My thoughts on the Augest 2010 Sialkot killings

I learned about the incident in an email and a few days later searched out the incident. I was unable to get a full news report on what exactly happened or the reason(s) behind it. All I found was were articles and forum posts with commentaries and videos.

I had many reasons to be angry about this. I also believe this incident is an example of many key issues on Pakistan I have discussed. The first reason is of course at the barbaric killers doing what they did. I am in wonder what kind of conditions the killers grew up in that turned them into such monsters.
I also had a brief chat with my American blogger friend Robert Lindsay on the incident and he told me they were mistaken for thieves.

Viewing the latest news report on this, it confirmed his claim. A few months ago in another post endorsing the death penalty, I had raised the point that why is it thieves must face harsh penalties of having their hands chopped off while murderers and those who attempt or commit murder get only jail sentences?

I'm not implying that the victims were thieves or deserved to suffer so brutally, but the point is why the reaction for the accusation of a minor crime so harsh while murderers only get jail sentences?

Another thing that outraged me was that incidents like these are an almost daily occurrence worldwide except we are spared the pain of knowing about them.
The victims suffered in slightly different conditions. The crimes of the killers was witnessed by the public and caught on camera.

A few police officers were watching without intervening, only tainting the image of the entire police- including those who are honest and professional.
It outrages me that an entire institution in Pakistan always gets blamed because of a handful of bad apples.

The police have been the backbone of stability in Pakistan and paid heavy sacrifices for it and are not even given the slightest credit for their efforts.
There are many cases of police abuse around the world, yet it seems only the Pakistani police gets the criticism for the actions of some of their bad members.

But the thing that outraged me most is that incidents like these are used by Indophiles, most of whom are Muhajirs, to give countries like India or Western countries high quality names. I expected the Indophiles to pop up sooner or later writing things like oh what a terrible country in Pakistan is India is much better.
I was right. Reading a post about this incident with Pakistanis rattling about how terrible our country is in the comments section an Indophile turned up whining oh India is a much more civilized country.

So now are we supposed to copy the Hindutva mobs that go around India killing religious minorities and burning their temples of worship in order to "civilize" ourselves?
Our country is a terrible one, sadly and to deny it is to deny reality. But even worse is to use our weaknesses to polish India's image into a false great image.

Even living in North America, I once witnessed a stabbing murder at a high school. All the people witnessing the crime (including myself shamefully) stood and watched. Who is to say that incident that I saw was better or worse than the Sialkot incident?

Sure the police were present, but below are shocking videos of police abuse in other countries. Some cases are not so bad, some are worse, especially when people are physically beaten by the police.

The only good thing that can come from this incident is a lesson to be learned. We need to change our laws and give no mercy to people who commit such barbaric crimes. The police will also learn not to hire such useless officers who do nothing to prevent these brutal killings. Even if no action is taken, I hope at least our people will be enlightened that something is terribly wrong with our society and will feel the need to change.

Without a doubt this horrific act must be condemned and those behind it are brought to justice. But because it's common for the self-hating liberals of Pakistan to exploit incidents like these, one must be careful not to fall into their trap. That's why I think it's important for readers to read this article.

Damn on our people for their brutality and worsening our country's image. And damn those who use incidents like these to spread their lies and propaganda against Pakistan. This is a way of benefiting your lies from somebody else's death. Below are some shocking videos for those who bash the Pakistani police and Pakistan as a country, Indophiles included:

Indianization, Pan-Islamitization and the Pakistani identity crisis

Author's note: I was going to title this Indian and Arab cultural invasions of Pakistan, but reading on my post readers will hopefully see why I picked this title instead.

This is my second post on the subject of Indianization and  Arabization of Pakistan. My first post mostly covered the phenomenon on political levels while in this post I aim to cover both the cultural and political influence of Indianization and Arabization in Pakistan.

Pakistan's identity crisis stems from the lack of education on the genesis of our people. Very little is taught on the ways of our ancient ancestors and who they were. Unlike most other countries, the people of Pakistan appeal to religion as a substitute for racial and cultural identity.
Even our leadership has little or no knowledge on our country's ancient past and so they turn to religion or a certain political ideology as our unifying factor without realizing these things only create more division than unity.

