The Emperor has no cloths on.

[Kompromat]

The Emperor has no clothes on.​

Pakistan’s worst kept secret is not a secret anymore: There is something very rotten in the corridors of power, and there is something very sickening in the games that rulers play.

The seemingly never-ending story unfolding on D-Chowk is now gradually folding up. The capital’s Red Zone resembles a gaping red festering wound on the fair face of this normally manicured locality. The wound however is not just physical; it has seeped puss out of the decomposing body of governance in Pakistan and exposed the terminal illness that plagues the system. The disease has finally been diagnosed.

Yes, it had to take a thousand megawatt shock for the limp body to respond. But respond it has, perhaps fighting for its last breaths. And the ruler - PML-N and their allies and the rest who infes parliament — are suddenly talking about issue that everyone except them had been talking about for years and years. It had to take a shock for these zombies to lift their chins, look around and see a tidal wave of discontent, frustration anger and loathing roaring towards them.

No, this tidal wave is not measured in the numbers gathered outside Parliament on Constitution Avenue. No, this tidal wave is not gauged by the inflammable rhetoric of Imran Khan and Tahirul Qadri, or the pitched battles of their supporters. This tidal wave, in fact, is no even registered by the cacophony on TV screen or the blistering headlines in the morning papers. No, none of this is a true measure of the loathing that is steaming and bubbling like red hot lava inside Mount Vesuvius.

This loathing is a natural reaction of a society in transition. It is a loathing borne of greater exposure to the outside world and the ideas that drive the future. It is a loathing that wraps itself around a new realisation among the rapidly urbanising population of Pakistan that is forced to beg for its natural born rights. It is a loathing that is triggered by the hypocrisy of the ruling elite and the inequality bred by a system twisted and manipulated to serve the interests and agendas of those who have clawed themselves into the corridors of power and privilege.

It is a loathing of the disenfranchised and the disbarred; a loathing of those who are denied their fundamental rights and their basic privileges as the citizens of Pakistan. They may be born free, but everywhere they are still in chains. It is indeed the beginning of the end of the era dominated by rural grandees and urban tycoons. The end may take a while, and it may experience violent convulsions and sporadic eruptions,but the end is nigh. It has to. There is a change in the air. No, perhaps not the change defined by Imran and Qadri,but a change all the same.

This change is spurred by harsh realities of a world in transformation. Indeed this transformation is too rapid for the traditional elites to grasp. It is everywhere. Like an angry wave crashing against stony shores, the change is manifesting itself on TV screens, computer screens and cell phone screens; in 3D and 3G; flooding minds with information and awareness and spreading ideas and knowledge at warp speed. No, this is not our Daddy’s Pakistan. Can someone tell this to the uptight and pompous men and women in Parliament?

The fabled kid has finally pointed out that the emperor has no clothes.

For this fabled land ha been ravaged by those who have been blessed with all. But it seemed the land was frozen in an era long time ago; an era in which the landed an the privileged grew fat on the sweat and blood of the weak; an era in which time moved in slow motion and progress in slower motion.

This was an era when only the selected few rose to positions of power and then exercised this power without restraint,without accountability,without checks and balances. In this era the dispossessed remained without possessions, and the marginalised stayed on the margins And everyone accepted this state of affairs. The mighty played their electoral games on their own rules.They mimicked their ancestors and their ancient traditions; drawing strength and self proclaimed legitimacy from regressive practice and degenerate rituals. And they ravaged this fabled land with a ferociousness hard to imagine.

But now change is in the air. Such hypocrisy and duality cannot endure.The rotting and crumbling status quo cannot endure.

This state of affairs where children go hungry and rulers build temples to democracy — cannot endure.

This blatant inequality before law cannot endure. A system that rewards the corrupt and pulverises the weak cannot endure.

A governance structure that lets the police torture people while the mighty feed on the bounty of this land cannot endure.

A parliament that speaks for its privilege and traditions but cannot legislate true justice cannot endure.

