Comments on: The Toll of the Emergency in Pakistan http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2007/11/26/the_toll_of_the/ All that flavorful brownness in one savory packet Sat, 30 Nov 2013 11:11:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: tash http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2007/11/26/the_toll_of_the/comment-page-1/#comment-180014 tash Thu, 29 Nov 2007 10:42:20 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=4871#comment-180014 <blockquote>Anna, many thanks for posting this</blockquote> <p>Yes, thanks. Just checked in after about a month or so. It's good to see that there are posts with some balance on Musharraf and how his state of emergency has descended into a power play dominated by torture and underhand tactics, as has happened before with politicians struggling to keep power without the people's support.</p> <p>I'm not saying Benazir Bhutto comes up looking like roses compared to Pervy Mushy (just saw her autobiography titled 'Daughter of the East' in a bookshop and gagged) but posts like this show just how misguided it is to passively or actively support a regime that overrides real democracy.</p> Anna, many thanks for posting this

Yes, thanks. Just checked in after about a month or so. It’s good to see that there are posts with some balance on Musharraf and how his state of emergency has descended into a power play dominated by torture and underhand tactics, as has happened before with politicians struggling to keep power without the people’s support.

I’m not saying Benazir Bhutto comes up looking like roses compared to Pervy Mushy (just saw her autobiography titled ‘Daughter of the East’ in a bookshop and gagged) but posts like this show just how misguided it is to passively or actively support a regime that overrides real democracy.

]]> By: rasudha http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2007/11/26/the_toll_of_the/comment-page-1/#comment-179631 rasudha Tue, 27 Nov 2007 18:14:26 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=4871#comment-179631 <p>It is shameful how American media has ignored him and his fellow activists who are lawyers and judges. Probably because America dislikes "activist" judges. Somebody donate him a kidney.</p> It is shameful how American media has ignored him and his fellow activists who are lawyers and judges. Probably because America dislikes “activist” judges. Somebody donate him a kidney.

]]> By: Anil http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2007/11/26/the_toll_of_the/comment-page-1/#comment-179570 Anil Tue, 27 Nov 2007 04:18:46 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=4871#comment-179570 <p>Anna, many thanks for posting this. And to think that this, in the words of President Bush, is what happens when Musharraf supposedly <i>hasn't</i> "<a href="http://michaeldorf.org/2007/11/crossed-line.html">crossed any lines</a>."</p> Anna, many thanks for posting this. And to think that this, in the words of President Bush, is what happens when Musharraf supposedly hasn’t “crossed any lines.”

]]> By: chachaji http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2007/11/26/the_toll_of_the/comment-page-1/#comment-179558 chachaji Tue, 27 Nov 2007 02:50:04 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=4871#comment-179558 <p>Anna, very worrisome news, and thank you for blogging these developments. I join all those praying for his recovery, and that of Justice Mahmood. I really hope a full and impartial inquiry is held into the circumstances of his detention, and prosecutions are launched if damning evidence is uncovered.</p> <p>I am linking a comment about Munir Malik I had made two weeks ago, <a href="http://www.sepiamutiny.com/sepia/archives/004843.html#comment177087">here</a>, with links to the <a href="http://youtube.com/watch?v=RBmNkm0JisI">Great Debate</a> on Geo TV. The debate is in Urdu, but his <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBSgwnA6ABY">interview</a> with <a href="http://www.jaiza.com/team.htm">Omar Khan</a> of <a href="http://www.jaiza.com/index.htm">Jaiza</a> from back in the summer, when he had visited the US, is almost completely in English - it is in four parts on youtube. The videos really give you a sense of the man, his integrity, his commitment, and his vision for Pakistan.</p> <blockquote>A friend of mine knows Muneer Malik through his family.</blockquote> <p>I believe he went to Law School in the Bay Area.</p> Anna, very worrisome news, and thank you for blogging these developments. I join all those praying for his recovery, and that of Justice Mahmood. I really hope a full and impartial inquiry is held into the circumstances of his detention, and prosecutions are launched if damning evidence is uncovered.

I am linking a comment about Munir Malik I had made two weeks ago, here, with links to the Great Debate on Geo TV. The debate is in Urdu, but his interview with Omar Khan of Jaiza from back in the summer, when he had visited the US, is almost completely in English – it is in four parts on youtube. The videos really give you a sense of the man, his integrity, his commitment, and his vision for Pakistan.

A friend of mine knows Muneer Malik through his family.

I believe he went to Law School in the Bay Area.

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