Much of Pakistanis' ignorance to their roots is due to Middle Easternization (mostly Arabization) which works under the false guise of religion.
Our knowledge of our ancient ancestors and civilizations has been traded for knowledge on Islamic history and the history of the people of the Middle East which we hold a strong but false affinity towards.

We have traded our identity for an artificial Middle Eastern identity from the false belief that we Pakistanis are derived from Arabs, Turks, Persians and other Muslim armies that occupied the Subcontinent.
According to official government policy, Pakistani history begins in the 6th and 7th centuries AD when the Arab conqueror Muhammed Bin Qasim invaded Sindh in southeastern Pakistan. All this is done in the name of religion.

In the process of rejecting our pre-Islamic history and trying to fit in amongst the people of the Middle East, the Indians have claimed all our pre-historic heritage as "Indian" or "Hindu" on the simple principle that our ancient ancestors were not Muslim.

The idea of all pre-Islamic civilizations in the subcontinent being "Hindu" is a product of the Brahmanist Hindutva propaganda. The idea of the existence of a religion called "Hinduism" is the work of British misconceptions and later a political agenda. See the meaning and origins of Hinduism.

The so-called "partition" is also another idea created by the fascist Brahman Hindutva force and often promoted by many in Pakistan's Muhajir community who feel regret for leaving their home country for Pakistan.

The Hindutvas have a tendency to claim almost every ancient prehistoric civilization inside Asia as their own and use pseudoscience as a means of promoting their false propaganda.
Due to massive brainwashing of Wahhabism and embracing of Middle Eastern cultures in the name of religion, we have little or no idea of our ancient heritage and often prone to Hindutva propaganda that our pre-Islamic history was "Hindu" and thus don't want to associate with it.

Often when we are reminded of our ancient history, we deny any association with it and claim Arab, Persian, Turkish and/or Central Asian roots out of fear that associating with our ancient history will make us "Hindu."
Then there are those from the Muhajir community who also believe that we were "Hindu" and more than happy to associate all our history with India and identify themselves as simply "South Asians" or "desis."

During the time line between the age of the Internet and the discovery of the Indus Valley Civilization and other civilizations in Pakistan, it was a worldwide belief that all of this was "Indian history."
Even many scholars from around the world turned to the Hindutva Brahmans to learn more about these civilizations out of the assumption that Indian people would know the history of their region better than outsiders or out of sheer ignorance.

School textbooks and other books on history published throughout the world were simply a repeat of the Brahman false claims over these civilizations.
Naturally we are taught to think the writing of a scholar is the ultimate truth hence we accept it without question. Then there are also those in Pakistan's Muhajir community who often aid the Brahman Hindutva propaganda against Pakistan such as the notable fifth columnist Ayesha Jalal.

Even Wikipedia has been used as a propaganda tool by the Hindutvas who hold many high ranking positions in the Wikipedia administration. That seems to have changed with the growing number of contributors/editors on Wikipedia, both Pakistani and non-Pakistani are opposed to Hindutva hegemonic claims.

From all this comes our identity crisis. We don't want to associate with our ancient ancestors because they were allegedly "Indian" or "Hindu" and so we have adopted Pan-Islamism as a substitute for national identity when we could have adopted Pan-Indo-Iranism.

With the use of religious dogma as a substitute for national identity comes this false pretense of trying to be Middle Eastern, mainly Arab.
Because we don't want to be associated with our alleged "Indian" or "Hindu" history, we convince ourselves and try to convince the rest of the world that we descend from Arabs, Persians, Turks and others.

Also within the process of adopting religious dogma and pretending to be from the Middle East, we also try to sell out ourselves and our country in the name of Islamic Ummah.
We are taught not to feel any sort of nationalism or even any sense of patriotism towards our country and culture because according to our Wahhabi segments who influence our policies and politics, Islam forbids nationalism or any sense of patriotism. Wahhabi Islam teaches us that devotion to religion comes above anything- unless you're an Arab.

Because surprisingly, these very same Arab loving religious Pakistanis teach us to feel nationalistic on behalf of the Arabs. From Iraq to Palestine we Pakistanis rally for Arab self-determination and freedom. We are taught to stand up for our "Muslim brothers" and treat their fate as if it was our own.

