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Old rogues never say die
By Muhammad Zubair:
We’ve heard of rouge states but now we have a rouge journalist at hand. His name is Najam Sethi.
Sethi ran afoul of the Bhutto regime in 1975 for siding with the Baloch and was jailed for 2 years. Then he angered Gen Zia ul Haq in 1984 by publishing “From Jinnah to Zia”, a book the dictator didn’t like, and “The American Role in Pakistan”, a book the US ambassador to Pakistan didn’t like. The dictator sent him to jail. In 1999, he provoked Nawaz Sharif by exposing his corruption and spent a month in custody. Now he has enraged the ISI and MI by claiming that the former tortured and killed journalist Saleem Shahzad and the latter is responsible for the disappearance and dumping of hundreds of people in Balochistan.
No wonder Sethi is being attacked today by the agencies’ people in the media and internet as a “traitor” and “American agent”, two hate-allegations that are only second to the charge of “blasphemy” in inciting misguided Pakistanis to violence against their fellow citizens. Of course, it doesn’t help his case that he peddles his rogue theories and spins his information on Geo TV via a popular late night TV program thrice a week that is a must “enemy-watch” for the agencies.
But even Sethi couldn’t have imagined the extent to which “they” would go to undermine his credentials as a journalist. The “CIA agent” tag came in handy post-Raymond Davis. Sethi’s children were educated in the US where they work and live. So emails were hacked, phones were tapped and two properties in NY were discovered in the name of the Sethi family. In one, apparently, Sethi, his son Ali and wife Mohsin are owners; in the other, Sethi has a “power of attorney” from son Ali but isn’t even a part owner. Where did you get the money to buy these properties, you “traitor”, ask the agencies’ invisible twitterati. From the Americans, of course, comes their own dutiful response. Ah ha, now we know!
Do we? As one friendly tweet noted, Sethi and Mohsin are fairly well off. They own and manage a couple of magazines and a book publishing company. Mohsin is a scion of the Maratab Ali/Mitchells Fruit Farms family, which translates into a solid inheritance. And I’m sure Geo pampers Sethi. Both son Ali and daughter Mira work and live abroad. So if the parents have helped fund their kids’ flats in NY, what’s the big deal? How are they different from the 500,000 Pakistanis who do the same in America?
Plenty. When the agencies take a strong dislike to you in the “national interest”, they won’t stop until they’ve silenced you. That’s the problem. There have been reports in the Pak and foreign media quoting Sethi as saying that he has been receiving serious threats from “them” this past year. The husband and wife say they were forced to leave Pakistan for a few months last year when the interior minister formally advised them to do so because of the death threats to them. Since returning, the Sethis have been provided round the clock security by both the federal and provincial governments, Geo has built a studio in Sethi’s house for transmission of his program and the whole place is wired with surveillance cameras. He’s a prisoner in his own home and in his own country, say his friends.
But as the saying goes, “old rogues” never give up. Sethi continues to speak up and the agencies continue to turn the screws on him. There’s a hate-video on YouTube that’s clearly the handiwork of the ISI and is an outright incitement to violence against him. Naturally it’s anonymous. The “student” who posted it doesn’t exist. The latest twist in the saga is the appearance of Sethi’s name in an anonymous list of media persons who are alleged to have partaken of Thekedar Malik Riaz’s hospitality. Sethi has denied the charges. Now it turns out it is the figment of a PTI troll’s imagination. Still, it’s remarkable that an unsigned list that doesn’t offer any evidence can be floated on the internet and serve to undermine the credibility of those who run afoul of their media colleagues or the agencies or both. Sethi told a friend that he was ready to release details of his income and wealth as lodged with the tax authorities. “Don’t be silly”, the friend replied, “then they’ll say the Americans gifted them to you?”
Sethi should understand the message. He believed, like many liberals, that Musharraf and the military could be part of the modernizing solution in Pakistan. This was a “naïve” mistake then. Now he argues that the military is part of the problem. This is a “treacherous” mistake today.
