Showing posts with label Yusuf Raza Gilani. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Yusuf Raza Gilani. Show all posts

Sep 2, 2010

Only because.....

Dear Express Tribune,

The nation doesn’t need to know what’s cooking in PM Gilani’s kitchen. So you better keep rubbish aside and don’t let it be the decoration of your newspaper. Fizza Batool is PM Yusuf Raza Gilani's daughter, doesn't mean Pakistani Press has the right to bring her personal life in the light. Who knew her till Express Tribune published this.

Media lost it long ago, and Express Tribune is no exception. This is ridiculous and highly irresponsible on Editor’s part to get a story published like hers. After all, floods and ethnical and sectarian clashes are enough to fill in the web or newspaper space.


This is the same media that condemn Sialkot lynching and Mukhtaran Mai’s gang rape and bring the public on roads to protest for securing the youth and respect of a woman. But on the other hand, the same media doesn’t think twice before ripping off a woman publicly only because her father happens to be Prime Minister of Pakistan.

Aug 9, 2010

Caught in Catastrophe

I am not heartless or empathetic nor am I saying that Pakistan Army isn’t doing enough for flood victims. It is a mega disaster of history.

But looking at this picture, made me think how one can catch a food bag thrown from such a height?
Chances are that bag will burst and float in the flood water, making it inedible for the people who are there waiting for it to arrive, but properly. Am sure there are better ways such as repellent technique etc.


A Pakistani army soldier drops food bags for
 flooded survivors in Kot Addu, in the
southern province of Punjab on August 8, 2010. – AFP
 

At another point, they are doing more than their capacity. May be our government, keeping up with the tradition is only begging for aid but failing to provide sufficient survival aid to victims. Hence, Pakistan Army cannot do much but to manage within the available resources.

Pakistani soldiers pass a baby across a watercourse
as part of an effort to help homeless people in
Taunsa, near Multan, move to safe location - BBC





Long live Pakistan Army
 And
 May GOD be with you and the flood victims !!