Baithak Desi Jun 14: Pakistani Literati, Who to Court Martial First, S S Shahzad, DT Editorial, Qadir, Haider, Nawaz & Kargil, Marjorie, News & Views
My friend HN is a poet at heart whom fate has turned into a journalist. Today I recall a query he asked me some years ago in a midst of a conversation about some grave situation Pakistan was facing then. "The silence of your literati is puzzling," he said. Faiz was dead, Jalib was sidelined, Faraz had comprised for a sinecure in Islamabad. Today, I am reminded of that query again.
Mujaddid Alf Saani inspired renaissance. Syed Ahmed woke us up from slumber. Iqbal sowed the seeds of Pakistan. As the nation continues in a seeming free fall, it is worth asking ourselves - where is the literati? Their silence is puzzling and deafening.
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RAWALPINDI: The ex-Servicemen Society (ESS) has demanded of the Chief of Army Staff General Ashfaque Pervez Kayani to issue orders for the court martial of General (Retd) Musharraf and other Generals. The demand was made by former Chief of Army Staff General (Retd) Mirza Aslam Beg, Lt.Gen (Retd) Hamid Gul and Brig (Retd) Mehmood Islam while addressing a press conference at reception camp of ex-servicemen in Liaquat Bagh on Friday.
Ex-military officials demand court martial of Musharraf F.P. Report
Do these generals have no shame? Their rape of democracy is for the record. They should have been court martialled first - all the big guns that led to dismemberment of the country, then Baig for ordering ISI to distribute money to political parties - re: Asghar Khan's letter to the SC, Hamid Gul for IJI...the list is long and endless. Let us begin the court marshals with them first - t
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Asia Times Online contacts are adamant that the military wants Musharraf to be the one to deal with the fallout, which could include negotiating new peace accords with militants in the tribal areas and thrashing out rules of engagement for coalition forces in Afghanistan with regard to action on Pakistani territory. The top brass have also been stung by criticism of them and of Musharraf by Nawaz Sharif, a former premier and leader of the Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz), which is a key partner in the coalition government. Apart from the "war on terror" and the strings attached to it, Pakistan's new government in February inherited the country's highest-ever foreign exchange reserves, the best-ever revenue collection, high exports, strong gross domestic product and a bullish stock exchange. These indices have since nose-dived. But it's the security situation that really counts, and the US air strike has severely unsettled the country. Musharraf, with his excellent rapport with Washington, is the man many see as the only person capable of preventing it from happening again. Rattled Pakistan looks to Musharraf - Syed Saleem Shahzad
The two highly paid anchors on whose programmes the three gentlemen appeared are not too obsessed with balancing the transmission through cross-questioning. Indeed, there has been only some very faint criticism of how the anchors tend to take their job as a campaign to save democracy and get rid of President Musharraf, but the fact is that professionalism requires a clear projection of the anchor as an impartial presence in the programme. But as yet there is no mechanism set up by the media themselves to keep an eye on the conduct of the programmes. DT_Editorial
"In Pakistan, there have always been three centres of political power: the army, the president, and the prime minister." Should Daily Times recommend former Brigadier Shaukat Qadir to brush up on history
Ejaz Haider does a good job of Dismantling the Barrister
* Book claims Rabbani offered 0.5m Afghans for ‘Kashmir jihad’
LAHORE: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz chief and former premier Nawaz Sharif was aware of the situation in Kargil in 1999 through the then defence secretary who had been briefed on the situation, a new book on the Pakistan Army has quoted a senior army official as saying.
The book, ‘Crossed Swords’, by former army chief Asif Nawaz’s brother Shuja Nawaz, quotes Lieutenant General Khawaja Ziauddin as saying that Nawaz was “in the loop”. Quoting excerpts, The Hindustan Times said on Friday that if the account were correct, it conflicted with Nawaz’s denials that he was not aware of what Musharraf and his generals had planned during Kargil. “It backs Musharraf’s contention that ‘everyone was on board’ the Kargil misadventure,” the report adds.
In Jamil Baloch’s latest collection, ingenious and inventive experimentation merges subject and technique to great effect. One is totally absorbed by the bold assurance of the lines transformed from dark into columns of light, writes, Marjorie Husain
A message received from surrealist painter, Mansur Salim, carried Michael Corbin’s profound words on reading of Robert Rauschenberg’s death. “We need to get into the habit of complimenting people while they are alive. Praising me when I am dead does me no good, but a nice comment while I’m alive might actually get me through another day.”
Words to live by.
Mansur Salim is, of course an awesome talent, one with a singular vision that carves out a path of its own. Another free spirit of the art world is Jamil Baloch, whose spectacular diversity is strong and exciting. His recent collection of work displayed at Karachi’s Canvas Gallery has to be absorbed not translated. Ahmed Parvaz once paraphrasing the words of Picasso said: “Paintings are like people — you don’t have to understand them — you just have to love them.” He never said a truer word.
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The first phase of installing 54 cameras has been completed at an estimate cost of Rs 110 million. In the next phase, the project will be expanded to install LPR (license plate recognition) and BFC (biometric face recognition) systems. “We have a license for 4.9 GHZ band frequency from Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) to provide foolproof security and reliability to the wireless network. This frequency is not shared by any other network so the safety of the project is never compromised,” he said, adding that fiber optic cables have also been laid out to secure back-up to all camera sites. Big Brother is here.
