Wed 23 May 2007
The Pakistani minister of tourism resigned yesterday.
She was in France and took a parachute jump to raise money for child victims of the earthquake that struck Pakistan in October 2005. After the jump, she was congratulated by her instructor and that included a hug.
What happened after those pictures??
- Clerics at a mosque in Islamabad issued a fatwa against her demanding she gets dismissed from the cabinet.
- She was sacked as head of the women’s wing of the ruling Pakistan Muslim League.
- Government and Prime Minister don’t stand up for her against the Islamists.
- She resigns.
I have a question, while she was on a charity jump for Pakistani victims, how many of those people making a big deal of the picture have done anything to help in charities to needy people?
Pakistan is going down a very dangerous path slowly. The Islamists are forcing themselves while the government is not dealing with the situation well at all! They are losing their hold on the system all together.
Other examples of stuff that has happened there include -
- A Punjab provincial minister was shot dead in the eastern city of Gujranwala because she was not wearing a veil.
- Self appointed Mullas sending their own troops to patrol the streets to check that everything is Islamic enough to their liking!
- Students at the ‘Red Mosque’ have been raiding homes they claim to be brothels.
- Students frm the same mosque have been kidnapping policemen.
Unfortunately, it seems like things are heading to one direction, where Taliban went and destroyed Afghanistan.
In a way, this whole minister incident reminded me of the Nouria Al-Sabeeh swearing in a few weeks ago, when Islamist members of parliament tried to disrupt her by interrupting and threatening before the session.
8 Responses to “A Killer Hug!”
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May 23rd, 2007 at 2:40 am
The only way for Musharraf to stay in power is to follow this path… playing the same card as his ally Bush 6 years ago; create a threat, let loose the Islamist hordes then fight them and be a hero.
“A little fear never hurt anybody… A lot of fear is great, but a little bit every now and then is good too” (Stephen Colbert, sometime last week)
May 23rd, 2007 at 10:21 am
Mogendi, I dont see how Musharref has any possibility of staying on for long. I also think if he does play the fear game, he will lose because the people backing him are a minority. His action in this case show that he is trying to get back some support from Islamists, but it just proves to them how strong they are!
May 23rd, 2007 at 10:43 am
a hero…..?!?!
not even when you were in the diplomatic zone were safe, they bombed a church near us few years ago, and no one had the guts to walk alone in the streets, we were looking for islamists more than we were afraid of tigers and wild boars…..!!!
May 23rd, 2007 at 10:57 am
For Musharraf, its a very difficult juggling act. It remains a fact that compared to practically all previous leaders of Pakistan, he has brought about the most economic prosperity at perhaps the most difficult time.
This comes at a cost, since previous leaders were content to lead (read devour) the nation as long as they could get leadership on a turn by turn basis without any real care of where the country went economically.
Now there are a lot of leaders and political parties who are not very pleased and at the end of the day Musharraf knows that he alone cannot run the country and it is from this lot that he has to select the best. He has realized that it is impossible to go on it alone and has to take the support of some of these groups/people.
The result of course is not pretty and you have the above very dangerous situations taking place. It is just really sad, knowing all the potential that Pakistan has as a nation. Especially for me, as a Pakistani.
May 23rd, 2007 at 11:55 am
while she was working for charity, the clerics were probably spending everyones zakat by saving the world by figuring out how many times a man has to be breast fed by a woman so they can breathe the same air in the same space.
May 24th, 2007 at 9:59 am
Maybe there’s still some light at the end of the tunnel - her resignation has been rejected by the PM and she resumes duty from today.
http://www.thenews.com.pk/top_story_detail.asp?Id=8052
May 24th, 2007 at 12:18 pm
Q,
Why you go far?
look at Kuwait , you will see the worse.
May 24th, 2007 at 12:49 pm
Q, I agree that what happen to this woman is ridiculou but she shouldn’t have set herself up like that. Am one of the people who believes that fanatic rule should be abolished however we shouldn’t under-estiamte thier strength and the fact that millions of people are convice by it. Espacially that many of thier followers all they have is religoin and faith to show in thier life.