Is Asif Zardari becoming Irrelevant?

I know it maybe a bit premature to proclaim this, but it doesn't hurt to ask this question does it?

Even though Asif Zardari seems to be at the "top" of his game (whatever the hell that is).. and people can't seem to do anything but squirm at the moment, but it seems to me that he is actually quickly becoming irrelevant. He has squandered the emotional capital and really annoyed and angered pretty much everyone across the political specturm, except of course Musharraf and his benefactors sitting in their control rooms in Washington D.C. and London.

A couple of things that happened recently and how AAZ reacted to them:

First was the long march. A historic long march that millions attended on the way to Islamabad and a march that was welcomed and sustained by hundreds of thousands, culminated in a historic rally, first and only one of its kind in Pakistan's history, in front of the Parliament.

Where was Asif Zardari? In Bilawal House Karachi, on the other end of Pakistan getting his picture taken in that ill fated bullet-proof SUV... speaking to about 100 Steel Mills workers (a noble cause no doubt.. but Come ON!!)

And now as the word spreads on the street that there is a split in the "People's" Party in the offing and the long time party workers are meeting in Liaqat Bagh Rawalpindi to commemorate BB's birthday with a huge rally, Zardari will be "supervising blood donations" in NauDero ....

Missing in action, once again. And talking the language of the Dead bhuttos as saints and Mr. Zardari as the virtual crypt keeper. Uggh!!

At least I'm asking this question now, WTF is this guy doing? Does he even _have_ a game? He sounds pretty deranged at times, and his decisions seem dishonest at best and downright retarded and counterproductive at worst.

One thing seems clear though. He is surrounded by these un-elected sycophants who will take him down along with the party and the nation if corrective measures are not taken.

The fact that these huge events are occuring without anyone caring what the hell Mr. Zardari is upto, may indicate to a coming reality, and that being that his meteoric rise to prominence may be accompanied by an equally jarring fall from grace.

Some "FAILURES" in History (according to Negative Ninnies)

HIstorical events and Why they were FAILURES (according to negative ninnies)

EVENT: Exodus
What happened?: Israelites were freed, escaped the phaorah, ate Mannah for 40 days, parted the seas, got a new homeland.
WHY A Failure ?: No Dharna in front of the Pyramids!!! GASP!!

EVENT: Noah’s Flood
What happened?: The good humans and the pious animals survive a ginormous flood
WHY A Failure ?: No dharna was performed on Mt. Ararat! What a failure!

EVENT: Mao’s long march
What happened?: Millions were freed, China put on the path to independence!
WHY A Failure ?: No Dharna!! maray gai stupid chinese!

EVENT: Gandhi’s salt march to the sea.
What happened?: Shook the British Raj to the core, gave self confidence to Indians
WHY A Failure ?: No Dharnaa!!! Gandhi was SUCCH a LUZURRR!!!

EVENT: Creation of Pakistan
What happened?: Pakistan was created! hellooo?
WHY A Failure ?: No Dharna on 14th of August… what a moron was that jinnah guy.. he didn’t know how to run a movement.

EVENT: Emancipation of the Slaves
What happened?: Blacks were freed in the states
WHY A Failure ?: No Dharnaa!!

EVENT: Martin Luther King Jr. march
What happened?: Changed the face of America forever! start of a seachange in the American Psyche.
WHY A Failure ?: NO DHARNAA!!!

EVENT: Lawyer’s Long March 2008 - Pakistan
What happened?: Millions of people came out, supported the judiciary cause, stood in 45 degree heat, gave water, food to tired march participants.. came out in the 100,000’s for the first time in the history of Pakistan and Islamabad, held a successful rally and dispersed peacefully after giving a LOUD & CLEAR message to the ruling classes.

WHY A Failure ?: No Dharnaa!!!! [sound] uaaN uaaaN uaaaaaaaNNNN!!! [/sound]

Long March Zinda Baad!

Cheer up my friends!
It was the first standoff
between the People and The Saamraaj!

It was Tabook ! it was no Uhud!
A shot across the bow of the sinking ship of Kleptocracy,
and its remote-controlling masters.

It may not feel like it right now,
but it was a Historic Victory!

--moi

"Rethinking the National Interest" by Condoleeza Rice

Condoleeza Rice has written a policy piece titled "Rethinking the National Interest" for Foreign Affairs magazine.

