Live Updates of Azadi March

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Re: Live Updates of Azadi March

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Moeed Pirzada

5 hrs · .

Correction:- PM actually didn’t meet the Pakistani American community at all. The meeting in a small room at the 18th floor of Astoria Waldorf Hotel was only with select trusted PMLN party workers. Only 30-40 people from outside the hotel were allowed in; even most PMLN workers who had gathered outside the Hotel were not allowed in by security. Technically if you say PMLN workers are Pakistani community then PM did have a meeting but not the way a confident Nawaz Sharif - a public leader with huge following - would meet the Pak-American community. Usually such meetings are held in large halls with hundreds of people and Musharraf in his last few years had to face embarrassments when Pakistani Americans asked difficult questions or booed him.

But what does it tell us about Nawaz Sharif? It shows that he is “under-siege”. He has gone out to UN and New York to demonstrate his confidence and to show that he is over his political crisis and is in firm control. However the challenge he faces is that unlike Pakistan where his Police thugs can arrest people arbitrarily, Exec-Magistrates can send them to jail without the right of hearing and people can be beaten and taught a lesson and State Bank and Judiciary can come up with helpful tactical support against political opponents, no such facilities are available in democratic New York where Pakistani Americans will not be afraid of asking difficult question or booing because there is no Punjab Police waiting for them outside the hall. But for Nawaz to be so afraid of these slogans of “Go Nawaz Go” and difficult questions shows how uncomfortable he is with this political challenge and how insecure he is in facing up to criticism.

And we hear that Nirendra Modi - the Indian PM - is doing marathon public meetings and will meet series of international politicians and businessmen and top dignitaries. What is the difference? Modi despite all his difficult past is a natural born, self-made leader that has learnt to stand up to adversity but Pakistani PM simply does not have that leadership metal. Otherwise how important are few angry protesters inside a large meeting hall?

well apa, same moeed is saying this about Nawaz speech. I hope you will consider his statement as he supports PTI and Imran.

**Moeed Pirzada
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38 mins ·

PM Nawaz Speech at UNGA was not bad. If anything it was a good balanced speech. Off course it was not written by Nawaz; he would not even grasp some of the concepts or terms -or their real importance - mentioned in the speech. But such speeches are always written by Foreign Policy Experts and in Tariq Fatemi, NS has an excellent Adviser with a balanced world view and we assume it must have been written by Fatemi.

But Nawaz Sharif had to approve the gist and the substance and in times of political crisis like these …

…Nawaz had no option but to go with this script and he read it well. He did not misspell, he did not fumble, he did not looked out of touch. Since it was a written script and he merely read it out, and in any case, he is not a very good speaker for such international situations but then in Pakistan who are we comparing to whom? Nawaz read it better than Zardari. He is no Oxbridge or Harvard type but from normal South Asian standards it was fine.

(It was better than his performance in front of the PMLN workers in Astoria Waldorf with Ptv camera introducing them as Pak-American community; who was actually waiting for him outside UN)

But speeches are not only about “written scripts” and reading them out. Good speakers - even when speeches are written for them - identify with the substance, mark their stresses and pauses for they believe in what they are saying. For Public leaders of the stature of Prime Ministers it is far more important because you have to bring out a soul of a nation through your words and gestures. From that point of view this speech was lacking in spirit and mental synchronization with words.