ehtasab
December 10, 2008, 5:09pm
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Now that I have served my time “for posting anti-Pakistan stuff ” (found guilty under Section 4.2.3 of the GS Penal Code ostensibly), let me clear the air a little.
I am not anti-Pakistan - I am really a Pakophile. I should have been accused of "taking too much interest in Pakistan stuff" . I read Dawn/The Friday Times/Frontier Post/Jang/etc more than I read The Times Of India. And I joined this forum at the height of the Kargil War- when Pakistan said it did not have any control over the militants on the mountains but was ‘miraculously’ able to command them to retreat after Clinton showed some love to Nawaz Sharif - yes I joined then, when I thought I had something to discuss with my Pakistani friends in the early days of Internet.
Anyways, before I break the conditions of my parole agreement - suffice to mention that no-matter-what I have been more than welcoming of the coming together of India-Pakistan in recent years. I felt like a “better” Indian when :
Indians gave a standing ovation to Pakistanis after the famous Chennai Test
Jaipur crowd egged on Kamran Akmal against Sreesanth and Kolkata crowd rooted for Shoaib Akhtar in the IPL
Ahmedabad audience supported Lahore Badshahs against the Hyderabad Team
Wasim Akram went after Hayden when Hayden called India a 3rd World Country . Also when Akram generated so much goodwill in India with his “diabetes” related work including his commercials on Indian TV
when Zardari claimed that ‘There is a little bit of India in all Pakistanis’
and when I supported Amanat Ali in the last version of Sa Re Ga Ma Pa
But now that is the past. I don’t have to say that there is a huge amount of anti-Pakistan sentiments now in India. Pakistan players in India are sure to be heckled if they were to come over now.
So how does the healing process begin? How do we reboot our relationship ? How can we get Shoaib Akhtar and Esha Deol dancing again?
Thread title obviously inspired by : Love in the Time of Cholera - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Some1 mian, no need to attempt ‘reconciliation’ of any grade, we all know you are thali ka baingan who will sway to emotions of the time, you have no control over yourself.