Most of the time we give more importance to Middle Eastern problems than our own and pay them more attention than we do our own.

Even our traditionally pro-Western elites are influenced by such ideas. Most of them show more support and sympathy for the Palestinian cause than they do for the Kashmiri cause.
Our pro-Western elites even have an admiration for Iran and Iranian history alongside our pro-Iranian Shia minorities who are often self-proclaimed "descendants" from the Prophet Muhammad's family.

While living in imitation and worship of Middle Eastern people and rejecting our history, we are also taught to take pride in the history and cultures of the Middle East.
We often parrot the claims of our religious Wahhabi scholars on the glorious Islamic civilizations of the Middle East such as Baghdad when it was the seat of Islamic civilizations.

We take pride in various Arab empires, the Ottoman Turkish empire and many other Islamic empires from the Middle East and Central Asia. We Pakistanis boast to the world about these civilizations as if they were our own. This is again due to being brainwashed by our Islamist segments that we must take pride in the history of Islam.
I even recall two separate cases of friends in Pakistan being taken by their grandparents to Spain to see the Islamic sites in that country.

We Pakistanis take pride in Persian and Arab contributions to medicine and mathematics and often exaggerate these contributions by claiming "we Muslims 'invented' mathematics."
We repeat the ideas that we are taught about the world being a savage backward jungle before the Arabs spread Islam and supposedly "civilized" the world.

Even the conquest of our own lands by the Arabs, Persians and Turko-Mongols is glorified by the state under influence from the Islamists.
We are taught that before Islam we were mindless savages and depict the various Turkic and Arab armies that enslaved and slaughtered our people as "heroes."

What we Pakistanis are really made to believe when all our teachings are properly analyzed is that if you don't stand up and sacrifice for the people of the Middle East and Central Asia, you are not a true Muslim.

If you make any sort of attempt to preserve your culture or identity, you are not a true Muslim. If you show anymore care for your country over another Muslim's country, you are not a true Muslim.

Arab and Middle Eastern imperialism in Pakistan works as such under the false guise of religion. There are even those Pakistanis who are pushing for Arabic and/or Persian as state language because according to them Arabic is the holy language of Islam.
This is how thick their ignorance is as a result of religious dogma. What they don't realize is that it was only Muhammed, considered the last prophet of Islam, who was an ethnic Arab. The other people considered prophets by Islam such as Jesus/Isa or Moses/Musa were not Arabs, nor did they speak Arabic!

Jesus or Isa as he is known by Muslims spoke Aramaic. Though Aramaic is related to Arabic as a Semitic language, it is still a completely separate language from Arabic and even written in a different script. The similarity between Arabic and Aramaic is like that of English and Swedish, which are not really understandable to one another's speakers despite their common origin and grammar.

So by propagating Arabic as the language of Islam by our Wahhabi segments, they are indirectly suggesting that our older prophets cannot represent or be part of Islam because they did not speak Arabic.
This is quite a contradiction. But again this is how Arab imperialism (and to a lesser degree Iranian imperialism pushed by Pakistan's Shia minority) works. When religious dogma tries to project itself as the ultimate truth and labels anything to the contrary as "ignorance" or "propaganda," we are stuck with an ignorant and semi-literate population.

Our local names have almost entirely lost validity as "Muslim names" due to the fact that they are not Arab, Persian or Turkic names.
As examples Muhammad, Ali, Mushtaq, Javad, Javaid, Timur all Arab, Persian and Turkic names respectively and are accepted as "Muslim names" in Pakistan while local names have almost died out completely.

And even local names that are used are often branded as "Hindu" or "Kaffir" (infidel) names that we are afraid or ashamed to use them. I was reading that the name Aryan is still used in Afghanistan, Iran and India as a first name, while in Pakistan it is not used and regarded as a "Hindu" name.
This is just another of many examples on how we abandon our cultural traits and allow the Indians and others to steal them from us.

Non-Arab names in Iran, Turkey and Central Asia are commonly used and perfectly accepted as normal Muslim names and sometimes even more used than the Arabic names.

It is so strange that our idiotic beliefs of Islamic Ummah motivate us to rejecting our ancient history in favor of Islamic history since even the Arabs, Iranians and Turks take pride in their histories, both pre and post Islamic.
And even when they take pride in their Islamic histories, they still take pride in it as part of their ethnic or national histories.

