Dear Spade I have travelled to Pakistan often without needing to read from you prejudiced handling of Nice - you did not appear nice in the script that you just played out. I have lots of heart warming stories about Pakistan which I will share when I am convinced about you as a Human Being - for me you seem a propaganda machineJoin the army or live and work with real people who will be affected by war before propagandising For the time being - my friends from Pak are worried that your lot are pushing the military to take over again in that country - across the border about Pak being owned by the army - yes we need to fight that along with Pakistanis and not make shrill war cries like you civilised machines You give no reason to cheer
2008/12/13 Murali K Warier <[email protected]> > > Dear Bobby, > > If it is about a heart-warming personal story, let me tell you I > don't need one. I am myself a recipient of such warmth and friendship > from Pakistanis. In Nice, France. In 2001. It was indeed a great > experience to meet a Pakistani family in the vast shopping mall of > CAP3000, a face that shares some similarity with your own in a sea of > visages that you don't recognize 'civilizationally'. We enjoyed our > weekends with some of the finest Indian cuisine in the Restaurant > Kashmir (some of our friends jokingly commented that we should sneak > in at night and add 'Pak Occupied' :) at the Saint Laurent du Var sea > front. The proprietor and the bearers were fantastic individuals. > > However, none of those personal warm memories have changed my > perception about Pakistan as a country. Because: a) I recognize that > values held by individuals can differ, and sometimes quite orthogonal > to the societal values. b) Pakistan is a country owned and operated by > the military, with its deep seated jihadist mindset. 70% of the > corporates are owned by entities like the Fauji Foundation (FF), Army > Welfare Trust (AWT) Bahria Foundation (BF), Shaheen Foundation (SF) > etc., all owned by different wings of armed forces (See paper > presented by Dr Ayesha Siddiqa-Agha on 'Power, Perks, Prestige And > Privileges: Military's Economic Activities In Pakistan' in The > International Conference on Soldiers in Business -- Military as an > Economic Actor; Jakarta, October 17-19, 2000). The Military Industry > Complex (TM) is in full bloom in Pakistan than anywhere else. > > The above is of course a partial list. > > Cheers, > Murali > > > -- Bobby Kunhu http://community.eldis.org/myshkin/Blog/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Green Youth Movement" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/greenyouth?hl=en-GB -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