This is not the end of the campaign to malign Sethi and his family. Sure, Sethi is opinionated and can be standoffish. He tends to remain aloof from much of the middle-class media, which is cause for resentment. But liberals should eschew their inter-personal issues and class prejudices. It’s time to stand up for one of their colleagues who is at the receiving end of the stick from the same secret agencies that call them all “liberal-fascists”.
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“May Allah save Islam from Pakistan”
Actually it’s the other way-
“May Allah save Pakistan from Islam”
May GOD save mankind from arab ethnofascism-imperialism, arab allah, islam and Pakistan. Let us pray for that mercy from now onwards. It was GOD’s big blunder to have allowed these to flourish for so long. And it was also human foolishness, opportunism and cowardice to have allowed it for so long. If a folly is tolerated for too long then it can become very very nasty.
Great Journalists more often than not attract controversy! This guy still seems to be paying his dues.
Lady Guinevere
When Najam Sethi speaks on TV one realizes how careful he tries not to offend the military, mullahs and the moghuls who “own” and rule Pakistan as a fascistized fifedom. But his body language tells us how deeply he detests and ridicules them all – and rightly so. This 7th century religion from Arabia will ruin the pakistani people more and more. Young people in Pakistan still think islam (or islam alone) will save them. That is the worsening tragedy.
Be careful sethi sahib – will be a tragedy if you go the Salman basheer way -anyway you’re a traitor to your Hindu surname (sethi) by being a mussalmaan
In these testing times, u r not alone NS…..more power to ur elbow NS.
milestone and ahem,
Kancha Ilaiah’s book ‘why I am not a Hindu’, should be made a textbook in all the colleges and universities all over the world. This is the most highly scholarly book on religion. Even Bertrand Russel’s book ‘Why I am not a christian’ is nothing in comparison because Bertrand russell was very superficial. Christianity is a great religion and Bertrand russel gives superficial reasons about why he is not a christian. Bertrand Rusel was also influenced by zionists. There is enough proof on that and we at Dalit Nation are doing research and will be publishing a paper soon.
When the editor first read Kancha Iliah, immediately we realised that this book is next only to Dr. Ambedkar’s ‘Annhilation of caste’. But it is also different because Kancha talks of his experiences as a Kuruma the shepherd caste. How the shepherds had so much knowledge of different ways to breed and look after sheep. The Brahmins know nothing of all this. Yet they rule the people. Since the editor is also from the weaver caste we can understand and sympathise with Kancha iliaiah.
How brahmins have taken away our gods is still a shame. When pocchamma’s festivals are celebrated how we dalits sacrifice and offer what we love to eat. We sacrifice buffalos and sprinkle the blood of the buffalos and cook them and eat them. We also drink toddy and sing and dance all night. Why should we dalits learn the classical music popularised by these brahmins. All their arts like bharatanatyan and classical music has only survived because of the Devadasis. The uncultured brahmins dont even know how to sing and dance properly and they call us uncultured. They offer bananas and coconuts to their gods but our gods need meat. Because our gods eat what we dalit bahujans eat. The barbaric brahmins wants to prevent us from sacrificing animals. They want to kill our culture. The brahmins dont know that they were also meat eaters 2000 years ago. They became vegetarian only to conquer Buddhists. The Buddhists were fooled by newly converted vegetarian Brahmins and thought that they are non violent and slowly Brahmins absorbed Buddhists. The Brahmins can go to any extent even change their diet to enjoy their monopoly. The brahmins have also influenced the christian missionaries to preach against animal sacrifice. Shame on them.
In Kancha’s childhood he never saw any Brahmin children in the fields. There were only his own caste people. Where were these brahmin children at that time. They were probably hiding in their houses eating food all the time and chanting the stupid mantras. The brahmins have no contact with nature. They dont touch mud and dont know anything about plants and animals. Still they call themselves intelligent. Kancha has clearly exposed the Brahmins with regards to sex education. The Brahmins never talk of sex in their homes. They act as if sex does not exist. The brahmin children have no clue about sex unlike we dalits. As dalits we are taught sex education in our houses but for Brahmin children they dont even know about birds and bees.
