Re: Rally to launch Bilawal Bhutto’s political career - will be held in Great Britain
SaadiaB I dont have the video but it was being shown on every news channel yesterday … you might find it on youtube 
..I will see if i can find it …
the absence of democracy in PPP is evident from this single event. in any democratic country it would be unthinkable to have this launch rally at this time, at this location, with all the negative media coverage wrt zardari's foreign trips. if it were a party that cared about public perception this would have been put off. but they dont. they know that in the long run it wont matter. the prince will become prime minister when his turn comes (my crystal ball says 4 years after NS's rule and 4 years before NS's son's rule).
its a pity that ANP dont broaden their agenda to become a competetive political party in punjab and sindh. they have a great outlook and history, solid internal democracy, and could have saved us from passed between the bhutto clan and the Sharif clan.
you r right they should..but we are waching the result in the sindh right now..75 pashtun have been killed with in 3 days...
Re: Rally to launch Bilawal Bhutto's political career - will be held in Great Britain
Zardari and his son are a disgrace!
After Bilawal will get into politics, he'll most likely get his father assassinated. LOL
Re: Rally to launch Bilawal Bhutto's political career - will be held in Great Britain
From what I hear a protest rally is being organised in Birmingham and probably will be bigger than the circus which Zardari will be holding.
Re: Rally to launch Bilawal Bhutto's political career - will be held in Great Britain
any links to the protest EB? I might turn up
Bilawal should learn a lesson from the untimely deaths of the elders of the bhutto family.
He should just spend his life peacefully in UK or some other western country. Otherwise if he is planning to get into politics in Pakistan then he may not live very long
Re: Rally to launch Bilawal Bhutto’s political career - will be held in Great Britain
I think all of us near brummieland should go to protest … tell the baby snake what we think of his father 
I hate this family with a passion … they are the worst nightmare that a nation like pakistan could encounter :hinna:
Re: Rally to launch Bilawal Bhutto’s political career - will be held in Great Britain
^ Agreed.
So your a brummie Lad 
Okay i’m not a UK born boy but i’ll gladly march with you if you will… I’ll even be your security what d you say… 
any links to the protest EB? I might turn up
I will post details here when I get more info
Birmingham Rally to launch Pakistan's future PM/President
One million are expected to endorse Bilawal Zardari Bhutto at a rally in Birmingham. Zardari is on a lvaish trip to UK to launch his son in politics.
Should Bilawal stay in UK or come to Pakistan?
*President of Pakistan Asif Ali Zardari will address a public meeting at Birmingham on August 7 (Saturday) and will speak about the challenges being faced by the country and the government’s efforts to meet them. *
Re: Rally to launch Bilawal Bhutto’s political career - will be held in Great Britain
Why is Imran Khan in United States and not helping flood victims?
Re: Rally to launch Bilawal Bhutto's political career - will be held in Great Britain
As usual sensational headlines by Times of India. This is what the report says that the million strong people of Pakistani origin are heavily concentrated in Birmingham, where several MPs of Pakistani descent have been elected to the House of Commons.
There are two MP's of Pakistani origin elected from Birmingham. one of them Khalid Mehmood has criticised Zardari and has refused to meet him . So has lord Nazir. The other Birmingham MP Shabana Mehmood has so far not issued any statement.
Re: Rally to launch Bilawal Bhutto's political career - will be held in Great Britain
This family needs to be eliminated before more bhuttos can be born. But maybe Bilawal is different maybe he has secular and more democratic visions but again a Bhutto will always be a Bhutto i.e corrupt and a theif.
wish Pakistanis could conjure the same kind of consensus and unity when it comes to facing mortal threats to the state that is the Taliban as they come up with when hating politicians.
as usual messed up priorities. we'll happily get together to protest something in Afghanistan or Palestine... but Ahmedis get murdered in Lahore? no worries... it's all cool. they must have done something to deserve it anyway. protest for Swat? no, it's okay. Swat is so far away and we only went there on vacation anyway. what's that... protest against suicide bombings in Peshawar? meh... it's just their culture anyway. so no worries. protest against the Sri Lankan team attack in Lahore? all Salman Taseer's fault if you're a PML-N supporter and all Shehbaz Sharif's fault if you're a PPP supporter. protest against the killings in Karachi? man, who wants to take on the terror of MQM. I think I'll stay at home... but where's that bloody Zardari. I wanna stomp all over his face.
so, yeah lets go protest against Bilawal Zardari. lets protest against drone attacks. but when it comes to figuring out what to do with animals who are threatening to take apart our country, lets sit on the fence and quibble until qiyamat is at our doorstep. are they Muslims or not? because we all know Muslims never commit crimes and that's why there are no Muslim thieves, murderers, rapists, etc. do they have beards? if so how long? are they the right length? what is the right length anyway? is it curly or is it straight? are they circumsized or not? all important facts that need to be established if we're to understand this phenomenon.
long may we continue this... until the whole country is lost. then I'm sure Islam will feed us and the ummah will take care of us as it always has supported us on Kashmir, water, etc.
Re: Rally to launch Bilawal Bhutto's political career - will be held in Great Britain
^ sure, any protest against PPP/Zardari should be put aside, we all should agree with him even if it means offering our lower-back to India because we failed to do what samb said.
^ sure, any protest against PPP/Zardari should be put aside, we all should agree with him even if it means offering our lower-back to India because we failed to do what samb said.
so, when Musharraf not only offers India our lower back and actually gets it defiled, it's all good. but heaven forbid a democratic govt should talk peace with India be it PPP or PML-N... then we're all ghairatmand and want the blood of these traitors. but when military dictators lose half the country, give up Swat, give up Kashmir, get humiliated in Kargil, it's all good. when a democratic govt accepts American aid, then they're beghairat traitors... but when Musharraf builds his whole dictatorship on foreign aid, then that is very patriotic of him. so, we only become ghairatmand under democratic govts. right?
