forwarded by your leadership?
I hope Asif Zardari is reading all this and has something to say. If not please publish his email so we can all write to him.
Sad I am. Sad sad sad. But why do not the people in the PPP believe in these fact so clearly put up by you. So much money. so much money in the hands of only one person. he should be able to buy the ammendments in the constitution. He should be able to buy the presidency. He should be able to buy the restoration of the judges. He can make Basha Dam on his own with a little help from the Sharif brothers.
Why does he want more money. The following are someof the rumours circulating.
1. A jeweller called Kasuria in Karachi has been threatened by Zardari to extort 50 million dollars.
2.Mr. Mansha of the MCB was phoned while he was flying on his private plane to write off 28 crore loan of a friend.
3.The new Islamabad Airport construction contract has been given to a friendly company in a backdated agreement to steal money
4. Redundant and useless submarines are being purchased in collaboration with the Naval chief.
5. Useless and discredited people are being posted as ambassadors and to important positions in PIA.
I use earplugs if i have to go to a dinner or a marriage funtion because society is getting into a frenzy about Asif Zardari,s corruption.
Dear, I acknowledge and appreciate your sincere endeavour to enlighten us with, most likely, the facts about Mr. Zardari and rest of the political giants. Having said that, in connection with your previous response, I have my reservations when you expressed about trickily justified and deceitful claims of prosperity during previous regime. It’s indeed an awesome hobby to surfing internet and to find the rumours/facts are on finger tips of everyone who knows how to play. We educated blokes-because of you guys, privilege is mine - should use this forum with positive spirit and let the burning controversial realities for the blog (s) you referred. I already have requested
“leave the cynical attitude and point scoring tactics for “Gladiators” of the political spheres”
and I am sure Ms. Marvi Memon would have something to comment in the light of her comments (August 5, 2008 at 11:37 am)
“Party Leadership must be respected ……. Leadership bashing in the emails I have received by some of you is not productive activity. I believe there is good in most individuals and one must learn from leadership the good. One must zoom into good and ignore the rest, in general in life. That gets you positive approach”
So we are there with all our skills and abilities for our nation, are we???
Take care and keep praying
ALLAH HAFIZ
P.S: By no means, it explains my affiliation with PPPP. I am certain of highlighting much more about Mr. Zardari and any other politician than you mentioned, and believe me I am copiously vocal at this on a right forum.
I think you are good, rather master at English, and might have impressed Marvi Memon by using good enough adjectives, mostly sounding negative, and jargons. I think you have left no person good for this country.
Why this forum is being misused by posting long,irrelevant and good-for-nothing stuff on this blog. I think we must suggest somthing positive and constructive to Marvi that can help her drive this poor nation out of this chaotic situation.
I am saying this as an impartial and unbiased Pakistani. Hope that it may be considered in the better interest of the nation.
Thanks Mr.Salmam Mansoor for putting all answerable questions together to ease MS Marvi to answer one by one.
Mr. Raja Ashraf (minister for water & power) said the load shading will be reduced to 3 hrs from 30th august 2008.would you please ask the honorable minister to explain how it will happen. And if it was a political promise, then my advice to all such ministers is “please keep your big mouth shut”
Ilama Iqbal says” HUM KO TU MUYASSAR NAHEEN MATEE KA DIYA BHEE, GHAR PEER KA BIJLI K CHRAGHOON SAY HAY ROSHAN.
Prime minister’s house in Multan is exempt from load shading.
Please tell the people of Pakistan how much this parliament costs to the nation with out any out put.
Dear country men
This is very critical and crucial time for our country. So I request to all Pakistani to pray. May Allah the almighty save our country from evil designs of our politicians? Zardari should not be the president of Pakistan.
Ohhh My GOD!!!
i will say only one thing and request too all peoples plz do pray for our country Because…
Dua Samjhloo! ya Samajhloo Isko Gali Chaman ka DHUSMAN bana hay MALI,,,,, Now in this stitutation we are looking the role of Opposition what they will do does they will support to Mr.10% or does they will do something else to get out all of us from this worse condition may Allah safe our country Ameen
……and i thought heres a people’s blog where one can insinuate according to one’s expertise about things to be done. There are many blogs and really interactive ones where one can post “political stuff” and get the feedback. I dont think marvi’s e-mails are meant for that.
Anyhow i totally agree to Mr Manssor since there are other rumors too but the point is who cares!! When not even a single soul is honest and true to their purpose and count their efforts to rise in life more than Allah’s blessing upon them this is what happens, they think that they are demigods born to rule and thast shirk, unpardonable sin! I hope better sense prevails in all factions of PML and soon-to-happen all factions of PPP.
Madam,
U very ritely said that one can not changed his views abt Musharraf , those who support will continue so n vise versa.
I give credit to u for providing a plateform to give feedback to an MNA.Maybe some of them implemented .
so two penny from my side (maybe these are already known to u)
Problem : Real estate Price increase
Cause : Investment is done solely to wait for increase in price and hence get return
Impact : Prices are getting up and up while common man can not buy a piece of land to make home.
Solution :
Put multiple tax on residential land so that one shud buy only when one wants to utilize it.
Put additional factor when one piece of land is sold with in 6 months so to discourage resale of land files
Result :
Money which is invested on real estate will move to other productive areas like industry or stock market.
Increase in revenue
Can anyone let me know who is this is NSS???? I remembered i heard in a TV show Mr. Zardari friend were there and he said “Zardari Sahib should keep in his MIND now there is no Baynazir who will bring him out from prisons” so what does it means. As far as i understand the meaning of this do crystal clear politics and think about long term not only short term to make a money and run…. Just think
Regards
FARHAN KHAN
ASSLAMALAKUM.
DEAR MARVI MEMON .
WAS AMAZED TO SAW YOU IN EVENNING PROGRAME SPEAKING SO BOLDLY ,CLEARLY,STRAIGHT FORWARDLY AMONG THE CORRUPT LEADERS OF OTHER PARTIES.WAS JUST MORE AMAZED TO SEE THOSE CORRUPT MANS WERE NOT HAVING THE POWER TO TALK WITH YOU.I AM NEVER IMPRESSED FROM ANY BODY TILL THIS DATE BUT NOW I GOT AND THATS FROM YOU.WELL DONE AND KEEP IT UP.WISH TO SEE YOU ON THE SEATS OF PM’S AND PRESIDENTS.MAY GOD GIVE YOU MORE COURAGE AND SUCCESS AND MORE POWER TO SPEAK SO HONESTLY.AND AT LAST SORRY I COPY SOME OF YOUR PICTURES FROM YOUR SITE BECAUSE YOU ARE NOW MY IDEAL.SORRY AND FORGIVE ME.OK.
ALLAH HAFIZ.
FARHAN KHAN
SAKHAKOT MALAKAND AGENCY.
On 14Th August 2008, my friend called me on my cell and asked me to come to Pearl Continental Peshawar and I was literally completely shattered with the events that took place there.
As any other Pakistani, on 14th august at such places one can only expect celebration, patriotic numbers, jubilance and of course Pakistani Flags every where But No Sir, the “COMIC GROUP” by the name of “JANG GROUP” was holding a seminar and ladies and gentleman look what was the topic for that seminar QUAID AUR IQBAL KA KHWAB; SADAR KA MOWAKHIZA??????????????????????????????
And now the list of speakers, whom were there as the “Intellects” of N.W.F.P, none out of those 10 were wearing Pakistani flags on their chest and only two bothered to say Jashn-e-Azadi Mubarik at the end of their speeches, where in their speeches all of them did the “in thing” these days which is called Musharraf Bashing and they started crossing limit when they started talking against ISI and MI as if they are talking about KHAD and RAW. And at that point when Haji Adeel and Latif Afridi started mudslinging Quaid-e-Azam and Allama Mohd. Iqbal, my friend and me, we both lost our patience but both decided to blast later.
Anyways me and my friend stored a lot of ammo for the question answer session but we were shocked to see that there was none !!!!!!
Well as we couldn’t do anything about it, so to condole ourselves in unison we said Maybe Next Time.
My friend had few Pakistani badges with him and he said lets just give them, these to wear, as they may not have enough time to buy one, so when we went to the SAHAFI sahib editor of JANG Peshawar and gave him the badge, he couldn’t utter a single word out of sheer embarrassment had a slight smile on his face and took it shamelessly then we went to some other panelists and somewhat their reactions were the same, but what happened with one of the gentleman there, I shall never forget that for the rest of my life, he was non other than President Peshawar Bar Latif Afridi, the champion of the RAW, PML-N and ASMA JEHANGIR architected war of “TILTED JUDICARY”,,,,,,, HE CATEGORICALLY REFUSED TO WEAR THE PAKISTANI FLAG AND SAID “MAIN ISS PAR SOCHONGA”?????
And those who don’t know he is a party member of Awami National Party (ANP), any ways later in the day I was wondering that what the hell is this, the Chief Minister of this province is from this damn party who badmouths our premiere intelligence agencies and disrespects the Founding Father and the National Poet, also disregards the National Flag??? In whose hand we are?????
From that day onwards I realized that there is just only one problem of Pakistan and that is we have mostly been into the wrong hands, we’ve mostly being ruled by Thugs, choors, Looters and such filthy unpatriotic rascals, who don’t know that what is the place of Quaid-e-Azam and Allama Iqbal.
Only two leaders are only there to name who really did wanted to do something for this Half Uneducated and Half Educatedly Uneducated population, which Habib Jalib has termed as “10crore gadhay” (now they are 16crore), who are basically “Jehal Ka Nichor”……
Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto was a peoples champ but at the end it was this moment which swallowed him, he also ordered a Military Operation in Baluchistan and after the formation of the constitution it was he who did the first few amendments in it.
And at the end of his rule he was termed as Sharabi, Kababi and so on……
And the same was with Former President Musharraf, he took the Pakistan into the Next 11, turned around the shattered Pakistani Economy, healed the tarnished Pakistani image in the Inter National Arena and exposed this undeserving nation to the true essence of democracy by letting the satellite invasion hit this part of the world and issued licenses to News channels without signing any code of conduct or regulatory policy, which never happens anywhere in the world.
But look now how we paid back………
And look a Parliamentarian; in fact a “WOMAN” Parliamentarian has taken an unprecedented initiative by starting a direct people to people contact…. I mean tell me does she really need to do this, shouldn’t she just like other parliamentarians, come to the session of National Assembly just come and go in her Prado back to her house.
But instead doing this she has come to the stupid people, the local public which they call “AWAM”, thinking that they shall tell her about their issues that matters to them and give their insight into things that really matters to the common man on the street but I wonder why she doesn’t realize that these people are so sick that they are suffering from Musharraf Phobia and they are so much engulfed in hatred against Former President thanks to the 18months long therapy provided to them either OFF THE RECORD, or doing CAPITAL TALK, seeing LIVE WITH TALAT and feeling as if they are BOLTA PAKISTAN.
For God’s sake come over this now, grow up kiddos.
I literally salute to Ms Marvi for her approach towards highlighting the real issues of the common man and doing what ever she can do for it. And even going to the limit of putting her cell number on the internet to give direct access to people who are actually in need of some help, also introducing this new way of interacting with the public and concentrating on the real issues that really matters to the common man and her sincerity, resolve, desire and commitment clearly reflects itself through this exceptional move by introducing her own website where we can actually write to her.
Why do we (Pakistani) need a a president in a parliamentarian democratic system. Look at UK.
All powers must be with a prime minister. He can not do anything with approval from National assembly and Senate. All the ruling must have to be approved from National Assembly and senate with 2/3. An independent Judiciary is necessary to monitor the abuse of power. A member of senate must be elected by the people of Pakistan like a member of national assembly.
Kindly tell me the percentage (%) of Poor, Middle Class and Rich in Pakistan.
Poor(%) Middle Class (%) Rich(%)
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If we have the same percentage in the National Assembly and senate, this mean we have democracy.
I want to ask question to all Pakistanis, What is the achievement of Z.A. Bhutto, Benazir Bhutto, Nawaz Sharif, Asif Zardari, Fazal-ur-Rehman, ANP leader, Iltaf Hussein.
What has been done (good) for Pakistan by these individuals.
I request a court marshal for Ayub Khan, Zia Ul Haq, Musharf and all generals who were helping them including Hamid Gul.
Why all the politician have been successful and the nation of Pakistan is the looser?
What Zardari was doing (Job) to make Million/Billions of dollars. Nation want to know.
Same is the question for Z.A. Bhutto, Benazir Bhutto, Nawaz Sharif, Asif Zardari, Fazal-ur-Rehman, ANP leader,.All the Pakistanis must have exclusive right to ask these question.
Peoples are sick and tried of politicians they are fighting for their own agendas. No body is serious about public’s problem, they have created phony (false) issues to divert the attention of the public from their (public’s) real and urgent issues, which can’t wait.
Salman says….Peoples are sick and tried of politicians they are fighting for their own agendas. No body is serious about public’s problem, they have created phony (false) issues to divert the attention of the public from their (public’s) real and urgent issues, which can’t wait….
Please watch Dawn TV tonight 29 August(10pm on Farhan Bokhari’s show to hear me say something similar…I have tried to identify the real issues of the common man and of the disasters we are going through as a country, the downward trends!!! Also the seminar of Pak Liberal Forum where I was guest speaker last week.
As a new politician I am not happy with the time wasted on politiking. the amount of pulls and pushes I have seen in the last few weeks! I am trying to keep focussed on real issues of common man and what is best for Pakistan’s national interest, meaning whatever coalitions happen in the future must be in Pak’s best interest so that governance takes place.
I wish the ballot for presidential elections was not secret so that no amount of horsetrading would destabilize systems. So that ALL party members would be disciplined and unified. I often feel that other than one odd party all other parties are full of individuals who have their own individual interests which they put over and above party interests.
Anyway, the silent majority must help us express the belief that Pakistanis want governance and stability of system. Not politiking!
I am seeing all ths politiking through a close lens. I hope that when we are in the driving seat we have a different political culture so that we concentrate on the real issues. For now, I am part of this system and if I wish to improve it, I must understand how best to change it from within. Trust me its much easier to criticize from outside; changing it takes lifetimes of persistence in progressive liberal beliefs. The struggle seems to have just started…
I want to divert the attention towards power crisis. You know the situation of power in all the cities of country. It remains off almost 18 hours out of 24. A common man wants to know who is opposing the Kalabagh Dam? These are just politicians who do their politics in the name of Kalabagh Dam. You know and you can see the data. All the first world countries are making most of their enery with their coal reservoirs. Pakistan is the fifth largest country in terms of coal reservoirs then why dont we go for energy to be produced with coal? Why dont we invest in that?
Marvi, I really like you and really appreciate your comments on the Media. But sometimes you go so much out of the way for the poor that people start getting you wrong.
Simply because the trend is not to speak for the poor.
The one who is working for the poor seems bad to everyone and we can see the amount of negative and JAHIL propoganda done against you in the AAJ TV programme Bolta Pakistan.
When we try to call and defend your position and ppl like you they don’t let us speak and cut our lines.
I hope you carry on the good work and your motivation always remain at the fullest.
My comments It appears that we are being ruled by those, who do not feel or take any responsibility for their actions and do not bother what results will be achieved by their actions. Everything is being done halfheartedly, in a disconnected manner and then just forget about it, what they said or promised yesterday. There is no will, no road map, no plan, no achievable goals in front of our rulers. I wish and hope the rulers
have sympathy on Pakistanis. If they are inefficient to handle the issues, let them vacate and allow new people to take responsibility.
One dirty bath room in a military hospital, brought down dozens of generals, civilian leadership of Army, Army Secretary included, either dismissed or voluntarily resigned. But what happened when poor people paid crores for folly of mistakes in budget regarding error in printing wrong rate of CNG. Had anybody been punished or voluntarily resigned? Any Minister resigned? shame, shame. shame.
I am seriously starting doubting AH’s intentions too. If by sitting in the PPP meetings, he can see all this happening and then digesting FN’s regular gibberish, he wants to benefit from “chit bhee meri aur pat bhee meri” kind of situation. Either case, he can claim that I was with the winners.
How much Mushtaq Minhas is paid by NS for protecting him unjustifiably?
@ Marvi u may very well be the last hope for the demoracy movement in that country for quite some time. i wish you well.
Since you and your father have been politically engaged with issues of Northern Areas, I thought you should know how your actions are percevied and received there.
Following article was published in Pamir Times a widely read online newsblog from Northern Areas.
Op-Ed: Marvi Memon on pushing a bill for Northern Areas
August 26, 2008
by Ali Al – Hakim
What was common between former President Gen. Pervez Musharraf, Aaj TV anchor Syed Talat Hussein, and MNA Marvi Memon is their sporadic and marginal interest in taking a relatively favourable stand on the issue of constitutional rights for the people of GB. In a recent TV debate Talat Hussein tried to introduce the infant and fledgling struggle for rights and justice in NA’s, by inviting few of the so called elected members of the toothless NALA. In a similar vein Gen. Musharraf who ultimately became unpopular across the country had however a soft corner for the people of Giligit-Baltistan. Karakorum University, expansion of KKH, and upgrading NALA to a relatively respectable position will certainly form part of Musharraf’s legacy in Northern Areas. I think Marvi Memon could well be one of those people who have taken upon themselves to touch the lives of our people one way or the other. She has introduced this new bill in the National Assembly apparently to kick off a debate that would perhaps pave the way towards granting a provincial status to Giligit-Baltistan. I think this must be welcomed on several grounds.
While it has been pointed out that Marvi Memon failed to take such a step when her own government (PML-Q) was in power, and the latest attempt is nothing but a parochial political game to drag the incumbent government into a tasteless battle. However, I believe that this should be of marginal interest, or of no concern to us. The proposal should be welcomed because such steps not only seek to put the concerns of GB on the national agenda but they also expose both our well-wishers and ill-wishers alike, sitting in the corridors of power in Islamabad.
Let’s remember that when Congress was founded in 1886 by a Brit, it was intended to channel political views of Her Majesty’s Indian subjects through a proper platform. Viceroys and British establishment saw this move as an apparently harmless attempt to give Indian people some sense of political participation in the affairs of the state. A. O. Hume and his compatriots might never have imagined even in their wildest dreams that Indian National Congress would subsequently emerge as a formidable political force that would unleash a great wave of resistance to British Empire, ultimately dislodging the Raj from Indian sub-continent. Like A.O. Hume, Marvi Memon and others may have ulterior motives, business, or commercial or whatever we should however consider her desire to be part of our struggle. Such bills would surely serve as wake-up calls to members of Pakistan’s slumbering political class. After all we count and remember Major Brown a Scotsman as one of our heroes who helped us free ourselves from the Dogra Raj in 1949. History, including our own in GB is full of mysterious stories in which various forces have ‘conspired to help’ us what we have wanted and willed. Now, if we want our rights, identity and political struggle to be re-asserted then we should seize every opportunity to take forces of politics on our side.
The National Assembly bill tabled by Marvi should have elicited a healthy debate that could have helped sharpen the edges of political impasse on the question of Giligit-Baltistan. Very sadly members of the Pakistani ruling class choose to truncate this important concern of ours by not taking it seriously. Let us also remember the loathsome world ’sensitive’ that has been uttered countless times by the members of the Pakistani establishment when it comes to answer a question regarding the problems of Gilgit-Baltistan. In response to Marvi’s proposal our so called Federal Minister for Northern Areas and Kashmir Affairs used the word ’sensitive’ to project our issues as if we are some sort of a sacrificial animal who must be locked up until the time for the ritual is up. I sadly note that the deceptive word ’sensitive’ is nothing but a big smokescreen that helps veil unwillingness of Pakistani establishment to seriously address issues of GB. When Kaira visits Giligit next time our people should make him realise that time of playing hide and seek game with the people of Giligt-Baltistan is over now.
Now is the time to snatch ’sensitive’ from the vocabulary of our alien rulers sitting in Islamabad who have frustrated the political journey of the people of GB to achieve our long-due and deserved destiny of equality, liberty and brotherhood. We have nothing to lose but our subjugation and we have our deserved freedoms to be won.
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The writer is studying at the London School of Economics (LSE).
1. Abbas Ali | August 26, 2008 at 6:19 pm
Al-Hakim is a good friend of mine with keen interest in the politics of Gilgit-Baltistan and with trainings from one of the best universities in the world in the area of Globalization and civil society. He has very effectively encompassed the issue of abusing the basic political and human rights of the people of Gilgit-Baltistan.
Let us appreciate the case forwarded by Marvi Memon in the fragile National Assembly of Pakistan, which in its history used power to decided most of bad than good. However, at the same time we need to be cautious of not losing driving seat of the struggle for the liberation of Gilgit-Baltistan and let again people from Pakistan to take it, who have their own selfish personal interests than the welfare and development of people of GB.
I do agree very strongly with the idea of conveying the frustrated feelings of political and economic alienation of the people of Gilgit-Baltistan to the illegitimate leaders from Pakistan. These include the infamous Minister for Northern area and Kashmir affairs or whoever comes to our region with intention to rule, should know in sure way that they are not going to keep this area as a sacrificial animal, for the cause of Kashmir.
Apart from wakening and dazzling Pakistani establishment regarding the political awareness of brave people of GB we need to knock and make aware of the violations of international human rights and abuses of the people of the Gilgit-Baltistan by Pakistani establishment.
Let’s remember this is not an easy way to venture upon it, I am quite sure of the successful achievements of this struggle, as people of the Gilgit Baltistan are not cowards and lazy. They are brave and some of the most energetic people in the world to take up toughest adventures both intellectually and physically. Thus let,s inflame the light of real freedom and extinguish the darkness of occupation and colonization of Gilgit-Baltistan.
Abbas Ali
AKU-ISMC, London
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2. Sharif Khan | August 28, 2008 at 1:50 pm
I do fully agree with Ali Al-Hakim and true comments of Abbass Ali and would appreciate their intellectual contribution in favor of the constitutional status of the innocent people of Gilgit-Baltistan. However, the intellectuals like you people need to take a lead role to motivate and realize the mass people of GB in general and the youths in particular about availing or snatching their basic rights.
The efforts of Marvi Memon is although appreciating but it is considered by many critiques ‘too little and too late’. However, the present government is expected to follow the foot-steps of its founder leader, late Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto to bring revolutionary constitutional reforms and add the deprived people of Gilgit-Baltistan into the main stream. Otherwise sitting in opposition and submitting bills in the parliament or signing resolution in charter of democracy could be considered as drama with the people of GB. But, now the wisdom and information of the area is not less to come in the traps of the selfish rulers and establishment.
The area has no more attachment or conditionality with the Kashmir cause in both parts of Kashmir there is a constitutional set-up, while Gilgit Baltistan is tied with the KANA division and even a clerical staff is too smart to grab the rights of the innocent people.
Now we need to take right steps to the right directions in the right time and need to make advocacy for the constitutional rights at every forums such as locally, regionally and globally by approaching various human rights institutions and other civil society institutions. I do hope youth and literate responsible masses will disseminate the message of raising voices for the basic rights of the people of Gilgit-Baltistan.
hi
First of all ,i want to let u know that i am BIG BIG fan of you among the all corrupt politicians of Pakistan . I used to see you here on tv in talk shows,on diff paki tv channels ,in New York,and become satisfied that there are still some people in pakistan from where paki Awam can Hope for Good.
My all wishes and prayers are with you.Just keep it up with the same honesty ad professorial abilities .
Good Luck.
Dr Adnan Igra
New York.
Dear Marvi
The people of Pakistan lost trust in positions. So please do some thing which will improve this lack of trust situation. If you succeed in then you have the real power to change.
hi marvi
thank u for giving us a ray of hope.Watching u on tv gives a boost of confidence that all is not lost.
1- With the presidents resignation all of us supporters lost hope and were depressed for days .Is this the way we repay a man who is truly patriotic and has served and saved this country time and again from disasters .We the educated minority of non political peaceful people are shocked to see two convicted crooks taking over this beseiged nation .We are helpless and we have been writing on various forums and facebook pro musharraf groups about this great man and his achievements.The youth of this country r fiercely patriotic and want to do something for it.They want MUSHARRAF back and want him to lead them .They want people like you who have a spirit to serve the nation to form a party.Can u along with likeminded and selfless ppl get together on one platform and use the youth for saving Pakistan .Please do some thing our country is dying??Asghar khan is principled so is imran khan minus his mullahism ,so is aminfahim to a certain extent.Please lets try to get everyone 2 gether and work for saving this country /Some of our heroes are Cowasjee,Lucman,Jasmeen,you,Edhi ,DR Adeeb rizvi ,Prof Ataur rehman ,Ahmad Shah Afridi ,etc please help us best of luck
As someone who is so vocal i would also like to keep you updated on how majority of Pkaistnis are not happy with the part the media played in bias news against Musharraf.
I have had very bitter emails with Hamid Mir i would like to list one so you can decide ho right i am:
Everyone supporting MUSHARRAF is a soldier and true LOYAL PAKISTANI.HATTS OFF TO YOU ALL IN FUTURE WE WILL FORM A PARTY AND GET RID OF ALL THE CORRUPT LEADERS LIKE ZARADARI AND NAWAZ AND THROW OUT THE BIASED AND MUFAAAD PURUST JOURNALISTS LIKE HAMID MIR AND SHAHID MASOO.
HYPOCRITES who urged MUSHARRAF to take action agianst LAL MASJID,WAZIRISTAN AND DO NRO than CRITICISED HIM FOR DOING SO.
JOURNALISTS WHO HAVE ENJOYED THE MONEY AND THE BENEFITS OF A FREE MEDIA FROM 2000 ONWARDS DUE TO THE EFFORTS OF MUSHARRAF AND THAN HAVE GONE AGIANST THE SAME PRESIDENT MUSHARRAF.
Where was the media in 2000?
Hamid Mir who says that he will expose MUSHARRAF why did he not EXPOSE the corruption of NAWAZ why did he not EXPPOSE NAWAZ SHARIFS DEMOCRATIC WAYS?
Would Hamid Mir like to tell us which is BETTER?
A MEDIA UNDER MUSHARRAF where from 2000 over 70 new CHANNELS HAVE OPENED,ARE THESE CHANNELS RUN BY ONE MAN,NO,OFCOURSE NOT?
THEY ARE RUN BY THOUSANDS OF STAFF WHICH MEANS THAT AFTER MUSHARRAFS POLICY OF FREE MEDIA AND ISSUEING VARIOUS LICENSES MEDIA HAS EXPANDED IN THE SPACE OF LAST 8 YEARS FROM ONE CHANNEL IN 1999 TO OVER 70 CHANNELS IN 2008 IN WHICH THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE HAVE GOT JOBS and another THOUSAND LIKE HAMID MIRE HAVE GOT PAY RISES AND TALK SHOWS LIKE CAPITAL TALK….
Hamid Mir said that ALLAH gave him his job 21 years ago?His right…But 21 years ago their was no GEO,GEO Started after MUSHARRAf,now their are 4 or 5 channels of GEO they could’n't have started their transmission without the go ahead from Musharraf to go on air in Pakistan
Its after GEO that Hamid Mir got a pay rise its after GEO that alot of behind the camera staff got their jobs.
Hmaid Mir claims GEO started from DUBAI.Let me remind him on ONE phone call from MUSHARRAF the DUBAI Authorities shut GEO down and closed the programmes of HAMID MIR and the LOW LIFE SHAHID MASOOD.Which means that originally in 2000 or whenver GEO opened if at that time the governemnt the MUSHARRAF government if it did not have the FREE MEDIA POLICY THEY WOULD NOT HAVE ALLOWED ANY CHANNEL TO OPEN INCLUDING GEO.
SO Hamid Mir and other journalists STOP DREAMING AND FOOLING YOURSELD FREE MEDIA IS BECAUSE OF MUSHARRAF YOU PAY RISE AND THOUSANDS OF BEHIND THE SCREEN JOBS ARE BECASUE OF MUSHARRAF.
Hamid where was the media better in the democratic goverments?
HAMID MIR IN NAWAZ SHARIFS GOVERNMENT WAS CALLED TO NAWAZ SHARIFS HOUSE,WAS TOLD TO RESIGN BY NAWAZ SHARIF BECAUSE HAMID MIR HAD JUST WRITTEN A COLUMN AGAINST HIM,JUST A COLUMN.
The second day when HAMID MIR refused NAWZ SHARIF SHUT THE WHOLE NEWSPAPER DOWN.IS THAT THE DEMOCRACY HAMID MIR WANTS.
WHEREAS UNDER MUSHARRAF LOOK HOW MUCH THEY CRITICISED HIM AND MADE FUM OF HIM IN PROGRAMMES LIKE “HUM SUB UMEED SAY HAIN”
THE HYPOCRACY OF THE JOURNALISTS AND EVERYONE WHO BENEFITED HEAVILY UNDER THE FREE MEDIA POLICY OF MUSHARRAF CLEARLY SHOWS.
Its our duty to expose the journalist and ZARDARI AND NAWAZ as much as we can because poeple like Hamid Mir are sell outs in search of even a bigger pay rise.
AND REMEMBER THE FAILED DOCTOR SHAHID MASOOD WHO EMPTIED THE POCKETS OF ARYONE AND THAN GEO AND CRITICISED MUSHARRAF WHILST HE WAS BENEFITING UNDER MUSHARRAFS FREE MEDIA POLICY.NOW IT WAS THE TIME TO EXPOSE ZARDARI AND NAWAZ BUT INSTEAD HE BETRAYED GEO AND HAS ACCEPTED THE HUDI(DOG BEING OFFERED HIS BONE) FROM ZARDARI AND GONE TO PTV.
HYPOCRACY AT ITS HIGHEST.
WELL DONE TO EVERYONE AND ALL PAKISTANIS LOYAL TO PAKSITAN AND MUSHARRAF SALUTE EVERYONE FOR EXPOSING HAMID MIR PLEASE CARRYON DOING SO AND OTHERS WHO WERE AGINST THE MUSHARRAF ERA,THE TRICKLE DOWN EFFECT OF MUSHARRAFS ECONOMY POLICIES HAVE BENEFITED THE JOURNALISTS THE MOST AND THEY ARE THE ONES WHO COME UNDER THE SAYING “MERA KUTTA MUJHAY HI KATTAY”…WELL SOMETHING LIKE THAT….
As the media played a vital role in damaging Pervaiz Musharraf i would liek to show the original email i sent Hamid Mir and his reply.For which he is getting evry strong reactions.
From: sajjad riaz [mailto:saajj786@hotmail.com]
Sent: Sat 8/23/2008 3:47 PM
To: Hamid Mir
Subject: MUSHARRAF THE BEST
Hi,
Not sure if you will read this email or not but hope you do.
I hope all the media and specially you and people at Geo who were so biased against President Musharraf realise that it was a mistake to do so.
President Musharraf is the one who gave you your jobs.Under his government you channel was given the license to operate and since 1999 over 70 channels are operating in Pakistan and all the credit goes to Musharraf not Mr 10% or Mr Nawaz.
The purpose of writing this email is the frustration by a Pakistani and Musharraf supporter that you have not paid back President Musharraf in a good way.Paksitanis have become an AHSAAN FURAMOSH SOCIETY specially the journalists.
How can you invite Corrupt leaders or interview people like Zardari who you know more than me that they are corrupt and under their rule you were not even allowed to critisize them in an editorial in a newspaper let alone the way you joke about Mr Musharraf on tv.
I think yuou as journalists have failed to make the public aware of the leaders which they should’ve supported.All you have done is corrupt the minds of already corrupted and iliiterate people.
Pakistan as a whole will have to bare the cost of your media bias against the best leader Pakistan has had.
I got job 21 years ago.Allah gave me job not Musharraf.
Musharraf nenver gave us license we were operating from Dubai.
Musharraf treated us like animals.He attacked us inside our offices,he used police against us on the roads,he tried to bribe us.He is not exposed yet but we will expose him soon.
Aslam-e-Alekum,
Sister, Marvi Memon
im Aftab Ali Laghari Doing MBA from University of Sindh, Jamshoro.
I watched Your Interview and Many speeches and now i realize that someone has awaken from our public to speak for us.
Sister, When PPP came in the government
then they are only raising or increasing the prices of commodities & why they are not reducing the price of oil, even the price of oil decreased in international market.
so im saying to u why u arn’t raising these issues in assembly.
I would just like to say that you are doing a wonderful job, keep it up.
Another issue that I would like you to focus attention on is the complete ignorance by the mainstream media of the millions of Pakistanis who recognize and appreciate what President Musharraf has done for the country. We want to express ourselves, but are not allowed to on the ‘Ruling’ channels. As far as Samaa TV is concerned, I would like to see it being broadcast on SUN TV as well as to have a wider viewership…regards
AoA
“Best For Pakistan’s National Interest” hmm… Since 14th August 1947, this phrase has proved to be the worst available in the dictionary for the “best interest” of a “common Pakistani”. If I shuffle in history, before I could compile something I would commence crying bitterly.
Four military administrators also claimed to be there “Best For Pakistan’s National Interest”, retreat from our foreign policies specially from Kashmir and defence strategy is “Best For Pakistan’s National Interest”, coalitions/segregation of different ideologies is “Best For Pakistan’s National Interest”, warming the battle fields of northern areas is “Best For Pakistan’s National Interest”, selective re-appointment sacked judges is “Best For Pakistan’s National Interest”, bla bla bla I donot have any more courage to write, I only can beg authoritative “Caesars” and “Aristotles” of this golden age of Pakistan, please donot act under the veil of “Best For Pakistan’s National Interest” please. Days are not far away my friends when we would hear
“I, Mr. President, solemnly declare that my breath is “Best For Pakistan’s National Interest” what a pity…
I sometimes wonder, how come something could be/is “Best For Pakistan’s National Interest”, if the outcomes are dauntingly disastrous for the Pakistani nationals? Oh yes… it’s what they call “Farsightedness” which a common man is deprived of, they are right. I simply wish they could have such an intelligentsia who could define the word “Farsightedness” for them.
I used to be a part of “Tug of War” as an “Old Ravian” during the annual sports day of Government College Lahore. What Ms. Memon said (August 29, 2008 at 10:32 am) “I am trying to keep focussed on real issues of common man and what is “best for Pakistan’s national interest”, meaning whatever coalitions happen in the future must be in “Pak’s best interest” so that governance takes place…..The “struggle seems to have just started”…”,
another “Tug of War” for the greater interests of “Pakistan’s National Interest”, let’s see how far away we go from our destination this time as a result of this “Tug of War”, as in the past, such “tug of Wars” rarely helped us to move forward.
Take care and keep praying
ALLAHH AFIZ
P.S: Sorry, I could not keep the pace of the forum, as was mentally shattered due to some family health issues-still going on-make dua for me and my family.
With all my words, I am still optimistic and waiting/(struggling in my capacity) for a brighter sunrise which could take us out through these dark shades of our national life.
Ms. Memon, I fully understand the politicking questions and reckon you should atleast enlighten us about (if you have done something, it’s much appreciated and if you cannot do anything then Mr. Ex-President said “Pakistan Ka KHUDA HAFIZ”)
By Dr. Rizwan (July 31, 2008 at 12:57 pm) about an injured/ paralyzed 3rd year MBBS student of Ayub Medical College, Abbottabad, who was compelled to abandon her studies by the college administration due to her tragic mishap.
Thank u for replying MARVI and please keep up your good work and spirit.you r a ray of hope 4 us.
Coming back to the topic are we blind or have we gone totally loony look at the leadership ruling us .were there noone else in the whole of this country but these ppl to rule us.Who are the ppl who voted for them what kind of a mindset do they have ?how can they choose such ppl?Does it reflect the kind of society we have become?Qualifications needed to head the islamic republic of pakistan.
1 better to have been a jailbird and added points will be given if u have swindled the country and have corruption charges.
2 If u have been accused of murder all the better never know when u might need these talents?
3 wow you have it made ,if u have ever tried some sort of hijacking?
4.If u are a politicized justice of some sort and have cases against you and you havent replied to them then ur on track/
5 The more u lie, the more u worship money the more easily u r bought the easier it is to reach the top.
6 last but not the least if u are mentally unwell u fully qualify for the kind of crazy ppl who got u in deserve u. So marvi its a tough ride for ppl like us who the president called the silent majority have no say .we r just sheep which follow and one thing i will tell u President Musharraf has won.He has won over our hearts and our loyalty which is not for sale.He has ignited patriotism and hope in the youth which will grow stronger with each day.Long live musharraf and long live PAkistan.Please pass this mesage to him if u can.all the best
@ Thankx For Marvi give us Platform for Express our Feelings”
Mr zardari never drop the power of 17 amendment.he will be the more power ful president which is not good for pakistan.The person who accept 11 years in preson but he never give back 10% looting money.
when he was no power he get 10% and make million of dollers.Think about when he will be powerful president he must make 90% .I Love Musheruf his last word of his speech “pakistan ka khuda hafiz” was very meaning full and he is also responsibale in this :gunah kabeerah”
If Zardari being the second richest of Pakistan is still not satisfied with his wealth, I doubt he will refrain from his old habits. Pakistanis may try him once again and he will prove it. He will make sure to screw the country and as a last resort army will have to take over.
Goodness me, anybody,but Zardari for president.I know NRO was probably issued by Sir Musharraf to keep the army and ISI going strong and keep these Mullahs at bay…because if these secular political like ppp,mqm get weak then Mullahs will start dominating the political scene here and that will be a nightmare for the army and ISI.But even Musharraf did’nt know at that time that this could allow MR 10% to be our new president casuse Benazir got assasinated..not that she was an angel either.
One of the saddest day in Pakistan’s histroy was when Sir Musharraf a man of so much integrity and vision resigned …6th septemeber,2008 is going to be even worse because one of the most corrupt and indignified Pakistanis is going to become our president.As Sir Musharraf said ‘iss kaum ka ubb allah he hafiz hay’
I am fully agreed with Mr. Sajjad’s comments about Hamid Mir. I know that Hamid Mir and other journalists (Black-mailers) like him are getting funds from Isreal and India to write against honest people of Paistan. They were against Honourable President Musharraf because they want to destroy Pakistan and they have got money to do this job. One day everyone will see the unjaam of these ugly journalists.
I can’t believe the media of Pakistan.They are still out to get Sir Musharraf.Hamid Mir was at it again in his show last night,he was saying’Musharraf is more popular in India than Pakistan because he hurt the kashmir issue’ lol.This is a guy who fought 3 wars for his country and you are questioning his patriotism and honor.
And somebody tell me why Sir Musharraf needs to be prosecuted for the killing of the biggest criminal ever to come out of Balochistan ‘Nawab Akbar Bugti’..does’nt anybody in this country know how horrible a man Akbar Bugti was.These feudal politicians who are showing up on t.v have nothing, but praises for a man whos admited to have murdered more than a 100 people and was a big impediment in the development of Balochistan.These feudals and war lords like Bugti,Mengal do not want to see their people become educated and prosperous thats why they have been challenging the writ of the government.
AoA
Quite recently, Mrs. Mirza announced to visit relief camps organised for victims of tribal areas, along with a team of parliamentarians. She also mentioned about raising funds for them by the contribution of members. Has she managed to gather a team and collection from the members? My apologies, if she already have done so.
Secondly what’s going on in the parliament regarding barbarian killing of women and their burial while they were alive. Another resolution, another committee, another face-saving report, another temporary suspension of SHOs and constables and then “Game Over”, please put serious efforts to expose the concealed realities of wolves in sheep’s clothing.
Take care and keep praying
ALLAH HAFIZ
P.S: Titles make a difference but the day, knighthood was awarded to Salman Rushdie, “Sir” seems worthless. I am not biased on the basis of Satanic Verses, fact is that he does not occupy such a distinguished height in literature.
Is it a hysterical statement or a bitter reality??? This is by which different schools of thoughts have their marks…
“This country has never seen honest rulers simply because it was not created by honest people, it has always been a creation of the corrupt, to consolidate power and wealth, and nothing of honesty can penetrate the higher echelons of power in this country.”
We all have dreams. In my dreams I am intelligent, dashing, handsome, filthy rich and powerful. I am also wise and highly intellectual, with such great opinions that heads of state call me – or at least listen to what I have to say on matters of great importance. Then, usually, I wake up to reality.
Obviously I am not the only one who has wild dreams. After all, if it were not for dreams, why would people try to run for the office of president of our nation? In many cases they even do this with scant regard for reality. It is also always important to remember the difference between dreams, big dreams and delusions.
I am writing these lines in Karachi. I am here to be a guest on several GEO TV shows discussing the election for President of Pakistan. When I look at the candidates for president, I see a curious mixture of dreams, big dreams and delusions.
I say it as I see it, without regard for racial, ethnic, national, political or religious affiliation. That is also why I probably never will be offered a cabinet post by any head of state in Pakistan, elected or otherwise, or any other country.
Since none of the three Presidential candidates in Pakistan has contacted me for my advice, I have to assume it is because they believe I must be very busy. So, to be totally fair, I decided to write to each of them through an open letter in this publication. Like variables in an engineering or Math problem, let’s call them candidates Ex, Why, and z.
To President Ex – Justice (retired) Saeed-uz-Zaman Siddiqui
Sir, I have to give you credit for having a dream. Do I do not know you personally I salute you for being one of the few people in Pakistani elections that I have not heard anyone say totally negative things about. Sure, some may question your affiliation with the Nawaz Sharif party based on past events, but even your critics and non-supporters do not try to rip you to shreds. That, itself, is a major achievement.
You are a man of principle, said to have high integrity and the honor to stand up to a dictator. These are qualities that would get you elected and appointed in any other country.
Unfortunately, in Pakistan, these are the very qualities that would likely ensure you can not be elected president of our great nation. Sure, stranger things have happened. But, I thank you for dreaming and making a run for the presidency.
To President Why – Mr. Mushahid Hussain Syed
You, Sir, are obviously a man who has big dreams. I came to know off and respect you when I was a student political leader at the engineering University in Lahore. This was in the 1980s, when you were making a name for yourself as a journalist standing up to a dictator.
When I joined the ranks of the media industry, as business manager of Jang, and a writer in MAG Weekly, etc. I continued to respect you even though you were at a competing newspaper.
It is, therefore, a huge shock for me to learn that during the last 20 years you went from being an independent minded, outspoken, bold, Muslim media professional and a prisoner of conscience to someone who not only supported but became part of a dictator’s team.
It is easy for me to comment on your decisions to change sides in a political fray, but for you to change completely into the opposite of what you stood for is something I will never understand. In any case, I thank you for dreaming big, and making a run for the presidency. It will hopefully enable educated media professionals to be considered candidates for president in the future.
To President Z – Mr. Asif Ali Zardari
Sir, even though I have never personally met you, it has been my observation that it is nothing that you are understated about. We know that the other candidates have dreams and big dreams, possibly with some delusion thrown in for good measure.
In your case it is obvious that you had a dream, you have big dreams and, you may be suffering from a potent mixture of ambition, hubris and delusions of grandeur.
Apply that on top of a foundation built on a pliant political party machine devoted and dedicated more to a particular individual or a family than to their own roll in national politics, democracy or, heaven forbid, history. Result? You can almost be assured of the presidency. Congratulations.
The way I see it, only a miracle can prevent that.
Now, before you think I must be some anti-PPP, anti-Bhutto, anti-Zardari activist, let me assure you that is not the case. I have had the pleasure of meeting the late great Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto in Karachi as a young teen, the late Benazir Bhutto, as a young media professional, and always been supportive of their role, as individuals, and as a family, in Pakistan’s democracy.
But, I am not a blind worshiper of the Bhutto name. Both those great individuals also failed to live up to the incredible potential, and historic opportunities, God gave them. They paid, in both cases, with their lives and the country paid either with failed experiments in democracy, martial laws or instability.
When I say that only a miracle can keep you from being President, I say that as a will-wisher of Pakistan and the Bhutto legacy – which I suppose is now more of a Zardari family name legacy. And, herein lies the problem.
Ego, ambition, hubris, cunning, ruthlessness, dreams, visions, delusions of grandeur, and perhaps even a dash of madness are not necessarily bad things – especially if they are attached to a person who dreams to change the world, to build empires for his nation, build historic monuments to man’s dreams and ability, to leave a legacy bigger than he himself ever was. Alexander the Great, even Napoleon, and many other “madmen” come to mind.
These same personality traits in more ordinary people, driven merely by desires to conquer real estate markets and build Swiss bank accounts, and to exploit opportunities for short-term gain, can only ensure disasters of history, and historic disasters.
My fear is that you have all the traits we talk about above but lack the vision to see this is a historic opportunity, not just another personal opportunity to “get more rich” and “take care of your friends”.
The sad thing is that even the staunchest Bhutto supporters, from politically connected families, to their servants and man-on-the-street type voters are all but certain that nothing good will come out of your becoming President, regardless of your beautifully worded article in the Washington Post.
You make a compelling argument for why your Presidency is essential. But, I wonder how you expect anyone, much less a jaded nation of 160 million people to believe a word you say, after your reneging even on your own signed agreements with Nawaz Sharif, and your obvious play at controlling the judiciary.
Almost to a man, the impression in every city I have asked people about you is that you are only doing this for personal financial gain at the expense of the country. They feel what may have been true or false impressions of large commissions associated with you as a nickname, will become even larger grabs of power and wealth.
As a result, the false blessing of your becoming President with a weak hand-picked judiciary, ugly constitutional amendments a gift from former dictators, lapdog lawmakers and apathetic public could become a true-curse.
The actions everyone predicts for you may ensure the total erasure of the Bhutto name and goodwill, and any chance for your son and coming Zardari generations from playing a positive, or any role, in the unwritten future history of Pakistan. The even bigger risk for your family and you would be to become “marked men” instead of leaving a great mark on history.
Therein, Zardari sahib, lies your opportunity. No. I do not refer to your opportunity to acquire larger Swiss bank accounts or longer lists of properties abroad.
You are actually blessed with truly low expectations from everyone.
From judges to generals, from journalists to generalists, from even your own voters, no one expects anything good for Pakistan under your rule.
That actually is a great chance for you personally. You, and only you, can easily, but with some soul-searching, some introspection, some staring at the mirror, some appreciation of where you stand on the crossroads of history, decide to become a truly historic figure – in a nation starved for historic leadership.
Will you, Sir, have the wisdom, decency, moral and political courage and a vision of making a real name for yourself, and your coming generations in history books.?
For your, your children’s and Pakistan’s sake, I hope so.
The nation is standing by to see what path you take. Good luck, President Zardari.
AAhhhhhhhh Today 6th September 2008 always remember in the History of Pakistan and our coming generations will make a JET BLACK DAY OF PAKISTAN (if Country will Exist)…… May Allah safe Our Country from MR. 10% (Previously) MR. 100% Cruntely…. I have no comments….
Regards
In a recent programme HAMID MIR(PIG) was once again pursuing a personal agenda against MUSHARRAF.
Rather than exposing the most corrupt leaders NAWAZ AND ZARADARI perhaps HAMID MIR is increasing his HARAM KI DULAT by taking money from them to stay quite about them.
HAMID MIR said that MUSHARRAF is more popular in INDIA because he damaged Pakistan’s stand on KASHMIR.
Its in MUSHARRAFS government that INDIA has accepted KASHMIR as a DISPUTE,its in MUSHARRAFS govermnet that their was a total CEASEFIRE ON THE LINE OF CONTROL FOR ALMOST 50 YEARS,it was in MUSHARRAFS GOVERNMENT that the KASHMIRIS from both sides who had not met each others relatives for last 50 years eventaully met their LOVED ONES when the BUS SERVICE WAS INITIATED.
HAMID MIR U HYPOCRITE state the facts just because GEO has given you a channel to speak from DONT BULSHIT
HAMID MIR NEEDS TO BE TAUGHT A LESSON THE DAYS NOT FAR WHEN HE WILL BE PARADED ON A DONKEY IN THE STREETS OF ISLAMABAD WITH JHOOTO KA HAAR AND FACE BALCKEDOUT….;
Thanks Sadia for appreciating the comments,just can’t believe how worthless and annoying people with limited knowledge become so famous in Pakistan but than again it can only happen in Pakistan…
It was funny today came across a tv programe for 6th September.Strange to see KIYANI sitting so comfortably next to Gillani.
In the programme the army spoke about the achievemnets they hace made in Baluchistan and all the army and PPP members were clapping in appreciation.
The strange and annoying thing is that the PPP and the journalists some of them were sitting their and clapping at the armies achievments in Baluchistan which is all due to PERVAIZ MUSHARRAF wheras they criticised him when he was the president.
Typical hypcrites…
BUT EVERY CRITIC OF MUSHARRAF WILL APPLUAD HIS EFFORTS IN YEARS TO COME AND TAKE CREDIT FOR THE ACHIEVMENTS THEY USE TO CRITISIZE HIM FOR…..
Even a sold-out Musharraf was better in power than the present gang of criminals.
Congratulation to Musharraf that Zardari became President because of his NRO. Controversial NRO had looters, murderers, and criminals become “saints” overnight. Injustice braought injustic.
Pakistan’s darkest day in history. ALLAH showed us earthquake as a sign. This is too dangerous for Pakistan ppl now… But ALLAH is GREAT, they (sheyaateen) can’t do anything BUT ALLAH can do the best.
Who calls election of Zardari as democracy – he gave at least three crores rupees to each of the MNA and Senator and MPA and bought their loyalties – after all when would that Swiss 60 million dollars would have been of use.
Zardari’s election was truly the blackest day in the history of democratic Pakistan and he would be far worse than Musharraf in presidency.
Those who elected him have done The greatest disservice to Pakistan for their own selfish ends. This shows we really don’t deserve democracy. Army is also at fault because they stood by watching what has happened – they would have interested behind the scenes but it looks like Pakistan Army also has become …. like those who elected this criminal and liar of the top order.
After seeing your whole web portfolio, i appreciate you on that. but still I think that I must have to confess that, you have two personalities instead on one. Making these sort of port folios, showing emotions for common pakistanis etc..but on ground PML-Q and its leadership is miles away from emotions and standing of Pakistanis. The support you led for the biggest culprit of Nation (Musharraf) will never make you nearer to a a comman pakistnis heart,
i can only advise one thing, be pure not hypocrate.
You seems to be a young blood in politics, but still you know that your father had done many things in past which is against the will of common man.
If you want to do politics of people, try to respect the national emotions….not the emotions of establishment. sorry if i’m a bit rude, but thats true emotions of nation.
saw you on t.v the other day,you are doing a fantastic job,keep up the good work.
I agree with you there Sajjad,i saw that show too where they were basically paying tribute to all the good work of Sir Musharraf in Balochistan without mentioning his name and they showed a grim looking Shahid Masood sitting in the background lol.
Rabia Huq I think you are member of the same pro Musharraf fan clubs on facebook that I am member of.I have been posting there too(aldude).
Just to let everyone know Musharraf has more fan following on facebook than any other leader of Pakistan.and that too after our biggest fanclub page with 15k members got deleted because of some ridiclous rules,i think daily times did report on that.
haha the unthinkable has happened mr10% has become president.Good things do happen to bad people in the Islamic republic of Pakistan ,tell that to the whole world.So what does God do to people who make crooks their leaders and their presidents?He keeps them a 3rd world nation?Well I hope Pakistan does well under Mr 10%(no this guy is not my president) so that the dollar can get cheaper for me to buy and I can get the hell out of here.And then one day when I am really old and wrinkly and may be someone like Marvi Memon is taking oath to be president of this country I can decide to come back.Marvi please do mention President Musharraf in your speech after becoming president.Thankyou
I have posted the Liberal Progressive Agenda which Pakistan needs to follow for its progress. (List of demands- in category section)Pls add to it since its a working document. It doesnt just belong to us the opposition. I hope it will be as much yours since civil society needs to ask govt for resolution of key challenges. Govt has no excuses left but to deliver. It depends on us whether we can scream loud enough to make it deliver. We owe it to Pakistan to get these issues resolved before bankruptcy hits us. Thankyou for your support.
A step forward in Americas Dream of a divided Pakistan…
Some months back an American report was published in which it predicted that Pakistan would become a failed state in years to come. It reshaped the borders of Pakistan, in which it stated Baluchistan would be a separate state and NWFP to be part of Afghanistan or a separate Taliban state called the “Islamic Republic Of Waziristan”.
On TV and from statements it did seem that Americans favour Musharraf heavily. But in reality especially in the last few years it can be said that Americans were getting wary of Musharraf’s strength and his ability in strengthening Pakistan’s future.
Musharraf’s steps in tackling Baluchistan and working closely with China for the betterment of Baluchistan were some what working against the plans of the Indians and the Americans.
Musharraf’s policy of banning the militant groups and clamping down on Islamic extremists was probably something the Americans and Indians were appreciating but perhaps behind the scenes it was damaging their long term plans as only an increase in Islamic fundamentalism and extremism can guarantee Pakistan in becoming a failed state and the only source of destabilisation.
The issues of tackling Baluchistan issue, banning militant groups were in Pakistan’s favour and in the long term guaranteed Pakistan’s future and its economy. A stable Pakistan and its growing economy would’ve made a nuclear Pakistan even stronger militarily and economically. At that stage it would’ve been quite hard for the enemies of Pakistan to work against it.
So the plan was not to let Pakistan move in the right direction for which you had to get rid of a strong, forward moving and bold leader like Musharraf and to bring in someone who will be the total opposite and take Pakistan back to the old days of the 90’s.
Luckily enough for the enemies of Pakistan the 18th February election were a sigh of relief as the people of Pakistan wrote their own destruction and helped them get rid of the only hope we had in Musharraf of a better, prosperous and bright and united Pakistan.
So we have the perfect scenario the most corrupt politician in Pakistan’s history as the President, a Prime Minister who can hardly look straight at the camera let alone write his own speech, a finance minister whose totally clueless and finds the national assembly a place where he can catch up on his sleep, information minister who is looking for another husband and a foreign minister who has no foreign knowledge.
A perfect team lead by Zardari which can go to any length in implementing the American, the Indian, the Karzai and the Israeli agenda, together with a sold out media.
Zardari and Co will work on American-Indian-Israeli agenda by:
• Trying to undermine ISI as mush as they can
• They will bring closer the anti-Pakistan Karzai
• Baluchistan will be given back to the Baluchistan Liberation Army so India can carry on supplying them with arms and so Pakistan doesn’t utilise the resources of the province
• Kashmir will be totally forgotten and even the Kashmir on Pakistan side can be given back to India
• Waziristan and NWFP will be given to the Mullahs who will be allowed to implement their own agenda and therefore implement sharia and establish their own state in the long run
• Sindh will be strengthened more and established as a no go area for Punjabis
• Punjab will eventually be tried to change into another Sindh
• Economy will continue to plunder and so the Americans will influence World Bank, IMF to strengthen their grip on us which was weakened during Musharraf era.
The perfect destruction team of Pakistan employed by the Americans has started work from 09/09/2008 lets see where it ends.
The insurgents in Baluchistan have stepped up, so have the Taliban in Waziristan. America has also started its campaign in the tribal areas of regular bombings and even sending in ground troops which was never possible under Musharraf.
The outflow of capital continues, the stock market continues to plunge, inflation keeps on rising, rupee keeps on devaluing, frustration continues to grow, loyalties continue to change, self interest continues to be a priority, liars continue to host talk shows.
Assalam-o-alykum,
I am personally glad to see some courageous ladies on Pakistani Political Scenario.Your dialogues on interfaith must be appreciated.I wish good luck in all your endeavours.I personally feel you start yours political journey in a wrong boat of PMl(Q), which are just gathering of thives,under the umberalla of a dictator. So in short run you avail the opertunist plateform . This indicates your political struggle will be full of troubles. This support of dictator will be always on your face, and people of pakistan gave their verdict on 18 feberaury.
i feel really sorry if my words hurt you
have a nice and wonderfull day
cheers
I am glad to see some courages ladies on political scenario of our country.you are doing well on interfaith understanding and it must be appreciated.At same time we should not forget about your political oppurtunism in the boat of musharf and Q league. These very people were rejected by people of pakistan on 18 of feb.To support a dictator will be always black dot on your shiny face. at same time i wish good luck in all your endeavours.
Just saw your program on Newsone. Our family and I were really impressed with your “Shola bayani”:).
