Why do most Pakistanis always favour the ‘wrong’ side of any issue?

[El Sidd]

we are suffering more right now. but not for long. by 2022 when the next tenure of govt will be about to finish we will reach where we are heading.
we wont have anything to loose. then it will be acche din. no corruptiononly smog rapes inflation cows and gdp growthrate of south sudan.

Lets see

 

[313ghazi]

This was a piece written by someone who. Is full of hatred for Pakistan. The Express Tribune is a platform intent on spreading anti Pakistani hate - why do we give a platform to these trolls in on this forum?

Mind you I'm not surprised, there are plenty of self hating Pakistanis here.

For every brother of Qandeel Baloch I raise you a Josef Fritz or Mick Philpot, every time you think Pakistanis aren't worshipping at the feet of feminists enough I urge you to read the comments section of the DailyMail too see the same attitudes in your white masters.

For every Malala Yusufzai, I ask you to learn a name of the millions of Muslim children killed in the last 2 decades by your European idols.

Hafiz Saeed is a terrorist, so was Lawrence' of Arabia and Nelson Mandela.

Pakistani trials are suspicious of a polio program proven to be a cia front to gather intelligence. What excuse do those who deny the MMR jab have? Or all those idiots who are flat earthers?

You are not willing to differentiate between the Taliban and Al Queda, much the same way the white man refuses to see the difference between Muslims. You libtards deny Pakistan the right to fight dirty to protect its interests but are happy for wasp governments to engineer regime change and civil war in Georgia, Ukraine, Libya, Syria, Iraq etc.

The only problem these two women have is that they were born with vaginas and with brown skin. They're self haters who want to be white men.

 

[YeBeWarned]

What, does she have to be somebody in particular "to say what is right and what is wrong?"


"...Perhaps everything is a western agenda, or perhaps nothing is, but the point at the end of the day is that for some issues, there are no blurred lines – there is only one stance, which is moral, humane and rational."

Preach the same lesson to your Israel Army who bomb women and children and take pride in it ..

 

[Dalit]

Why do most Pakistanis always favour the ‘wrong’ side of any issue?
By Blogs Desk Published: November 12, 2017

Women, children, minorities, everyone is treated like the enemy, while the real enemy roams free.

Most issues aren’t black and white – they’re grey. More often than not, we read about an event or hear about it in the news, and while our personal views dictate what side we’re on, it is not unfathomable that other people might not see it the way we do.

However, have you ever read about an issue and thought, “wow, this seems pretty black and white to me”? And then seen the reaction of people around you, as they somehow invent new colours just to add more sides to seemingly uncomplicated issues?

This is quite frequently the case in Pakistan, where we often find ways to blame the victim and make the perpetrator seem justified in his or her actions. Here are only some instances where the majority has taken a rather unconventional stance on ostensibly obvious issues:

1) Qandeel Baloch

Qandeel was a young woman who was mocked on social media on a regular basis – but she was also slut-shamed and demeaned on an equally regular basis. Even after she was murdered in the name of honour, people went to the extent saying that she was to blame, as her actions left her brother no choice but to murder her. ‘Asking’ to be murdered – only in Pakistan, ladies and gentlemen.

2) Malala Yousafzai

Malala’s biggest mistake is that she revealed what happened during the Taliban’s regime and, after they tried to murder her, received international attention for it. People in Pakistan hate Malala – especially because she gets to live in the UK while we are stuck here. Why doesn’t she come back to Pakistan? It’s not like we hate her here and almost succeeded in murdering her. Why doesn’t she do more for Pakistan? It’s not like she’s still a teenage girl while the grown men we call politicians have failed to do anything remarkable for the country in decades.

Only in Pakistan would you see that when the Taliban tries to kill a teenage girl and fails, the people support the terrorist organisation and demonise the teenage girl. You may believe that Malala is part of a western agenda or a yahoodi saazish (Jewish conspiracy), but ultimately, a Pakistani girl was almost murdered in her own land, and perhaps we hate that she lived to tell the tale.

3) Mumtaz Qadri

You would think that if a guard, sworn to protect someone, ends up murdering them in broad daylight, we would obviously have issues with that, right? Wrong.

