No to Benazir Bhutto

Does anybody seriously think that Benazir Bhutto is going to save Pakistan? I mean seriously, she is just riding this wave created by the emergency in Pakistan to come back into power. Can we take a moment from this uninterrupted and obsessive media coverage and ask what has she done in the past that we are blindly leading her back into taking charge of Pakistan's future. The Guardian has a piece on her and Asif Zardari: "Trail of corruption and kickback...". Isn't politics about constant promises... what's her promise: "I will save Pakistan and bring democracy till me and my party have taken every single penny out of Pakistan and saved it in our Swiss Accounts... then we will leave you again! for some other distressed Army General to come back in and stabilize the situation?"

Reading that piece should not leave any doubt in a sane mind she is not any better for Pakistan than President Musharraf.

I am ashamed to point out that our media as the Western Media is using the same techniques to awash the public mind in distress. "War on terror" meets "Geo Democracy". This ridiculous campaign of flooding the screens by repeating clips of bomb blasts, lawyers being arrested, women getting arrested and Military dictators... is it helping us? Is it true Journalism? Why take them out of their context and repeat them? Why not show clips from Benazir's previous campaigns of false promises, why just show Military dictators?

Is Geo and other channels just having a blast! Are they cashing the eye-balls? revenues streaming in due to the situation. Who is really benefiting from this... who owns shares in these media establishments...

I certainly hope that this does not trickle down into the International community's subconscious... making them believe that we need outside help... "the Caravan of Democracy" from likes of USA, UK or others as for Iraq and Afghanistan.

"Innerspace and all that" on Adbusters.org

Innerspace and all that... (Sufism)




"Innerspace and all that" on adbusters.org home page and on ABTV. Can you believe that? especially the people who marked it at VFS.