Anyways , since you are in parliment. please please ask the government that why and gain why… since the textile industry is the largest industry of pakistan and govt. offer no scholarship to the students to study abroad.. I was admitted to NC state uni last year but could not go due to lack of funds…. please ask them why dont they want to support us
p.s. i did my BSC in Textile science from Textile Institute of Pakistan last year
Respected Madame.
With ref your program with Mubashir Lucman on 10 sep 2008 on TV 1 i would like to comment tha t both of u are not real, in my opinion mr lucman usrd the ladder of salman taseer and u of mr Memon other wise, how can u be a member parliment? and wat crieteria and wat quality u have? on wat grounds u r a member? do u or mr Memon have any consituency?so u and mr lucman talking about accountibilty is nonsensense as i think there are 100000 woman there more capable than u to be a member pariliment and more persons there to be an anchor like mr mubashar.
Hi
The website by parlimentarian is an excellent idea. Just saw your program in Lucman Show and most of your comments were balanced and impressive quite unlike other politicians. Please keep up the passion and the spirit.
It is nice to see some serious effort made by some politician for the awareness of common people. IT WOULD HAVE BEEN MORE FAIR AND SQUARE IF YOU HAVE PUT SOME THING ABOUT UR PML Q GOVERNMENT STUFF HERE FOR ACCOUTIBILTY.
I just want to know that can Law do something about rigging in polls as it had shown and people have seen on electronic media in many parts of Pakistan. Secondly it my opinion that there should be a law according to which all parliamentarian should not contest MNA & MPA elections more then twice. They can be a Senetor as much as they like. Like that we can have different mind of people in politics. Might be like this Pakistan and the people can move ahead with less problems. People are loosing their interest in politic and the people sitting in it from long times and doing nothing. Other thing is
Ms. Marvi Memon, you seem to be relatively more informed about environmental factors – for instance your awareness of the longer-term issues (that politicians usually don’t worry about since they are more occupied with their own survival election-to-election).
For example your promotion of awareness about glaciers and possible impact of global warming.
I would like to draw your attention to another matter – the presence of Depleted Uranium in Pakistan.
This is a problem I had brought to the attention of some of the people who are now considered big shots of the news channels – Dr. Shahid Masood, Kamran Khan and others.
However I have NEVER heard anyone mention Depleted Uranium in ANY of their programs.
Although they have often lamented the loss of life that is happening now.
Depleted Uranium is a real risk and a possible environmental disaster. And this is because the U.S. drops thousands of tons of this material (it is used as cheap replacement for Titanium in many of it’s armaments – bullets in the A-10 gatling gun, missiles and bunker busters).
The danger is that it is nearly as radioactive as Uranium and contains all the isotopes usually found in Uranium. In addition it burns on impact and forms a POWDER which is dissipated in the wind and can drift downwind.
This is a MAJOR environmental disaster waiting to happen.
I realize this is not an issue that you alone can pursue, and it is already a bit late – since to actively prevent it, the muslim media should have been ACTIVELY promoting the dangers in this from some YEARS ago, so that the U.S. would have been shamed into NOT using it.
It has polluted areas of Iraq – like Basra. And everyday that the battles continue in the rest of Iraq and in which the U.S. used armament that is built with DU.
Please read up on DU on google, using terms like:
“Depleted Uranium”
“Depleted Uranium in Iraq”
“Depleted Uranium” Basra
This is an issue that I brought to the attention of media “luminaries” (more like demagogues) like Dr. Shahid Masood, Kamran Khan and others.
If they had been true readers they MUST have heard about DU – at least from the journalists they met in Iraq – Dr. Shahid Masood visited Iraq.
Yet they have confined themselves to challenging Pakistanis and the governments in Pakistan and have never created a robust portfolio of arguments to actually take their arguments to the West.
But did you ever hear them mentioning this real risk – not only to the current generation, but for generations to come ? We talk about our home country and the possibility that we have “at least our homeland”. However if these people are allowed to pollute this land as well, then what place will be safe.
Also these people do not realize the major breakdown of the Pakistan brand. If it becomes known (and it WILL become known later) that there has been extensive DU exposure in Pakistan. Then NO ONE will want our agricultural produce (esp. when they can get it from elsewhere). And only the poor and desperate will live here.
The reality is that we lack the presence of THINKING people in our legislature. People who can think forward 10 years, 20 years to see what our real problems are.
Salam mam;
Dis is salman im professionally pharmacist and also did my MBA,how r u hope that u would be fine with the prosperity of god i have read ur biodata n i would not ambigious rather to say that v r so lucky that still v have de patriotic women like u who first present her in front of us for her accountability.I alwaz keen to hear the comments which based on honesty,loyality and patriotism which i had been alwaz heard in ur TV talk shows ,recently in LUCKMAN SHOW,U were tremendous de way u did research in order to get monitoring the major issues of our country on which most of our polititcian just hide becoz they all love governance.unlike u,i just say im soo much disappointed with de progress of our politician they just think about themselves as a result of which our economical destablization,foreign exchange reservior,GDP,GNP,Inflation,unemployment are worst which is bad indicator for investor result worse condition of our country.Anyhow at de end of de day i just humble request to u that i have no interest that for which party u belong,de area of interest is that u r loyal and honest person for our country and i will be very gratful to u if u pleasure me to become a part of ur team by any means to play my part for de prosperity of my country to restore and prevent rest one youth who invest more for their carrer but got nothing,again kindly pay ur kind attension on my request.My best wishes alwaz be with u.
Looking forward ur kind reply:
salman zafer(karachi)
respected marvi
AOA
what a miserable people we are ? we axe our own feet again and again voting for corrupt politicians like PPP and PML N we are the nation busy in squaring 1 since 61 years , it is our adversity that we as nation are splitted in sub nation , clans, casts creed language etc tetc, if we want to be prosper as nation we must have to promote pakistani nationalism in our young ones , only pakistani nationalism, and love for this beautiful country can permeate enthusiasm in our youths for pakistan , i watch you first time talking today on TV one in lucman show , i simply say you are an excellent commentator , i love general pervez musharraf , i am an ardent supporter of this great man , and i firmly believe that time will come very soon when this nation realizes and remember him as saviour who serve this country very well. general sb hats of fto you really hats off to you.
thank you very much
long live pervez musharraf
long live PML Q
Faraz
Islamabad
salam marvi,
just want to appretiate your work… it is so encouraging and motivating to know that we still have people working towards safguarding the interests of pakistan.. I m highly impressed by your approach towards national issues..I would like to congratulate you for taking a wonderful intiative by openning this website to make your self approachable to general public.
may god bless you and you succeed in your endeveurs … you have all the support from us…
Best regards,
Madiha Khan- Islamabad
Ms Marvi Memon,
I have seen you talking in many channels of talk show at T.V. You have good commend over facts and reply very intellegently….Keep it up…GUD WORK…
Please advise our members of parliament(M.N.A) to attend assembly sessions regularly and they should participate in discussuon with some concrete purpose.We are paying Rs. 20.00 million to each MPA/MNA.
i really feel pitty for the people of pakistan as they are so senseless,and cant diffrenciat in good and bad,but at the end ofcourse the will miss gen, musharef,i am really impressed by the young lady marvi,she is the true face of pakistan, keeeeeep doing marvi sister as much u are doing for this sensless people,god bless you, A worried pakistani.
Salams
Last night I had chance to see you on TV show, after that I have few questions in my mind to share with you.
Muslim Leauge lost their election on 12 Feb 08 due to lack of party main leadership. Do you think is there really reason for loss or party was over confident in terms of elections, as ML has other very telented peopele why should change paerty leadership to telented guys like you or some other?
I would like to tell u that please ask yr leadership & others to burry the past. Please for the sake of Pakistan look for the future. Last night you were brilliant on Lucman Show, but at times i felt you were answerless cuz yr party didnt do anything on the issues raised by some callers. Anyway I pray for your future & the future of Pakistan.
aoa.
how r u dear Marvi. last night i see u on news1 with my favorit man lucman mubashar. HE is very brave man. and i just want to give u suggestions that why u are not doing for basic education system. in last duration of your governs :parha likha punjab: ok (khush na hunay se behtar hai lakin)why u are not doing for same education for all ppl poors and rich persons. their sylabas not same that is a big problem i never saw anyone doing for this . and also if u are doing some work for womens everyday in every part of the country womens are punished and killed by i call terrists and in the name of (garat,kali , or bad words )our country hve many problms i hope u are doing well and God bless u
Tahir malik
mohtarma marvi memon sahiba asalamalay kum
hum ney aap ka interview t.v one per dekah aap ney ex president pervaiz musharraf sahab ki dil khol kar tareef ki jis kay lia aap ko humari taraf say mubarak aur umeed kartay han ainda bhee issi tharah un ka diffa karangi ex president pervaiz sahab jaisa saddar na koi aya tha na aiga i love pervaiz musharraf president pervaiz musharraf zindabad aap ki sehat aur salamti kay lia dua go rais karachi
miss marvi
yesterday i saw your program it was good that you try aleast try to justify yourself which is very important in your business. wel after watching different political programs and the reality which i know about different politions i dont think that this country will survive general public always tries their luck that may be this time the old black sleep is changed every one get the chance instead of doing something for country they fill there bank accounts and then leave us(public) in more trouble alone what will happen to this country
you know for the formation of pakistan one generation gave blood so we get pakistan same time is now there should be one generation to save pakistan which i think is no where so as a leader you people have to start that struggle other wise we will never make pakistan once more
because quaid-e-azam is not with us any more so kindly if you get time tell me system will remain the same every one comes to fill his or her banks thats it? you dont feel pain for pakistan think about that poor father who kill his own children why because of this situation
so the leaders gets all the blame why not you change the system aleast try silent public will be with you as visible one trust me we need visible change.if some one can do it you will see all the public with that person but that person should not be a cheater once more.
when pakistan is formed one dollar is equal to one rupee so think now where we stand today
mam i feel pain for my country hope few people like you also feel
waiting for your feedback on one simple question which is what will happen with pakistan atleast tell us so we get ready for that we cannot afford one more surprize??
madam i really like and respect your feelings, expressing expressions, speaching quality, speaking power, mamory, power of command in your field and lot of things.
mam i dont know the politics as i m an civil engineer but i can feel what is right and i feel you are sincere with you feelings which is the most important thing in any field this is what i know.
my wishes and prays are with you, may Allah bless you.
but with all those things take good care of yourself as well.
Oh Marvi, i just want to know that about yourself please tell me very honestely you and your father Nisar Memon both you have come from grass root level or you come here in National Assembely with the friendship of one person who’s name Musharaf…
Best Regards
well marvi I like your style of talking. you are a well learned person and above all you have alffiliations with my respected president musharraf…the only one who deserved to be the president of my beloved country Pakistan.i’m suffering from acute depression since the day these plunderers, looters,dacoits and twicely tested thieves have taken charge of Punjab and Federal Governments. when would people be able to unterstand their shallow words and corrupt characters.now karzai alongwith other CIA agents will decide the fate of my country.i’m writing thesis about the deceptive use of language by political leaders and that had given me enough political insight to inerpret what’s going on around.may allah save my country from these voltures and people like you should never get tired to expose the hideen agendas of these so-called leaders.plz let me know how my president musharraf is doing these days? he has been and always will be my President as long as i live.
all the best
hi Ms Marvi,
its indeed a good idea to let people also express their point of view to one of their representatives. your family and educational background is impressive and its nice to have an educated person sitting in the assembly. I sincerley hope that you dont end up throwing bangles and “chadar” over the speaker of the house someday. However; a good family and educational background does not ensure a clean political life in this country.despite all your impressive credentials its eally a shame that you stand with a party that was nurtured by a dictator and crumbled once he disgracefully departed. i have no love lost for the incumbent regime,but still how can you so blindly support a butcher who killed hundreds of innocent children in lal masjid. all they were asking was to shutdown brothels and obsenity. how can you justify the ill intent of your premier who almost threw the steel mills away for a dime. maam for your “enlightment” mr musharaff was immensley disliked even in the armed forces. how can i say that? because i am one of them. he is the one who allowed the americans to disregard our territorial interity..i hate his guts…
search youtube for “musharraf resignation speech” (without quotes) for COMPLETE speech with ENGLISH SUBTITLES. Or just use the youtube website address above or go directly to: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJzLX6GU-50
There are versions for mobile phones (3gp video 38MB and mp3 audio 3.6MB) there as well (see links in description section of video webpage).
Pass the speech video/audio around on your cellphones to your friends and family. It still sounds current in the current situation (U.S. acting up after Musharraf leaves the scene).
There is a core group of 15% of Pakistani population who have their heads on straight (if the post-resignation Gallup poll is to be believed). These are people who DESPITE the media propaganda (some say “perfect storm” effort – whether foreign or local inspired) still had the presence of mind to separate the wheat from the chaff, the fact from the fiction – constructed arguments which highlighted the negative but did not recognize the far greater positives.
Then there is a 20% group of people who were positive/negative about his resignation. These are the “we are now having regrets” crowd probably. This 20% of people can probably be turned – however they are the type of people who cannot be relied upon for good judgement i.e. they will bolt at any crisis and are people who cannot reconcile contradictory signals or stuff thrown at them by the media. And these are people who cannot understand the value of choosing the best option under the circumstances from among possibly bad/badder options.
The 63% people who were against Musharraf probably include people who do so for dogmatic reasons (belong to one party or other and not think for themselves), or for ethnic reasons (not all Punjabis – since a thinking Punjabi segment is deeply in support of Musharraf – but a certain section considers it an affront to have a “weak” Muhajir, as opposed to a “strong” – meaning idiotic – person who they can “respect”, or for people living around Islamabad, someone who belongs to a “family” who they can reach through side channels and finding him unreachable through most traditional channels are flummoxed and so find the whole situation thoroughly disconcerting), and then there are the .. idiots. And many of them are probably people who were not ready for the onslaught the media wrecked on their heads. Many of these WILL learn a less from this – and will start to mistrust the “media” much more. But these are costly lessons – which SHOULD have been taken 20 years ago. That it started only with Musharraf is late but still a good change.
Because in a country with high illiteracy, the visual medium is MUCH more of a reformer than the print media (which would always remain unreachable for illiterates). This is analogous to (if you think of computing) to the proliferation of mobile phones. And computers. Because of the audio nature of the phone it is usable by all and it achieves mass market – and BECAUSE of it, some of the same illiterates WILL get exposure to computers and WILL eventually get used to using what are essentially computers (i.e. cell phones or the next generation – as smartphone features make it into cheaper mobile phones as well).
It is for this reason that the visual media is ESPECIALLY important for Pakistan. With that advantage however also lies the danger of manipulation – because it is the same population (one complete generation has not grown up with this visual media yet even) but the means of manipulation now have reach through this visual media as well.
That is, there is the danger of foreign influence (i.e. if it is reformist that can be useful, but if it seeks to do some strategic impacting or to foment unrest then that is dangerous).
So for example you see the example of the U.S. possibly OVERpaying for the VOA programs being broadcast on Geo and AAJ TV channels. This situation is analogous to the OVERpaying that the U.S. did to the Jamaat-i-Islami printing presses in Karachi in the 1960s. The USIS used the JI’s printing presses and according to some sources burnt the material in it’s compounds. If true, this would be a “legal” way to provide funds to the JI.
A similar situation can happen if Geo TV UNDERpays to the tune of millions of dollars for some programming that they would otherwise have to pay more for – to some Indian channel for instance.
In the U.S./VOA case it can be argued that usually when Geo shows some external program they would PAY for it. Why is it that Geo is ASKING for payment for showing VOA programs. This raises the question this means that Geo probably realizes the programs contribute little informationally or in terms of content to their audience. BUT it is somethign that will create value for the promoter (i.e. U.S.). In THAT they basically are acting as agents of a foreign power.
Secondly while it could reasonably be argued that the U.S. is doing it to “reach the Pakistani people to build bridges”, there could be a secondary benefit for the U.S. strategic objectives – they CAN wind up intentionally OVERpaying to cover for what would essentially be a type of influence peddling – which may or may not be overt. But it could be CRUCIAL if it is used at certain times to exercise pressure on Geo management.
A third question also arises – that Geo presents the VOA programs as visually identical – and to many illiterates it will seem indistinguishable from normal Geo programming (for instance now they have even dropped the faint VOA logo that used to appear previously and was probably missed by many people even then).
The question that arises is – WHY would Geo want such brand dilution ? They are a running a very valuable news program channel – would any news organization volunteer the dilution of it’s brand, it’s look to show ANOTHER entity’s “identical looking” news programs in the middle of it’s news programming ?
These are all questions that should be asked by and OF the media. And they are answerable for them. The ONLY reason they are NOT getting more pressure from their viewership about these issues is that the viewership is majority illiterate (and Geo KNOWS that – it is no longer even the print business as practiced by Jang from the newspaper era). Right now Geo has TREMENDOUS leverage – to go for the jugular of the illiterate mind. They are buying time because they press those buttons. Those people ARE it’s audience and they are the ones who buy the soap and the cooking oil. As long as they are guaranteed that viewership Geo is under NO pressure whatsoever to answering questions posed to them by “concerned Pakistanis”.
In essence the “media” in Pakistan has become like the “democracy” in Pakistan – both address the most common denominator in Pakistan (actually niche channels like Dawn News and some of the business channels maybe slightly different in that).
And so it is not a surprise that the mass market media channels WILL become similar in argument and stridency as the politicians/political landscape in Pakistan – which has primarily been coloured not by the wise Islamic scholar or the thinking not-as-religious Pakistani, but will be coloured similarly by the tribal, ethnic (and in many ways pre-Islamic) culture of the villages of Pakistan.
However the media WILL remain monolithic AS LONG AS there is consolidation of power – where newspaper and satellite news are both owned by the same entity. This will lead to the creation of a few strong entities. However this is not all bad either – since this will allow the creation of media entities that are strong enough to counter bad government (and have the leverage of the print media’s local contacts). The disadvantage is that it PREVENTS the emergence of a new media which is free from the shackles of the old print media. Note that the old print media was a totally different entity – reliant on literacy in it’s customers for it’s survival (something which is short of in Pakistan). Thus newspapers – for all their competence – never achieved the mass market level and as a result never paid their employees as much and as a result did not get the best talent either. This COOPTING of the print media by the new visual media channels (by allowing satellite channels to be owners of print media groups) has allowed the induction of scores of print media people into this new media – and they have taken hold, occupying positions of power WAY beyond their capability AND THINKING. But this was probably also because of the rapid expansion of media during Musharraf’s era. If the expansion had been slow it may have produced a different type of media employee (though it could also have created a class of elitist “media people” who were unaware of the beat on the ground – as happens in the U.S. occasionally). But the fast expansion also has left a lot of print people in prime positions of power in the satellite news industry and they will continue to hamper it’s progress onto the second level (perhaps) as newer better trained people join th media groups.
Combineed ownership of print AND satellite media also is bad because it PREVENTS the creation of a strong anti-satellite stance in the print media – since satellite dominate (being a visual medium in an illiterate country), their PRINT arms would tend to dominate the other print newspapers which are NOT satellite owned. This will lead to the rapid domination of print media by satellite companies promoting the SAME satellite programming (as happens with Geo/Jang Urdu newspapers). Thus REDUCING diversity of opinion and commentary.
The coopting of print media also leads to the problem of fewer players – with the result that even if ONE of them is taken over by an outside group it would STILL look like it is Pakistani – but their strategic policies regarding what issues to cover and highlight could be subtly coloured by their masters or “business partners”.
In addition it could easily be acquired by an outside firm for a few hundred million dollars (not that much for foreign companies) – thus allowing them an instant and easy foothold into a country where the non-illiterates think they are running the country but where the illiterates are “owned” (that is, that is all they read, follow or are exposed to from the “news” side of things) by the visual media companies.
An example is the type of response one hears on these news media channels from the “man on the street” – while many will (correctly) point out the primary issues of inflation and high cost of food, there will be some who will dole out a litany of points about what has to be done:
- reinstatement of Chaudhry Iftikhar (deposed Chief Justice) and “Aazaad Adlia” (what the news channels SAY is what it would be if he was restored – which is a big IF i.e. is it not exactly the same thing – but presented enough times by media and it sounds like “the same thing” to the “man on the street” and there is NO OTHER media outlet which can disabuse i.e. reinform them of an alternate fact !)
- Musharraf impeachment
etc. etc.
Some of them are just parroting the “list” that has been bombarded by these media channels.
There should also be a classification of Pakistani media and Foreign media – channels that are primarily based in Dubai should be classified as Foreign media. But here too there is a benefit/disadvantage challenge.
A channel based outside Pakistan prevents it from falling into the most excessive of crackdowns that a government could do, but it also prevents the channel from diverging away from Pakistani issues and falling for other interests – for example like Geo with Indian commercial interests – which later prevent them from taking a challenging stance against India.
This one is a tricky decision as well – since there are advantages/disadvantages to both.
Which is probably why Musharraf did not do much to foster this distinction – in his view a “foreign” Pakistani media is actually a good change – as it allow Pakistan to push it’s ideals out to the world. It is a much more positive and pro-active way of addressing the situation, and the other alternative to “control” is rife with problems as then there are no limits to how much you will wind up crushing the media and then you might as well NOT have a media then.
Musharraf was singularly responsible for the creation of the media in this state that it is – essentially free. Although the exceptional events of attacks against Geo offices during emergency have been taken to great extremes by people like Hamid Mir (notice how Kamran Khan is not as aggressive against Musharraf) primarily for other-than-just-that attitudes among some journalists.
Regarding the attitudes of journalists – it is a well known fact that there is a preponderance of PPP-aligned people in the print media and “lawyers” because people with non-standard educational (or perhaps interrupted education) could find a niche because of their essentially independent nature of work.
So it is no surprise that when the PPP wanted to put pressure on Musharraf to get better terms in NRO they used the “lawyer’s movement” and NGOs (all too often funded by outside sources). With the NRO done, the lawyer’s movement naturally lost it’s PPP aspect and essentially became a group of 20 people (no wonder Aitzaz Ahsan has to say the demonstrations are small because they are of a more distributed nature i.e. “all over the country” now).
Respect. Mamdam
This kind of crime was rampant prior to the dawn of Islam. If it is a tradition of Baloch tribes (not all) then these tribes must be brought under the control / regulatory laws which are in compliance with ‘Shariah’ as well as within the constitution of Pakistan
“ALL PROBLEMS EXIST BECAUSE OF MUSHARRAF, NO MUSHARRAF NO PROBLEM”…..IS THAT RIGHT??????????
Not long ago in Pakistan the critic’s vast majority of them ranging from the opposition of Qazi Hussain Ahmed, PML-N and PPP to the journalists like Hamid Mir, Shahid Masood had one statement to issue and that was continuously on repeat mode. As they said:
“ALL PROBLEMS EXIST BECAUSE OF MUSHARRAF, NO MUSHARRAF AND THEIR WILL BE PEACE AND STABILITY, NO SUICIDE ATTACKS, NO AMERICAN AIR RAIDS AND THE ECONOMY WILL BOOM, MORE INVESTORS WILL COME TO PAKISTAN”
Musharraf and the well wishers of Pakistan who do utilise their brains knew that they are only political slogans and very far away from reality, as the personalities with the above statements have no charisma, no leadership qualities they are the Puray Likhay UNPURH, individuals who have self-interest above national interest and can cause all sorts of mayhem on the way to seeing themselves in power.
From 1999 Musharraf not only stabilised the economy but also in later years strengthened it so from being defaulted Pakistan stood as the emerging markets in the world.
How can someone with even a lesser intelligence level argue that Foreign Reserves in 1999 of $700m are better than $17bn in 2008? How can the critics argue that the economy size of $75bn in 1999 was better than $170bn in 2008? Either the critics l have no basic numerical knowledge at all or they are LIARS because basic maths is enough to see that $700m is less than $17bn and $75bn is less than $170bn.So how on earth can the economy be worse than 1999? Every sector and the overall size of the economy has doubled and in some cases tripled over the past 8 years.
By no means Pakistan has gone richer but at least agree that the economy has gone much stronger but obviously still needs a lot of work to keep it going.
The last 6 months has proved once gain that it was the leadership of Musharraf and the economic policies of Shaukat Aziz which made our economy a stable and progressive economy, where investors had full confidence in Musharraf and Shaukat Aziz therefore weren’t hesitant to invest.
But as soon as Shaukat Aziz left and Musharraf appeared less in command of the country the economic situation is their to be seen.
Now there is absolutely no investor confidence in the capabilities of the present government they have no direction and understanding of the challenges. Therefore the investors have withdrawn their capital, Rupee which should’ve gained slightly against a weakening dollar a few months back but instead it proves of our incompetent government that the rupee depreciated further.
Post 9/11 Scenario
President Musharraf made the right decision in supporting the world against the war in terror. It is our war not America’s probably America has woken us up because we were sleep for 50 years as we left our western borders specially NWFP and Northern Areas unguarded for 50 years. It now proves that was not a wise decision as people have freely crossed the borders over the years and it has not benefited Pakistan other than destroying our society with Kalashnikov Culture and heroin. Perhaps we should’ve guarded our western borders straight after 9/11 as it was obvious that Al-Qaeda and Taliban will cross over and start their campaign from Pakistan.
Musharraf had a good understanding of the dangers we faced with America and India sitting in Afghanistan.Musharraf was successful in containing American attacks in Pakistan as only aerial attacks were allowed only on pacific targets. Under Musharraf no Afghan troop entered Pakistani territory, no American troop landed on Pakistan soil to carryout a raid.
The dangers we are facing now are because of the weakness of the present government as the Americans do not consider our leadership as worthy of posing any challenge to them. The Americans are openly stating their policy about attacking Pakistan, American troops are landing in Waziristan to carryout raids, there has been 10 aerial attacks in a week (whereas under Musharraf their hardly use to be 10 attacks in a year).
Is this the democracy we were asking and crying for over the last 8 years? Democracy where there:
• Is no credible person leading and making the new policies, where:
• America is openly targeting innocent civilians by aerial and ground raids, where:
• Economy is plunging deeper and deeper, where;
• The rupee has no value left, where;
• China is being sidelined, where;
• Mr 10% is on private visits to London and Dubai, where;
• Load shedding, inflation, crime, unemployment is worsening, where;
• Stock exchange continues to take a dive from 17000 points to 9000 points, where;
• Investors are withdrawing their capital, where;
• Suicide bombers are still at large and strike at will(as they said their will be no suicide bombings when Musharraf goes)
When Musharraf was in power everything was going in the right direction with a bit of difficulty and their was strong leadership and a strong team to deal with the problems, but now it’s all shambles, incompetent individuals who have been given the responsibility of running Pakistan, A Pakistan which needed confident, bold and charismatic leaders like MUSHARRAF.
So, it seems after all that the critics have been proven wrong once again as a Pakistan without Musharraf will not be stable and prosper but instead will continue from 1999 again and be a failed state, a corrupt state, a state with incompetent individuals sitting in the government, a state where the enemies have once again started to threaten its sovereignty.
hi,
i am begining to think that this forum is just a gathering of people who think that two wrongs can make one right. yes zardari is corrupt but how could this acquit mr musharraf and his cronies from their crimes. he succumbed to the biggest con job of the history of the mankind(a.k.a war on terror) and commited the entire nation without asking anyone without any debate and against the wishes of a roaring majority. Turkey also rebuked such threats from US and still they are surviving pretty good. what have we achieved? truth is that this man musharraf took these decisions because he knew that he would never have to go to the public for vote. all he would have to do was to accomodate the winner with free treats like N.R.O. please for crying out loud if you worried for pakistan because you dont trust zardari then dont forget that it is your beloved musharraf who served his purpose and let this criminal to return with all pomp and show and become the president eventually. cant you see this man had no right intentions.Saying “pak ka Allah hi hafiz” just because he thinks he is the only hope we had..take a walk sir. you have harmed this country more than anyone else. honestly speaking now when i go out with my unifrom on i feel “unsafe” just because of you…May Allah expose your crimes..
Well Marvi, I am a journalist in APP English Service. The first time I saw u in a PML meeting in 2007 and under estimated u as a stereotype female just for showcasing in the political meeting. However, when I gradually started listening u it really stunned me especially during recent sessions of Parliament in PPP government u have been raising very important issues in befitting manner as I use to observe u from press gallery.
I also heard good words for u when I was on a coverage tour of Gilgit and other Northern Areas with then Information and Boracasting Minister Senator Nisar Memon in March this year. Two things I like u r ur name and ur loyalty to men of ur land which I came to know from MEHRAN TV Interview. I look forward to take a cup of tea with u…hmmmmmm?
You’re the MNA of this nation; I demand you to give us electricity in Karachi. WOuld you even care to publish my email, let alone reply. Expecting you to do something in this regard is foolishness. You guys wont do anything. All you care about is your personal accounts getting exponentially increased and that’s it! You are all losers!
May be you need to take a walk and think about your knowledge and understanding of the issues Pakistan faced and faces…
Musharraf said Pakistan ka Allah HafiZ Because of people like you who are wrong, but so proudly go around giving comments as if they are the brainiest of all.
What crimes are you talking about regardding
Musharraf?
One thing is encouraging to see that even the biggest critcics like you can only talk about LAL MASJID AND WAZIRISTAN.Which atleast proves that in 9 years of power only two negative issues LAL MASJID AND WAZIRISTAN stand out which means Musharraf was doing a pretty good job..
Lal Masjid was a issue which could not be tolerated but Musharraf did tolerate them for quite a long time infact i would say Musharraf was slow in reacting, in any civilised society Lal Masjid would not have even existed in the capital let alone the extremists going around kidnapping police offices and other foriegn nationals.Musharraf gave the lal masjid time to surrender they chose their own faith,the children if they did die?as most of them had already left the mosque, than the blame should go on Maulana aziz and his wife who kept them hostage inside with them.If you were trapped in the mosque you would force all the kids to leave immediately but if some did stay behind than Maulana Aziz forced them to stay for which he suffered heavily.
The people of lal masjid except the kids were not innocent,how can you be innocent and carry and bring guns inside a mosque,how can you radicalise kids their, how can you start implementing your agenda everywhere, how can you kill and kidnapp police officers and get away with it.
You want Pakistan to stay a banana republic where no law exists and anyone can get up and start implementing their agenda.
You talk about shutting brothels,theirs brothels all over Pakistan and have been before Muharraf came in power.Closing down brothels in one town is not going to make a difference plus the police need to do that not extremists who have been brain washed and want to take over the CAPITAL OF PAKISTAN BECAUSE THEY ARE LOYAL TO THE TALIBAN AND AL-QAEDA…..
The enlightened Musharraf was liked everywhere and specially the armed forces.AT THE PRESENT MOMENT HE IS IN THE ARMY HOUSE WHICH IS PROVE HOW MUCH THE ARMY LIKE HIM,THEY ARE THE ONES WHO GAVE HIM GUARD OF HONOUR AND THEY ARE THE ONES STILL FIGHTING IN WAZIRISTAN,IF MUSHARRAF WAS HATED IN ARMED FORCES THAN WHY IS HE STILL STAYING IN THE ARMY HOUSE AND WHY IS HIS POLICY OF WAZIRISTAN STILL BEING IMPLEMENTED.
SHEHARYAR get your facts right and open your eyes and see whats happeing in Paksiatn now?
Under Musharraf America didnt strike Pakistan 10 times a month and America didn’t send their forces on Pakistani soil, this has happened in the civilian dictatorship governements in power right now…
Next time state the facts not your personal thoughts on MUSHARRAF…………
JIYE MUSHARRAF
THE BEST LEADER PAKISTAN HAS EVER HAD…………
A couple of days back I got my Suzuki Khyber car rammed by a Toyota Corolla which was of a District Nazim Khairpur. The driver who banged the car into mine was apologetic yet at the same time unwilling to offer an amount for his mistake since my car was literally broken from the side. His car received a minor dent which I understood was a mistake of his right from the beginning. All this happened at the posh location of Park Towers in broad daylight. I spoke very softly to the driver and told him to call his master so that we could discuss matters. He did so immediately. When the District Nazim arrived in a government car (with green number plate), he showed his rude nature and aggressiveness was pretty apparent to one and all. Since I am the humble sort, I introduced myself and told him that his driver accepted his mistake and that he should offer me some amount so that I could get my car fixed. This put him in rash and he hurled abuses left, right and center. I told him I was his younger and I respected him (though there was no reason to respect such an abusive person) but he just didn’t give up. He even tried to push me away which was a shocker for me. Since I am from an educated lot, I knew that I had to back off and so I did. He sat with his two kids in his government car and took his personal car away with the same driver. In short, he knew I was humane to him so he used this to his own advantage. Is there any system within this land? Is there any law that one could look up to? Where are we really heading? The District Nazim Khairpur must know that he is accountable for his actions and words. I trust my God and I hope He will teach him a lesson which will make him mend his ways. It is just that I respected my own character and I didn’t find it feasible to stoop down to his levels that I kept quiet. May God have mercy on our country. May our leaders understand that the fire of hell is very very hot.
DEAR I DO RESPECT YOU BUT YOU SHOULD HAVE TALK TO DISTRICT NAZIM KAIRPUR WITH MORE POWER AND CONFIDENCE .YOU MUST HAVE FILE COMPLAIN AND SEND COPIES TO THE ALL TOP PEOPLES AND TO THE NEWSPAPER .ALL WAYS TAKE PHOTOS WITH PHONE CAMERA.YOU NEVER GAVE HIS NAME AND PARTY NAME .FROM JAMAL MY E MAIL IS JAMAL.SYED666@GMAIL.COM .
Dear Mam,AOA,I am writing in regard to the lecture you gave at LUMS,Lahore on 12th September 2008.Please upload the pictures you took at LUMS in your photo gallery so that i can copy them and upload them in my profile or alternatively please sent me that photographs at my email address.
Moreover,I highly apprecite the courage you showed by coming to LUMS.It was really good listening to you.
Allah Hafiz.
We love you Musharraf!
He has been an honest man with good intentions who tried to serve his country to the best of his abilities. In a country that has suffered so much over the years from corrupt and self-serving politicians like Nawaz and Zardari.
In deciding to resign as president of Pakistan, Pervez Musharraf has done the honorable thing. He has chosen the path of self-sacrifice and fallen on his sword rather than prolong the country’s crisis over his position as head of state. In doing so and putting Pakistan first, he has enabled it to move on. For that, all Pakistanis should be grateful.
General Musharraf in his historic speech to the nation, also enumerating the successes of his 8 years rule, announced to resign as President of Pakistan. General Musharraf was his confident self and his message optimistic. He bowed out with dignity and courage, to avoid confrontation, and in the best interest of the nation and the country. In his words, it was not the time for individual bravado. He received a guard of honor before he parted the Presidency
Today, our eyes and hearts cry! The man we so loved, honored, admired and cherished for his determination to deliver for Pakistan – and deliver he remarkably did! He was a man who believed & practiced in ‘Pakistan First’. The only honest and visionary leader we ever had. Pakistan progressed and prospered under his leadership. Pakistan had hope under his selfless & patriotic policies.
We love you Musharraf!
In President Musharraf’s era:
President Musharraf led a great team of economists and professionals with ex-PM Shaukat Aziz, to mark their achievements. Their achievements caused Pakistan to emerge as a geo-strategic important country with a 100% better economy! His effectiveness shall be measured by the results produced by the led! In 2006, Pakistan was the 3rd fastest growing economy of the world and world’s preferred destination for Investment!
In President Musharraf’s era:
Pakistan’s economy grew by 100% — to become $ 160 billion
Revenue grew by 100% — to become $ 11.4 billion
Per Capita Income grew by 100% — to become $ 925
Foreign Reserves grew by 500% — to become $ 17 billion
Exports grew by 100% — to become $ 18.5 billion
Textile exports grew by 100% — to become $ 11.2 billion
Karachi Stock Exchange grew by 500% — to become $ 75 billion
Foreign Direct Investment grew by 500% — to become $ 8 billion
Annual Debt servicing decreased by 35% — to become 26%
Poverty decreased by 10% — to become 24%
literacy rate grew by 10% — to become 54%
Public development Funds grew by 100% — to become Rs 520 billion
President Musharraf’s Vision and Policies
President Musharraf’s Vision and Policies helped Pakistan come out of the list of Highly Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) while setting it on path of prosperity, growth and economic reforms. While the world institutions like the World Bank (source) & (source), IMF (source) and ADB (source) have been praising Pakistan for its reforms, fiscal policies and macro-economic policies – the biased & wicked TV channels GEO, ARY & AAJ – have been projecting a negative, bleak and a hopeless picture on purpose to serve their isolated vested interest. These SOLD-OUT channels are creating despondency to drive away the foreign investment and depress over-seas Pakistanis. The contribution by these over-seas Pakistanis is instrumental in heaping and accumulating Foreign Reserves to stabilize Pakistan’s economy. Recent rumor-mongering (source) by these channels, that President Musharraf has been confined by the Army Chief and will resign soon, crashed our Stock markets (source) by 500 points TWICE! GEO, ARY and AAJ are benchmarks of ingratitude – for the leader who actually gave the freedom to come on air and express their views, and towards their own country!
For those that consider President Musharraf ..
For those that consider President Musharraf as an
For those that consider President Musharraf as an unconstitutional President:
1- PML-Q government passed a constitutional amendment in National Assembly, with 2/3 majority, also approved by Senate that allowed President Musharraf to hold dual offices.
2- Constitution of Pakistan – Article 63 clause (1) paragraph (d), read with proviso to Article 41 clause (7) paragraph (b), allows the President to hold dual office.
3- Supreme Court of Pakistan allowed President to stand for elections in November 2007.
4- President Musharraf was elected President of Pakistan, by a combined electoral of the Senate, National Assembly and the 4 Provincial Assembles
5- President Musharraf won by 58% votes in November 2007, as the constitutional President of Pakistan!
Therefore, he may still be considered an unconstitutional President (unrealistic) by those that have no regard for the Constitution of Pakistan, the 2/3 majority of National Assembly that elected him as the President and the Supreme Court decision (under PCO ex-CJP Iftikhar Chaudhry) that allowed him to take part in the Presidential elections
For us – President Musharraf is our HERO
For us – President Musharraf is our HERO – Our Leader!
There are three kinds of people: Those who make things happen, those who watch things happen, and those who ask, ‘What happened?’” –Casey Stengel
President Musharraf made things happen for Pakistan!!!
The spirit who has seen the spectre of death cannot be scared by the faces of thieves; the soldier who has seen the swords glittering over his head and streams of blood under his feet, does not care about the rocks thrown at him by the children on streets — Khalil Jibran
DEAR SIR CAN ANY BODY KNOW PERVAZ MUSHRAF E MAIL OR WEB SITE .I HAVE GREAT RESPECT FOR MUSSHRAF .GOD BLESS HIM HE TRIED HIS BEST BUT CROUPT PEOPLE DO NOT WANT .I HAVE A SUGGESTION THERE SHOULD BE A SUPREEM COUNSEL CONSIST OF SIX MEMBER OF DEFENCE THREE MEMBER FROM JUDICIARY.ONLY HONEST AND HARD WORKING TO OVER LOOK FOR EVIL DISHONEST GUYS AND PUNISH THEM.THEY SHOULD MONITOR FROM PRESIDENT TO LOW LIFE CRIME LIKE RAPE OF 8 YEARS OLD GIRL .JAMAL
If I may answer your question (for which I am not being paid, I might add). You should have called the Islamabad Traffic Police to the scene.
Now if this was Shaukat Aziz’s tenure – he had given the Traffic Police “khuli chhutti” to fine diplomats, and parliamentarians – one even had his car lifted from the Ministry for escaping the scene of a confrontation with Traffic Police.
It seems the “honorable” former Chief Justice also had a tussle with the Traffic Police and essentially forced the police to back down – CJs have a lot of arbitrary powers it seems in Pakistan – including the ability to send serving officers to jail on a whim (please correct me if I am wrong).
In all the criticism of Shaukat Aziz, none of these idiotic media programs “taakra” etc. ever mentioned any of these things. In fact many of the PML-Q people have been reticent in their praise of Musharraf and Shaukat Aziz – because many of them did not particularly like Musharraf either – the whole Musharraf/PML-Q thing was a pretty awkward matchup – the real synergy actually existed between Musharraf and the PPP constituency – or at least that is my theory.
On one of the live call-in TV programs they had one caller who severely chastised the PML-Q parliamentarian (maybe he is part of the “forward bloc” now) for always coming on these programs and hearing criticism of Musharraf and Shaukat Aziz and then said the HE could provide a better list of achievements and then this caller started listing a whole list of them.
I do not know how the Traffic Police now manages the parliamentarians, but I would not be surprised if they have been slightly weakened with PM Gilani at the helm.
Pakistan’s defence establishment-if it can be called as an establishment-is the biggest farce ever enacted at the expense of a 170 million strong nation.
Abraham Lincoln was wrong, one can fool all the people-running into millions-all the time, by singing them lullabies, thrusting lollypops in their mouths and making them believe in trumped up and fictitious tales of valor and defence capability.
Pakistan has suffered the most at the hands of its own military, and the age olg dictum of, pakistan’s existence being imperilled by the internal dangers instead of the external ones is true, with our million strong forces being the gravest threat to our existence.
just a thing or two about Imran Khan and Mqm..all those who like Musharraf don’t think they are his alternative.
Lets start with Imran Khan first, don’t be fooled by Imran Khan,you might think oh hes not corrupt therefore he is good ,well Osama bin laden is not corrupt either so you may as well support him too.Imran Khan is a terrorist without a beard who has basically defended every terrorist act in Pakistan since 9/11. I was shocked to hear his analysis on the whole Lal Masjid incident ,he usually blames America and Musharraf for every terrorist act inside Pakistan, but since Lal Masjid incident was not liked to the war on terror ,he was a bit dumb founded so he started saying’ iss mulk mein fahashi bahut pehl rahi hay so therefore Lal Masjis people were justified’.i mean this is a guy who spent most of his life as a debauche and now that hes old ,he is aspiring to be Ayatullah Khomeni….give me a break.
He belongs to the same Mullah brigade of Qazi Hussain Ahmed,Hamid Gul,Hamid Mir etc who will put this country back to the stone age if elected.
As for MQM I am sorry to say that they are just a bunch of opportunistic thugs.I mean their main agenda in politics is to be against feudalism and here they have cut a deal with the biggest feudals in the country in pakistan people party.They might have been supporting Musharraf ,but I doubt their sincerity..infact they played a huge role in tarnishing Musharraf’s image in the country due to their criminal behavior on may,12.
Mr Sajjad,
wow some staunch supporter you are of the biggest criminal of this country.perhaps you need to set your records straight sir.as far as his popularity is concerned in the armed forces, i would not give any credence to your opinion as i am the one serving in the armed forces not you.the very fact that this criminal is still residing in army house just goes on to show how insecure he is.this creep continued to reide in army house despite resigning as army chief. it was kiyani’s right sir but no this man derived strength from such shallow actions.i can assure you sir that the officer corps of armed forces was no way less happier than the nation when this monster was thrown out. i only regret one thing though he should be prosecuted for his crimes.
you could not be more wrong when you say that us did not attack pak during his time. it is not that matter of number of attacks in a given time mister.the fact remains that this man started this horrific trend.he allowed them to use our airspace and bases. i am witness to all this. you just sit in your room and brag about his innocence. go in the military field and see what he has done.total fiasco. just for the lsut of power he sold his nation’s soul.he is singularly responsible for labeling pak as a terrorist state, because this man was a damn “coward”, only a coward needs to tell everyone how brave he is through chest thumping machismo.bravery speaks through actions.
as far as lal masjid is concerned mister sajjad you are probably on e of those people who are bred to think that a man wearing beard is an enemy of the state.Your reasoning though is not worth replying to, i would however tell you just one thing,the lal masjid operation can not be justified by anyone.you must think again before you speak for the brothel operators.there is absolutley no tolerance for such acts in our religion.unless you dont give much to your religion you must side with the martyred children.yes we can differ with the way they operated and i agree with you that there was a better way to protest but nothing can justify the bloodshed that followed.open y our eyes mr. this man installed a corrupt non elected man whose corruption is only now surfacing.his own party wont own him.wake up. call spade a spade.thats all your country asks of you.. not the support you render to this dictator.
lol this country has become a joke.imagine if somebody shows up in Zardari’s office and says’sir there is a problem of corruption in our country that we need to address’ how would that sound like ? lol…may be Zardari would say ‘oh well tell them to take 5% instead of 10%’
mr ali sid,
well you have all the right to judge people in public eye. you can do it to your hearts content.however i would just say one thing about imran khan. he may have been a playboy in the past and lived a life of a casanova.but the truth is that this man has achieved something unlike most of the pygmies of uncle sam we have. our nation is a nation with very few achievements in recent past. this man single handedly won us the world cup and if you think thats not important.plz think again. sports build up a nations chara cter. name any nation that has achieved anythi ng without being good at sports. secondly this man built a cancer hosp despite all the criticism that he was on wild goose chase.give the man some
credit. all he has said is that talk with them . you are right about MQM
DID PAKISTANIS EXPECT DIFFERENT TO THE BOMB BLAST IN ISLAMABAD…..?WELL SORRY IF U DID…………………….
Scores die as suicide bomb hits hotel
Westerners were targeted in an attack that devastated The Marriott Hotel in Islamabad, killing at least 60 people
• Did we expect the government to be competent enough to manage security of Pakistan?
• Did we expect the government to secure Islamabad?
• Did we expect that the government would protect one of the few hotels in Pakistan where foreigners feel slightly safe and where two attempts have been made already in the past?
• We expected the government to deploy all security to look after Mr 10% because he was in Islamabad we did not expect them to look after the rest of Islamabad
• After receiving credible intelligence that a truck and a car would be used to blow up the parliament did we expect the government to act and beef up security?
The answer to the above is NO for ant-Musharraf supporters the answers was YES so I’m sorry for those people who were dreaming that government can manage the affairs of Pakistan..
A government which has in the last 8 months done nothing in terms of ECONOMY, TRADE, INVESTMENT, INFLATION, LOADSHEDDING and SECRUITY but only tried to strengthen their hold and their powers this is what was expected.
A TRUCK AND CAR FULL OF EXPLOSIVES ROAMING THE STREETS OF ISLAMABAD WHILE THE GOVERNMENT WAS DECLARING VICTORY IN THE NAME OF DEMOCRACY.
People would argue that under Musharraf their were more bombings, but they are wrong under Musharraf you had a clear policy in dealing with terrorism, under Musharraf their was attempt on MARRIOT but their was enough security in place to thwart that, Under Musharraf you weren’t helpless they way the government is now A HOTEL FULL OF FOREIGNERS WAS ALLOWED TO BE HIT IN SECURITY LAPSE WHICH COULD ONLY HAVE HAPPENED IN A HELPESS, USELESS AND INCOMPETENT GOVERNMENT, A TRUCK FULL OF EXPLOSEIVES ON THE STREETS OF ISLAMABAD GONE UNDETECTED AND ABLE TO DESTROY THE WHOLE HOTEL.
Under Musharraf you had the economy moving forward even when the bombs were going off but now the economy is on a downward trend and the security even worse. The combination of both economy and security worsening is a very dangerous scenario, something which Pakistan can’t afford.
A DECLINING ECONOMY, INCOMPETENT LEADERS, TERRORISM, LAWLESNESS,A DIVIDED NATION are the factors which create a FAILED STATE,THE DANGER IS THAT WE ARE HEADING TOWRADS THAT WAY…..
But what to do now the voters have voted in the government and has to put up with any possibility, shame that Pakistan has to suffer…..
Musharraf was 1000% justified in lal masjid simple as that as every government in the world would’ve acted,Army with musharraf thats why his in the army house,simple as that no arguements,his liked thats why his their.Thats why the army still pursue his policy in the tribal areas.
You might be in the army but ur some of those who always work against the interest of Pakistan and the army.
People like u dont like Musharraf because theirs one word which you survive on DICTATORSHIP i think you dont know the meaning of DICTATORSHIP.
Don’t you see the civilian dictatorshp where ZARADRI and his family run PPP where ZARDARI dictates GILLANI and the whole party,you dont see the DICTATORSHIP of PML-N where NAWAZ and his faily is the king and all their decisions are final.
I rather have a dictator in uniform like Musharraf who is more capable, more intelligent, better speaker and gave more democracy to Pakistan..rather than the civilian dictators who gave corruption, mismanagement and a failed economy to pakistan.
So dont just repeat DICTATOR DICTATOR AND DICTATOR because all in Pakistan are dictators….
thank you very much my dear brother sajjad, we are soldirers of pervez musharraf it is our duty to expose mafias like media and hypocrate politicians. same wishes for you thank you again
Faraz
Islamabad
we must defend this great man pervez musharraf and his restless work for the welfare and progress of our beloved country , wherever we are whatever we can we shoudl do and defend this great man
regards
Faraz
Islamabad
Hopeless and Incompetent Individuals running the affairs of Pakistan
Rehman Malik an extremely hopeless and incompetent person in charge of security in Pakistan. Under him Pakistan should not be secured at all bombs will go off at will and the day is not far when the parliament house will be attacked as well.Rehamn Malik was in charge of security for his own leader BENAZIR if he could not protect her and as he mentioned in an interview that “he was not even aware that Benazir’s car was fired upon first” according to him “after the blast they rushed to the hospital to find out the car their following isn’t Benazir’s”. So someone who admitted being hopeless on Benazir’s security, how can he be in charge of the security of Pakistan.
The attackers of the hotel attacked at will and when they wanted as they were full aware that Islamabad is not secure anymore under the present government.
The evidence of the hopeless individuals running the affairs of Pakistan is clear despite having intelligence of a truck being used no solid step was taken to crack down or ban trucks for a limited period in Islamabad or at least in the red zone where the parliament and hotel is situated.
But instead we had all the security arranged for the one and only almighty ZARADRI.The terrorists tried a few times to attack Marriott in the last 9 years under Musharraf but due to satisfactory security arrangements they could not plan a truck bomb or any other large scale attack, but clearly now the terrorist felt more comfortable to fill up a truck of explosives and strike on the day they wanted and the way they wanted.
The clueless individuals of the government blame it on elements who are against democracy, which again shows that according to them it happened because they are right people to lead Pakistan, whereas once again its wishful thinking on governments part.
The terrorists didn’t strike because theirs democracy in the country now, they struck because the government is a weak and incompetent one in which all elements working against Pakistan have more chances of achieving their goals.
The prime minister said that the truck bomber wanted to target him and the parliament, the interior minister says that the truck bomber wanted to target the hotel, Sherry Rehman says the president was the target. Just their statements tell a story of a government in which no one is in control. The individuals in charge of Pakistan are clueless in tackling Pakistan’s issues. How long can we allow them to manage Pakistan……
Dear Marvi, salam
I’m very disturbed since last September 2007.I know you are not a psychic healer but at least I can share it with you. When twicely tested and defected looters of my country were allowed to come back under immense pressure of USA the great. I saw a dream about my respected President Musharraf long ago. I saw a small lake with two beautiful lotus flowers in it surrounded by marshland where he was standing and plucking the flower very calmly. His outfit and shoes were totally saved from that wet marsh.
I got depressed but then realized that it might be the upcoming difficulties in his life and Pakistan with the arrival of those 2 culprits and he would then overcome it. But later on, their agitation against him and leaving out his post so decently and in a very dignified manner made me understand the whole thing. He didn’t make himself dirty with them in that marsh and saving his outfit….his respect in his lovers’ eyes left gracefully without saying a word for those enemies of Pakistan(CIA’s sponsored so-called democratic leaders). If you happen to see him in near future…plz let him know how much my family love him and pray for him. May allah shower his countless blessings on him for ruling in such an honest, sincere and truthful way and may allah save our country from dishonest leaders. amin
well Sajjad i totally agree with you.keep up the good work…
dis-agree their shahryar with you and your beloved Playbody turned Mullah Imran Khan.You can’t talk to terrorist who are hell bent on killing you and want safe heaven in your county .I agree with what Rahman Malik has said ,we only have 2 choices.. we either handover this country to Taliban or Fight against them.What Taliban and ALqaeda want in Pakistan is a safe heaven… because they are being attacked in Afghanistan, they want to cross the border into Pakistan and hide here.President Musharraf send forces to Waziristan for that very reason because if you don’t do it ..you will end up isolating yourself from the rest of the world.If idiots like Imran Khan come into power thats exactly whats gonna happen….he’ll turn a blind eye to all the terrorists hiding in this country who want to plan attacks against the Westerners and pretty soon we’ll be seen playing the same role that Taliban was playing for Al-qaqda before 9/11.We are a 3rd world country with way too many economic problems to let that happen.Most of our exports go out to America and Europe,if we follow Imran Khan’s advice ..not only will we be destroyed economically ,but will also end up imposing Sharia Law on ourselves,every Mosque in Pakistan will get encouraged to do what the folks at Lal Majid were doing.
One more thing about Imran Khan he often talks about the Independence of Judiciary as if making the Judiciary in Pakistan independant will be this ground breaking event which will change this country forever.Judiciary in Pakistan is not like the Judiciary in England or Switzerland,it is the 3rd most corrupt institution in Pakistan according to Amnesty International and its deeply politicized..yes,whoever thinks this lawyers movement was about fighting for some pricniples or defending the constitution is a fool.If it was about that then why Aitazaz AHsan whos so relaxed nowadays… is a member of the party which is refusing to do the exact same thing which Musharraf was refusing to that is restore Chaudary.
Going back to corruption.A lot of these judges of the supreme court who have refused to take oath under Dogar are corrupt including the one every loves(thanks to geonews) Iftikhar Chaudary.I know that for a fact because some of my colleagues have had to deal with them ,they take bribes!.Yet some how they have been made to look like heroes in the eyes of the people.
I saw you on capital talk last night.When I saw Farzana Raja shouting last night,I could’nt help, but think how big a mistake NRO was which allowed these horrible horrible people to come back to Pakistan and win elections.I have a lot of respect for Sir Musharraf,may be he was thinking that the secular forces in Pakistan need to be strengthened.But I am sorry to say, he got it all wrong by having a dialogue and then a deal with these crooks.Few people are worse in our country than these feudal politicians in Pakistan Peoples party.I think Musharraf should have realized that his real enemies apart from the Mullah Brigade were these politicians living in exile and not so much the judges and the lawyers.Because the supreme court of Pakistan kept supporting him for a very long time and did’nt allow sharifs and bhuttos of this country to come back.
Mardana Raja shouldn’t be invited in serious talk shows. She is good for Breakfast with Nadia Khan.
Taleban is our enemy. I hope this sinks into Hamid Mir soon.
I am proud of Marvi Memon she replied all quesetions very well.
I must admit that today Marvi Memon spoke very well … may be because she is not talking as PML Q representative, but as a Pakistani.
I want to conduct a self analysis and an open, transparent, self appraisal. Corporate training has made me believe in periodic appraisals. So here goes my first political self appraisal… Enjoy
Phase 1- accountability to the people.
I initially felt that through this website and my interactions with people…and especially web pages describing my daily activities I would put myself in the awami Katera. On this count, I feel that I have managed to start this trend whereby an MNA is accountable for their time to the people. Even a simple tool such as this diary has made me more conscious of the fact that I better be doing something productive daily or else I would have nothing to say on a daily basis on the diary page. This has pushed me to do things which I consider productive for Pak’s growth. I have tried to use my time judiciously.
Phase 2 – identifying problems and keeping a check of the dysfunctionalities of govt.
My personal rating on this is as follows: I feel I have successfully been identifying the problems through media analysis and through interaction with relevant constituencies – the problems being faced by Pakistan as a nation and as a state. I have also been successfully communicating them very actively, whether through media talks or through this website or through the many talkshows I have been doing.
Phase 3 – pushing govt for resolution of these problems.
I have been unsuccesful. I accept.
Phase 4 – on govt failing to resolve, providing solutions myself and getting them implemented myself.
On subjects where I consider I have an expertise I feel I have been providing solutions. On other issues where I dont have expertise i clearly have not been providing solutions. So I would rate myself partially successful on this front.
Going forward…I sincerely believe that today Pakistan’s biggest problem is that we have a lot more experts on problem identification rather than problem resolution. Here in lies the fault with each one of us politicians which we are not willing to accept. Govt will never accept that they are failing with resolutions. They only hide behind virsa syndrome and frankly end up alienating themselves from the people. Opposition has become a bandwagon and the team lead for the problem identifiers. We are stingy with our solutions since we believe that when we come into power then we will provide those solutions since only then can we implement them.
