Zulfiqar Mirza if he was truthful will not take up the Quran Shareef...

Only liars do this...

I am reminded of an event of Qaed e Azam and Gandhi. Gandhi had once said that he wanted to meet The Qaed in secret and would go to any place to meet him with folded arms and bended legs and head down. To which The Qaed replied we are talking of the destiny of two nations and there can be no secret about this and if you are a straight man come with straight limbs and head up.

If Zulfiqar Mirza believed in himself and if he knew he was a truthful person himself there was no need for him to lift Quran e Shareef on his head. Only liars do it. It is almost impossible to believe his words particularly after his sectarian and racist remarks all through. In any other country he would be behind bars for "Disaffection", "Slander", "Defamation", and a Threat to Public Order and Peace. He played his Sindh card and as if that was not bad enough also played the Shia card. Went to the extent of calling himself "badboodar shia". What the hell is he doing?

I would have put him in jail long ago for saying "Pakistan Naa Khappay" as if he created Pakistan and had the authority to undo it. He is an extremely imbalanced and a temperamental man. Beats me such a person enjoyed so much of power. No wonder he was singularly responsible for the deaths of so many. Widowed so many women and orphened so many children.

On top of it he says he did not recruit a single person Urdu speaking from Karachi out of 10,000 appointments. Prejudice has no limits. Can this person be called fair? You deprive such a large population of employment and food. Make them jobless. Shame on him and the likes of him.

No wonder you don't find any Urdu speaking in the Home Department in any position. From top to bottom they are all Sindies whether they are fit for it or not. Is this justice? Is this good governance? Shouldn't he be tried and taken to task for this and sent to jail for being so unfair with the citizens he is supposed to serve?

First Altaf Hussain could never in his wildest imagination tell Zulfiqar Mirza that he won't stop the Qatl e Aam of Pathans (genocide of Pathans) as if he was doing the Qatl e Aam of Pathans. Who would ever say this even if that was the intent. This is total rubbish and garbage Only a fool and an idiot would buy his statement. Urdus are getting killed in Karachi by Pathans and Aman Committee goons of Zulfiqar Mirza, left right and center and day in and day out and this guy enjoys speaking this utter nonsense which will only draw ireof the Pathans.

He seems to have deliberately said this by design to incite Pathans and start another orgy of bloodshed. Nothing else. He must immediately be arrested, tried and hanged for creating bad blood between two people otherwise living together peacefully. It was totally peaceful until the recent inciting by ANP and its incendiary statements. He seems to be more stupid than he looks.

I hope PPP and Pakistan does not let him go unpunished. He must carry the maximum penalty.

Anna Hazare gets is anti-Corruption bill passed...

Finally Anna Hazare gets his way...

Although a straight forward bill. Wonder why Congress Party was balking and made this elderly man to starve for so long.

Who is killing whom and where is governance?

Coffins, coffins, coffins, coffins, coffins is what is Karachi... Nincompoops are governing!
Regionalism, parochialism and nepotism will give these results only...
When there were riots in England immediate arrests of 1,500 people were made. And here people are dying endlessly since July no arrests are made. Why are they looking elsewhere and not taking action?

Where is our Anna Hazare?

First get our Vinoba Bhave then think of Anna Hazare...

We are 64 years late. When we gained independence there were two religious figures on the horizon one was Acharya Vinoba Bhave and the other was Moulana Moududi. The former for Hindus and the later for Muslims. Now let us examine how they impacted the two new nations made on the basis of a two nation theory.

What is important and what is urgent...

Nero is fiddling while Rome is burning!

What is important what is urgent?

Our petty minded politicians have no idea of what is important and what is urgent and what can wait. For example people are being killed in Karachi and they took up the issue of Commissioner-ate System from the middle of nowhere. Looks like they have no idea of what they are doing or must do, forget about important and urgent.

Instead of addressing the root cause of the problem, taking action against those who incite violence openly with racist statements on TV, talk shows and in speeches and moving against the killers and murderers they ignore it. Take no action, let them escape. The result is for months on ends the killings go on - total apathy for problems and law and order. That was one example.

Balochistan is burning. They have not a clue what to do. They go and rake up the name of Khyber Pahktunkhwa as if that could not have waited. This appeasement of a race is not a good idea. Tomorrow they could ask for secession and you wouldn't be able to do anything. The name Sarhad was just fine - at least it was not on a race. Punjab is by the five rivers. Sindh by Indus, Balochistan by Bal. KPK is the only province on a race. So why blame poor Hitler for racism?

ZAB resisted it and so did all the previous administrations stubbornly and not without reason and this government thoughtlessly went ahead and did it only to get ANP support at the Center. These KPK guys don't want any laws and rules for themselves and want to export the same lawless (ilaqa ghair) mindset elsewhere in Pakistan. High time it stopped. It is important it is urgent. But they do nothing about it.

The Urgent and Important issue is Balochistan. The rebellion started not by the people but sardars. People of Balochistan are with Pakistan 100%. I have interviewed scores of ordinary Balochs. They have confided that they are sick and tired of the tyranny of sardars. They want Pakistan to free them from their hold. Surprisingly the media seems to be sold to the sardars as they do not talk about their tyranny, how they have kept Balochistan and Balochis backward.

The rebellion must be put down by force and the people appeased, not sardars. Talk to the people not the rebel sardars. Bring in a law to curtail their power that is land. Take land away from them by introducing strict land ceiling and distribute the excess land among the poor in the area.

As for the armed rebellion by the sardars take a cue from how India crushed the much bigger Khalistan movement.

They do nothing about it. The way these uneducated politicians work reminds me of "Nero is fiddling while Rome is burning". http://history.howstuffworks.com/ancient-rome/nero2.htm . Enjoy some history:

Nero's Fall

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The Flavian Amphitheatre or Colosseum in Rome, built in 70-80 AD, October 1998.

