Pakistan in the news

http://news.yahoo.com/pakistans-musharraf-flees-court-avoid-arrest-134819953.html

 

Well Elections tomorrow.

Here are some articles on it.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/...ion-campaigning-ends/articleshow/19982732.cms

 

http://www.economist.com/news/asia/...on-nawaz-sharif-expects-win-third-spell-prime

 

http://www.economist.com/news/asia/...-election-agenda-much-anyone-other-campaigner

 

http://www.ndtv.com/article/world/pakistan-elections-2013-party-positions-365892

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/05/11/us-pakistan-election-idUSBRE9490V620130511

 

Looks like the game black ops




BTW is ok to post pictures of death people when they were alive right?

 

The conspiracy theories are obviously silly, but Malala is certainly part of an agenda (whether she is an active participant or unwitting pawn is not clear).

Compare the reaction to her inspiring but harrowing story, and the level of coverage and access given by media and political figures in the West to her script, with that of Nabila Rahman.

That's right, "who??"

 

Nine year old drone strike girl?

 

Yep. Her grandmom was murdered, sorry, "collateral damaged", whilst picking Okra in her garden. Nabila attended the States to give her account to lawmakers, and five Congressmen bothered to turn up to the Congressional Briefing.

Meanwhile Malala meets the Queen and Barack, and addresses the United Nations, where more than five officials managed to turn up.

 

I don't doubt that there are major problems with the drone programs in Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia. But what sort of agenda is Malala a part of?

 

One that seeks to justify the continued occupation of Afghanistan and the continued vassalage of the Pakistanis?

Ask Obama why he had time for Malala and not Nabila. What happened to Nabila's family was far worse than what happened to Malala.

 

If

if your critiquing how the US views the two girls, fair point.

 

Well this is if you ignore the point that what Malala is fighting for is access for girls to education, and the Taliban fighting that is far worse than people getting murdered by drones.

Eventually we will leave and the drones will stop (not as fast as most of us would like), but the Taliban denying education to girls will stay and cause much more harm to the country.

But it does not surprise me that you ignore that part of the story, just like Americans ignore Nabila story, people only pay attention to what they want to see, you are no different.

 

I think that people would prefer to be alive and not go to school, than be dead and have the right to go to school. Maybe it's just me that thinks like that though.

 

For the particular person getting killed yes, but over all as a society, girls going to school will be a greater benefit over all.

In a perfect world it would be girls going to school and people not getting blown up by the Predator or by the Taliban, which would be the best.


The poor Nabila girl gets the worst of both, her family is killed by drones and the Taliban does not want her to go to school.

 

The main difference is that the drone strikes affect only a very limited number of people. The drones cannot turn the life of the Pakistani society into crap. The taliban can.
You talk as if the numbers of people affected by the drone strikes and those affected by the talibans are the same - which is far from the truth.
For instance, in UAE, a country with a population comparable to the regions affected by the drone strikes, there were 1,838 death caused by road injuries in 2010 alone. Is there any difference between a missile from the sky guided by an US operator and a "missile" on wheels guided by an irresponsible driver? Both will turn you into a human pudding just the same. Yet UAE has a functional society and a decent standard of living and its people don't live in "stress and fear" because they one day might get run over.
On the other hand, if the talibans had their way, several tens of millions of people will live like 7th century bedouins.

 

And you are wrong, yet again. Malala went to school knowing she was a target, knowing that her life was in jeopardy. She still went, and she was cowardly attacked by big tough men hiding behind robes. That is after all what the taliban are. Big tough men who failed to silence a little girl or keep her from getting educated. All due to a mythical religion that somewhere, somehow says women should be treated like pets.