Having said this we have an urgent need for putting together a solution based team especially since govt is not performing its role. We need to have almost a parallel shadow cabinet from the people, from the informed youth and from the intelligentsia – experts who can come up with action plans to resolve our crisis since govt is not doing this …
I need your help… I want to know if you would like to be in this shadow cabinet of informed youth so that we can fulfil our obligations towards saving Pakistan from the quandry that it is in now.
Your country needs YOU.
Here is what I am suggesting:
I am creating shadow ministries with goals attached to them:
1-Interior Ministry: War against extremism and improve law and order and justice
2-Religious Ministry: harmonize relations between all faiths and within the same faith whilst improving the quality of Muslims we produce as a nation.
3-Foreign affairs Ministry: Dignified relations with our neighbours and other powers
4-Inter-provincial Ministry: improve relations between the provinces by being fair about resource distribution.
5-Finance Ministry : improve macroeconomic conditions of Pakistan
6-Agriculture Ministry: provide food security
7-Energy Ministry: provide energy security
8-Women ministry: empower women politically, socially and economically whilst protecting them from injustices
9-Environment Ministry: improve the environment of Pakistan
10-Industries Ministry: improve Pakistan’s industrial competitiveness and productivity
These are some basic goals. Through my email interactions with a lot of you I have realized that a lot of you want to be part of the solution and help Pakistan progress. If you are interested pls send your one page CV on my gmail address along with a one pager on why you should be chosen as a shadow Cabinet Minister/expert who will provide solutions through this forum to the government. Each Ministry should have 5 experts minimum so there is space for more than just a Minister!
i m living here in saudia arabia….!! i big suporter of mushrraf and you…!! i just wana say keep doing the good job for pakistan. i really salute you and my duwas are alwayz wid u and ur family and me n my family is really proud of u and ur parents to have such a lovly and confident daughter. just take care and enjoy rest of the ramadan…!!
Hi Well Done Marvi. We Feel Proud of you.I have seen you on interviews on Pakistan television shows, and you are doing a difficult and excellent job as an opposition member. Keep it up!
and please do not change the party i love musharf and his party PML Q.
Please tell what will be your future party.
u remain atached.
marviji Salam……u ve given very hard time to ppp’s farzana raja……….in last nite show……….anyway..marviji lets start some revolution to save pakistan.am dubai based pakistani businessman…………and quiet much have close eyes on pk politics…….1 more thing kindly add the pic of President musharaf with u also in ur pictures section……
thx
May Allah Bless u and pakistan
Just saw you recently on Kal Tak (Sep) for the first time.
Good to know that there are people among the politicians who actually understand and speak the tongue of common man.
However, from other internet sites, I came to know that you were from PML(Q) and have spoken pro-Musharraf many a times in other talk shows. I’d rather not like to comment on your personal thinking about such issues, but here is a comment by one of the viewers of your programs that I’d like to share with you: “..at least Kashmala Tariq was smart enough not to praise Musharraf, Memon does so and with gusto: political suicide, not to mention a slap in the face of all pakistani’s.”
If so, I do consider it a slap on my own face too. How could you be on Musharraf’s side on one end and be patriotic along? Seems impossible, quite.
Anyways, whatever be your agenda (personal or otherwise), good luck in all your positive endeavours for the country. What I liked most about your style of speech was that you seemed to be one of us in the way you perceived things – infact, you reminded me of one of my lady classmates, who spoke the very same way on political matters.
Best Regards.
I wanna put my hand up here Marvi eventhough I had this beautiful dream the other day where I saw General Kiyani making a speech on national t.v and all the private channels were blocked.
ASIF Zardari is batting on two strikes. Another swing and a miss, and he’s going home. The first strike was the bizarre, abortive handover of the ISI to Rehman Malik.
The second was Kayani’s rebuke the day after Asif was sworn in as president. Ostensibly Kayani’s condemnation was of the Americans, but between the lines was the real target: Asif. Get your act together, the army chief was telling his supreme commander.
Asif has stumbled badly on Afghanistan. The macho men who wanted to defy the American juggernaut on the warpath the day after 9/11 are still amongst us, still advising defiance. The day after 9/11 this was sheer foolishness. But it is no longer the day after 9/11. Seven years of the Americans in Afghanistan and reality has changed. Pick up any report on the West’s adventure in Afghanistan and you will find two things: one, US policy in Afghanistan has been a failure; two, US policy in Afghanistan will not succeed without Pakistan being on board.
In the world of realpolitik, this is known as an opportunity. So why must Asif so cravenly accept the Americans letting loose their Special Ops troops and raining down missiles in Waziristan when he can happily unleash? He had every chance at his debut press conference; instead, he bizarrely chose to speak alongside Karzai. The Afghan president is about as popular in the Pakistani Army as George W. Bush in an Al Qaeda training camp.
What is the problem in Afghanistan? In a word: Karzai. Don’t take my word for it, here’s what The New York Times had to say in an Aug 20 editorial: “Afghanistan’s president, Hamid Karzai, must rein in his government’s rampant corruption that has all but driven his people into the hands of the Taliban and criminal warlords.” What then was Asif doing at the side of a man not only discredited in the West but hated by the Pakistan Army?
Another thing: the western – read American – strategy in Afghanistan has failed. Again, don’t take my word for it. Francesc Vendrell, the EU envoy in Kabul for six years, had this to say over the weekend: “We are not destined to fail, but we are far from succeeding.” Earlier, Vendrell told Stephen Sackur of BBC’s ‘HARDtalk’: “I do leave with a sense of regret that we’ve made so many mistakes. … we’ve got to do a hell of a lot to make things right.” In the euphemistic world of diplomacy, this is the equivalent of saying “we’re a disaster.”
Given this record of western failure why does Asif have to be so apologetic for Pakistan’s failure to help out the Americans in Afghanistan? There are 26 Nato and 14 non-Nato countries contributing troops to Isaf. Each country’s rules of engagement are so complex and dense that were the Taliban to walk right up to some Isaf troops and dance a little jig, certain countries would still not allow their soldiers to shoot. Why then must Pakistan always ‘do more’?
Perhaps if Pakistan wasn’t actually doing something about its Taliban problem – somewhere, anywhere – the supine cravenness of Asif before the Americans would be understandable. Except that we are. Bajaur and Swat are being pounded mercilessly, militants are being flushed out, leaders are being knocked off. But the Americans aren’t satisfied because Bajaur is at the northern tip of the tribal belt while they are more concerned with the southern bit. Waziristan, north and south, and the Haqqani, Hekmatyar and Nazir networks exercise the Americans. Meanwhile, 300,000 Bajauris flee the bombing and Ambassador Patterson, de facto American leader in Pakistan, announces that $50,000 has been set aside for “gas stoves, pots, utensils and plastic sheeting”. Well, fantastic. That’s less than the cost of a Hellfire missile fired from a predator. So for Asif to denounce the American forays into Pakistan wouldn’t be jingoistic nationalism – it’s common sense. For one, Asif need only imagine how much less common sense than nationalism there is in the army. For another, he has an unbelievable luxury – he can. Everyone knows the Americans can’t really afford to be on the wrong side of Pakistan. Jack Straw and the French have already distanced themselves from the strikes inside Pakistan. Here’s more from that NYT editorial, with the alarmist headline ‘Afghanistan on Fire’: “Sending American troops or warplanes into Pakistani territory will only feed anti-American furies. That should be the job of Pakistan’s army, with intelligence help and carefully monitored financial support from the United States.” If all these important – western – folk think American Special Ops running around Pakistan and blowing up the place is such a bad idea, why must Asif be so tepid in his criticism?
There’s another reason for Asif to unleash against the Americans. The same NYT story on Bush’s secret authorisation of strikes inside Pakistan, also had a staggering allegation against Kayani: that he knew of the plot to bomb the Indian embassy in Kabul. In living memory, a Pakistan army chief has not been directly implicated by the Americans in a criminal plot.
This then is the scenario that Asif is confronted with: angry Americans who can only rattle the Pakistani cage so much; an army chief who is under American fire; and a failed American policy in Afghanistan. Why can’t Asif connect the dots? Figure out who’s your enemy, who’s your friend and when to take a hit for the team, friendly or otherwise. Asif should make the Americans squirm a little. The next time Patterson, Boucher, Negroponte – or even Bush – is on the phone, ask your secretary to tell them you’re on the phone with your daughter at college.
And get a better team. We were made to believe that Chaudhry Mukhtar was passed over for prime minister because he was too much of his own man. None of that is on display as defence minister. Mukhtar must still be sulking over being passed over because every time he opens his mouth someone somewhere in a uniform gets angry. Then there’s the oily Husain Haqqani. Listen to the man long enough and you’ll be confused: is he the Pakistani ambassador to the US or the US ambassador to Pakistan? So incompetent is Asif’s defence team that the intellectual nobody with the connections to die for, Rehman Malik, has come out the brightest of the lot. At least you have to hand it to the indefatigable Malik: he does try, even if he’s out of his depth.
The survival lesson for Asif is clear: push back against the Americans, or else be pushed out by the army.
whats the difference between ppp and terrorsts. both killing innocent people
“Ansar Abbasi of The News reveals that the attack on Marriot was probably targeted on US Marines, who were on a secret mission and had shifted a truckload of steel cases in the hotel on same night when General Mullen met Gilani.”
Very efficient on the part of Jang News Group to distract people from the real horror of the incident.
I hope the Pakistani people will not be distracted by the conspiracy theories of these irresponsible journalists with an agenda.
The fact is that over fifty people have been brutally killed and two hundred fighting for their lives.
Shame on Jang News Group – the likes of Ansar Abbasi and the propagandist Hamid Mir – for misleading the Pakistani people.
If this doesn’t open up people’s eyes to what our military and agencies have been doing in FATA for the last two decades, I don’t know what else will.
A high alert warning issued at Islamabat Airport today.Marvi for Godsake tell em to make a border between Wazrisitan,Fata and the rest of the country…isolate them from the rest of Pakistan.Get em out of here!.we dont need these people!.
I can’t imagine whats gonna happen to the ruppee and the economy of Pakistan now which is already under pressure if these sucicide bombings starting happening on a more regular basis in our big cities.We cant afford this anymore ruppee is trading at 78 to a dollar and our reserves our dwindling.Last year when these suicide bombings started to happen our economy was is good shape ,ruppee was at 60 and our reserves were touching 16 billion dollars ,but now with whats happening around the world on the financial front and given the situation of our economy we cant take this anymore.Our aid provider America is facing crisis ,the saudi oil facility we dont know what happened to that.This is an alarming situation which can destroy us ecnomically to the point where dollar might touch 100 against our currency.Some drastic measures have to be taken here!.
the problem with us is that we take a long time to react.when 9/11 happened in the us, the us immigration authority reacted within months and new immigration laws came into place… 7 years on no other such attack has happened in the .u.s.They are doing the same with their financial crisis now…while we have waited over 7 months to come up with an economic strategy to resolve our economic issues.
I don’t know what we have been doing since 9/11 ,we have been waiting for things to go wrong or what?9/11 happened long time ago ,we should have realized it right then that we need to make our cities safe from the repurcussions of this…that should have been our priority!…rather than apealing to the political rhetoric that these people are our muslim brothers or what have you.the people who get hanged in pakistani jails everday are our muslim brothers too,may be we should’nt kill them either.
War and diplomacy alone is not gonna solve this problem,I don’t know what Rahman Malik is doing here…a day after the sucicide attack in Isb ,Dawn t.v was showing how easy it is for anyone to get into Islamabad without being checked.
We need to do checking at all entry points of our big cities,it does nt matter what problems that can cause ..it must be done …I was shocked to see that report by Dawn T.V.Its unbeleivable how incompetant our minsiters and authorities are in dealing with situations like these.
respected marvi
AOA
i want to write something for the victims of suicide attackers and there families, i as a pakistani think that we must have to own and support the families of victims of suicide attacks who earn just 3000 or 4000 rs and lay down there precious thing, life for this country and really for “thankless” nation who axe there feet on 18th feb thankless nation who is busy in squaring one since last 61 years. thankless nation who cannot differentiate there friends and foes.
we must have to make a fund for these victim families cos it is our duty, i also feel pain in my heart when i saw only poor security guards, police sepoys and constibles and low ranks officials lay down there lives for there duty. now it is our duty to take care of there families , please highlight this issue in programs and educate our nation and in this regards i want to offer you my full support as much as i can.
i feel that by infilterating pakistani nationalism in us by media we can serve this beautiful country for which we all gave so much sacrifices, if we want to save our beloved homeland we must comeout from our provincial clolonies and parochialism, cast, creed, breed , language, sect. if we want to serve and save pakistan we must believe and think in pakistani nationalism.
i also request you to ask these plunders, looters and absconders who came into programs with you (PMLN and PPP politicians speciallu and rest in common) some questions
1- what is the main difference in the policies of respected General pervez musharraf and todays so called democratic government?
2- if these were right why didnt these nonsence politicians support these policies then ? and implementing now ? was animosity with general pervez overshadow national intrerest at that time.
3- please ask each of these morons, what agenda and vision they and there stupid leadership have for pakistan economy, foreign policy, interior policy and war on terror, also request them to stop telling us stories we are sick now by listeneing them again and again.
4- please mention one thing in your program also i as a patriot pakistani strongly feel that president pervez musharraf gave us true meaning of patriot leader, he was the man of tact and diplomacy which todays leadership lack badly. he was the man of strong nerves whereas todays leadership doesnt seems to sustain any pressure one last thing: these politicians have made a blunder(infat a ruthless creul with the nation and country) by removing general pervez musharraf, we firmly believe that general have still capability to drive out us from these worst circumstances which these inept so called leadershp lacks and find all solution in slogan “zinda hay bibi zinda hay” and in “Azad Adalia (Nawaz Adalia)”.
Thank you very much
Faraz
Islamabad
marvi memon is one of the very few young & educated parliamentarian we have and she does not deserve the treatment the callers gave her today on faisal qureshi’s show. she may be bragging about the acheivement during their reign but it was all true. people should not be too harsh and could have been nice to her. our society is dominated by men and so is the parliament and all the parties im sure. plz i beg you all to curse and question those who are in power and yet are unable to do anything for the people of pakistan. And dearest Marvi Madam, we respect you and have faith in you. Please keep up the good work and prove to the nation that you are indeed here to help them.
Saw you on sama t.v with Faisal.Goodness me what was up with that kid ,better not leave everything to the youth of this country haha.
One thing I realized after watching that discussion is that people here don’t talk enough about the big issues in our country like corruption,murder,feudalism,fanaticism.Even Faisal is always more interested in talking about trafic violations and trash cans instead of focusing on the big issues.May be the problem is that if we talk about corruption or murder on t’v we ‘ll get threatened because a lot of our politicians are involved in that.Let Faisal talk about whats been going on in Karachi University for instacne where a lot of studens have died recently because of student clashes between 2 rival groups ,yet our government does not want to ban student unions.Lets talk about the corruption in government offices where somebody whos not even matric pass is making more than a Harvard Graduate would.Have you ever been to a registrar office in Karachi for Property registration?Why can’t the t.v crew of these channels show up there and expose the corruption of these people in these offices?.I’ll tell you why because they are scared to death ,its much easier for them to instead talk about the corruption of a trafic police officer.This is the problem with our society, we are reluctant take on the most evil and the most horrible because the most evil and the most horrible in our society is often the most powerful…so we find comfort in going after the weak.
okay now i wached your programme marvi. you are an awesome speaker no doubt, but i think that you can be a little too critical to the government sometimes. your approach as you have already said is changing that you will inshallah provide solutions instead of criticism.thats nice of you.
marvi i was an ardent suporter of your government before you were even there. i think well as it was showed that the macro economic stabilty was brought in but this being a private forum you should realize that it was all because of the massive 65 billion dollars pumped into the economy by the foreginers …you just cannot deny that..todays econoic situation is a result of the huge import bill imposed by the prreivous government due to an over allowance of imports which was previously termed as “the growth factor”. i think this governemnt but any government would have faced such a calamity.
thirdly it is about your party. i am sorry to say that the q league is highly unpopular in punjab atleast ans nawaz sharif is heavily popular beacuse of shahbaz sharif’s administrative abilities. and by heavily i mean literaly heavily, and that is to say that no single person have ii encountered whom would have said that shahbaz sharif or the nawaz league is much better than the q league and it would have been better of you to have jonied them for they being very honest. if it hasnt reached your ears then i would like to inform you that pervaiz elahi’s son moonas elahi has a very reputation of being a land grabber. no such reputation is from the nawaz league i ther is then do tell me.
Firstly, I would like to congratulate Marvi on starting a good practice…it may be a first drop of rain….
Although, I’m a Big anti-supporter of her party but it does not stop me from commending someone who is doing a good job.
I just wanted to highlight one point that Marvi & other readers may like to take up as an action item. Why do we leave everything on our leaders? What can we, at our own, do to to play our part in this Society?
Unfortunately, we Muslims leave everything on others (Allah or leaders) and want to get Jannah free of effort.
My suggestion is to look around ourselves and identify our area of influence, start providing support to whosoever we can. It could be as minimal as helping someone find way, cross road, keeping our houses and streets clean etc. or it could be sponsoring education for as many kids as we can afford, creating and managing our Social groups to positively influence our society.
Lets all play our part in Changing Pakistan and stop criticising others.
Reference your discussion on Sama TV. I fully agree with you. Please carry on. You are not alone like me many others are with you.
We should not allow anyone to spoil the peace of our beloved country.
aj he 1st time app ko ankahi programe main daikha.
acha lagha lakin aik baat samaj nain aai k app jo baat kar rahe theen who subjact say hat k kion the,i m not intrested in any kind of politics parties in pakistan, bcz in my mind all of that Kurssi ( chair ) k Ashiq hain .
well app ko daikha to yae lagha k app ko Politics main nain Modeling main hona chaiya tha bcz app ki photo gallery nai kafi impress kia.
Thanks and Allah Hafiz
hello Ms. Memon,
i checkd todays Ankahi with faisal n saw u exploding. u explained ver well, but i think there was one straight answer to the silly question that the girl kept on asking ie, how many schools have marvi memon established.
i wonder when can we start asking the right question. why we think that the only good thing is to build a school or a hospital. Though these things are important but an MNA should focus on policy making and strategic leadership to the nation.
u envision and speak very well, but speak of your own vision and role and not for your party. your expertise in areas of environment, law, women development are much needed at these times
best of luck
Saw your program with faisal, first up the website and the shadow parliment is a good thing keep it up.
The young lady in the program was a bit unreasonable I would give you that much. However some straight answers a bit of honesty touches people thats all.
I would like to be a part of the shadow parliment thing how do I proceed. I work in IBM Pakistan and have MSC Computer Science from LUMS so where do I start work??
Firstly, notice your presence in the last days of our President in Presidency. However, good to know yours sincere affiliation towards him when rest of the lot were performing ‘dunya dari’.
Secondly, I never meet President in my life, as for some believe with unseen or seen is alike, I, cherished him for his vision and patriotism for our Country. Further, I am neither Q leaugi (though have soft corner) nor I am affiliated with any political force on ground. I was and I am Musharaf supporter: “saviour of Pakistan”.
Lastly, for the reason of bonding stated above I will write you solutions, whenever intuited, with regards to the topics you mentioned on Talk show.
I feel pretty upset for having Zardari our president. I feel even worse for our nation to be so ignorant about his past. It’s an irony for this nation to have leaders like him. I won’t at all blame Zardari for what he has been doing. He tried his luck and won the jackpot. Good for him. He was the second richest of the country but now he will make sure he appears on the world ranking. Who will lose? The poor people who don’t even know what is going on?
The big question is if we deserve democracy?
Not at all. What kind of a nation are we? We are a nation with very weak and sensitive foundation. Our country is divided into provinces and all the people are divided into various tribes, cultures, religions and sects. Even our army has groups, Punjab regiment, Sindh regiment and Baloch regiment. Each group is proud of itself and hates the others. Recently the discussion of changing the name of NWFP was going on. Come on! Give me a break. Name is not going to make a difference until you wash their brains. Class difference is another big issue. Until we get rid of this hatred by having only one platform, we can never be one and a good nation.
Now what is the solution?
Of course its not democracy. There is a dire requirement of having a bloody revolution. It could be a tough martial law by a tough general like Hitler. Other than it there is no hope for this country. God be with us.
This is a reply i received from…. Sajjad Riaz
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Working for a Safer Pakistan
As an Interior Minister I would work 24 hours a day to make Pakistan a safer place. As I live in the UK I would use the knowledge I have of the policing standards of the UK and how the UK has been able to make sure one law exists from one corner of the UK to the other. I would be focusing on making POLICE the most powerful, respectful, and fearful and ROABDAR.A stronger police throughout Pakistan will restore the confidence of ordinary Pakistanis and they will start abiding by the law and respect the police.
So as a free Justice Systems is important for a strong police force as both work parallel together a free judiciary is very important. But I will focus on Police reforms and a strong police will help the judiciary strengthen itself.
I will not go into too much detail as I will need more time and in depth research. But just to outline the main points for you Marvi I will as interior minister take the following steps:
• Call a high rank meeting with all the police chiefs from all provinces and major cities such as Lahore, Islamabad Karachi and others.
• I will asses the situation of the basic problems at lower level policing, I will request reports on the problems the police face and the lack of the resources. After meeting with all the concerned I will ask for an action plan from them on the improvements we need to make and than suggest my improvements.
Firstly I will request the federal government for a huge increase in the police budget without this we cannot go anywhere.
Major Changes which I would be starting for the POLICE:
• CCTV Cameras to be installed in all major towns and slowly all over Pakistan
• Fingerprint Machines to be kept at all major police stations
• First of all massive pay increase in all ranks all over Pakistan
• Equipped them with advance weaponry
• Better and faster vehicles, get rid of all pick-ups which are not safe
• Less police in police stations more patrolling on the streets
• Latest wireless sets and police stations equipped with computers and finger print taking machines.
• Recruit more police
• We need re-training of police in terms of their educational training:
• To improve their professionalism
• To teach them the basic skills they can use in their day to day duties like using fire extinguishers, working closer with communities, friendly attitude, speaking manners
• Enough Police available to provide security to people on their doorsteps
Police needs reforming, pay increase and benefit increase, new equipment in terms of weapons and cars will motivate them together with their re-training to be more professional and more educated.
Once a strong police force is in place a lot of local level problems and even terrorism can be kept a close eye on. Police need to be professional in identifying the problems and need to be capable in taking their own initiatives and implementing their own security plans.
Controlling Al-Qaeda and Western Border
Immediately without any delay we need to:
• Send more army on the western border to an extent that the border with Afghanistan is sealed to an extent that is possible, seal the border and don’t worry about any criticism from the Mullahs. You can’t target Taliban when they can easily cross over the border and come back and regroup gain so SEAL THE BORDER COMPLETELY.
• The army needs to spread out in FATA specially places like SWAT, talk to terrorists if they give up than fine, but if they don’t than go after them relentlessly without giving them more deadlines and until they are wiped out. NO COMPROMISE ON THIS.
• Spread the army on the borders of the settled areas and the FATA region, check the inflow and outflow in each area.
Maddrassahs and Mosques
• We should not hesitate, with the help of peaceful citizens start closing down maddrassah’s who only teach the QURAN as teaching only the Quran is radicalising young people and they can easily be turned into suicide bombers.
• So any mosque or any madrassah’s which spreads hatred against anyone and any madrassah’s which only teaches the QURAN warn it and if they don’t comply than close it. NO COMPROMISE.
VIP & GUN CULTURE
• No VIP movement in any town including ISLAMABAD, it has to stop
• No one displaying a gun in public. NO ONE MEANS NO ONE. Gun only allowed if it is licensed and the person has it for self-protection. Even for self-protection it needs to be hidden under the jacket or waist coat or shirt or blazer BUT STRICTLY NO DISPLAY OF WEAPONS IN ALL PAKISTAN EVEN THE TRIBAL AREA.
Above is just an outline to show you, it requires more time to explain in detail but it’s an outline and it will work. If I ever enter Pakistani politics than I will work my way to the Interior Ministry as I would love that challenge. I live in the UK and the normal security guards here have more training and professionalism and danger awareness than the Pakistani police.
@ Marevi Please Give us your Important Views in Recent Zardari Scandle? What is your Point of you as Political Party of 80 Million Voters.
Sarah Palin Meets Horny Pakistan President Zardari
Zardari’s recent meeting with Governor of Alaska Sarah Palin and Candidate of Vice President got good attention in international media due to Zardari’s expressions and comments he made during his short meeting.
Zardari then called her “gorgeous” and said: “Now I know why the whole of America is crazy about you.”
“You are so nice,” Palin said, smiling. “Thank you.”
A handler from Zardari’s entourage then told the two politicians to keep shaking hands for the cameras.
“If he’s insisting, I might hug,” Zardari said. Palin smiled politely in response
Notice that Sarah Palin’s demeanor and mannerism is so professional and firm. To Zardari’s “gorgeous” comment she replied with a customary, “so nice of you” remark and ideally speaking that should have been the end of the light-heartedness of Mr President’s flirtation. But no! He chooses to add another stupid remark, “Now I know why the whole of America is crazy about you”, which Sarah Palin brushes aside with a slight movement of her hand, contaminating, “Oh come on!.” But Mr President is not to be embarrassed yet and so he continues, “If he’s insisting, I might hug”. It cannot be more shameless and filthy. Zardari’s tone of voice, his eagerness to appease Sarah, his conduct is akin to the behavior of cheap, uneducated, perverted people, let alone being the president of an Islamic country. He is utter shame and a disgrace. I personally cannot bring myself to watch the video again out of an absolute sense of shame at having such a person as our president.
“Watch Sarah’s reaction on Zardari comments. She suggests ‘JA OO YAKKA’”
Awful display of manners by Mr.Zardari at the international stage when he met with Sarah Palin, his language was also cheap and disgraceful.
Remember Mushraf Last Word on His Last Address to the Nation “Pakistan Ka Khuda he Hafiz”
Marvi, Good to hear that you have website, at least someone could write to you.
I am a proud Pakistani who is ashamed of its politicians. Its them who has brought bad name to our country. Its amazing how people like you could think and work for people like Shujaat, Sharifs, and Zardari’s – may be hoping that one day things will change. Marvi, to bring change it needs courage which our politicians doesn’t have they all are bunch of thugs and thieves. When I say that, I talk about the majority not the exceptions. You talk about the change, what have you done to bring that change within your party. Mushahid, you think he is any better. He speaks well but you know he is another hypocrite. It makes me puke when I see all of them talk or things they do when they visit abroad. (Recent example of Zardari in America – Flirting with Ms. Palin as if he was in a Bar or a Pub). Unfortunately our pseudo intellectuals who doesn’t have any mannerism or etiquettes to represent this country.
It makes me sick to my stomach when I see people like you try to defend military rule, being a lay man even I know that dictatorship is not a solution for any progressive country.
I don’t see any sign of things getting better, things will be worse to get better but I am hopeful that one day all these B——- will be brought to justice. Ms. Memon you were in a party which is not any better but I am hopeful that one day people like you will form one party and will join hands under one umbrella and try to work for the prosperous Pakistan i.e. if we get that chance.
salam marvi!
i am from St Joseph college.
i really like the way u addressed……..
ya n i feel very proud that my country really have the people like u who are actually working for the progress.
yes i do believe that there is no nation perfect we have to make it.
the problem i think which we really have is that the minds of our country’s people have changed now they have stop thinking for their own nation , they only think ab8 their own life…….
n i think the solution is that we need people like u to awake the whole nation.
and I myself , try my best to awake the people
as I could beside my studies.
MAY ALLAH BLESS U
I want to say thank for what u are doing for my pakistan
LONG LIVE OUR NATION
LONG LIVE OUR NATIOM
ONLY HOPE, ONLY HOPE,
AND JUST THE PRAYERS.
Hi Marvi…i hav v gud idea regarding media’z role for terrorism…but for dat u hav to contact me personaly ay my mail box or on my cell fon…iam poet n recently my book has been published…im from Quetta..n i must say dat ur brain is MashaAllah v sharp…i knw u r in assembly on di ticket of PML>Q but as we all knw dat Musharafz era was not good at all..n present govt is doing wrost as well..u r energatic n im seeing ur future in politics is v bright…think sharp n speak calm..its golden key 4 ur entire life.
regards
Mughal
salam,
Its good to see the young blood coming to the service of mankind. In supporting Musharaf, I would say that he is tainted with the innocent blood of the Jamia Hafsa martyrs, the Balochs and the Tribals. Because of him, we have literally lost Kashmir in the UN. It would have cost us less had America attacked us than supporting it and the miseries we are going thru nowadays because of his doings, every body knows that.
Any way, keep up the good work and wish u good luck.
Salam, you are doing a great job in running this blog.
I have read views of several writers on the Lal Masjid issue. It is ironic that on the one hand we talk of fighting terrorism and on the other hand, when foreigners (terrorists) get killed in the operation, we start condeming our government no holes barred. Those writers who are complaining of the excesses must know that their veiws are tainted by the ever blackmailing and revenue hungry media. People must remember that news is not what is correct, but news is what sells. Our media (specific channels) made millions on this and many other issues because it is their business!
Let me ask those saying that innocent civilians (women and children) were killed in the Lal Masjid operation in hundreds: WHERE ARE THEIR FAMILIES???? WHY ARE THEY NOT PROTESTING????
In a country, when even Munnu Bheel was protesting for the missing people of his family it was taken as if President Musharraf had done it, since it was fashion those days. There could have been many others like him. But conspicuous by their absence are the families whose so called daughters, sons were killed in the operation!!!!
GIMME A BREAK. Please start thinking logically without having hatred or bias towards anyone. LET THE FACTS DICTATE THE COURSE OF HISTORY and not misplaced priorities.
As for those who say that President Musharraf is a dictator, they must have voted for either of the two dynasties. One being led by a 20-year old Oxford student who is barely eligible to vote, and the other by two brothers, one son-in-law and one samdhi, who have naturally made it into their personal fiefdom.
Thats democracy!!!!
DEAR MARVI MEMON and other friends in the media,
There is something seriously wrong with Geo TV, AAj TV and some other channels. – either they are too obsessed with the terrorists or are funded by someone or are themselves misguided. I think it is high time the media sets it priorities right. Stop brain washing the people of Pakistan and stop siding with the terrorists and enemies of Pakistan.
Geo and some channels were the one who was instrumental in removing our last President Pervez Musharraf. They are responsible for creating political uncertainty in the country by bringing the lawyers and judges on the streets; they are responsible for interviewing stupid ex service men and stupid politicians mainly from the pml-n which has created a bad image of Pakistan around the world.
It is high time these channels stop their propaganda in favor of the extremists and terrorists and stop calling them- our people, innocent people and the war against the terrorists as America’s war. This is OUR WAR, THESE PEOPLE ARE TERRORISTS AND NOT INNOCENT PEOPLE; THEY ARE ENEMIES OF PAKISTAN AND NOT MUSLIMS.
The media can play a very important role in removing this misconception from the minds of the citizens by showing the truth and stop supporting these terrorists. Our religion is a religion of tolerance, peace and justice. So let us become clear about:-
1. THIS WAR IS OUR WAR.
2. THESE EXTRIMISTS AND TERRORISTS ARE NOT FRIENDS OF PAKISTAN OR OF ISLAM.
3. THE MEDIA SHOULD CONDEMN THE INMATES OF THE LAL MASJID AND NOT SIDE WITH THEM. YOU CANNOT NEGOTIATE WITH ARMED PEOPLE AND NO ONE CAN BE ALLOWED TO DICTATE THEIR INTERPRETAION OF ISLAM ON OTHERS.
I urge people like Hamid Mir to please realize the gravity of the situation and may good sense prevail. I also urge him to stoop interviewing fools like ansar abbasi and some ex service men whose one leg is in the grave and one outside, please stop the rapping of the judge’s issue which is finished and sorted out.
There is a big conspiracy against Pakistan, this conspiracy is being funded by someone and political parties like pml-n, some media, and some judges, some ex service men are playing in their hands. May be the intentions of Hamid Mir are good but he is being misguided. Anchors of bolta Pakistan on AAj tv are also behaving in a very irresponsible manner, dr. aamir liaquat- a religious scholar who has nothing to do with politics is mixing religion with politics and misguiding people.
I salute people like Lucman, faisal Qureshi, jasmine manzoor, rana mubashir, kamran khan. PJ MIR etc who have a better understanding of the problem and are looking for better solutions.
I hate politicians like Qusi hussain and Imran khan. They are enemies of Pakistan. They cannot see any good in anything and only want to criticize. They always talk in favor of the inmates of the lal masjid and terrorists.
FINALLY A LAST REQUEST TO GEO TV- STOP THIS PLAYING WITH FIRE, U R RISKING THE LIVES OF THE CITIZENS OF PAKISTAN FOR PERSONAL BENEFITS OR POLITICAL GAINS. THINK OF PAKSITAN AND TRY TO SAVE PAKSITAN.
MAY ALMIGHTY ALLAH SAVE OUR COUNTRY FROM THE MENACE OF TERRORISTS AND EXTRIMISTS AND PUT BACK PAKSITAN ON THE ROAD TO PEACE, STABILITY, GROWTH, SECURITY AND PROSPERITY. AMEEN.
WHAT R THE SOLUTIONS-
1. GOOD, CHEAP AND UNIFORM EDUCATION IN ENGLISH MEDIUM THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY.
2. FIGHT WITH FULL FORCE AGAINST THE EXTRIMISTS, TERRORISTS AND INTOLERENT PEOPLE.
3. PEACE TREATY WITH ALL THE PEACEFUL FORCES IN NWFP AND TAKING THEM INTO CONFIDENCE, PUTTING THE ONUS OF PEACE ON THEM AND IMPLEMENTING DEVELOPMENTAL ACTIVITIES ON A WAR FOOTING.
4. ACCELERATE THE PRIVATISATION PROCESS AND ENCOURAGE AND GIVE FULL CONFIDENCE TO THE FOREIGN INVESTORS TO START THEIR INDUSTRIES IN PAKISTAN.
5. DISCUSS ALL THE ISSUES IN THE PARLIAMENT AND DEVELOP CONCENSUS.
ENOUGH TO START WITH!!
Well I agree with you there Karim.Although we can’t give up on the people of Pakistan.Education is the key here…a more educated Pakistan won’t vote for crooks.But even more important than that is the economy,its unfortunate that Musharraf made some strategic blunders which led to politicial turmoil and in turn hurt the economy in Pakistan…otherwise things would have stayed calm and Pakistan would have achieved a lot ecnomically in years to come.The problem with going after the bad people in our politics like Zardari and others is that it can de-stabilize the country and further hurt an already weak economy.. thats why Musharraf was perhaps reluctant to taken them on and chose to resign.And I am sure General Kiani would also let these people do their job rather than worry about their character at this time.
Msg that came on my gmail that I am posting here. Lets start using this vs gmail so that everyone can participate in discussion…
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Yes Ma’am. It will be an honor to join the shadow cabinet.
I would like to state that the policies and upgrades propsed by Mr Sajjad Raza in a letter you posted on your blog are amazing. I just wish this proposition is accepted as is. It is the need of the hour and enough is enough, they have been warned many a times and since they’re retaliating like this killing innocent civilians who have nothing to do with this war, its time that some army action is taken. a severe one this time.
Empowering and educating the police is a very very good idea. You’ll also have to make sure that they don’t abuse their powers. They need to understand that with power comes great responsibility. Ensuring that they do this with the police of every city of pakistan starting with isb ofcourse. Even better if they launch this training program simultaneously in all major cities like karachi, lahore, isb, peshawar & quetta and then send these newly trained officers to train other policemen in their regions and provinces.
I would also like to see some action against corruption and ever increasing inflation & poverty in our country. You have a lot of challenges but you have our support! Please keep up the GREAT work Ma’am!
Last but not the least, I did not knew we had such great leaders in our country. I would like to see you as a foreign minister or even president some day as we need to prove to the world that Benazir was not the only woman leader we had! We have MARVI too
Salamzz….I M ZeenIa mUsHraf fRom SenT JosePh’s COllege I Am a FiRsT YeAr STudent…U have COme To Our cOllege Today I LiSteN To YoUr SPeecH and I m vErY mUch ImPressEd By U AnD By Ur mIssIonS…WhEN I Saw tEars In Ur EyEs M AlSo CrYing…..InShallah I M nOt That mUch MatuRe…But I can UnDersTand The pRobLems of Our country.. InsHallah I will TrY tO serve my countrY in The BesT way….U are a very nice personality…i cant exprees my feelingss in words….i think….that in our countryy….there is some of poeople like u who love the country….just continue ur mission we all are with u…..
marivi my solution to the ongoing religious extremism is that we have to move against the war against these militants. they will keep on pouring in and it will be a war that will span years from now. keep that in mind that all other countries facing these insurgency donot stop but get these again and again and we have to stop this war rite now because its effects have already starting to pour in our cities. protest against these war tactics. the tribal areas were never under our control and will never be . even if the militants have taken control of the tribal areasthen it is the problem of the tribals themselves. they can deal with them on their ownselves. leave them alone.
please protest agianst thse war tactics. or we will be called a failed state again. zardari sahib is doing this to get american dollars for the sake of pakistani life. are we people left to die while our politicians sit there to make these stupid decisions.
Madam, I think you should join Pakistan’s People’s Party thats all I wanted to say, I hope you would give it a thought, a person whos as qualified and talented as you wil fit in PPP. I believe Q league is not a party but it is a group of traitors ( I hope you would not mind that) and this group will surely not exsist in the next few years inshallah =)
..hey, haven’t seen any of your program, yet, but hard about you, say it a word of mouth..well..
so what are your new projects? and what is new these days??
salam
ma,am
Madam I want to ask one question in your shadow ministry which ministry solve the poverty problem & I have one suggestion for u in any talk show u should listen other argue completely and then give to answer (try to complete your answer in soft tone & minimum words).
My philosophy is move slow but continues. You r vary fast you can continue your momentum?
I want to ask to Miss Marvi Memon please discuss about that, How can we safe a muslim nation? How Can we Protect our Country our nation our Economy our people ?
I think the middle class men dont have a time to think about that things, Coz they are only thinking about thier daily batch, Cloths and house
Which things are going to be a dream for them….?
how can they protest ?
this time is a bad time for us
and they are striping a cloths of pakistanis
snatching a batch from pakistanis
killing the innocent people
and want to destroy pakistanis economy
which is going down day by day
discribe us, do we strugge for batch Clocths House ? Do we protest againts our govt and America ? Or do nothing and waiting for own time comes to death ?
A very important point I want to make here to all Musharraf and Marvi supporters out there as I am one of you also.You won’t achieve much unless you change the mindset or the psyche of the people in this country.A lot of what we are talking about here like police revamping,developmental work etc did happen under Musharraf’s era…infact Musharraf’s era was the most golden in the history of Pakistan in terms of economic development and yet very few people came out to support him in the end. I remember the time when things were going right for him and people were saying ,oh the the politics of Sharifs and Bhuttos is over and people are on his side now,I knew it even then that they were wrong because Musharraf is so different than how an average Pakistani voter is…even if our reserves had touched 50 billion dollars they still would have found a way to to dislike him.
What we need is a change in the behavior of our people who over and over again have voted for the wrong people in elections.A fundamental and a long lasting change in our behavior can only come about through education and awareness.We need to set up schools in villages and poor areas of Pakistan where not only childeren ,but also adults are given the same education that our childeren receive in posh areas.And it should be a philosophical change in the minds of the people that we should be after rather than just a change in knoweledge.may be they need to know who Aristotle was and what Immanuel Kant was thinking.They need to know about the history of capitalism,socialism and all religions of the wrold including our own.They need to be exposed to differet ideas and concepts of the world.They need to be taught what Feudalism is and how it has hurt those living in the villages.They need to know how corruption and mis-management of our politicians has hurt our economy.They need to learn why certain countries of the world are ahead of us economically and socially,what have they done that we have’nt.
This education and awareness campaign has to be spread like a religion to all corners of Pakistan because it is only through this that we can change the mindset of an average Pakistani and change Pakistan in return.
i m a banker,i happen to watch a tele prog on sama T.V in which you were invited and i consider you a good addition in Pakistani politics as we need young,energetic and educated polititions
i wan to draw your attention towards a serious issue regarding recognition of Isreal and i think you are the right person to present it in the parliment
Govt of Pakistan has removed one of the imp clause in L.C opening(for Int trade)i.e “shipment tarnsshipment through Isreali ship/port is prohabited”,would we consider it a step towards recognition of Isreal, as this clause was a part of every L.C since ever Int trade has been started in Pakistan(senior Bankers know)
regards and best wishes
On foreign policy a message on my gmail
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I want to give suggestions that in my view can affect Pakistan’s foreign policy in a positive way.
1.There is a need to shrink the quantity of political appointees in the Foreign Service. Considering the peculiar situation Pakistan finds itself in we cannot afford to have any doubt in the professional abilities of our diplomats. It will also be wise to restrict whatever political appointees we will have left to less significant capitals around the world instead of the most important ones.
2.Ideally foreign affairs and defense ministries chalk out their respective strategies regarding foreign policy relationg to sovereignty and security issues, these policies are debated over by the ministries among each other and final draft of proposals is submitted to Executive by the Foreign minister for approval. Sadly I don’t see this happening. Defense minister should represent consensus view of all departments under his ministry including the military, instead Gen. Kayani and Ahmed Mukhtar have been found to be poles apart in their statements regarding U.S. attacks. The lack of consensus needs to be addressed and defense minister should be quick to come up with consensus proposals of all departments under him, then only should these proposals be debated upon with the foreign ministry.
3.There are two major theoretical paradigms and approaches in the international system, these are realist and complex interdependence. Realist paradigm broadly says that the primary goal of a state is of survival. Security and sovereignty is the basic point of contention, it has some famous advocates like Henry Kissinger. Complex interdependence on the other hand says that as the international systems have evolved there are economic and social issues other than just security that need to be addressed which can only be done by collective effort and will of the states involved. This paradigm according to many also sees sovereignty and its violation in a more lenient manner than realist paradigm, example of functioning complex interdependence is European Union. Pakistan needs to be able to deal with different countries using the suitable approach depending on bilateral relations, ground realities and its self interest. For example Pakistan should pursue complex interdependence with countries like China and Saudi Arabia considering these countries’ long lasting strong relationships with Pakistan. Unfortunately this policy is being applied to the U.S. Pakistan government should be wise enough to adopt a policy towards U.S. that is a middle ground between realist and complex interdependence. Government should promote economic ties with U.S and be its ally in war against terror as this stance will work in interest of Pakistan , but it should be strong enough to adopt realist approach of keeping its security and sovereignty foremost. It should be understood that U.S. is not taking us along as its ally because of some sympathy that it has for us but for the simple purpose of achieving its self interest as would have been done by any other state in its place and it is not likely to abandon us if we sand up straight while negotiating.
4.Last but not the least, parliament should be one of the significant determinants of foreign policy as is the case in legitimate democracies.
well mr sajjad,
you dont seem to have a reception mode for anything that goes against musharraf.. dont be too blind in his love…i wont argue about his popularity in armed forces with you..bcos all you talk about is wishfull thinking and your own desires…whereas i am a part of the armed forces..so you can go around telling people how popular that creep is in army..but the fact remains..its my word against yours…by the way if he was so popular why did the army not rescue him out of the muck that man got himself into…ever bothered your brain about this…no i guess..because you are love stricken..
your musharraf was a man with no ethics…how can you justify his writing a book while still wearing the uniform…earning millions from simon and shusters publishing house..he said i would spend this money for poors..haha i guess he was the poorest of them all…this is what we call poor ethical sense…doing what you tell your sub ordinates not to do..hypocrate…greedy and selfish…
when did i say i approve of zardari…i hate his guts more than musharraf but why do you keep forgetting who is responsible for his ascent to presidency, sorry brother it is musharraf…he wanted ppp and benazir’s help to bail him out of the fiasco he had created by firing the judges..he knew that marvi’s party would be on he wrong side of the election resultss..thats why he ran all the way to dubai to meet benazir and ppp stalwarts…so you see he brought t his monster for his own rescue , but they turned the tables on him…this proves again that he (musharraf) is a liar , selfish and a manipulator..an d fell in his own trap..this man really had the nerve to think we would accept his lollypop of reconciliation..creep called benazir and nawaz sharif criminals and then went all the way to meet her…even robert mugabe has better ethics..
i completley support your point of view about the terrorists…we need to eliminate them…but we have to differentiate between tribals and terrorists…if we continue to be trigger happy with poor aim we would continue to turn a lot of young tribals into terrorists…i have been engaged with the operations since 2003 and there was no problem in fata except south waziristan..now the entire region has insurgencies…waziristans, bajaur, mohmand,swat,aurakzai and dir….we have to admit that there has been a lot of collateral damage….i only say that if dr afia is involved in terrorism then we must punish her ourselves..go ahead hang her but please dont hand them to us…and if you think thats not true then read your beloveds book in he line of fire(nannay ke karnamay)he himself accepts that he handed over people an d earned money…dont make this nation “impotent”.
musharraf’s foreign minister kasuri has himself admitted that they allowed drones to fly in pakistan and target people…now whats your take on this…
when you accuse zardari of indecent behaviour when he flirts with sarah palin then you must remember that musharraf also danced infront of a gathering of hundreds of civil servants…he enjoyed seeing his chairman CBR doing a mujra for him…thats also indecent…
i am sick of listening to all your hue and cry about economical progress..i am a soldier but still i wont accept all this crap….what economy even before this pathetic government had taken over, the flour crsis had set in, electricity shortage was there, petrol prices started to rise…shaukat aziz was a liar much like his mentor…where is he?made billions and escaped i guess..even ur musharaf said before he resigned that i have asked shaukat aziz o come back and defend his actions but he has not replied..wake up mr sajjad…please call spade a spade…
mr ali sid,
i never said i am very fond of imran khan..infact i think he is really stupid to hang out with qazi and jamat-e-islami…all i said was give the man some cr e d it for his achievements…yeah he may have been a playboy..but if you disapprove of that then you should be disapproving of musharraf as well..the old slut was a self styled playboy as well(remember his dancing infront of hundreds and all the stories of his drinking antics)….the fact remians that imran is not corrupt…his leadership qualities are accepted even by his bitter rivals, the man has given this country a premium cancer hospital….ifyou can have a general as a leader then you might as well try a cricketer also…the difference b etween the two is that your general led a campaign (kargil) and lost..his campaign is called the strategic blunder…but imran fought from behind and won his campaign(world up 1992)…so on one hand you have a looser and on the other a winner…aint no difficult to choose between the two for me..what about you?…if cricket diplomacy is used for resolving disputes at summit level then who could be better than imran to lead…if you can bear to see your mushy accomodating a corrupt man like zardari then have some patience for imran as well…yes he needs to reconsider his affliations with qazi but still the man has a clean chit….stop supporting musharraf please…not a single man came out on strees for him…this shows how popular he was…this country needs to go back to its roots…dont hand it over to liberal fascists like musharraf, salman taseer and co….this country was meant to be a modern islamic state not a secular state..we have no place for both taliban and liberal fascists….
When well-known and well-established criminals like these hide their crimes against humanity in the wraps of democracy, it doesn’t make them innocent or their deed benevolent. It simply pushes the world closer to more instability and turmoil because it provides an opportunity for perpetuating lies and deception and intensifying their negative consequence. Here is a quick example of how victims of their crimes int he anme of democracy are not even allowed to set their foot on the US soil: US visa urged for Mrs Janjua . On the other end of the spectrum, if would be naive to assume that Zardari’s crimes are while collar corruption crimes. They are not. While Bank accounts of Zardari and Bhutto-like criminals swell, thousands upon thousands die as a result of their crimes.
For that, Washington must finally persuade Pakistan’s leaders that this is not just America’s fight but essential to their own security and survival as a democracy. And Pakistan’s leaders must persuade their citizens
First of all well done for not liking ZARDAR AND NAWAZ, secondly I agree with you that to a certain extent it was a blunder to let NAWAZ and ZARDARI back in the country and Musharraf has paid the price for. That’s where I believe Musharraf wasn’t a dictator who hanged all his opponents but was too soft on them and also if your going to promote democracy and the people of the two big parties PML-N and PPP are crying and protesting that let our leaders come back to their country otherwise we’ll start destabilising everything and boycott the elections, than in the situation MUSHARRAF had to make some decisions..But anyway let’s say that Musharraf got that wrong and he should not have done NRO..
You say the army didn’t like MUSHARRAF, now if the army did not like Musharraf than:
1. WHY DID IT SUPPORT HIM TO OVERTHROW NAWAZ SHARIF IN 1999?
2. WHY DID HELP HIM RIG THE ELECTION IN 2002(WELL IF THEY WERE RIGGED)
3. WHY DID THEY LET HIM MAKE ALL THE CHANGES IN GOVERNMENT AND THE ARMED FORCES
4 .WHY DID THEY SUPPORT HIM IN THE OPERATIONS IN BALUCHISTAN (THE OPEARTION THEY PRAISED ON 6TH SEPTEMBER)
5 .WHY DID THEY SUPPORT HIS DECISION TO SEND FORCES IN FATA
6. WHY DID THEY NOT FORCED HIM TO RESIGN WHEN HE WENT AGINST HIS DECISION TO TAKE HIS UNIFROM OFF
7. WHY DID THEY SUPPORT HIM IN CALLING IFTIKHAR CHOUDHRY TO THE ARMY HOUSE AND SLAPPING HIM
8. WHY DID THEY HELP HIM IN SUPPORTING THE LAL MASJID OPERATION
9 .WHY DID THEY HELP IN IMPLEMENTING EMERGENCY RULE
10 .WHY DID THEY NOT MAKE HIM RESIGN AFTER HIS PARTY LOST THE 18TH FEB ELECTIONS
11. WHY DID THEY GIVE HIM GUARD OF HONUR AFTER HE RESIGNED
12. WHY ON EARTH DID THEY LET HIM STAY IN THE ARMY HOUSE WHEN AT PRESENT HIS A NOBODY
13. WHY DON’T THEY BRING HIM TO COURT FOR THE CRIMES HE COMMITTED
14. WHY DO THEY STILL PROVIDE HIM WITH SECURITY AND LET HIM DO WHAT HE WANTS
Now theirs a few things:
Sajjad Thinks:
I think they let all the above happen because they were with him and they liked his policy, I think our army is not that dumn and coward that they whole army will be on one side and MUSHARRAF alone and still they listen to this guy for 9 years, and what I think is reality and the truth
Sheharyar’s (TOY SOLDIER) Thinking:
Now if you think the army hated him and still followed his above points for 9 years than the ARMY IS A COWARD BUNCH OF INDIVIDUALS(SPECIALLY U), THEY ARE HYPOCRITES, THEY ARE TOTALLY DUMMIES(LESS THAN U) THAT THEY WORKED ON THE ORDERS OF ONE MAN(MUSHARRAF) FOR 9 YEARS AND MORE…ACCORDING TO U THEY ARMY WHICH HAS 6 LAKH JAWANS HATED ONE MAN MUSHARRAF BUT STILL FOLLOWED HIS POLICY AND ORDERS FOR 9 YEARS…U HAVE REALLY LOST UR SENCES AND TOY SOLDIERS LIKE U ARE GIVING BAD NAME TO THE WHOLE ARMY..
DUMMY SOLDIERS LIKE YOU HAVE NO SAY IN THE ARMY, YOU’RE ON THE LOWER LEVEL WHO ARE USELESS, THEY CANT RAISE ANY ISSUES WHICH THEY DON’T LIKE INFRONT OF A GENERAL BUT INSTEAD WHILE THE REST OF THE ARMY IS BUSY FIGHTING IN WAZIRISTAN, DESERTERS LIKE U COME ON THE INTERNET AND TALK BULLSHIT…HAHAHA
SHEHARYAR WAKE UP DON’T BE A TOY SOLDIER ALL UR LIFE………PEOPLE LIKE U R THE WORSE WHO FOLLOW ORDERS FOR 9 YEARS AND THAN TALK AGAINST THE SAME ORDERS THEY FOLLOW FOR THE REST OF THEIR LIVES…..
I accept Musharraf handed over people to the US AND OTHER COUNTRIES he accepts it and i accept it, we also say that they were foreign nationals not Pakistanis, even AFIA is American national not Pakistan, but i would say its a mistake to give her over IF they did….
MUSHARRAF did not alone go and pick up a person and handover to the US the ISI done it the ARMY knows about it, so once again the ARMY, ISI are inolved togather with MUSHARRAF…But it was good to give away people not Pakistani nationals who were committing crimes in Pakistan and if we excahnged them for money than FINE,we’re a poor country why should we suffer from terrorists, spend money catching them and than hand them over for free..NO WAY..
You say you’re sick and tired of the economy success of MUSHARRAF…..
Dummy soldiers who don’t understand their army how the hell you will understand economy, go make tea for some general, understanding economy is not for you………
Probably you don’t know that SHAUKAT AZIZ left in November 2007, other than a few mismanagement issues like SECURING THE WHEAT SUPPLY WHICH ONLY HAPPENED IN THE LAST FEW MONTHS and the other issue of ELECTRICITY which I can give a lot of arguments for but will not as foot soldiers like you are called KHALI DAMAAGH will not understand……
ARE YOU BLIND TO SEE THAT AFTER SHAUKAT AZIZ LEFT IT’S NOW THAT:
STOCK EXCHANGES IS CRASHING, since this year 2008 until now it has come down from 17,000 points to 9000, do your research, don’t TALK SHIT
DURING SHAUKAT AZIZ AND MUSHARRAF PEOPLE WERE BRING MONEY INTO THE COUNTRY, BUT NOW THEIR WITHDRAWING
RESERVES HAVE FALLEN FROM 17BN TO 10BN (U THINK SHAULAT AZIZ AND MUSHARRAF IS TAKING IT AWAY, U R DUMN)
RUPEE STAYED AT 60 RUPEES to the dollar for the last 5 years but in the last 8 months it has weakened to 77 RUPEES TO EACH DOLLAR
SERIOUSLY ARE U TOO BLIND TO SEE THIS, IN THE ARMY DID U GET HIT BY A BULLET TO UR HEAD OR SOMETHING………..
People of Pakistan are uneducated which includes you, they don’t like change, they want to stay in the same old system which they now have after voting for it in the Feb 18th Elections..People don’t understand GDP, STOCK EXCHANGE, FOREIGN EXCHANGE RESERVES that’s why they don’t realise how much the economy improved under SHAUKAT AZIZ, it came from a bankrupt economy in 1999 to a stable and growing economy when SHAUKAT AZIZ LEFT IN NOVEMBER 2007 mistakes are made which Shaukat Aziz coming from a place like CITI BANK had to come into PAKISTANS economy where 50 years of mismanagement and corruption had to be fixed in a small period of time..
PEOPLE LIKE U SHEHARYAR ARE TOO BLIND TO SEE THE CRISIS PAKISTAN FACES NOW SINCE THE ELECTIONS, THE ECONOMY IS WORSENING BECAUSE OF THE POLITICAL AND INCOMPETENCE OF THE PRESENT GOVERNMENT, IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH SHAUKAT AZIZ, SLOWLY PEOPLE ARE REALISING AND WILL REALISE AND ONE DAY WILL HAVE TO CALL SHAUKAT AZIZ BACK WHEN PAKISTAN IS ON THE BRINK OF BANKRUPCY AGAIN….
THERE’S SOMETHINGS WHICH YOU CANT EXPLAIN TO DUMN TOY SOLDIERS LIKE SHEHARYAR AND ARMY DESERTER, BUT ONLY TIME WILL TELL HOW GOOD SHAUKAT AZIZ AND MUSHARRAF WERE, A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE ALREADY CHANGING THEIR MINDS AND SOON THE REST ILLITERATES WILL AS WELL….
