Ayaz Amir Archive

Jamhooriat running scared and wolves at the door – by Ayaz Amir:   Imran Khan stands isolated. Tahirul Qadri is a shady character and is of no account. If both these propositions are correct what is the government’s problem? Why is it so out of breath? If Shahbaz Sharif’s interview to
False comparison of Tahir ul Qadri with Taliban: Ayaz Amir exposes Hamid Mir’s hypocrisy: In Nasim Zehra’s August 9th segment of Hum Sub (Part 2), Hamid Mir made the horrendous and utterly dishonest comparison between Lal Masjid’s heavily armed terrorists and Dr Tahir ul Qadri’s peaceful protest against the PML-N government. As per
In panic, Nawaz Sharif hands over Islamabad to army in a false hope to crush Imran Khan and Tahir ul Qadri – by Ayaz Amir:   Calling on the army to protect Islamabad, from dangers yet to be adequately defined, is no one-off affair. It is the latest addition to a pattern we have seen growing rather dramatically over the last three months: the
Massacre of Dr Tahir-ul-Qadri’s followers by the Shahbaz Sharif govt: Was this Lahore or Occupied Kashmir? – by Ayaz Amir:   If this was Srinagar, and the Indian army had been trying to quell a crowd of Kashmiri demonstrators, we would have understood. We would have shaken our heads but we would have understood. Although even there the savagery
Taliban Khan title: Najam Sethi ducks Imran Khan bouncer and dumps on LUBP: By shifting the blame on LUBP for the “Taliban Khan” label, Najam Sethi proved his spinelessness to the rest of the world.  This is typical of the sort of journalism expected from Mr. Sethi where he mixes truth with
اقبال کا آفاقی پیغام اور تقسیم ہند – از ایاز امیر:   Source : http://e.jang.com.pk/pic.asp?npic=03-29-2014%2FLahore%2Fimages%2F08_04.gif
Ayaz Amir’s analysis of the Pakistan-Saudi alliance against Syria’s President Bashar Al-Assad: The Lord gave us some of the world’s most fascinating rivers, the tallest mountains, and a broad expanse of the bountiful sea. What the Lord did not give us, for reasons best known to Him, was boldness of spirit
Deobandi terrorists’ (TTP) ceasefire: should Pakistan be taken seriously? – by Ayaz Amir: So there we have it. The resolve stories were a bit premature. Appeasement wins again and of course it will be hailed as a triumph of statesmanship. And the army while scowling in private will in public hide behind
And we are left with the likes of Molvi Ludhianvi Deobandi – by Ayaz Amir: Of the two famous Ludhianvis, Sahir Ludhianvi and Maulana Mohammad Ahmed Ludhianvi, it had to be our luck to get not Sahir the poet who wrote those immortal film songs – in that genre no one has bettered him
Peace talks with Taliban: Let the closet and open Deobandi fundos now deliver – by Ayaz Amir: Criticism is useless and it should be kept on hold. The dialogue process with the Taliban is firmly in the hands of fundos and open or covert sympathisers of the Taliban. To Rahimullah, our respected colleague, this does not
اک معمہ ہے سمجھنے کا نہ سمجھانے کا! ایاز امیر کے قلم سے:
Deadly Taliban threat in the shape of Deobandi madressahs and their networks of sympathizers – by Ayaz Amir: Editor’s note: We can’t confront Yazidiat if we are reluctant to openly condemn Yazid. We can’t overcome terrorism in Pakistan and Afghanistan unless we clearly mention Deobandis. Is there a single Pakistani columnist other than Ayaz Amir who explicitly mentions common
تکفیری طالبان دہشت گردوں کے ہاتھوں میجرجنرل ثنااللہ کی شہادت پر نوازشریف حکومت اور پاکستانی فوج کا شرمناک رویہ – ایاز امیر: اب ہمارے پاس کہنے کیلئے کیا رہ گیا ہے؟اب ہم کس منہ سے بات کرسکتے ہیں ، کون سے الفاظ کا چناؤ کرنا ہمیں زیب دیتا ہے؟سڑک کے کنارے نصب بم دھماکے میں ایک ڈویژن فوج کو کمان کرنے
The uncertain “Nawaz Sharif” adventure that now begins – by Ayaz Amir: So most of us got it wrong…I certainly did, expecting an Imran Khan surge that did not come. Just a fortnight before the voting the received wisdom on most pundit lips was hung parliament. Goes to show how conventional
Caretaker Chief Minister Najam Sethi must resign if he has an iota of integrity! – Nusrat Javeed: In recent episode of Bolta Pakistan (5 April 2013), veteran journalist Nusrat Javeed shames Najam Sethi and other lifestyle liberals (known as fake liberals) who remain mysteriously silent on pre-poll rigging by the election commission and judiciary on behest