Most Arabs from outside the Gulf region such as the Egyptians, the Lebanese and the Syrians are all proud of their ancient histories. Even the Arabs from the Gulf take more pride in being Arab than in being Muslim.

The people of Iran, though living under strict Islamic rule still preserve their culture. As examples they still celebrate Persian New Year which is also shared by other Iranic speaking peoples such as the Kurds. They even combine their cultural holidays with the Shia Islamic calendar.
Their national airline Iran Air depicts ancient Persian mythological creatures on it's logos. Egypt Air also depicts images of ancient Egyptian culture as it's logos despite it is today mainly an Arab speaking Muslim country.

Ever since independence has our national airline, Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) or any other major Pakistani corporation depicted aspects of our Indo-Iranic cultures? When PIA did use cultural liveries from Pakistan's provinces, it generated an outcry from many in the public.

Our tanker trucks in Pakistan are painted by the drivers depicting Indo-Iranic mythological creatures spoken of in their village folklore, but never does any company used by the state weather in the tourism or transportation industry ever depict any aspects of our culture. And when they do depict anything at all, it is Quranic verses or anything from Islam. This just shows our government's reckless pro-Arab/Middle Eastern policy.

Our pro-Indian fifth column consists mainly of regretful Muslim immigrants from other parts of the subcontinent. They promote our ancient history as "Indian" or "South Asian."
They often promote Indian Brahman Hindutva propaganda and imperialism under the false guise of secularism and progress. This only helps Pakistanis in distancing themselves from their heritage and identity.

The pro-Indian fifth column also welcomes Indian cultural invasion of Pakistan through Bollywood or wearing of Indian clothes such as saris or eating Indian food or sometimes all of these. All this is promoted on the idea that Indians and Pakistanis are "the same people."
I have no problem with Indians wearing their own clothes, eating their own food, practicing their own traditions, but it is not our culture and I do have a problem when my people believe that it is theirs.

Just as I believe Arabs and other peoples of the Middle East have the right to practice their own customs and traditions as long as our people are not practicing customs and traditions that are not theirs.

This is the cultural and political tug of war Pakistanis face today. On the one side we are taught that our entire glorious pre-Islamic history is shared with the Indians or worse that it was all Indian history before the so-called "partition."

On the other side by resenting our history because we think it is "Indian" and "Hindu" and don't want to be known as "Indians," which we aren't, so we try to rewrite our history to try and make it Middle Eastern.

And either we have to be one or the other. Either we have to be "Indian" or Middle Eastern. We cannot seem to think of ourselves as just Pakistani.
We cannot seem to think of ourselves as heirs of the Indus Valley Civilization which later merged with the invading Indo-Iranic ("Aryan") armies leading to our birth as a hybrid race.

And when we do think of ourselves as simply Pakistani, our Islamist and pro-Indian elites insist there's no such thing because of provincial divisions. I believe I have refuted that rather self-contradictory idea in this post.

Even politically, the promotion of Indianization and Arab/Middle Easternization clouds our judgment.
Whenever I put forward my criticism of Arabs and Middle Eastern peoples for their racism towards Pakistanis, the typical Pakistani reply I get is "but not all Arabs are like that."

Strangely enough, when it comes to Israelis and Indians, our people are ready to lash out at "Hindus" and Jews with hateful slogans, cursing them all instead of saying "but not all of them are like that."

Our Pan-Islamists try to capitalize on the fact that Arabs give us aid when in times of need but when America or the West gives us even larger amounts of aid, we simply ignore it. We try to see all the positive things that the Middle Eastern people do for us and ignore the negative. But when it comes to non-Muslims we do just the opposite.

We only think about all the bad things the Americans have done to us and ignore any positive things they have given whether humanitarian aid or economic aid.
We even blame them for all the terrorist attacks in our country, yet remain silent on the presence of Arab Al-Queda terrorists hiding in our country and targeting our soldiers and people.

We also tend to side with Muslims in conflicts against non-Muslims simply as a result of the religious dogma that has been programmed into our minds.