DUMMY AND HYPOCRITE SOLDIER SHEHARYAR toy soldier THIS IS A WEBSITE OF A MUSHARRAF SUPPORTER AND FOLLOWER AND MUSHARRAFS SUPPORTERS WRITE HERE AND GIVE SOLUTIONS…
SHEHARYAR IF UR IN THE ARMY GO AND FIGHT IN WAZIRISTAN STOP DESERTING, SITTING AT HOME AND TALKING RUBBISH, IF YOU ARE GOING TO TALK NONSENSE THAN I SUGGEST THAT U SHOULD JOIN UR NO HOPERS AND HYPOCRITES LIKE THE EX-SERVICEMEN SOCIETY THEY WILL BE HAPPY TO HEAR UR BULLSHIT……
SO SHEHARYAR THE DUMMY SOLDIER EX-SERVICEMEN(HYPOCRITES,MORONS,BULLSHITTERS,BARKING DOGS) ARE CALLING U, THEY NEED ALL THE USELESS PEOPLE AROUND PLEASE JOIN THEM AS WE DON’T NEED DIRT AND RUBBISH LIKE YOU ON THIS RESPECTFUL WEBSITE…
I’m a senior proofreader with a renowned software company in Karachi. Marvi, this is indeed heartening to see the young, educated people like you coming into politics and breaking the notion that politics is only the patrimony of dirty feudals. What’s more encouraging is that you’re a London School of Economics graduate. Having seen your articulation and outspokenness in various talk shows, I was compelled to browse your website, which is, to put it bluntly, unnecessarily long with quite a few typos and editing/proofreading errors. The other thing which has dreadfully inspired me is your innocent face, your lovely voice, and your eloquence tinged at times by the childlike attitude of not easily conforming to the other person’s ideas.
now seeing all these public comments i believe paki people are still in the process of blaming game.niether politicians nor the government or the so called minority of educated people in pakistan seem to look forward.we are still stuck in past.people will have to accept zardari as president which unfortunately has not been done.pakistan’s image outside is gettting worse day by day.
MEDIA-a form of communication lol
pakistani news channels -a form of critcism from both ends (government and oppostion)
we see the foreign channels like CNN,BBC and aljazeera who fully support their country in any means.however in pakistan news channels have always wanted a chance to criticize .
i have even heard and have got some evidence about some tv channel of pakistan who are american agents.
god knows well..
i would appreciate if u react on this comment and give me a response.also i appreciate for what u have done for foreign policies.
DONT U THINK THERE SHOULD BE A STRICT RULES & REGULATIONS FOR MEDIA BECAUSE PAKI PEOPLE DO NO DESERVE FREEDOM OR I THINK THEY DO NOT RESPECT PAKISTAN’S IMAGE THEY SEE THEIR BENIFITS
Shahryar give me a break ,Imran Khan’s insipiration in politics is Hamid Gul lol.Hamid Gul is a Jehadist who was actually working for AL-Qaeda before 9/11 and was the person who informed Bin Laden and co about a possible missile attack against them when Clinton chose to take them out.
Pakistan was meant to be a modern Islamic State yes and how modern is Imran Khan? who has defended every extremist in this country from Hamid Gul to Maulana Abdul Aziz.Did you know that the founder of this country Jinnah was a secular minded person who used to drink occasionally and was not too keen on getting too close with Mullahs of that time? ,just ask cowasjee whos dad was his friend.So if you want to insult Musharraf for drinking then you should go ahead and insult Jinnah too.
You mentioned Kargil and that we lost there ,well you may as well mention the other 2 wars, we did ‘t win there either so may be we should never have fought with India in any war.Winning a cricket match is not the same as winning in a war or in politics.what has Imran Khan achieved in politics?he has lost in all elections.
I do agree with you that accomdating PPP was a mistake by Musharraf,NRO was a mistake ,but it was not done so much for personal reasons by Musharraf if that was the case Musharraf would still be in power.The logic behind NRO was that there is a threat to the current set up of army and ISI from the Mullah brigade in pakistan and if the secular forces like PPP and MQM weaken politically then Mullahs will directly benefit from it…thats something that the current set up of the army led by General Kiani whos also secular minded can not afford.But I dis-agree with that on the ground that army should not be worried about democracy or democractic forces in Pakistan in the first place since politics and politicians in Pakistan have been more of a problem than a solution.
July 14, 2008 at 5:23 pm
salamz…
well it was really nice to hear at samaa tv ANKAHI with faisal…..im a student n also do ma bznuss i hardly watch any political talk show but just listening to u on show was to ma umost surprise the way u think u talk was awesome but it was a bit disapointing thing for me that ur from Q league to be frank…im not in plitics neither hav any affiliation with any party….but for Q league there is huge amount of hatred not in ma heart but all ma freinds family and the people i know…why it is so? there are few reasons..the most imp was i guess LAL MASJID operation…can u justify that operation was rite?……but reading about your career and education was great that in our parliment there are also people like u….i wish u all the best
July 14, 2008 at 5:48 pm
Salam…
My name is Bilal and i am a student of Electronic Engineering. I watched Your Interview and Many speeches and now i realize that someone has awaken from our public to speak for us.
My Question is that when Your government was in Power then the Rate of flour was around Rs.20. People in opposition used to scream on roads for such prices and now when prices have raised above Rs.35, no one cares now or people have lost their hopes.
Kindly explain the role of Judges in our politics. I bet they are playing side role in a horror movie. Besides speaking against the President and the Ex-Government they have nothing to do.
Pl Reply…
July 14, 2008 at 9:19 pm
Asslamoalaikum w/w!
Dear Marvi,
I just want to acknowledge the path and trend you have set for the rest to follow by presenting your self for accountability this shows the courage and your commitment towards this country. I feel proud that people like yourself are part of our country and INSHALLAH this country will show to the rest of the world with people like you “We are the best and we can lead from the front”.
Warm regards
July 15, 2008 at 5:21 am
Hi how r u. I saw ur program on express tv and stunned to hear ur views and knowledge. Alao i am surprises to see that u have made ur own website and professionally u r a professional banker and a good manager.
I am amechanical engineer and belongs to sukkur
From where do u belog? Alao why having such bright career in banking, why u chose to be a politician?
July 15, 2008 at 6:52 am
Well Done Marvi. We Feel Proud of you. Hope 10% of our Elected Elites were as Qualitatively Educated, Aware, Interest Oriented and Responsible as you. Keep the Family Flag Flying.
I may not be a Muslim Leaguer But I’m Sindhi, Pakistani,Muslim who belives in the oneness of Pakistan but only as a Loose Federation,based on Human Dignity and not a Religious State but a Muslim State with all rights to Minorities. Let Religion be between Men & God & not a Business of the State.
Corruption be declared as a Crime, NRO’s be changed into NRC likes of South Africa. Bureaucracy be answerable to the People, Judges should go thru rigirous process before being appointed.Good Luck & God Bless
Regards
Mushtaq Talpur
July 15, 2008 at 8:44 am
Very nice website and idea ,should be adopted by other members also , Through Internet Barack obama won U.S Election and one can not demise the power of internet
July 15, 2008 at 1:30 pm
i saw ur prog at sama tv yesterday jo ap bolrahi thi woh khyal ap ko apni dour-e-hukomat mai kis liye ni aaya ab batee karne sy koi fayda nai hai awam ap logo ki hi tarha is hukomat ko bhi yah daygi aap sub politions pakistan ki jan chordy ar ghar mai batkar dekhe srif sub bekar hai srif batee karwalo bus jo apne mulk ko nai sawar saka woh kaak kuch bhala kare ga aare 5 saal mai tu bacha bara ho jata hia ap log srif larne mai ak dosare par ilzam lagane mai ar kis k account mai kya hai srif is mai time ziya kare for god say leave PAKISTAN
July 15, 2008 at 7:17 pm
“… and that I will preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. May Allah Almighty help and guide me (A’meen).”
Above are the sentences taken from the oath of a Member National Assembly (MNA) that you have included in your introduction’s page.
Please tell me honestly, don’t you think your party did exactly opposite of it by accepting the Nov. 3 actions of Musharraf.
This is a nice step taken by you. But, one thing I would like you to make sure is that, this website should be used for interaction between you and the people, and not for your media publicity.
July 16, 2008 at 5:23 am
Assalam o allaikum
I m glad to see you leaving farzana raja answerless on some news channel where she could not respond to your questions about their party fake promises made during election campaign,with public for achieving power only .Like every political party in the country always leaving nation disappointed after being elected.
watching your interviews n views on politics i am surprised to see that still some good dedicated ,energtic leaders like you, are there in the country who has scientific modern ways of interacting people specially young generation.
we expect you, the only one, will definitely address the issue of latest alarming developments on our borders of afghanistan which is leaving pakistanis, the nation having no respect coz when a leader like karzai lol pointing towards pakistan forgetting all the sacrifices of pakistani nations and specially his in competency to handle the country’s situation, proves what our govt is waiting on why don’t they quit apologizing attitude why don’t they face world head to head.
Holding the light of hope may you survive longer for the nation n whole country
May Allah bless pakistan n rest of the world with peace & prosperity n give you the real strength to lead the nation as a true leader in the right direction of optimism
July 16, 2008 at 5:22 pm
I have seen you on interviews on Pakistan television shows, and you are doing a difficult and excellent job as an opposition member. Keep it up!
July 17, 2008 at 6:33 am
Thankyou for all your encouraging comments.
July 17, 2008 at 6:36 am
I am busy working on inter faith dialogue, national security strategy and strategy to manage extremism. Its a national cause in these trying times. Your comments on these would be most valuable to guide me in the right direction. Thankyou…
September 10, 2009 at 8:30 pm
dear Marvi,
i am a resident of Gilgit Baltistan. I would like to extend my respect, encouragement and thankfulness on presenting the issues of GB in the parliament. it is indeed your kindness otherwise no one has spoken on the floor of assembly for GB.
regarding interfaith dialogue, as resident of one of the most effected regions of Pakistan, my suggestion would be that government should nationalize all the mosques and Imam Barghas in Pakistan, with proper training of Masjid imams and a clear direction should be given to them.
Try to engage people on commonalities between the faiths, like ethics, Humanity and social relation of man with society etc. with in the islam sects in minority are vulnerable and have reservations with the system. they must be heard and their ambiguities must be cleared.
well this is my contribution and will come up with some more in future.
Regards.
P.S. your effort is highly appreciated in the student circle of GB. Keep it up, and try to meet youth frequently instead of politician because they will steer you according to their needs.
September 11, 2009 at 8:08 pm
tks – govt is misleading on the new package as i clear
October 9, 2009 at 9:19 am
I know it is misleading. we are trying to activate youth politically in Islamabad and hopefully there will be a demonstration in near future.
WE respect your efforts..
July 17, 2008 at 5:12 pm
Assalam o allaikum
muhtrama marvi sahiba app pakistan ki rehney wali hai jaha per bohat kam log appna nam english likhna parna jantey hai
appki web sight mukmal english main hai jis ki waja sey english najaney waley log app ki masrofiat our app key kam sey na waqaf hai- ies ley ies ko urdu main bhi montqil karey our appni websight ki print midia our electronic mida per publicity karey jis sey appki websight per aney walo ki tadad bhar jey gi jis ki waja sey app ko appni sight key ley ieshtharat(add) miley gey jis ki amadani sey app gurba-o-masakin key ley kam kar sakey gi- zaheer abbas lahore
July 20, 2008 at 3:54 am
Contrary to your statement the first Urdu poet was Wali Dakhni who is said to have said the first urdu-persian blend sher:
Khudaya babakshad bur haal-e-man
Budha houn maiN aur jawaan hai dulhan.
July 22, 2008 at 1:15 am
Marvi Ji first of all i wish you all the best for your contribution and hard work, and may Allah give you success in every positive step you take… as you are working on a strategy to manage extremism, i’d give you my personal view on this…
Who is a terrorist or extremist?
A person who ’s killing for food, religious freedom, his lawful rights in society?
Ask urself Miss/Mrs Marvi, a common person if has to wait for years in courts for justice. A innocent youth going behind the bar, gets killed or robbed and waiting for justice, Where as he sees the real corrupt gets the leadership of the country and escapes the country when caught guilty and once they return they get the leadership again. A country where we have no social and financial insurance. Being however literate I would personally even prefer a Sharia Law and Jirga system to get the results as early as possible. These people are not terrorists they are holding guns to protect their rights, they are fighting for their heritage, religious and cultural freedom.
You people are forcing them too much to adopt you people and so inviting problems to yourself. Don’t send the troops to kill them, sort out your judicial system, protect your borders from all around provide education to everyone in easy means and provide equal employment opportunities raise the common man’s life standard and it may take a few years but would result without shedding any blood. And one more thing to add here… please don’t get the people so complex ed by showing off the luxuries, stop sending your own children to foreign universities, instead raise the standard of your own here. Our most educated class, who if serves their own country could make a huge difference prefers going abroad and serve those foreign countries WHY? money maybe is one of the facts but the what matters the most is the social justice, law n order and system what attracts them. In our country, what do we have here? Just a few hotels, cafes, restaurents, bowling allays (not affordable for common man) Golf Clubs (just for a particular class) Gyms, Sport Clubs again for supreme class, grounds? too conjusted or small… attractions? ohhh hardly we have a poor zoo and indian cinema these days… what about our art and historical buildings? yes in poor condition now. Actually our government doesn’t have any master plan for the infrastructure of towns and cities. People don’t trust anyone of you now. You are frustrating the people too much, don’t you see? No planning for generating electricity, no proper water and sewerage systems, no atta no ghee… the rich gets richer and a poor gets poorer. Than our managenet class drivin huge cars and a majority hasn’t even got money to buy shoes. Isn’t it forcing them to do kidnappings, killings and robberies to enjoy those luxiries or just to provide food to their children n emselves? buT hey not to forget if they get caught they will be out behind bars, but if a big robberer from our political parties do multi billion robbery doesn’t even get noticed. Dont you feel ashamed when you see a kid begging on the road side? when a dog lies dead on roads for days? when u see people supplying goods on donkeys to make their living and a brand new Lexus/Bmw/Mercedes with a special number worth a fortune passes by it. If our leaders could rather step into their shoes and think of their feelings only then they would be called AWAMI leader.
If we just uprise the standard of lives of people we can make a huge difference. But sigh, Your government had the best of opportunities but now we have foreign forces on our borders, no economy, no industries, no investments, stock exchange fallin low… too risky isn’t it… but we still have a HOPE! Every person i bet in this country is living with one hope, waiting for that one person to come forward to solve their domestic issues and then maybe we would even someday forget the word terrorism and extremism and might even change the meaning of it that we find in oxford’s new edition today.
July 23, 2008 at 5:35 am
Hi Marvi, I am a doctor by profession, my nature of work related to Science in general and Medicine in specific have brought me closer in the loop of some Nobel Laureates, in common communication and frank hours with them, I frequently encounter situations where I am asked about the Status and Role of Women in Politics and Society in Pakistan….I had very few good examples….and that too were from much faded past….now that I have you on our side I feel we have got really strong and genuine women leadership to brag about… =)
God knows how excited and happy I was to see you that day at Sama and then Lucman’s Show…I texted all my contacts on my cell to watch what are you standing for….amazing and marvelous job Marvi…Serving such an ideal role is never an easy task.I am proud of you and whole nation is proud of you!
Thanks for being there for all the Pakistanis….We are with you and may God be with you….
Regards,
Dr. Kamran Iqbal.
July 23, 2008 at 6:13 am
There was a comment on Urdu aspect of this website. I completely agree it must be done fast. In that spirit and on that advice from all of you, I have decided to write in Urdu newspapers as well (articles). The first one is on interfaith dialogue and intrafaith dialogue. Unfortunately I havnt figured out how to post a Urdu blog on this blog so till I get round this technicality I am putting a translation in English. The original is available in Nwaqt dated 22 July. Inshalla we will have a proper website not just blog where Urdu will be available and frankly so should all of this material be available in all the National languages I have proposed in the bill. Eventually will get round to it. Tks
July 23, 2008 at 11:09 pm
Salam,
This is Muhammad kamran from Geneva,Switzerland. I am persuing my master in management & Leadership. I am a frequent user of internet Blogs,TV Talk shows, and anynews related to my country,Pakistan.
You are an imressive debater and talkative person.Good to see at leaset some one talking in various political aspects.
However, i would be sad to say that you are on the wrong side of the table.Your base is based on wrong elements which are the sturbness of our pesident Musharaff.I might sound anti-musharaff to you but there are many realities and facts. You spend most of your time to defend an illgitimate person who is no in no means favourable for our people.Current surveys does show this all clearly. Second, you are with the party, PMLQ has the biggest corrupt leadership.I do have reservation about other parties, but let’s talk about you and your party here.
You are right on target when you are poiting out some work of malfunctioning Govt.Neverthless, The contribution of musharraf and PMLQ has a vibrant role in al this.I am not satisfy with current govt performance as well as the role of musharrf. Only few name i can admire in politics Imran Khan, Javed Hashmi, Mehmud achakzai, Mushahid hussain, Qazi Hussain, Aitzaz ahsan, Shahbaz sharief (good with low level governance)Anwar baig. There may be many more but these looks sincere to me.
What i suggest you is to join a right platform where you may not become a member of assemble but you will have respect among people. PTI seems to me the best whose leader is full of principle.Imran khan is the man trustworthy for pakistan and he is one of the honest and faithful politicians.
You may enjoy your seat in assembly but will never gain respect by supporting a dictator who has occupied the country and spoiled our constitution.
Hope you will take the right path
July 25, 2008 at 8:42 am
koiey hamrey wazer-e-kharja janab shah mehmood sahab sey pochey jnab app 115 din main sey kitney din pakistan rahey hai our konsa teer mara hai sewa ies key app ney hamrey peassy sey mouj ki our wqat barbad kia .jis oil minster ko yeh pata na ho key sui geas key 5rupey bharney hai yaa 13 rupey.raja sahab bijli ki kimat bhara rahey hai our ies garib mutasir nahi hoga (hahhahahha)lagta hai jo gareb mar gey hai our qabar main aram kar rahey hai who ies mehngai sey mutasar nahi hongey. koiey in hukmranoo key agey band bandey aey Allah in per 58-2b muslat kar dey punjab key CM sahab ki koiey nahi sonta on key kehney atta sasta nahi horaha crime hai her roz sirf lahore main lakhoo key ho rahey hai our CM sahab sirf hasptaloo per chapey mar rahey hai
July 25, 2008 at 1:54 pm
Salam-Namaste
It was really a wonderful article titled INTRAFAITHS AND INTERFAITH HARMONY in Nawa e Waqt. Yeah, its right time to do something which can work out or prove fruitful in wiping out the lable of terrorist from Pakistani nation.
You have highlighted in your article Christianity, Islam and Budhism and remaining in other religion and stunningly leaving out Hinduism, which is one of the major religions in the world. The teachings of hinduism are also for peacful society. It is one of the most flexible religion. This is not I am sying as a hindu or being baised but its true.
So I think dialogue with the believers of hindu faith can prove healthy in this regard. Not necessarily hindus from India, but from Nepal also.
Another thing you have mentioned that ban must be imposed on the pseudo sholars like Salman Rushdi and Taslima Nasreen. I think those books should be banned which are blesphamous while other books which are worth readable should be allowed.
I think it is apt time we must develope soft image, and we must be enlightendly moderate, not westernized. Its great dilemma that we misinterpreted what Gen Pervaiz Musharaf said of this coined term. We took it as westernization rather than being enlightened moderate.
So its my requet to you to coin a new term for this so that it may be taken positively to develope the constructive thinking among Pakistanis.
Regards
Long Live Pakistan
Dialouge with
July 26, 2008 at 7:01 am
The omission on Hinduism in the inter faith article is regretted and was not a deliberate miss. Enlightened moderation is a good term and doesnt need recoining, just a better understanding is required that it does not mean westernization as you pointed out.
July 26, 2008 at 1:13 pm
Salam- Namaste
Thanks for your kind reply and heeding my request. I too agree that we need a better understanding to understand the term enlightened moderation. I dint mean at all westernization of this coined term but what I feel mostly people took it otherwise.
We need to revise our Quaid’s words of secular Pakistan. MP Bhandara did his level best in making so but people culdn’t understand him or didnt like him to do so.
I really appreciate the effforts which are being put by the young parliamentarians like you for the well being of this nation.
May God give you courage and stramina to work more.
We need Paksitan and Paksitan needs you.
Regards
kapil dev
July 26, 2008 at 11:03 pm
Hi,
Can you please reply an earlier mail regarding energy sector. Bhasha dam is not the panacea and there is a lot that needs to be done even when oil prices fall below 100USD.
Also can you raise the issue that 3.78 liters (a gallon) of gasoline costs USD 3.9 with 12% tax … why the same costs USD 4.6 with 15% tax in Pakistan? Along with a claim that prices are subsidized?
Thanks,
Zubair
July 27, 2008 at 5:48 am
Agreed Mr Zubair. I have raised similar pricing issues earlier also. I am personally working on alternative energy mechanism as part of National security strategy. Your advice will be helpful on my gmail address.
July 27, 2008 at 12:31 pm
AoA
An apparently bizarre exertion by a parliamentarian keeping in view, traditional and conventional outfits however without any exaggeration, hats off to an awesome exercise by a civilised soul. Though we all are educated, I am afraid fewer meet the minimum standards of cultured entities.
Irrespective of your affiliations with whatever people are shouting about, I reckon you are wise enough to carry on composing yourself. Having said that, I and every one should fully respect the existence of different wings and let everyone to merge towards the prosperity of the nation with their pace and strength. Ofcourse controversial notions are or atleast should be to establish a constructive arena for every stakeholder and to address the demands of the nation.
I donot want to be cynical at this stage, however I love to, when fabricated applauds are on air, whispers of so-called successes are echoing and above all hollow slogans of sincerity and prosperity are sprinkling like rains in monsoon season. I fully understand the dilemma of international politics and indeed Asian spheres witness much dark clouds and I am afraid, complex forecasts.
No harsh feelings please, it’s not for you. It’s my general comment. I donot expect a sincere Politian, get something out for yourself and for your close circles but I would request not to betray the ordinary person like myself. Donot give us any hope, if the clouds donot have silver linings. We are very emotional and with every murmur, we think “He/She is the ONE”. I may continue about this sometime, if get any and would love to.
Now something about new induction in the town of conspiracies and concealed “causes”, I remember you from “Off the Record”, the one accompanied by Gen. Talat and Mr. Fatimi. I found you a bit struggling with these highly skilled blokes, though you had vigilant and sharp analyses of the facts. The next one with Mrs. Haqqani deserves to be in my collectable, you were on fire. It’s a beginning, learning is till death as we learn how to. I am sure you do get some time to see your videos/comments and find how it was and how it could be? I donot want be one of those who think they are pretty good in giving suggestions, irrespective of their disturbed lives. But I believe
“Still waters run very deep”
And there is always a time for still water to expose it’s depth.
My schedule to writing you is alarming, but it was a good fun. All the best!!!
See you later.
Take care and keep praying
ALLAH HAFIZ
July 28, 2008 at 12:53 pm
Salam Namaste
Its good watching you on Geo Tv and and on Ajj Tv in two different shows. So broad, candid and shrewed were your counter arguments that it really perplexed the counterparts.
Being in opposition will really provide you a nice opportunity to learn and make you politically matured person. This tenure will make you politically ripened by the end of this so-called coalition led govt.
I do agree that if Marvi Memon is in politics its not because of her father’s “ashirwad” on her but I think you are there because of your own abilities and gutts.
Its good listening you that you know Sindhi as well.
Regards
Kapil Dev
July 30, 2008 at 9:03 pm
salam,
i am dr rizwan from muzaffarabad AJK. telling u frankly i realy hate the policies of PML Q but i am really surperised to see the behaviour of MMA and your other collation partners and i very carefully listen to you at different talkshows your most of the points are valid and authentic. i wish you all the best and say keep it up its nice to see a young talent hope u will continue to oppose for constructive purposes.
you are the only one pml Q candidate who impresd me. i hope the people like you in all different parties unite and soul out this our deadly country to life again
July 31, 2008 at 2:44 am
Marvi,
You should be ashamed for defending a dictator.
July 31, 2008 at 8:39 am
Mr Asad,
I do not consider President Musharraf a dictator. PML has elected him for 5 years and he is an elected President. I will defend what I feel is best for Pakistan’s national interest and security. One should respect difference of opinion and refrain from emotional accusations.
June 20, 2009 at 9:12 pm
agreed. Pakistan needs the leaders like you.
May Allah Bless you.
July 31, 2008 at 12:57 pm
salam,
hope u r fine n in best of ur health i wana tell u about a girl who belongs to muzaffarabad unfortunately 4 months back while coming back from pindi to muzaffarabad some people fired her car n she got spinal injury. now she is paralysed she is on wheel chair. but that courageous girl is determined and wana continue her study. the administration of ayub medical college is resistant for her studies . i request you to please raise the issue. she is a student of 3rd year MBBS in ayub medical college abbottabad. its not the matter of a girl but any ammendment in study procedure will help alot of handicap students who wanaa become useful citizen but our system is discouraging. please do think on it we all do alot for healthy people but no one is there to raise issues of handicap. i am waiting for ur reply . if u can do anything in it i send u detailed mail.
hoping for a positive response
take care
Allah hafiz
July 31, 2008 at 3:20 pm
APPEAL To ALL
Dear ALl,
It is really hurting that if somebody is doing something good and mingling up with general public via this electronic facility then we must take care of our emotional affiliation.
No Parlimantarian ever dared to interact like Marvi Memon with public and replying the queries. Its something daring and gesture of goodwill on her part. So, rather becoming negative and biased we must develope a positive and constructive thinking which may help us as well our young, energetic and enthusiastic parlimentarians to do something for this country.
This Iam saying being a representative of young educated Paksitanis so please heed my words.
Regards
July 31, 2008 at 4:22 pm
AoA
What a grin?
Ms. Marvi, once again exploiting the best of available political catches and her vocal cords-thanks to lozenges, her “19 hour work day” and aides. It’s difficult to explain to a layman but what a pity to convince parliamentarians about the constitutional position of Mr. President? Without blowing any controversial notion, I do concur Mr. Musharraf’s constitutional position as the President of Pakistan-it is fairly and explicitly constitutional however on moral grounds, I do reserve my rights to comment. What a wacky idea to use a word “morality” in politics, it just needs “modality”-a substitute of old friend “Routee, Kupraa aor Makan”. How come someone could forget to comment about the existence of PML (Q) in future, while doodling meticulously on papers? Probably the existence of PML(Q) is a bright hope, I am not sure for Pakistan but yes it is a bright hope and an easy stair to climb with limited visionary eyes and abundance of deceiving ears.
Dr. Firdous is unfortunate for having Mr. Zardari, her words and explanations seemed strayed. It’s what I call lack of farsighted leadership. If it had been Ms. Farzana Raja, it would not have been an easy nut to crack.
Tahmina Appa, a seasoned politician-adorable-a lady who knows when and how much to speak. She also knows how to tantalize aggressively, followed by restricting others to their sheds. I remember she compelled Ms. Marvi twice to remain in her state of silence. Though she belongs to a clan who depict dark times but still she knows how to cash the historic events including atomic explosions. There is a lot to extract from her.
Take care and keep praying
ALLAH HAFIZ
P.S: I try to express my unbiased opinion, if contaminated, my apologies. (Capital Talk-30th July 08)
July 31, 2008 at 8:03 pm
Hi Ms Memon,
I recently came across an article of yours in The News titled ‘The 100-day Betrayal.’ It’s always good to see that some intellectual gems do make it into our parliament afterall. However, I’m preplexed after finding out that you are affiliated with the PML-Q. This is not to suggest that PML-Q is any better or worse than any other parties in the Pakistani political arena. But I do have a strong, unexplained, negative bias against the Chaudhri brethren. How do you justify yourself in a party that was and is still known as the King’s party and whose leadership is written off by most political analysts as ‘lotas’.
I have also seen your website – a brilliant idea. I would like some sort of reply to the email or through a post on your website on why any Pakistani should believe you on your commitments? What makes you different than others?
Best of luck, Hasnain.
August 1, 2008 at 3:54 am
Dr Rizwan,
Pls provide me more details on my gmail address so that I can help the girl you mentioned. I have been to Ayub Medical on July 26th in connection with Ayubia accident of Lorali children. Will do what I can.
August 1, 2008 at 12:32 pm
Well ,1st of all thanks to Allah that some politician finally releazed the need of communication with us ,the awam, and thanks to you for implementing it 1st time .
Marvi you impressed alot cause of your PRE speech work in the form of proofs or reports you bring along with you in TV talk shows.but i feel that sometimes you don t behave in civilized or gentle way.i just saw you last time on capital talk and you talked really fine hope you would continue this .i personally feel great to listen you hope you would try to understand things apart from your POLITICAL AFFILIATIONs but in interest of humans living in this country….
i must say i have seen 1st time some politician other than PRESIDENT OR PRIME MINISTER Who made some inet webspace and this simply shows your modern approach towards politics .I wish you lots of successes on this path of politics,and pray to ALLAH that your all successes become success of PAKISTANI FOLKS too…..and never forget this weblog site ..and keep updating us about your accomplishments.
August 1, 2008 at 12:39 pm
and one thing more,though i am not advocative or lover of acts done by PML q or PRESIDENT musharraf .but i am appreciating this lady for her courage to speak out loud what she thinks right or wrong .please learn to respect people s ideas and at least say thanks to this lady for her public appearance ,not a single politician has such dare to come and talk in public,or in INET platform.if some one is trying to change TREND of our politics please appreciate him or her .
August 1, 2008 at 1:20 pm
I have had 3 abnoxious mails through this particular page which I have not displayed since I dont believe in promoting terrible language and twisted thoughts! My only hope is that all parliamentarians come up to the awaam’s expectations so that we are all respected. Written vulgar abuses dont achieve much. If you disagree it can be done in a civilized way too and then it can be published on the page. That is the kind of politics I want to see in Pakistan.
August 1, 2008 at 1:31 pm
In response to Mr Husnain … He asked
“why any Pakistani should believe you on your commitments? What makes you different than others” … The top of my mind response is….
I hope my commitment is believed, because of the motto which I am trying to follow….
Tangible results not just talk. I am trying to walk the talk. All the meetings I have are with the same purpose. Frankly there is no need for a regular opposition MNA to have meetings with experts to get solutions to our national security including energy and food crisis. Normally thats govt’s job. I am trying to do that and trying to be constructive.
Time will tell. And results will show. So far I have had good progress on lots of issues like for example glaciers/ Disaster management; because I try and push govt towards resolution. Its a new approach. Read the article on food security, read the july 27th diary page, read even the press release trying to warn govt for not being so pro-Indian, read the northern area bill which is the first time in parliamentary history. There are many other examples but its a journey. Everyday I try hard to do something useful. Results not just talk. I am just starting the journey. I know one has to be very persistent to get results. I had to raise glacier issue thrice and scream on assembly floor to get PM to listen and before I got whip in parliament to call disaster management team to resolve issue. Persistence to keep trying till results come in. Its lots of work when one is in opposition because one cant fix issues oneself. One has to push govt to fix, because govt has the power to sign solutions. Much easier to fix when in govt.
Even a simple dinner at any ambassador’s residence is lots of work; to push for constructive collaborations between our two countries. Its not just sushi and small talk! Thats my approach.
Even though I am in opposition and will get no direct credit for my party as a result of the fixes. As long as country wins thats the real and only win. Everyday there is lots that we do which is confidential which I cant post but which is good for Pak. And hopefully one day those pages will also be posted
August 1, 2008 at 1:35 pm
We all know the issues of Pak. Its pointless arguing over whether we created them or the current govt. What is important is collective wisdom in solving them…Please post solutions on this page so that I can convince govt to fix things accordingly. Let this page be a truly useful excersise for the country
August 1, 2008 at 1:49 pm
before imaginations run wild…by ‘confidential meetings’ in my earlier post i mean.. opposition’s strategy meetings… those are being recorded too separately and at the right time when my hair is grey enough I will share those too. I see those meetings with leadership as learnings and history in the making. There is a logic to the madness and a logic to each decision and strategy.
August 1, 2008 at 2:58 pm
As you have given us ,the awaam,a lift by connecting this way ,i want to pose a question ,would you like to do some thing for misplaced individuals ,i know its very sensitive issue but Marvi, that person could be your father or my brother ,if its their turn then one day it would be someone else turn too.i consider you as sensible human and want that you do some thing on this issue as well ,secondly if nothing can be done for them ,then at least support for their families could be arranged ,they are our Muslim brother and sisters they are our responsibility.i don’t know what are your Party s beliefs about this thing but after seeing REFLECTION of nanga parbat in your photo collection i expect a lot from your sensibilities.
August 1, 2008 at 4:12 pm
AoA
Irrespective of concerns raised about the loyalty of a politician, an educated person should focus on “JOB IS DONE”, whether there appears “Choudharys”, “Mians”, “Newly born Zardari-Bhuttos” or “Mr/Ms Xs”. We are gossiping about educated stuff, are we on the right track of education? I acknowledge the participation of Ms. Memon in three committees including IT which has-I am afraid-something very little to do with education to establish the conscious of youth.
I shuffle and find Dr. Atta-ur-Rehman’s launch of IT tsunami (sorry for this word but it proved an extravagant policy) about seven eight years ago. The misunderstanding of the concept followed by the mismanagement led to thousands of Internet Café with horrendous outcomes which we had witnessed with a deep sorrow. The good we achieved, ofcourse is worth mentioning but it’s not the objective of this post. A country having about 70% habitants in rural areas have limited or no excess to basic education and rest constitutes about 50% literacy rate (definition is negotiable). I am not pessimistic, however we need to re-consider our education policy. I had a chance to have bird’s eye view of the education policy forwarded by Mr. Ahsan Iqbal (65 pages). I could not find any such policy from PML(Q) except one paragraph-of little satisfaction for me-in the manifesto under the head of “Development”. If you have any education policy in hands, would you please share the link.
I feel so much lost sometimes when I try to envisage Ms. Memon-one-size-fitting-all, something is ofcourse better than nothing. I feel sorry when I find lavish spending on the name of foreign scholarships.
We will have hundreds of PhDs by another two or three years- do we have sufficient infra-structure to accommodate them or simply we are trying to facilitate brain-drain?
I appreciate the efforts and do not doubt the sincerity of HEC, are we spending on the right lines?
Do we need to spend millions of dollars to ensure foreign qualified PhD scholars or we can spend this fortune to hire foreigners for our universities and let our universities to establish?
Do we need the cash-flow in IT or for those highly skilled programmes or we can have a balanced scheme for basic grounds as well as for highly skilled plans to raise the conscious of youth?
Take care and keep praying
ALLAH HAFIZ
P.S: Thanks for getting some time for all of us and your tolerance is highly acknowledged.
August 2, 2008 at 2:22 pm
Salam-Namaste
You look very energetic and enthusiastic with a spirit to do something for this outcast nation. Please do something in the education sector. I belong to Thrparkar and literacy ratio of this desert area, swelterring with the heat of illeteracy anf poverty, is terribly only 17%, where as last PM Shaukat Aziz and CM Sindh Ghulam Rahim both were elected from the same area, however, the former left the constituency. This is what we got from these treahers. I clearly remeber the sppech of Shaukat Aziz made in Mithi, dist Tharparkar, when he made hollow claims that he would make Thar as Dubai. But regret to say there are only two towns which are gifted with river water via a pipeline and rest of the inhabitants have to use the saltish water of the wells. Only four towns and few villages are electrified and remaining are still lying in the darkness of backwardness.
Your party must not forget that you have made a clean sweep by winning 4 provinicial and two national assembly seats from this forgotten territory. Arbab sahib is enjoying a lavishing life in Arabian desert having forgotten his own desert.
Majority of the hidus live in this area so they may not be ignored in this pathetic way.Its my request that you may visit Thar and see the deplorable condition of the people or not then do watch movie Ramchand Paksitani which had been shot in Thar. It clearly depicts gloomy picture of Thar.
Its very perplexing why this region is being ignored by every government- whether for being border area or govt’s biased policies against minorities. I really laud Musharraf for doing something for this region by developing network of roads and water for two towns. In actuality, these facilities were given to facilitate Chinese working at Thar Coal project, but in the long run it would facilitate the locals.
So many things to say but I think brevity is soul of wit. Therefore, some practical implementation must be done.
Regards
August 2, 2008 at 7:30 pm
Marvi -
First of all, nice to see this website and see some educated people in our politics. But i’m not sure what are your reasons to stick with PML Q – they have done enough bad to the country that this party doesn’t deserve to be with.
But at the end i respect your vision and your contitutional right of speech & to be with any party.
thanks
August 3, 2008 at 4:00 am
You have a flare for misusing statistics – Ever considered working for Shaukat Aziz? Would you approve the kidnapping of Mr. Aziz from UK and bring him to justice in Afghanistan.
August 3, 2008 at 7:52 am
first of all i will like to appreciate ur sense of photography..nice nature pics:)
now lets come to point
my point is can u guide me how to enter in pakistani politics?i mean whts the creteria and conditions?and how we start it like how to join any party?whts the procedure and all
it will be nice of u if u guide me
thnks
August 3, 2008 at 12:46 pm
Salam Namaste
It’s really startling that you just wiped away my last post from this page rather than replying me. What i wrote was true of my area and what what your ‘respected’ leaders did for this area was also true. Since you always defend your party and your support for it and for Musharraf so I felt it comfortable to ask you aboout our ‘patriotic’ leaders who are now out of country after bagging the money.
I hope there’s is no harshness in my tone but its a question which every person of my area wants to know. So let it be answered.
Our best wishes are with you.
Regards
August 3, 2008 at 1:02 pm
I have heard and seen you in many a tv interviews… you are a credit to our society.
Can you please find out about Dr Afia,missing for well over 4years…justice and humanity demands that this is corrected, a mention in your newsletter, would be a start.
Thank you,
May Allah bless us in our quest.
August 4, 2008 at 12:26 am
Wow i must say this is so nice to see a person from the parliment to be on the internet and listening to the actual ‘awaam’ – so nice of you marvi.. perhaps you should encourage other leaders to open up their blog just like you’ve done.
As for my comments on inter faith dialogue, national security strategy and strategy to manage extremism, I’d say that the extremists have reached at a point where they are no longer negotiable – they have been brainwashed to hurt Pakistan and Pakistanis. The extremists are like zombies which are ‘laa – ilaaj’ (have no cure). The only solution is, to arrest them, and if they show resistence, then (unfortunately) kill them – and at the same time, go to those places where these extremists are growing up – talk to their children and women and explain to them how those extremists are wrong.. after all, women and children may just be able to get an understanding of what the established extremists do not.
Cheers and keep up the good work.
P.S. I do not believe in any party – as all parties here are based around personal interest – but you sound like you are someone with dedication towards her country and people – so i’d pray that you take over the chaudry brethren soon and become the leader of the party.
Good luck!
August 4, 2008 at 12:53 am
And of course, I’d like you to re-think your decision of supporting a dictator so passionately. Do you honestly feel that a man who is ruling on Pakistan using the power of his military uniform is worth your support? Re-think.
August 4, 2008 at 3:29 pm
Marvi you have all rights to protect and defend Musharaff BECAUSE with out would not have in Parliment. This shows your Loyality:)
However, I do ask, How do you feel to defend a dictator who has only 3% popularity among public. (Latest surveys shows)
You should think about this point before being a blind loyal to your master. This just my humble opinion and advice because i think you can do much better if find the right path.
Thanks
August 4, 2008 at 8:01 pm
Well Marvi,
before saying anything i would like to ask whether this place is also available for those who has ideological differences with u??????
To introduce myself,i am shahid from N.W.FP Pakistan.A masters degree holder in Political science and LLB.
I watched u quite a number of times over channels and i think u as a lady with a thinking mind.but i would honestly suggest that insead of going for cliche and taboo works,u better go for something genuine.I would suggest that instead of trusting the knowledge gained by books and by ”Briefings”,u must try real politics.i mean that politics which is called street politics.i know it would be difficult for a person of elite class like u but that is essential if u wana leave some mark.
At the end if u really honour difference of opinion then we can talk
August 5, 2008 at 9:22 am
AoA,
Well done mam you did a brilliant job. and i hope it will be very much to support you to find the things whatever that is …. and you make a symbol for all may Allah give us sence how to do their duties.
may Allah bless on you keep it UP……
August 5, 2008 at 11:37 am
Party Leadership must be respected and party discipline must be maintained. I have chosen to be in PML due to its links to Quaid’s original party and I am grateful for the PML giving me a chance to be a PML MNA. Leadership bashing in the emails I have received by some of you is not productive activity. I believe there is good in most individuals and one must learn from leadership the good. One must zoom into good and ignore the rest, in general in life. That gets you positive approach.
August 5, 2008 at 5:05 pm
AoA
@ true paki (August 3, 2008 at 7:52 am)
Recently one of my friends, who belongs to a mediocre family, asked me about the shortcuts of getting rich.
“Only two ways, either to have a rich father or father-in-law”, it’s what normally people think at the top of their heads.
“How to be a politician?”, around the horizons of Southeast Asian politics, reality is not very much different from the above-mentioned myth. My dear, do we need to be a politician to recognise our strengths and utilise these for the welfare of our people? I am sure “not”, if we identify our circles of influence irrespective how big or small these are. Having said that, it’s not an easy accomplishment to sustain the integrity of thoughts and ideology, once the mesmerisation of power commences shackling.
@ Kapil Dev (August 2, 2008 at 2:22 pm)
I remember the budget for higher education was Rs. 3.9 billion in 2001-02, which skyrocketed to an astounding Rs. 33.7 billion in 2006-07. The reasons of such an astonishing increase are self-explanatory. We like to charge ourselves as recently labelled by Mr. Gillani before going to USA. (My intentions are not to highlight the reasons therefore I am skipping). I respect Dr. Atta-ur-Rehman a lot but I keep my right to disagree with the policies. Last year, Dr. sb. with his dedicated team of HEC was in Trieste, Italy and raising slogans of hollow successes, including 300 percent increase in research publications, nine new universities will be inaugurated soonish in affiliation with European teaching faculty, a revolution by the return of about 3000 foreign qualified Pakistani PhD students and every year about 1500 PhDs from Pakistani Universities and bla bla bla.
Has he ever thought of “Mr. Kapil Dev” who is demanding a primary school/basic education for his vicinity? It’s a shame to spend Rs. billions on something which could benefit only fraction of fraction at the cost of millions of prospective scientists of Pakistan and who knows leaders of the world. I think it’s enough for the time being to absorb and think “What’s wrong with us”?
@ Marvi Memon (August 5, 2008 at 11:37 am)
The party of Quaid’s ideology, one can quote, may be hundreds of expressions from Quaid’s life which are enough to shatter what PML (at that time used to be “Q”) had been practicing over years and what it is comprised of. I feel sorry for any alphabet of PML due to their birthplaces-GHQ, some have achieved their freedom while for some future will decide. My words start wavering, when I think to advice someone who occupies much higher intellectual position than myself so I leave it to her.
@ All
I had to, in the past, sometimes guide and direct my niece who was 6 years old about four years ago. It sounds bizarre, trying to convince someone considering she is wrong about her political affiliation, whose son is older than my younger niece. A graduate form London must have a vision, I am sure do have, to scan a range from “the best” to “hazardous”. It’s her choice to get satisfaction with “Just OK” as one could think or justified/exaggerated it to “the best”. Let’s leave the politics for politicians and think of/for “awam”!!!
Take care and keep praying
ALLAH HAFIZ
August 5, 2008 at 7:04 pm
Dear Marvi
I would hmbly disagree wid u regarding ur last post.u said” have chosen to be in PML due to its links to Quaid’s original party and I am grateful for the PML giving me a chance to be a PML MNA”
Well first of all i humbly disagree with ur point that PML Q has any link with Quaid’s original party.u have a right to join any party but linking it to Quaid’s original party is quite a strange satatement.in the true sense of the term it can hardly be called a party.see it was an amalgamation of a number of parties having presence in parliament(not to forget the turncoats of different partis like PPP patriots).after a five year un-intrrupted rule and three prime ministers,it had to face only one general election of 2008.And u know the result.
Moreover may i humbly ask if Marvi memon was not the daughter of Senator Nisar memon then whwther she would ever be able to get a ticket of even a union council.What was the criterion to get a ticket of women reserve seat in parliament????
Hope u wount mind my comment and querry.If anything annoying then sorry
Regards
shahid
August 6, 2008 at 3:36 pm
AoA
Enough of politics and personal clashes. Let me quote Ms. Marvi Memon (August 1, 2008 at 1:35 pm)
“Let this page be a truly useful excersise for the country”
I would request everyone to help her bringing more productivity to this forum and proper delegation of tasks, and leave the cynical attitude and point scoring tactics for “Gladiators” of the political spheres.
So her Excellency “MNA Marvi Memon”, it would be great if you could update us about the recent two requests
1. By Dr. Rizwan (July 31, 2008 at 12:57 pm) about an injured/ paralyzed 3rd year MBBS student of Ayub Medical College, Abbottabad, who was compelled to abandon her studies by the administration of the college due to tragic mishap.
2. By Ms. Ambar Ghaffar (August 1, 2008 at 2:58 pm) about the missing persons.
You are not accountable to us but we would appreciate, if you could let us know that our “brainstorming” and “trusting Ms. Memon” was not a mistake. We know things are not going to change overnight, but you atleast can share whatever you have done and/or your farsighted approach in few explicit lines. I wonder such electronic gadgets like computers and PDAs are going to substitute Pakistani “street politics” in future, and welcome you being the “innovator”.
Take care and keep praying
ALLAH HAFIZ
August 7, 2008 at 8:17 am
Thankyou NSS for bringing the focus back on. I am late on both deadlines given by you all.My apologies. Need more time for them. Have my hands full with current political situation. Tks for your patience.
August 7, 2008 at 6:16 pm
AoA
It’s alright. Though I am away from my soil for a short while, yet I fully apprehend the existing political whirlpool. Take your time and no need to say sorry, atleast you are one of few, who are in touch with the public and we acknowledge your hospitality.
Despite of his philosophical vision and controversial believes, Socrates is still remembered in history for defending his believes till sipping a pint of hemlock. After Islamabad declaration today, it’s a time for you guys to exhibit courage. It’s nice to hear ex-CM of Punjab and Sh. Rasheed, let’s see how things settle.
Take care and keep praying
ALLAH HAFIZ
August 7, 2008 at 10:32 pm
Dear Marvi as I have watched the transparency introduced by PML-Q govt erode from the system I am becoming increasingly alarmed by the civil dictators of PML-N and PPP. I will love to discuss with you about forming a political action group that will empower and rally people at grass root level by using IT and mass media. This will be highly philanthropic, legal, in-expensive and revolutionary.
Best,
You have my email address
August 9, 2008 at 7:41 am
Hi Marvi,
Just watched a clip of you speaking in Hamid Mir’s Capital Talk. Frankly, I cannot appreciate your support for Musharraf. Opinions aside, it is a fact that Pervez Musharraf dismissed the judiciary in his capacity as COAS.
In any case, you are extremely inexperienced. Your remarks were crude, off the topic, useless, and in one word: pathetic. The very things you accuse the ruling coalition of, were committed by Gen Musharraf. He has admitted selling citizens of Pakistan to the US of A.
It is an absolute waste of time and enrgy supporting you in your endeavours.
Presuming your well intentions for Pakistan, I would wish you well. However I cannot, because what you intend could reverse Pakistan.
Hasnain.
August 9, 2008 at 2:12 pm
Dear Marvi
I m not affiliated with any political party because of so many reasons. To day I saw TV talk show capital talk. I like the way you put your question and answer. Seeing you as a member of parliament make me feel good. In this show you done well. But where were you when Mr. shukat aziz was looting this country? Why did not you raise your voice? For God sake think about this country which came in to being after many sacrifices of our fore father. Please do some real thing for this country. All we are enjoying is due to this country. We have liability towards this land. Please do some thing for the people of Pakistan. India building dams and we are sleeping. CNG stations getting profits 135%. Crude oil price decrease $114 a barrel but no relief to people of Pakistan. Government announce CNG price but CNG owners charging higher rate. Where is writ of the government? I use to listen “MEHDI HASSN MILI NAGMA YEH WATAN TUMHARA HEY, TUM HO PASS BAN IS KEY” and this makes me emotional. I request you to please listen it and advise other fellows to listen.
God bless you.
Nasir Saoud
I love Pakistan.
August 9, 2008 at 5:25 pm
Dear Miss Marvi Memon,
Today,I watched your speech and Arguments in capital talk to defend Pervaiz Musharaf.
You said that Mr.Musharf has not voilated the constitution.
I pray that you may be abducted by FBI of USA.You may be taken to Bagraam Airbase. Then US troops rape you there for five years
Then you will understand that where Mr.Musharaf has voilated the constitution of Pakistan.This shameless person has sold away ourPakistani sisters and there are still shameless women like who are defending this Rascal.
August 9, 2008 at 6:08 pm
how will defend the act of Musharaf of selling Pakistani Citizens to USA.If He sells you to FBI for 1 million Dollars then it will be very good deal.
And I assure you one day he will do if he remains in the power.You are really disgusting lady defending such a rascal who sold our sisters and Daughters to U.S.A.
I think it will not be easy for you swallow.and you may remove it from website.But if you are bold and you can defend your self then you should not remove this comments and give me answer
August 10, 2008 at 7:46 am
Dear Mam,
I read all above comments there is no doubt that you introduce first time in our politics this kind of discussion where everyone have same right to tell his arguments and whatever he have to ask. But please, please don’t favor that person who is the main reason and have large contribution to collapse the country economically, socially, and esthetically and we all are known about the terrible situation of Pakistan. And as you know the next week position going to submit the charge sheet against him so I think we are afraid that he could use the sword of 58 2B so kindly you people who are the big supporter of him and still defending him let him stop to do that because this time we are could not bear that kind of things with the Pakistan. Because this will be last with the Pakistan and I am afraid too much that we can lost our prestige and our country too. Now we are all wanting the accountable him in the Supreme Court.
At last once again I will appreciate your efforts and hearing the truth.
Regards
August 10, 2008 at 9:47 am
hey
I watched your program “capital talk” with Hamid Meer.I was very surprised to see how rudely and shamefully you are defending the case of the General Musharraf. Now you are the next card after Nellofar and Kshhmala.But I am sure after some days you will be with them and accusing the General Musharraf.I must condemn your hypocritical and disgraceful attitude. You don’t deserve for the anydebating shows you actually deserve somewhere else.
August 10, 2008 at 2:19 pm
Dear Marvi
please try to avoid to act againt the teaching of Holy prophet. (S.A.W)
To day Mr.Iqbal ehsan of PML(N) talking to news men gave the answer to the question about the president for giving a safe passage for his exit. He said this should not be happened and no one left without punishment of his sins. If it happens then every body should given the indemnity and all criminals in prison should be released. I thought he is a reasonable man but he is not. Because he forget about the person whom he and his party members are begging for, is the main beneficiary of “NRO”. And I think he is so innocent that he does not know about the “NRO”. Being Muslim he must know the saying of Holy Prophet (S.A.W) “nations were destroyed because they did not punish elites of society and punish severely to other people.” This NRO will be enough to destroy us as mentioned in Hadith
August 10, 2008 at 2:22 pm
Dear Ms. Memon:
I’m a fan! I’ve been through your website and seen you a number of times on TV. You’re doing a great job! look forward to seeing you achieving even greater heights.
I must take this opportunity to mention that I also have tremendous respect and regards for your father.
Take care.
Good luck and God speed.
Salim
August 10, 2008 at 5:37 pm
Plz dont make this place a praise forum.let it become a place of critical analysis of work done by Miss marvi
regards
August 11, 2008 at 8:31 am
Dear Marvi
In todays Dawn News “OIL MINISTRY ASKED TO CAP SUBSIDY AT RS.140BN” Would you please tell us what is the actual price of oil without adding any tax. This will help me to determin what kind of subsidy is our government is giving to the people of Pakistan. The gasoline price in Canada was Can$1.23 when the crude oil was above US$140. Is Canadian governemnt is also giving subsidy on gasoline? Althouh we are getting oil cheaper because less distance from exporting countries. Please do not fool people of Pakistan. Just do what ever you polititian want to do, the people of Pakistan can’t stop you people from looting this country.
For God sake stop this now and be honest with you job.
Nasir Saoud
Love Pakistan
August 11, 2008 at 9:27 am
Adi,
How come there is no photo of you from you native village or area of Thatta, if I am not wrong.
Please excuse me if I have this information wrong.
Best,
SP
August 11, 2008 at 2:33 pm
helo,
plz raise ur voice angainst the issue of oil prices as oil price has fallen to 116$ but the ministry and ogra are stil sleeping.plz wake them up n remind them that ogra meeting is supposed to take place enery week and its duty is to regulate the oil pricr not just to increase the oil price,also ask them whether they consulted parliment before making the agreement of ending all subcidy with word bank.
with profound regards
shahab
August 11, 2008 at 5:57 pm
Marvi you did not respond to my last mail, I need your help to find someone who can finance a campaign by a political action group. We want people to realize how much taxes they are paying and what they should expect in return. Moreover we want them to realize that civil dictators can be worse than military dictators.
August 11, 2008 at 7:12 pm
Dear Marvi!
i appriciate your efforts in regards of National Security and Pakistan’s great intrest…Have seen you a number of time on electronic media and it was great to listen you in there. So honestly, I am happy with the presence of such people in PML Q. I salute you what you , Mr president and other few people (such like you) did , doing and will always do in the graet intrest of our motherland(Pakistan)…. i want to ensure you that there are still Hundered thousand of people in pakistan, love Mr President and want to see him as a president for the rest of their life and abviousley i am one of them. So Weldone and keep Supporting him with same passion and dare. God be with you !
Musharaf Zindabad
Pakistan Paindabad
regards,
August 12, 2008 at 4:21 am
Madam,
I’ve been watching you on the tv shows defending musharraf. I know you are a great debater, you can leave the opponent speechless but i do not know how musharraf earned sympathy from you. I am not from any Political Party I am from the group, which people call ‘KHAMOOSH AKSARIAT’ who form the ‘AWAAM’.
I have so many things to write but I am unable to write I know it will go astray. I will not say that please change your affiliation, you are justifying wrong acts with lame excuses. just imagine, Prisoner 650 is Marvi Memon, will you have the same feelings regarding musharraf and PML Q. I am not requesting a reply just imagine…..
August 12, 2008 at 10:40 am
Dear Miss. Marvi, I saw u first time on Capital Talks of GEO, and I was really impressed by your thoughts and loyelty to Mr. P. Mushharf. I am a fan of President Musharraf too. Not coz of his personality only but coz of his policies too. I had posted many mails to him on his web site, and to PLQ Leader’s web site too. I expressed my views in those about that time’s political senario. Mein syaasat say kuchh ziada waqif nahin. lekin itna bewaqoof bhi nahin k PLMn or PPP ko sachha maan loon. Since last week, when PPP announced the impeachment of President, mein kuchh views share karna chahtaa tha. there were some points i noted durring the announcement of impeachment and after that. I wonder k aapka or President sahab ka think tank in cheezoon ko highlitght kyoun nahin karta.. for instence..
1)) When PPP & PMLn announced the impeachment on the wall behind them they had the pictures of Buhtto’s but not of Qaed-e-Aazam. (((( This should be brought up, as QAED-E-AAZAM K PAKISTAN KA, OR ISKI TAREEKH KA EK ITNA AHAM FAISLAA KIYA JAA RAHA HAI, OR ITNI BHI TOFEEQ NAHIN K UNKI EK TASWEER HI DEEWAAR PAR AAWEZAA’N KAR DE JAAE. may be they will answer to it, K, QAED-E-AAZAM TO HAMAARAY DILOON MEIN HEIN, then the response to it should be, k KIYA BHUTTO, BENAZIR, BALAAWAL OR MIAN SAHAB DIL MEIN NAHIN THAY, K UNKI TASWEER LAGAANAY KI ZAROORAT MEHSOOS HUE???? )))
2)) Impeachment mein har cheez ko uchhala jaa raha hai, even that, the price rise in pakistan is coz of his policies, the load shading is coz of his policies, the appointment of PM Shokat Aziz was his wrong dicission and so on… TOU?? ((( PRESIDENT NAY “”NRO” KIYA THA, JIS MEIN WO SUB LOG JIN PAR PAKISTAN KA PAISA LOOT KAR BAHAR BHEJNAY KA ILZAAM THA, UNKAY TAMAAM MUQADMAAT ADAALAT SAY WAPAS LE LIYE GAE THAY. AGAR EK GHAIR AAENI SADAR KA HAR IQDAAM GHAIR AAENI HAI, TO “NRO” KO BHI GHAIR AAENI QARAAR DENE KI BAAT KYOUN NAHIN KI JAARAHI??? YE BHI IMPEACHMENT KA HISSA HONA CHAHIYE. AGAR SACKING OF JUDGES EK GHAIR AAENI IQDAAM THA? OR ISKO EK EXECUTIVE ORDER SAY WAAPAS LAAYA JAA SAKTA HAI, TO “NRO” BHI USI SHAKHS NAY KIYA THA, KIYA WO EK EXECUTIVE ORDER SAY WAPAS NAHIN KIYA JAA SAKTA? IS PAR PPP OR PMLn KYOUN BAAT NAHIN KARTIEN???
