Ali Malik's blog

i see a hope of Pakistan becoming a more civilized country being run by the book... and the hope stems from the fact that in the recent years, all across the country, a whole new class of rich has been born as a result of property and stock booms... now this new class is going to challenge the existing aristocracy of the country by hook or by crook (because of its sheer size and wealth). and so for the exisiting aristocracy on the whole, the only way to survive is to make civilized rules and play by them... anyone who wants to observe the ruthlessness of this new class, just drive on Lahore roads for an hour...:)

UN Secretary General post for Benazir... one must be kidding... being an ex-PM of Pakistan is way more dignified than being UN General Secretary.... and this is an ultimate demotion which is pretty unacceptable unless... ummm... if you are Farooq Leghari:)

Every time people write her off, she surprisingly makes a come back and makes people realize that she is a FORCE to reckon with. I have always been a great admirer of her fighting spirit but off-late even I started having doubts about her survival in the future for the first time. But this time again she proved everyone wrong including myself. It seems that she is well on her way to a grand comeback. Benazir is still a force to be acknowledged and seriously considered. And I say this based on a couple of facts. a) she has been acquitted in PIA reference case (By a heavily biased accountability apparatus). b) and no matter what the Govt. Says or the Deputy Chairman NAB says, it seems that she is going to have her day in the Swiss Reference and it is evident from the desperation of Govt. Now imagine a Benazir clear of any wrong doing (twice by Pakistan courts, PIA reference and Supreme Court verdict that turned her sentence around, and more importantly by a foreign court) with all her pe...

now this is something.... we have the punk in town and the traffic is in shambles... road blocks, long queues and traffic jams..... when will we be sober...

I am kind of curious about what various people in Pakistan think of good relationship with India. Do they mean cordial neighbour like relationship between the two? do they mean Pakistan accepting India's obvious regional dominance and live on the principle of coexistance? or do they simply mean the United India? not that I consider any of such thoughts to be sinful but still I am just curious to find out what the people specially the youth's thoughts are on this issue...

Last night just while surfing the channels, I happened to see a portion of Mustafa Khar's interview at Aaj channel. The host asked him indirectly that he (khar) is a hunter and it is hunter's mentality to capture the thing he likes and enslave it and if he has the same mentality. Khar's response to it was direct, he said that yes and that he considers this mentality to be the reason of his failed marriages. He confessed that he was a conservative person from feudal background who wanted to marry modern women and then make them live according to his thinking. well leaving Mustafa Khar with his domestic trouble, the idea underneath is worth a thought. We in Pakistan basically belong to a society that still lives in the feudal age. I believe one must modify his thinking according to the society and fully. Half baked pie wouldn't take one anywhere. This holds true specially if you are moving from a back-age society (such as ours still a feudal one) to a forward society (for...

Balochistan seems hot again... Possibility of an army action is hovering around... I wonder in such devastation how come they think of anything else..... Why can't they focus on relief first.... And will the reconstruction follow the safety standards.. And to mullahs... you ......, if earthquake is an azab, then why today an earthquake in Japan didn't cause any damage.. Earthquakes are a natural phenomena and it is for us humans to take preventive measures against such phenomenon. Those who are calling it an azab are doing no good to the survivors who really need to be lifted up to face the challenge ahead and come out of the shock..... so please please please... in the name of Allah stop doing this nonsense....

after all those Aamir Liaquats and karobari hajams and jawabdehs and hamud meeerrss.. at last something nice on Geo... the new jingle, specially in the 'jeem' cartoon promo.... and about the donors conference... I give it to Government.. good achievement... but sound planning is required for distribution and also debt retirement.... and this part i fear. and Inzi man you rock......

did the earthquake damage the nuclear facilities or it didn't? will Swiss courts sentence Benazir? will Nawaz Sharif be able to go to US? will Iran be the next target? will NATO forces leave? will Imran Khan start talking sense? will Blair survive? will Democrats get a majority in the house and senate? will mujra be banned again in Lahore's theatres? will forward bloc become the next herd of crooks? will we ever grow up? when will the next phase of DHA be announced? will Lalu ever go? will Lollywood ever be good? will US ever have a female or black president? will our dead national intellect ever be reincarnated? which will be next Gawadar? will the donors make us learn how to be accountable for finances? will the confusions ever end???????? .................................. keep watching Qayamat aanae wali hai with Dr. Shahid Masud on ARY OneWorld News...... and stop doing anything and everything because Qayamat aanae wali hai....

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From now on I will not write lengthy stuff (unless absolutly necessary) and will confine to random briefs...... brief 1: Winter has set in, and the people up in the Neelam and Kaghan vallies need shelter and fuel and food.. so tighten your belts and help them..... brief 2: forward or reverse, the entire idiocyncratic bunch of fat-cats must be condoned as a whole....

