Chalaa Golee....Javed Chaudhry.
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Acid Chaudhry: Acidic logic (By: Ammara Ahmed)I bet dry gave Khar a big, sympathetic hug, let him cry in his lap for the injustice done to him and the two are now avid members of the ‘I-Hate-Mean-Girls-Club’
A couple of weeks ago, after the high-profile acid-burn victim Fakhra Yunus committed suicide, Javed Chaudry wrote an appalling op-ed for the Daily Express.
Fakhra Yunus was a young woman with ties to the red–light area of Karachi, mother of a son and wife of a politician Bilal Khar who burnt her with acid in 2000.
The article titled “Chala Goli” (Shoot) starts with a very macabre description of what happened to Yunus’s face, something that reminds one of Scream 2. Such vivid description, which otherwise adds appeal to the article, appears very grotesque here because Chaudry is sensationalizing Fakhra’s misfortune. The details are indeed agonizing. In the same paragraph he praises Khar for his “beautiful foreign clothes, excellent shoes and he had degrees from a reputed British university.”
This is not only the glorification of a heinous criminal but also illustrates how Chaudry judges people on very fickle lines. People can sound cultured, smell imported and talk polite with celebrated journalists, yet still be male chauvinist pigs, liars and criminals.
The biggest shock reading the column comes half-way when Khar claims that Yunus started an affair with his nephew after the latter plunged into a financial turmoil. He accuses that she took away his house, business and was about to marry this young man before he burnt her out of jealousy. Perhaps Khar should come up with legal documents supporting the property and business claims. There is virtually no proof of all this, and it is a mystery why Khar kept this to himself for so long. And then Khar’s magnum opus: “You can give the acid-throwers death sentence but also instruct the women to not make men so desperate that they become beasts….”
What he means is that ladies bring this wrath unto themselves and if the men were not so “majboor” (helpless), all this wouldn’t happen. Does the victim of robbery, murder, mugging or assault bring it on himself?
Should we also teach the accountant in the bank and jeweler in every plaza to not make men so helpless that they become beasts? Should we blame the bomb-victims for bringing ‘helpless’ suicide bombers unto themselves?
Khar has been lying for the last 12 years. There is fear that he blackmailed Yunus and her family into changing their court statements. On Sana Bucha’s show, just a day after Yunus’s death, Khar again denied what happened and appeared quite unmoved. He said that Yunus accused a ****** (pimp) for burning her. He spent considerable on-screen time attacking his once step-mother Tehmina Durrani for writing against his father and accused Durrani of writing under Shehbaz Sharif’s influence, who is her husband, and inciting Yunus to blame him for the acid-attack.
It is almost psychopathic to indulge in such political and personal assassinations, while your ex-wife just ended her life. His earlier statements and the ones in this interview are dissimilar. As graceful as he sounds to Chaudry, he still didn’t attend the funeral of his ex-wife, something most people would do.
Ironically, Khar did not attack his nephew, or sister Amna Haq who became a model against her father’s will, and Tehmina Durrani who divorced his father and remarried (thank God though). Perhaps, because Khar doesn’t follow the honor-code prevalent in the society but knows who can lash back and who cannot, what his family will tolerate and what not.
Chaudry likes to sound very God-fearing, so I must ask him, if he knows the rights of a wife and even ex-wife. Khar could have divorced her but he himself states that he wanted to wreck her life to appease his wounds.
The infidel wife and adulterous nephew come up when Yunus is dead. This is worse than washing your dirty linen in public, Mr. Polite Khar.
Khar can be taken back to the court if a new and somewhat different FIR is registered against him. Yet who will go to the court, against such a dangerous offender, spend money and time when the victim herself has passed on.
The ability to extract delicate information or coax an interviewee into revealing what was unintended is an art and many celebrated journalists possessed it. Chaudry gets the credit for extracting what no one could in the last 12 years. However, Chaudry did not conduct an interview. It was an opinion piece, which included comments in favor of Bilal Khar’s crime and justification.
This is not the first time the Daily Express published something inappropriate. In summer 2010 when Pakistan was disheveled by massive floods, Angelina Jolie visited as the good-will ambassador for the UNHCR. Talat Hussain wrote an op-ed berating this trip as a publicity stunt, degrading Jolie for her ex-husbands, affairs, multi-ethnic children and her bi-sexuality. This very personal and bizarre assault left a bad taste in everyone’s mouth, especially because Talat Hussain was a very well-respected for his reason and objectivity. Daily Express needs to review its editorial policy and not print everything that sells.
I bet Chaudry gave Khar a big, sympathetic hug, let him cry in his lap for the injustice done to him and the two are now avid members of the “I-Hate-Mean-Girls-Club”. But Chaudry must know that this is perhaps the most famous acid-burn case ever and this suicide was covered by every international media outlet. Yunus’s depression, disappointment and destruction are well-recorded. Those trying to cash upon it for publicity and populism will be ridiculed in history.
