I said that this month was that of tragedy. And no one agreed. Do you see now??
We had half the month under emergency. A train got derailed. Gulgee got murdered. Benzair Bhutto got assassinated. And now we're all locked up at home and can't even think of celebrating New Year's without imagining getting shot in the head (or maybe my imagination is too vivid and, um, violent).
FUN.
This is so the Winter of Gloom.
Let's make a movie on it!
Oh wait, we can't. WE CAN'T DO ANYTHING!
Thanks, JerkWhoKilledBhutto.
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MENTION BILAWAL YOU DUMB DUMB DUMB. AND IT WAS NOT A MONTH OF TRAGEDY IT WAS MY BIRTHDAY MONTH.
Also, you forgot the exams =P
BUT YES, WE WILL NOT STAND FOR THIS INJUSTICE. AZIZA, I AM WITH YOU. WE WILL FIGHT THEM AND WE WILL TAKE REVENGE, AS I ALWAYS SAY [okay I don't]..DEMOCRACY IS THE BEST REVENGE.
JUSTICE FOR ALL, JUSTICE FOR ALL, JUSTICE FOR BENAZIR'S ASSASINS AND JUSTICE FOR PAKISTAN.
~ Yeh bazi khoon [:P] ki baazi hai,
Yeh bazi tum hi haro gay,
Har ghar say Bhutto niklay ga,
Tum kitnay Bhutto maro gay?~
It says I have to make an account to comment... I think. I don't know. You write about funny things, and I've completely forgotten what I'm supposed to be commenting on.
Oh wait, theres the "Show original post" thingy. Righto... The emergency didn't really affect much in my opinion; train got derailed, shit happens, and no, I'm not a emotional less bastard... or maybe I am, I feel like being one now; I don't know who this Gulgee dude is and I honestly don't think that if Bhutto got elected it would have made much of a difference to little people like us. It doesn't matter who's in charge... *I'll fill in this blank when my head starts working again*.
About New Year's... why do we even celebrate it in the first place... and are we celebrating the end of one year, or the dawning of the next? If, for sake of argument, its the former, then we would be celebrating the... never mind, there have been too many shitty things that have happened last year to even bother listing here. And if we celebrate the coming year, then we're basically reveling coming tragedies... coming catastrophes and coming disasters.
If anyone even bothers reading this and replying, the most frequent rebuke to me will be the fact that I'm a pessimist. I'll tell you something though, I enjoy being a pessimist, you know why? Because we're always right. Anyway, even if we take a optimistic spin on things and say that a lot of happiness comes out of a year as well, it still doesn't make much of a difference. Does it really matter its your birthday when there are babies starving to death in Ethiopia. Starving. I doubt many people know how that feels like, taking no food. Watching your body wither away to nothingness, to death. Imagine for a second if you will that... that the only food you get to eat is grains and pecks that you pick up from the ground, and that too only if your lucky; the only water that you get to drink is so polluted you might as well just be drinking poison; imagine feeling your body use up all the fat in your body, leaving you in literally skin and bones. It takes time, I saw my Taya abu die of cancer that way. Watching for two years as he wasted away, each day thinking, praying that by some miracle he'd get better. But miracles don't happen anymore, he died. He was 5'10" and 30 kilos when he passed. Tortured for two years, slowly, relentlessly.
And do other little things really count? You got straight A's? Congratulations. A kid just got shot in Iraq for being a Muslim. Your brother got married? Fantastic. A group of 13 year old girls in Nepal just got sold to brothels in India and will lose their virginity tonight. You were given a necklace by your boyfriend? Cool. About a thousand people just committed suicide because their life sucks.
You know, I'm sorry, I... got ahead of myself. I don't even know myself why I wrote all of that...
Its all JerkWhoKilledBhutto's fault. Stupid faggot.
I'm not always that... weird, lol, I just realized the comment is like 4 times the size of the post and that if this doesn't post I'll be in a pissy mood for the rest of the night.
My ears are hot, I need to brush and you Aziza, are a pretty good writer. =D
I wrote near 1000 fucking words for a comment. Then the electricity went. Fuck you WAPDA, I'm not writing it again. Goodbye.
Wait... I posted it and it said you had to approve of it for it to be visible. My bad. =P
WAPDA still sucks though.
I WANT TO GO OUTSIDE!
Man, Naveed and Naveen look exactly the same. You have to change your name.
A reply to Naveed’s post.
1 – The emergency had a great impact on every single one of us, as a nation and also as individuals. We live in this country, we’ve grown up here. It is our home, no matter how much we hate it. Every single person in our country is part of our family. Who ever is in charge of our country is crucial to our life. You can spend your life in fear and hate under a dictator [like the people of Iraq under Saddam Hussain] or you can live in a democratic country with freedom. Our country gives us a sense of belonging, no matter where in the world you are, Pakistan will be Pakistan and you will be Pakistani and that is something you can’t change [well actually..]