Some Pakistanis have actually condemned China for it's mistreatment of the Uighurs simply because the Uighurs are Muslims and the Han Chinese are not.
This is despite that China has stood by Pakistan on the Kashmir crisis and other crises while all the other Muslim countries were silent. Also despite that the Uighurs have brought Pakistan nothing but trouble with many Uighurs, Uzbeks and Turks hiding in Northwestern Pakistan and involved in terrorist activities.

This is also despite the Arab Sudanese treating the non-Arab Sudanese with extreme brutality despite they are also Muslims, just not Arab.
This is also despite Turkey's atrocities in Kurdistan or even Pakistan's atrocities in Balochistan, we still go on criticizing other non-Muslim countries for attacking and occupying Muslim lands weather the Russian Federation in Chechnya or America in Iraq and Afghanistan or Israel in Palestine.

When it comes to false accusations from non-Muslim countries against us, we become defensive of ourselves and deny these accusations.
Yet when other Muslim countries such as the Iranian Islamic regime accuse us of harboring Baloch separatists and/or Sunni militants, our Pan-Islamist types get on their knees and blame our government for not doing enough to maintain good relations with our "Muslim brothers."

Even with venom being spewed against us and our country by the Afghan Mellat, our Pan-Islamist types again get down on their knees and claim we haven't done enough to earn the respect of the Afghans despite that we have taken millions of their refugees at our own expense.
Refugees who gave us only more trouble in return by stealing our jobs, committing crimes, selling drugs and spreading illegal firearms.

These are exactly the same apologetic, sellout sentiments promoted by our pro-Indian fifth columnists except the Pan-Islamists are like this towards other Muslims while the pro-Western/Indian fifth column is like this towards the Indians and the West and usually also to other Muslims.

On the subject of Afghanistan and the terrorist Afghan Mellat, whenever Afghan regimes throw accusations at Pakistan or send terrorists into Balochistan in order to further fuel the insurgency there, our Pan-Islamist types in turn always blame the Indians and the CIA, not knowing that Afghanistan has always claimed our Western provinces going back to our independence in 1947 as it sees the Durand Line as invalid.

The hatred for Pakistan amongst Afghans has nothing to do with India. Afghanistan joining hands with India against Pakistan is just another example of "the enemy of my enemy is my friend."
It's just as how China and Pakistan's friendship started off. Though China and Pakistan have a strong friendship and partnerships in many areas which have absolutely nothing to do with India, the friendship first started mainly because both countries were at odds against a common enemy.

But because Afghanistan happens to be another Muslim country, instead of standing up to them, we become more and more apologetic.
These are the kinds of results Indianization and Pan-Islamitization has created in Pakistan and amongst many Pakistanis worldwide influenced by religious extremism.

Always it has been that any kind of opposition towards Pan-Islamism or the nonsensical idea of Islamic Ummah is raised, you are accused of being a "Hindu agent" or a pro-Indian self-defeatist. On the other hand any sort of opposition to Indianization or patriotism towards Pakistan is linked with religious extremism by the pro-Indian fifth column and their supporters.

Our reckless government instead of countering anti-Pakistan propaganda or encouraging action against our pro-Indian fifth column who spread lies against our country in the name of free speech and secularism, still turn to religion as a unifying factor and a motivation.

The solution to a problem lies in fully identifying the problem first. And the problem in our case is what I have mentioned above. Religion alongside Pan-South Asianism often promoted by rich and powerful elites from the Muhajir community has completely buried our knowledge on who we are.

Whenever we have tried going back to our roots, the Indian Hindutva Brahmans next door alongside their pro-Indian fifth columnist puppets have hijacked our identity. They (Indians and their upper class Muhajir allies) believe that almost a century of common British rule suddenly changed the thousands of years of history of the Indus Valley/Pakistan.

Once the realities of the problems is accepted and properly studied can only a proper solution be formed.

Two generations from independence to now have been wasted on various dogmas particularly religious influence and influence from the powerful pro-Indian lobbies. All dogmas favored over the idea of national identity and commonality of our population which is almost entirely Indo-Iranic belonging mainly to the Iranic, Indo-Aryan and Dardic subfamilies.

