Saturday, November 24, 2007

South Asia and the Asians that live in them: How they change and how they remain the ‎same

Two taxi drivers in my daily commute tell me the same story and its goes "they came and ‎they killed our relatives and children. The Pakistan Army was brutal and there were ‎thousands that lay about never to be remembered ". What makes this story remarkable ‎that the story is the same but one is Bengali the other is from Swat. They were both ‎Pakistanis once. ‎

What drove these people to such violence? And why did they take up arms against a ‎professional force? And why do they think that the Pakistani army was something alien to ‎them? Instead of being a defender it was thought of being a conqueror? ‎

It is easy to explain that they are bastards and a foreign hand is involved and that they are ‎just plain crazy people. But in our hearts they are people who want to live a good life. ‎They want all the things that you and I want. They have all the problems that you and I ‎want. They love and die and shit just like you and me. At the end of the day they are ‎humans and apart from some rare psychologies they are on average peace loving people ‎who want a better life. ‎

Something is seriously wrong with the state of Pakistan and the Pakistanis that live in ‎them. We have a lesson from history. Those that support the general today stand by a ‎man who is promoting a dangerous trend. ‎

Is Lawless better than a society by laws made by the consenus?‎


See the link below: ‎http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6414738278230743192&q=hamid+mir&total=‎‎623&start=0&num=10&so=1&type=search&plindex=6‎

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