Re: MQM walks out from Swat deal NA vote [merged]
^ what about raising hands for opposing the deal?
Re: MQM walks out from Swat deal NA vote [merged]
A cheap publicity stunt by MQM. No surprises there.
MQM could afford to "walk out" because its vote for or against would not have made a single bit of difference, the ordinance passed w/out MQM any way. If anything this shinanigan by MQM has only worked to prove that MQM is a pseudo-secular party, that lives off of publicity thrills.
MQM had the luxury to "walk out" because its comfy in Karachi/Hyd, its govt. is not being threatened. PPP on the other hand had to worry about ANP withdrawing from province and center, which would have proven disasterous for the democracy of Pakistan. So in effect, MQM's act pretty much translates "We are against Swat peoples' wishes, and would not care if democracy is destabilized". It's a known fact mqm would have found itself shaking hands with a general, if one came. That has always been the case.
so to the thread starter and galvinizing first post "boo hoo! the ordinance passed without mqm." thank you very much. Next time make noise when the people of Swat are being hunted down, and start a rally instead of telePhony khitaabs. Or better yet, make noise about drone attacks which kill 96% civilians for the sake of 4% bad guys :), n walk out over that.
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Already many rallies has been conducted in Karachi against talib terrorists while the state and every other party surrenders.
Poor Sikh families are being asked to pay jizia taxes as taliban takes over a states functions. Soon they may appoint their own ambassadors.
Daily Times - Leading News Resource of Pakistan
Sikh families leave Orakzai after Taliban demand jizia
By Abdul Saboor Khan
HANGU: Sikh families living in Orakzai Agency have left the agency after the Taliban demanded Rs 50 million as jizia (tax) from them, official sources and locals said on Tuesday.
Residents of Ferozekhel area in Lower Orakzai Agency told Daily Times on Tuesday that around 10 Sikh families left the agency after the demand by the Taliban, who said they were a minority and liable to pay the tax for living in the area in accordance with sharia.
Locals said the Taliban had notified the Sikh families about the ‘tax’ around a week ago. They said of the 15 Sikh families in Ferozekhel, 10 had shifted while the remaining were preparing to do so.
The locals said the families were impoverished and had left the area to avoid any Taliban action.
Re: MQM walks out from Swat deal NA vote [merged]
Vigoratus
whatever it was, it was better than the sheeple sitting in our assemblies who unanimously surrendered to these moronic militants.
I agree this may very well have been a cheap publicity stunt. I wonder what stunts the other parties were playing.
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other parties have gotten a few things right in recent history that has put them on the national map once again.
Judiciary march, people from all parties except mqm participated. mqm did its best to coordinate with ppp to arrest people and block their way coming from karachi towards lahore and onwards to rwp/isb
working with all the parties to pass swat ordinance (giving people a system they wanted since 1979 when it was taken away from them), while mqm walks out as a loner.
shouldn't mqm have been a prime participant in both, because it represents the people of pakistan, and a middle class that is voice of pakistan?
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^ what about raising hands for opposing the deal?
Yeah, they should have.
But what they did, was still much much better than those who supported this deal.
So still I don't see why they should be criticised.
Why make it a habit to criticise mqm for everything good and bad, they do, while ignoring those who are really bending over for mullahs here.
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Yeah, they should have. But what they did, was still much much better than those who supported this deal. So still I don't see why they should be criticised.
Why make it a habit to criticise mqm for everything good and bad, they do, while ignoring those who are really bending over for mullahs here.
Why criticise MQM? If someone is trying to put bad actions as good actions then what do you expect? :)