A cabinet that makes policies to suit itself while our children cannot go to school such a cabinet and all that it represents cannot endure.

The last three weeks of turmoil has reminded us that this nation called Pakistan has had enough ,No more. The system either reforms, or dies.

That’s it. For all our sake, the men and women entrusted with our destiny must see the reality for what it is, not what they would wish it to be.
The fabled kid has spoken.

Published in The Express Tribune, September 7th, 2014.

 

[Kompromat]

@Icarus @Irfan Baloch @Hyperion @niaz @balixd @Xeric @Luftwaffe @Mosamania @Yzd Khalifa @notorious_eagle @ajpirzada

FYI folks. Certainly worth a read.

 

[FaujHistorian]

Pakistani (Indian, BDeshi, American) elections are based on "electables" and not just one person.

PTI, JI, MQM can all produce one person who is a fantastic leader.

The problem is that such 3rd tier parties do not have electables in place, nor the election machine that comes with such electables.


IK was a guy alone in the political jungle.

Then for 2013 elections, he decided to join the game, find electables, and win.

So he surrounded himself with same old tired politicians, the land lords, the tribals, and what not.

these powerful elite made what PTI is today,
not some twittering tweets, not some facebook slogans.

no no no

These are electables all the way.

However sadly, IK having understood the game of Pakistani politics, is now trying to repeat the same mistakes that other parties have made, and since then learned some lessons.

IK too will force the country through a Martial Law and then understand finally that PTI ended up cutting its own feet.

Then only then, he will "grow up" politically.

However the anarchists in Pakistan will then dump him,

and find someone new,

some Khalifa who will promise canals of milk and honey

only if he is allowed to topple the "corrupt system".

Then this Khalifa will gather few thousands, march on Islu, and start new round of bloodshed and anarchy.

Educated but Anarchists in Pakistan will rejoice, write poems for him, tweet about him, sing songs for him.

Hail Khalifa will the slogan, again! and again and again.

This will again show that Anarchists in Pakistan could never learn.

never change

until our beautiful country turns into complete Afghanistan, only to survive under the boots of NATO and or Indian army.

So in the end, it is not some "emperor" who has no clothes.

instead,

it is the educated but anarchist elite of Pakistan who has no shame.



p.s. these comments are not against you Horus, but the original author.

 

[Irfan Baloch]

@Icarus @Irfan Baloch @Hyperion @niaz @balixd @Xeric @Luftwaffe @Mosamania @Yzd Khalifa @notorious_eagle @ajpirzada

FYI folks. Certainly worth a read.

would the nude emperor me "moved" by our awakening and disgust? we mere mortals dont even exist in their world.

 

[Leader]

no brain either.. but has money, so some mortals will sell their souls to this naked emperor !

 

[VCheng]

The Emperor has no clothes on.

Pakistan’s worst kept secret is not a secre anymore: There is something very rotten in the corridors of power, and there is something ver sickening in the games that rulers play.

The seemingly never-ending story unfolding on D-Chowk is now gradually folding up. The capital’s Red Zone resembles a gaping red festering wound on the fair face of this normally manicured locality. The wound however is not just physical; it has seeped puss out of the decomposing body of governance in Pakistan and exposed the terminal illness that plagues the system. The disease has finally been diagnosed.

Yes, it had to take a thousand megawatt shock fo the limp body to respond. But respond it has, perhaps fighting for its last breaths. And the ruler - PML-N and their allies and the rest who infes parliament — are suddenly talking about issue that everyone except them had been talking about for years and years. It had to take a shock for these zombies to lift their chins, look around and see a tidal wave of discontent, frustration anger and loathing roaring towards them.

No, this tidal wave is not measured in th numbers gathered outside Parliament on Constitution Avenue. No, this tidal wave is not gauged by the inflammable rhetoric of Imran Khan and Tahirul Qadri, or the pitched battles of their supporters. This tidal wave, in fact, is no even registered by the cacophony on TV screen or the blistering headlines in the morning papers. No, none of this is a true measure of the loathing that is steaming and bubbling like red hot lava inside Mount Vesuvius.

