Why My Father Hated India

[53fd]

I feel sorry for the poor lad, he seems to be having some personal, insecurity issues.

 

[Punjabbi Munda]

One guy goes pro India and stands against flaws in the way Islam is followed in Pakistan,he's hated!

I support Aatish Taseer!,modern thinking and thinking that goes beyond 'islam'.

 

[takeiteasy]

Bringing Farsi/Dari back, may have some logic to it because:
1) Language of the Mughal Empire which many Pakistanis can relate to
2) Dari is spoken in Afghanistan, and Tajik in Tajikistan

So the more different Pakistan and India are, the better.
In fact if Pakistan could cease bilateral relations with India, I would support this due to the territorial disputes between Pakistan and India.

Dari/Farsi as the national language of Pakistan and distancing from Hindi culture(especially the Indian border region- west punjabis) will Help Pakistan and India. Don't take it as an invasion on local culture neither as a flamebait. think like Farsi as a sacred language of the Persian Empire Which Pakistan also was partly a member. if Urdoo can be learned by the Generations in Pakistan, Why not Look Westward? Farsi is a rich language just like Urdoo is. Indian Culture does not fit in with Middle Eastern Culture. Few are blind to believe so.

 

[S.M.R]

The article is nothing but a rubbish.

It is actually a collection of rants coming out from large number of people living in india having hatred towards Pakistan.

 

[Hulk]

This Aatish Taseer was not even a legitimate child of Salman Taseer. He was the love child of an indian woman who Salman had an affair with. Salman Taseer never even married than indian lady and left that child with that indian lady back in india.

A bastard would be an appropriate term for this Aatish Taseer.

That IMO shows Character of Salaman Taseer.

 

[newdelhinsa]

Mullah brigade first humiliated him and now has declared his son a bastard, but haven't shown their own DNA profiles; if matching with the same men they think are their fathers?

Dejected by own party, disgraced by his own people, killed from point blank range, humliated by masses; showering flowers on his assassin, refused by his son three years before his death, exposed by his own written line providing good insight of his and Pakistani psychic.

oh... what a inconvenience for a Pakistani who did an accident with an India lady; who she is still leading a life full of dignity and respect in India.

 

[ice_man]

well atleast AATISH got to make some money from his fathers death by writting this crap piece of an article!!! glad he did!

the problem is simple till 80s pakistan was wayahead of india economically and in every other way yet being ahead came naturally to pakistan....india took over pakistan'seconomy in the last 10 years something they had never felt they just can't handle their own rise! let them enjoy their moment of glory however, they are obsessed by being ahead of us they have never been hence can't control themselves!

 

[notsuperstitious]

Ten days before he was assassinated in January, my father, Salman Taseer, sent out a tweet about an Indian rocket that had come down over the Bay of Bengal: "Why does India make fools of themselves messing in space technology? Stick 2 bollywood my advice."

Had Taseer kept himself to making such illogical hateful tweets about India, that would have atleast kept him alive today and earned innumerable supporters (just visit Indian space capabilities thread)!

Unfortunately, he had to go and speak about that black law!

Mullah brigade first humiliated him and now has declared his son a bastard, but haven't shown their own DNA profiles; if matching with the same men they think are their fathers?

Dejected by own party, disgraced by his own people, killed from point blank range, humliated by masses; showering flowers on his assassin, refused by his son three years before his death, exposed by his own written line providing good insight of his and Pakistani psychic.

oh... what a inconvenience for a Pakistani who did an accident with an India lady; who she is still leading a life full of dignity and respect in India.

+1
The two nation theory was a self fulfilling prophecy!

 

[Rafi]

had to do with politics and less to do with language issue.......there is no law in Pakistan where people are forced to speak the language. It comes naturally.

Let people be who they want to be? Here's something to ponder: I'm a Pakhtun Pakistani by ethnicity...At home I speak Pashto. I recognize Urdu as my national language. I speak the language with fellow Pakistanis. I cling to it proudly. Multi-lingualism exists everywhere in Pakistan, I'm no "special case"

(look at Pakistani_Nationalist --who is Baloch Pakistani and speaks flawless Urdu; look at Taimikhan or Jana who are Pakhtuns who speak Urdu; look at Huda who is as Sindhi as it gets --she speaks better Urdu than I do!)


I think it's silly to keep on going into the language thing; it's equally silly for indians --such as the confused author of the article posted --to claim that Pakistanis are "obcessed" with india --whom we simply view as an enemy country and not much else. In Pakistan, I can assure you that nobody talks about india or indians --though they will acknowledge that they dont view india favourably. That is only natural.

to claim that this is the reason why our economy or other national matters are not so favourable is beyond absurd. The economy was in far worse shape in the early-mid 1990s and yet the country made a comeback in the early-mid 2000s. The governance (lack thereof) is what leads Pakistan to its issues; not to mention external issues beyond our locus-of-control.


as for the author...well, actually, it's hard not to feel sorry for the guy....his estranged Pakistani father abandoned him and hardly acknowledged him. If only Freud were still around it would be interesting to hear what theories he would have for this fatherless, confused indian child

maybe the turban is tied too tight

The suffers from his parents estrangement - he needs to give it some justification.

 

[muse]

The writing is so brutally honest and I think so instructive (from my perspective) - I think insulting the author is simply uncalled for -

Want to bring the attention of Pakistani and Indian readers to the notion of change and the re-prioritization of values - consider this as you read the author explain the Pakistan and India before the Islamization of Pakistan and the Liberalization of India

 

[ice_man]

Why My Father Hated India

Aatish Taseer, the son of an assassinated Pakistani leader, explains the history and hysteria behind a deadly relationship

And yet, in 1980, my father would still have felt that the partition had not been a mistake, for one critical reason: India, for all its democracy and pluralism, was an economic disaster.

Pakistan had better roads, better cars; Pakistani businesses were thriving; its citizens could take foreign currency abroad. Compared with starving, socialist India, they were on much surer ground. So what if India had democracy? It had brought nothing but drought and famine.



As India rose, thanks to economic liberalization, Pakistan withered. The country that had begun as a poet's utopia was reduced to ruin and insolvency.



—Mr. Taseer is the author of "Stranger to History: A Son's Journey Through Islamic Lands." His second novel, "Noon," will be published in the U.S. in September.

Why My Father Hated India - WSJ.com

THIS FACT is something we lived with for 40 years effortlessly however india just can't digest its own rise! its just too much for itself to handle hence jibes at pakistan

 

[Rafi]

THIS FACT is something we lived with for 40 years effortlessly however india just can't digest its own rise! its just too much for itself to handle hence jibes at pakistan

We do not hate indians <sic> we distrust, our enemy the entity to the east as a state -

 

[Indrajith]

Dear Pakis, be straight , is pakistan now a confused state that is different from its births, have they not been moved out of thier honest and simple culture to more of the culture and teachings that was imported from arabs

 

[Areesh]

Dear Pakis, be straight , is pakistan now a confused state that is different from its births, have they not been moved out of thier honest and simple culture to more of the culture and teachings that was imported from arabs

Isn't this word prohibited on this forum? Or I missed some change in the laws.

 

[Indrajith]

Sorry for my mistake , i didnt mean to annoy any one, sorry my dear friends, what i ment was for people of pakistan