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http://www.outlookindia.com/full.asp?fodname=20090316&fname=Cover+Story&sid=4
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*Exploding Cherries*
*Where is the backlash of the Pakistani cricket fanatic* Imran Khan is one
of the many mainstream politicians, commentators and socialites in Pakistan
who seem to think that if they slip in a nice word about militants, they
will reciprocate by showing restraint, or at least not attack the only
cricket team in the world brave and friendly enough to visit Pakistan during
the past 14 months...........
................Pakistanis also have some other well-documented passions:
they love to send their children to the best schools they can afford, they
are mad about pop music, and they like to also indulge in the occasional
dance routine.
During the past few months, militants have shown no respect for any of these
popular pastimes either. There was no backlash when more than 200 schools
were demolished by the Taliban in the Swat valley. There was not a squeak of
protest when more than 500 music shops were shut down in Mingora, the main
town in the valley. There were only murmurs of horror when a dancer named
Shabana was dragged into the city square and killed. ("Don’t slit my throat,
just shoot me," Shabana was reported to have said.) Intellectuals like Imran
Khan who are remarkably, and rightly I must add, articulate when it comes to
lecturing America about its foreign policy, and documenting Israeli
atrocities in Gaza, did not utter the word ‘dancer’ or ‘Shabana’ because
they thought it might infuriate the militant
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