Moved to obaids.com

Hi,

I have had all my blogs recently integrated in to obaids.com. Thanks to Naveed-ur-Rahman. I'll try to post here, too. But obaids.com shall remain my mainstream medium of xpression from now on.

Thanks.

Obaid Ashraf Chaudhry

Unite Pakistan!!

With the recent set of violations of international borders and territories by the US forces in Pakistan's Western borders, I think it goes without saying that America is trying to provoke a whole nation. The set of atrocities in the name of war on terrorism has lead the US to beleive that they have the right to violate any low - local or international - in the name of this self-inflicted war of theirs.

Pakistan has recently seen a very bad era of dictatorship which has resulted in moral decay of the society and had devastating effects on morale of the people. The people of Pakistan that took great pride in their Armed forces gradually developed a deep sense of hatred towards their forces for taking over the government in a totally un-democratic way. The thought lying at the bottom of this hate was the ridicule of free-will, and freedom itself.

There would be very few countries that can boast of such strong public affiliation with their armed forces like Pakistan. All Pakistani youngsters develop a keen sense to join the army at a particular stage of their lives. This feeling is not imposed on them through advertising nor is it a result of brain-washing academic literature. Pakistanis simply take great pride in their armed forces. And this pride is badly hurt when a General like Musharraf decides to take over the government. People start blaming the whole institution when a self-imposed leader is born from the Army who did not bother to gain any public support before or after coming into power.

Other than few generals who have badly hurt the legacy of Pak Army, people generally love their soldiers and they realize the hardships that they go through to keep us safe. I am one of the proud Pakistanis who take gigantic pride in their soldiers.

Pak Army has been sent to the far off places to help governments in catastrophes and wars, and they've always proven their worth. The effect of the particular training that the armed forces go through is multiplied many folds when defending borders and defending people is believed to be a religious duty, and a pathway to gain ultimate Divine blessings. It's not about the weapons, and it's not about the training. It's all about the passion, and the longing for martyrdom. Not a single soldier of the armed forces of Pakistan would back down from the honor of dying for his country. Such are the built of the Pak soldiers.

The US or any other army should think twice before provoking Pak Army into a situation where negotiations and table-talks are left aside and battles are engaged. We might not win such a war, but we won't let you win either! The deep desire of martyrdom grows strongly within every soldier and every citizen of Pakistan, and this is the desire that gives us ultimate fearlessness, and ultimate fury for our enemies! Believe me, you do not want us as your enemies!

I write this post on behalf of every Pakistani that we shall support our armed forces fully if they see that combat is vital and if they find that a fullscale war is unavoidable. We are not the largest economy of the world who's dead scared to send their soldiers (equipped with the latest and more deadly war ammo) to battles. We don't resist being sent to battles! We don't get nightmares of battlefields because when we are sent to a battle, we have a cause! We have a divine cause to fulfil!

We are Pakistanis!! We are Muslims! We will die happily as long as we die doing the right thing. The mothers of Pakistan feel proud on their sons killed in battlefield! They do not lose their senses, they know what greatness have their sons achieved! To protect the physical being of Pakistan, and sovereignity of our country, we shall strike back... and we shall strike hard! You really do not want to see what Pak Army is capable of, even with their low resources and poorly-fed soldiers! You do not wish to see what these sons of Pakistan and sons of Islam can do!

If the attacks on our borders do not stop, I back my armed forces in doing what is necessary. We are not a bunch of scared people living in constant fear and haunted by our own actions. We are proud people with a grandeur and legacy to our names. We are Pakistanis! And we know how to protect our lands! If there is no other solution to this problem, my nation will not be scared! My whole nation will strike back in unity! So much have seen in the name of international justice! And so much have we seen the respect for international borders! I am with my Armed forces on their decision! I want my Army to prove what they're made of!

I call upon my people to unite! Unite at this time of hardship and disappointment! Unite at this time of threat to our homes and families! Unite at this time of murders through bombings! Unite because unity is what we need now! Unite Pakistan! Unite and respond to injustices! Unite and take the glory that is yours! Unite and scare away your enemies!