Qadri killed the very man he was supposed to protect, Salman Taseer, in cold blood, but Taseer had also spoken out against the blasphemy law being unfairly used against minorities, a crime which a significant majority in Pakistan felt that he deserved to be killed for. Qadri was lauded as a hero for murdering a man, and when he was finally hanged for his crime, he was labelled a shaheed (martyr). One cannot make this stuff up.

4) Malik Ishaq

Even though Ishaq has confessed to his involvement in the killing of over a 100 people, and is also the prime suspect for the 2009 attack on the Sri Lankan team in Lahore, he was granted bail. This resulted in the victims and witnesses hiding and being imprisoned in their own homes out of fear. When he was released from prison after serving jail time since 1997 for allegedly killing 70 people, he was greeted with garlands. We just have one question – why?

5) Good Taliban, bad Taliban

The siege of Lal Masjid in July 2007 was perhaps one of the most eye-opening events that have occurred in our recent history. Islamic militants were fighting the state led by then president, General Pervez Musharraf, and for a long time, a large part of the public felt sympathy for, and identified with, the militants. This is a problem that Pakistan has struggled with for longer than a decade, that there are two kinds of Taliban – the bad Taliban, who are trying to kill us, and the good Taliban, who are trying to kill other people.

For the longest time, we actually bought into the narrative that there exist two sides to the Taliban, even as they bombed our land. We were in denial – how could the Taliban, a group we had loved and supported for so long – try to kill us? The Army Public School (APS) attack (#NeverForget) was one of strongest wake up calls for the nation that the Taliban were actually the enemy, but shamefully, even then people tried to justify their actions and continued with the narrative that not all Taliban out there were bad and ‘talks’ would make things better.

Israel is bad, India is bad, but when it comes to terrorists, #NotAllTaliban.

6) Hafiz Saeed

Isn’t Hafiz Saeed a terrorist? We googled it to be sure – and yes, not only is he one of the most wanted terrorist, his organisation is also banned by the United Nations (UN). Well then consider our surprise when we find out that in Pakistan, Saeed is as good as a free man, or probably better actually. People like Hamza Ali Abbasi may consider him to be righteous, but Saeed’s resume as a terrorist speaks otherwise.

Hamza Ali Abbasi

✔@iamhamzaabbasi

#NA120 US/IND say he is a terrorist, i know Hafiz Saeed as a righteous man. Huge respect for Milli Muslim League for getting 4k+ votes.

3:34 PM - Sep 17, 2017


When Pakistan is accused of sheltering terrorists, we automatically deny it. Yet, Saeed being allowed to live freely in Lahore and even contest elections, certainly affects our credibility and cements our reputation as a state that harbours terrorists.

7) Polio

Pakistan remains one of only two countries in the world to still have polio. Even India, with its high poverty rate and its extremely dense population, has managed to eradicate the disease. However, in Pakistan, not only do we still prevent our children from getting the vaccine, we brutally attack, and even kill polio workers. This is because amongst many other reasons, we believe that these vaccines will reduce male fertility, and of course, children’s fertility is more important than their mobility, which is what they eventually end up losing if they are infected by the polio virus.

8) Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy winning an Oscar

Most people in the world are happy when films from their country get global recognition, or when their people bring home Oscars. So of course Pakistanis feel the opposite. Sharmeen has won two Oscars for two of her documentaries highlighting women’s issues in Pakistan. But it’s all western propaganda, don’t you know? They’re trying to defame Pakistan by highlighting its bad side.

By now, a pattern is obvious – crimes against women are okay, even encouraged to an extent, but speaking up against them is what gets you in trouble. In Pakistan, we love criminals and applaud them for the crimes they commit, but if a woman were to, say make a documentaryabout it, that is when we lose our minds.

9) #MeToo

In the wake of the Harvey Weinstein scandal in Hollywood, there was a global movement – people, mostly women, from all over the world spoke out against sexual harassment by participating in the #MeToo campaign. It was an eye-opening endeavour which proved that women do not exaggerate when they say harassment is endemic in the system.

Pakistanis, unsurprisingly at this point, had a problem with this too. Yet again terming this as a “western propaganda”, women were told to dress “appropriately” to avoid being harassed, and to stop talking about it since it brings ‘shame’ to their honour. This movement was futile – a useless cry for help – as “boys will be boys”. Why talk about things when you can just shut up and stay at home?