That sense of belonging is vital to our survival. The state of our country is fragile. I freaking don’t know any of the stuff going on but it doesn’t take a smart-ass to figure that out. The country is going to fall apart if its given in the wrong hands, and the damage one leader could bring to the country is unrepairable.We’ll be pretty much screwed. Our army has too much god damn power and, being a nuclear country, that is probably the worst thing ever [thankfully the power of the army has backed down a little after the whole Musharraf stepping down thingi] Our judiciary system is ka-put. Non-existent thanks to our present President. Now if the law system is pretty much out..we’re screwed like I said earlier. This doesn’t just affect the elite or the poor. It affects everyone, you and me cuz Pakistan is our home and we are part of it. Pakistan falls apart, a part of us falls apart.
So basically, WHO RULES THE COUNTRY COULD DECIDE WHETHER WE LIVE OR DIE..[okay maybe a little exaggeration]
2 – We celebrate New Year’s because we’re happy that we have lived to face another year. There’s a thing called Hope. If you’ve had a rough year, you’re glad its ended and hope that the next year is better. Sure, you’re afraid of the year ahead of you but then again, there is no hope without fear and no fear without hope. We celebrate the coming year and we’re not ‘reveling coming tragedies’ we’re saying goodbye to them.
I shall reply to the other half of your post later. I haveto go watch Bilawal on YouTube.
Yes, very ummm, nice Myra.
*pats head* =P
Oh, my God, I LOVE YOU TWO!
I LOVE YOU!
I DO!
Get married.
Naveen + Naveed.
First off, I’m not changing my name. You can if you want to though. And anyway, you’re a 40 year old divorced hag living in Kenya so it doesn’t even matter.
Getting down to the point, the emergency might have had a political and economic impact on Pakistan on a national and definitely on an international level, but the fact remains that it made very little change in our lives on a personal level. We still went to school, we still went out (I did anyway. =D), our parents still went to their offices, everything was running. I don’t see how you can say “The emergency had a great impact on every single one of us”. Because it didn’t.
Live under a dictator or under democracy. Neither one of those exists in Pakistan. Officially Pakistan is a FEDARAL REPUBLIC. Not a Dictatorship and certainly not a Democracy.
“Democracy describes a small number of related forms of government and also a political philosophy. A common feature of democracy as currently understood and practiced is competitive elections. Competitive elections are usually seen to require freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and some degree of rule of law. Civilian control of the military is often seen as necessary to prevent military dictatorship and interference with political affairs.” That’s the definition that Wikipedia gives us. In Pakistan, the civilians have absolutely zero control over the military, and saying that “competitive elections” are held is just stupid. Their not. Half the time they’re rigged and the other half some bogus law is made to stop one of the parties from participating in the elections.
As for Dictatorship, there are three definitions for it on Wikipedia, neither of them match up with Pakistan’s form of government. There is no political office for a dictator in Pakistan; the Head of State (These days the President) cannot do anything that clashes with the constitution, it’s another story that President Musharraf unabashedly alters the constitution for his own gain; and thirdly, the President does not have the power to govern without consent, since there is always an opposition party in the National and Provincial assemblies and the Senate.
I agree with you on the fact that we cannot change that we’re all Pakistanis, just like we cannot change who our ancestors were or who our family is. But we’re also Asians, And before the partitions we were known as Indians. Humans and Sub-continentals. All of these names are just to identify a group of people with a similar set of beliefs, or a similar culture, and in the case of the word “Pakistani”, a similar nationality. Then think for a second, if a person who has been raised in Canada all their life, and has no clue about his supposed home country, or about its culture. Would you still consider him a Pakistani? He would be Pakistani in paper only, and his heart would lie elsewhere. We all belong somewhere, and no amount of paper or legal bullshit can change where we belong.
Just for the record, a sense of belonging is not vital to anyone’s existence. You need food, air and water to live. Nothing else. And no matter what happens, our country won’t just “fall apart”. I mean, not many people like Musharraf, and the amount of corruption that occurred during his tenure is remarkable, despite that, you’d be surprised at the economic growth Pakistan has had under his rule. Whoever gets the top job, no matter how much the steal from the country, or whatever they do, they will also try to do something for the betterment of this country.
As for the other thing… hope doesn’t exist. Its an excuse made by optimists when their life starts to get really sucky. You keep looking for the light at the end of the tunnel, except you lot haven’t realized yet that it isn’t a tunnel, its a dungeon, and there is not way out. Except death.
You can never say goodbye to the past Naveen, no matter how hard you try, or how far ahead you climb, they’ll always come back to haunt you. The best you can do is learn from the past, pick up your battered suitcase and then move on.
Goodnight. I have to go look for a e-card for you now.
Trying to contribute something worthy to this debate let me just tell you, Naveed, that Gulgee was one of the biggest artists of our nation and he was totally rad.
He was a nice, sweet old man and the person who murdered him is a total idiot.
We already don't have much going for us as a country and he just had to waltz in and strangle our most popular art export.
Gee, thanks.
I really just want to go outside. And I did! so YAY!
I would contribute to your argument, but honestly...you guys have long posts. Imma YouTube Bilawal and see what the fuss is all about.
Stupid internet.
Why'd he get killed if he was an artist?
My post doesn't make sense. I was sleeping when I wrote it.
