4 thoughts on “US Ambassador for Pakistan Anne Patterson talks to Shalimar Radio March 06,2010”

  1. SR says:
    March 10, 2010 at 10:27 pm

    A New Cancer of the Mind Spreading Through Pakistani Youth

    It’s quite easy to make good ratings on Pak TV with a non-traditional appearance and by constructing an entire philosophy that revolves around the two pillars of Allama Iqbal and Islam (since both are popular topics in our society). Besides, if you have good looks and are a fluent orator, capturing the heart of gullible audiences is not that difficult.

    I speak of Mr. Zaid Hamid, whose shows project a jaundiced view of history invested deeply in an unbalanced amalgam of religion and patriotism, pressure-cooked with the tasty spice of flowery language. He gives a falsely inflated account of the past for the gluttonous and lazy minded consumption and the shallow intellectual convenience of his viewership. His hodge podge philosophy resides in the same traditionalist approach albeit clothed in a pseudo-modern outfit of a rock-star like revolutionary comrade.

    To his cult audience he may be a modern Bin Laden in Che Guevara’s disguise with the fiery eloquence of Lech Valenza. But I doubt if he has either Osama’s conviction, or Che’s courage, or Lech’s integrity.

    From such a man, expecting any impetus for a positive change is rather naive – and to accord him any importance or credibility is same as extending support to the slimy, noisy politicians of Pakistan who, at the end of the day, have done nothing on the ground and yet they huff and puff a lot of hot air and smoke.

    Let me say that I am not just focusing on this individual. I have no intention to offend an ever growing cultist army of his misguided fans. What I wish to cite is this dangerous phenomenon where someone with good communication skills can cash in on the naive hopes — nay, wishful fantacies — of the common masses.

    For so long have we been fed with aberrant versions of history and distorted truths that we no longer wish to see a different view. But that doesn’t diminish the immediate necessity to discredit the lies and falsehoods we have so long lived on. Especially, considering the current dire circumstances, there’s all the more need to educate the youth on these issues. And people like Zaid Hamid only make it tougher.

    The first time I saw his show, he did strike a chord with me because that day he was talking about the contemporary fraudulant global monetary system that is based on a fiat currency, fractional reserve banking and ever esclating levels of debt. I agreed with his facts in that show. He did, however, make a few irrelevant religious references during that program, but I paid little attention to them thinking that it is simply customary in Pakistani public speaking to drag in a religious reference or two just to look and sound “proper” and besides everyone is accoustomed to doing so. After all even physicists in Pakistan have made references to “jinn” energy, psychiatrists speak of “Quran therapy” for schizophrenia, and professors of medicine defer to “dum and darood” (in addition to antibiotics, of course) for improving patient outcomes in infectious diseases. So I didn’t think much of Mr. Hamid’s irrelevent comments. But I have since realized that though the man is no doubt bright, he is not only a dangerous demagogue, he is also clinically insane.

    When will some one ask Mr. Zaid Hamid the obvious question: Suppose the “Ghazwa e Hind” is successful, what next? What Khilafat will we follow? To decide that question, we will then need to fight many “internal ghazwat” and eventually, the last man standing in this Madina e Saani will be Hazrat Zaid Hamid rehmat-ullah-ellah himself.

    The greatness of a nation depends not on eliminating the difference, but on respecting them and maintaining a common ground for all sub-groups. Needless to say, the guy is a complete lunatic

    Watch the videos at the following links and decide for yourself…

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7S_qvZMP0U
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WV7aXc0VgWA
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iP0uygcP_TE&feature=related

  2. a.q.s. says:
    April 6, 2010 at 8:33 pm

    @SR what is the way then to reach the audience if TV has failed? Or is TV not really in anyone’s control? hmmm :/

  3. majeed khan says:
    October 28, 2010 at 12:49 am

    i want your vewsers and students becous i am agree with you

  4. majeed khan says:
    October 28, 2010 at 12:56 am

    i want ladies are ahle quran in pakistan please cotact us
    @majeed khan –

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