Pakistan zindabad!! Long live Pakistan!

MQM - A terrorist organization

Looking through the Jang's online paper, I find a news on the front page, that really made me say, 'it's about time, someone said it out upfront'.

People throughout the country know about it, but yet, I failed to find any first page headline about it in any newspaper so far. It's about it that people recognized the terror caused by this terrorist organization. Hats off to the lawyers of Pakistan. MQM is just a terrorist organization. Very few of their leaders have clear names, and most of them have multiple murders and other offenses registered in various police stations in Karachi, and around the country. They should be dealt with just like organizations like BLA, or probably harsher because BLA still had some issues to resolve, and they didn't harass the largest city of Pakistan, and didn't commit murders, kidnaps, robberies and of course did not mug residents of the city.

What now?

The Chaudhries of Gujrat have definitely lost it! They've been beaten by the real democratic parties of Pakistan, and now they have totally freaked out and are messing up things even worse with their desperate cries.

Such is the worst move they could think of by going to MQM (Muhajir Qaumi Movement) - the worst terror-based party in Pakistan. The only good thing about MQM is that they don't have any hidden agenda. Maybe because an agenda meeting their sadistic needs is not easy to hide. They are openly the enemies of the State, and terrorists. The people of Karachi, probably the best city of Pakistan, are openly threatened and intimidated by MQM in submission. It's not a very hard estimate to make that if the great people of Karachi are really given a way out, MQM would not be able to take a second breath in the metropolitan.

Sadly, only in Pakistan, we have criminals like Altaf Hussain (and his closest allies in his party) and the corrupt, ill-minded and limited-visioned Chaudhries of Gjurat running around free among the people. Not only did the Chaudhries have had the most selfish alliance with the Dictator, and his puppet prime minister, they even set out to seek an alliance with MQM - a party lead by one of the worst (or probably the worst) terrorist leader.

MQM never has, and never will be loved by people. All their power comes from putting money on jobless people, handing them guns, and giving them 'salaries' for what chaos and terror they cause in the biggest city of Pakistan. Sadder are the so-called leader politicians like the Gujrati Chaudhries and extremely disturbed people like Sheikh Rashid who are always looking up the worst people to form an alliance.

The Chaudhries had launched a government-backed political campaigns and estimated billions were spent on the campaign - the taxes that salaried people of Pakistan are forced to pay. Not just salaried, but the jobless, disable and the old all pay the taxes so that people like the Chaudhries could enjoy a good lavish lifestyle. Such has been the ill fate of my people.

The worse that the Chaudhries and the previous government could do was to have the people and the country divided in various schools of thoughts. They pushed the people to a limit that the people had to take the matters into their hands trying to make things better. Army's involvement in the Government has always been and shall always be strongly disapproved and detested by the people. And now, the situation of the country comes to a point when any uniform looks like enemy to a specific group of people. These people have suffered the tortures and the brutalities of decisions generated across the world and followed by the easily purchasable, low-priced, imposed leaders we recently had.

The Pak Army has been a symbol of pride for the people of Pakistan in the past. The Pak Air Force and Pak Navy have enjoyed similar appreciation and confidence of the people. Then why this sudden wave of hatred against them? I personally give the whole credit of this complicated situation to our tyrant dictator, and imposed and self-declared president. He would be removed of his office shortly, the country shall once again get back their judiciary and probably will have visionary prime minister and president. After removing his office, Musharraf should be prosecuted in the same courts that he violated in front of the same judges that he harassed and ridiculed and should be tried for the massacre in the tribal areas, the inhuman and shocking termination of people in Lal Masjid, for disappearance of Gumshuda people, and for all the other crimes that people of Pakistan would like to see him pay for! If tried fairly, it's not hard to see what his end could be. Justice and judiciary above everything else! Pakistan Zindabad!