With the age of the Internet giving faster flow of knowledge and information, we can hope that the next generation of Pakistanis snap out of the ignorance their forefathers lived in.
The solution to the Pakistani identity crisis lies in acceptance of who we are as a nation composed almost entirely of Indo-Iranic peoples weather Baloch, Pakhtun (Iranic) or Sindhi, Punjabi (Indo-Aryan) or the Dardic populations of the north.

This time we must take a journey back thousands of years back to the genesis of our country. This time it has to be without the interference of Arab/Iranian/Turkish wannabe Pan-Islamists and pro-Indian fifth columnists like Pervez Hoobhoy or Ayesha Jalal.

When any research into history and anthropology is tampered with to satisfy political agendas, the outcome can be harmful.
Once unbiased, factual, scientific research is done on our ancient ancestors and on who we are, things may turn out differently. Even if we are divided politically or even ethnically, we can still find a common basis on the fact that we stem from the same ancient Indo-Iranic tribes (who in turn were derived from the Proto-Indo-European/"Kurgan" people) that roamed Central Asia and later on merged with the natives of the Indus Valley, giving birth to the hybrid race that we are today.

I can guarantee the day the state, the people and the scholars do a full scale research on our Indo-Iranic roots is the day we can have stronger unity. The day we appeal to a common Indo-Iranic identity with the backing of the state, we will feel more strongly towards our country and the day the Pakistani identity crisis will be fully solved.

Pakistan's dangerous pro-Indian lobbies and media

The pro-Indian lobbies in Pakistan have had a strong influence for a long time. They consist of regretful upper class Muhajirs who wish to blame their faults onto the people of Pakistan. Their presence in the media is noticeable just about everywhere.
As mentioned in an earlier post of mine, the pro-Indian front is quick to highlight every negative aspect of Pakistan and compare it with a 'positive' aspect of India.

The newspapers and magazines (ie Dawn Newspaper or Geo TV) are full of Indian achievements such as tourism hitting India, India making an economic gain in the world market or European patients attending Indian hospitals to save operating costs that would be much higher back home.

Pakistani achievements on the other hand are nowhere to be found in the mainstream media to my knowledge. All the Pakistani achievements I've found are either online and found randomly in videos. The recent opening of the metro system in New Delhi also struck our news media. But nowhere is the mention of the fact that despite it's metro system, New Delhi can hardly be compared as a capital city to Islamabad. In terms of environment, infrastructure New Delhi's slums, overcrowded streets and pollution can hardly be compared to Islamabad's greenery, fully paved streets and highways.

It's not that I wish to be negative towards India or Indian people, but what frustrates me is that the pro-Indian side somehow tries to 'prove' that India is a 'better' country by deliberately distorting facts and statistics when reality in fact shows the quite opposite.

When it comes to a comparison between the two countries, much of the pro-Indian elites of Pakistan usually go by their beliefs out of sheer denial, nothing more. For if they are confronted with the truth, they know their beliefs are nothing more than fiction.

Another reason why many in the media and elite class bash Pakistan without missing a chance is to feel more accepted amongst their peers. Because a whole gang of elites are bashing the country for the sake of it, another elite will join in to avoid feeling alienated.

The pro-Indian lobbies also try to make other Pakistanis believe that the refusal to see India as a "progressing" nation is blind patriotism for Pakistan. Though my feelings towards Pakistan are nothing but pride and nationalistic, it does not blind me to the fact that Pakistan is sadly one of the poorest and backward countries in the world.

An example of this was when a relative of mine and I were arguing over weather India and Pakistan is a more developed country. When I brought the fact of poverty, he told me of a group of European travelers he had met in the north of Pakistan. They planned on staying two weeks in Pakistan before moving on into India to spend two months.

However, these travelers returned in about a week. My relative asked the reason for their short stay and they replied they came across an unimaginable amount of poverty that they had never experienced before which shocked them. But even after telling me all this, my relative repeated that India is still doing better. This clearly gave me the same impression, that no matter what, the belief that India is a 'better' country is imprinted into their minds.

I also felt he was saying this because everybody else was saying this. A large percentage of the lower and middle class of Pakistan are already struck with strict interpretations of Islam and seem to be willing to believe them no matter what. And anyone in the lower or middle class with question marks of these strict interpretations will most likely shove them aside in order to feel fit amongst his/her peers.

