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You know most people in Pakistan have the tolerance to listen to hack politicians like Imran Khan jabber about the state of the country because of their memory of him as a cricket star, but I think that he has gone one step too far in publicly endorsing Condoleezza Rice’s comments about Shaukat Aziz. To set the record straight, Condi, the epitome of a failed politician that is unable to get a president to listen, has written a tell-all book about how her career in politics called “Twice as Good: Condoleezza Rice and Her Path to Power.”

Condi has given a laughable assessment of Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz, who has led the economic revival in Pakistan during the Musharraf government calling him “Savile Row-suited gigolo” and that he bragged to Western diplomats “that he could conquer any women in two minutes.” First, I have never believed anything that Condi has to say because she has always been the mouthpiece of a failed US President, defending the Iraq War, the pullout of troops from Afghanistan and allowing Israel to continue to bomb Lebanon last summer. But what I find funny is that even if Shaukat said it, which I will doubt until someone can confirm it, he at least didn’t touch her, unlike US President George W. Bush attempting to give German Chancellor Angela Merkel a back rub at last year’s G8 meeting, which I think is more of a gigolo move than anything that Shaukat said.

But what is more humorous is the well-known ladies man in Pakistan, Imran Khan, trumpeting his praise of Condi’s comments. Now many of us remember Imran Khan’s colored past and for those that don’t know about his paternity cases, the Sita White love child scandal, the “adoption” of the same love child and adoption again, the demands of the love child, Jemina Khan, Imran’s ex-wife, being charged with smuggling Mughal antiques out of Pakistan illegally, and the claims that he was asked by Diana, Princess of Wales, to play Cupid so she could marry a heart surgeon. All this without even discussing the 5 million Pound Sterling campaign donation for Imran to become a politician in Pakistan from Lord Goldsmith himself. Read the rest of this entry »

I have gotten so tired of hearing US Senators complain about how Pakistan isn’t doing enough in the War on Terror. When are you going to stop pointing the finger at other countries to cover your own screw-ups? Your President, State Department and Pentagon repeatedly say that Pakistan is a key ally in the War on Terror, yet your senators and congressmen point the finger at Pakistan saying that they aren’t doing enough. Enough you little crybaby’s!

Let’s look at backward at the history of relations between the United States and Pakistan, before we point fingers of blame. Some of you may recall back in the late 70s, the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in an attempt to expand its borders. The United States, rather than stepping forward like a super power would, cowered behind the Pakistan Army and pumped money into a ruthless military dictator’s hand to fund the Mujahideen and create what is today known as the Taliban. The ruthless military dictator was General Zia Ul Haq, who rose to power by overthrowing the democratically elected government of Zulifqar Ali Bhutto. By the way, for all of you democracy loving Americans, the United States government did nothing to stop the overthrow or hanging of the Pakistani Prime Minister. Instead, it ushered in the General because it served US interests that he rule Pakistan. For 12 years, the mighty US government fought the Soviet Union in the uniform of the Pakistan Army, the Mujahideen and the Taliban. Afghanistan was ravaged. Destroyed. Turned to rubble. Just like it is today…… ahhh the memories of doing more…..

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Let’s have a little chat… I am going to break away from the normal polite and professional tone that I maintain on this blog to discuss what should be done about the Hudood Ordinance which continues to plague this great nation. It should be repealed.

Now for those who ask why:

Any law that victimizes women in the name of religion must go.

I have read my Quran and nowhere does it say that women are to be victimized by the rule of man. As a matter of fact, the Quran clearly states that women are equal to men in all ways. It is the crazed, foaming at the mouth mullahs that have turned Pakistan into their own playground with their “interpretations” of the Holy Quran. Read the rest of this entry »

Women’s rights has become the most important debates in Pakistan. With the Musharraf government’s commitment to enlightened Islam, we are finally seeing a move to change the most repressive law in the history of the nation. The Hudood Ordinance was brought into effect during the ultra-Islamist dictatorship of General Zia ul-Haq and has been the basis for massive human rights violations against women for almost 3 decades.

Today, the people of Pakistan are taking positions on the left and right; the left believes that this ordinance must be changed, if not repealed, while the right is screaming that it is un-Islamic to change the law and it will lead to the moral decay of the Pakistani people. While the government, media and educated class of Pakistan represent the left, the louder voice comes from the ultra-religiocrats of the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal (MMA), a conglomeration of 6 different religious parties, and the Pakistan Muslim League – Nawaz (PML-N), the party of former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, who was dismissed and exiled on charges of hijacking, terrorism and massive corruption. Read the rest of this entry »