The Chaudhries and their unscrupulous allies in the Qatil League and the rest of the government meanwhile blame all the failure of their government era on ex prime minister. The new government should call Shaukat Aziz back to Pakistan and put him and the whole previous government machinery under trial. The support they extended to the Dictator shall be enough to decide their fates.

This is what I think. This is what Pakistan needs!

Qaaf League!

I wanted to stay away from writing anything before I was a bit sure about the actual situation. But the shameful and cowardly acts of the Qaaf League and the extremely absurd and baseless claims of Pervaiz Ilahi and Shujat Hussain have forced me to put my words up here.

Parvais ILahi and his family are no more than mere rassa-geer who have found their way in the world of politics where they seem to have put their cunning abilities to a good use by timely assisting the dictator in building up a false government. Qaaf League has absolutely no right to use the title of Muslim League as they are fooling no one as everyone knows that Muslim League is only the one that had to take up the 'Noon' suffix to their name because of this evil separation from the lowly Chaudhries of Gujrat and their accomplices. The whole country is using the Qaaf (the Urdu letter) in the Mulsim League (Qaaf) to either as 'Qaatil' or 'Quttey'. And to be honest, looking at the turn of the events lately in the country, it does start to make a real good sense.

Parvaiz Iahi with his low morals and corrupt ideals is yelling blames at Nawaz and Shehbaz Sharifs and Zardari for the havoc and anarchy that spread throughout the country because of Mohtarma's assassination. I wonder why don't the real Muslim Leage (The 'N' group), and PPP straight away nominate the direct involvement of Parvaiz Ilahi in the murder. It's a good thing that they don't, beacuse with their own judges and their own versions of judiciary and justice, this would probably be laughed at, rather than seriously investigated. But that does not, in any way, allow Parvaiz Ilahi to nominate anyone else's direct involvement in the post-BB crises.

The crises, by the way, are totally discouraged by me and my peers, as a matter of face, anyone I know! Then who did it? Who were these people? Who the hell are these people who always turn up at every event and try to sabotage a cause! The involvement of the Pakistani Agencies is always brought up as a possible (and, sorry to say, understandable) element behind every event of this nature and magnitude. As a peer of mine repeatedly argues that the whole situation of the country is just because of two of our agencies who are trying to act smarter than the other, and are at 'war' with each other. I would love to name the agencies that everyone in Pakistan is so familiar with, but as a Pakistani, I would only end up hurting the pride of my country.

As I always say, the only good thing that has come out of the current dictatorship is that they have made us self-sufficient and independent in evaluating the terrorist activities in Pakistan. Earlier, we (my people, our Govt and the parties in power) used to blame the terrorist activities on either the agencies of our neighboring countries or the West. Now, whenever something terrible happens, someone important dies, hundreds are killed, we don't have to blame any foreign powers, the People say, 'it's our own agencies'!! Thanks to the great nationalism given to us by the recent and current dictatorship, and the sadistic and almost-totalitarian style of Govt run by the na-pak Army! If they weren't in power (by forceful imposition) we would never have gained this independence and self-sufficiency!

It's extremely obvious as the Sun on a clear sunny day that Muslim League (Q) has lost the game because of their own propaganda, and although it'll take time to gather evidence of their involvement in the sudden increases in the rates of the basic utilities, increases in the price of the motorcycle helmets when the Govt suddenly declared it necessary (and forgot about it later on), the forceful implementation of 4-stroke Rickshaws (made by Pak Hero, mostly), and the Police and other forces moved to Pak Hero vehicles and the lots and lots of other gimmicks and scams pulled out only to fill pockets of the poor Chadhries that had to come to Lahore (and in to Power) from their Gujrat, it is not even a bit doubtful for anyone living in Pakistan that Qaaf League will find their way out in no time. They're done! This is as long as you go, boys! It's now time to get back to your lands. You're finished!

The only way that the Cycles of the Qaaf League seeing their way into power or even getting their half way would be unfair means. I declare this openly, even if a single representative of Qaaf League found his/her way into Power, it would only be because of false votes casted by the direct involvement of the Govt and it's benefactors, and nothing more! And even that would probably not be acceptable by the People - the true power.

