Suck one PML(N)

I never thought I would enjoy watching Pakistani news channels so much. The person that I loathe the most happens to be a journalist. See the irony? But over the past 1 week, its been utter pleasure and entertainment. PPP jiyalas will not agree with me but they are not setting the rules for discussion anymore, are they? On the contrary, the talk shows are focusing on what Altaf Bhai, the man of the hour, thinks of corruption, feudalism and martial law.

These talk shows have reinforced my belief that the nation suffers from short term memories and selective recall especially the Punjabis. The allegations that they have leveled against MQM are preposterous to say the least and could be suicidal for them if someone like Abbas Haider Rizvi retaliated. Khawaja Asif knows this too well now and he was smart enough to avoid the fiery rhetoric of Raza Haroon. Some of the common allegations leveled by PML(N) and PTI are

They are inviting dictatorship and that’s not good:

Of course they are inviting dictatorship and agreed its not good. But convince me how corruption and feudalism is. They are not inviting dictatorship to get rid of democracy. The real enemy lies in corruption and feudalism and that needs to be taken care of.

They are military’s puppet:

I don’t think so. That bald bastard tried everything to dismantle this party and went so far as initiating a military operation. The party survived. If it really was a military’s pet, they could have put an end to this party without killing anyone.

Speaking of military pets, lets discuss the credentials of Mard-e-Momin

• Sports minister during Zia’s regime
• Finance Minister of Punjab during Zia’s regime
• Called Zia “abba jan”

And as if that was not enough

• Initiated military operation against MQM.
• Used the state machinery and murdered 5000 activists, and
• Fabricated at least 2500 cases against activists who survived through Rana Maqbool.

They have been in coalition for the last 19 years:

Democracy is a slow beast. Everybody deserves a chance and when you realize that things are not headed in the right direction, you reconsider your stance. Instead of walking away from your partners, the right thing to do is stay in coalition and start talking about change. Pretty much the same thing that Bhai did.

Besides we were in coalition because this is what that bald bastard had to say about MQM.

They never did anything good:

Yeah right. I wonder what Mustafa Kamal did to make it into the list of the best mayors?

They are terrorists:

Lick my stick. What do we call you? Saints? We are terrorists because that’s how you, your operation and Rana Maqbool labeled us. But who is responsible for the extra judicial killing of 5000 activists and having a soft corner for the Taliban/militants? Speaking of which, you guys are paying a price for all that now, aren’t you?