The pattern is clearer now. It reveals not only a deep reverence for the religious zeal left behind from the Ziaul Haq era, but also a deep discomfort when it comes to talking about the very real and problematic issues that plague our society. By not talking about issues, we are hurting the victims and helping the perpetrators – as evidenced by the child sex abuse incidents in Kasur alone.

Every day we hear about women being attacked, beaten, raped, even murdered, but we don’t have any empathy for them. If women like Malala or Sharmeen try to highlight these issues, we turn on them instead and ask them to focus on the “positive side” of things.

But we do find it in us to sympathise with murderers and terrorists. How must Mumtaz Qadri have felt, poor man, when he heard a man express an opinion different from him? It must have been so hard. How must those poor Taliban feel, as they bomb us and kill our children? Our sympathy and empathy arises in leaps and bounds for them.

It would be an understatement to say that seeing such reactions from a significant group of fellow Pakistanis is downright disappointing. When will we stop blaming everyone but ourselves for our problems? Women, children, minorities, everyone is treated like the enemy, while the real enemy roams free. Perhaps everything is a western agenda, or perhaps nothing is, but the point at the end of the day is that for some issues, there are no blurred lines – there is only one stance, which is moral, humane and rational.

Blog garbage indeed.

 

[Mrc]

Why do most Pakistanis always favour the ‘wrong’ side of any issue?
By Blogs Desk Published: November 12, 2017

Women, children, minorities, everyone is treated like the enemy, while the real enemy roams free.

Most issues aren’t black and white – they’re grey. More often than not, we read about an event or hear about it in the news, and while our personal views dictate what side we’re on, it is not unfathomable that other people might not see it the way we do.

However, have you ever read about an issue and thought, “wow, this seems pretty black and white to me”? And then seen the reaction of people around you, as they somehow invent new colours just to add more sides to seemingly uncomplicated issues?

This is quite frequently the case in Pakistan, where we often find ways to blame the victim and make the perpetrator seem justified in his or her actions. Here are only some instances where the majority has taken a rather unconventional stance on ostensibly obvious issues:

1) Qandeel Baloch

Qandeel was a young woman who was mocked on social media on a regular basis – but she was also slut-shamed and demeaned on an equally regular basis. Even after she was murdered in the name of honour, people went to the extent saying that she was to blame, as her actions left her brother no choice but to murder her. ‘Asking’ to be murdered – only in Pakistan, ladies and gentlemen.

2) Malala Yousafzai

Malala’s biggest mistake is that she revealed what happened during the Taliban’s regime and, after they tried to murder her, received international attention for it. People in Pakistan hate Malala – especially because she gets to live in the UK while we are stuck here. Why doesn’t she come back to Pakistan? It’s not like we hate her here and almost succeeded in murdering her. Why doesn’t she do more for Pakistan? It’s not like she’s still a teenage girl while the grown men we call politicians have failed to do anything remarkable for the country in decades.

Only in Pakistan would you see that when the Taliban tries to kill a teenage girl and fails, the people support the terrorist organisation and demonise the teenage girl. You may believe that Malala is part of a western agenda or a yahoodi saazish (Jewish conspiracy), but ultimately, a Pakistani girl was almost murdered in her own land, and perhaps we hate that she lived to tell the tale.

3) Mumtaz Qadri

You would think that if a guard, sworn to protect someone, ends up murdering them in broad daylight, we would obviously have issues with that, right? Wrong.

Qadri killed the very man he was supposed to protect, Salman Taseer, in cold blood, but Taseer had also spoken out against the blasphemy law being unfairly used against minorities, a crime which a significant majority in Pakistan felt that he deserved to be killed for. Qadri was lauded as a hero for murdering a man, and when he was finally hanged for his crime, he was labelled a shaheed (martyr). One cannot make this stuff up.

4) Malik Ishaq

Even though Ishaq has confessed to his involvement in the killing of over a 100 people, and is also the prime suspect for the 2009 attack on the Sri Lankan team in Lahore, he was granted bail. This resulted in the victims and witnesses hiding and being imprisoned in their own homes out of fear. When he was released from prison after serving jail time since 1997 for allegedly killing 70 people, he was greeted with garlands. We just have one question – why?

