I request you to avoid following a legal interpretation of what has been written by me. When I say democracratic forces, I mean so called democratic parties which actually are civil dictators. Would you kindly elaborate on what you meant by saying if eduated people support dictatorship then………. I think educated people should never support politicians like Nawaz, Zardari, Imran Shujjat etc who are actually civil dictators and far worse than a military dictator. Its all about democracy, I will always support Musharaf cuz he was a leader and not a looter like Nawaz and Zardari and I firmly believe in that.

Seriously this is a hilarious fact.
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*President Asif Ali Zardari has given instructions to FIA to hunt down
Pakistanis writing jokes about him. The FIA has already begun its
witch-hunt, searching the Internet for the ‘criminals’. Prime Minister
Gilani wants no newspaper to write anything about him without checking first
with his press secretary. A ‘dictator’ like Musharraf never did any of this.
This is the fake democratic leadership of our country where the President is
busy with the jokes on him when the country is facing hostile action from
Zardari’s own allies in **Washington**. What can Pakistanis do if President
Zardari gives them opportunities to make jokes? Who told him to alert the
entire media by disappearing from an official dinner to go celebrate with
his former girlfriends at a private party? Who is setting him up?*

* *

[image: Courtesy: Rumandxb@yahoo.com]*By **AHMED QURAISHI*

Friday, 3 October 2008.

http://WWW.AHMEDQURAISHI.COM

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan—President Zardari might have a funny side but it’s
obviously reserved for Americans like Sarah Palin and not for Pakistanis.
Before he left for his U.S. tour (which he camouflaged as a U.N. tour to
fool our friends in Beijing who expected the Pakistani President to make his
first visit to China), Mr. Zardari gave stern instructions to the sleuths at
Federal Investigations Agency, FIA, to hunt down Pakistanis responsible for
circulating jokes about Mr. Zardari through emails and text messages.

Mr. Zardari was especially angry at someone who faked his signature on the
Visitors’ Book at the Mausoleum of Pakistan’s Founding Father, the
Quaid-e-Azam, in Karachi, where Mr. President landed on 14 August to pay his
respects.

That email was a particularly nasty job where Mr. Zardari was shown to have
supposedly written God as ‘goad’ and strength as ‘strent’.

So angry is Mr. Zardari with those poking fun at him that no less than the
official news agency, the APP, was told to release a story to all Pakistani
newspapers where an unnamed official (we suspect it’s either Husain Haqqani
or Sheri Rehman) denied the President ever wrote those words and denounced
the jokes at President’s expense. There was also a dire warning to all
fun-loving Pakistanis: the cyber crime wing of the FIA has been instructed
to hunt down those circulating jokes on him through emails or mobile phones.
Several prominent journalists in Islamabad have already received calls from
secret numbers where the caller on the other side inquired about journalists
and people opposed to Mr. Zardari, since according to FIA sleuths
only declared critics of the President could do this. [Tip to FIA honchos:
Don't forget to check Naheed Khan, Makhdoom Amin Faheem and Enver
Baig'scell phones for a secret war-chest of Zardari jokes!]

Here I’d like to remind those Pakistanis who voted for Mr. Zardari and his
party [only 40% of Pakistanis vote, and most of them are illiterate and they
vote at gunpoint by their feudal lords, so I'm not optimistic they are
reading this] that President Pervez Musharraf, the last of the great
Pakistani statesmen, despite his many follies, and a military ‘dictator’,
spent 90% of his time in government with an extremely hostile media and one
of the nastiest character-assassination campaigns ever seen in Pakistan,
through SMS messages, emails, Internet, newspapers, and television channels.
What did Musharraf do? He allowed more private TV channels. And he never
complained, except for the last few months of his office, and even then he
never reacted to jokes about him and character-assassination and his anger
was aimed at other types of political criticism that he thought demoralized
the nation.

As for these fake democrats who are in power today in Pakistan thanks to a
British-American ‘deal’, Prime Minister Gilani issued an order that no media
organization can publish anything about him without checking first with his
press secretary. And now President Zardari wants to ban all jokes about him.
A ‘dictator’ like Musharraf never issued such ridiculous orders.

So what if some Pakistanis joke about Mr. Zardari? After all, he does have a
colorful past and his unlikely rise to power beats even the most
melodramatic Indian films with absurd story lines. And what to say of Mr.
Zardari’s knack for saying and doing things that make it easy for those who
want to crack a joke or two at his expense. Take for example of his flimsy
failed flirt attempt with Sarah Palin, or his sudden disappearance from an
Iftar-dinner reception for Pakistanis to attend a private-room party with
his girlfriends at an upscale Manhattan
restaurantin New York City.

In the spirit of free speech and free jokes, let me conclude with this
latest one on Mr. Zardari:

“Just imagine Sarah Palin divorces her current husband and marries Asif
Zardari.

Then Palin becomes Vice President of USA.

Then Zardari kills Palin, changes the Will which henceforth says, ‘Zardari
will become the President of USA if I die.’

And eventually Zardari becomes President of USA six months after Palin’sdeath.

Bilawal ends up changing his name to Bilawal Palin-Zardari.”

• We Improve our literacy rate
• Educated people needs to come out and vote for the change of leadership ( I am saying this reference to the notion that in the elections a large number of middle class and educated people does not caste their vote and prefers to stay at home and enjoy the vacation)
• We must vote freely irrespective of Caste and religion.
• Govt should take measures to eliminate the feudal system from the country that hinders free voting and rights of common people

Shah Zaman
Rawalpindi

No doubt that there are forces that call themselves democratic, but in fact are rich, scoundrels, landlords, thugs and looters. We can’t live with such forces and the only way to turn them down is through complete democracy. Democracy is a complete process that takes time, it is a way of life that demands sacrifices. Thus, instead of discouraging democracy, we should help it evolve completely in order to topple down the looters and scouderals. There are examples of people who have sacrificed their lives for democracy to evolve in its complete shape.

It is not for the first time that we have seen military men leave their profession and start dictating the nation. The history of Pakistan is full of such stories and this is the very reason that is responsible for the discouragement of the evolution of pure democracy. For short term economic gains from dictatorship we must not sacrifice our long run goals that can only be achieved through pure democracy.

If we view the economic development of the country in the context of their long rule as compared to that of democracy, I would say dictatorship has done only little. India, the largest democracy of the world, has never let in dictators, although their poverty and corruption rates score far more than that of Pakistan. Thus, it is a common misconception among the mass that dictatorship should be allowed in and supported to achieve some good ends. Mr. Dictator Musharraf was also successful in expanding his establishment to the Northern Areas with Mr. Ghazanfar as the leader and many pro dictatorship cults along the line.

Governance, rule of law, social harmony and social institutional developments, as pointed out by Jamil, are what matter the most and should be given more weightage. Indeed, while being well educated, we should support democratic forces and help them flourish and topple down dictators whenever they come along. We should not support the dictators who sell their own people in return for some dollars that would be used for economic development.

I congratulate the people of Pakistan in general and the people of Northern Areas in particular on their freedom from the long reign and anarchy of Mr. Dictator General (Ret.) ex -President Pervaiz Musharraf.

When I read his book titled “in the line of fire” Urdu version, I got new directions and way of thinking.

We salute him for his achievements and performance.

Tahir Zaman – Ghulkin
Rawalpindi