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SMS drive underway against ANP amid floods
Sunday, August 08, 2010
By Syed Bukhar Shah
PESHAWAR: Some people have started a short message service (SMS) campaign against Awami National Party leadership amid the devastation of floods and rains that killed hundreds and displaced millions.
Political opponents had already launched their poetic propaganda through mobile phone messages against the nationalist ANP soon after it formed coalition government in the province.
Such SMSs usually mention rampant corruption of the rulers but now they have included flood devastation into their funny poetry. Sometimes even the elders and political leaders share such messages.
Though not liking the contents of the messages, some ANP supporters also forward those messages to party colleagues to share their opponents views.
The carefully drafted poetry, spread recently, has held the ANP leaders responsible for the reported corruption, bloodshed, lawlessness, price hike, unemployment and loadshedding etc, but the government supporters seem unable to respond or defend their party. The opponents enjoy by reading and forwarding the funny messages against ANP supporters.
Also, there have been messages nowadays about violence by Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) activists against Pakhtuns in Karachi, although the ANP and MQM leaders are trying to end tension in Sindh.
The people behind the recent ANP related messages have criticised the party chief Asfandyar Wali Khan and Chief Minister Ameer Haider Hoti for not visiting their home constituencies. But it is astonishing to read some of the messages that hold the ANP responsible for the devastating floods and rains.
We know neither the government not any other power on earth can stop natural calamities but still some people blame us for the floods and rains, said Jehanzeb Khan, an ANP activist from Mardan.
The government, he added, could warn the people ahead of floods and that could reduce human losses. Being ruling party in the province, we accept responsibility if any negligence has been done by any government official but we do not understand as to how our government is responsible for rains and floods, he added.
The survivors hold the government responsible for their losses and miseries, saying it was its responsibility to make arrangements to rescue citizen from natural calamities. Our rulers become active after a major problem arises, said a flood affectee Jamal Shah
Sunday, August 08, 2010
By Syed Bukhar Shah
PESHAWAR: Some people have started a short message service (SMS) campaign against Awami National Party leadership amid the devastation of floods and rains that killed hundreds and displaced millions.
Political opponents had already launched their poetic propaganda through mobile phone messages against the nationalist ANP soon after it formed coalition government in the province.
Such SMSs usually mention rampant corruption of the rulers but now they have included flood devastation into their funny poetry. Sometimes even the elders and political leaders share such messages.
Though not liking the contents of the messages, some ANP supporters also forward those messages to party colleagues to share their opponents views.
The carefully drafted poetry, spread recently, has held the ANP leaders responsible for the reported corruption, bloodshed, lawlessness, price hike, unemployment and loadshedding etc, but the government supporters seem unable to respond or defend their party. The opponents enjoy by reading and forwarding the funny messages against ANP supporters.
Also, there have been messages nowadays about violence by Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) activists against Pakhtuns in Karachi, although the ANP and MQM leaders are trying to end tension in Sindh.
The people behind the recent ANP related messages have criticised the party chief Asfandyar Wali Khan and Chief Minister Ameer Haider Hoti for not visiting their home constituencies. But it is astonishing to read some of the messages that hold the ANP responsible for the devastating floods and rains.
We know neither the government not any other power on earth can stop natural calamities but still some people blame us for the floods and rains, said Jehanzeb Khan, an ANP activist from Mardan.
The government, he added, could warn the people ahead of floods and that could reduce human losses. Being ruling party in the province, we accept responsibility if any negligence has been done by any government official but we do not understand as to how our government is responsible for rains and floods, he added.
The survivors hold the government responsible for their losses and miseries, saying it was its responsibility to make arrangements to rescue citizen from natural calamities. Our rulers become active after a major problem arises, said a flood affectee Jamal Shah