Apparently they spent 3 billion dollars on schools, clinics, hospitals... in Pakistan! hahahahaha..... buahahahahahahah!.... [gasp... gasp] buahhahahahahahhahaahahahahahaha!

Gawd! I needed a good laugh. She's left Chris Rock way behind hasn't she?

Here are some gems related to Pakistan:

Admittedly, our interests in both promoting democratic development and fighting terrorism and extremism lead to some hard choices, because we do need capable friends in the broader Middle East who can root out terrorists now. These states are often not democratic, so we must balance the tensions between our short-term and our long-term goals. We cannot deny nondemocratic states the security assistance to fight terrorism or defend themselves. At the same time, we must use other points of leverage to promote democracy and hold our friends to account. That means supporting civil society, as we have done through the Forum for the Future and the Middle East Partnership Initiative, and using public and private diplomacy to push our nondemocratic partners to reform. Changes are slowly coming in terms of universal suffrage, more influential parliaments, and education for girls and women. We must continue to advocate for reform and support indigenous agents of change in nondemocratic countries, even as we cooperate with their governments on security.

An example of how our administration has balanced these concerns is our relationship with Pakistan. Following years of U.S. neglect of that relationship, our administration had to establish a partnership with Pakistan's military government to achieve a common goal after September 11. We did so knowing that our security and that of Pakistan ultimately required a return to civilian and democratic rule. So even as we worked with President Pervez Musharraf to fight terrorists and extremists, we invested more than $3 billion to strengthen Pakistani society -- building schools and health clinics, providing emergency relief after the 2005 earthquake, and supporting political parties and the rule of law. We urged Pakistan's military leaders to put their country on a modern and moderate trajectory, which in some important respects they did. And when this progress was threatened last year by the declaration of emergency rule, we pushed President Musharraf hard to take off his uniform and hold free elections. Although terrorists tried to thwart the return of democracy and tragically killed many innocent people, including former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, the Pakistani people dealt extremism a crushing defeat at the polls. This restoration of democracy in Pakistan creates an opportunity for us to build the lasting and broad-based partnership that we have never achieved with this nation, thereby enhancing our security and anchoring the success of our values in a troubled region.

NS & IK Press Conference - Whoopty Fucking Doo!

This, on the eve of the Long March is total BS. Why do these two have the morose body language like some lawyer ran over their cat? And,

ATTENTION IMRAN KHAN GROUPIES:

WHY IS YOUR “LEADER” ACTING LIKE A HYPER 13 YEAR OLD with a Severe case of ADHD ???????

Some observations:

1. I would like these two gentlemen to be quiet, get on a plane and MARCH WITH the MARCHERS not “maiN Seeeeeeeeeeedha Islamabad jaa rahaa hooN”

Its called a Long "MARCH” not a friggin Looooong "Flight” …. Get a clue people!!

2. So, is Imran Khan NS’s attack dog now? And who gives a fuq about some stupid case against Altaf Hussain… move the he11 on!

3. Imran Khan COMPLETELY upstaged Nawaz Sharif. Question to NS (and his handlers) Was having someone bark at Zardari really worth having to now backpeddle on the US side? You don’t “STRONGLY CONDEMN” BUSH unless you got the ba!!s to back this up! IK doesn’t have the nuts to eat some dust with the lawyers and he wants to “strongly condemn” George Friggin Bush?

Some suggestions:

4. Imran Khan should quit his International Fan Club, and join PML-N …

5. Lawyers should aske Aitezaz Ahsan to leave, he’s been taking the edge off the lawyers movement since March 9th.

6. Jamaatias should be banned from the march. period!

And I’m Appalled to relate that IK acted like a total DOUCHE! he kept inturrupting NS and at the end like a bored kid, just got up and bloody left (knocking over some china in the process– KLINKK!!!)

WTF?

And now to answer the charge of being an "IK Hater" :

I’m not an IK hater. But I am a fawning hater, sycophancy hater, stupid celebrity worship hater… making excuses for lack of democracy hater, and hater of all other kinds of BS that is fuqqing us over. Call me party pooper!

My apologies to IK groupies… but look at his attitude… he just showed his “haula pan” by jumping up like a 10 year old when someone much senior than him is sitting there.. (the 2 time PM guy? with 90 seats in the assembly and govt of 60% of Pakistan?? helloooo??)

You know why he acted like this? He was acting like this because he dealt with spineless, fawning pu$$ies (they call themselvs his “supporters” or party members) all weekend falling over each other for his autographs.. people he can treat like sh!t but who would still fawn over every captain-obvious remark by him like some teenage skanks at a midwestern boy-band mall-concert!

