Blog Title: Pak Post

Faiza Hameed MPA(N) Punjab

These women MPA's have got a jack pot without contesting the election they could be the MPA's .These pinkies are costing a lot to the national treasuries.All this is happening in a country where unemployement is rampant.where people are doing sucides daily.

Naval War College Lahore

Believe it or not , this is Naval War college Pakistan.Somebody try to blew it up.Pakistani Military is so busy in running the Government they dont who is doing it. Bravo Generals Keep it up, someday these suicide bombers will blew you up.

Boss is in Action

Principal staff officer of American consulate Brian D hunt is consider a big boss in Pakistani Politics.A girl is presenting a flowers to him in a party.

Hina Rabani Khar: Second Time winner of Election

Started her political carrier from Muslim League (Q) now joined the PPP.Lets see where this Queen is gonna end up. Madam u r doing a great job.Your parents would be definetly proud of you.

Samira Malik with Ch Shujjat after the election

Samira maili with Shujjat after the election

Musharaf casting his vote : Feb18:2008

JOKES

URDU GHAZALS

Lahore Lahore Hay

PAKISTAN IS SAID TO BE GOING THROUGH THE ONE OF THE BIGGEST CRISIS IN THE HISTORY.LOT OF PROTEST AND AGGITATIONS ARE GOING ON IN THE COUNTRY.BUT EVEN THEN LIVE HEARTED LAHORITES FOUND THERE WAY FOR THE ENTERTAINMENT.THIS GIRL IS FLYING A KITE AND GOOD THING IS THAT THERE IS BAN ON KITE FLYING IN LAHORE DUE TO LOT OF DEATHS IN KITE RELATED INCIDANCES. BUT WHO CARES.IF SOME THING IS GIVING YOU ENTERTAINMNET THAN DO IT , THIS IS THE MOTTO OF LAHORITES.

Undercover COP is arresting Qazi Hussain Ahmad

Undercover Cop is arresting Qazi on his protest for the unlawful removal of Chief Justice.Good Job Qazi atleast you showed that you have some spirit for the people of Pakistan.Jammat-e-islami has the image that it runs on the funds of army.Gen Zia used the Jamaat and same is the Gen Musharaf used this party for his favors.Atleast showed some courage to stand against the Gen. Thank you Qazi

We are Sorry Chief Justice: But we are with you

Mr Justice we are sorry, we know this is not the justice with you.but we cant do anything.Just wait for good time

This is a newly constructed road at Lahore

Can you belieave it , this is a newly constructed road.

Political leaders protesting outside the Supreme Court

This is Punjab Assembly

This is Punjab Assembly which is protected by the barbed wire.

Oppostion MPA of Punjab Assembly protesting

Oppostion MPA of Punjab Assembly protesting by holding there shoes in their hands.

Can you belieave it , this is Chief Justice of Pakistan

Police is beating the lawyers for there protest for Justice Iftikhar

Layers fighting with the police

Politiccal leaders outside the Justice Iftikhar's House

Political leaders outside the house of Chief Justice Iftikhar's house.All of them trying to make there politics. Why dont they understand this way they are ruining there image in the eyes of people.

Girls with style at Rawalpindi

Chief Justice of Pakistan suspended by the Big Boss

Big Boss of Pakistan suspended chief Justice of Pakistan Justice Iftikhar Chaudry. Justice Iftikhar was making image to give decision against the government. and the biggest blow came when he gave the decision against the privitization of Steel mill which was been sold to Arif Habib after bypassing lot of rules and regulations.Arif Habib was close friend of Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz. Also famous as the front man of shukat Aziz . He also benefited from the Stock exchange crisis against which Supreme court ordered the investigation. Definitely Big Boss didnt like this attitude. and ultimately Justice Iftikhar Chaudry has to pay the price for his stickness to the truth. and for a while stories were coming up in the papers that Chief justice used his influnce to put his son Dr Arsalan into the Police Academy after passing the competitive exam. Anyway He is gone and left the message that Big Boss dont want to listen anything against him