Brahmins also treat their own children as untouchable. Brahmin mothers dont touch their own children and brahmin mothers also dont love their children. What a horrible people these brahmins are. Kancha clearly exposes all these things. The world should know these things. How the brahmin treats women and widows are so inhuman. They just light a fire and burn the widows after the death of the husband. Why are they not booked for murder when they do this.
Kancha completely exposes the gods of the brahmins, even the godess of learning saraswathi is an illiterate. How come brahmins dont allow woment to study. Their gods are all violent rama who killed dalits like shambuka and the ravana. Krishna who was a master of deceit. Krishna also studied chanakya’s arthashastra and vatsyayana’s Kamasutra. He mastered them.
The brahmin gods are all symbols to destroy the oppressed. The brahmans say ‘aham brahmasmi’ which means everything belongs to me. Why should we give everything to brahmins our women, the products from the toil. The bagvad gita and upanishads are books which will put mein kampf to shame. Bagvad Gita asks the upper caste pandavas to kill their cousins the lower caste kauravas. Kancha clearly exposes the hypocrisy of the Mahabharatha.
These books like Bhagavad Gita should be banned. Even people who discovered atom bomb were influenced by bhagwad gita. All of them were jews. Einstien and Opphenhiemer were influenced by bhagvad gita. They are extremely dangerous books and they used it to kill millions of people in Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan. The Japanese should ask compensation from the Brahmins and Jews because it is they who created the destruction of the two cities.
The brahmin manu created the manusmrithi and without any political power the brahmins ruled us. Even when muslims and the british were ruling india the brahmins were ruling us. Surely they are extremely crafty. The most cunning people on earth. They dont own lands and they dont have power all they know is some mantras and then they mesmerize people and rule them. Kancha surely exposes all of them.
Their time is coming to an end. We dalit bahujans are now coming together and with sister mayavathi is now the chief minister of UP. She will be the prime minister of India in the next elections. We dalits should stop reading all the other nonsense these brahmins and their media talk about and read Kancha’s book. It will surely make you understand how evil the hindu religion is. Like Kancha we at Dalit Nation are also closely working with the Christian Missions. We should not waste the funds that we get for personal things but use them to destroy Hinduism. Because only then we can have peace and justice. How long can this atrocities continue.
This books should be read by everyone and it should be given the Nobel prize. But the Nobel prize is completely controlled by the zionists. The hypocrites will never give Nobel Prize to Kancha Ilaiah
Mr. Sethi – when USSR was a powerful block he was ‘Russian agent’. Than he becomes Ahmedi and now he is ‘CIA agent’. How much we have to pay living peacefully in Pakistan. I could not forget those days when he was kidnapped by forces/ agencies on the order of than PM Mian Nawaz sharif for fixing him. His wife Jugno Muhsin – (dairy writer of Friday times) was searching for him with a great pain.
Soon Kancha Ilaiha will be ashamed of having tajender as his friend and propagandist. Kancha will end up saying: “Save me from my friends – with my enemies I have lesser problems.”
Indians are not averse to reforms.
And new ideas – it evolves and evaluates and keeps the best.
Even Islam is accepted to a great extent – its only now after years of evaluation, Indians have started to realize that Islam is false and evil and must be exposed.
Milestogo says:
July 6, 2012 at 8:51 pm
Indians are not averse to reforms
yes i have seen the change.micky mouse has replaced many serious ods of india.ganja smoking sai baba is in great demand as well.
Soon Kancha Ilaiha will be ashamed
ahem,
kancha ilaiha also says that dharam shastra of manu and arthshatra of kautillya(chanakya)are two notrious gignatic octoposuses sucking very vitals of our society.
i hope u will agree to him.
lets take care of shias first – pakistanis are making good progress – 18 a day – will make islam stronger…
ahem u agree or disagree
to tajender
Manu and kautilya are irrelevant in today’s India. But the amount of destruction caused by islam/kuran world over is far greater. That is what you wish to ignore or hide.