3)) 58-2B,, SADAR K HAATH MEIN EK TALWAAR HAI,, OR IS KO BHI WAPAS LIYA JAANA CHAHIYE, OR YE JO TARMEEM KI GAE THI, IS KA BHI MUAAKHZAA HONA CHAHIYE. AGAR IS KO SEHI MAAN BHI LIYA JAAE? TO YE TALWAAR UNKAY HAATH EMIN “MMA” NAY DI THI, KYA “MMA” KI LEADERSHIP KA BHI EHTASAAB KIYA JAANA CHAHIYE?? K UNHOON NAY US WAQT EK GENERAL KA SAATH KIYOUN DIYA THA?? OR PAKISTAN MEIN JAMHOORIAT K MUSTAQBIL KO KYOUN KHATRAY MEIN DALLAA THA????
4)) PPP OR PMLn RESTORATION OF JUDGES KA SLOGAN LAGAA KAR ELECTION MEIN UTRI THEIN, USKAY BAWAJOOD IN DONOO PARTIES NAY USKO PEECHHAY DAAL KAR, SADAR KI IMPEACHMENT KA MASLAA KHARAA KIYA OR WO BHI 6 MAHINAY K BAAD, KIYA GAURENTEE HAI, K NIYA SADAR LAATAY WAQT YE MAZEED 1 SAAL NAHI LARTI REHEIN GI??? KIYA IS MEIN PAKISTAN KA MUSTAQBAL KHATRAY MEIN NAHIN PAREGA, TO PHIR YE DONO PARTIES ABHI APNA SADAR KYOUN NAHIN ANNOUNCE KARTI, TAKEY AWAAM KO ITMINAAN REHE, K SADAR K MAS-ALAAY PAR YE DONO PAKISTANI AWAAM KI PROBLEM KO PASH-E-PUSHT NAHIN DAALEINGI..
I agree, k shayad ye kuchh itnay strong points nahin k politically is say faeda uthhaya jaa sakay, lekin hamaari awaam ki soch bhi itni deep nahin k wo qanooni complications ko samajh sakay, wo inhi choti choti baatoon say leadar ka intakhaab karti hein. Beside i think k agar in points ko sehi moqay par or sehi tareeqay say project kiya jaae, or with due attitude, to kam az kam, CAPITAL TALK jese program mein atleast ye HAMID MEER ko bhi sochnay par majboor zaroor kareingi, k in topics par PPP or PMLn ka jawaab kiya raha..
IN THE END, I HOPE U WILL READ MY MAIL. AND WILL FIND IT WORTH TO BE READ. AGAR ISKA KOE RESPONSE AAYA, TO INSHA ALLAH, AAENDA BHI AAP SAY COMMUNICATION REHEGA.
SADAR PARVEZ MUSHHRAF KO MERA SALAAM KEHIYE GA, AND I WISH HE WILL WIN THIS BETTLE. AND GOOD TO YOU AND HIM BOTH. ALLAH HAFIZ.
August 12, 2008 at 6:13 pm
hey marvi
Did u watch Aaj TV show ”Bolta Pakistan” on Monday dated 11th august.They really took u to the task
August 13, 2008 at 8:31 am
This message is dedicated to Amber who asked me about Dr Afia in round about way and then got sarcastic! and for those who have asked me about Dr Afia in direct way…
PML has taken a stance to defend her. I have said the same on live tv in a press conference yesterday. Our Leader of Opposition said the same on the floor of the house.
The principle we are defending today versus perhaps when PML was in govt is …whatever the charges against her, she is a Pakistani and needs to be given fair trial to prove her innocence in Pakistan. that is the principle.
By uttering foul and vicious language against me does not solve any problems. I only published that foul language quote to exlain that I feel sorry for people who are so blinded by their hatred that they loose their language balance.
August 13, 2008 at 8:38 am
Aoa
Marvi Memon or should i say venom ,How come you contested elections while your father was a caretaker minister . We don’t need to see your loyalty because obviously you were employed by the president in ISPR and then in board of investment. It’s all in the family isn’t it. Father twice federal minister because of close friendship and daughter has two posts and now Mouthpiece MNA . Well done to Musharraf. Friendship is the only merit and nepotism is the only form of government PML Q and musharraf knows. Bibi yaad hai parha likha punjab , rozana ishtihar chalta tha aur phir 18 february kp kia howa.Bibi aap ka ishtihaar bhi rozana har channel pay chal raha . Allah khair karay , pata nahin shayad musharraf sahab ka 18 february say bhi bura haal ho ga , Inshallah ho ga.
Bibi kalay kartoot jab musharraf aur Q league kay saamnay aain gay phir tv pay aana aur apnay musharraf kaygun gaana .Phir dakhain gay.
Haan akhir main aik muhawara “Jab cheunti kay marnay kay din qareeb atay hain tou us kay par nikal aatay hain”
Tumhara musharraf ibrat ka nishaan banay gi . Lal Masjid ki waja say , shortcut aziz ki waja say , america nawazi ki waja say , Dr. Aafia ki waja say . Tumhara musharraf insaani smuggler hay .
Let’s see how far you and your father go after musharraf.
Good bye good riddance
August 13, 2008 at 9:04 am
This message is dedicated to all those who have been rude and obnoxious about my defence for the President.
In life I believe in consistency and loyalty to the STATE. My opinion is obviously that President is best for the State versus all those leaders who are selling Pakistan for their own power politics under the garb of democracy. Clearly not everyone agrees with me! But that doesnt mean I loose my belief system. I will fight for what I think is right and thats my right. Just like its your right to express what you feel. Clearly my beliefs are based on certain information and yours on your information. Time and history will show who was on the right side of history and democracy.
Plus I also realize that when the going gets tough then not many people have the courage to stand up for their beliefs. And at this time those who do stand up and fight for what is perhaps not looking so popular, are targeted with all sorts of nasty lies and comments. In my opinion, its best to ignore and not get affected by such yellow dirt.
Daughter of soil name gives me the courage to fight for what I believe is right. You might not agree, but I have shown tremendous tolerance by publishing all the vicious comments thrown at me and for responding.
August 13, 2008 at 3:00 pm
Dear Marvi
Respose to your coment regarding Dr. Afia. I think every body is innocent unless otherwise proved guilty. Same should be the case of Dr. Afia. And if she is innocent then who is responsible for all the misery she faced. So my advice is do not deviate from the basic principles of humanity.God bless our country and give courage to our leaders to say truth.
Love pakistan
August 13, 2008 at 4:01 pm
salam
pakistan ki siasat main ajj kal hulchul hai sadar sahab key sub khilaf hai oun per ilzamat ki bochar hai ajj pppp sadar ko aieni sadar nahi man rahi jab who asmbli sey vote ley rahey they tuo yeh log kue khamosh bethy they mery kheal sey sadr sahab ko khud tmam jujes ko bahal kar dena chahey kue key agar yeh khud doob rahey hai tuo sub ko sath daboo dey .pehli addalat main NRO key khilaf case chal raha hai our waha in key khilaf fisla aey gaa phir na zardari hoga na main sahab meanoo meanooo karey gey. yaa sadar sahab ja tuo rahey hai amrica ney bhi jawab dey dia hai abb bahdroo ki trah amrica key khilaf sub kuch pakistani awam ko bta dena chahey. abb fata our bajoor main ko karvai kar raha hai yeh jawab kon dey gaa our hukmat sey kon pouchey gaaaaaaaaaaaa waslam
August 13, 2008 at 4:26 pm
Marvi
What is your stand on missing person. Do you think Musharraf who handed over these people whether they were criminal or terrorists from pakistan to USA was legitimate. I donot see your stand or your party stand on this issue related to Musharraf, I . Musharraf has agreed he has done that. So is it legal or as per constitution of Pakistan.(remember the oath)
what are the rights of Woman you are fighting for. Can you tell this forum what are the ten things or rights you are fighting for Pakistani woman.
What you think should be done that not only our woman has maximum rights and equal rights and yet out society do not sway to western culture and moral value. How you plan to do that.
I really want to see your perspective on this issue or if you have delivered some speach on the floor or off the floor do let me know.
August 13, 2008 at 4:28 pm
A O A,
Respected Madam Marvi.
I hope you will be enjoying in the best of your health
I saw you quite a few times on different TV shows,really you have an impressive personalty plus a very sweet voice Mashallah…..but why some people always try to defend a militry dictator….!! !! !!
why….?????????
August 13, 2008 at 7:05 pm
AoA
To all,
Knitted strategies, underlying realities and power politics, I feel sorry when fields are crowded rather over-crowded with players of little relevant capabilities. Very first time, when I had a look of this weblog, I thought it was going to turn the focus to real words, circumventing personal issues and party biases. We worry a lot for what we do not and/or can not do anything. We do have horrendous issues than victimising or abusing the organiser of this blog. Let the politicians to play seek and hide and try to use her presence in an effective way by suggesting for the best.
To Ms. Memon,
Whether we learn from our past or not, we as a nation always remember ruthless mishaps including the one we have witnessed regarding human trade and it’s what Mr. President unconsciously/mistakenly presented in his untimely endeavour of no literal place (It’s what I am saying after going through deeply). I donot wanna portrait a picture, but the fact is you inherit a legacy. Though politics and politician have no definite doctrine system to drive them, however we do atleast, with all differences of opinions I do believe in your personal sincerity when you speak about Kashmir and Northern issues, missing persons, education and “awaam”. You talked about “Belief System”, it demands a lot and irrespective of orientation of such a system, once you have, you should abide by the rules of game. Interesting is to find a giant elephant helpless when tied with a rope, which he could break easily. It’s what they call “Belief System”. I am sure you had heard of this myth, I will send you anyways.
Hope with all these personal allegations, you would stand there firmly with what you hear when you are alone. It’s a peak time for a lot of street gossips, hope as the clouds get thinner and fainted, you would be around/with us to think about us, the “awaam”.
Take care and keep praying
ALLAH HAFIZ
August 14, 2008 at 11:43 am
salam,
I have seen you on many talk shows and is very impressed by your logical talk on different issues, but I dont feel it good for the country that talent like you is with that political lobby which has always served the establishment, generals and anti democratic and anti peoples politics. I would like to see you on the forfront of democratic struggle to make our country free from Martial laws, emergencies, black laws and expliotations of the people and small nations. Thanks.
Rahmatullah Turk,
Matiari, Sindh.
August 14, 2008 at 2:46 pm
Hello Marvi,
I do agree regarding your tolerance of publishing all comments – and this is what makes a good parliamentarian.
I agree that the PPP is in no way better than Musharraf but then Musharraf is in no way better than PPP.. so basically they’re the same.. power-hungry people..
I’m just not in favour of a military dictator ruling a country with a force of a gun.. and someone who is loyal to the STATE understands that the STATE never benefits from a military dictator ruling on people – Mush may have done the right thing to throw out Nawaz’s govt. but he should’ve held elections where a president chosen by people should have been elected (and please dont remind me of that pre-planned thing called ‘referendum’ that mush designed to elect himself).
August 14, 2008 at 3:49 pm
Marvi,
You are doing a great job defending the President. I like it that you come in well prepared with your facts and then use that to skewer your oponents when they start babbling about how nothing was accomplished in the past 8 years.
You’re going to go far lady. Please don’t switch sides, go to the dark side and turn into a Sherry Rehman. We need young role models like you.
Constructive criticism: Please lose the dupatta on the head. What’s up with that? It reminds me of the phony “Islamic Period” under Zia and Nawaz.
Best,
Amin
August 14, 2008 at 4:05 pm
Salam
Its a breath of fresh air listening to you on different talkshows on different channels.Believe me madam you are a nightmare for most of the politicians of Pakistan.I have been recording interviews of many politicians through out my career.even the one which did no go on air,believe me your are a leader in the making and i mean a leader no less than Benazir.
When political parties come under stress,most of the socalled leaders run to the party which is in power,your commitment to your party is adorable.God bless u
August 16, 2008 at 7:38 am
I am impressed! and now I have a soft corner for Chauhdries just because of you. Its really amazing to see our politicians on internet having their own blog. Just want to request you one simple thing. We really love our country and hope same from all of the politicians out there. We all know that all of them do corruptions, but please not at the cost of Pakistan’s sovereignty.
We might forgive everything, but we can not forgive anyone who will try to danger the sovereignty of Pakistan for filling his banks. I Love every Pakistani if he behaves like a Pakistani.
I wish you all the best in your Political career, hope to see you leading us towards more progressive and bright Pakistan.
August 16, 2008 at 8:52 am
Dear All
Every body is speaking against the president; this is all our present government wants from the people of Pakistan. To divert the attention from the actual problems, government and the allies are quite successful. Is Mr. President advised the government not to decrease the price of petroleum products, and continue the war against terror in northern area. Even he is responsible for the law and order situation in the country. He is responsible for the poor sewerage system of Lahore. And I think more rains are his fault. Our so called government needs an escape goat to put all blames on it. But the fact is that they are all inefficient and liar and greedy. We the people can’t do any thing except pray to the God.
God bless our country and save it from these ………………………..
Love Pakistan
Nasir
August 16, 2008 at 8:59 am
Dear Marvi
I am not favouring Mr.Musharaf, but waht is next “ZARDARI” ????? INNA LILAH’H WA INNA ELAIH’H RAJEOON”
Love Pakistan
Nasir
August 16, 2008 at 9:05 pm
Mohtarma Marvi Memon, Few years ago I heard you in a function held at Pakistan Institute of International Affairs as I was there being a life member of the institute. Discussion was about immigrants. I found you a very talented and informative, comparetivly in a very young age. Later on I came to USA on scholarship for higher studies of intellectual Property Rights and presently living in Orlando, state of Florida.Although your party lost government but your work and talent is highly appreciated every where. Please keep up for a good cause of the wefare of depressed people of Pakistan. Thanking you, I remain very sincere to you, Sincerely your, KHWAJA AFTAB ALI, Advocate & I.P. Attorney
August 17, 2008 at 10:59 am
Dear Miss Marvi,
it is useless to cry over split milk.
you said your party sending some representative to Help Dr.Afia.I just want to ask where were your party leaders,when she was taken away.who had sold her To USA for dollars.Who will blame you for that PML Q leaders or Mr.Musharaf.you have third option to blame.
Then how do you justify this act of these people.so you have some sense you should leave one of them.
August 18, 2008 at 11:31 am
So Madam now what you will be says? Finally END of Dictator’s why not he came to parliament and face the impeachment because he knew this time if he goes for impeachment anything can be happen with him. But I appreciate him that he accepted that he also did some mistakes very bravado man but should accountable otherwise everyone will try to do wrong and say SORRY we are all people of Pakistan could not bear the excuses because its already too much Mush. Should be accountable and punish and we want to freeze all his assets and give it to back in the account of Pakistan and please show some strength to the govt. and play your role as a powerful opposition. Because there is also too much BIG and WHITE ELEPHANT in the GOVT. every buddy knows who are waiting to sale out our country…. May Allah SAFE our country from ZARDARI. And his followers AMEEN
Regards
August 18, 2008 at 3:44 pm
Now musharraf is gone while u were saying that he will not resign. what u say abt that beside saying that he did it for nation.
Why he wasted these 4-5 months n put our economy in turmoil
August 19, 2008 at 5:45 am
Ha ha ha ha
Poor Marvi Memon
Musharraf gone,pakistan saved and u people callously let down by him
waah thats called Divine Comedy
August 19, 2008 at 8:10 am
Salam Marvi,
my name is Shoaib Khan and work as an IT Manager here in Australia for a company. First of all i would like to saulute you for the hard work you doing for pakistan with your body and sole.
i am amazed of your boldness, speeches, facing media, talk shows and best of the best you are supporter of Musharraf who is my ideal, and who grew Pakistan in last 9 years. i wish he was there till the end. but unfortunatly we live in a country which is full of corrupt people and corrupt, illitrate politician like Nawaz Sharif and Zardari.
i also read about you getting emotional on Musharraf resignation. i can understand your pain for the country.
i wish you all the best along with Musharraf and your party. and i hope you guys come back and save the country from these looters.
one more thing i don’t know how to say but you can assume that i am your greatest fan in the world.
Allah Khafiz
August 19, 2008 at 11:46 am
Last comment on 14th aug??? I am wondering peope has already forgotten Marvi:)
Well, i just came to share your grief about your master. Sad day but i hope you will not get disappointed and keep competeing in elections and we will get an opportunity to interact with you through this forum.Let’s see!!!!!
Why do not ak your so called popular MUSHaraff to come and join PML and stands in elections???
August 19, 2008 at 8:08 pm
I get bored with political talk and usually avoid watching TV talk shows which are all stereotyped. However I watch your shows with interest. You are very articulate, logical and speak with sincerity and passion. You can express your point of view in a few words, which is quality of a good speaker. Being a childhood friend of your father, I have known you as a baby and as a school girl. Let me say you had germs of a good speaker from the very early age. I am sure you have a very bright future in Pakistani Politics.
Now a confession. Although I liked you very much, you never earned my respect because I am against dictators and all those who support them. But now I salute you because you have stood with a fallen man when most of his closest allies have left him. This human value I admire the most. Keep it up.
Mumtaz Abbasi
August 20, 2008 at 3:29 am
Thankyou to all those who feel I showed loyalty despite tough times. And special note for Mr Arshad who thinks President wasted 4 months of nation. It was coalition govt who put country through waste of time impeachment process which proved damaging for our economy. Time will tell all Pakistanis the coalition govt’s real motives.
August 20, 2008 at 5:17 am
wow
what a shameless attitude of u people.Ur master has been kicked out and still u blame others
August 20, 2008 at 8:18 am
i m kayoom from merciless territory of one of the most familiar part of pakistan.i m simply graduate,nowadays i m on the way to competative exams.actualy when i cam to know abt ur comments regarding the price hiking,inflation at a high,truely speaking i realised tht yet there is existence of a such sor of women who devoted herself for the moral right of people.it really hurted me lot wen i was told abt the resignation of president.i want to ask one question tht why the members of ur party r dispursed?
August 20, 2008 at 10:53 am
One Elected President, Two Unelected Politicians
In Beijing, world celebrates human achievement while in Islamabad we are stuck with politics
I wish our people and our leaders would understand that having political differences should not stand in the way of appreciating progress
Thanks to President Musharraf export revenue more than doubled, foreign direct investment increased from a meager $1 billion to $8 billion, and the Karachi stock exchange was widely touted as one of the best performing markets in the world.
This is a man who gave Pakistan a free television news culture and oversaw the freest election in our history.
This is a manufactured political crisis that will embolden Pakistan’s ill-wishers and will sadly assure foreign investors that Pakistan is no place for their business.
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan—At the dawn of the Beijing Olympics, talk of Pakistan’s chances at field hockey glory have taken a back seat to the de-facto national sport: Politics.
Beyond the hype, it’s time to take a moment and examine the situation. It seems as if the nearly divorced coalition has decided to stick together in pursuit of the President’s impeachment.
One would be convinced of their genuine commitment, if not for the fact that the last such joint press briefing was to announce the Murree Declaration, now defunct.
But it’s important to look behind this smokescreen. After all, why would it take marathon talks if there weren’t serious problems behind the scenes?
Farooq Naik, the law minister, was kicked out of the talks—twice.
According to a report in the Daily Times, Shahbaz Sharif felt that Naik could not be trusted amidst the Sindh High Court judges’ fiasco, and asked Zardari to remove him from the negotiations not only in the Prime Minister’s House, but also at Zardari House.
I suppose it’s acceptable in political circles to ask your host to kick out his own guest.
In any case, a draft was agreed upon and presented to the nation for all to see. On the face of it, the case seems compelling for the common man: Musharraf has acted unconstitutionally, is responsible for the economic crisis, and he must go in order for democracy to flourish. A legal expert would be needed to examine the complex constitutional question, such as if the PCOs of 1999 and 2000 (both validated by the Supreme Court) are fair game for impeachment.
As for the economy and the democracy argument, things are a bit clearer.
It is hard to dismiss the vast economic improvements of Pakistan since 1999, and to float it as possible grounds for impeachment is laughable. Almost every major macro-economic indicator points to the economic turnaround of the past decade. Even if the 20-fold increase in foreign reserve levels can be whisked away as a byproduct of foreign aid, what about the results? On the business side, export revenue more than doubled, foreign direct investment increased from a meager $1 billion to $8 billion, and the Karachi stock exchange was widely touted as one of the best performing markets in the world. The National Commission for Human Development was conceived, helping achieve poverty reduction, a rise in literacy, and a 600% increase in funds for development programs. I wish our people and our leaders would understand that having political differences should not stand in the way of appreciating progress and pursuing our national interests; the economy being supreme.
As for democracy, it seems ironic that an elected President who oversaw the fairest elections in Pakistan’s recent history is being cited as a hindrance for democracy by two unelected politicians.
But even more important is the fact that the duly elected Prime Minister, as well as the leading party’s president (also an elected member of parliament) were both not present in the talks.
Makhdoom Amin Fahim has gone as far as to publicly separate himself from the Government, denounce the march to impeachment, and plead the Government to take notice of a very serious and rapidly deteriorating security and economic situation. He supposedly has even met with PML-Q leadership, which must have political analysts grabbing their calculators to re-analyze the number game in the event of some treasury members abstaining from an impeachment vote.
Critics of President Bush often rightfully say that the war in Iraq was a “war of choice.” The impeachment saga is no different. In the face of unprecedented security threats in the tribal belt, with growing reports of foreign interference to destabilize the country, and an ever-worsening economy, this manufactured political crisis will embolden Pakistan’s ill-wishers, and will sadly assure foreign investors that Pakistan is no place for their business.
No matter how impeachment goes, no one seems to win, as Pakistan is definitely the one to lose. Let’s hope at least our Olympic team can change that.
From Salman Mansoor
Social Media Expert
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August 20, 2008 at 11:24 am
Indeed, yesterday was a very sad day for all Pakistan and President lovers. We have been deprived of a great leader in the name of democracy. But let me say, all it happens because of we silent majority who never cast its vote. If this silent majority cast its vote in Feb 2008 election, the situation might be different. He was the man who have a vision on each and every problem of the nation whether it is water, electricity, education and health etc. He took the economy on its peek and its benefits were supposed to tickle down to the poor during this five years which unfortunately have been given to the corrupt political leaders in the name of democracy. Democracy in Pakistan itself is joke, where people doesn’t know for whom they are casting their votes due to illiteracy. They have been asked just to put the stamp on such and such election symbol; where the vote is casted not on the basis of parties manifestos, but on the basis of different affiliations i.e. religious, baradri, under the influence of Sardar, Vadera, Jagirdar and so on. That’s why, during last 61 years, we are having politicians from the same segments of the society for whom the politics is business and trade who either way whether they come into the power or remain in opposition, make money and accumulate their bank balances and assets. Their parties are their properties i.e. PPPP, PML(N), PML(Q), APN, JI(F) of their family and run by the family members only one after the other. The history reveals that only 30 to 40% registered voters cast their votes which is divided into number of political parties. Keeping in view the influence of aforementioned segments, official and unofficial riggings, the party who gets hardly 10% votes claims the majority party having overwhelming majority for forming the government. The remaining 70%/60% registered voters who do not cast their vote and unregistered voters are given no value and its impact is totally ignored. The dilemma of our nation is that we were sleeping on 13th August, 1947 and when woke up next morning we got a new country called Pakistan. If we go through the history, we will find that only a handful personnel from the existing Pakistan region took the part in Independence movement. That’s why majority of us and especially our leaders don’t have national spirit. We and our leaders always keep in our minds our own interest and benefits only. Whatever has happened with President Musharaf provides us an opportunity to think about the lake of sincere leadership, our political environment, the character and attitude of our politicians and above all is this the true democracy? Our leaders are making the general public fool in the name of democracy and enhancing their wealth and assets. Now the destiny of our nation and country is in the hands two unelected corrupt leaders. President well said in his last address to the nation “Pakistan Ka Khuda Hafiz”. I strongly believe that without eliminating feudal and bradri systems, increasing literacy level and cultivating national spirit we cannot have a true democracy. It seems only my dream since the power brokers in our country can never do it or allow to to it. In fact, it seems that our country is in the grip of different kind of mafias i.e. politicians, drug, land, food/grains mafia, stock exchange mafia etc and they are playing their respective roles for their own interest and gains. General public cannot do any thing to get any relief or to get rid of them unless and until there should be a bloody revolution in which at least 20/50 lakhs should be killed. There is no other option to save the country.
Regards
Salman Mansoor
August 20, 2008 at 11:36 am
salaam ”
sorry me itna para likha nahe hon jo aapse english me mokhatib hosako is leye aapse urdo me apni awaz pohanch raha hon .
marvi sister ham 15 loog yahan hen kuwait me jismese 7 loog musharraf ko nahe manty magar ham 10 loog musharraf ke bohat sakht hami hen eak bat jo aapse kehna he wo ye jab aapko bolty howe dekhty hen na dil khush hojata he aap yaqeen nahe karogee ke lagta he wo sab baten jo ham kehna chahty hen aap ki zabaan se ada hoty hen .hamid mir ke progaram capitaltalk wah kia bat aap ne kis tarhan se sadar e mumlikat difa kia he baji aap yaqeen nahe karoge ous be zamir insaan ko achchy tarhan aapne chup karwaya or jo doshmane pakistan they unko bhe sahe tarhan chup karwaya ( we all prawod of really u the best spoter of musharraf & pakistan thnx sister) or akheer me ham sab ki doa he khuda aap ko ishe taerhan such bolne ki himmad de (ameen)we ham loog aapko shehzadi bolaty hen jab bhe aap TV pe aty ho ham sab kam choor ke aapko sunne aty hen eak such jo aapko bhe manna parega wo ye aapki team me aap or mushahid hussain ke sewa sab bekar hen na bol sakty hen na samjha sakty he na he apne muaqqaf ka difa karsakty hen .kheer aap hamary himmad ho or hamry zuban ho jo ham yahan sochty he wo sab aap wahan bolty ho thnxxxxxxxxxx
apna bohat khayal rakhna
((_()_)) hafiz
hamary doa aapke or aapke maqsad ke sath he
aapka bhai muzaffar hussain shigri
baltistani
August 20, 2008 at 1:34 pm
Dear Marvi
I am deeply shocked to hear your views on current Pakistan politics. Looking at your educational background, one would think that you will come up with ideas which are liberal, democratic and invite others to think. But unfortunately you have sided yourself with someone who has caused major destruction to the pakistan politics and society. Future generation will never forgive what Mufharaf has done in his 9 years as the most powerfull person in pakistan’s establishment. Its shame to see such a young person like you wasting her energies for a cause which has failed time and again. I can only wish you best of luck, may be you can use your energies in more positive way. You could have done (and may have done already) much better without your father’s influance which led you to the become MNA and that is from PML Q as well……what a shame…
Thanks
Nazir Ahmed
August 20, 2008 at 2:47 pm
what do you think there is no liability on president mushraff for his previous odds done to pakistan. Following this prcedence all the criminals under trials in various courts should also be freed what about the downing of atlantic aircraft by india in the face of kargil. your comments please.
August 20, 2008 at 5:33 pm
Dear Marvi,
I think you got wrong agenda with wrong people. I don’t know but when defend Dictator Musharaf, i feel pitty for you.
I have heard you on TV “Shows”. Frankly speaking your talk is not that much effective. You always cry. hmmm.
I hope you will get some knowledge with time.
Bi bi musharaf. May God take the revenge from you of slaughring thousands of innocent people!
August 20, 2008 at 6:24 pm
Marvi Weldone I have seen you on interviews on Pakistan television shows, and you are doing a difficult and excellent job as an opposition member. Keep it up!
Meher Hameed
August 21, 2008 at 2:31 am
Again I have some comments swearing at me for defending ‘dictator’ and other comments which express support for President Musharraf.
I was sitting in the Assembly yesterday and looking around myself… mostly (not completely)where ever I look everyone is wanting iktidaar and perks. We discussed tourism yesterday but the burning issues of food, energy, security, extremism get left behind. Some Advisor will stand up and glorify his achievements in one small area ignoring larger picture. Another will get up and blame it all on 8 years!
I have raised all the real issues but they dont come to forefront because govt pushes them out of agenda and when I tried to link ..how can you expect tourism to increase when extremism sectarian violence during your 5 months is on rise, I got told not relevant. Very frustrating.
I have also come to another conclusion… those who see good in President Musharraf’s era cannot change their minds and those who see bad in it cannot change their minds (just yet). Its best if we use this forum for solutions of above issues.
This morning the chap at the petrol pump I go to regularly, at the shop inside, spoke up after months; saying you ask good questions in the assembly but you get no answers. I was happy to see that the debates are watched. But saddened to see the helplessness. He is as convinced as I am that the real issues are not being debated and people play politics for wrong reasons as well as the fact that this discussion in assembly doesnt put any binding pressure for resolution even if real issues are discussed. So much for parliament’s real supremacy.
I am also asked by some why should we believe you when all politicians have failed us. My answer to that is I am trying very hard to push right agenda for discussion and solution when all of what the forces are trying to do is musical chairs. The real success rate is not the talkshows or the speeches, its getting solutions to the real problems resolved by govt. That is an uphill task. The silent majority must help us. I never give up and I dont like despondency. But I am a realist.
If you say you care about the country pls help me get solutions to the real issues implemented by this govt; by writing solutions and ideas. It doesnt matter whether you hate my leadership or like my leadership. Solutions to real issues pls. Govt has wasted enough time horsetrading and pushing vendetta politics first.
August 21, 2008 at 6:20 am
Madam
It is very refreshing to have explored a website that is being run by a living “on the job” parlimentarian.
I have not been able to read all of your replies and comments but even then it is provides solace.
Since you are an educated woman and coming from a noble background we expect you to do nobler things.
Here are some half cooked pointers:
You should try to make education, healthcare and social justice your prime targets to acheive. These are burning issues and have received no importance from the leadership that is worthy and revolutionizing the affairs prevelant in this country. For starters look for cheap construction solutions for 2/3 room basic health units in rural areas 9this can also go for housing) where people are dying just beacuse of insufficient health services. Provide special funds for the “real poor” and smart kids to acheive scholorships. One way would be to hold competitive exams for all classes all over pakistan for kids belonging tocertain income group. There could be a model tests run at various locations, shouldn’t be difficult.
I am sure you have plenty of issues at hand and workin on those but at the same time lets make this site a home turf for floating genuinely realistic solutions to facilitate for basic needs of all.
Thank you and keep up the good work.
All the best!
August 21, 2008 at 8:50 am
Hidden Activities Of Mr. Zard……..Aari & Mr. Shar…..If
Peoples Party’s so called Chairman Mr. Aasif Ali Zardari, is looking for an exit from his party, from Pakistan’s present mess and from active politics,Most probably, people of Pakistan might get sudden news that Mr. Zardari is seriously ill and would be away for som time from active politics,(and that ’some time’ might be forever) .in fact, Aasif Ali Zardari and Mr. Nawaz Sharif are virtually dead, gone, bifurcated,Pakistan’s some channels (so-called) anchor mafia and press are keeping them alive, trying to infuse life in their dead bodies, Everyday some popular and experienced pesons Newspapers put some headlines to boost the marale of the public. in fact, some (so-called) press and media’s ugly survivel is that of Mr.Zardar and Mr.Sharif,to keep the hot issue alive, like (under observation) Mr. Iftikhar Chaudhary, who is History now,Aitezaz Ahsan, would you bet your Bar-at-Law degree on that?ZARDARI BUSY CHECKING HIS BANK ACCOUNTSThe so-called Co-Chairman of peoples part has made than a dozen visits to London, Dubai and other parts of the world on record(no one knows how many hidden,secret visits elsewhere) after the assassination his wife.The Peoples Party’s loudspeaker like Sherry Rehman, (Sher Bano) Farhatullah Babar and many other use to giving justification that, Zardari’s these trips to the public through the some so-called media by saying that since ,Zardari is playing the part of both the mother and the father to his children after the (sad) assassination of Great Benazir Bhutto, so he has to be away to take care of his children, Bullshit!
They are no more children, They have attain pubirty, They are big kid, teenagers, grown up in the West. Aasif Zardari does not need to baby sit them or push feeders in their mouths, Thease are lame excuse. Zardari goes abroad ever now and then to check his bank accounts and count his properties,thans to Presiden Pervez Musharraf’s NRO! Pervez Musharraf and his alies would die deaths that would be an example for the world.and very sorry, Let me tell you that all of we and our political leaders are ugly,corrupt,freaky, stinking, and haggard, these race of we and leaders would die miserably and helplessly in leprosy,heart attackes,cancer, diabetes,HIV, and other painful .HUNDRED(100)days of senseless and empty slogans1, How many times Nawaz Sharif and Aasif Zardari had meetings in Lahore,Islamabad, Bhurban, Rawalpindi and Dubai and London.etc?2, How many times Aasif Zardari and Nawaz Sharif left for Dubai,London on record and secret visitis other destinations?3, Who is the man in power.PM Gilani or Governing party’s so-called Co-Chairman?4, The Costs of each and every utilities soaring,Like Gasoline has juggled at 70 to 78 PKR, Dollar has jumped to 74.89 Rs agains PKR.5, The innocent 99.99% of the peoples of Pakistan have been pushed towards pain, just empt, baseless, egoistic,dirtful claims and statements by these leaders,which are being heard to masses, Aasif Zardari repeatedly says Shaheed this, Shaheed that, jeay Bhutto, jeay Benazir, President House would be echoing with the slogans of Jeay Bhutto,nothing else? President would be the party’s worker. all the lollypops, drama are being played with the struggled workers, all Bullshit, my……..? (advance sorry)6, Believe us that Aasif Zardari, Nawaz Sharif, Pervez Musharraf and other political shungens have no interet in Great Pakistan, or Peoples or their own parties as wel, but Mr. Iftikhar Chaudhary,, all otherrs and Aasif Zardari just taking care of bank accounts and properties all over the world.
7, Zardari did not choose to become a Prime Minister in the first place, as he wanted privacy and confidentiality to organize his bank accounts and properties all over the world.a little bird has told us that as soon as Aasif Zardari is free, he would kick out the Yousuf Raza Gilani from PM House.8, The man known as Mr.Ten percent(in recent past) knows that waiting for 8-9 years for Bilawal is along time, when Bilawal will finish his education and get training to enter politics, not to mention that the sword of the real Bhuttos hangs on his head. A day is about to come when Aasif Zardari has to leave the fake combine slogan of Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, when the real Bhuttos move for the Kill.A piece of our Humble advice for Namaz Sharif Learn a lesson from Saddam Hussain’s breaking neck!……………
Regards
Salman Mansoor
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August 21, 2008 at 4:44 pm
AoA
To anum1 (August 20, 2008 at 10:53 am) and Salman Mansoor (August 20, 2008 at 11:24 am)
I wish I could comment/rectify the facts about KSE, visionary leadership, freedom of information media, mega projects bla bla bla in last nine years, however I feel we should respect to the sentiments of Ms. Marvi Memon (August 21, 2008 at 2:31 am). She is “absolutely” right when she mentioned
“If you say you care about the country pls help me get solutions to the real issues implemented by this govt; by writing solutions and ideas.”
To Ms. Marvi Memon
We have following pending questions; pls get some time to address these. Give your personal opinion, even though very briefly. I fully concur, these questions have nothing to do towards the betterment of existing situation but I am sure it would bridge the gap and prove as a deposit of trust between you and your readers, ultimately a way forward to a cordial and healthy discussion about the real issues.
1. By Dr. Rizwan (July 31, 2008 at 12:57 pm) about an injured/ paralyzed 3rd year MBBS student of Ayub Medical College, Abbottabad, who was compelled to abandon her studies by the administration of the college due to tragic mishap.
2. By Nasir (August 11, 2008 at 8:31 am ) “Would you please tell us what is the actual price of oil without adding any tax”.
3. By tehmoor (August 13, 2008 at 4:26 pm ) “What is your stand on missing person. Do you think Musharraf who handed over these people whether they were criminal or terrorists from pakistan to USA was legitimate”.
4. By tehmoor (August 13, 2008 at 4:26 pm ) “what are the rights of Woman you are fighting for.”
5. By abdul qayoom (August 20, 2008 at 8:18 am) “why the members of ur party r dispursed?”
6. saeed kayani (August 20, 2008 at 2:47 pm) Why not Mr. Musharraf to put forward for the trial for his actions like red mosque, trading of human beings, violent exercise of force in northern areas, house arrest of judges and what about Akbar Bugti (late)? If indemnity to Mr. Musharraf then why not to all the criminal facing trials at the moment?
7. NSS-Yesterday I had a look of 31 members announced by Dr. Mirza for Kashmir committee. It was bizarre not to see you in the list while Mr. Nakai and Begum Atiya etc were there from PML. I am sure Kashmir issue is one of your strengths and for such a sensitive issue, we needed a young, motivated and determined person like yourself. Were the members picked by Mrs. Speaker or forwarded by your leadership?
Take care and keep praying
ALLAH HAFIZ
August 21, 2008 at 6:48 pm
Hie Marvi Memon Future Prime Minister By Looks:P
I hope Asif Zardari is reading all this and has something to say. If not please publish his email so we can all write to him.
Sad I am. Sad sad sad. But why do not the people in the PPP believe in these fact so clearly put up by you. So much money. so much money in the hands of only one person. he should be able to buy the ammendments in the constitution. He should be able to buy the presidency. He should be able to buy the restoration of the judges. He can make Basha Dam on his own with a little help from the Sharif brothers.
Why does he want more money. The following are someof the rumours circulating.
1. A jeweller called Kasuria in Karachi has been threatened by Zardari to extort 50 million dollars.
2.Mr. Mansha of the MCB was phoned while he was flying on his private plane to write off 28 crore loan of a friend.
3.The new Islamabad Airport construction contract has been given to a friendly company in a backdated agreement to steal money
4. Redundant and useless submarines are being purchased in collaboration with the Naval chief.
5. Useless and discredited people are being posted as ambassadors and to important positions in PIA.
I use earplugs if i have to go to a dinner or a marriage funtion because society is getting into a frenzy about Asif Zardari,s corruption.
Regards
Salman Mansoor
http://unbealiveblenews.blogspot.com/
August 21, 2008 at 6:50 pm
We cant we all get together. the silent ones and add voice to the truth.
Regards
Salman Mansoor
August 22, 2008 at 2:31 pm
AoA
To Salman Mansoor (August 21, 2008 at 6:48 pm)
Dear, I acknowledge and appreciate your sincere endeavour to enlighten us with, most likely, the facts about Mr. Zardari and rest of the political giants. Having said that, in connection with your previous response, I have my reservations when you expressed about trickily justified and deceitful claims of prosperity during previous regime. It’s indeed an awesome hobby to surfing internet and to find the rumours/facts are on finger tips of everyone who knows how to play. We educated blokes-because of you guys, privilege is mine
- should use this forum with positive spirit and let the burning controversial realities for the blog (s) you referred. I already have requested
“leave the cynical attitude and point scoring tactics for “Gladiators” of the political spheres”
and I am sure Ms. Marvi Memon would have something to comment in the light of her comments (August 5, 2008 at 11:37 am)
“Party Leadership must be respected ……. Leadership bashing in the emails I have received by some of you is not productive activity. I believe there is good in most individuals and one must learn from leadership the good. One must zoom into good and ignore the rest, in general in life. That gets you positive approach”
So we are there with all our skills and abilities for our nation, are we???
Take care and keep praying
ALLAH HAFIZ
P.S: By no means, it explains my affiliation with PPPP. I am certain of highlighting much more about Mr. Zardari and any other politician than you mentioned, and believe me I am copiously vocal at this on a right forum.
August 22, 2008 at 3:16 pm
For Salman Mansoor
I think you are good, rather master at English, and might have impressed Marvi Memon by using good enough adjectives, mostly sounding negative, and jargons. I think you have left no person good for this country.
Why this forum is being misused by posting long,irrelevant and good-for-nothing stuff on this blog. I think we must suggest somthing positive and constructive to Marvi that can help her drive this poor nation out of this chaotic situation.
I am saying this as an impartial and unbiased Pakistani. Hope that it may be considered in the better interest of the nation.
Regards
August 23, 2008 at 10:03 am
Thanks Mr.Salmam Mansoor for putting all answerable questions together to ease MS Marvi to answer one by one.
Mr. Raja Ashraf (minister for water & power) said the load shading will be reduced to 3 hrs from 30th august 2008.would you please ask the honorable minister to explain how it will happen. And if it was a political promise, then my advice to all such ministers is “please keep your big mouth shut”
Ilama Iqbal says” HUM KO TU MUYASSAR NAHEEN MATEE KA DIYA BHEE, GHAR PEER KA BIJLI K CHRAGHOON SAY HAY ROSHAN.
Prime minister’s house in Multan is exempt from load shading.
Please tell the people of Pakistan how much this parliament costs to the nation with out any out put.
Love Pakistan
Nasir
August 23, 2008 at 1:40 pm
Dear country men
This is very critical and crucial time for our country. So I request to all Pakistani to pray. May Allah the almighty save our country from evil designs of our politicians? Zardari should not be the president of Pakistan.
Love Pakistan
Nasir
August 24, 2008 at 7:15 am
Ohhh My GOD!!!
i will say only one thing and request too all peoples plz do pray for our country Because…
Dua Samjhloo! ya Samajhloo Isko Gali Chaman ka DHUSMAN bana hay MALI,,,,, Now in this stitutation we are looking the role of Opposition what they will do does they will support to Mr.10% or does they will do something else to get out all of us from this worse condition may Allah safe our country Ameen
August 25, 2008 at 5:14 am
……and i thought heres a people’s blog where one can insinuate according to one’s expertise about things to be done. There are many blogs and really interactive ones where one can post “political stuff” and get the feedback. I dont think marvi’s e-mails are meant for that.
Anyhow i totally agree to Mr Manssor since there are other rumors too but the point is who cares!! When not even a single soul is honest and true to their purpose and count their efforts to rise in life more than Allah’s blessing upon them this is what happens, they think that they are demigods born to rule and thast shirk, unpardonable sin! I hope better sense prevails in all factions of PML and soon-to-happen all factions of PPP.
Regards!
August 25, 2008 at 6:23 am
Madam,
U very ritely said that one can not changed his views abt Musharraf , those who support will continue so n vise versa.
I give credit to u for providing a plateform to give feedback to an MNA.Maybe some of them implemented .
so two penny from my side (maybe these are already known to u)
Problem : Real estate Price increase
Cause : Investment is done solely to wait for increase in price and hence get return
Impact : Prices are getting up and up while common man can not buy a piece of land to make home.
Solution :
Put multiple tax on residential land so that one shud buy only when one wants to utilize it.
Put additional factor when one piece of land is sold with in 6 months so to discourage resale of land files
Result :
Money which is invested on real estate will move to other productive areas like industry or stock market.
Increase in revenue
August 25, 2008 at 6:32 am
Problem : Tourism development
Cause : Unsafe general and political situation of country
Impact : Tourism going down -> ppl getting workless -> More prone to militancy
Solution : Though situation is very bad in country still this year record expedition teams came from abroad.
1.Develop other areas such as Gorkh hill station in sindh
2. Make double way to reach skardo / gilgit so to reduce time of travel.
August 26, 2008 at 12:54 pm
poor marvi memon
can u tell me why u are not on democratic side
August 26, 2008 at 2:53 pm
Can anyone let me know who is this is NSS???? I remembered i heard in a TV show Mr. Zardari friend were there and he said “Zardari Sahib should keep in his MIND now there is no Baynazir who will bring him out from prisons” so what does it means. As far as i understand the meaning of this do crystal clear politics and think about long term not only short term to make a money and run…. Just think
Regards
August 27, 2008 at 5:34 pm
FARHAN KHAN
ASSLAMALAKUM.
DEAR MARVI MEMON .
WAS AMAZED TO SAW YOU IN EVENNING PROGRAME SPEAKING SO BOLDLY ,CLEARLY,STRAIGHT FORWARDLY AMONG THE CORRUPT LEADERS OF OTHER PARTIES.WAS JUST MORE AMAZED TO SEE THOSE CORRUPT MANS WERE NOT HAVING THE POWER TO TALK WITH YOU.I AM NEVER IMPRESSED FROM ANY BODY TILL THIS DATE BUT NOW I GOT AND THATS FROM YOU.WELL DONE AND KEEP IT UP.WISH TO SEE YOU ON THE SEATS OF PM’S AND PRESIDENTS.MAY GOD GIVE YOU MORE COURAGE AND SUCCESS AND MORE POWER TO SPEAK SO HONESTLY.AND AT LAST SORRY I COPY SOME OF YOUR PICTURES FROM YOUR SITE BECAUSE YOU ARE NOW MY IDEAL.SORRY AND FORGIVE ME.OK.
ALLAH HAFIZ.
FARHAN KHAN
SAKHAKOT MALAKAND AGENCY.
August 28, 2008 at 1:30 pm
On 14Th August 2008, my friend called me on my cell and asked me to come to Pearl Continental Peshawar and I was literally completely shattered with the events that took place there.
As any other Pakistani, on 14th august at such places one can only expect celebration, patriotic numbers, jubilance and of course Pakistani Flags every where But No Sir, the “COMIC GROUP” by the name of “JANG GROUP” was holding a seminar and ladies and gentleman look what was the topic for that seminar QUAID AUR IQBAL KA KHWAB; SADAR KA MOWAKHIZA??????????????????????????????
And now the list of speakers, whom were there as the “Intellects” of N.W.F.P, none out of those 10 were wearing Pakistani flags on their chest and only two bothered to say Jashn-e-Azadi Mubarik at the end of their speeches, where in their speeches all of them did the “in thing” these days which is called Musharraf Bashing and they started crossing limit when they started talking against ISI and MI as if they are talking about KHAD and RAW. And at that point when Haji Adeel and Latif Afridi started mudslinging Quaid-e-Azam and Allama Mohd. Iqbal, my friend and me, we both lost our patience but both decided to blast later.
Anyways me and my friend stored a lot of ammo for the question answer session but we were shocked to see that there was none !!!!!!
Well as we couldn’t do anything about it, so to condole ourselves in unison we said Maybe Next Time.
My friend had few Pakistani badges with him and he said lets just give them, these to wear, as they may not have enough time to buy one, so when we went to the SAHAFI sahib editor of JANG Peshawar and gave him the badge, he couldn’t utter a single word out of sheer embarrassment had a slight smile on his face and took it shamelessly then we went to some other panelists and somewhat their reactions were the same, but what happened with one of the gentleman there, I shall never forget that for the rest of my life, he was non other than President Peshawar Bar Latif Afridi, the champion of the RAW, PML-N and ASMA JEHANGIR architected war of “TILTED JUDICARY”,,,,,,, HE CATEGORICALLY REFUSED TO WEAR THE PAKISTANI FLAG AND SAID “MAIN ISS PAR SOCHONGA”?????
And those who don’t know he is a party member of Awami National Party (ANP), any ways later in the day I was wondering that what the hell is this, the Chief Minister of this province is from this damn party who badmouths our premiere intelligence agencies and disrespects the Founding Father and the National Poet, also disregards the National Flag??? In whose hand we are?????
From that day onwards I realized that there is just only one problem of Pakistan and that is we have mostly been into the wrong hands, we’ve mostly being ruled by Thugs, choors, Looters and such filthy unpatriotic rascals, who don’t know that what is the place of Quaid-e-Azam and Allama Iqbal.
Only two leaders are only there to name who really did wanted to do something for this Half Uneducated and Half Educatedly Uneducated population, which Habib Jalib has termed as “10crore gadhay” (now they are 16crore), who are basically “Jehal Ka Nichor”……
Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto was a peoples champ but at the end it was this moment which swallowed him, he also ordered a Military Operation in Baluchistan and after the formation of the constitution it was he who did the first few amendments in it.
And at the end of his rule he was termed as Sharabi, Kababi and so on……
And the same was with Former President Musharraf, he took the Pakistan into the Next 11, turned around the shattered Pakistani Economy, healed the tarnished Pakistani image in the Inter National Arena and exposed this undeserving nation to the true essence of democracy by letting the satellite invasion hit this part of the world and issued licenses to News channels without signing any code of conduct or regulatory policy, which never happens anywhere in the world.
But look now how we paid back………
And look a Parliamentarian; in fact a “WOMAN” Parliamentarian has taken an unprecedented initiative by starting a direct people to people contact…. I mean tell me does she really need to do this, shouldn’t she just like other parliamentarians, come to the session of National Assembly just come and go in her Prado back to her house.
But instead doing this she has come to the stupid people, the local public which they call “AWAM”, thinking that they shall tell her about their issues that matters to them and give their insight into things that really matters to the common man on the street but I wonder why she doesn’t realize that these people are so sick that they are suffering from Musharraf Phobia and they are so much engulfed in hatred against Former President thanks to the 18months long therapy provided to them either OFF THE RECORD, or doing CAPITAL TALK, seeing LIVE WITH TALAT and feeling as if they are BOLTA PAKISTAN.
For God’s sake come over this now, grow up kiddos.
I literally salute to Ms Marvi for her approach towards highlighting the real issues of the common man and doing what ever she can do for it. And even going to the limit of putting her cell number on the internet to give direct access to people who are actually in need of some help, also introducing this new way of interacting with the public and concentrating on the real issues that really matters to the common man and her sincerity, resolve, desire and commitment clearly reflects itself through this exceptional move by introducing her own website where we can actually write to her.
Altaf Khan
Peshawar
August 29, 2008 at 8:02 am
Why do we (Pakistani) need a a president in a parliamentarian democratic system. Look at UK.
All powers must be with a prime minister. He can not do anything with approval from National assembly and Senate. All the ruling must have to be approved from National Assembly and senate with 2/3. An independent Judiciary is necessary to monitor the abuse of power. A member of senate must be elected by the people of Pakistan like a member of national assembly.
Kindly tell me the percentage (%) of Poor, Middle Class and Rich in Pakistan.
Poor(%) Middle Class (%) Rich(%)
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If we have the same percentage in the National Assembly and senate, this mean we have democracy.
I want to ask question to all Pakistanis, What is the achievement of Z.A. Bhutto, Benazir Bhutto, Nawaz Sharif, Asif Zardari, Fazal-ur-Rehman, ANP leader, Iltaf Hussein.
What has been done (good) for Pakistan by these individuals.
I request a court marshal for Ayub Khan, Zia Ul Haq, Musharf and all generals who were helping them including Hamid Gul.
Why all the politician have been successful and the nation of Pakistan is the looser?
What Zardari was doing (Job) to make Million/Billions of dollars. Nation want to know.
Same is the question for Z.A. Bhutto, Benazir Bhutto, Nawaz Sharif, Asif Zardari, Fazal-ur-Rehman, ANP leader,.All the Pakistanis must have exclusive right to ask these question.
Pakistan Zindabad.
Salman Mansoor
August 29, 2008 at 8:10 am
Peoples are sick and tried of politicians they are fighting for their own agendas. No body is serious about public’s problem, they have created phony (false) issues to divert the attention of the public from their (public’s) real and urgent issues, which can’t wait.
Regards
Salman Mansoor
http://pakistanhousing.pk/
August 29, 2008 at 10:32 am
Salman says….Peoples are sick and tried of politicians they are fighting for their own agendas. No body is serious about public’s problem, they have created phony (false) issues to divert the attention of the public from their (public’s) real and urgent issues, which can’t wait….
Please watch Dawn TV tonight 29 August(10pm on Farhan Bokhari’s show to hear me say something similar…I have tried to identify the real issues of the common man and of the disasters we are going through as a country, the downward trends!!! Also the seminar of Pak Liberal Forum where I was guest speaker last week.
As a new politician I am not happy with the time wasted on politiking. the amount of pulls and pushes I have seen in the last few weeks! I am trying to keep focussed on real issues of common man and what is best for Pakistan’s national interest, meaning whatever coalitions happen in the future must be in Pak’s best interest so that governance takes place.
I wish the ballot for presidential elections was not secret so that no amount of horsetrading would destabilize systems. So that ALL party members would be disciplined and unified. I often feel that other than one odd party all other parties are full of individuals who have their own individual interests which they put over and above party interests.
Anyway, the silent majority must help us express the belief that Pakistanis want governance and stability of system. Not politiking!
I am seeing all ths politiking through a close lens. I hope that when we are in the driving seat we have a different political culture so that we concentrate on the real issues. For now, I am part of this system and if I wish to improve it, I must understand how best to change it from within. Trust me its much easier to criticize from outside; changing it takes lifetimes of persistence in progressive liberal beliefs. The struggle seems to have just started…
August 29, 2008 at 5:32 pm
I want to divert the attention towards power crisis. You know the situation of power in all the cities of country. It remains off almost 18 hours out of 24. A common man wants to know who is opposing the Kalabagh Dam? These are just politicians who do their politics in the name of Kalabagh Dam. You know and you can see the data. All the first world countries are making most of their enery with their coal reservoirs. Pakistan is the fifth largest country in terms of coal reservoirs then why dont we go for energy to be produced with coal? Why dont we invest in that?
August 29, 2008 at 9:32 pm
Marvi, I really like you and really appreciate your comments on the Media. But sometimes you go so much out of the way for the poor that people start getting you wrong.
Simply because the trend is not to speak for the poor.
The one who is working for the poor seems bad to everyone and we can see the amount of negative and JAHIL propoganda done against you in the AAJ TV programme Bolta Pakistan.
When we try to call and defend your position and ppl like you they don’t let us speak and cut our lines.
I hope you carry on the good work and your motivation always remain at the fullest.
Take Care.
August 29, 2008 at 9:51 pm
My comments It appears that we are being ruled by those, who do not feel or take any responsibility for their actions and do not bother what results will be achieved by their actions. Everything is being done halfheartedly, in a disconnected manner and then just forget about it, what they said or promised yesterday. There is no will, no road map, no plan, no achievable goals in front of our rulers. I wish and hope the rulers
have sympathy on Pakistanis. If they are inefficient to handle the issues, let them vacate and allow new people to take responsibility.
One dirty bath room in a military hospital, brought down dozens of generals, civilian leadership of Army, Army Secretary included, either dismissed or voluntarily resigned. But what happened when poor people paid crores for folly of mistakes in budget regarding error in printing wrong rate of CNG. Had anybody been punished or voluntarily resigned? Any Minister resigned? shame, shame. shame.
I am seriously starting doubting AH’s intentions too. If by sitting in the PPP meetings, he can see all this happening and then digesting FN’s regular gibberish, he wants to benefit from “chit bhee meri aur pat bhee meri” kind of situation. Either case, he can claim that I was with the winners.
How much Mushtaq Minhas is paid by NS for protecting him unjustifiably?
@ Marvi u may very well be the last hope for the demoracy movement in that country for quite some time. i wish you well.
August 29, 2008 at 11:11 pm
Since you and your father have been politically engaged with issues of Northern Areas, I thought you should know how your actions are percevied and received there.
Following article was published in Pamir Times a widely read online newsblog from Northern Areas.