From my experience those who blindly follow Indian fascist propaganda also don't debate their beliefs. Either they interrupt your arguments when you try to put the facts before them. Or they will twist around the facts to suit them. Such as the poverty factor their typical replies would be "oh India has problems such as poverty I'm not saying it doesn't but Pakistan does too."

This is a ridiculous argument. It's just like admitting that Haiti has poverty but so does Holland (Netherlands).

Even a friend of mine told me of similar experiences when he talking to a Muhajir who was in pity for Pakistan and believed India was "more developed."
When my friend tried to argue with this notion, the other person just got up and left the table.

So like much of the lower and middle class who blindly believe in strict forms of Islam without question and follow them like drones, this mentality of "India is best" has caught a huge number of Pakistanis, following this belief, also like drones.

It is one thing if the person believes the opposite of the truth and lives in denial of it. A person's personal belief is a human right. But when that person spreads his/her denial onto others, he/she is doing an immoral act by lying and spreading the wrong information.

This is the case with the pro-Indians of Pakistan. They have wrongly spread their denial of reality onto other Pakistanis through no other than lies and distortion of facts.

Only about ten years ago, I too blindly believed that India was a superior and technologically more advanced country. I believed it because everyone else believed it so it must be true. How wrong I was. The Internet was in it's first few years, so the availability of information was not as fast. Now things have changed and even though I feel alienated amongst my many close friends and relatives, I still prefer to accept reality rather than swallow outright lies for the sake of fitting amongst them.

If our pro-Indian media and elites don't like our achievements and choose to ignore them and constantly engage in the selective comparison that they always do, they should at least give a reason for speaking the way they do about our country.
These pro-Indian lobbies and their influence in the media need to be dismantled before they do further damage to the minds of our youth than they already have.

How else are our country and people to feel encouraged about contributing positively to Pakistan and the world if they always hear everything negative about themselves and their country.
We use constructive criticism to learn about our mistakes and improve ourselves, but how is it any helpful by saying we live in the dark ages without providing a way out? These are the ways of the pro-Indian lobbies.

"Pakistan is bad, India is best, Pakistan is bad, India is best..." instead of "Pakistan is bad, here's why and here's how we can improve..."

Even during a political crisis, these Indian lovers never miss an opportunity to attack their country and add fuel to the fire.
Many of them go as far as to condemn Pakistan for building nuclear weapons without condemning India for starting the arms race in the first place. Many of them also join in with the Indians on finger pointing every terrorist attack on Pakistan and the ISI.

They do all this in the name of 'peace' with India. I'm also a strong advocate of peace, but this is hardly the way.


Above: Asma Jahangir meeting Bal Thackery. According to many sources this Hindutva fundamentalist was behind the 2002 Gujarat massacres. I don't know how true that is but if it was, I would hardly be surprised.

The pro-Indian lobbies have always had double standards when it comes to Pakistan. On the one hand Asma Jahangir visits and befriends this Hindutva leader, yet these same people speak out regularly against the Taliban and Islamic fundamentalists and accuse the Pakistani government "supporting" them.

All this is in the name of peace, progress, secularism etc. The pro-Indian Pakistani lobbies pose a more serious danger to our youth and country than empty threats from Hindutva fanatics next door.

They aid the international propaganda war against Pakistan. Many naive people in the world including Pakistan, not to mention India believe that Pakistan is a source of terrorism simply because they heard this accusation repeated many times.

I too am willing to believe Pakistan is sponsoring terrorism- provided I'm given some solid evidence for it. So far the anti-Pakistan propaganda machine has been repeating the same lie without giving any evidence and it seems to have already gained a large audience.

Adolph Hitler had a saying that went on the lines of something like "speak a lie, keep repeating it and everyone will eventually believe it."

When you prosecute an individual on the basis of murder, you must hope to have him/her convicted by providing evidence for your accusation instead of only repeating your charges against him/her.

Dismantling these pro-Indian lobbies in Pakistan will be no easy task. Because they speak under the false guise of progress and secularism, they will accuse their opponents of "silencing" freedom of expression.

A good step towards resisting the pro-Indian front in Pakistan is to spread awareness of them and their dirty work. Weather newspaper articles or internet articles or anything that will bring public attention to these people. They need to be exposed to the fullest and counter propaganda to their lies needs to be strategical.