If there were any doubts left about the future course of action of that the West will take in the War on Terror, they have been laid to rest on July 21st by the second wave of bombings. Our World is heading towards a complete closure between West and Muslim World, atleast for the foreseeable future. This probably is the only option left for the Western governments to save their home from the rein of terror. Whether you agree with their ideology or not, the fundamentalists with Osama Bin Laden being their inspiration have succeeded in hiring and inspiring a substantial chunk of disillusioned Muslim youth living in Muslim World as well as living in the West. The recent blasts in Egyptian resort of Sharam Al Sheikh are just the beginning of a long battle that will be waged across the length and breadth of Muslim World. This battle will be a battle for control and a battle for power between the tyrants, monarchs and dictators who rule the Muslim World and the fundamentalists who have the u...

August 11, 1947 Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen!I cordially thank you, with the utmost sincerity, for the honor you have conferred upon me – the greatest honor that is possible for this Sovereign Assembly to confer – by electing me as your first President. I also thank those leaders who have spoken in appreciation of my services and their personal references to me. I sincerely hope that with your support and your co-operation we shall make this Constituent Assembly an example to the world. The Constituent Assembly has got two main functions to perform. The first is the very onerous and responsible task of framing our future constitution of Pakistan and the second or functioning as a full and complete sovereign body as the Federal Legislature of Pakistan. We have to do the best we can in adopting a provisional constitution for the Federal Legislature of Pakistan. You know really that not only we ourselves are wondering but, I think, the whole world is wondering at this unprecedented...

Recent controversy over the remarks of L.K. Advani about Quaid-e-Azam has started a debate in the IndoPak politics that if initiated some 70-80 years back could have avoided the partition. There were two main parties in the freedom struggle of India, the Congress and the Jinnah. Then there were some small but significant players; the Mahasabahis, Sikhs, Muslim religious right, and communists. All of them were aligned with Congress, so invariably the politics of pre-independence era was a clash between Jinnah and the rest of them (I don't consider Muslim League to be an entity because it's entire worth was because of Jinnah and Jinnah alone and couldn't have survived with out him). The freedom movement led to partition and the partition led to the worst bloodshed of recorded human history. So bitterness remains over who was responsible for this dilemma. India under Nehru professes a secular state, that coupled with the fact the Pakistan soon after Jinnah fell into the hands ...

The recent crisis in the ruling Muslim League in Pakistani has taken some interesting and funny twists and turns. It started with the meeting of four, then Shujat's televised statement about Jamali, then Jamali's reaction to it, removal of ARYOneWorld from the list of channels of major cable operators (and we call it a country with free media), statements of League leaders (Humayun Akhtar Khan, Leghari, Jamali, Wasti etc.) against Shujat, then Jamali's visit to Shujat's place and subsequent meetings, Shujat's U-turn on what he said about Jamali despite all what the nation saw and heard for themselves on TV, and last but not the least the big Nanny jumping in and calling all the kids and lecturing them to behave properly. And in the end all summed up by Sheikh Rasheed "Everyone has agreed to work at the same pay". But one thing that still remains unanswered is why did it all begin and who wanted it? Some say it is because of the coming local bodies polls an...

PPP's strength lies in her worker base. The worker base is committed to the cause of democracy and is anti-establishment in essence. Anyone making an arrangement with Army will be considered a traitor in the ranks of PPP and cannot be accepted. The leadership revolves around Benazir Bhutto and it will be hard for anyone to succeed her. Everyone will agree that a free and fair election, held today, will lead to nothing but PPP in power with quite a sizeable majority along with governments at Punjab and Sindh for sure and NWFP and Balochistan probably. Now if the present regime goes for election now and it sows the seed of doubt that all this is being done as a result of a deal between PPP and establishment, the credibility of that majority would diminish. A little help from some high ranking PPP men (in the form of their statements showing eagerness to have dialogue with the men in Khaki) will strengthen that view even further. If they decide to work with Musharaf in presidency, it ...

Of American journalism in the first quarter of the last century the incomparable H. L. Mencken had this to say: “Most of the ills that continue to beset American journalism today, in truth, are not due to the rascality of owners nor even to the Kiwanian bombast of business managers, but simply and solely to the stupidity, cowardice and Philistinism of working newspaper men...There are reporters by the thousand who could not pass the entrance examination for Harvard or Tuskegee, or even Yale. It is this vast and militant ignorance, this widespread and fathomless prejudice against intelligence, that makes American journalism so pathetically feeble and vulgar, and so generally disreputable.” With minor amendments this judgment is equally applicable to Pakistani journalism.Ayaz Amir - Daily Dawn

The language that he used "they wouldn't know what has hit them" proves once more that Musharaf has no sense of handling state affairs... It is the same mindset that caused the debacle of East Pakistan and God forbid Balochistan seems the next target. We Pakistanis should condemn it every possible way. They are trying to justify the army action in Sui through gas load-shedding.. beware Pakistanis.... Nothing but our nationhood is at stake. In this crisis we have an opportunity to turn ourselves into one nation.... I, a born Punjabi, announe today that I am a citizen of Balochistan.... can we all do this and say that any attack on Balochs will be considered an attack on us.... I am upset at what is happening around... another savior is here to cause destruction to our land.... when will we wake up???? Wake up and stop oppression of Balochs.... as some one once said....Zindagi maut naan bun haee sambhalu yaro - sirfaroshi ki kasam - khatrae main hai yeah watan