I have ZERO respect for PTI “members” like that. Come back and give me platitudes when you’ve held ELECTIONS At Chapter level. Until then. You’re just another fan-club of some celebrity. No better than Bhutto worshippers or NS worshippers or even Altaf Hussain worshippers (actually, that guy does have some kind of basic organizational sh!t going on…)

Don’t believe me? go look at the “North American” meeting for PTI and MQM … Which one looks like a pizza party? I’d expect it to be MQM, but it is actually PTI. 5-6 Fat guys standing around eating pizza. Yeah.. I can TOTALLY see how you’re gonna take over the political scene of Pakistan! Werrd!! Coolio! Dawg!!

And I, mr. joe bloody shmoe, am supposed to respect that as “the revolutionary thing in Pakistani Politics” ??? I don’t think so!

Both these guys should get the hell over there (at least NS has a friggin excuse!) and MARCH! instead of landing in ISB… HOW THE FUQ can we blame Zardari for his callousness when everyone else is acting just like him?The difference being that of degrees not of substance?

so there.

Constitutional Package: The Half Monty!

Pejamistri has done an excellent job and took the time to put the clauses and the changes in them in a color-coded form. He only did it for the parts that have become public through Daily Times etc, but it makes things much easier to follow than the original format published.

Here it is: "Constitutional Package - Comprehensive Review"

What we Pakistani's need is a "Constitution Wiki" Which shows the original Constitution(s) and all the changes made in them by various, ehem, "authors".

Good work Peja!!

PPP's "Constitutional" Package

Disasters Around the World

With apoloties to the original cartoonist:

“What makes you think there is no establishment? ”

Quoth the Raven...

Well I think there isn’t one in the sense that an “establisment” is more like the “roots” of a country and the pillers (trunks) of state grow out of it. The establishment is the class which is the real beneficiary but it also leaves enough for the nation to be healthy enough to do the wealth creation.

I always try to distinguish ours as “a suicidal kleptocracy” instead of an ‘establishment’. An establishment is a class that despite being rich identifies with the land, values being ‘the dominant player” in the land on a permanent basis. But the necessary condition for such a class is an identity and for that identity to be in line with the nation and it’s aspirations.

You are right in saying that they have permanent interests but temporary allies and the characterization of moshe is apt. But what I’d like to add here is that for a country the size of Pakistan (population, demographics, geo-graphics, resources) the conditions are right to have a indigenous National Establishment which actually does not compete to the death with the 99.99999% of the population for the dwindling resources, rather, it is a shepherd of these masses.



What _we_ have is a “remote controlled kleptocracy” which does not believe in the BS it shoves down every 1st grader’s throat. A kleptocracy that uses identity as a vehicle for stealing and robbing the people. A kleptocracy which knows quite well how un-sustainable it’s policies are. Therefore it keeps its own nest eggs in safe bank accounts in Switzerland while OUR banking system goes to hell in a handbasket.

What we have is more akin to a 'colonist' gang which still maintains a net flow of wealth out of the the country at the behest of those (foreigners) it needs to maintain it’s legitimacy and power at home (as it doesn’t draw it’s power from the people, on the contrary, it is suspicious and contemptuous of them).

Also, this group we mistakenly call our “establishment” is lazy. It is incompetent. It leaves the hard work of strategizing to the foreigners. It is not the foreigners who “go along” as you mentioned in your response to @peja, rather, it is the kleptocracy that does not take any steps unless it is ordered by it’s foreign bosses. Obviously there are pockets of nationalism and some semblance of self respect.. but in general, this class is a mercenary class which fulfills the objectives of the foreign powers through its crimes of commission and more importantly omission.

So that is why I say we have no Establishment in the sense that nations do eg UK, US, India, Japan, China, Russia, France. What we have here is a Kleptocracy which is suicidal due to its own ignorance and laziness. A closer (IMO) equivalent of Mush is probably Hosni Mobarak or one of those FAKE “monarchs” of Arabia.

Funny you mentioned Russia. I consider moshe to be more akin to Yeltsin. Completely under the sway of the foreginers.. and not really paying attention to the carrion eating that was going on as the dogs ripped apart mother russia.

