Re: Jiyo President General Pervez Musharraf!
Never in our last 60 years has the press and media been as free as it is today, barring a few recent hiccups. What sort of a ‘dictator’ is he who allows himself to be lampooned on television, abused in the National Assembly, traduced in the press, and allows the judges to overrule his fiat?
a very dheeth one, indeed. He doesn't watch tv, he could care less what they say about him. back in the day when the media was confined in restriction the rulers at the time knew there was only one channel and three or four papers that could strongly influence people's minds. Now there's a bombardment of tv channels and newspapers that people can get their info from....if they want to, however, most are watching indian soaps etc.
2nd part of the argument against this boasting of media freedom is that the dictator has made people in our country so poor and their households so problem infest financially that they only care about food for themselves and children. This is the ground reality. Ramazan arrival last month and the food prices were jacked 10%. All of a sudden, "atta" (flour) disappeared from the market. people have no money to eat because mehangai iskadar ho gaye hai. in his 8 years of service what has he done for the poor population which now exists in masses. no clean water to drink, no money for food or education for their children.....heck, no electricity.
you can post all the GDP growth lists and stock market boost statistic and they're all in your faces because we all know what the condition is like for a middle-class or a poor person.
Shame on our supposedly free media for not blowing this rigged and fake presidential election into bits.