tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2688252627825255436.post2797478451093130316..comments2023-05-06T04:15:19.650-07:00Comments on Tab'an Khamosh ~~~ طبعاً خاموش: The Price of the MullahTaban Khamoshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12670961362272300227noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2688252627825255436.post-57908615900577160542009-02-22T08:19:00.000-08:002009-02-22T08:19:00.000-08:00Rabia, it seems to me the league never stopped act...Rabia, it seems to me the league never stopped acting like they did before partition. They were a party of Quislings and reading these accounts (whose authers, if Pakistani, were denounced as "traitors" at the time ) is always an eye opening experience. <BR/><BR/>The actions of the Indian Muslim League with "Quaid Azam" (how pretentious!) seem no different than the bay-haya actions of the Q-league for Musharraf. Wali khan really ruptures the "Myth" of QA.<BR/><BR/>They've always been the King's party. Except that occasionally the factions keep breaking off into parties who just can't bear the hypocrisy and humiliation and start acting like real parties (latest may be pml-n?).<BR/> <BR/>Now I understand why they got rid of history from the school books. The past actions of our "heroes" (as declared by Munh-Kaala Pakistan) are too embarrassing to note and it takes too much work to twist everything to look hunky-dory! So they just got rid of the History Subject altogether. Easy Peasy! As long as you ignore the problem.<BR/><BR/>It maybe what it is, but it could be much much better. But not until we start exorcising these demons and start looking ourselves in the mirror instead of living in a psychotic fantasy land.<BR/><BR/>Facing up to facts has become hellishly difficult though, given that we've been feeding bullshit to our successive generations and when they find out that things are not as they were told, their whole world view implodes all over them.<BR/><BR/>Takes years to rebuild a more realistic world-view concerning Pakistan .... it's counter-productive really.Taban Khamoshhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12670961362272300227noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2688252627825255436.post-40171038952146888962009-02-19T17:04:00.000-08:002009-02-19T17:04:00.000-08:00great excerpt. NWFP history pre-partition shows th...great excerpt. NWFP history pre-partition shows the League in a really bad light, imo, especially when they worked with Olaf Caroe (Cunningham's successor) to try and get Mountbatten to agree to dissolve the Congress ministry after 1946. It really doesn't jive well with their "constitutionalist" reputation. <BR/><BR/>oh well, Pakistan is what it is.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com