This loathing is a natural reaction of a society in transition. It is a loathing borne of greate exposure to the outside world and the ideas that drive the future. It is a loathing that wraps itself around a new realisation among the rapidly urbanising population of Pakistan that is forced to beg for its natural born rights. It is a loathing tha is triggered by the hypocrisy of the ruling elite and the inequality bred by a system twisted and manipulated to serve the interests and agendas of those who have clawed themselves into the corridors of power and privilege.

It is a loathing of the disenfranchised and the disbarred; a loathin of those who are denied their fundamental rights and their basic privileges as the citizens of Pakistan. They may be born free, but everywhere they are still in chains.

It is indeed the beginning of the end of the era dominated by rural grandees and urban tycoons. The end may take a while, and it may experience violent convulsions and sporadic eruptions,but the end is nigh. It has to. There is a change in the air. No, perhaps not the change defined by Imran and Qadri,but a change all the same.

This change is spurred by harsh realities of a world in transformation. Indeed this transformation is too rapid for the traditional elites to grasp.

It is everywhere. Like an angry wave crashing against stony shores, the change is manifesting itself on TV screens, computer screens and cell phone screens; in 3D and 3G; flooding minds with information and awareness and spreading ideas and knowledge at warp speed. No, this is not our Daddy’s Pakistan. Can someone tell this to the uptight and pompous men and women in Parliament?

The fabled kid has finally pointed out that th emperor has no clothes.

For this fabled land ha been ravaged by those who have been blessed with all. But it seemed the land was frozen in an era long time ago; an era in which the landed an the privileged grew fat on the sweat and blood of the weak; an era in which time moved in slow motion and progress in slower motion.

This was an era when only the selected few rose to positions of power and then exercised this power without restraint,without accountability,without checks and balances.

In this era the dispossessed remained without possessions, and the marginalised stayed on the margins And everyone accepted this state of affairs.

The mighty played their electoral games on their own rules.They mimicked their ancestors and their ancient traditions; drawing strength and self proclaimed legitimacy from regressive practice and degenerate rituals. And they ravaged this fabled land with a ferociousness hard to imagine.

But now change is in the air. Such hypocrisy and duality cannot endure.The rotting and crumbling status quo cannot endure.

This state of affairs where children go hungry and rulers build temples to democracy — cannot endure.

This blatant inequality before law cannot endure. A system that rewards the corrupt and pulverises the weak cannot endure.

A governance structure that lets the police torture people while the mighty feed on the bounty of this land cannot endure.

A parliament that speaks for its privilege and traditions but cannot legislate true justice cannot endure.

A cabinet that makes policies to suit itself while our children cannot go to school such a cabinet and all that it represents cannot endure.

The last three weeks of turmoil has reminded us that this nation called Pakistan has had enough ,No more. The system either reforms, or dies.

That’s it. For all our sake, the men and women entrusted with our destiny must see the reality for what it is, not what they would wish it to be.
The fabled kid has spoken.

Published in The Express Tribune, September 7th, 2014.

All flowery prose, that has been said many times in Pakistan's history before, with the same effect as they will have now - zero. The system will neither reform nor die. It will remain strongly entrenched.

PS: Link: The Emperor has no clothes – The Express Tribune

 

[Kompromat]

Dear system, this is your last chance to evolve before we the youth, choke you to death and feed you to the vultures!

The old circus how it worked for waderas and tycoons is now dull, stupid and boaring.Its not good enough to fool us. We want accountability, transparency, rule of law, economic growth and we can always do with less lies and political propaganda.

 

[Amaa'n]

to be honest - i dont see the awakening - I see the same crowd that was standing with IK and against the system - on the day of 11th May 2013 --- people stood by Bridary system that day and they stand with their biradri that todday - now whether that beradri stands with IK or PMLN,or PPP, that is the truth ----
on a small scale - yes people did woke up, those who were not aware of their rights are now fighting for them - but that number is too small as of now ----

The Emperor has no clothes on.