5) Good Taliban, bad Taliban

The siege of Lal Masjid in July 2007 was perhaps one of the most eye-opening events that have occurred in our recent history. Islamic militants were fighting the state led by then president, General Pervez Musharraf, and for a long time, a large part of the public felt sympathy for, and identified with, the militants. This is a problem that Pakistan has struggled with for longer than a decade, that there are two kinds of Taliban – the bad Taliban, who are trying to kill us, and the good Taliban, who are trying to kill other people.

For the longest time, we actually bought into the narrative that there exist two sides to the Taliban, even as they bombed our land. We were in denial – how could the Taliban, a group we had loved and supported for so long – try to kill us? The Army Public School (APS) attack (#NeverForget) was one of strongest wake up calls for the nation that the Taliban were actually the enemy, but shamefully, even then people tried to justify their actions and continued with the narrative that not all Taliban out there were bad and ‘talks’ would make things better.

Israel is bad, India is bad, but when it comes to terrorists, #NotAllTaliban.

6) Hafiz Saeed

Isn’t Hafiz Saeed a terrorist? We googled it to be sure – and yes, not only is he one of the most wanted terrorist, his organisation is also banned by the United Nations (UN). Well then consider our surprise when we find out that in Pakistan, Saeed is as good as a free man, or probably better actually. People like Hamza Ali Abbasi may consider him to be righteous, but Saeed’s resume as a terrorist speaks otherwise.

Hamza Ali Abbasi

✔@iamhamzaabbasi

#NA120 US/IND say he is a terrorist, i know Hafiz Saeed as a righteous man. Huge respect for Milli Muslim League for getting 4k+ votes.

3:34 PM - Sep 17, 2017


When Pakistan is accused of sheltering terrorists, we automatically deny it. Yet, Saeed being allowed to live freely in Lahore and even contest elections, certainly affects our credibility and cements our reputation as a state that harbours terrorists.

7) Polio

Pakistan remains one of only two countries in the world to still have polio. Even India, with its high poverty rate and its extremely dense population, has managed to eradicate the disease. However, in Pakistan, not only do we still prevent our children from getting the vaccine, we brutally attack, and even kill polio workers. This is because amongst many other reasons, we believe that these vaccines will reduce male fertility, and of course, children’s fertility is more important than their mobility, which is what they eventually end up losing if they are infected by the polio virus.

8) Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy winning an Oscar

Most people in the world are happy when films from their country get global recognition, or when their people bring home Oscars. So of course Pakistanis feel the opposite. Sharmeen has won two Oscars for two of her documentaries highlighting women’s issues in Pakistan. But it’s all western propaganda, don’t you know? They’re trying to defame Pakistan by highlighting its bad side.

By now, a pattern is obvious – crimes against women are okay, even encouraged to an extent, but speaking up against them is what gets you in trouble. In Pakistan, we love criminals and applaud them for the crimes they commit, but if a woman were to, say make a documentaryabout it, that is when we lose our minds.

9) #MeToo

In the wake of the Harvey Weinstein scandal in Hollywood, there was a global movement – people, mostly women, from all over the world spoke out against sexual harassment by participating in the #MeToo campaign. It was an eye-opening endeavour which proved that women do not exaggerate when they say harassment is endemic in the system.

Pakistanis, unsurprisingly at this point, had a problem with this too. Yet again terming this as a “western propaganda”, women were told to dress “appropriately” to avoid being harassed, and to stop talking about it since it brings ‘shame’ to their honour. This movement was futile – a useless cry for help – as “boys will be boys”. Why talk about things when you can just shut up and stay at home?

The pattern is clearer now. It reveals not only a deep reverence for the religious zeal left behind from the Ziaul Haq era, but also a deep discomfort when it comes to talking about the very real and problematic issues that plague our society. By not talking about issues, we are hurting the victims and helping the perpetrators – as evidenced by the child sex abuse incidents in Kasur alone.

Every day we hear about women being attacked, beaten, raped, even murdered, but we don’t have any empathy for them. If women like Malala or Sharmeen try to highlight these issues, we turn on them instead and ask them to focus on the “positive side” of things.