Putin seems to have brought some semblance of order back to russia. He put those 12 thieves (wonder who provided the seed money for these simple college professors and professionals — now worth billions each) in line and he DID have the russian establishment at his back. You see, the establishment is a slower moving creature than even the revolutions.. (I think) … so it survived the purges and put a new garb on for 80 or so years. But it identifies with Russia. It makes Russia its permanent playground, a land with which it rises and falls, it lives and dies.

Our kanjars don’t consider our beautiful country anything more than their dead mother off of whose bones they can rip some more flesh off to drag into their foreign dens. They do not identify with this land (call it Pakistan, Abaseen, Land of Indus whatever) .. They are not “established” here, neither in body nor spirit, and therefore they are NOT “the establishment”.

At best they are kleptocratic mercenaries brave enough to rob their own motherland. They are for sale. on really cheap prices. They sell our honour and our inheritance for a few shekels.

I would welcome an establishment, as it is in the vested interest of an “establishment” to make sure it’s chattel are well fed and well clothed, well employed so they can create more and more wealth for it. What we have is just a group of degenerate thieves who ought to be purged and their properties confiscated at the first opportunity.

Zardari to Pakistanis "Establishment Khappay!!"

In response to a question about Zardaro's response to "Pakistan na khappay" as 'proof' that he's working in larger interest of Pakistan.

@establishment:
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“why ppp’s guys play guilt game that zardari saved the country from breaking. ”
–
Just saw ur comment:

I dunno.. I guess these are the last straws they’re clutching at. The fact is, Zardari has shown himself to be a petty political animal but not a statesman and a visionary leader. Benazir was halfway there, but at least she learned one thing from Bhutto Sb. and that was to read the mood of the public.

Zardari on the other hand, has NEVER DONE populist politics. He always stayed under the gigantic shadow of BB, was looked at by suspicion by the (now old guard) big-dogs / workers and was kept away from party politics as much as possible precisely for these reasons.

I consider him as a “neo conservative” par-excellence in the Pakistani context. His father did leftits politics.. and paid the price along with the rest of NAP, ANP blah blah .. but Zardari, if you see the arc of _his_ life.. showed a non-political, non-populist streak.. he showed a “going away” from the people. This was another reason he was “picked” as a stud to inseminate the great Bhutto mare, but to stay away and out of her way.. on her way to Destiny.

Now fate has brought him to this juncture. Some people even suggest his hand was in it. In any case, the cry “Pakistan na Khappay” was more like “This kind of Pakistan na khappay!” .. and the PPP and Sindhi’s are still on that path. Something Zardari now refuses to accept as he gets comfortable in the “AaaGhosh” of the faujistanic-establishment and assumes a fetal position and starts to suck his thumb calling out mommy! mommy! every 5 seconds…

Zardari couldn’t save Pakistan if he wanted to. Actually what he is doing is taking Pakistan towards balkanization.. The opposite is the crap that the Americans have been feeding him… He’s a weakling… so we see Americans having to meet him every two days to ’stabilize his spine’ because he has no vision, no principle, no ideology and the Americans have to keep working on him.. otherwise he’ll go and do another “Wadi-e-Neelam Accord”

So, NO, Zardaro didn’t save Pakistan. Half the people who claim to be shrill supporters of Zardaro these days are actually MQM media cell people. You can tell from the heinous manner in which they carry on with their slash-n-burn “discourse”.. Most of the PPP workers are in hiding at the despicable behaviour of their “shareek chairman”..

The fact the Peja and Fahim23 are not posting as much these days but SadSack and Poof747 (who under different ID’s probably justified mass murder by Moshe Qatil Movement in earlier times) are now the flag bearers of Zardari Bachao Movement, should tell us the kind of company Mr. Zee is willing to keep.

Rehmaan Dacoit to keep the peace in Liyari
Rehmaan Dakeet to keep the peace in the Land.

Need I say more?

Africa Come Back!

The Future Part II - "Things to Come"

While we are busy trying to get the judiciary restored as STEP ZERO, great things are afoot!

• Italy has a new fascist outlook (Burlesconi is back, Rome has a neo-fascist mayor)
  
• london just "elected" a conservative mayor.
  
• France already has a neo-con zionist President (whose "hungarian father" just happens to be a jew)
  
• Screws are tightening in Syria.
  
• Iran is being given the final rites, being lulled in thinking OH THEY'LL NEVER!
  
• Pakistan is witness to a make or break fight - Moshe Kutyaan is fighting a desperate battle to secure the interests of the foreigners.
  