Pakistan’s worst kept secret is not a secre anymore: There is something very rotten in the corridors of power, and there is something ver sickening in the games that rulers play.

The seemingly never-ending story unfolding on D-Chowk is now gradually folding up. The capital’s Red Zone resembles a gaping red festering wound on the fair face of this normally manicured locality. The wound however is not just physical; it has seeped puss out of the decomposing body of governance in Pakistan and exposed the terminal illness that plagues the system. The disease has finally been diagnosed.

Yes, it had to take a thousand megawatt shock fo the limp body to respond. But respond it has, perhaps fighting for its last breaths. And the ruler - PML-N and their allies and the rest who infes parliament — are suddenly talking about issue that everyone except them had been talking about for years and years. It had to take a shock for these zombies to lift their chins, look around and see a tidal wave of discontent, frustration anger and loathing roaring towards them.

No, this tidal wave is not measured in th numbers gathered outside Parliament on Constitution Avenue. No, this tidal wave is not gauged by the inflammable rhetoric of Imran Khan and Tahirul Qadri, or the pitched battles of their supporters. This tidal wave, in fact, is no even registered by the cacophony on TV screen or the blistering headlines in the morning papers. No, none of this is a true measure of the loathing that is steaming and bubbling like red hot lava inside Mount Vesuvius.

This loathing is a natural reaction of a society in transition. It is a loathing borne of greate exposure to the outside world and the ideas that drive the future. It is a loathing that wraps itself around a new realisation among the rapidly urbanising population of Pakistan that is forced to beg for its natural born rights. It is a loathing tha is triggered by the hypocrisy of the ruling elite and the inequality bred by a system twisted and manipulated to serve the interests and agendas of those who have clawed themselves into the corridors of power and privilege.

It is a loathing of the disenfranchised and the disbarred; a loathin of those who are denied their fundamental rights and their basic privileges as the citizens of Pakistan. They may be born free, but everywhere they are still in chains.

It is indeed the beginning of the end of the era dominated by rural grandees and urban tycoons. The end may take a while, and it may experience violent convulsions and sporadic eruptions,but the end is nigh. It has to. There is a change in the air. No, perhaps not the change defined by Imran and Qadri,but a change all the same.

This change is spurred by harsh realities of a world in transformation. Indeed this transformation is too rapid for the traditional elites to grasp.

It is everywhere. Like an angry wave crashing against stony shores, the change is manifesting itself on TV screens, computer screens and cell phone screens; in 3D and 3G; flooding minds with information and awareness and spreading ideas and knowledge at warp speed. No, this is not our Daddy’s Pakistan. Can someone tell this to the uptight and pompous men and women in Parliament?

The fabled kid has finally pointed out that th emperor has no clothes.

For this fabled land ha been ravaged by those who have been blessed with all. But it seemed the land was frozen in an era long time ago; an era in which the landed an the privileged grew fat on the sweat and blood of the weak; an era in which time moved in slow motion and progress in slower motion.

This was an era when only the selected few rose to positions of power and then exercised this power without restraint,without accountability,without checks and balances.

In this era the dispossessed remained without possessions, and the marginalised stayed on the margins And everyone accepted this state of affairs.

The mighty played their electoral games on their own rules.They mimicked their ancestors and their ancient traditions; drawing strength and self proclaimed legitimacy from regressive practice and degenerate rituals. And they ravaged this fabled land with a ferociousness hard to imagine.

But now change is in the air. Such hypocrisy and duality cannot endure.The rotting and crumbling status quo cannot endure.

This state of affairs where children go hungry and rulers build temples to democracy — cannot endure.

This blatant inequality before law cannot endure. A system that rewards the corrupt and pulverises the weak cannot endure.

A governance structure that lets the police torture people while the mighty feed on the bounty of this land cannot endure.

A parliament that speaks for its privilege and traditions but cannot legislate true justice cannot endure.

A cabinet that makes policies to suit itself while our children cannot go to school such a cabinet and all that it represents cannot endure.