The ideology of Pakistan is nothing else than Jinnah’s 11 Aug address – by Ayaz Amir: This could be such an exciting country Some architecture becomes beautiful by adding things to it domes and minarets, and quadrangles and outer walls. Some architecture looks good when unnecessary clutter around it is cleared. Some daughters of Venus
In ISI-ASWJ’s Pakistan, Ahmed Ludhianvi can contest elections but Ayaz Amir can’t: Lahore 4 April 2013: The Election Commission of Pakistan rejected the nomination papers of Pakistan Muslim League – Nawaz (PML-N) candidate Ayaz Amir. Ayaz Amir is a leading progressive and liberal writer of Pakistan who has always taken strong
Let’s condemn #ShiaGenocide while we promote PML-N and ASWJ – by Ali Raza Jafri: When powerful provincial government ministers in the Punjab loot their coffers for cosmetic projects, one can rest assured that some of that budget is also allocated to opportunist sychophants and flatterers in the media and NGos / thank-tanks. While
Why did Pakistani plutocrats go hammer and tongs at Tahir ul Qadri? – by Ayaz Amir: Note: Here’s a sample of those criticizing Tahir ul Qadri: https://lubpak.com/archives/239195/comment-page-1#comment-361123 Related post: Why are they saying terrible things about Tahir ul Qadri? So it was not to be. Not because the people of the city were cruel –
Expropriating Malala Yousufzai: Discourses in Pakistani social media: A dominant majority of those in Pakistan’s mainstream and social medias condemning attack on Malala Yousafzai are committed helpers of Pakistani establishment. Their populist, opportunist and partial discourse is revealing. On Twitter and facebook, quite a few of those
Pakistan’s steady decline since 1977 – by Ayaz Amir: Returning to the kingdom of moral decay Source: The News, October 05, 2012 Mr Majid Nizami, foremost champion of that nebulous concept celebrated as the ideology of Pakistan – and therefore my favourite ideologue – for all his renown
Full text of General Kayani’s speech on Pakistan Independence Day, and some comments: Full text of General Kayani’s speech last month (Independence Day) on war on extremism and terrorism; “our own war, and a just war too”. Perhaps it’s time to practice what we preach! Chief of Army Staff General Ashfaq Pervez
Judicial fast-track for the luckless PPP – by Ayaz Amir‏: Curiouser and curiouser… the more one sees of the ongoing drama the more room for amazement: a judicial fast-track for the luckless PPP, a Pakistan Railways slow-track for everyone else. Judging by the evidence, summoning an elected prime minister,
CJ Gate: Supreme Court’s defence is in its own hands – by Ayaz Amir: We know the kind of influence Malik Riaz Hussain of Bahria Town has been famous for peddling: chummy with presidents and prime ministers, close links to all major political parties, ex-generals and air-marshals in his employ, leading champions of
CJ Gate: For Pakistan’s Chief Justice Chaudhry, the wheel comes full circle – by Ayaz Amir: Caesar’s wife and the burden of suspicion So does My Lord the Chief Justice, on whose side emotionally guys like me will always gravitate, realise how the wheel comes full circle? He was our St George pursuing the dragon
Restoration of NATO supplies: Let’s blame Zardari and Gilani!: In the aftermath of humiliating surrender of Pakistan army generals to the US army and government on the issue of NATO supplies, Pakistani military establishment has activated its propagandists in right-wing dominated Urdu media and pseudo-liberal dominated English media
Let’s mourn the Katas Raj temple – by Ayaz Amir: What the ages couldn’t accomplish… The hills of the Salt Range are amongst the oldest on earth, the valleys of the Salt Range amongst the most haunting on earth. In the Kahoon Valley, over which the fingers of the
Zardari while nowhere near ZAB’s ability or talents is a far better politician than him – by Ayaz Amir: This is no longer about the finer points of the law, if it ever was that. It has turned into a full-blown political tamasha (spectacle) but not quite in the way the doom brigade had imagined. The Zardari dispensation
The Memo is just a handy means to regime change in Pakistan – by Ayaz Amir: Real issue: regime change There should be no room for confusion. Nor should we put blinders on our eyes. The Memo (with a capital M) has not endangered our nukes or lowered army morale. This last is really absurd.