Op-Ed: Marvi Memon on pushing a bill for Northern Areas
August 26, 2008
by Ali Al – Hakim
What was common between former President Gen. Pervez Musharraf, Aaj TV anchor Syed Talat Hussein, and MNA Marvi Memon is their sporadic and marginal interest in taking a relatively favourable stand on the issue of constitutional rights for the people of GB. In a recent TV debate Talat Hussein tried to introduce the infant and fledgling struggle for rights and justice in NA’s, by inviting few of the so called elected members of the toothless NALA. In a similar vein Gen. Musharraf who ultimately became unpopular across the country had however a soft corner for the people of Giligit-Baltistan. Karakorum University, expansion of KKH, and upgrading NALA to a relatively respectable position will certainly form part of Musharraf’s legacy in Northern Areas. I think Marvi Memon could well be one of those people who have taken upon themselves to touch the lives of our people one way or the other. She has introduced this new bill in the National Assembly apparently to kick off a debate that would perhaps pave the way towards granting a provincial status to Giligit-Baltistan. I think this must be welcomed on several grounds.
While it has been pointed out that Marvi Memon failed to take such a step when her own government (PML-Q) was in power, and the latest attempt is nothing but a parochial political game to drag the incumbent government into a tasteless battle. However, I believe that this should be of marginal interest, or of no concern to us. The proposal should be welcomed because such steps not only seek to put the concerns of GB on the national agenda but they also expose both our well-wishers and ill-wishers alike, sitting in the corridors of power in Islamabad.
Let’s remember that when Congress was founded in 1886 by a Brit, it was intended to channel political views of Her Majesty’s Indian subjects through a proper platform. Viceroys and British establishment saw this move as an apparently harmless attempt to give Indian people some sense of political participation in the affairs of the state. A. O. Hume and his compatriots might never have imagined even in their wildest dreams that Indian National Congress would subsequently emerge as a formidable political force that would unleash a great wave of resistance to British Empire, ultimately dislodging the Raj from Indian sub-continent. Like A.O. Hume, Marvi Memon and others may have ulterior motives, business, or commercial or whatever we should however consider her desire to be part of our struggle. Such bills would surely serve as wake-up calls to members of Pakistan’s slumbering political class. After all we count and remember Major Brown a Scotsman as one of our heroes who helped us free ourselves from the Dogra Raj in 1949. History, including our own in GB is full of mysterious stories in which various forces have ‘conspired to help’ us what we have wanted and willed. Now, if we want our rights, identity and political struggle to be re-asserted then we should seize every opportunity to take forces of politics on our side.
The National Assembly bill tabled by Marvi should have elicited a healthy debate that could have helped sharpen the edges of political impasse on the question of Giligit-Baltistan. Very sadly members of the Pakistani ruling class choose to truncate this important concern of ours by not taking it seriously. Let us also remember the loathsome world ’sensitive’ that has been uttered countless times by the members of the Pakistani establishment when it comes to answer a question regarding the problems of Gilgit-Baltistan. In response to Marvi’s proposal our so called Federal Minister for Northern Areas and Kashmir Affairs used the word ’sensitive’ to project our issues as if we are some sort of a sacrificial animal who must be locked up until the time for the ritual is up. I sadly note that the deceptive word ’sensitive’ is nothing but a big smokescreen that helps veil unwillingness of Pakistani establishment to seriously address issues of GB. When Kaira visits Giligit next time our people should make him realise that time of playing hide and seek game with the people of Giligt-Baltistan is over now.
Now is the time to snatch ’sensitive’ from the vocabulary of our alien rulers sitting in Islamabad who have frustrated the political journey of the people of GB to achieve our long-due and deserved destiny of equality, liberty and brotherhood. We have nothing to lose but our subjugation and we have our deserved freedoms to be won.
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The writer is studying at the London School of Economics (LSE).
1. Abbas Ali | August 26, 2008 at 6:19 pm
Al-Hakim is a good friend of mine with keen interest in the politics of Gilgit-Baltistan and with trainings from one of the best universities in the world in the area of Globalization and civil society. He has very effectively encompassed the issue of abusing the basic political and human rights of the people of Gilgit-Baltistan.
Let us appreciate the case forwarded by Marvi Memon in the fragile National Assembly of Pakistan, which in its history used power to decided most of bad than good. However, at the same time we need to be cautious of not losing driving seat of the struggle for the liberation of Gilgit-Baltistan and let again people from Pakistan to take it, who have their own selfish personal interests than the welfare and development of people of GB.
I do agree very strongly with the idea of conveying the frustrated feelings of political and economic alienation of the people of Gilgit-Baltistan to the illegitimate leaders from Pakistan. These include the infamous Minister for Northern area and Kashmir affairs or whoever comes to our region with intention to rule, should know in sure way that they are not going to keep this area as a sacrificial animal, for the cause of Kashmir.
Apart from wakening and dazzling Pakistani establishment regarding the political awareness of brave people of GB we need to knock and make aware of the violations of international human rights and abuses of the people of the Gilgit-Baltistan by Pakistani establishment.
Let’s remember this is not an easy way to venture upon it, I am quite sure of the successful achievements of this struggle, as people of the Gilgit Baltistan are not cowards and lazy. They are brave and some of the most energetic people in the world to take up toughest adventures both intellectually and physically. Thus let,s inflame the light of real freedom and extinguish the darkness of occupation and colonization of Gilgit-Baltistan.
Abbas Ali
AKU-ISMC, London
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2. Sharif Khan | August 28, 2008 at 1:50 pm
I do fully agree with Ali Al-Hakim and true comments of Abbass Ali and would appreciate their intellectual contribution in favor of the constitutional status of the innocent people of Gilgit-Baltistan. However, the intellectuals like you people need to take a lead role to motivate and realize the mass people of GB in general and the youths in particular about availing or snatching their basic rights.
The efforts of Marvi Memon is although appreciating but it is considered by many critiques ‘too little and too late’. However, the present government is expected to follow the foot-steps of its founder leader, late Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto to bring revolutionary constitutional reforms and add the deprived people of Gilgit-Baltistan into the main stream. Otherwise sitting in opposition and submitting bills in the parliament or signing resolution in charter of democracy could be considered as drama with the people of GB. But, now the wisdom and information of the area is not less to come in the traps of the selfish rulers and establishment.
The area has no more attachment or conditionality with the Kashmir cause in both parts of Kashmir there is a constitutional set-up, while Gilgit Baltistan is tied with the KANA division and even a clerical staff is too smart to grab the rights of the innocent people.
Now we need to take right steps to the right directions in the right time and need to make advocacy for the constitutional rights at every forums such as locally, regionally and globally by approaching various human rights institutions and other civil society institutions. I do hope youth and literate responsible masses will disseminate the message of raising voices for the basic rights of the people of Gilgit-Baltistan.
Thanks and regards
Sharif Khan
http://pamirtimes.wordpress.com/2008/08/26/op-ed-marvi-memon-on-pushing-a-bill-for-northern-areas/
August 30, 2008 at 3:49 am
hi
First of all ,i want to let u know that i am BIG BIG fan of you among the all corrupt politicians of Pakistan . I used to see you here on tv in talk shows,on diff paki tv channels ,in New York,and become satisfied that there are still some people in pakistan from where paki Awam can Hope for Good.
My all wishes and prayers are with you.Just keep it up with the same honesty ad professorial abilities .
Good Luck.
Dr Adnan Igra
New York.
August 30, 2008 at 10:12 am
Dear Marvi
The people of Pakistan lost trust in positions. So please do some thing which will improve this lack of trust situation. If you succeed in then you have the real power to change.
Love Pakistan
Nasir
August 30, 2008 at 10:54 am
hi marvi
thank u for giving us a ray of hope.Watching u on tv gives a boost of confidence that all is not lost.
1- With the presidents resignation all of us supporters lost hope and were depressed for days .Is this the way we repay a man who is truly patriotic and has served and saved this country time and again from disasters .We the educated minority of non political peaceful people are shocked to see two convicted crooks taking over this beseiged nation .We are helpless and we have been writing on various forums and facebook pro musharraf groups about this great man and his achievements.The youth of this country r fiercely patriotic and want to do something for it.They want MUSHARRAF back and want him to lead them .They want people like you who have a spirit to serve the nation to form a party.Can u along with likeminded and selfless ppl get together on one platform and use the youth for saving Pakistan .Please do some thing our country is dying??Asghar khan is principled so is imran khan minus his mullahism ,so is aminfahim to a certain extent.Please lets try to get everyone 2 gether and work for saving this country /Some of our heroes are Cowasjee,Lucman,Jasmeen,you,Edhi ,DR Adeeb rizvi ,Prof Ataur rehman ,Ahmad Shah Afridi ,etc please help us best of luck
August 30, 2008 at 12:10 pm
As someone who is so vocal i would also like to keep you updated on how majority of Pkaistnis are not happy with the part the media played in bias news against Musharraf.
I have had very bitter emails with Hamid Mir i would like to list one so you can decide ho right i am:
From: sajjad riaz (saajj786@hotmail.com)
Sent: 30 August 2008 07:57:08
To: hamid.mir@geo.tv; amohiuddin@tec-color.com; asheikh@tec-color.com; afmohiuddinau@yahoo.com.au; skhatri@tec-color.com; paknationalists@googlegroups.com
Cc: hmohiudd@yahoo.com; adnan69@sps.net.sa; musharrafsupporters@googlemail.com; rizzi123@aol.com; qidwaiminhaj@yahoo.com; aq@ahmedquraishi.com; azmat_siddiqui@hotmail.com
Everyone supporting MUSHARRAF is a soldier and true LOYAL PAKISTANI.HATTS OFF TO YOU ALL IN FUTURE WE WILL FORM A PARTY AND GET RID OF ALL THE CORRUPT LEADERS LIKE ZARADARI AND NAWAZ AND THROW OUT THE BIASED AND MUFAAAD PURUST JOURNALISTS LIKE HAMID MIR AND SHAHID MASOO.
HYPOCRITES who urged MUSHARRAF to take action agianst LAL MASJID,WAZIRISTAN AND DO NRO than CRITICISED HIM FOR DOING SO.
JOURNALISTS WHO HAVE ENJOYED THE MONEY AND THE BENEFITS OF A FREE MEDIA FROM 2000 ONWARDS DUE TO THE EFFORTS OF MUSHARRAF AND THAN HAVE GONE AGIANST THE SAME PRESIDENT MUSHARRAF.
Where was the media in 2000?
Hamid Mir who says that he will expose MUSHARRAF why did he not EXPOSE the corruption of NAWAZ why did he not EXPPOSE NAWAZ SHARIFS DEMOCRATIC WAYS?
Would Hamid Mir like to tell us which is BETTER?
A MEDIA UNDER MUSHARRAF where from 2000 over 70 new CHANNELS HAVE OPENED,ARE THESE CHANNELS RUN BY ONE MAN,NO,OFCOURSE NOT?
THEY ARE RUN BY THOUSANDS OF STAFF WHICH MEANS THAT AFTER MUSHARRAFS POLICY OF FREE MEDIA AND ISSUEING VARIOUS LICENSES MEDIA HAS EXPANDED IN THE SPACE OF LAST 8 YEARS FROM ONE CHANNEL IN 1999 TO OVER 70 CHANNELS IN 2008 IN WHICH THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE HAVE GOT JOBS and another THOUSAND LIKE HAMID MIRE HAVE GOT PAY RISES AND TALK SHOWS LIKE CAPITAL TALK….
Hamid Mir said that ALLAH gave him his job 21 years ago?His right…But 21 years ago their was no GEO,GEO Started after MUSHARRAf,now their are 4 or 5 channels of GEO they could’n't have started their transmission without the go ahead from Musharraf to go on air in Pakistan
Its after GEO that Hamid Mir got a pay rise its after GEO that alot of behind the camera staff got their jobs.
Hmaid Mir claims GEO started from DUBAI.Let me remind him on ONE phone call from MUSHARRAF the DUBAI Authorities shut GEO down and closed the programmes of HAMID MIR and the LOW LIFE SHAHID MASOOD.Which means that originally in 2000 or whenver GEO opened if at that time the governemnt the MUSHARRAF government if it did not have the FREE MEDIA POLICY THEY WOULD NOT HAVE ALLOWED ANY CHANNEL TO OPEN INCLUDING GEO.
SO Hamid Mir and other journalists STOP DREAMING AND FOOLING YOURSELD FREE MEDIA IS BECAUSE OF MUSHARRAF YOU PAY RISE AND THOUSANDS OF BEHIND THE SCREEN JOBS ARE BECASUE OF MUSHARRAF.
Hamid where was the media better in the democratic goverments?
HAMID MIR IN NAWAZ SHARIFS GOVERNMENT WAS CALLED TO NAWAZ SHARIFS HOUSE,WAS TOLD TO RESIGN BY NAWAZ SHARIF BECAUSE HAMID MIR HAD JUST WRITTEN A COLUMN AGAINST HIM,JUST A COLUMN.
The second day when HAMID MIR refused NAWZ SHARIF SHUT THE WHOLE NEWSPAPER DOWN.IS THAT THE DEMOCRACY HAMID MIR WANTS.
WHEREAS UNDER MUSHARRAF LOOK HOW MUCH THEY CRITICISED HIM AND MADE FUM OF HIM IN PROGRAMMES LIKE “HUM SUB UMEED SAY HAIN”
THE HYPOCRACY OF THE JOURNALISTS AND EVERYONE WHO BENEFITED HEAVILY UNDER THE FREE MEDIA POLICY OF MUSHARRAF CLEARLY SHOWS.
Its our duty to expose the journalist and ZARDARI AND NAWAZ as much as we can because poeple like Hamid Mir are sell outs in search of even a bigger pay rise.
AND REMEMBER THE FAILED DOCTOR SHAHID MASOOD WHO EMPTIED THE POCKETS OF ARYONE AND THAN GEO AND CRITICISED MUSHARRAF WHILST HE WAS BENEFITING UNDER MUSHARRAFS FREE MEDIA POLICY.NOW IT WAS THE TIME TO EXPOSE ZARDARI AND NAWAZ BUT INSTEAD HE BETRAYED GEO AND HAS ACCEPTED THE HUDI(DOG BEING OFFERED HIS BONE) FROM ZARDARI AND GONE TO PTV.
HYPOCRACY AT ITS HIGHEST.
WELL DONE TO EVERYONE AND ALL PAKISTANIS LOYAL TO PAKSITAN AND MUSHARRAF SALUTE EVERYONE FOR EXPOSING HAMID MIR PLEASE CARRYON DOING SO AND OTHERS WHO WERE AGINST THE MUSHARRAF ERA,THE TRICKLE DOWN EFFECT OF MUSHARRAFS ECONOMY POLICIES HAVE BENEFITED THE JOURNALISTS THE MOST AND THEY ARE THE ONES WHO COME UNDER THE SAYING “MERA KUTTA MUJHAY HI KATTAY”…WELL SOMETHING LIKE THAT….
SAJJAD
August 30, 2008 at 12:19 pm
As the media played a vital role in damaging Pervaiz Musharraf i would liek to show the original email i sent Hamid Mir and his reply.For which he is getting evry strong reactions.
From: sajjad riaz [mailto:saajj786@hotmail.com]
Sent: Sat 8/23/2008 3:47 PM
To: Hamid Mir
Subject: MUSHARRAF THE BEST
Hi,
Not sure if you will read this email or not but hope you do.
I hope all the media and specially you and people at Geo who were so biased against President Musharraf realise that it was a mistake to do so.
President Musharraf is the one who gave you your jobs.Under his government you channel was given the license to operate and since 1999 over 70 channels are operating in Pakistan and all the credit goes to Musharraf not Mr 10% or Mr Nawaz.
The purpose of writing this email is the frustration by a Pakistani and Musharraf supporter that you have not paid back President Musharraf in a good way.Paksitanis have become an AHSAAN FURAMOSH SOCIETY specially the journalists.
How can you invite Corrupt leaders or interview people like Zardari who you know more than me that they are corrupt and under their rule you were not even allowed to critisize them in an editorial in a newspaper let alone the way you joke about Mr Musharraf on tv.
I think yuou as journalists have failed to make the public aware of the leaders which they should’ve supported.All you have done is corrupt the minds of already corrupted and iliiterate people.
Pakistan as a whole will have to bare the cost of your media bias against the best leader Pakistan has had.
http://www.longlivemusharraf.com/
http://musharrafsupporters.wordpress.com/
http://newsforums.bbc.co.uk/nol/thread.jspa?forumID=5238&edition=1&ttl=20080823104307
Above are the sites where you can see for yourself what people think oof our great PRESIDENT MUSHARRAF.
As the President said PAKISTAN KA KHUDA HAFIZ because Pakistan journalists like you and politicians like ZARDARI AND NAWAZ.
Sajjad – UK
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Subject: RE: MUSHARRAF THE BEST
Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2008 20:06:02 +0600
From: hamid.mir@geo.tv
To: saajj786@hotmail.com
I got job 21 years ago.Allah gave me job not Musharraf.
Musharraf nenver gave us license we were operating from Dubai.
Musharraf treated us like animals.He attacked us inside our offices,he used police against us on the roads,he tried to bribe us.He is not exposed yet but we will expose him soon.
August 30, 2008 at 1:29 pm
Aslam-e-Alekum,
Sister, Marvi Memon
im Aftab Ali Laghari Doing MBA from University of Sindh, Jamshoro.
I watched Your Interview and Many speeches and now i realize that someone has awaken from our public to speak for us.
Sister, When PPP came in the government
then they are only raising or increasing the prices of commodities & why they are not reducing the price of oil, even the price of oil decreased in international market.
so im saying to u why u arn’t raising these issues in assembly.
August 31, 2008 at 8:55 am
I would just like to say that you are doing a wonderful job, keep it up.
Another issue that I would like you to focus attention on is the complete ignorance by the mainstream media of the millions of Pakistanis who recognize and appreciate what President Musharraf has done for the country. We want to express ourselves, but are not allowed to on the ‘Ruling’ channels. As far as Samaa TV is concerned, I would like to see it being broadcast on SUN TV as well as to have a wider viewership…regards
August 31, 2008 at 10:56 am
AoA
“Best For Pakistan’s National Interest” hmm… Since 14th August 1947, this phrase has proved to be the worst available in the dictionary for the “best interest” of a “common Pakistani”. If I shuffle in history, before I could compile something I would commence crying bitterly.
Four military administrators also claimed to be there “Best For Pakistan’s National Interest”, retreat from our foreign policies specially from Kashmir and defence strategy is “Best For Pakistan’s National Interest”, coalitions/segregation of different ideologies is “Best For Pakistan’s National Interest”, warming the battle fields of northern areas is “Best For Pakistan’s National Interest”, selective re-appointment sacked judges is “Best For Pakistan’s National Interest”, bla bla bla I donot have any more courage to write, I only can beg authoritative “Caesars” and “Aristotles” of this golden age of Pakistan, please donot act under the veil of “Best For Pakistan’s National Interest” please. Days are not far away my friends when we would hear
“I, Mr. President, solemnly declare that my breath is “Best For Pakistan’s National Interest” what a pity…
I sometimes wonder, how come something could be/is “Best For Pakistan’s National Interest”, if the outcomes are dauntingly disastrous for the Pakistani nationals? Oh yes… it’s what they call “Farsightedness” which a common man is deprived of, they are right. I simply wish they could have such an intelligentsia who could define the word “Farsightedness” for them.
I used to be a part of “Tug of War” as an “Old Ravian” during the annual sports day of Government College Lahore. What Ms. Memon said (August 29, 2008 at 10:32 am) “I am trying to keep focussed on real issues of common man and what is “best for Pakistan’s national interest”, meaning whatever coalitions happen in the future must be in “Pak’s best interest” so that governance takes place…..The “struggle seems to have just started”…”,
another “Tug of War” for the greater interests of “Pakistan’s National Interest”, let’s see how far away we go from our destination this time as a result of this “Tug of War”, as in the past, such “tug of Wars” rarely helped us to move forward.
Take care and keep praying
ALLAHH AFIZ
P.S: Sorry, I could not keep the pace of the forum, as was mentally shattered due to some family health issues-still going on-make dua for me and my family.
With all my words, I am still optimistic and waiting/(struggling in my capacity) for a brighter sunrise which could take us out through these dark shades of our national life.
Ms. Memon, I fully understand the politicking questions and reckon you should atleast enlighten us about (if you have done something, it’s much appreciated and if you cannot do anything then Mr. Ex-President said “Pakistan Ka KHUDA HAFIZ”)
By Dr. Rizwan (July 31, 2008 at 12:57 pm) about an injured/ paralyzed 3rd year MBBS student of Ayub Medical College, Abbottabad, who was compelled to abandon her studies by the college administration due to her tragic mishap.
September 1, 2008 at 5:32 am
Thankyou for all your inspiration, support and suggestions. Pls keep checking diary pages.. for now…Aug 31 and Sept 1
September 1, 2008 at 8:00 pm
Thank u for replying MARVI and please keep up your good work and spirit.you r a ray of hope 4 us.
Coming back to the topic are we blind or have we gone totally loony look at the leadership ruling us .were there noone else in the whole of this country but these ppl to rule us.Who are the ppl who voted for them what kind of a mindset do they have ?how can they choose such ppl?Does it reflect the kind of society we have become?Qualifications needed to head the islamic republic of pakistan.
1 better to have been a jailbird and added points will be given if u have swindled the country and have corruption charges.
2 If u have been accused of murder all the better never know when u might need these talents?
3 wow you have it made ,if u have ever tried some sort of hijacking?
4.If u are a politicized justice of some sort and have cases against you and you havent replied to them then ur on track/
5 The more u lie, the more u worship money the more easily u r bought the easier it is to reach the top.
6 last but not the least if u are mentally unwell u fully qualify for the kind of crazy ppl who got u in deserve u. So marvi its a tough ride for ppl like us who the president called the silent majority have no say .we r just sheep which follow and one thing i will tell u President Musharraf has won.He has won over our hearts and our loyalty which is not for sale.He has ignited patriotism and hope in the youth which will grow stronger with each day.Long live musharraf and long live PAkistan.Please pass this mesage to him if u can.all the best
September 1, 2008 at 8:32 pm
@ Thankx For Marvi give us Platform for Express our Feelings”
Mr zardari never drop the power of 17 amendment.he will be the more power ful president which is not good for pakistan.The person who accept 11 years in preson but he never give back 10% looting money.
when he was no power he get 10% and make million of dollers.Think about when he will be powerful president he must make 90% .I Love Musheruf his last word of his speech “pakistan ka khuda hafiz” was very meaning full and he is also responsibale in this :gunah kabeerah”
If Zardari being the second richest of Pakistan is still not satisfied with his wealth, I doubt he will refrain from his old habits. Pakistanis may try him once again and he will prove it. He will make sure to screw the country and as a last resort army will have to take over.
Regards
Salman Mansoor
September 2, 2008 at 3:33 am
Goodness me, anybody,but Zardari for president.I know NRO was probably issued by Sir Musharraf to keep the army and ISI going strong and keep these Mullahs at bay…because if these secular political like ppp,mqm get weak then Mullahs will start dominating the political scene here and that will be a nightmare for the army and ISI.But even Musharraf did’nt know at that time that this could allow MR 10% to be our new president casuse Benazir got assasinated..not that she was an angel either.
One of the saddest day in Pakistan’s histroy was when Sir Musharraf a man of so much integrity and vision resigned …6th septemeber,2008 is going to be even worse because one of the most corrupt and indignified Pakistanis is going to become our president.As Sir Musharraf said ‘iss kaum ka ubb allah he hafiz hay’
September 3, 2008 at 4:48 am
Dear Marvi
I am fully agreed with Mr. Sajjad’s comments about Hamid Mir. I know that Hamid Mir and other journalists (Black-mailers) like him are getting funds from Isreal and India to write against honest people of Paistan. They were against Honourable President Musharraf because they want to destroy Pakistan and they have got money to do this job. One day everyone will see the unjaam of these ugly journalists.
Sadia
September 3, 2008 at 5:33 am
Do you know how the president is doing now?
What are his plans?
September 4, 2008 at 5:26 am
I can’t believe the media of Pakistan.They are still out to get Sir Musharraf.Hamid Mir was at it again in his show last night,he was saying’Musharraf is more popular in India than Pakistan because he hurt the kashmir issue’ lol.This is a guy who fought 3 wars for his country and you are questioning his patriotism and honor.
And somebody tell me why Sir Musharraf needs to be prosecuted for the killing of the biggest criminal ever to come out of Balochistan ‘Nawab Akbar Bugti’..does’nt anybody in this country know how horrible a man Akbar Bugti was.These feudal politicians who are showing up on t.v have nothing, but praises for a man whos admited to have murdered more than a 100 people and was a big impediment in the development of Balochistan.These feudals and war lords like Bugti,Mengal do not want to see their people become educated and prosperous thats why they have been challenging the writ of the government.
September 4, 2008 at 4:05 pm
AoA
Quite recently, Mrs. Mirza announced to visit relief camps organised for victims of tribal areas, along with a team of parliamentarians. She also mentioned about raising funds for them by the contribution of members. Has she managed to gather a team and collection from the members? My apologies, if she already have done so.
Secondly what’s going on in the parliament regarding barbarian killing of women and their burial while they were alive. Another resolution, another committee, another face-saving report, another temporary suspension of SHOs and constables and then “Game Over”, please put serious efforts to expose the concealed realities of wolves in sheep’s clothing.
Take care and keep praying
ALLAH HAFIZ
P.S: Titles make a difference but the day, knighthood was awarded to Salman Rushdie, “Sir” seems worthless. I am not biased on the basis of Satanic Verses, fact is that he does not occupy such a distinguished height in literature.
Is it a hysterical statement or a bitter reality??? This is by which different schools of thoughts have their marks…
“This country has never seen honest rulers simply because it was not created by honest people, it has always been a creation of the corrupt, to consolidate power and wealth, and nothing of honesty can penetrate the higher echelons of power in this country.”
September 5, 2008 at 2:23 pm
OPEN LETTERS TO PRESIDENTS EX, WHY AND Z
We all have dreams. In my dreams I am intelligent, dashing, handsome, filthy rich and powerful. I am also wise and highly intellectual, with such great opinions that heads of state call me – or at least listen to what I have to say on matters of great importance. Then, usually, I wake up to reality.
Obviously I am not the only one who has wild dreams. After all, if it were not for dreams, why would people try to run for the office of president of our nation? In many cases they even do this with scant regard for reality. It is also always important to remember the difference between dreams, big dreams and delusions.
I am writing these lines in Karachi. I am here to be a guest on several GEO TV shows discussing the election for President of Pakistan. When I look at the candidates for president, I see a curious mixture of dreams, big dreams and delusions.
I say it as I see it, without regard for racial, ethnic, national, political or religious affiliation. That is also why I probably never will be offered a cabinet post by any head of state in Pakistan, elected or otherwise, or any other country.
Since none of the three Presidential candidates in Pakistan has contacted me for my advice, I have to assume it is because they believe I must be very busy. So, to be totally fair, I decided to write to each of them through an open letter in this publication. Like variables in an engineering or Math problem, let’s call them candidates Ex, Why, and z.
To President Ex – Justice (retired) Saeed-uz-Zaman Siddiqui
Sir, I have to give you credit for having a dream. Do I do not know you personally I salute you for being one of the few people in Pakistani elections that I have not heard anyone say totally negative things about. Sure, some may question your affiliation with the Nawaz Sharif party based on past events, but even your critics and non-supporters do not try to rip you to shreds. That, itself, is a major achievement.
You are a man of principle, said to have high integrity and the honor to stand up to a dictator. These are qualities that would get you elected and appointed in any other country.
Unfortunately, in Pakistan, these are the very qualities that would likely ensure you can not be elected president of our great nation. Sure, stranger things have happened. But, I thank you for dreaming and making a run for the presidency.
To President Why – Mr. Mushahid Hussain Syed
You, Sir, are obviously a man who has big dreams. I came to know off and respect you when I was a student political leader at the engineering University in Lahore. This was in the 1980s, when you were making a name for yourself as a journalist standing up to a dictator.
When I joined the ranks of the media industry, as business manager of Jang, and a writer in MAG Weekly, etc. I continued to respect you even though you were at a competing newspaper.
It is, therefore, a huge shock for me to learn that during the last 20 years you went from being an independent minded, outspoken, bold, Muslim media professional and a prisoner of conscience to someone who not only supported but became part of a dictator’s team.
It is easy for me to comment on your decisions to change sides in a political fray, but for you to change completely into the opposite of what you stood for is something I will never understand. In any case, I thank you for dreaming big, and making a run for the presidency. It will hopefully enable educated media professionals to be considered candidates for president in the future.
To President Z – Mr. Asif Ali Zardari
Sir, even though I have never personally met you, it has been my observation that it is nothing that you are understated about. We know that the other candidates have dreams and big dreams, possibly with some delusion thrown in for good measure.
In your case it is obvious that you had a dream, you have big dreams and, you may be suffering from a potent mixture of ambition, hubris and delusions of grandeur.
Apply that on top of a foundation built on a pliant political party machine devoted and dedicated more to a particular individual or a family than to their own roll in national politics, democracy or, heaven forbid, history. Result? You can almost be assured of the presidency. Congratulations.
The way I see it, only a miracle can prevent that.
Now, before you think I must be some anti-PPP, anti-Bhutto, anti-Zardari activist, let me assure you that is not the case. I have had the pleasure of meeting the late great Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto in Karachi as a young teen, the late Benazir Bhutto, as a young media professional, and always been supportive of their role, as individuals, and as a family, in Pakistan’s democracy.
But, I am not a blind worshiper of the Bhutto name. Both those great individuals also failed to live up to the incredible potential, and historic opportunities, God gave them. They paid, in both cases, with their lives and the country paid either with failed experiments in democracy, martial laws or instability.
When I say that only a miracle can keep you from being President, I say that as a will-wisher of Pakistan and the Bhutto legacy – which I suppose is now more of a Zardari family name legacy. And, herein lies the problem.
Ego, ambition, hubris, cunning, ruthlessness, dreams, visions, delusions of grandeur, and perhaps even a dash of madness are not necessarily bad things – especially if they are attached to a person who dreams to change the world, to build empires for his nation, build historic monuments to man’s dreams and ability, to leave a legacy bigger than he himself ever was. Alexander the Great, even Napoleon, and many other “madmen” come to mind.
These same personality traits in more ordinary people, driven merely by desires to conquer real estate markets and build Swiss bank accounts, and to exploit opportunities for short-term gain, can only ensure disasters of history, and historic disasters.
My fear is that you have all the traits we talk about above but lack the vision to see this is a historic opportunity, not just another personal opportunity to “get more rich” and “take care of your friends”.
The sad thing is that even the staunchest Bhutto supporters, from politically connected families, to their servants and man-on-the-street type voters are all but certain that nothing good will come out of your becoming President, regardless of your beautifully worded article in the Washington Post.
You make a compelling argument for why your Presidency is essential. But, I wonder how you expect anyone, much less a jaded nation of 160 million people to believe a word you say, after your reneging even on your own signed agreements with Nawaz Sharif, and your obvious play at controlling the judiciary.
Almost to a man, the impression in every city I have asked people about you is that you are only doing this for personal financial gain at the expense of the country. They feel what may have been true or false impressions of large commissions associated with you as a nickname, will become even larger grabs of power and wealth.
As a result, the false blessing of your becoming President with a weak hand-picked judiciary, ugly constitutional amendments a gift from former dictators, lapdog lawmakers and apathetic public could become a true-curse.
The actions everyone predicts for you may ensure the total erasure of the Bhutto name and goodwill, and any chance for your son and coming Zardari generations from playing a positive, or any role, in the unwritten future history of Pakistan. The even bigger risk for your family and you would be to become “marked men” instead of leaving a great mark on history.
Therein, Zardari sahib, lies your opportunity. No. I do not refer to your opportunity to acquire larger Swiss bank accounts or longer lists of properties abroad.
You are actually blessed with truly low expectations from everyone.
From judges to generals, from journalists to generalists, from even your own voters, no one expects anything good for Pakistan under your rule.
That actually is a great chance for you personally. You, and only you, can easily, but with some soul-searching, some introspection, some staring at the mirror, some appreciation of where you stand on the crossroads of history, decide to become a truly historic figure – in a nation starved for historic leadership.
Will you, Sir, have the wisdom, decency, moral and political courage and a vision of making a real name for yourself, and your coming generations in history books.?
For your, your children’s and Pakistan’s sake, I hope so.
The nation is standing by to see what path you take. Good luck, President Zardari.
Regards
Salman Mansoor
Do Write me @ salmanzit@gmail.com
September 6, 2008 at 10:14 am
AAhhhhhhhh Today 6th September 2008 always remember in the History of Pakistan and our coming generations will make a JET BLACK DAY OF PAKISTAN (if Country will Exist)…… May Allah safe Our Country from MR. 10% (Previously) MR. 100% Cruntely…. I have no comments….
Regards
September 6, 2008 at 2:06 pm
Hi,
In a recent programme HAMID MIR(PIG) was once again pursuing a personal agenda against MUSHARRAF.
Rather than exposing the most corrupt leaders NAWAZ AND ZARADARI perhaps HAMID MIR is increasing his HARAM KI DULAT by taking money from them to stay quite about them.
HAMID MIR said that MUSHARRAF is more popular in INDIA because he damaged Pakistan’s stand on KASHMIR.
Its in MUSHARRAFS government that INDIA has accepted KASHMIR as a DISPUTE,its in MUSHARRAFS govermnet that their was a total CEASEFIRE ON THE LINE OF CONTROL FOR ALMOST 50 YEARS,it was in MUSHARRAFS GOVERNMENT that the KASHMIRIS from both sides who had not met each others relatives for last 50 years eventaully met their LOVED ONES when the BUS SERVICE WAS INITIATED.
HAMID MIR U HYPOCRITE state the facts just because GEO has given you a channel to speak from DONT BULSHIT
HAMID MIR NEEDS TO BE TAUGHT A LESSON THE DAYS NOT FAR WHEN HE WILL BE PARADED ON A DONKEY IN THE STREETS OF ISLAMABAD WITH JHOOTO KA HAAR AND FACE BALCKEDOUT….;
September 6, 2008 at 2:52 pm
Thanks Sadia for appreciating the comments,just can’t believe how worthless and annoying people with limited knowledge become so famous in Pakistan but than again it can only happen in Pakistan…
September 7, 2008 at 12:12 am
JIYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE MUSHARRAF
It was funny today came across a tv programe for 6th September.Strange to see KIYANI sitting so comfortably next to Gillani.
In the programme the army spoke about the achievemnets they hace made in Baluchistan and all the army and PPP members were clapping in appreciation.
The strange and annoying thing is that the PPP and the journalists some of them were sitting their and clapping at the armies achievments in Baluchistan which is all due to PERVAIZ MUSHARRAF wheras they criticised him when he was the president.
Typical hypcrites…
BUT EVERY CRITIC OF MUSHARRAF WILL APPLUAD HIS EFFORTS IN YEARS TO COME AND TAKE CREDIT FOR THE ACHIEVMENTS THEY USE TO CRITISIZE HIM FOR…..
JIYEE MUSHARRAF DOWN WITH THE HYPOCRITES
September 7, 2008 at 12:20 am
@ Marvi
Even a sold-out Musharraf was better in power than the present gang of criminals.
Congratulation to Musharraf that Zardari became President because of his NRO. Controversial NRO had looters, murderers, and criminals become “saints” overnight. Injustice braought injustic.
Pakistan’s darkest day in history. ALLAH showed us earthquake as a sign. This is too dangerous for Pakistan ppl now… But ALLAH is GREAT, they (sheyaateen) can’t do anything BUT ALLAH can do the best.
Who calls election of Zardari as democracy – he gave at least three crores rupees to each of the MNA and Senator and MPA and bought their loyalties – after all when would that Swiss 60 million dollars would have been of use.
Zardari’s election was truly the blackest day in the history of democratic Pakistan and he would be far worse than Musharraf in presidency.
Those who elected him have done The greatest disservice to Pakistan for their own selfish ends. This shows we really don’t deserve democracy. Army is also at fault because they stood by watching what has happened – they would have interested behind the scenes but it looks like Pakistan Army also has become …. like those who elected this criminal and liar of the top order.
Regards
Salman Mansoor
September 7, 2008 at 2:41 pm
Salaam,
After seeing your whole web portfolio, i appreciate you on that. but still I think that I must have to confess that, you have two personalities instead on one. Making these sort of port folios, showing emotions for common pakistanis etc..but on ground PML-Q and its leadership is miles away from emotions and standing of Pakistanis. The support you led for the biggest culprit of Nation (Musharraf) will never make you nearer to a a comman pakistnis heart,
i can only advise one thing, be pure not hypocrate.
You seems to be a young blood in politics, but still you know that your father had done many things in past which is against the will of common man.
If you want to do politics of people, try to respect the national emotions….not the emotions of establishment. sorry if i’m a bit rude, but thats true emotions of nation.
Regards
Aqeel
September 9, 2008 at 4:23 am
Salam Marvi,
saw you on t.v the other day,you are doing a fantastic job,keep up the good work.
I agree with you there Sajjad,i saw that show too where they were basically paying tribute to all the good work of Sir Musharraf in Balochistan without mentioning his name and they showed a grim looking Shahid Masood sitting in the background lol.
Rabia Huq I think you are member of the same pro Musharraf fan clubs on facebook that I am member of.I have been posting there too(aldude).
Just to let everyone know Musharraf has more fan following on facebook than any other leader of Pakistan.and that too after our biggest fanclub page with 15k members got deleted because of some ridiclous rules,i think daily times did report on that.
September 9, 2008 at 1:58 pm
Salam Marvi and everyone
haha the unthinkable has happened mr10% has become president.Good things do happen to bad people in the Islamic republic of Pakistan ,tell that to the whole world.So what does God do to people who make crooks their leaders and their presidents?He keeps them a 3rd world nation?Well I hope Pakistan does well under Mr 10%(no this guy is not my president) so that the dollar can get cheaper for me to buy and I can get the hell out of here.And then one day when I am really old and wrinkly and may be someone like Marvi Memon is taking oath to be president of this country I can decide to come back.Marvi please do mention President Musharraf in your speech after becoming president.Thankyou
September 9, 2008 at 5:29 pm
I have posted the Liberal Progressive Agenda which Pakistan needs to follow for its progress. (List of demands- in category section)Pls add to it since its a working document. It doesnt just belong to us the opposition. I hope it will be as much yours since civil society needs to ask govt for resolution of key challenges. Govt has no excuses left but to deliver. It depends on us whether we can scream loud enough to make it deliver. We owe it to Pakistan to get these issues resolved before bankruptcy hits us. Thankyou for your support.
September 10, 2008 at 3:40 am
A step forward in Americas Dream of a divided Pakistan…
Some months back an American report was published in which it predicted that Pakistan would become a failed state in years to come. It reshaped the borders of Pakistan, in which it stated Baluchistan would be a separate state and NWFP to be part of Afghanistan or a separate Taliban state called the “Islamic Republic Of Waziristan”.
On TV and from statements it did seem that Americans favour Musharraf heavily. But in reality especially in the last few years it can be said that Americans were getting wary of Musharraf’s strength and his ability in strengthening Pakistan’s future.
Musharraf’s steps in tackling Baluchistan and working closely with China for the betterment of Baluchistan were some what working against the plans of the Indians and the Americans.
Musharraf’s policy of banning the militant groups and clamping down on Islamic extremists was probably something the Americans and Indians were appreciating but perhaps behind the scenes it was damaging their long term plans as only an increase in Islamic fundamentalism and extremism can guarantee Pakistan in becoming a failed state and the only source of destabilisation.
The issues of tackling Baluchistan issue, banning militant groups were in Pakistan’s favour and in the long term guaranteed Pakistan’s future and its economy. A stable Pakistan and its growing economy would’ve made a nuclear Pakistan even stronger militarily and economically. At that stage it would’ve been quite hard for the enemies of Pakistan to work against it.
So the plan was not to let Pakistan move in the right direction for which you had to get rid of a strong, forward moving and bold leader like Musharraf and to bring in someone who will be the total opposite and take Pakistan back to the old days of the 90’s.
Luckily enough for the enemies of Pakistan the 18th February election were a sigh of relief as the people of Pakistan wrote their own destruction and helped them get rid of the only hope we had in Musharraf of a better, prosperous and bright and united Pakistan.
So we have the perfect scenario the most corrupt politician in Pakistan’s history as the President, a Prime Minister who can hardly look straight at the camera let alone write his own speech, a finance minister whose totally clueless and finds the national assembly a place where he can catch up on his sleep, information minister who is looking for another husband and a foreign minister who has no foreign knowledge.
A perfect team lead by Zardari which can go to any length in implementing the American, the Indian, the Karzai and the Israeli agenda, together with a sold out media.
Zardari and Co will work on American-Indian-Israeli agenda by:
• Trying to undermine ISI as mush as they can
• They will bring closer the anti-Pakistan Karzai
• Baluchistan will be given back to the Baluchistan Liberation Army so India can carry on supplying them with arms and so Pakistan doesn’t utilise the resources of the province
• Kashmir will be totally forgotten and even the Kashmir on Pakistan side can be given back to India
• Waziristan and NWFP will be given to the Mullahs who will be allowed to implement their own agenda and therefore implement sharia and establish their own state in the long run
• Sindh will be strengthened more and established as a no go area for Punjabis
• Punjab will eventually be tried to change into another Sindh
• Economy will continue to plunder and so the Americans will influence World Bank, IMF to strengthen their grip on us which was weakened during Musharraf era.
The perfect destruction team of Pakistan employed by the Americans has started work from 09/09/2008 lets see where it ends.
The insurgents in Baluchistan have stepped up, so have the Taliban in Waziristan. America has also started its campaign in the tribal areas of regular bombings and even sending in ground troops which was never possible under Musharraf.
The outflow of capital continues, the stock market continues to plunge, inflation keeps on rising, rupee keeps on devaluing, frustration continues to grow, loyalties continue to change, self interest continues to be a priority, liars continue to host talk shows.
WELCOME TO DEMOCRACY 09/09/08 STYLE.
SAJJAD AHMED – UK
September 10, 2008 at 12:02 pm
Assalam-o-alykum,
I am personally glad to see some courageous ladies on Pakistani Political Scenario.Your dialogues on interfaith must be appreciated.I wish good luck in all your endeavours.I personally feel you start yours political journey in a wrong boat of PMl(Q), which are just gathering of thives,under the umberalla of a dictator. So in short run you avail the opertunist plateform . This indicates your political struggle will be full of troubles. This support of dictator will be always on your face, and people of pakistan gave their verdict on 18 feberaury.
i feel really sorry if my words hurt you
have a nice and wonderfull day
cheers
September 10, 2008 at 1:10 pm
I am glad to see some courages ladies on political scenario of our country.you are doing well on interfaith understanding and it must be appreciated.At same time we should not forget about your political oppurtunism in the boat of musharf and Q league. These very people were rejected by people of pakistan on 18 of feb.To support a dictator will be always black dot on your shiny face. at same time i wish good luck in all your endeavours.
September 10, 2008 at 3:14 pm
In my words u r vary talented soft spoken and caring , keep it continue.GOOD BLESS U.
aman
September 10, 2008 at 6:38 pm
I am at loss of words that such a lady exists within our governmental ranks. You are doing a great job young lady. Keep it up We are with you
Jay
September 10, 2008 at 6:48 pm
HELLO DEAR LADY
PLS COME TO OUR CLASS IN IBA . STUDENTS WANT TO TALK TO YOU.
CHEERS
PROF EJAZ MIAN
03222678553
September 10, 2008 at 7:02 pm
Salam……………….
You are a bold politician. I like you..
Raza
September 10, 2008 at 7:12 pm
Assalam-0-Allikum Sister Marvi,
Just saw your program on Newsone. Our family and I were really impressed with your “Shola bayani”:).
Anyways , since you are in parliment. please please ask the government that why and gain why… since the textile industry is the largest industry of pakistan and govt. offer no scholarship to the students to study abroad.. I was admitted to NC state uni last year but could not go due to lack of funds…. please ask them why dont they want to support us
p.s. i did my BSC in Textile science from Textile Institute of Pakistan last year
September 10, 2008 at 7:15 pm
Respected Madame.
With ref your program with Mubashir Lucman on 10 sep 2008 on TV 1 i would like to comment tha t both of u are not real, in my opinion mr lucman usrd the ladder of salman taseer and u of mr Memon other wise, how can u be a member parliment? and wat crieteria and wat quality u have? on wat grounds u r a member? do u or mr Memon have any consituency?so u and mr lucman talking about accountibilty is nonsensense as i think there are 100000 woman there more capable than u to be a member pariliment and more persons there to be an anchor like mr mubashar.
September 10, 2008 at 7:23 pm
Hi
The website by parlimentarian is an excellent idea. Just saw your program in Lucman Show and most of your comments were balanced and impressive quite unlike other politicians. Please keep up the passion and the spirit.
September 10, 2008 at 7:29 pm
It is nice to see some serious effort made by some politician for the awareness of common people. IT WOULD HAVE BEEN MORE FAIR AND SQUARE IF YOU HAVE PUT SOME THING ABOUT UR PML Q GOVERNMENT STUFF HERE FOR ACCOUTIBILTY.
I just want to know that can Law do something about rigging in polls as it had shown and people have seen on electronic media in many parts of Pakistan. Secondly it my opinion that there should be a law according to which all parliamentarian should not contest MNA & MPA elections more then twice. They can be a Senetor as much as they like. Like that we can have different mind of people in politics. Might be like this Pakistan and the people can move ahead with less problems. People are loosing their interest in politic and the people sitting in it from long times and doing nothing. Other thing is
September 10, 2008 at 7:31 pm
Ms. Marvi Memon, you seem to be relatively more informed about environmental factors – for instance your awareness of the longer-term issues (that politicians usually don’t worry about since they are more occupied with their own survival election-to-election).
For example your promotion of awareness about glaciers and possible impact of global warming.
I would like to draw your attention to another matter – the presence of Depleted Uranium in Pakistan.
This is a problem I had brought to the attention of some of the people who are now considered big shots of the news channels – Dr. Shahid Masood, Kamran Khan and others.
However I have NEVER heard anyone mention Depleted Uranium in ANY of their programs.
Although they have often lamented the loss of life that is happening now.
Depleted Uranium is a real risk and a possible environmental disaster. And this is because the U.S. drops thousands of tons of this material (it is used as cheap replacement for Titanium in many of it’s armaments – bullets in the A-10 gatling gun, missiles and bunker busters).
The danger is that it is nearly as radioactive as Uranium and contains all the isotopes usually found in Uranium. In addition it burns on impact and forms a POWDER which is dissipated in the wind and can drift downwind.
This is a MAJOR environmental disaster waiting to happen.
I realize this is not an issue that you alone can pursue, and it is already a bit late – since to actively prevent it, the muslim media should have been ACTIVELY promoting the dangers in this from some YEARS ago, so that the U.S. would have been shamed into NOT using it.
It has polluted areas of Iraq – like Basra. And everyday that the battles continue in the rest of Iraq and in which the U.S. used armament that is built with DU.
Please read up on DU on google, using terms like:
“Depleted Uranium”
“Depleted Uranium in Iraq”
“Depleted Uranium” Basra
This is an issue that I brought to the attention of media “luminaries” (more like demagogues) like Dr. Shahid Masood, Kamran Khan and others.
If they had been true readers they MUST have heard about DU – at least from the journalists they met in Iraq – Dr. Shahid Masood visited Iraq.
Yet they have confined themselves to challenging Pakistanis and the governments in Pakistan and have never created a robust portfolio of arguments to actually take their arguments to the West.
But did you ever hear them mentioning this real risk – not only to the current generation, but for generations to come ? We talk about our home country and the possibility that we have “at least our homeland”. However if these people are allowed to pollute this land as well, then what place will be safe.
Also these people do not realize the major breakdown of the Pakistan brand. If it becomes known (and it WILL become known later) that there has been extensive DU exposure in Pakistan. Then NO ONE will want our agricultural produce (esp. when they can get it from elsewhere). And only the poor and desperate will live here.
The reality is that we lack the presence of THINKING people in our legislature. People who can think forward 10 years, 20 years to see what our real problems are.
September 10, 2008 at 7:35 pm
Salam mam;
Dis is salman im professionally pharmacist and also did my MBA,how r u hope that u would be fine with the prosperity of god i have read ur biodata n i would not ambigious rather to say that v r so lucky that still v have de patriotic women like u who first present her in front of us for her accountability.I alwaz keen to hear the comments which based on honesty,loyality and patriotism which i had been alwaz heard in ur TV talk shows ,recently in LUCKMAN SHOW,U were tremendous de way u did research in order to get monitoring the major issues of our country on which most of our polititcian just hide becoz they all love governance.unlike u,i just say im soo much disappointed with de progress of our politician they just think about themselves as a result of which our economical destablization,foreign exchange reservior,GDP,GNP,Inflation,unemployment are worst which is bad indicator for investor result worse condition of our country.Anyhow at de end of de day i just humble request to u that i have no interest that for which party u belong,de area of interest is that u r loyal and honest person for our country and i will be very gratful to u if u pleasure me to become a part of ur team by any means to play my part for de prosperity of my country to restore and prevent rest one youth who invest more for their carrer but got nothing,again kindly pay ur kind attension on my request.My best wishes alwaz be with u.
Looking forward ur kind reply:
salman zafer(karachi)
September 10, 2008 at 8:02 pm
respected marvi
AOA
what a miserable people we are ? we axe our own feet again and again voting for corrupt politicians like PPP and PML N we are the nation busy in squaring 1 since 61 years , it is our adversity that we as nation are splitted in sub nation , clans, casts creed language etc tetc, if we want to be prosper as nation we must have to promote pakistani nationalism in our young ones , only pakistani nationalism, and love for this beautiful country can permeate enthusiasm in our youths for pakistan , i watch you first time talking today on TV one in lucman show , i simply say you are an excellent commentator , i love general pervez musharraf , i am an ardent supporter of this great man , and i firmly believe that time will come very soon when this nation realizes and remember him as saviour who serve this country very well. general sb hats of fto you really hats off to you.
thank you very much
long live pervez musharraf
long live PML Q
Faraz
Islamabad
September 10, 2008 at 8:04 pm
@ sajjad :My dear friend pigmies like hamid mir and kashif abbasi never lessen the respect and honopur for great man pervez musharraf in our hearts
September 10, 2008 at 8:09 pm
salam marvi,
just want to appretiate your work… it is so encouraging and motivating to know that we still have people working towards safguarding the interests of pakistan.. I m highly impressed by your approach towards national issues..I would like to congratulate you for taking a wonderful intiative by openning this website to make your self approachable to general public.
may god bless you and you succeed in your endeveurs … you have all the support from us…
Best regards,
Madiha Khan- Islamabad
September 10, 2008 at 9:31 pm
Ms Marvi Memon,
I have seen you talking in many channels of talk show at T.V. You have good commend over facts and reply very intellegently….Keep it up…GUD WORK…
Please advise our members of parliament(M.N.A) to attend assembly sessions regularly and they should participate in discussuon with some concrete purpose.We are paying Rs. 20.00 million to each MPA/MNA.
September 10, 2008 at 9:49 pm
i really feel pitty for the people of pakistan as they are so senseless,and cant diffrenciat in good and bad,but at the end ofcourse the will miss gen, musharef,i am really impressed by the young lady marvi,she is the true face of pakistan, keeeeeep doing marvi sister as much u are doing for this sensless people,god bless you, A worried pakistani.
September 11, 2008 at 2:32 am
Salams
Last night I had chance to see you on TV show, after that I have few questions in my mind to share with you.
Muslim Leauge lost their election on 12 Feb 08 due to lack of party main leadership. Do you think is there really reason for loss or party was over confident in terms of elections, as ML has other very telented peopele why should change paerty leadership to telented guys like you or some other?
Reagrds
Javed
Australia
September 11, 2008 at 4:22 am
I would like to tell u that please ask yr leadership & others to burry the past. Please for the sake of Pakistan look for the future. Last night you were brilliant on Lucman Show, but at times i felt you were answerless cuz yr party didnt do anything on the issues raised by some callers. Anyway I pray for your future & the future of Pakistan.
Take care.
September 11, 2008 at 4:36 am
aoa.
how r u dear Marvi. last night i see u on news1 with my favorit man lucman mubashar. HE is very brave man. and i just want to give u suggestions that why u are not doing for basic education system. in last duration of your governs :parha likha punjab: ok (khush na hunay se behtar hai lakin)why u are not doing for same education for all ppl poors and rich persons. their sylabas not same that is a big problem i never saw anyone doing for this . and also if u are doing some work for womens everyday in every part of the country womens are punished and killed by i call terrists and in the name of (garat,kali , or bad words )our country hve many problms i hope u are doing well and God bless u
Tahir malik
September 11, 2008 at 4:43 am
mohtarma marvi memon sahiba asalamalay kum
hum ney aap ka interview t.v one per dekah aap ney ex president pervaiz musharraf sahab ki dil khol kar tareef ki jis kay lia aap ko humari taraf say mubarak aur umeed kartay han ainda bhee issi tharah un ka diffa karangi ex president pervaiz sahab jaisa saddar na koi aya tha na aiga i love pervaiz musharraf president pervaiz musharraf zindabad aap ki sehat aur salamti kay lia dua go rais karachi
September 11, 2008 at 9:12 am
miss marvi
yesterday i saw your program it was good that you try aleast try to justify yourself which is very important in your business. wel after watching different political programs and the reality which i know about different politions i dont think that this country will survive general public always tries their luck that may be this time the old black sleep is changed every one get the chance instead of doing something for country they fill there bank accounts and then leave us(public) in more trouble alone what will happen to this country
you know for the formation of pakistan one generation gave blood so we get pakistan same time is now there should be one generation to save pakistan which i think is no where so as a leader you people have to start that struggle other wise we will never make pakistan once more
because quaid-e-azam is not with us any more so kindly if you get time tell me system will remain the same every one comes to fill his or her banks thats it? you dont feel pain for pakistan think about that poor father who kill his own children why because of this situation
so the leaders gets all the blame why not you change the system aleast try silent public will be with you as visible one trust me we need visible change.if some one can do it you will see all the public with that person but that person should not be a cheater once more.
when pakistan is formed one dollar is equal to one rupee so think now where we stand today
mam i feel pain for my country hope few people like you also feel
waiting for your feedback on one simple question which is what will happen with pakistan atleast tell us so we get ready for that we cannot afford one more surprize??
catchalvi@hotmail.com
September 11, 2008 at 10:50 am
AoA,
im really a great great fan of yours …keep it up ..u have done an excellent job as a politician. good bless you amin .
September 11, 2008 at 1:57 pm
AssalamuAlaikum,
madam i really like and respect your feelings, expressing expressions, speaching quality, speaking power, mamory, power of command in your field and lot of things.
mam i dont know the politics as i m an civil engineer but i can feel what is right and i feel you are sincere with you feelings which is the most important thing in any field this is what i know.
my wishes and prays are with you, may Allah bless you.
but with all those things take good care of yourself as well.
September 11, 2008 at 4:21 pm
Oh Marvi, i just want to know that about yourself please tell me very honestely you and your father Nisar Memon both you have come from grass root level or you come here in National Assembely with the friendship of one person who’s name Musharaf…
Best Regards
September 12, 2008 at 5:04 am
well marvi I like your style of talking. you are a well learned person and above all you have alffiliations with my respected president musharraf…the only one who deserved to be the president of my beloved country Pakistan.i’m suffering from acute depression since the day these plunderers, looters,dacoits and twicely tested thieves have taken charge of Punjab and Federal Governments. when would people be able to unterstand their shallow words and corrupt characters.now karzai alongwith other CIA agents will decide the fate of my country.i’m writing thesis about the deceptive use of language by political leaders and that had given me enough political insight to inerpret what’s going on around.may allah save my country from these voltures and people like you should never get tired to expose the hideen agendas of these so-called leaders.plz let me know how my president musharraf is doing these days? he has been and always will be my President as long as i live.
all the best
September 12, 2008 at 2:19 pm
hi Ms Marvi,
its indeed a good idea to let people also express their point of view to one of their representatives. your family and educational background is impressive and its nice to have an educated person sitting in the assembly. I sincerley hope that you dont end up throwing bangles and “chadar” over the speaker of the house someday. However; a good family and educational background does not ensure a clean political life in this country.despite all your impressive credentials its eally a shame that you stand with a party that was nurtured by a dictator and crumbled once he disgracefully departed. i have no love lost for the incumbent regime,but still how can you so blindly support a butcher who killed hundreds of innocent children in lal masjid. all they were asking was to shutdown brothels and obsenity. how can you justify the ill intent of your premier who almost threw the steel mills away for a dime. maam for your “enlightment” mr musharaff was immensley disliked even in the armed forces. how can i say that? because i am one of them. he is the one who allowed the americans to disregard our territorial interity..i hate his guts…
September 13, 2008 at 7:46 am
search youtube for “musharraf resignation speech” (without quotes) for COMPLETE speech with ENGLISH SUBTITLES. Or just use the youtube website address above or go directly to:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJzLX6GU-50
There are versions for mobile phones (3gp video 38MB and mp3 audio 3.6MB) there as well (see links in description section of video webpage).