Their influence over the media needs to be countered by more nationalist Pakistanis gaining their own influence in the media. Pakistani achievements and accomplishments need to be more promoted in our media. Proper factual statistics need to dominate the media over pro-Indian slogans. Truthful insights to the politics of our country and region must be spread over anti-Pakistan lies.

Good examples to go by are Pak Positive and similar sites.

All this must be done carefully and not involve political Islamists who have their own agenda as I explained in this post.

The downfall of these Indian/Hindutva fascist lovers in Pakistan will be a victory for our country and everything our great leader Jinnah fought for.

Below is one of some videos that show some Pakistani achievements that our fascist Muhajir controlled media will never show, unless we nationalist Pakistanis gain our own influence:




Note that these achievements such as surgical instruments and soccer balls for Germany and the world are a few of countless achievements that can be found from searching and sadly don't get reported. It's achievements like these that need to be more promoted to encourage progress amongst our people.

There are also facebook groups such as this one working to expose Geo TV.

Readers are encouraged to become fans of such groups to help expose Pakistan's fascist pro-Indian media.

Western-style political correctness creeping into Pakistan?

This question came into my mind after observing the political strife between Pakistan's various powerful elites. They consist mainly of pro-Indian, pro-Western types and a few Islamists such as Zaid Hamid and his followers. While Western style political correctness has not been as strong in Pakistan, political correctness itself has been strong in the country in regards to religion.

Criticizing just about every aspect of Islam publicly can be dangerous. Doing anything considered "un-Islamic" can have similar consequences.
But what Pakistan never seemed to have before is Western-style political correctness. This kind of political correctness does not allow criticism of Western views on political history such as questioning the Holocaust. It seldom allows conspiracy theories especially behind incidents that Muslims are accused of being the perpetrators.

Resistance movements around the world are usually seen as "terrorist" in the West- unless they are movements that favor Western interests such as the separatist movement in Tibet.

Questioning racial diversity or immigration laws in the West are also seen as "politically incorrect."
Though Pakistan itself is not a favorite target of immigrants aside from a few million illegal refugees and even until now sending them away is not seen as "politically incorrect," I still find many other aspects of Western political correctness that seem to be creeping into Pakistan.

The most noticeable aspect is in regards to conspiracy theories against Indian and Western ambitions. Though I myself too find these heavily exaggerated and questionable, anyone who even brings these theories into being is called a conspiracy theorist and labeled an extremist.

At the same time Pakistan's hardcore leftists who are generally pro-Indian/Western blame the ISI for just about every terrorist attack in the world.
These same hardcore leftists have been calling these conspiracy theories "hate speech" against Hindus and Americans.

The Western media has also had it's set of double standards where conspiracy theories surrounding the ISI are often published, most likely to gain sales. On the other hand they criticize conspiracy theories in Pakistan that blame America and the CIA.

It seems obvious the hardcore leftists of Pakistan are trying to make conspiracy theories against India or the West- be them true or not -politically incorrect.

With a huge presence of Western forces in the Middle East and Central Asia and India's ongoing propaganda war against Pakistan, it seems these leftists have gained confidence in defaming any critic of Western and Indian imperialism.
As I mentioned in other posts, while the Islamists especially Zaid Hamid and his kind are a terrible influence on Pakistan, it's clear the leftists are attacking them for the wrong reasons.

The hardcore leftists are now trying to silence criticism of Indian and Western policies through political correctness by trying to brand it "hate speech" much like how questioning the Holocaust in the West is silenced by being branded as "hate speech." (Not that I don't believe it happened).

Thankfully, Pakistan's political conditions for the past sixty years have made it impenetrable for Western-style political correctness. Sadly though, Pakistan does suffer from strict Islamic political correctness which needs to change.

Any kind of political correctness is wrong for a country and free expression should be unlimited- provided it is not a freedom to spread lies and propaganda like the pro-Indian leftists and Islamists often do. When something is claimed, it should have evidence behind it, otherwise it should be perceived as plain lies.

I also could be wrong about Western-style political correctness creeping into our country with the help of the pro-Indian/Western elites (I hope I'm wrong) but this is what my observation leads me to believe so far.