Mary Francis Gyles offers another interpretation of the story: Nero's fiddling may not have anything to do with music at all, but rather is a metaphor for his ineffectiveness. Fiddling, after all, can also mean that a person is expending energy on something useless or misguided. If the measures Nero took following the fire were perceived as misdirected or inadequate, then saying Nero fiddled while Rome burned takes on a whole new meaning. It's possible that the idea is a relic of propaganda so effective that it's survived 2,000 years.

Although history has cast him in an unfair light regarding the fire, it's difficult to feel sorry for Nero. The emperor has a well-documented history of brutality. He ascended to the throne after his mother killed his uncle; Nero later had her killed. In the face of blame for the great fire, he chose to look for scapegoats. His persecution of the early Christians was the first the religion would endure, and it resulted in the martyrdom of the apostles Peter and Paul, both of whom were executed during the persecutions.

Ultimately, the great fire helped bring Nero down. Discontent with his reign, his infantries threatened mutiny, and he was declared a public enemy by the Senate. Facing execution, Nero pushed a dagger into his throat and took his life four years after the fire [source: New York Times].

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The Two Nation Theory... don't forget it!

When you are not petty and selfish you achieve big...

The Quaed e Azam was a great man and never petty and selfish, if he were so, he could never have accomplished the big thing which he did. One should read "Legend or Reality" published by Army Press Rawalpindi. If you don't get it, go to the Islamabad library, on the foots of the beautiful Margala Hills not far from the President's house and read the book sitting there.

Subsequently we got petty and selfish and see what happened. While one great man with his higher values got a country for the Muslims of the sub-continent the minions later on could not even get a yard of occupied Kashmir despite having a UN Resolution in favor. Nay they with their shortsightedness, selfishness and pettiness lost half of the country with the feudal and tribal mindset playing huge role in the debacle.

When the greater vision and the big picture and the real cause is forgotten and lost and our ideas degenerate into petty regionalism, parochialism and nepotism etc. we get results as we are getting now. It is getting worse by the day. Hate is ruling us rather love and concern for the Muslim Ummah.

Whether you like the bitter truth of history or not Pakistan was made only and only on the basis of a Two Nation theory. Nothing else. Not for any Punjabi, Sindhi, Balochi or a Pathan. Although it was never envisioned as a theocratic state. Muslim State yes. For Muslims yes but it had full guarantees for all minorities. Quaed e Azam envisioned a modern state, he was himself very modern.

The criteria was one and only one. Muslim or Hindu - exactly as Israel, Muslim or a Jew - not an Arab or a Jew. This is a bitter truth of history. Only two nations till recently were made on the basis of a two nation theory one Pakistan and the other Israel. A few years ago it was Aceh and this year South Sudan. You have to swallow this bitter or sweet pill depends on what you believe in - truth or fiction.

If you want to re-construct history it is entirely up to you. Then there is no difference between you and the RSS Hindus who want to reconstruct history of India. Libraries worldwide are being filled with this fictitious history. You want to copy them, go ahead. At least they do not leave their co-religionists in the lurch like we want our to be.

Theories that give birth to a country are never time bound either. Even a Muslim child born today in India and thinks Pakistan is his country, you cannot stop him as per the original vision. Great sacrifices have been made in life, blood and money. All Muslim centers have been destroyed in India like Lucknow, Bhopal or Hyderabad, to name a few at the alter of Pakistan.

If the religious people at that time objected it was not that they did not want a Muslim Country. It is just that they were concerned that Muslim is in every nook and corner of India, what about him? How will you save him? All did not have the resources to move. Even Quaed e Azam always worried about it. When he was in Ziarath nothing else was on his mind. He cried all the time while Fatima Jinnah gave him napkins for his tears. Read it please.

Even the 1940 Allahabad declaration addressed by Allama Iqba called for Muslim majority states. At that time also they did not ask for a Muslim Country. Ask Najam sethi, he will testify to it. Or if you want I will send you the link listen to him yourself.

Now we can't get petty and selfish and all for our self. Some people's allusion to the thought that the writer (this article was written in response to an article and comments) may not be a Pakistani is a moot point. How does it matter even if he is not a Pakistani, a fact we do not know. Sitting in Dublin he must at best be a Muslim and an Irish. He seems to be a Muslim by his name, it is fine. Even that is not important. The important thing is what is he saying. Right or wrong? Truth or fiction? Whoever he may be.

What are you trying to suggest? Let's not stoop low. See what he is writing? There are a lot of historians including Stanely Wolvepert who are not Pakistani so will you say they are all anti-Pakistan? No. That is far too narrow minded a view.

We have to rise above all this pettiness and selfishness as we have been since the death of another great - Liaquath Ali Khan. In any case there have been only two heroes - The Quaed e Azam and Shaheed e Millath. Barring Suharwardy most others are considered as heroes but villains.

Stanley Wolpert in 1983 in fact resurrected and re-built the image of The Quad e Azam after it had taken a battering in the film Gandhi by Richard Attenborough. It was a non-Muslim that came to his rescue. No Muslim or a Pakistani did. "Jinnah of Pakistan" by Stanley Wolpert then restored his image.

The history is full of facts that show the struggle for Muslims of India and no other regional or tribal or racist consideration. Period. Quaed e Azam has repeatedly mentioned a homeland for Muslims of the sub-continent - one of the two nations, now if we we want to twist it for selfish reasons do it.

The history and objective of Pakistan will not change. But it will have its consequences. The only way of retaining Balochistan and reinforcing the claim on Kashmir is with the same Two Nation Theory. Nothing else. Like it or not.