Pass the speech video/audio around on your cellphones to your friends and family. It still sounds current in the current situation (U.S. acting up after Musharraf leaves the scene).
There is a core group of 15% of Pakistani population who have their heads on straight (if the post-resignation Gallup poll is to be believed). These are people who DESPITE the media propaganda (some say “perfect storm” effort – whether foreign or local inspired) still had the presence of mind to separate the wheat from the chaff, the fact from the fiction – constructed arguments which highlighted the negative but did not recognize the far greater positives.
Then there is a 20% group of people who were positive/negative about his resignation. These are the “we are now having regrets” crowd probably. This 20% of people can probably be turned – however they are the type of people who cannot be relied upon for good judgement i.e. they will bolt at any crisis and are people who cannot reconcile contradictory signals or stuff thrown at them by the media. And these are people who cannot understand the value of choosing the best option under the circumstances from among possibly bad/badder options.
The 63% people who were against Musharraf probably include people who do so for dogmatic reasons (belong to one party or other and not think for themselves), or for ethnic reasons (not all Punjabis – since a thinking Punjabi segment is deeply in support of Musharraf – but a certain section considers it an affront to have a “weak” Muhajir, as opposed to a “strong” – meaning idiotic – person who they can “respect”, or for people living around Islamabad, someone who belongs to a “family” who they can reach through side channels and finding him unreachable through most traditional channels are flummoxed and so find the whole situation thoroughly disconcerting), and then there are the .. idiots. And many of them are probably people who were not ready for the onslaught the media wrecked on their heads. Many of these WILL learn a less from this – and will start to mistrust the “media” much more. But these are costly lessons – which SHOULD have been taken 20 years ago. That it started only with Musharraf is late but still a good change.
Because in a country with high illiteracy, the visual medium is MUCH more of a reformer than the print media (which would always remain unreachable for illiterates). This is analogous to (if you think of computing) to the proliferation of mobile phones. And computers. Because of the audio nature of the phone it is usable by all and it achieves mass market – and BECAUSE of it, some of the same illiterates WILL get exposure to computers and WILL eventually get used to using what are essentially computers (i.e. cell phones or the next generation – as smartphone features make it into cheaper mobile phones as well).
It is for this reason that the visual media is ESPECIALLY important for Pakistan. With that advantage however also lies the danger of manipulation – because it is the same population (one complete generation has not grown up with this visual media yet even) but the means of manipulation now have reach through this visual media as well.
That is, there is the danger of foreign influence (i.e. if it is reformist that can be useful, but if it seeks to do some strategic impacting or to foment unrest then that is dangerous).
So for example you see the example of the U.S. possibly OVERpaying for the VOA programs being broadcast on Geo and AAJ TV channels. This situation is analogous to the OVERpaying that the U.S. did to the Jamaat-i-Islami printing presses in Karachi in the 1960s. The USIS used the JI’s printing presses and according to some sources burnt the material in it’s compounds. If true, this would be a “legal” way to provide funds to the JI.
A similar situation can happen if Geo TV UNDERpays to the tune of millions of dollars for some programming that they would otherwise have to pay more for – to some Indian channel for instance.
In the U.S./VOA case it can be argued that usually when Geo shows some external program they would PAY for it. Why is it that Geo is ASKING for payment for showing VOA programs. This raises the question this means that Geo probably realizes the programs contribute little informationally or in terms of content to their audience. BUT it is somethign that will create value for the promoter (i.e. U.S.). In THAT they basically are acting as agents of a foreign power.
Secondly while it could reasonably be argued that the U.S. is doing it to “reach the Pakistani people to build bridges”, there could be a secondary benefit for the U.S. strategic objectives – they CAN wind up intentionally OVERpaying to cover for what would essentially be a type of influence peddling – which may or may not be overt. But it could be CRUCIAL if it is used at certain times to exercise pressure on Geo management.
A third question also arises – that Geo presents the VOA programs as visually identical – and to many illiterates it will seem indistinguishable from normal Geo programming (for instance now they have even dropped the faint VOA logo that used to appear previously and was probably missed by many people even then).
The question that arises is – WHY would Geo want such brand dilution ? They are a running a very valuable news program channel – would any news organization volunteer the dilution of it’s brand, it’s look to show ANOTHER entity’s “identical looking” news programs in the middle of it’s news programming ?
These are all questions that should be asked by and OF the media. And they are answerable for them. The ONLY reason they are NOT getting more pressure from their viewership about these issues is that the viewership is majority illiterate (and Geo KNOWS that – it is no longer even the print business as practiced by Jang from the newspaper era). Right now Geo has TREMENDOUS leverage – to go for the jugular of the illiterate mind. They are buying time because they press those buttons. Those people ARE it’s audience and they are the ones who buy the soap and the cooking oil. As long as they are guaranteed that viewership Geo is under NO pressure whatsoever to answering questions posed to them by “concerned Pakistanis”.
In essence the “media” in Pakistan has become like the “democracy” in Pakistan – both address the most common denominator in Pakistan (actually niche channels like Dawn News and some of the business channels maybe slightly different in that).
And so it is not a surprise that the mass market media channels WILL become similar in argument and stridency as the politicians/political landscape in Pakistan – which has primarily been coloured not by the wise Islamic scholar or the thinking not-as-religious Pakistani, but will be coloured similarly by the tribal, ethnic (and in many ways pre-Islamic) culture of the villages of Pakistan.
However the media WILL remain monolithic AS LONG AS there is consolidation of power – where newspaper and satellite news are both owned by the same entity. This will lead to the creation of a few strong entities. However this is not all bad either – since this will allow the creation of media entities that are strong enough to counter bad government (and have the leverage of the print media’s local contacts). The disadvantage is that it PREVENTS the emergence of a new media which is free from the shackles of the old print media. Note that the old print media was a totally different entity – reliant on literacy in it’s customers for it’s survival (something which is short of in Pakistan). Thus newspapers – for all their competence – never achieved the mass market level and as a result never paid their employees as much and as a result did not get the best talent either. This COOPTING of the print media by the new visual media channels (by allowing satellite channels to be owners of print media groups) has allowed the induction of scores of print media people into this new media – and they have taken hold, occupying positions of power WAY beyond their capability AND THINKING. But this was probably also because of the rapid expansion of media during Musharraf’s era. If the expansion had been slow it may have produced a different type of media employee (though it could also have created a class of elitist “media people” who were unaware of the beat on the ground – as happens in the U.S. occasionally). But the fast expansion also has left a lot of print people in prime positions of power in the satellite news industry and they will continue to hamper it’s progress onto the second level (perhaps) as newer better trained people join th media groups.
Combineed ownership of print AND satellite media also is bad because it PREVENTS the creation of a strong anti-satellite stance in the print media – since satellite dominate (being a visual medium in an illiterate country), their PRINT arms would tend to dominate the other print newspapers which are NOT satellite owned. This will lead to the rapid domination of print media by satellite companies promoting the SAME satellite programming (as happens with Geo/Jang Urdu newspapers). Thus REDUCING diversity of opinion and commentary.
The coopting of print media also leads to the problem of fewer players – with the result that even if ONE of them is taken over by an outside group it would STILL look like it is Pakistani – but their strategic policies regarding what issues to cover and highlight could be subtly coloured by their masters or “business partners”.
In addition it could easily be acquired by an outside firm for a few hundred million dollars (not that much for foreign companies) – thus allowing them an instant and easy foothold into a country where the non-illiterates think they are running the country but where the illiterates are “owned” (that is, that is all they read, follow or are exposed to from the “news” side of things) by the visual media companies.
An example is the type of response one hears on these news media channels from the “man on the street” – while many will (correctly) point out the primary issues of inflation and high cost of food, there will be some who will dole out a litany of points about what has to be done:
- reinstatement of Chaudhry Iftikhar (deposed Chief Justice) and “Aazaad Adlia” (what the news channels SAY is what it would be if he was restored – which is a big IF i.e. is it not exactly the same thing – but presented enough times by media and it sounds like “the same thing” to the “man on the street” and there is NO OTHER media outlet which can disabuse i.e. reinform them of an alternate fact !)
- Musharraf impeachment
etc. etc.
Some of them are just parroting the “list” that has been bombarded by these media channels.
There should also be a classification of Pakistani media and Foreign media – channels that are primarily based in Dubai should be classified as Foreign media. But here too there is a benefit/disadvantage challenge.
A channel based outside Pakistan prevents it from falling into the most excessive of crackdowns that a government could do, but it also prevents the channel from diverging away from Pakistani issues and falling for other interests – for example like Geo with Indian commercial interests – which later prevent them from taking a challenging stance against India.
This one is a tricky decision as well – since there are advantages/disadvantages to both.
Which is probably why Musharraf did not do much to foster this distinction – in his view a “foreign” Pakistani media is actually a good change – as it allow Pakistan to push it’s ideals out to the world. It is a much more positive and pro-active way of addressing the situation, and the other alternative to “control” is rife with problems as then there are no limits to how much you will wind up crushing the media and then you might as well NOT have a media then.
Musharraf was singularly responsible for the creation of the media in this state that it is – essentially free. Although the exceptional events of attacks against Geo offices during emergency have been taken to great extremes by people like Hamid Mir (notice how Kamran Khan is not as aggressive against Musharraf) primarily for other-than-just-that attitudes among some journalists.
Regarding the attitudes of journalists – it is a well known fact that there is a preponderance of PPP-aligned people in the print media and “lawyers” because people with non-standard educational (or perhaps interrupted education) could find a niche because of their essentially independent nature of work.
So it is no surprise that when the PPP wanted to put pressure on Musharraf to get better terms in NRO they used the “lawyer’s movement” and NGOs (all too often funded by outside sources). With the NRO done, the lawyer’s movement naturally lost it’s PPP aspect and essentially became a group of 20 people (no wonder Aitzaz Ahsan has to say the demonstrations are small because they are of a more distributed nature i.e. “all over the country” now).
September 13, 2008 at 12:07 pm
Respect. Mamdam
This kind of crime was rampant prior to the dawn of Islam. If it is a tradition of Baloch tribes (not all) then these tribes must be brought under the control / regulatory laws which are in compliance with ‘Shariah’ as well as within the constitution of Pakistan
September 14, 2008 at 10:28 am
“ALL PROBLEMS EXIST BECAUSE OF MUSHARRAF, NO MUSHARRAF NO PROBLEM”…..IS THAT RIGHT??????????
Not long ago in Pakistan the critic’s vast majority of them ranging from the opposition of Qazi Hussain Ahmed, PML-N and PPP to the journalists like Hamid Mir, Shahid Masood had one statement to issue and that was continuously on repeat mode. As they said:
“ALL PROBLEMS EXIST BECAUSE OF MUSHARRAF, NO MUSHARRAF AND THEIR WILL BE PEACE AND STABILITY, NO SUICIDE ATTACKS, NO AMERICAN AIR RAIDS AND THE ECONOMY WILL BOOM, MORE INVESTORS WILL COME TO PAKISTAN”
Musharraf and the well wishers of Pakistan who do utilise their brains knew that they are only political slogans and very far away from reality, as the personalities with the above statements have no charisma, no leadership qualities they are the Puray Likhay UNPURH, individuals who have self-interest above national interest and can cause all sorts of mayhem on the way to seeing themselves in power.
From 1999 Musharraf not only stabilised the economy but also in later years strengthened it so from being defaulted Pakistan stood as the emerging markets in the world.
How can someone with even a lesser intelligence level argue that Foreign Reserves in 1999 of $700m are better than $17bn in 2008? How can the critics argue that the economy size of $75bn in 1999 was better than $170bn in 2008? Either the critics l have no basic numerical knowledge at all or they are LIARS because basic maths is enough to see that $700m is less than $17bn and $75bn is less than $170bn.So how on earth can the economy be worse than 1999? Every sector and the overall size of the economy has doubled and in some cases tripled over the past 8 years.
By no means Pakistan has gone richer but at least agree that the economy has gone much stronger but obviously still needs a lot of work to keep it going.
The last 6 months has proved once gain that it was the leadership of Musharraf and the economic policies of Shaukat Aziz which made our economy a stable and progressive economy, where investors had full confidence in Musharraf and Shaukat Aziz therefore weren’t hesitant to invest.
But as soon as Shaukat Aziz left and Musharraf appeared less in command of the country the economic situation is their to be seen.
Now there is absolutely no investor confidence in the capabilities of the present government they have no direction and understanding of the challenges. Therefore the investors have withdrawn their capital, Rupee which should’ve gained slightly against a weakening dollar a few months back but instead it proves of our incompetent government that the rupee depreciated further.
Post 9/11 Scenario
President Musharraf made the right decision in supporting the world against the war in terror. It is our war not America’s probably America has woken us up because we were sleep for 50 years as we left our western borders specially NWFP and Northern Areas unguarded for 50 years. It now proves that was not a wise decision as people have freely crossed the borders over the years and it has not benefited Pakistan other than destroying our society with Kalashnikov Culture and heroin. Perhaps we should’ve guarded our western borders straight after 9/11 as it was obvious that Al-Qaeda and Taliban will cross over and start their campaign from Pakistan.
Musharraf had a good understanding of the dangers we faced with America and India sitting in Afghanistan.Musharraf was successful in containing American attacks in Pakistan as only aerial attacks were allowed only on pacific targets. Under Musharraf no Afghan troop entered Pakistani territory, no American troop landed on Pakistan soil to carryout a raid.
The dangers we are facing now are because of the weakness of the present government as the Americans do not consider our leadership as worthy of posing any challenge to them. The Americans are openly stating their policy about attacking Pakistan, American troops are landing in Waziristan to carryout raids, there has been 10 aerial attacks in a week (whereas under Musharraf their hardly use to be 10 attacks in a year).
Is this the democracy we were asking and crying for over the last 8 years? Democracy where there:
• Is no credible person leading and making the new policies, where:
• America is openly targeting innocent civilians by aerial and ground raids, where:
• Economy is plunging deeper and deeper, where;
• The rupee has no value left, where;
• China is being sidelined, where;
• Mr 10% is on private visits to London and Dubai, where;
• Load shedding, inflation, crime, unemployment is worsening, where;
• Stock exchange continues to take a dive from 17000 points to 9000 points, where;
• Investors are withdrawing their capital, where;
• Suicide bombers are still at large and strike at will(as they said their will be no suicide bombings when Musharraf goes)
When Musharraf was in power everything was going in the right direction with a bit of difficulty and their was strong leadership and a strong team to deal with the problems, but now it’s all shambles, incompetent individuals who have been given the responsibility of running Pakistan, A Pakistan which needed confident, bold and charismatic leaders like MUSHARRAF.
So, it seems after all that the critics have been proven wrong once again as a Pakistan without Musharraf will not be stable and prosper but instead will continue from 1999 again and be a failed state, a corrupt state, a state with incompetent individuals sitting in the government, a state where the enemies have once again started to threaten its sovereignty.
SAJJAD AHMED – UK
September 14, 2008 at 11:07 am
hi,
i am begining to think that this forum is just a gathering of people who think that two wrongs can make one right. yes zardari is corrupt but how could this acquit mr musharraf and his cronies from their crimes. he succumbed to the biggest con job of the history of the mankind(a.k.a war on terror) and commited the entire nation without asking anyone without any debate and against the wishes of a roaring majority. Turkey also rebuked such threats from US and still they are surviving pretty good. what have we achieved? truth is that this man musharraf took these decisions because he knew that he would never have to go to the public for vote. all he would have to do was to accomodate the winner with free treats like N.R.O. please for crying out loud if you worried for pakistan because you dont trust zardari then dont forget that it is your beloved musharraf who served his purpose and let this criminal to return with all pomp and show and become the president eventually. cant you see this man had no right intentions.Saying “pak ka Allah hi hafiz” just because he thinks he is the only hope we had..take a walk sir. you have harmed this country more than anyone else. honestly speaking now when i go out with my unifrom on i feel “unsafe” just because of you…May Allah expose your crimes..
September 14, 2008 at 8:55 pm
Well Marvi, I am a journalist in APP English Service. The first time I saw u in a PML meeting in 2007 and under estimated u as a stereotype female just for showcasing in the political meeting. However, when I gradually started listening u it really stunned me especially during recent sessions of Parliament in PPP government u have been raising very important issues in befitting manner as I use to observe u from press gallery.
I also heard good words for u when I was on a coverage tour of Gilgit and other Northern Areas with then Information and Boracasting Minister Senator Nisar Memon in March this year. Two things I like u r ur name and ur loyalty to men of ur land which I came to know from MEHRAN TV Interview. I look forward to take a cup of tea with u…hmmmmmm?
September 14, 2008 at 10:10 pm
You’re the MNA of this nation; I demand you to give us electricity in Karachi. WOuld you even care to publish my email, let alone reply. Expecting you to do something in this regard is foolishness. You guys wont do anything. All you care about is your personal accounts getting exponentially increased and that’s it! You are all losers!
September 15, 2008 at 10:39 am
MR SHEHARYAR
May be you need to take a walk and think about your knowledge and understanding of the issues Pakistan faced and faces…
Musharraf said Pakistan ka Allah HafiZ Because of people like you who are wrong, but so proudly go around giving comments as if they are the brainiest of all.
What crimes are you talking about regardding
Musharraf?
One thing is encouraging to see that even the biggest critcics like you can only talk about LAL MASJID AND WAZIRISTAN.Which atleast proves that in 9 years of power only two negative issues LAL MASJID AND WAZIRISTAN stand out which means Musharraf was doing a pretty good job..
Lal Masjid was a issue which could not be tolerated but Musharraf did tolerate them for quite a long time infact i would say Musharraf was slow in reacting, in any civilised society Lal Masjid would not have even existed in the capital let alone the extremists going around kidnapping police offices and other foriegn nationals.Musharraf gave the lal masjid time to surrender they chose their own faith,the children if they did die?as most of them had already left the mosque, than the blame should go on Maulana aziz and his wife who kept them hostage inside with them.If you were trapped in the mosque you would force all the kids to leave immediately but if some did stay behind than Maulana Aziz forced them to stay for which he suffered heavily.
The people of lal masjid except the kids were not innocent,how can you be innocent and carry and bring guns inside a mosque,how can you radicalise kids their, how can you start implementing your agenda everywhere, how can you kill and kidnapp police officers and get away with it.
You want Pakistan to stay a banana republic where no law exists and anyone can get up and start implementing their agenda.
You talk about shutting brothels,theirs brothels all over Pakistan and have been before Muharraf came in power.Closing down brothels in one town is not going to make a difference plus the police need to do that not extremists who have been brain washed and want to take over the CAPITAL OF PAKISTAN BECAUSE THEY ARE LOYAL TO THE TALIBAN AND AL-QAEDA…..
The enlightened Musharraf was liked everywhere and specially the armed forces.AT THE PRESENT MOMENT HE IS IN THE ARMY HOUSE WHICH IS PROVE HOW MUCH THE ARMY LIKE HIM,THEY ARE THE ONES WHO GAVE HIM GUARD OF HONOUR AND THEY ARE THE ONES STILL FIGHTING IN WAZIRISTAN,IF MUSHARRAF WAS HATED IN ARMED FORCES THAN WHY IS HE STILL STAYING IN THE ARMY HOUSE AND WHY IS HIS POLICY OF WAZIRISTAN STILL BEING IMPLEMENTED.
SHEHARYAR get your facts right and open your eyes and see whats happeing in Paksiatn now?
Under Musharraf America didnt strike Pakistan 10 times a month and America didn’t send their forces on Pakistani soil, this has happened in the civilian dictatorship governements in power right now…
Next time state the facts not your personal thoughts on MUSHARRAF…………
JIYE MUSHARRAF
THE BEST LEADER PAKISTAN HAS EVER HAD…………
September 15, 2008 at 1:13 pm
Lawlessness:
A couple of days back I got my Suzuki Khyber car rammed by a Toyota Corolla which was of a District Nazim Khairpur. The driver who banged the car into mine was apologetic yet at the same time unwilling to offer an amount for his mistake since my car was literally broken from the side. His car received a minor dent which I understood was a mistake of his right from the beginning. All this happened at the posh location of Park Towers in broad daylight. I spoke very softly to the driver and told him to call his master so that we could discuss matters. He did so immediately. When the District Nazim arrived in a government car (with green number plate), he showed his rude nature and aggressiveness was pretty apparent to one and all. Since I am the humble sort, I introduced myself and told him that his driver accepted his mistake and that he should offer me some amount so that I could get my car fixed. This put him in rash and he hurled abuses left, right and center. I told him I was his younger and I respected him (though there was no reason to respect such an abusive person) but he just didn’t give up. He even tried to push me away which was a shocker for me. Since I am from an educated lot, I knew that I had to back off and so I did. He sat with his two kids in his government car and took his personal car away with the same driver. In short, he knew I was humane to him so he used this to his own advantage. Is there any system within this land? Is there any law that one could look up to? Where are we really heading? The District Nazim Khairpur must know that he is accountable for his actions and words. I trust my God and I hope He will teach him a lesson which will make him mend his ways. It is just that I respected my own character and I didn’t find it feasible to stoop down to his levels that I kept quiet. May God have mercy on our country. May our leaders understand that the fire of hell is very very hot.
September 23, 2009 at 3:02 am
DEAR I DO RESPECT YOU BUT YOU SHOULD HAVE TALK TO DISTRICT NAZIM KAIRPUR WITH MORE POWER AND CONFIDENCE .YOU MUST HAVE FILE COMPLAIN AND SEND COPIES TO THE ALL TOP PEOPLES AND TO THE NEWSPAPER .ALL WAYS TAKE PHOTOS WITH PHONE CAMERA.YOU NEVER GAVE HIS NAME AND PARTY NAME .FROM JAMAL MY E MAIL IS JAMAL.SYED666@GMAIL.COM .
September 26, 2009 at 10:31 am
when was i speaking to district nazim khairpur?
September 15, 2008 at 5:20 pm
MR SHEHARYAR:
Check the link below on Lal Masjid musharraf speaks in that but also another guy:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjXdYY0t2VQ&feature=related
Sajjad – UK
September 15, 2008 at 5:25 pm
MR SHEHARYAR:
Also check the link below to see how well mannered and innocent students at lal masjid were and what their agenda was…..
September 15, 2008 at 6:06 pm
Dear Mam,AOA,I am writing in regard to the lecture you gave at LUMS,Lahore on 12th September 2008.Please upload the pictures you took at LUMS in your photo gallery so that i can copy them and upload them in my profile or alternatively please sent me that photographs at my email address.
Moreover,I highly apprecite the courage you showed by coming to LUMS.It was really good listening to you.
Allah Hafiz.
September 16, 2008 at 12:05 pm
We love you Musharraf!
He has been an honest man with good intentions who tried to serve his country to the best of his abilities. In a country that has suffered so much over the years from corrupt and self-serving politicians like Nawaz and Zardari.
In deciding to resign as president of Pakistan, Pervez Musharraf has done the honorable thing. He has chosen the path of self-sacrifice and fallen on his sword rather than prolong the country’s crisis over his position as head of state. In doing so and putting Pakistan first, he has enabled it to move on. For that, all Pakistanis should be grateful.
General Musharraf in his historic speech to the nation, also enumerating the successes of his 8 years rule, announced to resign as President of Pakistan. General Musharraf was his confident self and his message optimistic. He bowed out with dignity and courage, to avoid confrontation, and in the best interest of the nation and the country. In his words, it was not the time for individual bravado. He received a guard of honor before he parted the Presidency
Today, our eyes and hearts cry! The man we so loved, honored, admired and cherished for his determination to deliver for Pakistan – and deliver he remarkably did! He was a man who believed & practiced in ‘Pakistan First’. The only honest and visionary leader we ever had. Pakistan progressed and prospered under his leadership. Pakistan had hope under his selfless & patriotic policies.
We love you Musharraf!
In President Musharraf’s era:
President Musharraf led a great team of economists and professionals with ex-PM Shaukat Aziz, to mark their achievements. Their achievements caused Pakistan to emerge as a geo-strategic important country with a 100% better economy! His effectiveness shall be measured by the results produced by the led! In 2006, Pakistan was the 3rd fastest growing economy of the world and world’s preferred destination for Investment!
In President Musharraf’s era:
Pakistan’s economy grew by 100% — to become $ 160 billion
Revenue grew by 100% — to become $ 11.4 billion
Per Capita Income grew by 100% — to become $ 925
Foreign Reserves grew by 500% — to become $ 17 billion
Exports grew by 100% — to become $ 18.5 billion
Textile exports grew by 100% — to become $ 11.2 billion
Karachi Stock Exchange grew by 500% — to become $ 75 billion
Foreign Direct Investment grew by 500% — to become $ 8 billion
Annual Debt servicing decreased by 35% — to become 26%
Poverty decreased by 10% — to become 24%
literacy rate grew by 10% — to become 54%
Public development Funds grew by 100% — to become Rs 520 billion
President Musharraf’s Vision and Policies
President Musharraf’s Vision and Policies helped Pakistan come out of the list of Highly Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) while setting it on path of prosperity, growth and economic reforms. While the world institutions like the World Bank (source) & (source), IMF (source) and ADB (source) have been praising Pakistan for its reforms, fiscal policies and macro-economic policies – the biased & wicked TV channels GEO, ARY & AAJ – have been projecting a negative, bleak and a hopeless picture on purpose to serve their isolated vested interest. These SOLD-OUT channels are creating despondency to drive away the foreign investment and depress over-seas Pakistanis. The contribution by these over-seas Pakistanis is instrumental in heaping and accumulating Foreign Reserves to stabilize Pakistan’s economy. Recent rumor-mongering (source) by these channels, that President Musharraf has been confined by the Army Chief and will resign soon, crashed our Stock markets (source) by 500 points TWICE! GEO, ARY and AAJ are benchmarks of ingratitude – for the leader who actually gave the freedom to come on air and express their views, and towards their own country!
For those that consider President Musharraf ..
For those that consider President Musharraf as an
For those that consider President Musharraf as an unconstitutional President:
1- PML-Q government passed a constitutional amendment in National Assembly, with 2/3 majority, also approved by Senate that allowed President Musharraf to hold dual offices.
2- Constitution of Pakistan – Article 63 clause (1) paragraph (d), read with proviso to Article 41 clause (7) paragraph (b), allows the President to hold dual office.
3- Supreme Court of Pakistan allowed President to stand for elections in November 2007.
4- President Musharraf was elected President of Pakistan, by a combined electoral of the Senate, National Assembly and the 4 Provincial Assembles
5- President Musharraf won by 58% votes in November 2007, as the constitutional President of Pakistan!
Therefore, he may still be considered an unconstitutional President (unrealistic) by those that have no regard for the Constitution of Pakistan, the 2/3 majority of National Assembly that elected him as the President and the Supreme Court decision (under PCO ex-CJP Iftikhar Chaudhry) that allowed him to take part in the Presidential elections
For us – President Musharraf is our HERO
For us – President Musharraf is our HERO – Our Leader!
There are three kinds of people: Those who make things happen, those who watch things happen, and those who ask, ‘What happened?’” –Casey Stengel
President Musharraf made things happen for Pakistan!!!
The spirit who has seen the spectre of death cannot be scared by the faces of thieves; the soldier who has seen the swords glittering over his head and streams of blood under his feet, does not care about the rocks thrown at him by the children on streets — Khalil Jibran
September 23, 2009 at 3:53 am
DEAR SIR CAN ANY BODY KNOW PERVAZ MUSHRAF E MAIL OR WEB SITE .I HAVE GREAT RESPECT FOR MUSSHRAF .GOD BLESS HIM HE TRIED HIS BEST BUT CROUPT PEOPLE DO NOT WANT .I HAVE A SUGGESTION THERE SHOULD BE A SUPREEM COUNSEL CONSIST OF SIX MEMBER OF DEFENCE THREE MEMBER FROM JUDICIARY.ONLY HONEST AND HARD WORKING TO OVER LOOK FOR EVIL DISHONEST GUYS AND PUNISH THEM.THEY SHOULD MONITOR FROM PRESIDENT TO LOW LIFE CRIME LIKE RAPE OF 8 YEARS OLD GIRL .JAMAL
September 16, 2008 at 6:42 pm
If I may answer your question (for which I am not being paid, I might add). You should have called the Islamabad Traffic Police to the scene.
Now if this was Shaukat Aziz’s tenure – he had given the Traffic Police “khuli chhutti” to fine diplomats, and parliamentarians – one even had his car lifted from the Ministry for escaping the scene of a confrontation with Traffic Police.
It seems the “honorable” former Chief Justice also had a tussle with the Traffic Police and essentially forced the police to back down – CJs have a lot of arbitrary powers it seems in Pakistan – including the ability to send serving officers to jail on a whim (please correct me if I am wrong).
In all the criticism of Shaukat Aziz, none of these idiotic media programs “taakra” etc. ever mentioned any of these things. In fact many of the PML-Q people have been reticent in their praise of Musharraf and Shaukat Aziz – because many of them did not particularly like Musharraf either – the whole Musharraf/PML-Q thing was a pretty awkward matchup – the real synergy actually existed between Musharraf and the PPP constituency – or at least that is my theory.
On one of the live call-in TV programs they had one caller who severely chastised the PML-Q parliamentarian (maybe he is part of the “forward bloc” now) for always coming on these programs and hearing criticism of Musharraf and Shaukat Aziz and then said the HE could provide a better list of achievements and then this caller started listing a whole list of them.
I do not know how the Traffic Police now manages the parliamentarians, but I would not be surprised if they have been slightly weakened with PM Gilani at the helm.
September 16, 2008 at 7:31 pm
Pakistan’s defence establishment-if it can be called as an establishment-is the biggest farce ever enacted at the expense of a 170 million strong nation.
Abraham Lincoln was wrong, one can fool all the people-running into millions-all the time, by singing them lullabies, thrusting lollypops in their mouths and making them believe in trumped up and fictitious tales of valor and defence capability.
Pakistan has suffered the most at the hands of its own military, and the age olg dictum of, pakistan’s existence being imperilled by the internal dangers instead of the external ones is true, with our million strong forces being the gravest threat to our existence.
http://thecurrentaffairs.wordpress.com/
September 17, 2008 at 9:55 am
WELL DONE FARAZ UR A MILLION% RIGHT……
September 17, 2008 at 11:26 am
SADA KHUSH RAHO AAP HAR NAYA DIN AAP KE LIYE KHUSHIO BAHARA HO AMIN
September 18, 2008 at 7:31 pm
just a thing or two about Imran Khan and Mqm..all those who like Musharraf don’t think they are his alternative.
Lets start with Imran Khan first, don’t be fooled by Imran Khan,you might think oh hes not corrupt therefore he is good ,well Osama bin laden is not corrupt either so you may as well support him too.Imran Khan is a terrorist without a beard who has basically defended every terrorist act in Pakistan since 9/11. I was shocked to hear his analysis on the whole Lal Masjid incident ,he usually blames America and Musharraf for every terrorist act inside Pakistan, but since Lal Masjid incident was not liked to the war on terror ,he was a bit dumb founded so he started saying’ iss mulk mein fahashi bahut pehl rahi hay so therefore Lal Masjis people were justified’.i mean this is a guy who spent most of his life as a debauche and now that hes old ,he is aspiring to be Ayatullah Khomeni….give me a break.
He belongs to the same Mullah brigade of Qazi Hussain Ahmed,Hamid Gul,Hamid Mir etc who will put this country back to the stone age if elected.
As for MQM I am sorry to say that they are just a bunch of opportunistic thugs.I mean their main agenda in politics is to be against feudalism and here they have cut a deal with the biggest feudals in the country in pakistan people party.They might have been supporting Musharraf ,but I doubt their sincerity..infact they played a huge role in tarnishing Musharraf’s image in the country due to their criminal behavior on may,12.
September 20, 2008 at 10:04 am
Mr Sajjad,
wow some staunch supporter you are of the biggest criminal of this country.perhaps you need to set your records straight sir.as far as his popularity is concerned in the armed forces, i would not give any credence to your opinion as i am the one serving in the armed forces not you.the very fact that this criminal is still residing in army house just goes on to show how insecure he is.this creep continued to reide in army house despite resigning as army chief. it was kiyani’s right sir but no this man derived strength from such shallow actions.i can assure you sir that the officer corps of armed forces was no way less happier than the nation when this monster was thrown out. i only regret one thing though he should be prosecuted for his crimes.
you could not be more wrong when you say that us did not attack pak during his time. it is not that matter of number of attacks in a given time mister.the fact remains that this man started this horrific trend.he allowed them to use our airspace and bases. i am witness to all this. you just sit in your room and brag about his innocence. go in the military field and see what he has done.total fiasco. just for the lsut of power he sold his nation’s soul.he is singularly responsible for labeling pak as a terrorist state, because this man was a damn “coward”, only a coward needs to tell everyone how brave he is through chest thumping machismo.bravery speaks through actions.
as far as lal masjid is concerned mister sajjad you are probably on e of those people who are bred to think that a man wearing beard is an enemy of the state.Your reasoning though is not worth replying to, i would however tell you just one thing,the lal masjid operation can not be justified by anyone.you must think again before you speak for the brothel operators.there is absolutley no tolerance for such acts in our religion.unless you dont give much to your religion you must side with the martyred children.yes we can differ with the way they operated and i agree with you that there was a better way to protest but nothing can justify the bloodshed that followed.open y our eyes mr. this man installed a corrupt non elected man whose corruption is only now surfacing.his own party wont own him.wake up. call spade a spade.thats all your country asks of you.. not the support you render to this dictator.
September 20, 2008 at 11:27 am
lol this country has become a joke.imagine if somebody shows up in Zardari’s office and says’sir there is a problem of corruption in our country that we need to address’ how would that sound like ? lol…may be Zardari would say ‘oh well tell them to take 5% instead of 10%’
September 20, 2008 at 8:37 pm
mr ali sid,
well you have all the right to judge people in public eye. you can do it to your hearts content.however i would just say one thing about imran khan. he may have been a playboy in the past and lived a life of a casanova.but the truth is that this man has achieved something unlike most of the pygmies of uncle sam we have. our nation is a nation with very few achievements in recent past. this man single handedly won us the world cup and if you think thats not important.plz think again. sports build up a nations chara cter. name any nation that has achieved anythi ng without being good at sports. secondly this man built a cancer hosp despite all the criticism that he was on wild goose chase.give the man some
credit. all he has said is that talk with them . you are right about MQM
September 20, 2008 at 10:46 pm
DID PAKISTANIS EXPECT DIFFERENT TO THE BOMB BLAST IN ISLAMABAD…..?WELL SORRY IF U DID…………………….
Scores die as suicide bomb hits hotel
Westerners were targeted in an attack that devastated The Marriott Hotel in Islamabad, killing at least 60 people
• Did we expect the government to be competent enough to manage security of Pakistan?
• Did we expect the government to secure Islamabad?
• Did we expect that the government would protect one of the few hotels in Pakistan where foreigners feel slightly safe and where two attempts have been made already in the past?
• We expected the government to deploy all security to look after Mr 10% because he was in Islamabad we did not expect them to look after the rest of Islamabad
• After receiving credible intelligence that a truck and a car would be used to blow up the parliament did we expect the government to act and beef up security?
The answer to the above is NO for ant-Musharraf supporters the answers was YES so I’m sorry for those people who were dreaming that government can manage the affairs of Pakistan..
A government which has in the last 8 months done nothing in terms of ECONOMY, TRADE, INVESTMENT, INFLATION, LOADSHEDDING and SECRUITY but only tried to strengthen their hold and their powers this is what was expected.
A TRUCK AND CAR FULL OF EXPLOSIVES ROAMING THE STREETS OF ISLAMABAD WHILE THE GOVERNMENT WAS DECLARING VICTORY IN THE NAME OF DEMOCRACY.
People would argue that under Musharraf their were more bombings, but they are wrong under Musharraf you had a clear policy in dealing with terrorism, under Musharraf their was attempt on MARRIOT but their was enough security in place to thwart that, Under Musharraf you weren’t helpless they way the government is now A HOTEL FULL OF FOREIGNERS WAS ALLOWED TO BE HIT IN SECURITY LAPSE WHICH COULD ONLY HAVE HAPPENED IN A HELPESS, USELESS AND INCOMPETENT GOVERNMENT, A TRUCK FULL OF EXPLOSEIVES ON THE STREETS OF ISLAMABAD GONE UNDETECTED AND ABLE TO DESTROY THE WHOLE HOTEL.
Under Musharraf you had the economy moving forward even when the bombs were going off but now the economy is on a downward trend and the security even worse. The combination of both economy and security worsening is a very dangerous scenario, something which Pakistan can’t afford.
A DECLINING ECONOMY, INCOMPETENT LEADERS, TERRORISM, LAWLESNESS,A DIVIDED NATION are the factors which create a FAILED STATE,THE DANGER IS THAT WE ARE HEADING TOWRADS THAT WAY…..
But what to do now the voters have voted in the government and has to put up with any possibility, shame that Pakistan has to suffer…..
September 21, 2008 at 1:41 am
MR SHEHRYAR..
Musharraf was 1000% justified in lal masjid simple as that as every government in the world would’ve acted,Army with musharraf thats why his in the army house,simple as that no arguements,his liked thats why his their.Thats why the army still pursue his policy in the tribal areas.
You might be in the army but ur some of those who always work against the interest of Pakistan and the army.
People like u dont like Musharraf because theirs one word which you survive on DICTATORSHIP i think you dont know the meaning of DICTATORSHIP.
Don’t you see the civilian dictatorshp where ZARADRI and his family run PPP where ZARDARI dictates GILLANI and the whole party,you dont see the DICTATORSHIP of PML-N where NAWAZ and his faily is the king and all their decisions are final.
I rather have a dictator in uniform like Musharraf who is more capable, more intelligent, better speaker and gave more democracy to Pakistan..rather than the civilian dictators who gave corruption, mismanagement and a failed economy to pakistan.
So dont just repeat DICTATOR DICTATOR AND DICTATOR because all in Pakistan are dictators….
September 21, 2008 at 9:34 am
thank you very much my dear brother sajjad, we are soldirers of pervez musharraf it is our duty to expose mafias like media and hypocrate politicians. same wishes for you thank you again
Faraz
Islamabad
September 21, 2008 at 9:37 am
we must defend this great man pervez musharraf and his restless work for the welfare and progress of our beloved country , wherever we are whatever we can we shoudl do and defend this great man
regards
Faraz
Islamabad
September 22, 2008 at 3:39 am
Hopeless and Incompetent Individuals running the affairs of Pakistan
Rehman Malik an extremely hopeless and incompetent person in charge of security in Pakistan. Under him Pakistan should not be secured at all bombs will go off at will and the day is not far when the parliament house will be attacked as well.Rehamn Malik was in charge of security for his own leader BENAZIR if he could not protect her and as he mentioned in an interview that “he was not even aware that Benazir’s car was fired upon first” according to him “after the blast they rushed to the hospital to find out the car their following isn’t Benazir’s”. So someone who admitted being hopeless on Benazir’s security, how can he be in charge of the security of Pakistan.
The attackers of the hotel attacked at will and when they wanted as they were full aware that Islamabad is not secure anymore under the present government.
The evidence of the hopeless individuals running the affairs of Pakistan is clear despite having intelligence of a truck being used no solid step was taken to crack down or ban trucks for a limited period in Islamabad or at least in the red zone where the parliament and hotel is situated.
But instead we had all the security arranged for the one and only almighty ZARADRI.The terrorists tried a few times to attack Marriott in the last 9 years under Musharraf but due to satisfactory security arrangements they could not plan a truck bomb or any other large scale attack, but clearly now the terrorist felt more comfortable to fill up a truck of explosives and strike on the day they wanted and the way they wanted.
The clueless individuals of the government blame it on elements who are against democracy, which again shows that according to them it happened because they are right people to lead Pakistan, whereas once again its wishful thinking on governments part.
The terrorists didn’t strike because theirs democracy in the country now, they struck because the government is a weak and incompetent one in which all elements working against Pakistan have more chances of achieving their goals.
The prime minister said that the truck bomber wanted to target him and the parliament, the interior minister says that the truck bomber wanted to target the hotel, Sherry Rehman says the president was the target. Just their statements tell a story of a government in which no one is in control. The individuals in charge of Pakistan are clueless in tackling Pakistan’s issues. How long can we allow them to manage Pakistan……
SAJJAD – UK
September 22, 2008 at 10:56 am
Dear Marvi, salam
I’m very disturbed since last September 2007.I know you are not a psychic healer but at least I can share it with you. When twicely tested and defected looters of my country were allowed to come back under immense pressure of USA the great. I saw a dream about my respected President Musharraf long ago. I saw a small lake with two beautiful lotus flowers in it surrounded by marshland where he was standing and plucking the flower very calmly. His outfit and shoes were totally saved from that wet marsh.
I got depressed but then realized that it might be the upcoming difficulties in his life and Pakistan with the arrival of those 2 culprits and he would then overcome it. But later on, their agitation against him and leaving out his post so decently and in a very dignified manner made me understand the whole thing. He didn’t make himself dirty with them in that marsh and saving his outfit….his respect in his lovers’ eyes left gracefully without saying a word for those enemies of Pakistan(CIA’s sponsored so-called democratic leaders). If you happen to see him in near future…plz let him know how much my family love him and pray for him. May allah shower his countless blessings on him for ruling in such an honest, sincere and truthful way and may allah save our country from dishonest leaders. amin
well Sajjad i totally agree with you.keep up the good work…
September 22, 2008 at 12:06 pm
dis-agree their shahryar with you and your beloved Playbody turned Mullah Imran Khan.You can’t talk to terrorist who are hell bent on killing you and want safe heaven in your county .I agree with what Rahman Malik has said ,we only have 2 choices.. we either handover this country to Taliban or Fight against them.What Taliban and ALqaeda want in Pakistan is a safe heaven… because they are being attacked in Afghanistan, they want to cross the border into Pakistan and hide here.President Musharraf send forces to Waziristan for that very reason because if you don’t do it ..you will end up isolating yourself from the rest of the world.If idiots like Imran Khan come into power thats exactly whats gonna happen….he’ll turn a blind eye to all the terrorists hiding in this country who want to plan attacks against the Westerners and pretty soon we’ll be seen playing the same role that Taliban was playing for Al-qaqda before 9/11.We are a 3rd world country with way too many economic problems to let that happen.Most of our exports go out to America and Europe,if we follow Imran Khan’s advice ..not only will we be destroyed economically ,but will also end up imposing Sharia Law on ourselves,every Mosque in Pakistan will get encouraged to do what the folks at Lal Majid were doing.
September 22, 2008 at 12:54 pm
One more thing about Imran Khan he often talks about the Independence of Judiciary as if making the Judiciary in Pakistan independant will be this ground breaking event which will change this country forever.Judiciary in Pakistan is not like the Judiciary in England or Switzerland,it is the 3rd most corrupt institution in Pakistan according to Amnesty International and its deeply politicized..yes,whoever thinks this lawyers movement was about fighting for some pricniples or defending the constitution is a fool.If it was about that then why Aitazaz AHsan whos so relaxed nowadays… is a member of the party which is refusing to do the exact same thing which Musharraf was refusing to that is restore Chaudary.
Going back to corruption.A lot of these judges of the supreme court who have refused to take oath under Dogar are corrupt including the one every loves(thanks to geonews) Iftikhar Chaudary.I know that for a fact because some of my colleagues have had to deal with them ,they take bribes!.Yet some how they have been made to look like heroes in the eyes of the people.
September 22, 2008 at 5:04 pm
Excellent debate i have seen on express tv today congratulations marvi you are really proud of the nation
September 23, 2008 at 10:12 am
Hi Marvi,
I saw you on capital talk last night.When I saw Farzana Raja shouting last night,I could’nt help, but think how big a mistake NRO was which allowed these horrible horrible people to come back to Pakistan and win elections.I have a lot of respect for Sir Musharraf,may be he was thinking that the secular forces in Pakistan need to be strengthened.But I am sorry to say, he got it all wrong by having a dialogue and then a deal with these crooks.Few people are worse in our country than these feudal politicians in Pakistan Peoples party.I think Musharraf should have realized that his real enemies apart from the Mullah Brigade were these politicians living in exile and not so much the judges and the lawyers.Because the supreme court of Pakistan kept supporting him for a very long time and did’nt allow sharifs and bhuttos of this country to come back.
September 23, 2008 at 8:06 pm
Not an interesting show at all.
Mardana Raja shouldn’t be invited in serious talk shows. She is good for Breakfast with Nadia Khan.
Taleban is our enemy. I hope this sinks into Hamid Mir soon.
I am proud of Marvi Memon she replied all quesetions very well.
I must admit that today Marvi Memon spoke very well … may be because she is not talking as PML Q representative, but as a Pakistani.
Again, Marvi Memon spoke awesome today !
The Real Story Behind Marriott Attack
http://marvimemon.wordpress.com/
September 23, 2008 at 8:07 pm
Sorry
The Real Story Behind Marriott Attack
http://thecurrentaffairs.wordpress.com/
September 23, 2008 at 10:36 pm
I want to conduct a self analysis and an open, transparent, self appraisal. Corporate training has made me believe in periodic appraisals. So here goes my first political self appraisal… Enjoy
Phase 1- accountability to the people.
I initially felt that through this website and my interactions with people…and especially web pages describing my daily activities I would put myself in the awami Katera. On this count, I feel that I have managed to start this trend whereby an MNA is accountable for their time to the people. Even a simple tool such as this diary has made me more conscious of the fact that I better be doing something productive daily or else I would have nothing to say on a daily basis on the diary page. This has pushed me to do things which I consider productive for Pak’s growth. I have tried to use my time judiciously.
Phase 2 – identifying problems and keeping a check of the dysfunctionalities of govt.
My personal rating on this is as follows: I feel I have successfully been identifying the problems through media analysis and through interaction with relevant constituencies – the problems being faced by Pakistan as a nation and as a state. I have also been successfully communicating them very actively, whether through media talks or through this website or through the many talkshows I have been doing.
Phase 3 – pushing govt for resolution of these problems.
I have been unsuccesful. I accept.
Phase 4 – on govt failing to resolve, providing solutions myself and getting them implemented myself.
On subjects where I consider I have an expertise I feel I have been providing solutions. On other issues where I dont have expertise i clearly have not been providing solutions. So I would rate myself partially successful on this front.
Going forward…I sincerely believe that today Pakistan’s biggest problem is that we have a lot more experts on problem identification rather than problem resolution. Here in lies the fault with each one of us politicians which we are not willing to accept. Govt will never accept that they are failing with resolutions. They only hide behind virsa syndrome and frankly end up alienating themselves from the people. Opposition has become a bandwagon and the team lead for the problem identifiers. We are stingy with our solutions since we believe that when we come into power then we will provide those solutions since only then can we implement them.
Having said this we have an urgent need for putting together a solution based team especially since govt is not performing its role. We need to have almost a parallel shadow cabinet from the people, from the informed youth and from the intelligentsia – experts who can come up with action plans to resolve our crisis since govt is not doing this …
I need your help… I want to know if you would like to be in this shadow cabinet of informed youth so that we can fulfil our obligations towards saving Pakistan from the quandry that it is in now.
Your country needs YOU.
Here is what I am suggesting:
I am creating shadow ministries with goals attached to them:
1-Interior Ministry: War against extremism and improve law and order and justice
2-Religious Ministry: harmonize relations between all faiths and within the same faith whilst improving the quality of Muslims we produce as a nation.
3-Foreign affairs Ministry: Dignified relations with our neighbours and other powers
4-Inter-provincial Ministry: improve relations between the provinces by being fair about resource distribution.
5-Finance Ministry : improve macroeconomic conditions of Pakistan
6-Agriculture Ministry: provide food security
7-Energy Ministry: provide energy security
8-Women ministry: empower women politically, socially and economically whilst protecting them from injustices
9-Environment Ministry: improve the environment of Pakistan
10-Industries Ministry: improve Pakistan’s industrial competitiveness and productivity
These are some basic goals. Through my email interactions with a lot of you I have realized that a lot of you want to be part of the solution and help Pakistan progress. If you are interested pls send your one page CV on my gmail address along with a one pager on why you should be chosen as a shadow Cabinet Minister/expert who will provide solutions through this forum to the government. Each Ministry should have 5 experts minimum so there is space for more than just a Minister!
I hope to hear from all of you soon…
September 23, 2008 at 10:41 pm
My role will be to take your solutions and action plans where feasible, to parliament and media and try and get govt to implement them…
September 23, 2008 at 11:01 pm
Dear Marvi….
i m living here in saudia arabia….!! i big suporter of mushrraf and you…!! i just wana say keep doing the good job for pakistan. i really salute you and my duwas are alwayz wid u and ur family and me n my family is really proud of u and ur parents to have such a lovly and confident daughter. just take care and enjoy rest of the ramadan…!!
September 24, 2008 at 8:55 am
Hi Well Done Marvi. We Feel Proud of you.I have seen you on interviews on Pakistan television shows, and you are doing a difficult and excellent job as an opposition member. Keep it up!
and please do not change the party i love musharf and his party PML Q.
Please tell what will be your future party.
u remain atached.
September 24, 2008 at 11:12 am
marviji Salam……u ve given very hard time to ppp’s farzana raja……….in last nite show……….anyway..marviji lets start some revolution to save pakistan.am dubai based pakistani businessman…………and quiet much have close eyes on pk politics…….1 more thing kindly add the pic of President musharaf with u also in ur pictures section……
thx
May Allah Bless u and pakistan
September 24, 2008 at 12:09 pm
Just saw you recently on Kal Tak (Sep) for the first time.
Good to know that there are people among the politicians who actually understand and speak the tongue of common man.
However, from other internet sites, I came to know that you were from PML(Q) and have spoken pro-Musharraf many a times in other talk shows. I’d rather not like to comment on your personal thinking about such issues, but here is a comment by one of the viewers of your programs that I’d like to share with you: “..at least Kashmala Tariq was smart enough not to praise Musharraf, Memon does so and with gusto: political suicide, not to mention a slap in the face of all pakistani’s.”
If so, I do consider it a slap on my own face too. How could you be on Musharraf’s side on one end and be patriotic along? Seems impossible, quite.
Anyways, whatever be your agenda (personal or otherwise), good luck in all your positive endeavours for the country. What I liked most about your style of speech was that you seemed to be one of us in the way you perceived things – infact, you reminded me of one of my lady classmates, who spoke the very same way on political matters.
Best Regards.
September 24, 2008 at 5:18 pm
I wanna put my hand up here Marvi eventhough I had this beautiful dream the other day where I saw General Kiyani making a speech on national t.v and all the private channels were blocked.
September 24, 2008 at 9:36 pm
ASIF Zardari is batting on two strikes. Another swing and a miss, and he’s going home. The first strike was the bizarre, abortive handover of the ISI to Rehman Malik.
The second was Kayani’s rebuke the day after Asif was sworn in as president. Ostensibly Kayani’s condemnation was of the Americans, but between the lines was the real target: Asif. Get your act together, the army chief was telling his supreme commander.
Asif has stumbled badly on Afghanistan. The macho men who wanted to defy the American juggernaut on the warpath the day after 9/11 are still amongst us, still advising defiance. The day after 9/11 this was sheer foolishness. But it is no longer the day after 9/11. Seven years of the Americans in Afghanistan and reality has changed. Pick up any report on the West’s adventure in Afghanistan and you will find two things: one, US policy in Afghanistan has been a failure; two, US policy in Afghanistan will not succeed without Pakistan being on board.
In the world of realpolitik, this is known as an opportunity. So why must Asif so cravenly accept the Americans letting loose their Special Ops troops and raining down missiles in Waziristan when he can happily unleash? He had every chance at his debut press conference; instead, he bizarrely chose to speak alongside Karzai. The Afghan president is about as popular in the Pakistani Army as George W. Bush in an Al Qaeda training camp.
What is the problem in Afghanistan? In a word: Karzai. Don’t take my word for it, here’s what The New York Times had to say in an Aug 20 editorial: “Afghanistan’s president, Hamid Karzai, must rein in his government’s rampant corruption that has all but driven his people into the hands of the Taliban and criminal warlords.” What then was Asif doing at the side of a man not only discredited in the West but hated by the Pakistan Army?
Another thing: the western – read American – strategy in Afghanistan has failed. Again, don’t take my word for it. Francesc Vendrell, the EU envoy in Kabul for six years, had this to say over the weekend: “We are not destined to fail, but we are far from succeeding.” Earlier, Vendrell told Stephen Sackur of BBC’s ‘HARDtalk’: “I do leave with a sense of regret that we’ve made so many mistakes. … we’ve got to do a hell of a lot to make things right.” In the euphemistic world of diplomacy, this is the equivalent of saying “we’re a disaster.”
Given this record of western failure why does Asif have to be so apologetic for Pakistan’s failure to help out the Americans in Afghanistan? There are 26 Nato and 14 non-Nato countries contributing troops to Isaf. Each country’s rules of engagement are so complex and dense that were the Taliban to walk right up to some Isaf troops and dance a little jig, certain countries would still not allow their soldiers to shoot. Why then must Pakistan always ‘do more’?
Perhaps if Pakistan wasn’t actually doing something about its Taliban problem – somewhere, anywhere – the supine cravenness of Asif before the Americans would be understandable. Except that we are. Bajaur and Swat are being pounded mercilessly, militants are being flushed out, leaders are being knocked off. But the Americans aren’t satisfied because Bajaur is at the northern tip of the tribal belt while they are more concerned with the southern bit. Waziristan, north and south, and the Haqqani, Hekmatyar and Nazir networks exercise the Americans. Meanwhile, 300,000 Bajauris flee the bombing and Ambassador Patterson, de facto American leader in Pakistan, announces that $50,000 has been set aside for “gas stoves, pots, utensils and plastic sheeting”. Well, fantastic. That’s less than the cost of a Hellfire missile fired from a predator. So for Asif to denounce the American forays into Pakistan wouldn’t be jingoistic nationalism – it’s common sense. For one, Asif need only imagine how much less common sense than nationalism there is in the army. For another, he has an unbelievable luxury – he can. Everyone knows the Americans can’t really afford to be on the wrong side of Pakistan. Jack Straw and the French have already distanced themselves from the strikes inside Pakistan. Here’s more from that NYT editorial, with the alarmist headline ‘Afghanistan on Fire’: “Sending American troops or warplanes into Pakistani territory will only feed anti-American furies. That should be the job of Pakistan’s army, with intelligence help and carefully monitored financial support from the United States.” If all these important – western – folk think American Special Ops running around Pakistan and blowing up the place is such a bad idea, why must Asif be so tepid in his criticism?
There’s another reason for Asif to unleash against the Americans. The same NYT story on Bush’s secret authorisation of strikes inside Pakistan, also had a staggering allegation against Kayani: that he knew of the plot to bomb the Indian embassy in Kabul. In living memory, a Pakistan army chief has not been directly implicated by the Americans in a criminal plot.
This then is the scenario that Asif is confronted with: angry Americans who can only rattle the Pakistani cage so much; an army chief who is under American fire; and a failed American policy in Afghanistan. Why can’t Asif connect the dots? Figure out who’s your enemy, who’s your friend and when to take a hit for the team, friendly or otherwise. Asif should make the Americans squirm a little. The next time Patterson, Boucher, Negroponte – or even Bush – is on the phone, ask your secretary to tell them you’re on the phone with your daughter at college.
