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Dear Mr Nadeem,
Sir, I love you articles on the Calamities of Mullahs and Jamat-e-Islami and support your views 100%. Keep it up sir.
Regards
I listen the interview of Sir Zaid Hamid on Dawn .
What ever he was saying is correct .
It is the fact that 90 % of lawyers judges politicians journalists are corrupt and fraud.
They are simply traitor and nothing else.
Most common names are Hamid Mir
Hi Nadeem,
I am an Indian and quite consistent in reading your columns “Smokers Corner” .
The name of the column in itself is quite an attraction.
After reading your recent writing on “To kill a mocking lizard ” I could not hold back.
I am not a writer but feel that there cant be a better way to say that
“As long as you dont involve religion for irrational deeds its fine .”
Good work…….
My best wishes to you.
Paracha, kindly tell the person who moderates this site to kindly kick zaid hamid’s bulldogs like Ishaq out.
Dear Mr. Paracha,
You are a true hero. Pakistan needs people like you. I wish India had atleast one NFP.
A very good article on Kalahan but the events you described between MQM,PSF And Pukhtoon SF are wrong.
Parach! MQM say kaya darney lagey hoe ya phir unn kee membership lay lee hay!
Your cricket mate at Old Trafford @ Clifton (Late Punko’s friend)
Hope you are well.
Take Care
dear mr nadeem
this is with reference to your article in dawn on the new fad for arabic words/expressions among certain people in pakistan;the common word for thanks in saudi arabia is shukraan and not jazzak allah;why be more royal than the king?
I don’t have words to appreciate your fearless articles. My concern is your personal safety. I pray to God…
Nadeem this is wonderful : please keep writing because i love that you aspire to help Pakistan and its people understand through a logical point of view. i admire your writings a lot and if Allah permits maybe one day i will visit Pakistan again since my father was in the armed forces in pakistan and died for his country Pakistan. i would request that you shed some light on all of this disaster on how it correlates to the inhumane treatment of the Ahmadi community in Pakistan recently. i do remember when our Imam ( Khalifa ) advised the entire world community of Ahmadis to be patient and ALLAH will answer for us. we are not like Shiit’es or other minorities that have resorted to violence because we are taught as children to love all Muslims. I love Pakistan and always will and thank you for your civilized approach to the young generation of Pakistan: i will pray that Allah helps produce more like minded people such as your self in Pakistan so i can see it succeed and be proud of my heritage. KH.
I am a regular reader of smoker’s corner. Every time I read your article I feel as if you are my identical twin who reads my mind and give my thoughts perfect words. You are so right on in your recent column Rewarding Hate just as you were in The Worst Poster Boys For Islam. As for Aamir Liaqat he is mere reflection of the wide spread conceit, hypocrisy and shallow mind set hiding behind the religious veil. Keep up the good work, keep making these wake up calls hopefully one day Pakistanis will wake up!!
Dear Mr. NFP,
I am a regular reader of your articles. Today you wrote a piece in Dawn ” Hot Yuppie Soup “, which I found so terribly acerbic and stinging, yet did not get anywhere. Just a thought.
Warm Regards
G Krishnan
Chennai.
Very insightful articles in dawn by Mr. Paracha.
In my chats with Pakistani students over the internet, they continue to make the following arguments upon any criticism:
http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/Pages/Games-Muslims-Play.htm
Respected Allama Mashriqi’s warning in 1947
Public address at Patna
On May 14, 1947, in a public meeting in Patna, Mashraqi made an extremely important observation in front of 50,000 people who came to listen to his address. Mashraqi said:
“…Peaceful transfer of power handed over to men who have been trained in British way of thinking will bring nothing but worse form of British Raj again. This Raj will be ten times more tyrannical, more deformed, more ghastly, more imperialistic and non-Indian than even the worst form of British Raj. It will, in fact, be a travesty of all truths and a parody of every good or bad thing that the British have given to India during the past 100 years. It will be, in fact, an anarchy in order, a stereo-typed tyranny, and a confusion worst confounded. It will be a perpetual reign of Atom Bomb and Rule of Terror. It will be regalised genocide and state killings. It will justify murder of children in mothers’ wombs, wholesale destruction of all cultures, suppression of all true History, murder of Philosophy, total wiping out of honourable traditions, and wholesale slaughter of ideas. Handing over power to one or many political parties in India would mean a rule of worse imperialism, worse capitalism, worse halakuism than all the History has yet produced. It will, in fact, be British Raj without British traditions. It will be a reign of ‘Hell on Earth’. It will decimate the beautiful culture of Asia, the beautiful code of Asiatic Moral Laws, the beautiful philosophy of Peace and Tolerance, in fact the beautiful Fundamental Truths that Asia has ever given to Mankind during the last 5000 years…The present plan of transfer of power, to my mind, is the Diabolical Plan of the relentless rule of Birla, Brahmin and Khan Bahadur Raj where arrogance, money and tyranny will rule rather than human beings.
The last remedy under the present circumstances is that one and all rise against this conspiracy as one man. Let there be a common Hindu-Muslim Revolution in which not hundreds but millions will lose their lives by the bullets of Birla and the British. Millions will die, no doubt, in this way but hundreds of millions will be saved forever. If man has decided to kill man for sheer lust of power and with nothing to show to the world except tyranny and loot, it is time that we should sacrifice men in millions now in order to uphold Truth, Honour and Justice.”
Sources:
1) Al-Islah (Lahore), May 23, 1947.
2) Syed Shabbir Hussain, Al-Mashriqi: The Disowned Genius, Jang Publishers (Pakistan), pp. 227-228.
3) Nasim Yousaf, Hidden Facts Behind British India’s Freedom: A Scholarly Look into Allama Mashraqi and Quaid-e-Azam’s Political Conflict, AMZ Publications (USA), pp. 247-248.
http://www.allamamashraqi.com/speeches.html
Can anyone give me his e-mail address!
SIR, HERE IN PAKISTAN ,THERE ARE FEW TRUE PERSONALITIES AMONG LIERS AND EXPLOITERS, I WANT TO HAVE UR EMAIL, AND I WANT TO TRANSLATE UR COLUMNS IN URDU, BUT THESE SHOULD BE COMPILED IN A BOOK OR GATHERED. I SALUTE U TO TALK , I ALSO WANT TO TALK AND SOON MANY WILL TALK . AWAZ UTHE GI
Paracha Sahib, this is Shehzad from USA, please contact me at ShehzadMemon@hotmail.com, You just did a great write on Lyari and I have lived over 20 years on Lyari and I have written a very detailed articale on Lyari and like to share it with you please.
Thankss – Shehzad