But we do find it in us to sympathise with murderers and terrorists. How must Mumtaz Qadri have felt, poor man, when he heard a man express an opinion different from him? It must have been so hard. How must those poor Taliban feel, as they bomb us and kill our children? Our sympathy and empathy arises in leaps and bounds for them.

It would be an understatement to say that seeing such reactions from a significant group of fellow Pakistanis is downright disappointing. When will we stop blaming everyone but ourselves for our problems? Women, children, minorities, everyone is treated like the enemy, while the real enemy roams free. Perhaps everything is a western agenda, or perhaps nothing is, but the point at the end of the day is that for some issues, there are no blurred lines – there is only one stance, which is moral, humane and rational.

authors are of type you would love to take out on a date, but not due to their view

 

[WaLeEdK2]

This was a piece written by someone who. Is full of hatred for Pakistan. The Express Tribune is a platform intent on spreading anti Pakistani hate - why do we give a platform to these trolls in on this forum?

Mind you I'm not surprised, there are plenty of self hating Pakistanis here.

For every brother of Qandeel Baloch I raise you a Josef Fritz or Mick Philpot, every time you think Pakistanis aren't worshipping at the feet of feminists enough I urge you to read the comments section of the DailyMail too see the same attitudes in your white masters.

For every Malala Yusufzai, I ask you to learn a name of the millions of Muslim children killed in the last 2 decades by your European idols.

Hafiz Saeed is a terrorist, so was Lawrence' of Arabia and Nelson Mandela.

Pakistani trials are suspicious of a polio program proven to be a cia front to gather intelligence. What excuse do those who deny the MMR jab have? Or all those idiots who are flat earthers?

You are not willing to differentiate between the Taliban and Al Queda, much the same way the white man refuses to see the difference between Muslims. You libtards deny Pakistan the right to fight dirty to protect its interests but are happy for wasp governments to engineer regime change and civil war in Georgia, Ukraine, Libya, Syria, Iraq etc.

The only problem these two women have is that they were born with vaginas and with brown skin. They're self haters who want to be white men.

Even with the Malala incident these people love blame mullahs (which are a threat to Pakistan) but do not want to condemn the people that work with them. It's been revealed that ANP hired TTP terrorists for an assassination. No outrage from them at all, none of their usual garbage street protests of 12 people. It only exposes their agenda. You won't see these types of authors even acknowledge this happened.

https://en.dailypakistan.com.pk/pak...een-on-anp-leaders-order-suspect-informs-jit/

 

[YeBeWarned]

"....The Army Public School (APS) attack (#NeverForget) was one of strongest wake up calls for the nation that the Taliban were actually the enemy, but shamefully, even then people tried to justify their actions and continued with the narrative that not all Taliban out there were bad and ‘talks’ would make things better.

Israel is bad, India is bad, but when it comes to terrorists, #NotAllTaliban -"

Preach that lesson to Americans and Western Allies who are in Talks with Afghan Taliban in Qatar , and supply Weapons to the moderate Rebels in Syria ..

are you done or want to get more humiliated ?

 

[xyxmt]

Why do most Pakistanis always favour the ‘wrong’ side of any issue?
By Blogs Desk Published: November 12, 2017

Women, children, minorities, everyone is treated like the enemy, while the real enemy roams free.

Most issues aren’t black and white – they’re grey. More often than not, we read about an event or hear about it in the news, and while our personal views dictate what side we’re on, it is not unfathomable that other people might not see it the way we do.

However, have you ever read about an issue and thought, “wow, this seems pretty black and white to me”? And then seen the reaction of people around you, as they somehow invent new colours just to add more sides to seemingly uncomplicated issues?

This is quite frequently the case in Pakistan, where we often find ways to blame the victim and make the perpetrator seem justified in his or her actions. Here are only some instances where the majority has taken a rather unconventional stance on ostensibly obvious issues:

1) Qandeel Baloch

Qandeel was a young woman who was mocked on social media on a regular basis – but she was also slut-shamed and demeaned on an equally regular basis. Even after she was murdered in the name of honour, people went to the extent saying that she was to blame, as her actions left her brother no choice but to murder her. ‘Asking’ to be murdered – only in Pakistan, ladies and gentlemen.

