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Pakistani bloggers counter anti-India rhetoric

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  • With anti-India talk shows being beamed regularly on Pakistani channels, anti-India blogs clocking hits in cyberspace and open letters to Indians getting several columns in newspapers, a newly formed Pakistani web group to condemn the Mumbai attacks has come as a breath of fresh air.

    "All Pakistanis condemn Mumbai attacks," a group on social networking website Facebook, has already registered 1,803 members from across the globe to counter an earlier group called "India stop blaming Pakistan for terror in India", which at last count had 952 members.

    Muhammad Riaz, a 30-something blogger, quoted a surah (verse) from the Quran to condemn the attacks "if anyone slew a person, unless it be for murder or for spreading mischief in the land, it would be as if he slew the whole humanity and if anyone saved a life it would be as if he saved the whole of the humanity."

    Another Facebooker, Farrukh Mehboob Khan, wondered why Pakistan could not have shown a more visibly sympathetic response to the Mumbai massacres?

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    "Why do we have to be so aggressive all the time? Why couldn't we send (the Inter-Services Intelligence chief) if India had requested for his presence in the investigations? We should have extended all possible cooperation in this regard if we have no skeletons in the cupboard.”

    "If my reports about the current (ISI chief) are correct, he is a highly capable officer who should have been able to hold his ground. We should have sent a team of experts to help him and the Indians in their investigation. But no, we had to act like the protagonist of a cheap Punjabi movie who thunders and makes inexplicable gestures towards the enemy," Khan wrote.

    Hasan Siddiqui, a Pakistani who lives in the UAE, joined the group to condemn the Mumbai attacks that killed nearly 200 and injured hundreds and wrote that both Pakistan and India should not let terrorists defeat them.

    Maham Muneeb Khan, who lives in New York, blamed it all on the US."I think that what the British tried to do long time ago during the Mughal period, that's exactly what the Americans are trying to do once again," he wrote in an open letter to Indians "Bombay, India and Pakistan" posted on Pak Tea House, an e-magazine, was published in ‘The News daily’ on Wednesday.

    Yasser Latif Hamdani, the author and a lawyer based in Islamabad, has received his share of bouquets and brickbats from Pakistanis.

    "As a Pakistani myself, I regret to say that your write-up is more reactionary than factual and it lacks depth. Whether (Lashker-e-Taiba) was involved in Mumbai attacks or not, there is no denying that they are blossoming in our country and have their training camps. They could be as much a threat to us as to others," a blogger known as "Kuku1" wrote in response to Hamdani's post.

    "Pakistan can use this incident to their advantage by cleaning out such groups with or without help from outside. Thus we can not only clear our name but can also provide an example for others in the Islamic world to weed out radicals who are trying to hijack our great religion and are increasingly isolating us from the rest of the world."

    An Indian who identified herself as "simply61" said she found Hamdani's post shallow. "Rest assured our dream in India is not to annihilate Pakistan we just want terror export (by whoever it is within Pakistan) to stop.

    "The same terror that Pakistan has nurtured on its soil is in fact eating away at Pakistan itself," she wrote.

    Leading English newspapers have been carrying editorials and opinion pieces almost every day since the attacks in Mumbai on November 26, with most of them dismissing Indian allegations about a Pakistani link to the terrorist strike and blaming Indian elements.

    Television channels have been beaming talk shows in the aftermath of the attacks, often inviting the same guests and experts, to mouth anti-India rhetoric.

    PovertyBy: sanjay | 08-Dec-2008 Reply | Forward Poverty is the worst form of terrorism. Eradicate poverty and terrorists will loose their supporters
    Humanity should be respected at all stagesBy: d_rambo | 07-Dec-2008 Reply | Forward "Bund Sund se Sagar banta hai" we should appreciate these positive responceWe should understand that there common man on both side who suffers due to these terrorist as well as ppolitical attacks.next time we have see that only proper should rule the country.all religion teaches us to spread peece but r people ..for thre selfish motives take shield of religion and kill humanity..
    Division of PakistanBy: chandan wadhwa | 07-Dec-2008 Reply | Forward If you give shelter to a murderer arn't you part of the crime. According to law that would be known as "aid in crime". State-less or not, if pakistan is sheltering these elements, they themselves are a part of the crime. In simple terms: if u cant weed out the criminal, stop contact with it, cut out everything with it "officially" and thats what exactly gonna happen to pakistan. The world would not allow a war, so eventually its gonna cut out pakistan from everything and wait for its doom. And now its too late for them to fight internal terror as they are already termed as a terror state by the world.The solutions could be, Division of pakistan. Let the extremist and terrorist live in one part and carry out their mission and let the good civilized pakistan live in peace and develop. At least the world would know where to find the bloody culprit and punish him intead of blaming pakistan. Think about it.
    TIT FOR TAT TO PAKISTANBy: joiceeverghese | 06-Dec-2008 Reply | Forward Enough is enough. India had too much patience for Pakistan creating trouble in our country and tranishing India as and when they get chance. They even sponsored to attack our parliament House, the Heart of Inida. No need for more investigation, evidence or brokering talks etc. Come on send our army to the boreder and answer the Pakistanis by our guns, no more talks. Let us face a war for our peace in our great country. JAI BHARAT MATHA KI. An ex- soldier
    Who is a terrorist?By: sks | 06-Dec-2008 Reply | Forward Nobody in the world is born into any religion. It is the people around the child who instill all these so called divisions like religion, country, language etc. As and when the world realizes that there will be peace. Terrorists do not have any religion, country or any family ties. These people are misguided and severely diseased elements in society and they need to be eradicated from the society just like any dangerous epidemic.
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