A couple of weeks ago, after the high-profile acid-burn victim Fakhra Yunus committed suicide, Javed Chaudry wrote an appalling op-ed for the Daily Express.
Fakhra Yunus was a young woman with ties to the red–light area of Karachi, mother of a son and wife of a politician Bilal Khar who burnt her with acid in 2000.
The article titled “Chala Goli” (Shoot) starts with a very macabre description of what happened to Yunus’s face, something that reminds one of Scream 2. Such vivid description, which otherwise adds appeal to the article, appears very grotesque here because Chaudry is sensationalizing Fakhra’s misfortune. The details are indeed agonizing. In the same paragraph he praises Khar for his “beautiful foreign clothes, excellent shoes and he had degrees from a reputed British university.”
This is not only the glorification of a heinous criminal but also illustrates how Chaudry judges people on very fickle lines. People can sound cultured, smell imported and talk polite with celebrated journalists, yet still be male chauvinist pigs, liars and criminals.
The biggest shock reading the column comes half-way when Khar claims that Yunus started an affair with his nephew after the latter plunged into a financial turmoil. He accuses that she took away his house, business and was about to marry this young man before he burnt her out of jealousy. Perhaps Khar should come up with legal documents supporting the property and business claims. There is virtually no proof of all this, and it is a mystery why Khar kept this to himself for so long. And then Khar’s magnum opus: “You can give the acid-throwers death sentence but also instruct the women to not make men so desperate that they become beasts….”
What he means is that ladies bring this wrath unto themselves and if the men were not so “majboor” (helpless), all this wouldn’t happen. Does the victim of robbery, murder, mugging or assault bring it on himself?
Should we also teach the accountant in the bank and jeweler in every plaza to not make men so helpless that they become beasts? Should we blame the bomb-victims for bringing ‘helpless’ suicide bombers unto themselves?
Khar has been lying for the last 12 years. There is fear that he blackmailed Yunus and her family into changing their court statements. On Sana Bucha’s show, just a day after Yunus’s death, Khar again denied what happened and appeared quite unmoved. He said that Yunus accused a ****** (pimp) for burning her. He spent considerable on-screen time attacking his once step-mother Tehmina Durrani for writing against his father and accused Durrani of writing under Shehbaz Sharif’s influence, who is her husband, and inciting Yunus to blame him for the acid-attack.
It is almost psychopathic to indulge in such political and personal assassinations, while your ex-wife just ended her life. His earlier statements and the ones in this interview are dissimilar. As graceful as he sounds to Chaudry, he still didn’t attend the funeral of his ex-wife, something most people would do.
Ironically, Khar did not attack his nephew, or sister Amna Haq who became a model against her father’s will, and Tehmina Durrani who divorced his father and remarried (thank God though). Perhaps, because Khar doesn’t follow the honor-code prevalent in the society but knows who can lash back and who cannot, what his family will tolerate and what not.
Chaudry likes to sound very God-fearing, so I must ask him, if he knows the rights of a wife and even ex-wife. Khar could have divorced her but he himself states that he wanted to wreck her life to appease his wounds.
The infidel wife and adulterous nephew come up when Yunus is dead. This is worse than washing your dirty linen in public, Mr. Polite Khar.
Khar can be taken back to the court if a new and somewhat different FIR is registered against him. Yet who will go to the court, against such a dangerous offender, spend money and time when the victim herself has passed on.
The ability to extract delicate information or coax an interviewee into revealing what was unintended is an art and many celebrated journalists possessed it. Chaudry gets the credit for extracting what no one could in the last 12 years. However, Chaudry did not conduct an interview. It was an opinion piece, which included comments in favor of Bilal Khar’s crime and justification.
This is not the first time the Daily Express published something inappropriate. In summer 2010 when Pakistan was disheveled by massive floods, Angelina Jolie visited as the good-will ambassador for the UNHCR. Talat Hussain wrote an op-ed berating this trip as a publicity stunt, degrading Jolie for her ex-husbands, affairs, multi-ethnic children and her bi-sexuality. This very personal and bizarre assault left a bad taste in everyone’s mouth, especially because Talat Hussain was a very well-respected for his reason and objectivity. Daily Express needs to review its editorial policy and not print everything that sells.
I bet Chaudry gave Khar a big, sympathetic hug, let him cry in his lap for the injustice done to him and the two are now avid members of the “I-Hate-Mean-Girls-Club”. But Chaudry must know that this is perhaps the most famous acid-burn case ever and this suicide was covered by every international media outlet. Yunus’s depression, disappointment and destruction are well-recorded. Those trying to cash upon it for publicity and populism will be ridiculed in history.
| Ammara Ahmad is one of the editors of Viewpoint, she tweets at [MENTION=11468]ammara[/MENTION]Tiger |
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Minister (2k+ posts)
Javed Chaudhry is a semi-literate , URDU MEDIUM fiction writer and not a journalist by any standards.I really love J Chaudhry,s writings respect him for his story/fiction writing.Thats how he should be judged.
