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.
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.
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