• Democrats are being made to dissipate their victory in the primaries.. Obama's momentum is lost and he's losing quickly.. Hillary will go as "independent" if she doesn't get the nomination. The unthinkable and weird may happen and John "bomb bomb bom eye-ran" McCain may actually win??
  
• Maybe Moshe is trying to hang on by the skin of his teeth till an unexpected Republican win?
  

I think the ducks are being lined up for the next phase of the "great game" ... the breakup of Pakistan will commence in earnest as soon as McCain is elected. By taking a dive and denying a really populist leader like Obama, the Clintons will ensure their entry into the American Establishment (yes.. it takes THAT much to be part of the American establishment) and also the Carlyle Group (Which by the way will have plenty of money because of all the new wars they are planning).



Our "Democratic Forces" are a bunch of pu$$ies and they are not going to stand their ground. Kiyani will be the new Martial Law administrator, and the new jurnails are going to Rule pakistan for 20 years Burma Style.

All they need is an excuse. And a certain chooran devi and his demons will provide any kind of service that is necessary (in return for the coastal strip of Pakistan all the way to Gawadar -- which US/UK will recognize posthaste).

Isn't it fun being chums ???

The Future

Give me back my broken night
My secret room, my secret life
It's lonely here
There's no one left to torture

Give me absolute control
Over every living soul
And lie beside me, baby
That's an order!

Give me crack and anal sex
Take the only tree that's left
And stuff it up the hole
In your culture

Give back the berlin wall
Give me stalin and st. paul
I've seen the future, brother
It is murder

Things are going to slide, slide in all directions
Won't be nothing
Nothing you can measure anymore
The blizzard of the world
Has crossed the threshold
And it has overturned
The order of the soul

When they said repent
I wonder what they meant
When they said repent
I wonder what they meant
When they said repent
I wonder what they meant

You don't know me from the wind
You never will, you never did
I'm the little jew
Who wrote the bible

I've seen nations rise and fall
I've heard their stories, heard them all
But love's the only engine of survival

Your servant here, he has been told
To say it clear, to say it cold
It's over, it ain't going
Any further

And now the wheels of heaven stop
You feel the devil's riding crop
Get ready for the future
It is murder


There'll be the breaking of
the ancient Western code
Your private life will suddenly explode
There'll be phantoms
There'll be fires in the road

And the white man dancing

You'll see the woman
Hanging upside down
Her features covered by her fallen gown
And all the lousy little poets
Coming round
Trying to sound like Charlie Manson

Give me back the berlin wall
Give me stalin and st. paul
Give me christ
Or give me hiroshima
Destroy another fetus now
We don't like children anyhow

I've seen the future, baby
It is murder

Rehna nahiN des biraana hai

I first heard this Kabir poem in the Ghalib drama. I still don't know who the singer is on that one. But I found out a Jagjit Sing version. I really love the first singer.. I don't know who it is.

I couldn't get the embedding to work, so here is the link.

Pray to an Oil Tanker

700 Intellectuals Pray to an Oil Tanker

1.

Without an invitation
We have come
700 (and many more are on the way)
From all over, where the wind no longer blows
From the treadmills, which grind slowly, and
From the ovens, behind which, it is said
Not even a dog remains.

2.

And we have seen thee
All of a sudden, the night long
Oil tanker.

3.

Yesterday thou wert not there
But today
Thou art the only one.

4.

Come, hurry, ye!
Ye who saw the branch on which ye sit
Working folk!
God has descended again
In the form of an oil tanker.

5.

Thou, the repulsive one
Art gorgeous!
Exercise force over us
Thou, the objective one!
Snuff out our ego!
Make a community out of us!
Then, not as we want:
Rather, as thou wilt.

6.

Thou art not made of ivory
And of ebony, but of
Iron.
Wonderful! Wonderful! Wonderful!
Thou, the unprepossessing one.

7.

Thou art not an invisible one
Nor art thou infinite!
On the other hand, seven metres high
There are no secrets in thee
Rather, there is oil,
And thou dealest with us
Not discretely, nor unfathomably
But with calculation.

8.

What is grass for thee?
Thou sittest on it.
Where, formerly, there was grass
There thou sittest now, oil tanker!
And for thee an emotion is
Naught.

9.

Therefore listen to our prayer
And deliver us from evil.
In the name of electrification
And of Ford-step* and statistics!

--Bertolt Brecht (1927)

* The play on words is not translatable. Fortschritt (progress) has been converted into Fordschritt (Henry Ford’s conveyor belt).