Re: Musicians speak on the current situation
Why just blame Rohail Hayyat, because he gave the music for KKL? what about the other two with similar staements?
“The media had an opportunity to be responsible but the media had let go of all their aesthetics,” says Ali Hamza and adds, “taali do haaton sey bajti hai (it takes two hands to clap). Everyone had a role to play in what has happened today, the judiciary and the media.” Of course President Musharraf’s role in the way he dealt with these pillars of democracy is a non-issue for musicians who believe that news channels are responsible for what has happened."
Shafqat Amanat Ali Khan agrees with him (RH). “To a certain extent media did cross a line. There are limits to everything. The Lal Masjid footage shouldn’t have been shown on television because it really destroyed our image in the world, the image we have been struggling to change for so long.”
And other musicians like Abbas Ali Khan present a view which is rather mind boggling. “To some extent media is responsible Negativity has been in the air for the last few months,” he recalls. “Back in the old days, even when the political situation was bad, people were living in some peace because there was little propaganda on television. Now people are living in constant fear.”