By Indulging Dictatorship, Western Governments Encourage The Rape of Pakistan

By Indulging Dictatorship, Western Governments Encourage The Rape of PakistanFormer Pakistan Ambassador Explains Why Pakistan, Militarized by U.S. and British Aid, Fails to Fulfil Its People’s Aspirations By Wajid Shamsul HassanSome quarters in the West buy the self-projected misperception that many among the developing countries are best ruled by military dictators instead of democratic or semi-democratic dispensations. They hold military regimes more disciplined and better placed in maintaining law and order especially when there is a concerted media blitzkrieg undermining the civilian leadership. On top of everything they find it easier to deal with and much convenience in manipulating military rulers to their geo-strategic objectives and designs at the expense of other people’s vital national interests since they are not answerable to an elected parliament. Pakistan unfortunately falls in this category. Ever since its inception as an independent state in South Asia as a country that its founding fathers had envisioned as a modern and progressive democracy with an egalitarian order, Pakistan has been serving as a pawn on the global chess-board of power politics first as the most trusted ally of the West in Cold War followed by its role as a frontline state in the American Jihad against Soviet Union in Afghanistan and currently it is in the line of fire in the war on terrorism. And as a result of West sacrificing all its democratic values and commitments at the altar of expediency, despite its being the most militarised country in the world Pakistan has come to be a failed state with its people writhing under the jackboots of what has been declared as the 15th worst dictator in the world. It has an army that has a country in its service where national interests are in direct conflict with the commercial corporate and personal financial interests of the generals. It has a general in uniform as its president who holds the nation hostage at a gun point. Although he singly holds entire powers in his hands yet he styles Pakistan as a democracy. He prides himself as a commando more than anything else—much like Rambo—who can walk out of any grave situation unscathed. Not only that he seems to be in possession of some godly power that makes him a superman—one for all seasons and fit for all occasions. He thinks that he is a great deliverer and he can resolve any problem. He carries lot of weight—both physical and otherwise-- and throws it around too. No ruler ever in Pakistan—even the worse on the unpopularity graph—was so despised as he especially among those in uniform who have tried to kill him and are now waiting for their end in the death rows. Attempts on him have been so many near escapes that while the statisticians have lost count, more and more people tend to believe that notwithstanding the real ones—few and far between—most of them had been stage-managed by his men to keep Washington tied to his tail-coat with the message—“after me, the deluge”---i.e. Jihadi Taliban/Al-Qaeda take over of Pakistan. It has been observed and rightly too that the reason for him to keep globe trotting is the fact that he feels safer abroad than at home. Though a constitutional requirement, he does not deliver Pakistani brand of the state of the union address to the Parliament—most of whose members were blue penciled by him before elections—for fear of being publicly mauled and humiliated by those who in the eyes of his Parliamentary Minister are uncivilized members. Besides all that, lately he has assumed the role of a self-styled honest broker as an international negotiator for resolving the Middle Eastern imbroglio. This is not withstanding the fact that the 7-point programme that he announced to justify his takeover in October 1999 remains an elusive dream. Pakistan’s economy is in shambles. Unemployment is raging high. More and more people are committing suicides for want of sustenance. Writ of the state has become non-existent. There is no law and no order. Much promised good governance has made life short, brutish and nasty. Sectarian violence has become the order of the day. Sovereignty of the state has been rendered into a toilet paper. While the Americans/Nato forces bomb and invade Pakistani territories at will with impunity, the best defense of the country does not come from the General but from a frail-looking damsel in distress of Islamabad’s Foreign Office who parrots either a denial or an amorphous protest. No doubt US Defence Secretary Robert Gates continues to be soft, frames his words delicately so not to embarrass the General publicly, senior U.S. and NATO military commanders whose troops are facing the main brunt of Taliban onslaught , have been openly calling upon Pakistan to crack down on the entrenched network of senior Taliban and al-Qaeda leaders, training camps and recruiting grounds -- a sanctuary from which fighters have tripled cross-border attacks since September and are preparing an anticipated major spring offensive in southern and eastern Afghanistan. US Army Lt. Gen. Karl W. Eikenberry, the outgoing top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, believes Taliban presence inside Pakistan "remains a very significant problem." As a slap on General Musharraf’s