By AHMED QURAISHI
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, 9 December 2009 (AhmedQuraishi.com) - In a brazen
insult to Pakistanis, India's High Commissioner to Pakistan Sharat
Sabharwal held a musical event at his residence the same day 12
Pakistanis were killed in Multan, and a day after the carnage in
Lahore were a death toll of [over] 50 people sent the country into
mourning.
On 8 December [2009], Lahore wore black and MQM, the 'third largest
party' in the country, observed an official day of mourning for the
victims of attacks in Peshawar, Rawalpindi and Lahore. But Sabharwal
decided to hold a musical concert that night and sent out invitations
to 130 Pakistani families to attend. Most of them had the good sense
to decline. Only about 40 families attended.
The move by the senior Indian diplomat was in such bad taste that news
of his musical night spread far and wide across Pakistan, especially
when the country's Interior Ministry and the [Pakistani] military have
both confirmed possessing strong evidence that implicates India in
killing Pakistanis.
"It is in bad taste on the part of any diplomat to hold an unnecessary
event that denotes celebration of some sort when the murder of close
to 500 Pakistanis in a few weeks has sent thousands of Pakistanis into
mourning," a senior Foreign Office official told AhmedQuraishi.com.
But despite this, the Pakistan Foreign Office is unable to straighten
up the Indian envoy. "This is a matter for [PPP corrupt] Foreign
Minister [Shah Mahmood] Qureshi to decide," said the Pakistani
official.
If the action of the Indian envoy was in bad taste, what's worse is
how some very prominent Pakistanis joined the Indian ambassador in a
night of music, booze and merrymaking while their countrymen mourned.
The list of prominent Pakistanis who decided to party includes:
1. Pervez Hoodbhoy, 'Professor', QAU
2. [CIA Actor] General (R) Talat Masood
3. Shoukat Aman Askari
4. Effat Saigol
5. Fakhar Imam, politician-PPPP
6. Abida Hussain, ex-ambassador [of PML-N to the USA], politician-PPPP
7. Riaz Khokhar, ex-Foreign Secretary
8. Ashraf Jehangir Qazi, ex-diplomat
9. Shafqat Kakakhail, ex-diplomat
10. Ex-Senator Fasih Iqbal
11. Ex-Senator Anwar Baig, PPPP
12. Abbas Zaidi
13. Ex-[illegal president] Wasim Sajad
14. Adnan Aurangzaib, politician-PML-N
15. Safina Khar, politician-PPPP
16. Ex-Foreign Secretary Abdul Sattar
17. Babar Sattar, lawyer
18. Kabir Wasti, politician-PML-Q
In principle, there is nothing wrong in attending an event at the
Indian High Commissioner's residence in Islamabad. The problem with
this particular event is its timing. Had Pakistan's High Commissioner
in New Delhi dared to do something similar on the eve of the mourning
for Mumbai attack victims, he would probably have been publicly
lynched. But in Pakistan, the Indian envoy is unfortunately patronized
by prominent [corrupt and shameless] Pakistanis.
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, 9 December 2009 (AhmedQuraishi.com) - In a brazen
insult to Pakistanis, India's High Commissioner to Pakistan Sharat
Sabharwal held a musical event at his residence the same day 12
Pakistanis were killed in Multan, and a day after the carnage in
Lahore were a death toll of [over] 50 people sent the country into
mourning.
On 8 December [2009], Lahore wore black and MQM, the 'third largest
party' in the country, observed an official day of mourning for the
victims of attacks in Peshawar, Rawalpindi and Lahore. But Sabharwal
decided to hold a musical concert that night and sent out invitations
to 130 Pakistani families to attend. Most of them had the good sense
to decline. Only about 40 families attended.
The move by the senior Indian diplomat was in such bad taste that news
of his musical night spread far and wide across Pakistan, especially
when the country's Interior Ministry and the [Pakistani] military have
both confirmed possessing strong evidence that implicates India in
killing Pakistanis.
"It is in bad taste on the part of any diplomat to hold an unnecessary
event that denotes celebration of some sort when the murder of close
to 500 Pakistanis in a few weeks has sent thousands of Pakistanis into
mourning," a senior Foreign Office official told AhmedQuraishi.com.
But despite this, the Pakistan Foreign Office is unable to straighten
up the Indian envoy. "This is a matter for [PPP corrupt] Foreign
Minister [Shah Mahmood] Qureshi to decide," said the Pakistani
official.
If the action of the Indian envoy was in bad taste, what's worse is
how some very prominent Pakistanis joined the Indian ambassador in a
night of music, booze and merrymaking while their countrymen mourned.
The list of prominent Pakistanis who decided to party includes:
1. Pervez Hoodbhoy, 'Professor', QAU
2. [CIA Actor] General (R) Talat Masood
3. Shoukat Aman Askari
4. Effat Saigol
5. Fakhar Imam, politician-PPPP
6. Abida Hussain, ex-ambassador [of PML-N to the USA], politician-PPPP
7. Riaz Khokhar, ex-Foreign Secretary
8. Ashraf Jehangir Qazi, ex-diplomat
9. Shafqat Kakakhail, ex-diplomat
10. Ex-Senator Fasih Iqbal
11. Ex-Senator Anwar Baig, PPPP
12. Abbas Zaidi
13. Ex-[illegal president] Wasim Sajad
14. Adnan Aurangzaib, politician-PML-N
15. Safina Khar, politician-PPPP
16. Ex-Foreign Secretary Abdul Sattar
17. Babar Sattar, lawyer
18. Kabir Wasti, politician-PML-Q
In principle, there is nothing wrong in attending an event at the
Indian High Commissioner's residence in Islamabad. The problem with
this particular event is its timing. Had Pakistan's High Commissioner
in New Delhi dared to do something similar on the eve of the mourning
for Mumbai attack victims, he would probably have been publicly
lynched. But in Pakistan, the Indian envoy is unfortunately patronized
by prominent [corrupt and shameless] Pakistanis.