Amina Jilani a very bright writer herself and secretary to very learned free lance writer Mr. Ardshir Cowasjee writes very touchy points. On a recent Human Rights Watch report concerning Okara Dairy Farm issue, the Government spokesman Maj. General Shaukat Sultan accused HRW interfering in Pakistanis internal affairs and reportedly remarked that authors of the report are nobody to say anything”.
Amina Jilani commenting on this in her column entitled Home on the Range in Daily Nation of Lahore on 25.7.2004
writes that historically Pakistan Army has viewed the Okara area as its backyard and the local people as subservient allies, hence many in the Military are outranged that peasant farmers would dare revolt against them.
I had and still have a great respect for our Army. But it has now started depleting from the day when I read that National Stadium Karachi land it has taken for housings. It is the height of the greed.
A few literate working class Pakistanis working abroad had applied for telephone connections for their homes in Pakistan. They had a real problem contacting their homes. There only contact was a PCO located in their area. They would ring the PCO and affix with it a time and then next day at fixed time find their families sitting in PCO. PCO charged the families. Government had allowed priority telephone connections to those working abroad who had sent Rs. 100,000 continuously for three years. These workers had but even then they did not get telephone. One day these workers approached the Pakistani community center there for help. The community center got for them typed a Petition to Mohtasib e Alla. As per the practice the typist clerk typed one single joint Petition. The name address of one Petitioner required for correspondence was given and rest 5/6 co-petitioners only gave their names, telephone application registration numbers and signed the joint Petition. The area where telephone was to be installed was under jurisdiction unfortunately of military authorities. The reply which came to the Mohtasib from concerned military department was “we cannot allow some one to become a Union leader”. This was a reference to the first Petitioner whose name appeared on top. It was indirectly a harassment causing remark. The semi literate workers got in harassment. Unfortunately Mohtasib did not take any note of this sentence. These people till last year did not have telephones.
Amina Jilani is right that military people can not bear small creatures of the street ever daring to speak a world against what is told them to do.
Re: Dont Speak Before Uniforms
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.. On a recent Human Rights Watch report concerning Okara Dairy Farm issue, ....
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I have read the report that says famers are being "tortured to force them to pay rent".
Some farmers refuse to pay rent and the NGO make it a world level issue. This is nothing but bunch of Commie lefties trying to malign Pak army.
bunch of commies dont need to malign the pakistan army, get out of your cucoon and go to pakistan, you will see that ordinary citizens of pakistan spit at the officiers of pakistan army. the amount of hatred or atleast lack of concern is so rampant that you wont believe it. and pakistan army has only its officiers to thank for that.
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bunch of commies dont need to malign the pakistan army, get out of your cucoon and go to pakistan, you will see that ordinary citizens of pakistan spit at the officiers of pakistan army. the amount of hatred or atleast lack of concern is so rampant that you wont believe it. and pakistan army has only its officiers to thank for that.
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Half of my family is in the army. We lost relatives in 48, 65, 71, Siachin, and Kargil. Only commies and lefties can hate Pak army that has given so much blood for the country.
We are now ready to teach a lesson to Araab troublemakers. Just see what we do with our boots on Araab behind.
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Half of my family is in the army. We lost relatives in 48, 65, 71, Siachin, and Kargil. Only commies and lefties can hate Pak army that has given so much blood for the country.
We are now ready to teach a lesson to Araab troublemakers. Just see what we do with our boots on Araab behind.
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so if half of your family is in the army, it means that army must be good? in your dreams. pakistani public hates the army because of the rampant corruption and the lack of care for ordinary pakistanis shown by the elite of the armed forces. pak army giving blood to defend pakistan has done no special service to pakistan. for Allah's sake they are paid half of our budget to do that damn job. and i m not a commi or a lefty, i m just a muslm who hates the nazi like nationalism that is prevelant in the people of pakistan. down with nationalism.
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public hates the army
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Yeap Hindustani and OinkBL followers hate Pak army. I know why. Well the army is kicking their behinds.
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pak army giving blood to defend pakistan has done no special service to pakistan.
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yeap! Bha-Rat-i thought Pakistan will be gone by 1949. They burn in anguish to see even the name Pakistan in the news. Burn baby! burn!
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i m not a commi or a lefty, i m just a muslm who hates the nazi like nationalism that is prevelant in the people of pakistan.
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This sounds like a Bha-Rat-i logic. Only a Hindu-stan-i would hate any Pak-nationalist.