News & Views
Musharraf to 'pay for crimes'
Pakistan's Sharif suggests Musharraf might be hanged
US should offer N-deal to Pakistan, Senate panel told
KARACHI: Voluntary blood donation stressed
KARACHI: Violence against pregnant wives rampant: study
Zardari wants 14 dams in Sindh
Neocon watch: Haqqani urges US-Pakistan strategic partnership
Plagiarism issue: PU plagiarist launches website
Shaheen Sehbbai takes a swipe at his old nemesis AND Zardari
The bluff of the KSE-100
Mujaddid Alf Saani inspired renaissance. Syed Ahmed woke us up from slumber. Iqbal sowed the seeds of Pakistan. As the nation continues in a seeming free fall, it is worth asking ourselves - where is the literati? Their silence is puzzling and deafening.
***
RAWALPINDI: The ex-Servicemen Society (ESS) has demanded of the Chief of Army Staff General Ashfaque Pervez Kayani to issue orders for the court martial of General (Retd) Musharraf and other Generals. The demand was made by former Chief of Army Staff General (Retd) Mirza Aslam Beg, Lt.Gen (Retd) Hamid Gul and Brig (Retd) Mehmood Islam while addressing a press conference at reception camp of ex-servicemen in Liaquat Bagh on Friday.
Ex-military officials demand court martial of Musharraf F.P. Report
Do these generals have no shame? Their rape of democracy is for the record. They should have been court martialled first - all the big guns that led to dismemberment of the country, then Baig for ordering ISI to distribute money to political parties - re: Asghar Khan's letter to the SC, Hamid Gul for IJI...the list is long and endless. Let us begin the court marshals with them first - t
***
Asia Times Online contacts are adamant that the military wants Musharraf to be the one to deal with the fallout, which could include negotiating new peace accords with militants in the tribal areas and thrashing out rules of engagement for coalition forces in Afghanistan with regard to action on Pakistani territory. The top brass have also been stung by criticism of them and of Musharraf by Nawaz Sharif, a former premier and leader of the Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz), which is a key partner in the coalition government. Apart from the "war on terror" and the strings attached to it, Pakistan's new government in February inherited the country's highest-ever foreign exchange reserves, the best-ever revenue collection, high exports, strong gross domestic product and a bullish stock exchange. These indices have since nose-dived. But it's the security situation that really counts, and the US air strike has severely unsettled the country. Musharraf, with his excellent rapport with Washington, is the man many see as the only person capable of preventing it from happening again. Rattled Pakistan looks to Musharraf - Syed Saleem Shahzad
The two highly paid anchors on whose programmes the three gentlemen appeared are not too obsessed with balancing the transmission through cross-questioning. Indeed, there has been only some very faint criticism of how the anchors tend to take their job as a campaign to save democracy and get rid of President Musharraf, but the fact is that professionalism requires a clear projection of the anchor as an impartial presence in the programme. But as yet there is no mechanism set up by the media themselves to keep an eye on the conduct of the programmes. DT_Editorial
"In Pakistan, there have always been three centres of political power: the army, the president, and the prime minister." Should Daily Times recommend former Brigadier Shaukat Qadir to brush up on history
Ejaz Haider does a good job of Dismantling the Barrister
Nawaz approved Kargil ‘misadventure’: new book
* Book claims Rabbani offered 0.5m Afghans for ‘Kashmir jihad’LAHORE: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz chief and former premier Nawaz Sharif was aware of the situation in Kargil in 1999 through the then defence secretary who had been briefed on the situation, a new book on the Pakistan Army has quoted a senior army official as saying.
The book, ‘Crossed Swords’, by former army chief Asif Nawaz’s brother Shuja Nawaz, quotes Lieutenant General Khawaja Ziauddin as saying that Nawaz was “in the loop”. Quoting excerpts, The Hindustan Times said on Friday that if the account were correct, it conflicted with Nawaz’s denials that he was not aware of what Musharraf and his generals had planned during Kargil. “It backs Musharraf’s contention that ‘everyone was on board’ the Kargil misadventure,” the report adds.
In Jamil Baloch’s latest collection, ingenious and inventive experimentation merges subject and technique to great effect. One is totally absorbed by the bold assurance of the lines transformed from dark into columns of light, writes, Marjorie HusainA message received from surrealist painter, Mansur Salim, carried Michael Corbin’s profound words on reading of Robert Rauschenberg’s death. “We need to get into the habit of complimenting people while they are alive. Praising me when I am dead does me no good, but a nice comment while I’m alive might actually get me through another day.”
Words to live by.
Mansur Salim is, of course an awesome talent, one with a singular vision that carves out a path of its own. Another free spirit of the art world is Jamil Baloch, whose spectacular diversity is strong and exciting. His recent collection of work displayed at Karachi’s Canvas Gallery has to be absorbed not translated. Ahmed Parvaz once paraphrasing the words of Picasso said: “Paintings are like people — you don’t have to understand them — you just have to love them.” He never said a truer word.
***
The first phase of installing 54 cameras has been completed at an estimate cost of Rs 110 million. In the next phase, the project will be expanded to install LPR (license plate recognition) and BFC (biometric face recognition) systems. “We have a license for 4.9 GHZ band frequency from Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) to provide foolproof security and reliability to the wireless network. This frequency is not shared by any other network so the safety of the project is never compromised,” he said, adding that fiber optic cables have also been laid out to secure back-up to all camera sites. Big Brother is here.
News & Views
Musharraf to 'pay for crimes'
Pakistan's Sharif suggests Musharraf might be hanged
US should offer N-deal to Pakistan, Senate panel told
KARACHI: Voluntary blood donation stressed
KARACHI: Violence against pregnant wives rampant: study
Zardari wants 14 dams in Sindh
Neocon watch: Haqqani urges US-Pakistan strategic partnership
Plagiarism issue: PU plagiarist launches website
Shaheen Sehbbai takes a swipe at his old nemesis AND Zardari
The bluff of the KSE-100
Maxim - Today's Cartoon
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