Aaj TV blacked out again!

[blain2]

I think the spotlight that has been brought upon Musharraf and Pakistan on account of these press crackdowns has been just as bad if not worse. It has made Musharraf look like a tin star general in charge of a banana republic. He would have been much better off just leaving these people alone. Eventually there would be nothing new to report and the generalized apathy would come right back.

Come now..I think you are making this to be a much bigger deal than it really is. Even in Pakistan, Musharraf's response to Ziauddin is a thing of the past...nobody is talking about it as much...none of the questions at RUSI, after Ziauddin',s pursued the same issue and he was not bothered by questions along the same theme for the rest of his visit.

The bottom line is that Pakistan is being targeted by unusual and motivated propaganda. This realization is dawning upon more and more Pakistanis who are not part of the GoP or the governing party so I think responses similar to Musharraf's will be heard more often and by many more in the coming months...the rest of the world better get used to it.

The fact that the Pakistani ambassador to the UN has to rebut the recent propaganda against Pakistan goes to tell you that everyone in Pakistan is on the edge with regards to the incessant and baseless allegations which in many cases are being perpetuated by the local press:

Pakistan's Strength
Selig S. Harrison’s Feb. 1 Op-Ed article, “Drawn and Quartered,” will confirm the belief of many Pakistanis that there is an international conspiracy to destabilize and disintegrate Pakistan, the only Islamic nuclear state.

The orchestrated campaign against President Pervez Musharraf, the denigration of the Pakistani Army, calls for the capture of Pakistan’s nuclear assets, the string of suicide bombings and terrorism in Baluchistan are all seen as aimed at this malevolent design.

Pakistan is a strong state held together solidly by the patriotism of its people and the strength of its civilian and military institutions. With a dynamic (7 percent) annual growth rate, significant foreign investment, the best performing stock exchange in Asia and the progressive reduction of poverty, all Pakistanis, including Pashtuns, Sindhis and Baluchis, are much better placed to achieve their aspirations within Pakistan, as they decided in 1947 through an irrevocable act of self-determination.

The machinations of external powers and their hired guns will not succeed.
Munir Akram
Permanent Representative, Pakistan Mission to the U.N.
New York, Feb. 1, 2008

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/05/op...artered&st=nyt

 

[MastanKhan]

Blain,

You are correct. Pakistan is being targetted and being targetted very very hard. Being a salesman , going through sales training and training sales staff myself, I can tell you that certain members of the political parties of PPP and PM-N have gone through strenous training. They have been trained in target targeted questioning, taking a point and continuously harping on it---they have an extremely high quality media disinformation campaign managers on the payrolls who are directing and guiding the focus of the media on certain key issues all the time 24 / 7. This campaign is of such a grand scale and of mega proportions that once and if the details come out, it would be totally mind boggling.

I do have reasons to believe that along with some western nations, one of our close neighbours is very deeply involved and could possibly be a leading member in this disinformation and maligning campaign against pakistan.

These people were extremely close to success---but inadvertantly they came across a very unexpected hurdle---AKA George Bush---regardless of what people say and said about him---he didnot flinch for a moment and stood by his man Pres Musharraf.

The tragedy in whole of this affair is that as usal as the heritage of a lots of muslims goes---it is our very own who are ready to destroy what we have achieved just so that they can get in power.