I have been busy with other things lately and didn’t get a chance to either dwell into the politics of Pakistan for some time. But something happened last night which has forced me to write something down here. And the very image burns in my mind and has an unsettling effect on me. The future [...]
Archive for the ‘propaganda’ Category
17 Jun
A Joke…
Let me quote a joke here that was quite famous when we were kids. So here it goes…
There’s this very beautiful African deer and then it gets lost. So the policeforce of every country is called out to help. So the every police force brings forward a deer and the authorities say that it’s not [...]
7 Apr
Time to Wake Up…
“Aziz admits energy policy was flawed”
http://dawn.com/2008/04/06/top12.htm
“Ministry sees new taxes as only way out of crises”
http://dawn.com/2008/04/06/top7.htm
I wonder what happened to the foreign reserves that the Mush and Shauki government used to brag about. When the economy is booming and country is progressing that by day, why over tax the already overtaxed population?! I wonder how much [...]
11 Mar
Friends?!
Pakistanis have recently started showing overwhelming interest in forming bonds of friendship with India. They have been struggling in every possible way to be a part of their circles. We have seen co-productions of movies and soaps as a gesture to confirm my above statement. Not only that, the recent event of setting Iqbal Singh [...]
13 Dec
Maintaining the Standards
I stopped reading the papers after huge incidences that happened after Eid-ul-Fitr and the great Emergency. I guess I was trying to shut out the ramblings of the politicians and the army-men. Anyway, during my exams while I was having breakfast one fine Monday morning and was not in the mood of studying, I took [...]
2 Nov
1984 and the Contemporary World
We did 1984 by George Orwell this Semester. And since exams are around the corner, me and my friends were trying to discuss some of it’s aspects. And since we have it in our Literature and Society Course, the teacher gave us the whole historical perspective of World Wars and the Communist Russia, Lenin, Stalin, [...]
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