From what I hear a protest rally is being organised in Birmingham and probably will be bigger than the circus which Zardari will be holding.
Interesting...
any links to the protest EB? I might turn up
Same here. Do update, EB, if and when you can.
Oh get over yourself.
There are so many un-islamic things that happen in Pakistan from fortune telling, to prostitution, to crime, corruption…and you are worried that his daughter wearing tight jeans sends the wrong message about Pakistan? 
Re: Rally to launch Bilawal Bhutto’s political career - will be held in Great Britain
British media turns guns on Zardari
Thursday, August 05, 2010
Independent says ‘Mr Ten Per Cent’ determined to thrust his son into politics; Guardian tells Cameron five things he must know about Pakistan; Telegraph says Zardari amassed billions of pounds; The Times shows concern at cost and purpose of Pak president’s visit
By Murtaza Ali Shah
LONDON: The British media turned its guns on President Asif Ali Zardari as he was holed up in his luxury Churchill Hotel Royal suite with his entourage.
The media highlighted how a country literally drowning as a result of the worst floods in living memory could afford a president and his lifestyle after images of the 16th-century chateau, built for the widow of King Philippe VI and now owned by Hakim Ali Zardari, were flashed where the president had stopped over for two hours.
The president was busy holding what a source in the High Commission of Pakistan called ‘in-house business meetings’. He also made a telephone call to the former prime minister Gordon Brown and met Conservative Party chair and cabinet minister Sayeeda Warsi.
The British media has been regularly covering the floods in Pakistan but as the true scale of the damage done to the country emerged, the editorials here adopted a hostile tone questioning whether it is right for the head of a democratically elected government to abandon the whole nation at such a time of mourning for a so-called official engagement from which little mileage is to be expected.
The Guardian called Pakistan “a washed-out state in need of international aid” in its leader comment and feared that an inadequate civilian response to a disaster may let the Islamists back in power in areas like Swat just like they did in the aftermath of the earthquake in Kashmir five years ago.
The Times said that the concerns at the cost and purpose Mr Zardari’s European visit will not have been allayed by pictures showing the Pakistani leader “taking off in a helicopter from the 16th century Chateau de la Reine near Rouen in Normandy, which is owned by his family.”
It said that there was growing anger to the government’s flood response, especially President Zardari’s official trip to Europe. The Mirror newspaper highlighted how Pakistan was suffering very badly in a news piece titled ‘a flood of compliant’ and noted the reaction of British Pakistanis who expressed their opposition to the president’s visit. It predicted that David Cameron would give little ground over the terror row at Friday’s talks at Chequers.
The Independent said that the real, officially, for Saturday’s speech is to shore up the Pakistani leader’s support in Britain but the real reason for his appearance will be “the young man sitting beside him in a smart suit”.
The paper compared BilawalZardari with his contemporaries and said while they will be worrying, after graduation, about paying off their heavy debts, “Bilawal is stepping straight into the political limelight as a novice 21-year-old statesman and the heir apparent to a wealthy political dynasty with an unending talent for bloody internecine strife”.
The paper said that “Mr Ten Per Cent” was determined to thrust his son into global politics as he (Zardari) “is badly in need of a boost to his support among influential British Pakistanis”. The paper speculated that on Saturday afternoon, a new member of the Bhutto clan will step forward to accept “that strangest of modern political roles - the dynastic democrat”.
The Daily Telegraph published a big piece titled “Asif Ali Zardari: life and style of Pakistan’s Mr 10 Per Cent” and charted the president’s rise to power. The paper, quoting the Accountability Bureau, claimed that the president has “amassed a property empire worth billions of pounds, with a chateau in France, homes in Britain, Spain and Florida, and bank accounts in Switzerland”.
The paper, relying on information provided by the corruption probe body, wrote that the president has interests in three properties in London and went on to describe the once ownership of 335-acre Rockwood House (known infamously as Surrey Palace in Pakistan) in the North Downs in Surrey “that came to symbolize his wealth and ambition”.
For the benefit of President Zardari and his team, the Guardian published a list of what the visiting head of Pakistan should “educate” the UK prime minister about after Pakistani officials said Mr Zardari will attempt to “educate” David Cameron about their country and region when the two men meet at a summit on Friday.
The paper highlighted that since Mr Zardari is not necessarily the most objective teacher, David Cameron should know five things about Pakistan before their meeting. 1- Terror: Pakistan is more victim than perpetrator where more than 3,000 people died in terrorist attacks in 2009, compared with about 2,000 in Afghanistan; 2 - Af-Pak Border: the Afghan-Pakistani frontier, is largely imaginary and the current border related problems were made in Britain; 3- Kashmir: India routinely blocks international discussion of Kashmir and quoted a Guardian commentary as such “not mentioning Kashmir is as sensible as not mentioning Gaza when discussing the Middle East” and asked the “plain speaking” PM not to try to dodge this issue; 4- Democracy: There are signs that the current army chief, General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani may be getting too big for his boots and posed a question to Cameron whether he would like to deal with democrats or another dictator; and 5- People: Doubling Britain’s annual £130m aid to Pakistan would be an audacious move at a time of domestic financial austerity.
The paper said it would serve the British national interest - and after the bitter arguments of recent days, would send an overdue, positive message in typical “Cameron Direct” style.