Monday, November 12, 2007

what an edit!!

The Telegraph shos the way on how Mushy should be treated.

the reaction speaks for itself:

"The language used for the President of Pakistan in your leading article ("Bankrupt relationship", November 9) is offensive and flouts the norms of decent journalism.

"For a newspaper of The Daily Telegraph's reputation to resort to such derogatory language is highly regrettable. This deserves an apology."

btw..first post since inching closer to the change of title me been working for so long..

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

But do you think anyone else would have fared better? This seems to make a lot of sense to me.

The newspaper fellows are typically liberals whose thinking works only along the lines of some politically correct terms such as "democracy", "freedom" etc. - in the process the greater good for greater number gets ignored.

Malik Hakem al-Baqara said...

wouldnt agree..those terms might be 'politically correct' but doesnt mean they are not morally correct..

specifically, the contention of dilbert blog is that President Musharraf is 'a relatively rational and reasonable dictator pretending to be an elected president, who is an enemy of Islamic fundamentalists'

which at best is black humour. he is by no means a reasonable man- he had his own people killed in Karachi, Baluchistan and Waziristan, and that too not out of any love for the 'war on terror' but for his own survival. he has never really opposed the fundoos seriously- he's been playing a dangerous game of now-on and now-off tango with them. his agencies created the neo-Taliban, nurtured it with supplies and support by getting MMA lected in the frontier. his angencies infact are themselves the taliban and the fundoos. he's been fooling the world as if he's going after them. in reality he's been butchering innocents and passing them off as terrorists. the ex-CJ of Pakistan found all this out and was pursuing these cases. thats why he became such a threat...

so the short answer is for the world to nurture a truly representative and non-fundoo ruling elite in Pakistan and not continue creating and supporting 'reasonable', 'rational' frankensteins.