Naveen, YOU change your name, I'm not changing mine acha?
Yo. That was a long post.
Naveed, I still think the emergency had an important affect on all of us. I can see how it probably didn’t affect you so much. Firstly, you live in Islamabad. Islamabad is always normal no matter what. Islamabad is the government. The government imposed the emergency. All protests and everything else did not happen in Islamabad, but in other cities, like Karachi. So even though you were still following your normal routine, many of us here weren’t. Many people protested, shops were closed for a day and great misery surrounded everyone, everywhere. Also, the emergency was more like the country being under Martial law. Martial Law is imposed by the Chief of Army Staff, and guess who that was? Musharraf, who is also our president. When emergency was imposed, it was imposed by ‘Chief of Army Staff Musharraf’ and not by ‘President Musharraf.’ Ofcourse, Martial Law is condemned by the United States and the UNO, which is why it was called an ‘emergency’ rather than Martial Law. Our constitution was suspended, I dunno how you can say it didn’t affect us. What is a country without a constitution?
Pakistan always claimed to be a federal republic, but tell me, do you really think it IS a federal republic like it claims to be? You don’t even NEED to look in the past, just look at the present. Musharaf is a dictator although obviously he and his government will never use that word. A dictator is someone that Pakistan really doesn’t need at the moment, and someone who the rest of the world looks down on. A liar will never admit he is a liar. A murderer will never admit he is a murderer. Musharraf will never admit he is a dictator. He dissolved the judiciary just before it was about to announce that Benazir Bhutto could enter the country. Musharraf could not face the threat of Benazir, who is [or rather, was] the chair person of the most widely supported political party ever known to Pakistan. [BILAWAL NOW HAS HER POST =DDDDD]
Musharraf also dissolved the constitution when he declared emergency [which was actually Martial Law] so that he has no opposition. Now tell me yourself, would the leader of a federal government do that? Musharraf may not be a dictator, but he has done many things to prove that he is.
Secondly, yes, we are Pakistani no matter where we are, what we do, have no clue about our culture. Bilawal Bhutto, he hadn’t ever been to Pakistan, never studied the Pakistani culture, he studied abroad his whole life, he doesn’t speak a word of Urdu and he is probably one of the most passionate Pakistanis I have ever come across during my life.
Even if the kid in Canada that you used in your example doesn’t have a clue or give a crap about Pakistan, at some point in his life, he will have a certain desire to visit Pakistan, to acknowledge the Pakistani culture, to eat biryani and wear shalwar kameez.
A sense of belonging is vital to man’s existance. The cave men for example always travelled in packs, why? If they refused, if they tried to live individually and not associate themselves with the pack, they would be left behind, they would die, because man cannot live on his own. Ever. A person without friends is not normal, not like his peers because he doesn’t have a sense of belonging. Sure, I kinda get what you mean by we don’t need to have a sense of belonging to survive, but we need one if we want to live a normal, good life.
Sure theres been a huge ecnomic growth in the country under Musharraf but incase you haven’t noticed, this ecnomic growth isn’t quite helping the poor people of this country [who by the way make up the majority of the population] HAVE YOU NOTICED THE PRICES THESE DAYS? There is so much poverty in this country, more than ever now because of the evergrowing prices. The rich people are the ones getting positively affected by this ecnomic growth. A poor person in this country is finding it very hard to take care of his familys needs. To sum it up in a few words : the rich keep getting richer and the poor keep getting poorer. There is a nearly non-existant [how do we spell that?] middle class, which causes a lot of problems the biggest one being the exploitment of the poor by the rich.
Do you really think life has to be difficult? Life doesn’t have to be hard, it actually depends on you, if you’re going to make it hard for yourself or not. Face whatever has happened to you in your past, whats done is done. Face it, accept it and recover from it. That’s life, you live, you have a hard time somewhere in the middle , you accept it, you learn and you recover.
I find it unbelievable how you doubt if hope exists. Ofcourse hope exists. When you say ‘I wish my exams go well’ there is hope in there. There is hope in every single thing you do, everything you do.
Ugh okay fine, lets take death. Why do you like death so much? As in, do you think of death as an escape? How do you know it’ll be better than the life you’re living in? You just lie around in your grave, in the darkness or whatever. You think that’s better than the life you’re living right now? Just because you think YOUR life sucks doesn’t mean that life actually sucks. You’ve probably heard this a dozen million times : life is a test. You go through tough times but the real deal is if you’re strong enough to go ahead and lead the life you always wanted to without anything getting in your way. If you let something make you sad or get in the way, you’re screwed. Well not really, its never too late to change. I quote my favourite Blind Melon song ‘when life gets sad, you need to change’
‘You can never say goodbye to the past Naveen, no matter how hard you try, or how far ahead you climb, they’ll always come back to haunt you’
Well yeah, you can’t forget your past [unless you get a memory disorder or something] but you can look back at it and smile. Think of where you’ve started, how much you’ve acomplished and where you are at the moment. Be proud of what you’ve done. That’s what life is all about. You have only one life, live it in such a way that when you die, you’re proud of everything you’ve done.
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