I have turned against Musharraf

Sa1eem · November 10, 2007, 3:08pm

Re: I have turned against Musharraf

It has never been so bad for Pakistan. We have had dictators before. But none of them, even Zia ul-Haq, the man responsible for much of the woes of Pakistan including the Taleban and jihadism, had not made criticizing him a capital offense. Musharraf has done that. How can criticizing an individual and his policies be treason? We have heard of this only in communist dictatorships. Now we hear it from a man, marketed by the leading democracies of the world as the savior to bring us pure democracy.

Four men — three politicians and a labor leader — are now in jail, charged with treason. Treason is not criticizing dictatorship. It is destroying the constitutional institutions of a nation and using a position of trust — that of the chief of the forces given the job of defending the nation’s sovereignty at an annual cost of billions of taxpayers’ money — to enslave the same taxpayers and seal their mouths shut.

If there is to be a trial for treason, we Pakistanis know who should be in the dock.

You sure have your right to choose what you want and what you support. That is call democracy :). Aap ko aap kee ‘new choice’ mumarak hou and I hope that you stay happy in your new choice.

As for what you wrote I also heard that on GEO, but I have heard many funny things on GEO and read many funny things in Pakistani Newspaper, even after Emergency, that I found nothing but blatant lies. If you want to, I have article published in not from obscure news media like ‘Times on line’ full of fabricated propagandas, but from so-called eminent newspaper ‘DAWN’ where the article is published with full of obvious lies, on 7th Nov 2007, much after emergency.

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As for charges of treason just because someone criticized President, it is really funny that of all known people openly criticizing Musharraf and present government, government would crack down on some unknown entities of some unknown political parties. How much truth or fiction is there in this news is obvious that the paper quoted the incidence did not even bother to quote their name. And which party they belong to? According to newspaper, party is National party and whose spokesman is Jan Buledi.

Not surprisingly that many Pakistan known print media did not heard of this important news, as if there was truth in it, most print media had covered it.

If unknown entities get charged of treason in Pakistan, it is great thing as they could become political hero. Only big political entities are normally charged on treason. In Pakistan, to get charged of treason, one have to be something big, not lalu, panju dagga, and ullu. Most big boys in politics, that include names like Shaikh Rashid, Javed Hashmi, and many others have served Jail sentence on charges of treason, and even BB, NS and almost all top leaders are charged or labelled with treason in Pakistan.
Just for curiosity, can you please let me know the names of these new elites that got charged of treason?

I am sure that you must be thinking that National party is probably the one of the known opposition party and their spokesman Jan Buledi is Pakistani famous politician :). But then how sad, it is my ignorance that I have not heard of the party or their spokesman ever .

Bhai, do you think that government of Pakistan has so much time to go for unknown entities and charge them of treason when so many known entities are running around and impact of charging them of treason could be felt? As for unknown entities if they are really true entities, the one mentioned in ‘News on line’, are to be punished for some unknown reason, Pakistan government punish them without any charges.

Anyhow, let wait and see, please keep all of us abreast with the news, about what happens to these 4 eminent bodies of ‘National Party’ charged with treason, as obviously I do not expect their news and the result of their treason charges to come in any known media, but maybe your source would know.

I am waiting for the day when any person in Pakistan would get death penalty on treason charges, as what I know this is the most politicised charge in Pakistan and only reserved for big political personalities. As for unknown entities, government do not bother about them and let them bark whatever they like.