I have nothing to say on the assassination of Benazir Bhutto, other than being sorry and shocked at the terrible loss of a party leader - a party loved by many people! I never agreed with her policies, but her assassination was a sad shock that I equally share with anyone loyal to PPP. I would want the Govt to look into the matter seriously rather than issuing absurd claims about a killer and deadly lever! The whole world knows that she was assassinated, they have videos showing it all over the Internet, the stories told all over the news networks. Who are they trying to kid?! The self-proclaimed dictator (disguised as the unacceptable President), and the corrupt -to-the-core allies like the Qaaf League are just making a mockery of Pakistani Govt!

Such are the people in the hands of whom the fortune of my country lies! We need a revolution, we need a country and a govt we can be proud of! I love my country, and I will always love it, no matter what kind of psychopath finds his/her way to power! Long live Pakistan! Pakistan is here to stay, and inshaAllah!

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BB - Dirty politics with extreme casualties

There's much hype these days about Benazir being attacked as the prime victim of one of the biggest terrorist attempts of 2007. The way I see it, She never should've come back to country she and her husband so openly and wildly robbed. The lust for power that pulled her back to a country that otherwise she won't ever consider has grown to limit that she would try to make up a worldclass scene like that. I am not sure if she'd thought it through properly, because the number of lives lost were too many. She's an egoistic, mean, selfish, power-hungry, unprincipled, disgraceful thief but still noone would want so many people losing their lives. No one can want that. Or can they!

So many people lost their lives. But feel angry on the people who went to her useless and meaningless procession. Have people of Pakistan forgotten that how much this couple has robbed the country of its resources and wealth?! How can anyone? I will always see Benazir as an extremely corrupt and fundamentalist politician ready to do anything for power and money. She really is nothing more than that. So I feel pity on the much literate and learned politicians of PPP to follow such a leader.

Here's a recent statement from Chief Minister Sindh. I liked what he openly said.


Most of the people believe that what happened at Karsaz was not an attack at all. Benazir and all other PPP leaders safe and just the common workers and other people losing their lives can mean only one thing. It was not a clumsy terrorist attack but a well thought through and planned scheme. The results of the scheme were right how the initiators wanted it to be. Dr. Shahid Masood who recently joined Geo TV after a long service with ARY Digital also seemed surprised at the fact that the bombs only went off moments after Benazir moved down in the armored caravan given to her, and nothing happened while she was continuously standing at the top of the vehicle and was waiving hands to the political workers who had joined her procession. The lady was warned at multiple times by the authorities about the safety risk involved in such an open display, but she paid no attention and carried out the things the way she had planned.

In a way, I personally hold Benazir responsible for the deaths at Karsaz even if it really were a terrorism attempt targeted towards her. She realized the gravity of the situation herself even before departing for Pakistan from UAE, and yet she let so many people on the streets just to show off her (non-existent) popularity. These are not just my thoughts. The major figures in the country have nominated her as the accused for the incident, be it a direct involvement or a just facilitation to the terrorism attempt.

Benazir just won the sympathies of the West and the media. She really needed that, because it's always the Western powers that have brought her into rule, and she acknowledges and appreciates that, and keep walking back to them whenever she's in hot waters. Losing and gaining popularity inside the country has never meant anything for her. The Karsaz incident has allowed her to gain attention of the media and the West who've started to see her as really an element that can be more cooperative in their conquests.

The dictator on the other hand continues to display extremities. One of the leaders he sends back in stead of allowing him in the country. So much is the fear in his heart. The other 'leader" when comes flying on a Western eagle is welcomed and protected by him.

Geo TV has done a shameful role in promoting Benazir as a leader when she arrived in the country. Geo was continuously displaying the newsline saying, 'Benazir is back after 8 years of exile'. ARY Digital on the other hand rightly displayed the news as 'Benazir returns after 8 years of self-imposed exile'. Such is the manipulation of media at the hands of the Geo. Shameful!