face, Gen Eikenberry has strongly suggested: "a steady, direct attack against the command and control in Pakistan in sanctuary areas is essential for us to achieve success," In his submission before the Congressional House Armed Services Committee recently he disclosed that Taliban forces in Pakistan's North Waziristan have staged mass attacks on U.S. border camps, including a strike in recent days that saw the U.S. military respond with artillery fire into Pakistan.Mary Beth Long, US Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defence for International Security, testifying in the same House hearing felt that “NATO must do more.” According to her the Taliban resurgence has been supported by a strengthened command-and-control structure that moved across the border into Pakistan after U.S. forces toppled the Taliban government in 2001. Today, Eikenberry said, senior Taliban leaders from the ousted regime are collaborating with al-Qaeda leaders, as well as with other groups led by the warlord Gulbeddin Hekmatyar and the Haqqani clan of an ethnically Pashtun tribe. The United States is "terribly concerned" about the Taliban and al-Qaeda leadership in Quetta, Pakistan, and other regions that direct attacks, conduct training in camps with the help of foreign fighters, and recruit from Islamic schools known as madrassas. "Action against those will be needed," Mary Beth Long urged.Indeed, there is lot of meat in the observation that Taliban and Al-Qaeda had never so well since 9-11 as now under General Musharraf. They have been given their own territory in Waziristan to carry on their activities; Pakistani hospitals keep their doors open to treat their sick and the injured. They seem to have a carte blanche from Islamabad to romp around freely and they are confident that the fencing that the General plans to stop them from their cross border strikes will have enough big holes to enable them to continue their business as usual. By playing his game deftly of running with the hare and hunting with the hounds Musharraf remains successful in denying people of Pakistan their democratic rights. And the way the stage for 2007 elections is being set, there cannot be any doubt that in the months ahead to the finale it would be a run worse than the previous and surely the General and his cronies would make it impossible for the voters to elect candidates of their choice by resorting to the mother of all riggings.In the current pre-polls run sample of dirty things to come has been made known bloody well. Six PPP men were shot down in Attock, Ms Bhutto’s sister-in-law and a PPP leader Dr Azra and her car was targeted by the bodyguards of a provincial minister. By sheer luck she escaped a dastardly assassination attempt on her. PPPP MNA Sherry Rahman was less fortunate. During the course of a peaceful public rally on the recent by-election rigging in Karachi, she was assaulted with a blunt instrument by unknown culprits. She was rendered unconscious, received numbing injury in her spinal cord and has been straitjacketed in plaster. PPPP candidate Nafees Siddiqui, his son, Senator Farooq Naek and others were physically maltreated by the regime’s collaborators.Like General Pinochet’s Chile, Pakistan today—besides being the most secured and protected haven for the Taliban and Al-Qaeda terrorists—is globally known for a record of mysterious disappearances of innocent people that runs into hundreds. Families of the victims do not have any recourse to find out where they are, how they are and under whose custody they are. When they publicly protest General’s law-enforces-- to teach them a lesson-- strip the protestors of their clothes and make them parade in the nude. Even the apex courts have rendered themselves anarchies by not acting in the right spirit of the law in defence of human rights. Like others they too have become sleeping and silent partners to the rape of their country before their eyes.Except for an editorial here and there and feeble voices in protest, it seems that the reign of terror let loose in the country and protection given to the murderous assailants by the Musharraf-Aziz dictatorship is a precursor to a massive implosion. While the General and his thugs will be held singly responsible for the national breakdown, those international donors that have kept the military regime propped up against the wishes of the Pakistani people will not be forgiven by the posterity.Pakistan rendered into a no-man’s land and an epicenter of international terrorism is on the verge of plunging into a fratricidal civil war that would surely drag it into a no-win situation. Much of Musharraf’s suicidal politics of divide-and-rule is directed against the only federal leader former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto. Frustrated with her refusal to give up her fight against military dictatorship, the regime is hell-bent in creating conditions that would be challenging and intolerable for the PPP and its workers. When matters get tough, people have got get tougher. The new wave of terror by the regime is symbolic of its dying pangs. It requires a populist push to see it out of the door. Wajid Shamsul Hasan served as Pakistan’s High Commissioner (Ambassador) to the United Kingdom. His father served as secretary to Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan.