Manu and kautilya are irrelevant in today’s India. But the amount of destruction caused by islam/kuran world over is far greater. That is what you wish to ignore or hide
20 millions hindus are working in various muslim countries their remmitances of 45billion is main source of midle class prosperity.world is destroyed by zoinism and brhmnsm,two satanic cousins.yhese 2 satans are secret instigators of most of holocaust and violence all over world.manu and kautilya are still darling of voilent brhmns.
to tajender
The muslims are actually the biggest killers, liars, rapists, lazy-bums and looters today. Why try to hide that? Manu etc. are dead and gone. No one in India botehrs about them except muslims like tajender. Kuran and hadith have made muslim lands into killing fields. How long will you ignore that? Muslims killing and raping and looting muslims – that is the biggest number.
“The muslims are actually the biggest killers, liars, rapists, lazy-bums and looters today”
Yaa, who can argue with that…… They ki1lled a million in Iraq… and they leave their legacy of depleted uraniuim to poison the Umah and cause the children to be born deformed and twisted….
Vietnam was another of their atrocities……. Not only did they kill millions with bombs Napalm, they leave their legacy of Agent Orange to poison the natives there and cause the children to be born deformed and twisted….
Now they are werking in Pakuistan under the leadershit of Raymond Davis the God of Islam……. using those drones to make the world safe for adultry……
Those demonizing Islam as slavrey need to admit they are slaves now, whatever their stand on Islam…. They by design MUST eat, drink and defecate…. Sorry, but we are all slaves to our bodily needs.. That is necessary to live… And how many people are slaves to money, status, and appearances.
All religion seeks to free is from the venal, unscrupulous same for the oppressor… and the occupier…. History teaches us their intentions.. But their actions speak louder.. Rapes of girls, night raids breaking peoples doors and shooting the men, sometimes the women.. they have killed babies… This is the real slavery, foreign soldiers killing women and children….. and getting away scot free, back to their country where they are often treated as heros…
Whether it was the British or the Germans…… they have money and power to make it seem, the fault of the people they oppress…. Islam, has a solution for this problem, and Afghanistan is the living proof of the resolve of the Umah… The invaders own your political leaders… Why didn’t your government charge Raymond Davis with espionage spying? One of our commenters here has stated that the U.S. paid millions to lawyers to set him, free… meanwhile back to business as usual selling the lives of those who resist occupation and slavery to the drone false gods of the wealthy bankrupt invader
to Thomas
Islam allows blood money. That is how Raymond Davis was freed. Are you ignorant of that? Islamic “law” was used to free Raymond. So no muslim or their bootlicker can complain. The huge amount money paid by USA etc. to Irak, Afghanistan, Pakistan means it is all blood money according to islamic “law” and hence don’t complain. That the money does not reach the victims’ families but is pocketed by the muslim leaders and gangsters and mullahs – that is not the fault of the USA.
Islam (submission= mental slavery) is 7th century feudal-fascist-tribal arabic stupidity. Islam neither knows the problems nor undestands them nor has any solutions for them. Every islamic “solution” is ending up in making the situation worse and more unredeemable than ever before. Islam just does not and cannot fulfill the standards and norms of the 21st century. Lies (self-glorifications) coupled with threats of violence against those who reject these lies – that is what islam calls “solutions”.
USA misbehaved in the past 60 years. But that does not make muslims into holy guys and islam into salvation. B’s goodness is not proved by A’s badness. That USA is no holy land of capitalist saints is well-known now. Presenting those facts umpteen times does not make islam and muslims into innocent angels or bringers of salvation. USA is owned and ruled by a coalition of capitalist and christian and financial fascists. That is all-too evident. But that is no argument in favor of islam – especially since muslims have proved to be even more fascistic, mendacious, ruthless and primitive over a much longer time (1400 years as against only 250 for USA). Most muslims suffer due to islam. The blame is habitually put on USA, Israel, jews, hindus etc. So long such lies are perpetuated, the muslims will continue to be victims more and more of islam.
Islam allows blood money. That is how Raymond Davis was freed. Are you ignorant of that? Islamic “law” was used to free Raymond
there were more cases on him like overstaying.but goverment wanted to release him on american pressure.chairman of union carbide was taken to airport by chief minister of mp.though he killed thousands.
Islam allows blood money.
blood money is very good law.poor family get something to feedd her childrens.