The last three weeks of turmoil has reminded us that this nation called Pakistan has had enough ,No more. The system either reforms, or dies.

That’s it. For all our sake, the men and women entrusted with our destiny must see the reality for what it is, not what they would wish it to be.
The fabled kid has spoken.

Published in The Express Tribune, September 7th, 2014.

 

[Kompromat]

@balixd

Just like the Biryani is cooked in stages and layers, the change is also brought in steps and layers.

"Only thing permanent is 'Change' l Karl Marx"

Least we can do is to keep the 'Rage Alive' and to keep saying 'No' to this wehshi autocratic nizaam.

 

[Amaa'n]

@balixd

Just like the Biryani is cooked in stages and layers, the change is also brought in steps and layers.

"Only thing permanent is 'Change' l Karl Marx"

Least we can do is to keep the 'Rage Alive' and to keep saying 'No' to this wehshi autocratic nizaam.

many have been saying that we should give the system its time to evolve rather than giving it an aggressive push -- but they fail to realize is that in today's volatile environment, we are actually running out of time, and if harsh steps are not taken it will end bad for the survival of this country -- I am not suggesting a coup - be it hard or soft - i am actually suggesting an aggressive push - the one you are talking about and the one IK is doing - keeping the pressure intact - Yes it is hurting the economy in a way and adding up the costs - but look at bright side, that you are acually looking at some reforms --- those who would not even visit the corridors of Parliament are actually sitting their and debating - their true faces are coming in front of the public to see ----
the reforms which would have taken years to be done are actually in a process of being shaped up into an Ordinance ---

 

[VCheng]

many have been saying that we should give the system its time to evolve rather than giving it an aggressive push -- but they fail to realize is that in today's volatile environment, we are actually running out of time, and if harsh steps are not taken it will end bad for the survival of this country -- I am not suggesting a coup - be it hard or soft - i am actually suggesting an aggressive push - the one you are talking about and the one IK is doing - keeping the pressure intact - Yes it is hurting the economy in a way and adding up the costs - but look at bright side, that you are acually looking at some reforms --- those who would not even visit the corridors of Parliament are actually sitting their and debating - their true faces are coming in front of the public to see ----
the reforms which would have taken years to be done are actually in a process of being shaped up into an Ordinance ---

Please prepare to be disappointed yet again. Ordinances comes and go, but the system stays.

@balixd

Just like the Biryani is cooked in stages and layers, the change is also brought in steps and layers.

"Only thing permanent is 'Change' l Karl Marx"

Least we can do is to keep the 'Rage Alive' and to keep saying 'No' to this wehshi autocratic nizaam.

Say no all you want. Get angry all you want. There has been negation and anger for many decades now, but it all amounts to naught. Those who are in control will not any change slip through to challenge their authority.

 

[Kompromat]

Everything seems impossible, till its done.

 

[Cyberian]

Dajjal: The King Who Has No Clothes: Ahmad Thomson: Books​

 

[VCheng]

Everything seems impossible, till its done.

It's not done until yet, is it? Ergo, it is thus far proven to be impossible. That may or may not change in the future.

 

[Levina]

The article was good!!
I like the kind of "awakening" Pakistani populace has been showing.Pakistan has to get over some white elephants that it has been carrying for so long.It has to get over the patronage system in politics.
Afaik in Pakistan when a political boss supports his party by bringing in a number of voters he can expect to be appropriately rewarded ....which ofcourse is not a good way of running a democracy.No wonder democracy is in shambles there.
Another thing that comes to my mind when I think of Pakistan is thats its a living and breathing demonstration of the failure of the US’s militarized foreign policy. US's support of the Pakistan military has facilitated the development of a parallel government in Pakistan which in turn has fomented a significant proportion of the country’s domestic political troubles for example the military coup that deposed Nawaz Sharif when he was Prime Minister back in 1999.
The best thing for the people of Pakistan may not be any revolutionary adventures......but the exit of the US from neighboring Afghanistan after more than thirty years of meddling there.