To call Zardari or Gilani dictators is to insult the very word dictator – by Ayaz Amir: Death wish of the Pakistani political class Did our founding fathers have any idea of the kind of country they were creating? A country where conspiracies would never cease and stability would never come. Sixty-four years, going on sixty-five,
Getting rid of Zardari is what unites them – by Ayaz Amir: Samurai who refuse to learn Before anything else, the first order of national business should be a ban on the teaching of history. For this is a country with no use for history. We have been going around in
Husain Haqqani and Mansoor Ijaz deserve each other – by Ayaz Amir: Ours must be the most insecure country in the world, and the most paranoid. We are terrified not just by our nightmares but our very shadows. And judging by our behaviour we seem to think that the rest of
The PPP vs the holy nexus of Punjab and the establishment – by Ayaz Amir: بھٹو پر ایوب کی پرچھائیاں زیادہ گہری نہیں تھیں ، وہ ذہین اور کچھ کر دکھانے کی لگن لیے تاریخ سے بھی شُد بُد رکھتے تھے ۔۔۔ اُنھوں نے نپولین اور ہٹلر کا مطالعہ کیا تھا لیکن برِ صغیر
Channelling Naseerullah Babar: One of the strangest facts of the present day is that if there is one thing that non-PPP voters from Punjab still appreciate about Benazir’s second term in office, it is the use of Naseerullah Babar against the MQM.
WikiLeaks and the astonishment of Pakistani media and middle class – by Ayaz Amir: Astonishment only for the innocent Virtually nothing in the Wikileaks disclosures in relation to Pakistan is truly shocking or astonishing. Knowing the nature of our politics, the dominance of the army and the long shadow of the United States
Will ‘civil society’ please relax? – By Ayaz Amir:   Ayaz Amir has been a respectable columnist of Pakistan though for PPP supporters, he has been a thorn all along. He is now a member of National Assembly from his native Chakwal and this is his second stint
Rage of the virtue brigade – by Ayaz Amir: A brigade is just a metaphor. What we have now is a veritable army of the enraged middle classes inveighing day in and day out against the evil of the times in which they live and hoping somehow for
Politicians are their own enemy – Ayaz Amir’s article: Ayaz Amir was a renowned columnist years before he became an elected legislator from his hometown of Chakwal. Urbane and suave, seeing him with the PML-N makes me wonder about his judgment about a party and its leadership. One
Dangerous diagnosis; clear signs of exhaustion – by Ayaz Amir: Islamabad diary This is premature exhaustion, a government and political dispensation running out of steam and ideas, and nothing going for it but the power of inertia. Musharraf, a bitter comparison, arrived at this stage in four or five
The standards the Supreme Court is setting for others, shouldn’t it be applying some of them to itself? – by Ayaz Amir: The new troika: Islamabad diary The political landscape is undergoing a shift, with some of the rules of engagement changing. Consequently, it is no longer true to say that the president, the prime minister and the army chief constitute Pakistan’s