Re: Arsalan iftikhar appointed Vice President Board of investment balochistan
Wow you were really angry when you wrote the first reply.. :D
Ok, lets cool down. I know that you have a crush on imran and PTI, but lets look at things logically.
First of all, you hate liberals yet you don't live in afghanistan, somalia or EVEN Pakistan but in UK, one of the most nanga panga and bay rah roo mulk. Before that, when did JUI and PLM-n, who were doing character assassination of IK since 1996 became liberals? MQM came much later than that and they can say that you insulted their leader as well... ;)
Secondly, i didn't see murad saeed interrupting arsalan iftikhar and saying that 'No, my leader didn't say that (the accusations', so I assume that imran in his josh jalsa did say that. Calling someone corrupt, thug or even shehzada (in a wrong way..) can be construed as a personal insult as well. He used to tell nawaz kee phaintee lagee before election, so it is very much possible that he did it here as well. That is perhaps pakistani politicis but he should be man enough to admit that he has a shortcoming with Tyrian. I don't know the status now but imran did try to deny that she even existed in the first place. I'd rather have honesty than fake piousness.
Thirdly, imran wants to be liberal or portray himself as one in western media, but he has a soft corner for taliban. He used to cry on TV that they don't allow him in karachi (MQM had used some safety exception) but he has no problem with the fact that the taliban were allowed to take over FATA and that even army should not be allowed there when, unlike karachi, FATA is an international porous border and we know that afghans have designs on that area. I still remember his interviews where he was so excited about sharia in SWAT and how "liberal fascists" hate Pakistan and islam all that but he was forced to admit that SWAT needed an operation later even though waziristan followed different rules compared to Swat. If he likes these people so much, then he should remember that under their sharia law, nothing is 'forgiven' per se and he would need to be sangsaar or something else for his "crimes". I admit that I am not 100% sure on the exact punishment but there would be some reckoning when it comes to islam. If you want to taken seriously, heck not even a liberal, then chehk chehk kay na bolo talibani ki shariat ko islami shariat.
PS I do like reading many of your posts ,but please go back and see that you look like Saleema here with your emotional defense of imran khan. This childish attitude like MQM that someone called imran playboy, when there is evidence of it in the past, so you hit the other guy makes "niralas" no better than altafians or jiyalas.
Crush on Imran, lol. He's actually even older than my father in age, but I'm definitely inspired by his dedication and sincerity and the strength of character since a very very young age, and I have no qualms about admitting that. Whether it makes me look like a Jiyala, Nirala, I don't give a flying funk. That's for others to cry about. I know where I stand. Even likes of you know that there's an earth and sky difference between Imran, Altaf, Bhuttos and Sharif brothers, but somehow it's becoming a fashionable fad to mindlessly lump them all together.
And I "hate" liberals. Excuse me? Where on earth did you get that, I'd like to know. There was a certain irony in that post that you obviously failed to detect. As you rightly pointed out that I'm a product of perhaps the most Godless and liberal countries in the world, I can tell that likes of of JUI, PMLN, MQM are nothing but a horrid insult on liberalism. Thankfully, Imran doesn't feel the need to brand himself as one. But from whatever little politics I have studied, I can pretty much conclude that his polices (barring the War of course) are perhaps more in synch with the political concepts of liberalism than any other parties'. Now I don't know whether my next point has any bearing on the discussion we're having now, but I must confess that I genuinely find it absolutely sickening how Muslims have purposely reduced Islam to women, zinna and beard, if not that, then as we all know through the eyes of the world that Islam is all about violence and use of force. Even I as a Muslim find such practices and ideas absolutely repulsive.
You are wrong to compare public corruption with strictly personal failing. Corruption directly effects millions of Pakistanis, whereas how Tyrian possibly effects the lives of average Pakistanis, in any way, is beyond me. I really like to believe that personal life is indeed personal life (it is for that reason I don't give a hoot about how many wives SS currently have). If Pakistani men (yes I do find that Pakistani are men far more obsessed and upset over sexuality of other men as oppose to women) are so bothered about launching any sexually motivated witch hunt then let's start off with snooping on all Pakistanis politicians who had or are having multiple extra marital affairs, arrange adult entertainment at house parties, visit brothels, indulge in binge drinking etc, and then talk about Islam. Once you actually consider the lavish and lewd lifestyles of Pakistani politicians, Immy looks like a monk in comparison. Unfortunately, his only crime was that he was a Western media's darling during his cricketing years, more than the Pakistani media, it was them who glamourised and documented every bit of his stardom.
Anyway, I don't know but I think you've confused me with the Pathan boy in the video (bless him, he really can't fight). He was wrong to react. Forget about any physical conduct, he shouldn't have reacted at all in any way, not even verbally. This word 'Playboy' really doesn't mean a thing anymore. Imran has come a massively long way to be effected by any of that crap anymore. And as far as my opinions are concerned, evem I don't find Imran being called a playboy offensive, maybe it's got something to with the general laid back culture of the country of my birth. But really, Imran probably was whatever you say he was. If he doesn't deny his past, why should I bother get offended? However, I often do find the casual firing of the word quite off topic and in general, see it as a very stale, old, tired desperate and powerless comeback. Other than that what else can I say, that guy managed to survive Zia's Mullahcracy, wrath of "liberals" from PMLN, JUI, MQM, now the only way I can see him getting flogged to death according to oh so Islamic punishment is either he moves to Saudi Arabia or we have Taliban shariah in the country. Clearly even the deeply conservative and strictly tribal population of KPK doesn't mind the skeletons in his closet, so who are we really appealing to here?