2) Malala Yousafzai

Malala’s biggest mistake is that she revealed what happened during the Taliban’s regime and, after they tried to murder her, received international attention for it. People in Pakistan hate Malala – especially because she gets to live in the UK while we are stuck here. Why doesn’t she come back to Pakistan? It’s not like we hate her here and almost succeeded in murdering her. Why doesn’t she do more for Pakistan? It’s not like she’s still a teenage girl while the grown men we call politicians have failed to do anything remarkable for the country in decades.

Only in Pakistan would you see that when the Taliban tries to kill a teenage girl and fails, the people support the terrorist organisation and demonise the teenage girl. You may believe that Malala is part of a western agenda or a yahoodi saazish (Jewish conspiracy), but ultimately, a Pakistani girl was almost murdered in her own land, and perhaps we hate that she lived to tell the tale.

3) Mumtaz Qadri

You would think that if a guard, sworn to protect someone, ends up murdering them in broad daylight, we would obviously have issues with that, right? Wrong.

Qadri killed the very man he was supposed to protect, Salman Taseer, in cold blood, but Taseer had also spoken out against the blasphemy law being unfairly used against minorities, a crime which a significant majority in Pakistan felt that he deserved to be killed for. Qadri was lauded as a hero for murdering a man, and when he was finally hanged for his crime, he was labelled a shaheed (martyr). One cannot make this stuff up.

4) Malik Ishaq

Even though Ishaq has confessed to his involvement in the killing of over a 100 people, and is also the prime suspect for the 2009 attack on the Sri Lankan team in Lahore, he was granted bail. This resulted in the victims and witnesses hiding and being imprisoned in their own homes out of fear. When he was released from prison after serving jail time since 1997 for allegedly killing 70 people, he was greeted with garlands. We just have one question – why?

5) Good Taliban, bad Taliban

The siege of Lal Masjid in July 2007 was perhaps one of the most eye-opening events that have occurred in our recent history. Islamic militants were fighting the state led by then president, General Pervez Musharraf, and for a long time, a large part of the public felt sympathy for, and identified with, the militants. This is a problem that Pakistan has struggled with for longer than a decade, that there are two kinds of Taliban – the bad Taliban, who are trying to kill us, and the good Taliban, who are trying to kill other people.

For the longest time, we actually bought into the narrative that there exist two sides to the Taliban, even as they bombed our land. We were in denial – how could the Taliban, a group we had loved and supported for so long – try to kill us? The Army Public School (APS) attack (#NeverForget) was one of strongest wake up calls for the nation that the Taliban were actually the enemy, but shamefully, even then people tried to justify their actions and continued with the narrative that not all Taliban out there were bad and ‘talks’ would make things better.

Israel is bad, India is bad, but when it comes to terrorists, #NotAllTaliban.

6) Hafiz Saeed

Isn’t Hafiz Saeed a terrorist? We googled it to be sure – and yes, not only is he one of the most wanted terrorist, his organisation is also banned by the United Nations (UN). Well then consider our surprise when we find out that in Pakistan, Saeed is as good as a free man, or probably better actually. People like Hamza Ali Abbasi may consider him to be righteous, but Saeed’s resume as a terrorist speaks otherwise.

Hamza Ali Abbasi

✔@iamhamzaabbasi

#NA120 US/IND say he is a terrorist, i know Hafiz Saeed as a righteous man. Huge respect for Milli Muslim League for getting 4k+ votes.

3:34 PM - Sep 17, 2017


When Pakistan is accused of sheltering terrorists, we automatically deny it. Yet, Saeed being allowed to live freely in Lahore and even contest elections, certainly affects our credibility and cements our reputation as a state that harbours terrorists.

7) Polio

Pakistan remains one of only two countries in the world to still have polio. Even India, with its high poverty rate and its extremely dense population, has managed to eradicate the disease. However, in Pakistan, not only do we still prevent our children from getting the vaccine, we brutally attack, and even kill polio workers. This is because amongst many other reasons, we believe that these vaccines will reduce male fertility, and of course, children’s fertility is more important than their mobility, which is what they eventually end up losing if they are infected by the polio virus.

8) Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy winning an Oscar

Most people in the world are happy when films from their country get global recognition, or when their people bring home Oscars. So of course Pakistanis feel the opposite. Sharmeen has won two Oscars for two of her documentaries highlighting women’s issues in Pakistan. But it’s all western propaganda, don’t you know? They’re trying to defame Pakistan by highlighting its bad side.

By now, a pattern is obvious – crimes against women are okay, even encouraged to an extent, but speaking up against them is what gets you in trouble. In Pakistan, we love criminals and applaud them for the crimes they commit, but if a woman were to, say make a documentaryabout it, that is when we lose our minds.

9) #MeToo

In the wake of the Harvey Weinstein scandal in Hollywood, there was a global movement – people, mostly women, from all over the world spoke out against sexual harassment by participating in the #MeToo campaign. It was an eye-opening endeavour which proved that women do not exaggerate when they say harassment is endemic in the system.

Pakistanis, unsurprisingly at this point, had a problem with this too. Yet again terming this as a “western propaganda”, women were told to dress “appropriately” to avoid being harassed, and to stop talking about it since it brings ‘shame’ to their honour. This movement was futile – a useless cry for help – as “boys will be boys”. Why talk about things when you can just shut up and stay at home?

The pattern is clearer now. It reveals not only a deep reverence for the religious zeal left behind from the Ziaul Haq era, but also a deep discomfort when it comes to talking about the very real and problematic issues that plague our society. By not talking about issues, we are hurting the victims and helping the perpetrators – as evidenced by the child sex abuse incidents in Kasur alone.

Every day we hear about women being attacked, beaten, raped, even murdered, but we don’t have any empathy for them. If women like Malala or Sharmeen try to highlight these issues, we turn on them instead and ask them to focus on the “positive side” of things.

But we do find it in us to sympathise with murderers and terrorists. How must Mumtaz Qadri have felt, poor man, when he heard a man express an opinion different from him? It must have been so hard. How must those poor Taliban feel, as they bomb us and kill our children? Our sympathy and empathy arises in leaps and bounds for them.

It would be an understatement to say that seeing such reactions from a significant group of fellow Pakistanis is downright disappointing. When will we stop blaming everyone but ourselves for our problems? Women, children, minorities, everyone is treated like the enemy, while the real enemy roams free. Perhaps everything is a western agenda, or perhaps nothing is, but the point at the end of the day is that for some issues, there are no blurred lines – there is only one stance, which is moral, humane and rational.

there ar always two point of views on every issue, west's problem is they highlight the negative point of view but wont mention positive side of the story. Take any issue in the US, Gay marriage, abortion, guns, discrimination against Blacks...why do Americans always are on the wrong side of this issue.

 

[xyxmt]

Did you read the article beyond the headline? Do you have a response to anything specific the authors wrote?

yes I skimmed thru it and didn't find it worthy of reading in its entirety. The entire country cannot have same voice on any issue

 

[Solomon2]

yes I skimmed thru it and didn't find it worthy of reading in its entirety. The entire country cannot have same voice on any issue

If you read the article then you know what the authors think of your first response. If you met them or their Pakistani sympathizers would you have anything else to say?

 

[Verve]

Waste of time this article was but someone got paid for it so good for them.

Same old anti Pakistan this and that. We don't care.

 

[The Eagle]

May be, this how one side sees majority doing so contrary to the expectations as such yet calling other wrong. Mere overview with a lot of loopholes does not represent the true picture and like I said, could be a gospel for someone, though. It is always matter of interest that what the one try to look at while ignoring complete picture.

Side note: Expecting twisted questions further so next.....

Waste of time this article was but someone got paid for it so good for them.

Same old anti Pakistan this and that. We don't care.

Isn't it ironical that a blogger turns out to be most trusted yet truthful due to interests per say but in other hand, a pile of issues even raised by UN are actually called biased and lies. How colourful, the world is.....

 

[lastofthepatriots]

Waste of time this article was but someone got paid for it so good for them.

Same old anti Pakistan this and that. We don't care.

Thank the Pakistani pseudo liberals and feminists for this one.

 

[BATMAN]

backwardness because of lack of modern education system

Don't trust too much what sushma suraj says in UN.
She's simply jealous, ever since she visited Islamabad.

 

[MBT 3000]

leftist american anti Pakistan propaganda