And get a better team. We were made to believe that Chaudhry Mukhtar was passed over for prime minister because he was too much of his own man. None of that is on display as defence minister. Mukhtar must still be sulking over being passed over because every time he opens his mouth someone somewhere in a uniform gets angry. Then there’s the oily Husain Haqqani. Listen to the man long enough and you’ll be confused: is he the Pakistani ambassador to the US or the US ambassador to Pakistan? So incompetent is Asif’s defence team that the intellectual nobody with the connections to die for, Rehman Malik, has come out the brightest of the lot. At least you have to hand it to the indefatigable Malik: he does try, even if he’s out of his depth.
The survival lesson for Asif is clear: push back against the Americans, or else be pushed out by the army.
September 24, 2008 at 11:47 pm
@ Marvi Memon
whats the difference between ppp and terrorsts. both killing innocent people
“Ansar Abbasi of The News reveals that the attack on Marriot was probably targeted on US Marines, who were on a secret mission and had shifted a truckload of steel cases in the hotel on same night when General Mullen met Gilani.”
Very efficient on the part of Jang News Group to distract people from the real horror of the incident.
I hope the Pakistani people will not be distracted by the conspiracy theories of these irresponsible journalists with an agenda.
The fact is that over fifty people have been brutally killed and two hundred fighting for their lives.
Shame on Jang News Group – the likes of Ansar Abbasi and the propagandist Hamid Mir – for misleading the Pakistani people.
If this doesn’t open up people’s eyes to what our military and agencies have been doing in FATA for the last two decades, I don’t know what else will.
Regards
Salman
September 25, 2008 at 5:57 am
A high alert warning issued at Islamabat Airport today.Marvi for Godsake tell em to make a border between Wazrisitan,Fata and the rest of the country…isolate them from the rest of Pakistan.Get em out of here!.we dont need these people!.
I can’t imagine whats gonna happen to the ruppee and the economy of Pakistan now which is already under pressure if these sucicide bombings starting happening on a more regular basis in our big cities.We cant afford this anymore ruppee is trading at 78 to a dollar and our reserves our dwindling.Last year when these suicide bombings started to happen our economy was is good shape ,ruppee was at 60 and our reserves were touching 16 billion dollars ,but now with whats happening around the world on the financial front and given the situation of our economy we cant take this anymore.Our aid provider America is facing crisis ,the saudi oil facility we dont know what happened to that.This is an alarming situation which can destroy us ecnomically to the point where dollar might touch 100 against our currency.Some drastic measures have to be taken here!.
September 25, 2008 at 6:29 am
the problem with us is that we take a long time to react.when 9/11 happened in the us, the us immigration authority reacted within months and new immigration laws came into place… 7 years on no other such attack has happened in the .u.s.They are doing the same with their financial crisis now…while we have waited over 7 months to come up with an economic strategy to resolve our economic issues.
I don’t know what we have been doing since 9/11 ,we have been waiting for things to go wrong or what?9/11 happened long time ago ,we should have realized it right then that we need to make our cities safe from the repurcussions of this…that should have been our priority!…rather than apealing to the political rhetoric that these people are our muslim brothers or what have you.the people who get hanged in pakistani jails everday are our muslim brothers too,may be we should’nt kill them either.
War and diplomacy alone is not gonna solve this problem,I don’t know what Rahman Malik is doing here…a day after the sucicide attack in Isb ,Dawn t.v was showing how easy it is for anyone to get into Islamabad without being checked.
We need to do checking at all entry points of our big cities,it does nt matter what problems that can cause ..it must be done …I was shocked to see that report by Dawn T.V.Its unbeleivable how incompetant our minsiters and authorities are in dealing with situations like these.
September 25, 2008 at 4:56 pm
respected marvi
AOA
i want to write something for the victims of suicide attackers and there families, i as a pakistani think that we must have to own and support the families of victims of suicide attacks who earn just 3000 or 4000 rs and lay down there precious thing, life for this country and really for “thankless” nation who axe there feet on 18th feb thankless nation who is busy in squaring one since last 61 years. thankless nation who cannot differentiate there friends and foes.
we must have to make a fund for these victim families cos it is our duty, i also feel pain in my heart when i saw only poor security guards, police sepoys and constibles and low ranks officials lay down there lives for there duty. now it is our duty to take care of there families , please highlight this issue in programs and educate our nation and in this regards i want to offer you my full support as much as i can.
i feel that by infilterating pakistani nationalism in us by media we can serve this beautiful country for which we all gave so much sacrifices, if we want to save our beloved homeland we must comeout from our provincial clolonies and parochialism, cast, creed, breed , language, sect. if we want to serve and save pakistan we must believe and think in pakistani nationalism.
i also request you to ask these plunders, looters and absconders who came into programs with you (PMLN and PPP politicians speciallu and rest in common) some questions
1- what is the main difference in the policies of respected General pervez musharraf and todays so called democratic government?
2- if these were right why didnt these nonsence politicians support these policies then ? and implementing now ? was animosity with general pervez overshadow national intrerest at that time.
3- please ask each of these morons, what agenda and vision they and there stupid leadership have for pakistan economy, foreign policy, interior policy and war on terror, also request them to stop telling us stories we are sick now by listeneing them again and again.
4- please mention one thing in your program also i as a patriot pakistani strongly feel that president pervez musharraf gave us true meaning of patriot leader, he was the man of tact and diplomacy which todays leadership lack badly. he was the man of strong nerves whereas todays leadership doesnt seems to sustain any pressure one last thing: these politicians have made a blunder(infat a ruthless creul with the nation and country) by removing general pervez musharraf, we firmly believe that general have still capability to drive out us from these worst circumstances which these inept so called leadershp lacks and find all solution in slogan “zinda hay bibi zinda hay” and in “Azad Adalia (Nawaz Adalia)”.
Thank you very much
Faraz
Islamabad
September 25, 2008 at 5:10 pm
marvi memon is one of the very few young & educated parliamentarian we have and she does not deserve the treatment the callers gave her today on faisal qureshi’s show. she may be bragging about the acheivement during their reign but it was all true. people should not be too harsh and could have been nice to her. our society is dominated by men and so is the parliament and all the parties im sure. plz i beg you all to curse and question those who are in power and yet are unable to do anything for the people of pakistan. And dearest Marvi Madam, we respect you and have faith in you. Please keep up the good work and prove to the nation that you are indeed here to help them.
Respectfully.
Shahid
September 25, 2008 at 5:36 pm
Hello Madam Marvi,
Saw you on sama t.v with Faisal.Goodness me what was up with that kid ,better not leave everything to the youth of this country haha.
One thing I realized after watching that discussion is that people here don’t talk enough about the big issues in our country like corruption,murder,feudalism,fanaticism.Even Faisal is always more interested in talking about trafic violations and trash cans instead of focusing on the big issues.May be the problem is that if we talk about corruption or murder on t’v we ‘ll get threatened because a lot of our politicians are involved in that.Let Faisal talk about whats been going on in Karachi University for instacne where a lot of studens have died recently because of student clashes between 2 rival groups ,yet our government does not want to ban student unions.Lets talk about the corruption in government offices where somebody whos not even matric pass is making more than a Harvard Graduate would.Have you ever been to a registrar office in Karachi for Property registration?Why can’t the t.v crew of these channels show up there and expose the corruption of these people in these offices?.I’ll tell you why because they are scared to death ,its much easier for them to instead talk about the corruption of a trafic police officer.This is the problem with our society, we are reluctant take on the most evil and the most horrible because the most evil and the most horrible in our society is often the most powerful…so we find comfort in going after the weak.
September 25, 2008 at 5:57 pm
okay now i wached your programme marvi. you are an awesome speaker no doubt, but i think that you can be a little too critical to the government sometimes. your approach as you have already said is changing that you will inshallah provide solutions instead of criticism.thats nice of you.
marvi i was an ardent suporter of your government before you were even there. i think well as it was showed that the macro economic stabilty was brought in but this being a private forum you should realize that it was all because of the massive 65 billion dollars pumped into the economy by the foreginers …you just cannot deny that..todays econoic situation is a result of the huge import bill imposed by the prreivous government due to an over allowance of imports which was previously termed as “the growth factor”. i think this governemnt but any government would have faced such a calamity.
thirdly it is about your party. i am sorry to say that the q league is highly unpopular in punjab atleast ans nawaz sharif is heavily popular beacuse of shahbaz sharif’s administrative abilities. and by heavily i mean literaly heavily, and that is to say that no single person have ii encountered whom would have said that shahbaz sharif or the nawaz league is much better than the q league and it would have been better of you to have jonied them for they being very honest. if it hasnt reached your ears then i would like to inform you that pervaiz elahi’s son moonas elahi has a very reputation of being a land grabber. no such reputation is from the nawaz league i ther is then do tell me.
September 25, 2008 at 5:59 pm
Hi All,
Firstly, I would like to congratulate Marvi on starting a good practice…it may be a first drop of rain….
Although, I’m a Big anti-supporter of her party but it does not stop me from commending someone who is doing a good job.
I just wanted to highlight one point that Marvi & other readers may like to take up as an action item. Why do we leave everything on our leaders? What can we, at our own, do to to play our part in this Society?
Unfortunately, we Muslims leave everything on others (Allah or leaders) and want to get Jannah free of effort.
My suggestion is to look around ourselves and identify our area of influence, start providing support to whosoever we can. It could be as minimal as helping someone find way, cross road, keeping our houses and streets clean etc. or it could be sponsoring education for as many kids as we can afford, creating and managing our Social groups to positively influence our society.
Lets all play our part in Changing Pakistan and stop criticising others.
Cheers
Abdus Salam
September 25, 2008 at 6:35 pm
I value your courage to face media and challenge the government as well as Ur commitment with the country
Allah Bless you
September 25, 2008 at 6:43 pm
Reference your discussion on Sama TV. I fully agree with you. Please carry on. You are not alone like me many others are with you.
We should not allow anyone to spoil the peace of our beloved country.
September 25, 2008 at 7:09 pm
Hello ,
Me Waqar from Saudi Arabia,
aj he 1st time app ko ankahi programe main daikha.
acha lagha lakin aik baat samaj nain aai k app jo baat kar rahe theen who subjact say hat k kion the,i m not intrested in any kind of politics parties in pakistan, bcz in my mind all of that Kurssi ( chair ) k Ashiq hain .
well app ko daikha to yae lagha k app ko Politics main nain Modeling main hona chaiya tha bcz app ki photo gallery nai kafi impress kia.
Thanks and Allah Hafiz
September 25, 2008 at 7:52 pm
great job done! keep it up.
All the best.
September 25, 2008 at 8:15 pm
hello Ms. Memon,
i checkd todays Ankahi with faisal n saw u exploding. u explained ver well, but i think there was one straight answer to the silly question that the girl kept on asking ie, how many schools have marvi memon established.
i wonder when can we start asking the right question. why we think that the only good thing is to build a school or a hospital. Though these things are important but an MNA should focus on policy making and strategic leadership to the nation.
u envision and speak very well, but speak of your own vision and role and not for your party. your expertise in areas of environment, law, women development are much needed at these times
best of luck
September 25, 2008 at 9:21 pm
AOA
Saw your program with faisal, first up the website and the shadow parliment is a good thing keep it up.
The young lady in the program was a bit unreasonable I would give you that much. However some straight answers a bit of honesty touches people thats all.
I would like to be a part of the shadow parliment thing how do I proceed. I work in IBM Pakistan and have MSC Computer Science from LUMS so where do I start work??
Regards
Fahd Ali Zahid
September 25, 2008 at 10:33 pm
Peace
Firstly, notice your presence in the last days of our President in Presidency. However, good to know yours sincere affiliation towards him when rest of the lot were performing ‘dunya dari’.
Secondly, I never meet President in my life, as for some believe with unseen or seen is alike, I, cherished him for his vision and patriotism for our Country. Further, I am neither Q leaugi (though have soft corner) nor I am affiliated with any political force on ground. I was and I am Musharaf supporter: “saviour of Pakistan”.
Lastly, for the reason of bonding stated above I will write you solutions, whenever intuited, with regards to the topics you mentioned on Talk show.
Pakistan ka Khuda Hafiz
Pakistan Paindabad
September 25, 2008 at 10:39 pm
correction
for the words “whenever intuited”, expressed in ending paragraph of last message please read “Whenever I perceive and able to reduce them in writing”
Peace
September 25, 2008 at 10:57 pm
Dear Marvi
I feel pretty upset for having Zardari our president. I feel even worse for our nation to be so ignorant about his past. It’s an irony for this nation to have leaders like him. I won’t at all blame Zardari for what he has been doing. He tried his luck and won the jackpot. Good for him. He was the second richest of the country but now he will make sure he appears on the world ranking. Who will lose? The poor people who don’t even know what is going on?
The big question is if we deserve democracy?
Not at all. What kind of a nation are we? We are a nation with very weak and sensitive foundation. Our country is divided into provinces and all the people are divided into various tribes, cultures, religions and sects. Even our army has groups, Punjab regiment, Sindh regiment and Baloch regiment. Each group is proud of itself and hates the others. Recently the discussion of changing the name of NWFP was going on. Come on! Give me a break. Name is not going to make a difference until you wash their brains. Class difference is another big issue. Until we get rid of this hatred by having only one platform, we can never be one and a good nation.
Now what is the solution?
Of course its not democracy. There is a dire requirement of having a bloody revolution. It could be a tough martial law by a tough general like Hitler. Other than it there is no hope for this country. God be with us.
September 25, 2008 at 11:27 pm
Mr Karim
We deserve democracy and only democracy. We will get it right eventually…
September 25, 2008 at 11:35 pm
This is a reply i received from…. Sajjad Riaz
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Working for a Safer Pakistan
As an Interior Minister I would work 24 hours a day to make Pakistan a safer place. As I live in the UK I would use the knowledge I have of the policing standards of the UK and how the UK has been able to make sure one law exists from one corner of the UK to the other. I would be focusing on making POLICE the most powerful, respectful, and fearful and ROABDAR.A stronger police throughout Pakistan will restore the confidence of ordinary Pakistanis and they will start abiding by the law and respect the police.
So as a free Justice Systems is important for a strong police force as both work parallel together a free judiciary is very important. But I will focus on Police reforms and a strong police will help the judiciary strengthen itself.
I will not go into too much detail as I will need more time and in depth research. But just to outline the main points for you Marvi I will as interior minister take the following steps:
• Call a high rank meeting with all the police chiefs from all provinces and major cities such as Lahore, Islamabad Karachi and others.
• I will asses the situation of the basic problems at lower level policing, I will request reports on the problems the police face and the lack of the resources. After meeting with all the concerned I will ask for an action plan from them on the improvements we need to make and than suggest my improvements.
Firstly I will request the federal government for a huge increase in the police budget without this we cannot go anywhere.
Major Changes which I would be starting for the POLICE:
• CCTV Cameras to be installed in all major towns and slowly all over Pakistan
• Fingerprint Machines to be kept at all major police stations
• First of all massive pay increase in all ranks all over Pakistan
• Equipped them with advance weaponry
• Better and faster vehicles, get rid of all pick-ups which are not safe
• Less police in police stations more patrolling on the streets
• Latest wireless sets and police stations equipped with computers and finger print taking machines.
• Recruit more police
• We need re-training of police in terms of their educational training:
• To improve their professionalism
• To teach them the basic skills they can use in their day to day duties like using fire extinguishers, working closer with communities, friendly attitude, speaking manners
• Enough Police available to provide security to people on their doorsteps
Police needs reforming, pay increase and benefit increase, new equipment in terms of weapons and cars will motivate them together with their re-training to be more professional and more educated.
Once a strong police force is in place a lot of local level problems and even terrorism can be kept a close eye on. Police need to be professional in identifying the problems and need to be capable in taking their own initiatives and implementing their own security plans.
Controlling Al-Qaeda and Western Border
Immediately without any delay we need to:
• Send more army on the western border to an extent that the border with Afghanistan is sealed to an extent that is possible, seal the border and don’t worry about any criticism from the Mullahs. You can’t target Taliban when they can easily cross over the border and come back and regroup gain so SEAL THE BORDER COMPLETELY.
• The army needs to spread out in FATA specially places like SWAT, talk to terrorists if they give up than fine, but if they don’t than go after them relentlessly without giving them more deadlines and until they are wiped out. NO COMPROMISE ON THIS.
• Spread the army on the borders of the settled areas and the FATA region, check the inflow and outflow in each area.
Maddrassahs and Mosques
• We should not hesitate, with the help of peaceful citizens start closing down maddrassah’s who only teach the QURAN as teaching only the Quran is radicalising young people and they can easily be turned into suicide bombers.
• So any mosque or any madrassah’s which spreads hatred against anyone and any madrassah’s which only teaches the QURAN warn it and if they don’t comply than close it. NO COMPROMISE.
VIP & GUN CULTURE
• No VIP movement in any town including ISLAMABAD, it has to stop
• No one displaying a gun in public. NO ONE MEANS NO ONE. Gun only allowed if it is licensed and the person has it for self-protection. Even for self-protection it needs to be hidden under the jacket or waist coat or shirt or blazer BUT STRICTLY NO DISPLAY OF WEAPONS IN ALL PAKISTAN EVEN THE TRIBAL AREA.
Above is just an outline to show you, it requires more time to explain in detail but it’s an outline and it will work. If I ever enter Pakistani politics than I will work my way to the Interior Ministry as I would love that challenge. I live in the UK and the normal security guards here have more training and professionalism and danger awareness than the Pakistani police.
LET ME KNOW WHAT YOU THINK.
September 26, 2008 at 12:12 am
@ Marevi Please Give us your Important Views in Recent Zardari Scandle? What is your Point of you as Political Party of 80 Million Voters.
Sarah Palin Meets Horny Pakistan President Zardari
Zardari’s recent meeting with Governor of Alaska Sarah Palin and Candidate of Vice President got good attention in international media due to Zardari’s expressions and comments he made during his short meeting.
Zardari then called her “gorgeous” and said: “Now I know why the whole of America is crazy about you.”
“You are so nice,” Palin said, smiling. “Thank you.”
A handler from Zardari’s entourage then told the two politicians to keep shaking hands for the cameras.
“If he’s insisting, I might hug,” Zardari said. Palin smiled politely in response
Watch This Video @
http://thecurrentaffairs.wordpress.com/
September 26, 2008 at 12:16 am
Notice that Sarah Palin’s demeanor and mannerism is so professional and firm. To Zardari’s “gorgeous” comment she replied with a customary, “so nice of you” remark and ideally speaking that should have been the end of the light-heartedness of Mr President’s flirtation. But no! He chooses to add another stupid remark, “Now I know why the whole of America is crazy about you”, which Sarah Palin brushes aside with a slight movement of her hand, contaminating, “Oh come on!.” But Mr President is not to be embarrassed yet and so he continues, “If he’s insisting, I might hug”. It cannot be more shameless and filthy. Zardari’s tone of voice, his eagerness to appease Sarah, his conduct is akin to the behavior of cheap, uneducated, perverted people, let alone being the president of an Islamic country. He is utter shame and a disgrace. I personally cannot bring myself to watch the video again out of an absolute sense of shame at having such a person as our president.
“Watch Sarah’s reaction on Zardari comments. She suggests ‘JA OO YAKKA’”
Awful display of manners by Mr.Zardari at the international stage when he met with Sarah Palin, his language was also cheap and disgraceful.
Remember Mushraf Last Word on His Last Address to the Nation “Pakistan Ka Khuda he Hafiz”
September 26, 2008 at 1:22 am
اسلام علیکم
Mirza Adnan Baig From Karachi,Lalu Khet
when will the curtail the rates of floor and other needed things like
Foods
cloths
and Shelter
we are sruggling to be a live
how? how long we will be survived ?
…………………..?
Please Think About It………….
And Please Do Something For Us…..
Pakistani Zindabad
September 26, 2008 at 7:03 am
Marvi, Good to hear that you have website, at least someone could write to you.
I am a proud Pakistani who is ashamed of its politicians. Its them who has brought bad name to our country. Its amazing how people like you could think and work for people like Shujaat, Sharifs, and Zardari’s – may be hoping that one day things will change. Marvi, to bring change it needs courage which our politicians doesn’t have they all are bunch of thugs and thieves. When I say that, I talk about the majority not the exceptions. You talk about the change, what have you done to bring that change within your party. Mushahid, you think he is any better. He speaks well but you know he is another hypocrite. It makes me puke when I see all of them talk or things they do when they visit abroad. (Recent example of Zardari in America – Flirting with Ms. Palin as if he was in a Bar or a Pub). Unfortunately our pseudo intellectuals who doesn’t have any mannerism or etiquettes to represent this country.
It makes me sick to my stomach when I see people like you try to defend military rule, being a lay man even I know that dictatorship is not a solution for any progressive country.
I don’t see any sign of things getting better, things will be worse to get better but I am hopeful that one day all these B——- will be brought to justice. Ms. Memon you were in a party which is not any better but I am hopeful that one day people like you will form one party and will join hands under one umbrella and try to work for the prosperous Pakistan i.e. if we get that chance.
September 26, 2008 at 7:37 am
salam marvi!
i am from St Joseph college.
i really like the way u addressed……..
ya n i feel very proud that my country really have the people like u who are actually working for the progress.
yes i do believe that there is no nation perfect we have to make it.
the problem i think which we really have is that the minds of our country’s people have changed now they have stop thinking for their own nation , they only think ab8 their own life…….
n i think the solution is that we need people like u to awake the whole nation.
and I myself , try my best to awake the people
as I could beside my studies.
MAY ALLAH BLESS U
I want to say thank for what u are doing for my pakistan
LONG LIVE OUR NATION
LONG LIVE OUR NATIOM
ONLY HOPE, ONLY HOPE,
AND JUST THE PRAYERS.
September 26, 2008 at 8:15 am
Comment # 235
@M Ali Sid. Very well said.
Can you post this on http://www.ankahi.tv and on facebook on Faisal Qureshi’s profile please?
September 26, 2008 at 8:56 am
Hi Marvi…i hav v gud idea regarding media’z role for terrorism…but for dat u hav to contact me personaly ay my mail box or on my cell fon…iam poet n recently my book has been published…im from Quetta..n i must say dat ur brain is MashaAllah v sharp…i knw u r in assembly on di ticket of PML>Q but as we all knw dat Musharafz era was not good at all..n present govt is doing wrost as well..u r energatic n im seeing ur future in politics is v bright…think sharp n speak calm..its golden key 4 ur entire life.
regards
Mughal
September 26, 2008 at 10:05 am
salam,
Its good to see the young blood coming to the service of mankind. In supporting Musharaf, I would say that he is tainted with the innocent blood of the Jamia Hafsa martyrs, the Balochs and the Tribals. Because of him, we have literally lost Kashmir in the UN. It would have cost us less had America attacked us than supporting it and the miseries we are going thru nowadays because of his doings, every body knows that.
Any way, keep up the good work and wish u good luck.
September 26, 2008 at 10:22 am
Salam, you are doing a great job in running this blog.
I have read views of several writers on the Lal Masjid issue. It is ironic that on the one hand we talk of fighting terrorism and on the other hand, when foreigners (terrorists) get killed in the operation, we start condeming our government no holes barred. Those writers who are complaining of the excesses must know that their veiws are tainted by the ever blackmailing and revenue hungry media. People must remember that news is not what is correct, but news is what sells. Our media (specific channels) made millions on this and many other issues because it is their business!
Let me ask those saying that innocent civilians (women and children) were killed in the Lal Masjid operation in hundreds: WHERE ARE THEIR FAMILIES???? WHY ARE THEY NOT PROTESTING????
In a country, when even Munnu Bheel was protesting for the missing people of his family it was taken as if President Musharraf had done it, since it was fashion those days. There could have been many others like him. But conspicuous by their absence are the families whose so called daughters, sons were killed in the operation!!!!
GIMME A BREAK. Please start thinking logically without having hatred or bias towards anyone. LET THE FACTS DICTATE THE COURSE OF HISTORY and not misplaced priorities.
As for those who say that President Musharraf is a dictator, they must have voted for either of the two dynasties. One being led by a 20-year old Oxford student who is barely eligible to vote, and the other by two brothers, one son-in-law and one samdhi, who have naturally made it into their personal fiefdom.
Thats democracy!!!!
September 26, 2008 at 12:06 pm
DEAR MARVI MEMON and other friends in the media,
There is something seriously wrong with Geo TV, AAj TV and some other channels. – either they are too obsessed with the terrorists or are funded by someone or are themselves misguided. I think it is high time the media sets it priorities right. Stop brain washing the people of Pakistan and stop siding with the terrorists and enemies of Pakistan.
Geo and some channels were the one who was instrumental in removing our last President Pervez Musharraf. They are responsible for creating political uncertainty in the country by bringing the lawyers and judges on the streets; they are responsible for interviewing stupid ex service men and stupid politicians mainly from the pml-n which has created a bad image of Pakistan around the world.
It is high time these channels stop their propaganda in favor of the extremists and terrorists and stop calling them- our people, innocent people and the war against the terrorists as America’s war. This is OUR WAR, THESE PEOPLE ARE TERRORISTS AND NOT INNOCENT PEOPLE; THEY ARE ENEMIES OF PAKISTAN AND NOT MUSLIMS.
The media can play a very important role in removing this misconception from the minds of the citizens by showing the truth and stop supporting these terrorists. Our religion is a religion of tolerance, peace and justice. So let us become clear about:-
1. THIS WAR IS OUR WAR.
2. THESE EXTRIMISTS AND TERRORISTS ARE NOT FRIENDS OF PAKISTAN OR OF ISLAM.
3. THE MEDIA SHOULD CONDEMN THE INMATES OF THE LAL MASJID AND NOT SIDE WITH THEM. YOU CANNOT NEGOTIATE WITH ARMED PEOPLE AND NO ONE CAN BE ALLOWED TO DICTATE THEIR INTERPRETAION OF ISLAM ON OTHERS.
I urge people like Hamid Mir to please realize the gravity of the situation and may good sense prevail. I also urge him to stoop interviewing fools like ansar abbasi and some ex service men whose one leg is in the grave and one outside, please stop the rapping of the judge’s issue which is finished and sorted out.
There is a big conspiracy against Pakistan, this conspiracy is being funded by someone and political parties like pml-n, some media, and some judges, some ex service men are playing in their hands. May be the intentions of Hamid Mir are good but he is being misguided. Anchors of bolta Pakistan on AAj tv are also behaving in a very irresponsible manner, dr. aamir liaquat- a religious scholar who has nothing to do with politics is mixing religion with politics and misguiding people.
I salute people like Lucman, faisal Qureshi, jasmine manzoor, rana mubashir, kamran khan. PJ MIR etc who have a better understanding of the problem and are looking for better solutions.
I hate politicians like Qusi hussain and Imran khan. They are enemies of Pakistan. They cannot see any good in anything and only want to criticize. They always talk in favor of the inmates of the lal masjid and terrorists.
FINALLY A LAST REQUEST TO GEO TV- STOP THIS PLAYING WITH FIRE, U R RISKING THE LIVES OF THE CITIZENS OF PAKISTAN FOR PERSONAL BENEFITS OR POLITICAL GAINS. THINK OF PAKSITAN AND TRY TO SAVE PAKSITAN.
MAY ALMIGHTY ALLAH SAVE OUR COUNTRY FROM THE MENACE OF TERRORISTS AND EXTRIMISTS AND PUT BACK PAKSITAN ON THE ROAD TO PEACE, STABILITY, GROWTH, SECURITY AND PROSPERITY. AMEEN.
September 26, 2008 at 12:07 pm
WHAT R THE SOLUTIONS-
1. GOOD, CHEAP AND UNIFORM EDUCATION IN ENGLISH MEDIUM THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY.
2. FIGHT WITH FULL FORCE AGAINST THE EXTRIMISTS, TERRORISTS AND INTOLERENT PEOPLE.
3. PEACE TREATY WITH ALL THE PEACEFUL FORCES IN NWFP AND TAKING THEM INTO CONFIDENCE, PUTTING THE ONUS OF PEACE ON THEM AND IMPLEMENTING DEVELOPMENTAL ACTIVITIES ON A WAR FOOTING.
4. ACCELERATE THE PRIVATISATION PROCESS AND ENCOURAGE AND GIVE FULL CONFIDENCE TO THE FOREIGN INVESTORS TO START THEIR INDUSTRIES IN PAKISTAN.
5. DISCUSS ALL THE ISSUES IN THE PARLIAMENT AND DEVELOP CONCENSUS.
ENOUGH TO START WITH!!
September 26, 2008 at 1:55 pm
Well I agree with you there Karim.Although we can’t give up on the people of Pakistan.Education is the key here…a more educated Pakistan won’t vote for crooks.But even more important than that is the economy,its unfortunate that Musharraf made some strategic blunders which led to politicial turmoil and in turn hurt the economy in Pakistan…otherwise things would have stayed calm and Pakistan would have achieved a lot ecnomically in years to come.The problem with going after the bad people in our politics like Zardari and others is that it can de-stabilize the country and further hurt an already weak economy.. thats why Musharraf was perhaps reluctant to taken them on and chose to resign.And I am sure General Kiani would also let these people do their job rather than worry about their character at this time.
September 26, 2008 at 2:26 pm
Msg that came on my gmail that I am posting here. Lets start using this vs gmail so that everyone can participate in discussion…
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Yes Ma’am. It will be an honor to join the shadow cabinet.
I would like to state that the policies and upgrades propsed by Mr Sajjad Raza in a letter you posted on your blog are amazing. I just wish this proposition is accepted as is. It is the need of the hour and enough is enough, they have been warned many a times and since they’re retaliating like this killing innocent civilians who have nothing to do with this war, its time that some army action is taken. a severe one this time.
Empowering and educating the police is a very very good idea. You’ll also have to make sure that they don’t abuse their powers. They need to understand that with power comes great responsibility. Ensuring that they do this with the police of every city of pakistan starting with isb ofcourse. Even better if they launch this training program simultaneously in all major cities like karachi, lahore, isb, peshawar & quetta and then send these newly trained officers to train other policemen in their regions and provinces.
I would also like to see some action against corruption and ever increasing inflation & poverty in our country. You have a lot of challenges but you have our support! Please keep up the GREAT work Ma’am!
Last but not the least, I did not knew we had such great leaders in our country. I would like to see you as a foreign minister or even president some day as we need to prove to the world that Benazir was not the only woman leader we had! We have MARVI too
Respect,
Shahid
September 26, 2008 at 5:35 pm
Salamzz….I M ZeenIa mUsHraf fRom SenT JosePh’s COllege I Am a FiRsT YeAr STudent…U have COme To Our cOllege Today I LiSteN To YoUr SPeecH and I m vErY mUch ImPressEd By U AnD By Ur mIssIonS…WhEN I Saw tEars In Ur EyEs M AlSo CrYing…..InShallah I M nOt That mUch MatuRe…But I can UnDersTand The pRobLems of Our country.. InsHallah I will TrY tO serve my countrY in The BesT way….U are a very nice personality…i cant exprees my feelingss in words….i think….that in our countryy….there is some of poeople like u who love the country….just continue ur mission we all are with u…..
September 26, 2008 at 6:09 pm
marivi my solution to the ongoing religious extremism is that we have to move against the war against these militants. they will keep on pouring in and it will be a war that will span years from now. keep that in mind that all other countries facing these insurgency donot stop but get these again and again and we have to stop this war rite now because its effects have already starting to pour in our cities. protest against these war tactics. the tribal areas were never under our control and will never be . even if the militants have taken control of the tribal areasthen it is the problem of the tribals themselves. they can deal with them on their ownselves. leave them alone.
please protest agianst thse war tactics. or we will be called a failed state again. zardari sahib is doing this to get american dollars for the sake of pakistani life. are we people left to die while our politicians sit there to make these stupid decisions.
September 26, 2008 at 6:52 pm
Madam, I think you should join Pakistan’s People’s Party thats all I wanted to say, I hope you would give it a thought, a person whos as qualified and talented as you wil fit in PPP. I believe Q league is not a party but it is a group of traitors ( I hope you would not mind that) and this group will surely not exsist in the next few years inshallah =)
September 26, 2008 at 7:56 pm
SHOAIN AND SHAHID U R BOTH SPOT ON AND THINK IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION….
September 26, 2008 at 8:37 pm
..hey, haven’t seen any of your program, yet, but hard about you, say it a word of mouth..well..
so what are your new projects? and what is new these days??
Kind Regards,
ZH
September 26, 2008 at 10:03 pm
salam
ma,am
Madam I want to ask one question in your shadow ministry which ministry solve the poverty problem & I have one suggestion for u in any talk show u should listen other argue completely and then give to answer (try to complete your answer in soft tone & minimum words).
My philosophy is move slow but continues. You r vary fast you can continue your momentum?
Best regards to you.
September 27, 2008 at 1:08 am
I want to ask to Miss Marvi Memon please discuss about that, How can we safe a muslim nation? How Can we Protect our Country our nation our Economy our people ?
I think the middle class men dont have a time to think about that things, Coz they are only thinking about thier daily batch, Cloths and house
Which things are going to be a dream for them….?
how can they protest ?
this time is a bad time for us
and they are striping a cloths of pakistanis
snatching a batch from pakistanis
killing the innocent people
and want to destroy pakistanis economy
which is going down day by day
discribe us, do we strugge for batch Clocths House ? Do we protest againts our govt and America ? Or do nothing and waiting for own time comes to death ?
September 27, 2008 at 5:53 am
Education and Awareness Campaign:
A very important point I want to make here to all Musharraf and Marvi supporters out there as I am one of you also.You won’t achieve much unless you change the mindset or the psyche of the people in this country.A lot of what we are talking about here like police revamping,developmental work etc did happen under Musharraf’s era…infact Musharraf’s era was the most golden in the history of Pakistan in terms of economic development and yet very few people came out to support him in the end. I remember the time when things were going right for him and people were saying ,oh the the politics of Sharifs and Bhuttos is over and people are on his side now,I knew it even then that they were wrong because Musharraf is so different than how an average Pakistani voter is…even if our reserves had touched 50 billion dollars they still would have found a way to to dislike him.
What we need is a change in the behavior of our people who over and over again have voted for the wrong people in elections.A fundamental and a long lasting change in our behavior can only come about through education and awareness.We need to set up schools in villages and poor areas of Pakistan where not only childeren ,but also adults are given the same education that our childeren receive in posh areas.And it should be a philosophical change in the minds of the people that we should be after rather than just a change in knoweledge.may be they need to know who Aristotle was and what Immanuel Kant was thinking.They need to know about the history of capitalism,socialism and all religions of the wrold including our own.They need to be exposed to differet ideas and concepts of the world.They need to be taught what Feudalism is and how it has hurt those living in the villages.They need to know how corruption and mis-management of our politicians has hurt our economy.They need to learn why certain countries of the world are ahead of us economically and socially,what have they done that we have’nt.
This education and awareness campaign has to be spread like a religion to all corners of Pakistan because it is only through this that we can change the mindset of an average Pakistani and change Pakistan in return.
September 27, 2008 at 9:31 am
i m a banker,i happen to watch a tele prog on sama T.V in which you were invited and i consider you a good addition in Pakistani politics as we need young,energetic and educated polititions
i wan to draw your attention towards a serious issue regarding recognition of Isreal and i think you are the right person to present it in the parliment
Govt of Pakistan has removed one of the imp clause in L.C opening(for Int trade)i.e “shipment tarnsshipment through Isreali ship/port is prohabited”,would we consider it a step towards recognition of Isreal, as this clause was a part of every L.C since ever Int trade has been started in Pakistan(senior Bankers know)
regards and best wishes
September 27, 2008 at 11:09 am
On foreign policy a message on my gmail
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I want to give suggestions that in my view can affect Pakistan’s foreign policy in a positive way.
1.There is a need to shrink the quantity of political appointees in the Foreign Service. Considering the peculiar situation Pakistan finds itself in we cannot afford to have any doubt in the professional abilities of our diplomats. It will also be wise to restrict whatever political appointees we will have left to less significant capitals around the world instead of the most important ones.
2.Ideally foreign affairs and defense ministries chalk out their respective strategies regarding foreign policy relationg to sovereignty and security issues, these policies are debated over by the ministries among each other and final draft of proposals is submitted to Executive by the Foreign minister for approval. Sadly I don’t see this happening. Defense minister should represent consensus view of all departments under his ministry including the military, instead Gen. Kayani and Ahmed Mukhtar have been found to be poles apart in their statements regarding U.S. attacks. The lack of consensus needs to be addressed and defense minister should be quick to come up with consensus proposals of all departments under him, then only should these proposals be debated upon with the foreign ministry.
3.There are two major theoretical paradigms and approaches in the international system, these are realist and complex interdependence. Realist paradigm broadly says that the primary goal of a state is of survival. Security and sovereignty is the basic point of contention, it has some famous advocates like Henry Kissinger. Complex interdependence on the other hand says that as the international systems have evolved there are economic and social issues other than just security that need to be addressed which can only be done by collective effort and will of the states involved. This paradigm according to many also sees sovereignty and its violation in a more lenient manner than realist paradigm, example of functioning complex interdependence is European Union. Pakistan needs to be able to deal with different countries using the suitable approach depending on bilateral relations, ground realities and its self interest. For example Pakistan should pursue complex interdependence with countries like China and Saudi Arabia considering these countries’ long lasting strong relationships with Pakistan. Unfortunately this policy is being applied to the U.S. Pakistan government should be wise enough to adopt a policy towards U.S. that is a middle ground between realist and complex interdependence. Government should promote economic ties with U.S and be its ally in war against terror as this stance will work in interest of Pakistan , but it should be strong enough to adopt realist approach of keeping its security and sovereignty foremost. It should be understood that U.S. is not taking us along as its ally because of some sympathy that it has for us but for the simple purpose of achieving its self interest as would have been done by any other state in its place and it is not likely to abandon us if we sand up straight while negotiating.
4.Last but not the least, parliament should be one of the significant determinants of foreign policy as is the case in legitimate democracies.
regards,
zohair
September 27, 2008 at 8:09 pm
@Sarmad Soomro: my dear friend stop day dreaming PML Q will exist against your wishes and will get strengthen as time passes
LongLive Musharraf
September 27, 2008 at 9:17 pm
well mr sajjad,
you dont seem to have a reception mode for anything that goes against musharraf.. dont be too blind in his love…i wont argue about his popularity in armed forces with you..bcos all you talk about is wishfull thinking and your own desires…whereas i am a part of the armed forces..so you can go around telling people how popular that creep is in army..but the fact remains..its my word against yours…by the way if he was so popular why did the army not rescue him out of the muck that man got himself into…ever bothered your brain about this…no i guess..because you are love stricken..
your musharraf was a man with no ethics…how can you justify his writing a book while still wearing the uniform…earning millions from simon and shusters publishing house..he said i would spend this money for poors..haha i guess he was the poorest of them all…this is what we call poor ethical sense…doing what you tell your sub ordinates not to do..hypocrate…greedy and selfish…
when did i say i approve of zardari…i hate his guts more than musharraf but why do you keep forgetting who is responsible for his ascent to presidency, sorry brother it is musharraf…he wanted ppp and benazir’s help to bail him out of the fiasco he had created by firing the judges..he knew that marvi’s party would be on he wrong side of the election resultss..thats why he ran all the way to dubai to meet benazir and ppp stalwarts…so you see he brought t his monster for his own rescue , but they turned the tables on him…this proves again that he (musharraf) is a liar , selfish and a manipulator..an d fell in his own trap..this man really had the nerve to think we would accept his lollypop of reconciliation..creep called benazir and nawaz sharif criminals and then went all the way to meet her…even robert mugabe has better ethics..
i completley support your point of view about the terrorists…we need to eliminate them…but we have to differentiate between tribals and terrorists…if we continue to be trigger happy with poor aim we would continue to turn a lot of young tribals into terrorists…i have been engaged with the operations since 2003 and there was no problem in fata except south waziristan..now the entire region has insurgencies…waziristans, bajaur, mohmand,swat,aurakzai and dir….we have to admit that there has been a lot of collateral damage….i only say that if dr afia is involved in terrorism then we must punish her ourselves..go ahead hang her but please dont hand them to us…and if you think thats not true then read your beloveds book in he line of fire(nannay ke karnamay)he himself accepts that he handed over people an d earned money…dont make this nation “impotent”.
musharraf’s foreign minister kasuri has himself admitted that they allowed drones to fly in pakistan and target people…now whats your take on this…
when you accuse zardari of indecent behaviour when he flirts with sarah palin then you must remember that musharraf also danced infront of a gathering of hundreds of civil servants…he enjoyed seeing his chairman CBR doing a mujra for him…thats also indecent…
i am sick of listening to all your hue and cry about economical progress..i am a soldier but still i wont accept all this crap….what economy even before this pathetic government had taken over, the flour crsis had set in, electricity shortage was there, petrol prices started to rise…shaukat aziz was a liar much like his mentor…where is he?made billions and escaped i guess..even ur musharaf said before he resigned that i have asked shaukat aziz o come back and defend his actions but he has not replied..wake up mr sajjad…please call spade a spade…
September 27, 2008 at 9:38 pm
mr ali sid,
i never said i am very fond of imran khan..infact i think he is really stupid to hang out with qazi and jamat-e-islami…all i said was give the man some cr e d it for his achievements…yeah he may have been a playboy..but if you disapprove of that then you should be disapproving of musharraf as well..the old slut was a self styled playboy as well(remember his dancing infront of hundreds and all the stories of his drinking antics)….the fact remians that imran is not corrupt…his leadership qualities are accepted even by his bitter rivals, the man has given this country a premium cancer hospital….ifyou can have a general as a leader then you might as well try a cricketer also…the difference b etween the two is that your general led a campaign (kargil) and lost..his campaign is called the strategic blunder…but imran fought from behind and won his campaign(world up 1992)…so on one hand you have a looser and on the other a winner…aint no difficult to choose between the two for me..what about you?…if cricket diplomacy is used for resolving disputes at summit level then who could be better than imran to lead…if you can bear to see your mushy accomodating a corrupt man like zardari then have some patience for imran as well…yes he needs to reconsider his affliations with qazi but still the man has a clean chit….stop supporting musharraf please…not a single man came out on strees for him…this shows how popular he was…this country needs to go back to its roots…dont hand it over to liberal fascists like musharraf, salman taseer and co….this country was meant to be a modern islamic state not a secular state..we have no place for both taliban and liberal fascists….
September 27, 2008 at 9:47 pm
Deasr Marvi Just Watch This Shocking Video By Kamran Khan and Ask Him Now what is view Point of So Called President Of Pakistan
The Hidden Truth of Asif Ali Zardari and Benazir Bhutto
Corruption Cases of Zardari-Benazir By Kamran Khan Geo News Anchor
http://thecurrentaffairs.wordpress.com/2008/09/27/corruption-cases-of-zardari-benazir-part-1of-5-by-kamran-khan-geo-news/
September 28, 2008 at 12:26 am
Zardari’s Mental Sickness is Understandable
Zardari can’t hide himself
http://thecurrentaffairs.wordpress.com/2008/09/28/sarah-palin-zardaris-mental-sickness-is-understandable/
When well-known and well-established criminals like these hide their crimes against humanity in the wraps of democracy, it doesn’t make them innocent or their deed benevolent. It simply pushes the world closer to more instability and turmoil because it provides an opportunity for perpetuating lies and deception and intensifying their negative consequence. Here is a quick example of how victims of their crimes int he anme of democracy are not even allowed to set their foot on the US soil: US visa urged for Mrs Janjua . On the other end of the spectrum, if would be naive to assume that Zardari’s crimes are while collar corruption crimes. They are not. While Bank accounts of Zardari and Bhutto-like criminals swell, thousands upon thousands die as a result of their crimes.
For that, Washington must finally persuade Pakistan’s leaders that this is not just America’s fight but essential to their own security and survival as a democracy. And Pakistan’s leaders must persuade their citizens
September 28, 2008 at 2:56 am
MR SHEHARYAR THE DUMMY SOLDIER..
First of all well done for not liking ZARDAR AND NAWAZ, secondly I agree with you that to a certain extent it was a blunder to let NAWAZ and ZARDARI back in the country and Musharraf has paid the price for. That’s where I believe Musharraf wasn’t a dictator who hanged all his opponents but was too soft on them and also if your going to promote democracy and the people of the two big parties PML-N and PPP are crying and protesting that let our leaders come back to their country otherwise we’ll start destabilising everything and boycott the elections, than in the situation MUSHARRAF had to make some decisions..But anyway let’s say that Musharraf got that wrong and he should not have done NRO..
You say the army didn’t like MUSHARRAF, now if the army did not like Musharraf than:
1. WHY DID IT SUPPORT HIM TO OVERTHROW NAWAZ SHARIF IN 1999?
2. WHY DID HELP HIM RIG THE ELECTION IN 2002(WELL IF THEY WERE RIGGED)
3. WHY DID THEY LET HIM MAKE ALL THE CHANGES IN GOVERNMENT AND THE ARMED FORCES
4 .WHY DID THEY SUPPORT HIM IN THE OPERATIONS IN BALUCHISTAN (THE OPEARTION THEY PRAISED ON 6TH SEPTEMBER)
5 .WHY DID THEY SUPPORT HIS DECISION TO SEND FORCES IN FATA
6. WHY DID THEY NOT FORCED HIM TO RESIGN WHEN HE WENT AGINST HIS DECISION TO TAKE HIS UNIFROM OFF
7. WHY DID THEY SUPPORT HIM IN CALLING IFTIKHAR CHOUDHRY TO THE ARMY HOUSE AND SLAPPING HIM
8. WHY DID THEY HELP HIM IN SUPPORTING THE LAL MASJID OPERATION
9 .WHY DID THEY HELP IN IMPLEMENTING EMERGENCY RULE
10 .WHY DID THEY NOT MAKE HIM RESIGN AFTER HIS PARTY LOST THE 18TH FEB ELECTIONS
11. WHY DID THEY GIVE HIM GUARD OF HONUR AFTER HE RESIGNED
12. WHY ON EARTH DID THEY LET HIM STAY IN THE ARMY HOUSE WHEN AT PRESENT HIS A NOBODY
13. WHY DON’T THEY BRING HIM TO COURT FOR THE CRIMES HE COMMITTED
14. WHY DO THEY STILL PROVIDE HIM WITH SECURITY AND LET HIM DO WHAT HE WANTS
Now theirs a few things:
Sajjad Thinks:
I think they let all the above happen because they were with him and they liked his policy, I think our army is not that dumn and coward that they whole army will be on one side and MUSHARRAF alone and still they listen to this guy for 9 years, and what I think is reality and the truth
Sheharyar’s (TOY SOLDIER) Thinking:
Now if you think the army hated him and still followed his above points for 9 years than the ARMY IS A COWARD BUNCH OF INDIVIDUALS(SPECIALLY U), THEY ARE HYPOCRITES, THEY ARE TOTALLY DUMMIES(LESS THAN U) THAT THEY WORKED ON THE ORDERS OF ONE MAN(MUSHARRAF) FOR 9 YEARS AND MORE…ACCORDING TO U THEY ARMY WHICH HAS 6 LAKH JAWANS HATED ONE MAN MUSHARRAF BUT STILL FOLLOWED HIS POLICY AND ORDERS FOR 9 YEARS…U HAVE REALLY LOST UR SENCES AND TOY SOLDIERS LIKE U ARE GIVING BAD NAME TO THE WHOLE ARMY..
DUMMY SOLDIERS LIKE YOU HAVE NO SAY IN THE ARMY, YOU’RE ON THE LOWER LEVEL WHO ARE USELESS, THEY CANT RAISE ANY ISSUES WHICH THEY DON’T LIKE INFRONT OF A GENERAL BUT INSTEAD WHILE THE REST OF THE ARMY IS BUSY FIGHTING IN WAZIRISTAN, DESERTERS LIKE U COME ON THE INTERNET AND TALK BULLSHIT…HAHAHA
SHEHARYAR WAKE UP DON’T BE A TOY SOLDIER ALL UR LIFE………PEOPLE LIKE U R THE WORSE WHO FOLLOW ORDERS FOR 9 YEARS AND THAN TALK AGAINST THE SAME ORDERS THEY FOLLOW FOR THE REST OF THEIR LIVES…..
I accept Musharraf handed over people to the US AND OTHER COUNTRIES he accepts it and i accept it, we also say that they were foreign nationals not Pakistanis, even AFIA is American national not Pakistan, but i would say its a mistake to give her over IF they did….
MUSHARRAF did not alone go and pick up a person and handover to the US the ISI done it the ARMY knows about it, so once again the ARMY, ISI are inolved togather with MUSHARRAF…But it was good to give away people not Pakistani nationals who were committing crimes in Pakistan and if we excahnged them for money than FINE,we’re a poor country why should we suffer from terrorists, spend money catching them and than hand them over for free..NO WAY..
You say you’re sick and tired of the economy success of MUSHARRAF…..
Dummy soldiers who don’t understand their army how the hell you will understand economy, go make tea for some general, understanding economy is not for you………
Probably you don’t know that SHAUKAT AZIZ left in November 2007, other than a few mismanagement issues like SECURING THE WHEAT SUPPLY WHICH ONLY HAPPENED IN THE LAST FEW MONTHS and the other issue of ELECTRICITY which I can give a lot of arguments for but will not as foot soldiers like you are called KHALI DAMAAGH will not understand……
ARE YOU BLIND TO SEE THAT AFTER SHAUKAT AZIZ LEFT IT’S NOW THAT:
STOCK EXCHANGES IS CRASHING, since this year 2008 until now it has come down from 17,000 points to 9000, do your research, don’t TALK SHIT
DURING SHAUKAT AZIZ AND MUSHARRAF PEOPLE WERE BRING MONEY INTO THE COUNTRY, BUT NOW THEIR WITHDRAWING
RESERVES HAVE FALLEN FROM 17BN TO 10BN (U THINK SHAULAT AZIZ AND MUSHARRAF IS TAKING IT AWAY, U R DUMN)
RUPEE STAYED AT 60 RUPEES to the dollar for the last 5 years but in the last 8 months it has weakened to 77 RUPEES TO EACH DOLLAR
SERIOUSLY ARE U TOO BLIND TO SEE THIS, IN THE ARMY DID U GET HIT BY A BULLET TO UR HEAD OR SOMETHING………..
People of Pakistan are uneducated which includes you, they don’t like change, they want to stay in the same old system which they now have after voting for it in the Feb 18th Elections..People don’t understand GDP, STOCK EXCHANGE, FOREIGN EXCHANGE RESERVES that’s why they don’t realise how much the economy improved under SHAUKAT AZIZ, it came from a bankrupt economy in 1999 to a stable and growing economy when SHAUKAT AZIZ LEFT IN NOVEMBER 2007 mistakes are made which Shaukat Aziz coming from a place like CITI BANK had to come into PAKISTANS economy where 50 years of mismanagement and corruption had to be fixed in a small period of time..
PEOPLE LIKE U SHEHARYAR ARE TOO BLIND TO SEE THE CRISIS PAKISTAN FACES NOW SINCE THE ELECTIONS, THE ECONOMY IS WORSENING BECAUSE OF THE POLITICAL AND INCOMPETENCE OF THE PRESENT GOVERNMENT, IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH SHAUKAT AZIZ, SLOWLY PEOPLE ARE REALISING AND WILL REALISE AND ONE DAY WILL HAVE TO CALL SHAUKAT AZIZ BACK WHEN PAKISTAN IS ON THE BRINK OF BANKRUPCY AGAIN….
THERE’S SOMETHINGS WHICH YOU CANT EXPLAIN TO DUMN TOY SOLDIERS LIKE SHEHARYAR AND ARMY DESERTER, BUT ONLY TIME WILL TELL HOW GOOD SHAUKAT AZIZ AND MUSHARRAF WERE, A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE ALREADY CHANGING THEIR MINDS AND SOON THE REST ILLITERATES WILL AS WELL….
DUMMY AND HYPOCRITE SOLDIER SHEHARYAR toy soldier THIS IS A WEBSITE OF A MUSHARRAF SUPPORTER AND FOLLOWER AND MUSHARRAFS SUPPORTERS WRITE HERE AND GIVE SOLUTIONS…
SHEHARYAR IF UR IN THE ARMY GO AND FIGHT IN WAZIRISTAN STOP DESERTING, SITTING AT HOME AND TALKING RUBBISH, IF YOU ARE GOING TO TALK NONSENSE THAN I SUGGEST THAT U SHOULD JOIN UR NO HOPERS AND HYPOCRITES LIKE THE EX-SERVICEMEN SOCIETY THEY WILL BE HAPPY TO HEAR UR BULLSHIT……
SO SHEHARYAR THE DUMMY SOLDIER EX-SERVICEMEN(HYPOCRITES,MORONS,BULLSHITTERS,BARKING DOGS) ARE CALLING U, THEY NEED ALL THE USELESS PEOPLE AROUND PLEASE JOIN THEM AS WE DON’T NEED DIRT AND RUBBISH LIKE YOU ON THIS RESPECTFUL WEBSITE…
SAJJAD – UK
September 28, 2008 at 3:20 am
I’m a senior proofreader with a renowned software company in Karachi. Marvi, this is indeed heartening to see the young, educated people like you coming into politics and breaking the notion that politics is only the patrimony of dirty feudals. What’s more encouraging is that you’re a London School of Economics graduate. Having seen your articulation and outspokenness in various talk shows, I was compelled to browse your website, which is, to put it bluntly, unnecessarily long with quite a few typos and editing/proofreading errors. The other thing which has dreadfully inspired me is your innocent face, your lovely voice, and your eloquence tinged at times by the childlike attitude of not easily conforming to the other person’s ideas.
September 28, 2008 at 3:25 am
Dear Marvi,
now seeing all these public comments i believe paki people are still in the process of blaming game.niether politicians nor the government or the so called minority of educated people in pakistan seem to look forward.we are still stuck in past.people will have to accept zardari as president which unfortunately has not been done.pakistan’s image outside is gettting worse day by day.
MEDIA-a form of communication lol
pakistani news channels -a form of critcism from both ends (government and oppostion)
we see the foreign channels like CNN,BBC and aljazeera who fully support their country in any means.however in pakistan news channels have always wanted a chance to criticize .
i have even heard and have got some evidence about some tv channel of pakistan who are american agents.
god knows well..
i would appreciate if u react on this comment and give me a response.also i appreciate for what u have done for foreign policies.
DONT U THINK THERE SHOULD BE A STRICT RULES & REGULATIONS FOR MEDIA BECAUSE PAKI PEOPLE DO NO DESERVE FREEDOM OR I THINK THEY DO NOT RESPECT PAKISTAN’S IMAGE THEY SEE THEIR BENIFITS
WITH PRAYS FOR PAKISTAN,
UBAID
September 28, 2008 at 5:28 am
Shahryar give me a break ,Imran Khan’s insipiration in politics is Hamid Gul lol.Hamid Gul is a Jehadist who was actually working for AL-Qaeda before 9/11 and was the person who informed Bin Laden and co about a possible missile attack against them when Clinton chose to take them out.
Pakistan was meant to be a modern Islamic State yes and how modern is Imran Khan? who has defended every extremist in this country from Hamid Gul to Maulana Abdul Aziz.Did you know that the founder of this country Jinnah was a secular minded person who used to drink occasionally and was not too keen on getting too close with Mullahs of that time? ,just ask cowasjee whos dad was his friend.So if you want to insult Musharraf for drinking then you should go ahead and insult Jinnah too.
You mentioned Kargil and that we lost there ,well you may as well mention the other 2 wars, we did ‘t win there either so may be we should never have fought with India in any war.Winning a cricket match is not the same as winning in a war or in politics.what has Imran Khan achieved in politics?he has lost in all elections.
I do agree with you that accomdating PPP was a mistake by Musharraf,NRO was a mistake ,but it was not done so much for personal reasons by Musharraf if that was the case Musharraf would still be in power.The logic behind NRO was that there is a threat to the current set up of army and ISI from the Mullah brigade in pakistan and if the secular forces like PPP and MQM weaken politically then Mullahs will directly benefit from it…thats something that the current set up of the army led by General Kiani whos also secular minded can not afford.But I dis-agree with that on the ground that army should not be worried about democracy or democractic forces in Pakistan in the first place since politics and politicians in Pakistan have been more of a problem than a solution.