No Sympathies with the News Channels

Another recent ban on our news channels: GEO and ARY after the news about shoe hurling at Mr. Zardari. Every body has their sympathies with these channels but I have a different viewpoint. I wanted to present my opinion to the GEO team (GEO, thenews and Daily Jang) therefore I wrote an email to them. As we know that Pakistani Nation is the busiest of all, so I didnt expect any reply and they came up to my expectations. Anyways, my idea was to tell them what I think about the recent ban on GEO. I would like to share my email with my family and friends hence copying it here.

"Dear Geo team,



This is in context of recent ban on GEO, the News and Daily Jang. I would go three years back at the time of Death of BB i.e., December 27, 2007. At that time, I had no affiliation with any political party of Pakistan. It was GEO tv that presented BB after her martyr (or death or whatever you call it) that developed a feeling for her party in my heart. It was due to GEO that I planned to caste my first ever vote for her party. It was GEO that created this awareness in the youth of Pakistan to "take revenge" from her assassins by using the power of our votes to make her party win. Literally the way BB was shown on the screens by GEO, me & my family was crying and we all decided to vote for PPP. We were repeating Shaheed BB's words time and again: "Democracy is the best revenge". The way her family was shown, we all forgot Mr. Zardari's fame for corruption and we all were adrifted in the waves of emotions that were constructed by GEO.



.... And thats how I made the blunder of voting for PPP-P, and now I feel regret of casting my vote for this party and thereby bringing "Azab-e-Illahi" (Torment from God) with my own hands. There was no other opinion except that PPP will sweep away their opponents and this eventually happend. This is the same mistake that our nation has been doing for decades and unfortunately we never learnt and we will never learn.



I BLAME GEO FOR CREATING A "WRONG AWARENESS" IN THE YOUTH & ADULTS LIKE ME. We are all suffering from Zardari, --------- and GEO is responsible for that. "


So this was the email to GEO team. We must understand that every ban on GEO increases their popularity not only in Pakistan but on International level. We must also understand that during the recent ban, they put the coverage of flood affecties at a corner and their whole concern shifted to the ban on GEO which was a secondary issue. It seems that this is just a war between Media and Government and common man like us hold no importance there. The channel diverted from its primary and most important responsibility of putting the flood news at the forefront. They have a particular influence on our innocent people so they must realize what they are presenting to the nation. They should ensure that they are not treating us like a football moving from here to there and must be consistent and sincere to what they tell us or we will have no one to trust on. No judiciary, no government and no media would then be able to win the hearts of common men of Pakistan.

abc-Bhutto-xyz

While teaching us different forms of GARCH models (Generalized Autoregressive Conditional Heteroskedasticity Model)- a type of econometric model, the professor told us that nowadays, you can see different forms of GARCH models. Generally speaking there are many abc-GARCH-xyz models. Changing different names would not make a real difference. All newly developed models lead to the same thing, so don't be overwhelmed by looking at these different models. Same thing can be attributed to Pakistani politics. Since the birth of our country, we have seen many dynastical political leaders coming one after the other. For last four decades, the leadership remained in the hands of a few families. They come turnwise, and in order to change the scenario a little bit rather too much, a military General takes over the scene and lead the country in his own dogmatic style which is referred to as "Dictatorship". These military leaders take advantage of "the corrupt" democracy and they get a good chance to veil themselves as being the most honest person who can lead the country to the zenith of success. They rule for almost a decade in most of the cases and leadership style is so excellent and articulate that when they eventually leave the country, only years after the poor public realizes that they cut the roots of economy from the very deep. In their era, everything seems perfect.

Anyways, the topic of discussion was the circulation of leadership in two-three lucky families of Pakistan. I would call it a "Vicious Cycle". This term is used in economics to show a situation in which the apparent solution of one problem in a chain of circumstances creates a new problem and increases the difficulty of solving the original problem. Hence with the movement of leadership back and forth from some "Shareefs" some "Bhuttos" and then ruinously came in hands of Mr. Zardari. The public never looked at him as a respectable person of the society. Somehow, with the demise of his wife, he was able to take advantage of emotional Pakistani Public, who elected his party unprecedentedly and he who was the entitled as the MOST CORRUPT person of Pakistan, became the President (and after 18th amendment in the constitution), CEO of Pakistan. In recognition of his acts, the public noted him as "Mr. ten percent". Soon after he became the President, his popularity graph started to decline with a large slope but Mr. Zardari was not shaken by this. Although the guy is not very well qualified able to make a plea to prolong the leadership of his party over the country for seemingly an indefinite/ infinite period of time. This shows that sharp minds do not need any formal education. Now Zardari wants to regain his political popularity by once again taking advantage of innocence of Pakistani public by launching his son. Sooooo at last, another Bhutto, Bilawal  Bhutto is going to rule us. This all didnt start just a few days ago. The planning was made long ago just at the next day of death of B-Bhutto (his wife). He had launched his son right at the same day by changing his name from "Bilawal Zardari" to "Bilawal Bhutto Zardari". Here comes another version of a Bhutto who is not really a Bhutto but a transformed version just in lust of money, in desire of wealth, in long of endless power and what not. Interestingly, this version BZ-Bhutto is a good combinition of two elder Bhuttos i.e., Z-Bhutto(Zulfiqar one) and B-Bhutto (Benazir). In would be interesting to see another Bhutto, F-Bhutto (Ms. Fatima Bhutto, cousin of BZ-Bhutto) using her lucid writing skills to bring a bad name to her Aunt, B-Bhutto in front of whole world.

I would acknowledge here that Pakistani Public is not ready to accept another abc-Bhutto-xyz or any Shareef but once again the emotions will win over rationale; we will loose- they will win, we will be deprived-they will remain blessed, we will be suffering from natural/ man made disasters and they will remain ostentacious and with time, this gap will become wider and wider. The nation will never stand up, they will never recognize their rights. This is what I can predict seeing the Emotional Mindset of our Nation. We will never get out of this Vicious Cycle.