BY NADEEM F. PARACHA
‘Ghairat’ (pride or honour), is a term that is often heard and used in the Pakistani media these days.
This is a term usually associated with TV news anchors, talk-show hosts, analysts and members of political parties who are verbose and smug, who get more space on TV news channels than votes.
It is a term that reflects images and sounds related to the muscle-flexing, big-talking and huff-puffing ways of ultra-patriots, or in case of Pakistan’s electronic media – free-wheeling loud-mouthed charlatans playing the role of fiery dyed-in-wool patriots.
So who comprises the ‘ghairat brigade’? It is a wide spectrum: from the usual bearded and hijab-wearing kind who are rather apt at expressing nationalism with the jingoism of ‘political Islam’, to the suit-and-tie wearing man and designer-brand-carrying ladies who would have been nothing more than periodical cranks restricted on the fringes of journalism and politics had the electronic media not been so generously allowed into private (ratings-driven) hands.
The scary bit is that it is this ghairat brigade that has ironically found itself at the centre of a society in turmoil – actually answering and addressing the many political, spiritual and ideological inquiries emerging from within a highly disturbed, battered and confused society.
But I’m afraid, absolutely none of the many politicians, ‘analysts’ and media personnel who can be bracketed as being ‘ghairatmand’ have any clue whatsoever about what they are going on and on about.
Fed on various conspiracy theories and sheer political and historical myths cleverly created by intelligence agencies and pseudo-historians, most of the ghairatmand are no more informed than your average drawing-room punter – or worse, that young middle-class lad or lass who feels elated by thinking that he or she has covered all aspects of politics and religion with the help of a few lectures by a certified conspiracy crank or by watching a straight-to-YouTube ‘documentary’. Read More
My Comments:
Huzzah to drone attacks, voila to spook games, bravo to the bravos for their unlawful killings of human beings, without malice aforethought, and salute to the bandits for ravaging and ransacking the entire nation, but wait, you must deserve some reverence too, for the wounds that you inflict on Pakistani society, by trying to rob them of their right to protest, for trying to abase their just claim to oppose, for trying to savor yourself by humiliating them for demanding their sovereignty and above all for trying to aver your own self asserted grandeur.
You deserve an accolade for such an artifice article which truly correlates with your low self-esteem, lack of your self-worth and your hopelessness.
Hmm pro-Western and pro-Zionist think tank working within Pakistan, wouldn’t Tel Aviv be a better place for people like yourself?
This one is for people of Pakistan!
Pakistan is eternally tranquil in the sense of its natural pulchritude; it is loaded with gratifying natural beauteousness, its people although impecunious yet munificent at heart… God bless Pakistan and people indigenous to Pakistan, where ever they might be…
P.S. Your job is to declaim Pakistan extravagantly and violently; talk of her people in a wild or vehement way, and my job is to trash your articles. I have dedicated noxious dissension on my site to extensively trash your anti-Pakistani essays.
Sincerely,
Nawaz Ansari