Musharraf Regime Unleashes Violence to Deter Demand for Free PollsMurder of Opposition Activists, Attacks on Women Members of Parliament Meant to Scar

Musharraf Regime Unleashes Violence to Deter Demand for Free PollsMurder of Opposition Activists, Attacks on Women Members of Parliament Meant to Scare Bhutto and Frighten Political Opposition By Sadiq Saleem Three significant incidents in three weeks indicate a pattern of ‘unenlightened intimidation’ against the country’s secular political opposition by the military regime of General Pervez Musharraf. First, unidentified gunmen killed six members of the main opposition Pakistan People's Party (PPP) in Attock district, 120kms (57 miles) west of the capital, Islamabad. The district is represented in parliament by “Prime Minister” Shaukat Aziz. Its district Nazim is the brother-in-law of Punjab Chief Minister Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi. Then, in quick succession, came violent attacks on two women members of the National Assembly (MNAs), Dr Azra Pecheho and Sherry Rehman. Dr Azra Pecheho is the sister of Benazir Bhutto’s husband, Asif Ali Zardari and Sherry Rehman, a prominent journalist and women’s rights activist serves as the PPP’s Central Secretary Information. PPP spokesman Farhatullah Babar said soon after the murderous attack in Attock that it was meant to frighten party workers. "It seems to us that now the elections are near, a message has been sent to the PPP supporters to desist from supporting the party," Mr Babar told AFP. "We demand the arrest of the culprits. One of the men murdered in the attack was a local office-bearer (a party leader at village level)," he said, adding the dead included three brothers. Three PPP workers were killed in the same district during the by-elections in 2004 when Shaukat Aziz won a seat in the national assembly in an election of dubious sanctity. The attack on Dr Azra Pecheho came while she was campaigning on polling day in a bye-election Jamshoro, Sindh. She was attacked by armed persons and though she escaped unhurt, her bulletproof vehicle was damaged in the firing. Benazir Bhutto and Asif Zardari had used the same vehicle during visits to Sindh in the past so it was not a random car being hit by random robbers. Pictures released by the PPP showed that one bullet hit the driver’s seat while others were fired on the back door, right behind where Asif Zardari’s sister was sitting. Former Sindh Chief Minister, Qaim Ali Shah, who was in-charge of the PPP’s election effort in Jamshoro, told reporters that he had also been targeted at Buddapur polling station by some private security guards but had escaped unhurt. Dr Azra told the parliament as well as the media that a provincial minister belonging to the King’s Party (PML-Q) had led the armed activists who fired at her. The minister in question, Altaf Uner, had been elected on the PML-Q ticket from the Bhutto stronghold Larkana in a rigged poll. He is known for being a rough and ready criminal frequently used by the establishment to challenge the Bhutto family with force of arms in its home district. The police refused to register a case against Altaf Uner and ignored Dr. Azra’s assertion that a notorious dacoit, who is wanted by the police, accompanied the provincial minister when she was attacked. In another incident, former Editor of the independent ‘Herald’ monthly, Sherry Rehman was injured during a party rally and she is still in hospital. Ms Rehman played a key role in opposing the anti-women Hudood laws enforced under the Islamizing military dictatorship of General Ziaul Haq as a journalist. Elected to the National Assembly in 2002 on a PPP ticket, she continues to champion women’s causes in addition to being a vocal opponent of military rule. Sherry Rehman complained that she was attacked by a tall, well-built woman who had been standing behind her during the rally organized by the PPP on February 14 to protest against the state-sponsored rigging in recent by-elections. Televised footage from a private TV channel also proved her claim. The footage showed that Sherry Rehman was seen standing with other PPP leaders but she suddenly collapsed at one point. Party leaders helped her up and shifted her to hospital, where her injuries were found to be very serious. The TV footage showed an unidentified woman in a blue dress standing behind Sherry Rehman as Ms Rehman pointed towards her neck, with a painful expression on her face. All this while, the mysterious woman kept pushing Sherry away from the crowd. She was also seen communicating with somebody in the crowd. All the while the mysterious woman was on camera, she stayed calm as if trained to deal with such situations. She showed no surprise or concern over Sherry’s fall. The woman seemed to know her job well and was confident that she could make another attempt at injuring Sherry unhindered. Apart from neck injuries, Sherry Rehman suffered from a concussion of the spine due to several hits on the back of her neck. Though the weapon has not yet been identified, the PPP MNA recalls that she was hit repeatedly with a sharp object. Once again, the police’s refusal to register FIR against the mysterious woman creates doubts that she might have been an operative of Pakistan’s largest criminal outfit, its ubiquitous intelligence apparatus. The killing of ordinary PPP workers and attacks on prominent women members of parliament have come soon after Benazir Bhutto’s announcement of her plan to return home from exile. Ms Bhutto’s return would invariably mark the beginning of a popular campaign to demand free and fair elections, which Musharraf knows he cannot win notwithstanding his support among Pakistan’s rich and well-to-do. The purpose of the attacks is clearly to intimidate PPP workers and possibly to scare Ms Bhutto into reversing her decision. Until now it has been an unwritten rule of Pakistani politics that well-known women political figures are never physically attacked by either the police or the country’s invisible government of intelligence agents. But Musharraf has already ordered the elimination of a political critic (Nawab Akbar Bugti) and introduced “enforced disappearances” to the list of state-sponsored criminal activities in Pakistan. It would not be surprising if he has also winked at his spy masters and told them to attack women leaders in an effort to dissuade Bhutto from returning home to rock his troubled boat.