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We remain silent or, worse, misrepresent the ongoing Shia genocide in Pakistan by dishonestly giving it ethnic or sectarian colour. We blame Zia.

We work in dodgy think tanks which publish and reinforce the Deep State’s views and policies on Afghanistan and Kashmir. We blame Zia.

We never visit victims of the ongoing Ahmadi persecution, those whose graves and mosques are being desecrated and ordinary citizens being target killed, to offer our sympathies and support. We blame Zia.

We present and promote Hamid Mir and other pro-Taliban agency-thugs as anti-ISI heroes, and icons of journalism. We blame Zia.

We criticize “incompetent and corrupt” elected leaders, undermine democratic governments, become a part of ISI-sponsored caretaker governments. We blame Zia.

We keep serving corporate interests of private media whose policies and agendas remain shaped by programme ratings and loyalties to the military establishment. We blame Zia.

We enjoy sumptuous dinners and high-teas at five start hotels, US-funded social media events, flatter government ministers and other officials, discuss virtues of Marxism and socialism, while ignoring bans on websites of Shias and Ahmadis. We blame Zia.

Our progressive, Marxist heroes right from Faiz Ahmed Faiz to Laal Khan remained conveniently silent on excesses against Ahmadis, Shias, Barelvis etc. We blame Zia.

Our icons of freedom and socialism, Faiz Ahmed Faiz, Sajjad Zaheer etc join hands with an army general (General AKbar) whose hands are soaked in blood of innocent Balochs, Pashtuns, Kashmiris. We blame Zia.

We support General Zia in the PNA movement and march with General Hamid Gul and Jamaat-e-Islami in the Lawyers’ Movement: two establishment supported movements that furthered the cause of religious extremists. We blame Zia.

We try to suppress and ban those voices which question our selective morality and safe-topic activism. We blame Zia.

We remain deeply prejudiced against Ahmadis, Barelvis, Shias etc. We blame Zia.

We enable further Shia genocide by promoting voices of ethno-centric ISI-touts in Quetta. We blame Zia.

We thrive on elitist Punjabi-Muhajir networks excluding or misappropriating voices of ethnic and religious minority groups. We blame Zia.

We crack racist jokes against Pashtuns, Sikhs, Hindus etc. We blame Zia.

We equate Pashtuns with Taliban and Baloch nationalists with RAW and CIA. We blame Zia.

We continue to ignore the dead Baloch intellectuals and nationalists abducted and killed by Pakistan army. We blame Zia.

Our Pakistan starts at Islamabad’s Faisal Mosque and ends up at Karachi’s Quaid-e-Azam’s mausoleum via Lahore’s Minar-e-Pakistan. We blame Zia.

We exploit victims of acid attack for personal promotion and glory. We blame Zia.

We refuse to honour those who are laying down their lives to save us from Zia’s children. We blame Zia.

We remain engaged in commercially profitable NGOs and jobs, remaining silent on urgent humanitarian issues, while chanting mantras of liberalism and Marxism. We blame Zia.

We keep digging deeper into history while refusing to write on most brutal massacres which are happening right now in front of our eyes. We blame Zia.

We consider Shias as not as good Muslims as Sunnis. We blame Zia.

We consider Ahmadis and Barelvis as deviant sects. We blame Zia.

We remain racist and ethnofascist to the core. We blame Zia.

We blame Zia for everything we could have done right, but did not do because we are either morally compromised or coward. We blame Zia.

As LUBP explained in a previous post “This too was Pakistan“, Zia (and to a lesser extent Bhutto) is used as a convenient scapegoat to explain Pakistan’s current woes. This mindset ignores the fact that the rot of Pakistan had started right from its very foundations and genesis in 1947.

Pakistani liberals exaggerate Zia’s contribution to the mess Pakistani State is currently in without acknowledging the fact that they themselves continue to contribute to the problems of the nation.

The trajectory of Pakistani society and politics has progressed logically from what the Jinnah founded, Liaquat initiated, and several others contributed to. General Zia was merely a prominent marker in that journey. Pakistan will keep travelling down the road of never ending Islamisation and purification. What else can be expected from a nation whose very name is racist, Pakistan, as if all others are na-pak i.e., impure. Non-Muslims and Non-Sunnis really have no place in Jinnah’s and Zia’s Pakistan.

Zia has long died but no one has dared to touch upon any of the discriminatory traditions and laws he, his predecessors and his successors introduced in Pakistan. Pakistan was created on communal basis and had to be put on a trajectory which has led it to its current state. Any entity which is created on hate (hatred of Hindus and other non-Muslims) begets hate.

Jinnah pushed a boulder down from the top of the cliff. Zia simply cleared the impediments for the rolling stone.
Since, the stone gathered speed because of the act of Zia, everybody blames him. But, the founder as well as the very foundations remain unquestioned.

Liberals will come and go. Zia’s legacy will remain, which also happens to be Jinnah’s legacy.

General Zia-ul-Haq is a convenient cover up to hide or justify all what was done to Pakistan by his predecessors and successors. And of course himself.

He is a poster child, a powerful excuse for our perpetual failures, apathy and inaction.

Viva la liberals.

General Zia-ul-Haq and Pakistani liberals | LUBP
 
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Dance did you even read the article in its entirety ?
 
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Dance did you even read the article in its entirety ?

I don't agree the authors comments on Quaid e Azam or how Pakistan was founded on "hate". Basically I don't agree with the bottom half the article.

But I do agree with the overall point of this article which is how there is a significant part of society that is hypocritical and apathetic towards the issues Pakistan faces.
 
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Hmmm... That's what I thought... :blink:


Already explained my view:

I don't agree the authors comments on Quaid e Azam or how Pakistan was founded on "hate". Basically I don't agree with the bottom half the article.


I wanted posted this article for the top half: which shows how a lot of people in Pakistan like to condemn but not take any action to fix the issue
 
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Already explained my view:

I don't agree the authors comments on Quaid e Azam or how Pakistan was founded on "hate". Basically I don't agree with the bottom half the article.


I wanted posted this article for the top half: which shows how a lot of people in Pakistan like to condemn but not take any action to fix the issue

Yaar but the bottom half leaves such a bad taste in my mouth that whatever sense the top is or was saying is rendered irrelevant ! Its best if we don't post such articles...hmmmn ?
 
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Yaar but the bottom half leaves such a bad taste in my mouth that whatever sense the top is or was saying is rendered irrelevant ! Its best if we don't post such articles...hmmmn ?

I tried editing the bottom half out, but for some weird reason the it won't let me. The site is acting weird.

Perhaps the mods can edit out the rubbish written in the bottom half?
 
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Zia was a very good man. He represented what most of our Arain population thinks. Jinnah cannot be compared with Zia, because even the premise of the article sounds ridiculous. The liberals bank on Zia. They use his name for propaganda. They don't want to change Pakistan, but rather use him as an excuse for the status quo. And believe me, nobody benefits more from the status quo than the marxist ruling elite.
 
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Zia ul Haq shaheed was an utmost sincere leader to Pakistan. He never wavered from Pakistan's Islamic ideology. He was the best and toughest leader we had after Liaquat Ali Khan shaheed.
Allah Ho Akbar Takbeer Takbeer... Mard e Momin Mard e Haq... Zia ul Haq Zia ul Haq!
 
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