Showing posts with label benazir bhutto. Show all posts
Showing posts with label benazir bhutto. Show all posts

Remembering Salman Taseer



We all know by now that we have lost someone who had the courage to stand up against the wrong and who knew how to fight for what was right. Sadly, he was mercilessly killed on just another busy day and left us all to understand how hopeless a nation we have become. Our condolences are with his family.

His friends said, he did know that he was risking his life by speaking out loud about blasphemy law.

He wrote on Twitter on 31st Dec, "I was under huge pressure sure 2 cow down b4 rightist pressure on blasphemy. Refused. Even if I'm the last man standing."

Asked earlier that month by the BBC Urdu Service about fatwas, or religious decrees, issued against him in Pakistan, he criticised the "illiterate" clerics responsible.

"They issued fatwas against Benazir [Bhutto] and Zulfikar Ali Bhutto [her father, an executed former president], and even the founder of the nation, Muhammad Ali Jinnah. I do not care about them," he added.

HAPPINESS:

Yes, it is so inhuman, but there is actually a group that is happy about what has happened because they took it all as a fight for safeguarding religion.

Before this day, I never really searched about him and was quite baffled to see that people have created pages against him and his family calling them as corrupt and wild if they openly showed they were cool about partying, drinking, fun. In a country where almost everything happens, it is so hypocritical to complain about such things and to target people based on these elements.

FIR:

According the sources, the FIR was lodged under clause 302 and anti-terrorism act clause 7 with Taseer’s son Shehryar Taseer as claimant.

It should be noted here that Taseer’s family yesterday denied filing the report saying they will do the same after holding family consultations.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-12111831

No Benazir Monuments Plz

Dear Friends,

I have just read and signed the online petition:

"1 Billion Rupees for Flood Relief - not Monument" hosted on the web by PetitionOnline.com, the free online petition
service, at:

http://www.PetitionOnline.com/flood786/

I personally agree with what this petition says, and I think you might
agree, too. If you can spare a moment, please take a look, and consider
signing yourself.

Pakistanis surely don't need a monument for Benazir Bhutto at this point in time of our history. Please stand up against this stupidity. Be a human! Be a Pakistani!