Having said in this article “Who can do the job better?” by Atle Hetland, the Nation (2012) Pakistan People’s Party often demands for the funds or foreign aid but never focuses on collecting taxes from its own country. Pakistan must stand tall on its feet and fight its problems to attain normalcy instead of begging before US. This move by the government of seeking aids will create a humiliating image of Pakistan before foreign countries. The writer deliberately criticizes Pakistan’s stance on seeking funds and not standing tall on its own feet.

In the article “There goes Gilani” by Terence J Sigamony, The Nation (2012) writer lays emphasis on the poor conduct of the PM Gillani; how the former PM was shown the door by the CJP and put him in trivial phase. Although former PM disregarded the court and became convicted, but media did not leave any leaf unturned in showing in detail how disrespectful and irresponsible a man he had been. Entire episode is depicted in a wretched manner by showing PPP as a party of disrespectful regard for the judiciary and poor attorney.

In the article “Zardari must grab the initiative” by Farhan Bokhari (2012) The Nation, criticizes the Zardari stance and his motives in the Chicago summit conference lately. It’s a deliberate move of our leaders to please foreigners and US especially as it would not also tighten their position, but will hide the malfunctioning of the country. The economic outlook has deteriorated, and in the four year span of time we faced terrible energy shortages of all time. No apparent out seems to be visible from the Zardari’s trip as he failed to resolve the major issues creating clashes between the two countries.

In this article “The Zardari trip and the tribal areas” by Nasim Zehra (2008) The News, explained the president’s first trip into the US and tribal areas of Pakistan. In his trip to overseas, he showed that he’s another strong man from Pakistan who is a legitimate elected President. His speech was “incomprehensible babbler” like calling Mr. Bush a man because of him the world is a safer place –he surely needs to correct his wording as must focus on matters related to Pakistan and its sovereignty. Nowhere did he mention the constant loss of Pakistanis being killed by US drones, global injustice or Pakistan’s stance over terrorism. President’s visit was of no use as it couldn’t make US keen over pertaining issues.

Dipping into the article “Our rulers: erratic, fearful and full of deceit?” by Shireen M Mazar (2009) The News, criticizes the government of PPP for its bad politics. It provides another picture of the media targeting PPP and its moves. It says the government has no credibility to rule and handle series of issues just as it mishandled the issue of bringing peace in swat and FATA region. Despite several agreements, the governments failed to jump over a wise decision to instill stability and peace into the region. The minorities are kept in danger, and no rights are provided to them yet.

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Here is a research analysis done on the political scenario in Pakistan; Article “Pakistan’s leadership vacuum” By Abid Mustafa (2008) The Nation, claims that Pakistan despite having a newly elected government still has a vacuum in the leadership sphere, military coup has shaken all the departments of the country, and the situation looks blurry and vague.

Politicians are the slave of US and Britian and follow up their orders frequently; this is creating heinous scenario inside the premises of Pakistan. The article also indirectly accuses current government of not doing anything different to change the system.

In the article “An insider analysis of Pakistans ‘memogate” by Mansoor Ijaz (2011) The Nation, throws the light on the accused Haqqani, the then Pakistan’s ambassador to US, one of the representatives of the PPP regime. He uplifted all the veils from the mindset of the PPP and blamed it for its sycophancy to the United States. PPP asked the US to save it from the military exertion in Pakistan and vice versa. A poor picture of the PPP has been narrated by Mansoor Ijaz.

In the article, “The best example of bad governance”, Nation (2011) describes how Pakistan People’s Party failed to win in all departments; ever since it has come into the power its nothing more than a stigma on the fate of Pakistan. No man is made comfortable, and his comforts are taken miles away from him by the evils of the leadership responsible for the fate of the people. Government is incapable of handling crucial matters such as electricity shortage, mishandling of the assets of Pakistan which includes institutions and our industries. It’s the total fault of the government for mishandling basic problems, incapable of foreseeing the issues and agendas. National GDP and per capita income have reduced miserably which is a clear evidence of how poor and bad the governance is of the current government. They are responsible for all the problems in the country.

Article, “Moot takes another crack at outages”, Sajid Zia, The Nation (2012) throws the light on the poor performance of the government in the energy sector where PPP is utilizing tried and beaten ideas and failing to overcome the energy crises. One after the other energy crises prevails, and meetings never bring fruitful ideas, therefore the government is pushing the country into the murky phase. Government fails to reach a decision at the first energy conference held in 2010 and analyzed energy requirements. Despite its alarming alert, the government didn’t take any measures to overcome the issue.

In this article “PPP failed people, we’ll change their fate”, Nazir Siyal, the Nation (2012) media again takes a toll on PPP by blaming it for poor working by all its workers. PPP has doomed the nation to disaster and has completely failed the people and turned into a rowdy- war. They made fake promises but delivered nothing but disappointment. People’s Party displayed a series of failures bringing poverty, energy crises and poor living standards. Corruption has boosted up since its power came into functioning. During crises such as floods of 2010, the government did not provide equipment and needs to the people who suffered from the atrocity.

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English Defence League thugs marching through Walthamstow on 1 SeptemberA series of marches by the English Defence League has been banned amid fears of serious public disorder.

Policing minister Damian Green agreed to a police request for the ban ahead of marches on Saturday in Walthamstow and elsewhere in north-east London.

The ban prevents all marches in Waltham Forest and nearby boroughs Islington, Tower Hamlets and Newham for 30 days.

The Metropolitan Police wrote to Home Secretary Theresa May asking for the ban two days ago.

Mr Green said: "Having carefully considered the legal tests and balanced rights to protest against the need to ensure local communities and property are protected, I have given my consent to a ban on all marches in Waltham Forest and three nearby boroughs for a 30-day period.

"I know the Metropolitan Police are committed to using their powers to ensure communities and properties are protected."

Ch Supt Peter Terry, the force's gold commander for the planned march, said: "We have made this decision based on specific intelligence and information and our message is clear - we do not want people coming into the areas to attend these events."

BBC News, 25 October 2012

See also "Home Office bans EDL march", Waltham Forest Council news report, 25 October 2012

Update:  Local MP Stella Creasy has reported that the Met have told the EDL that they can hold Saturday's static protest outside parliament but nowhere else, i.e. not in Walthamstow at all.

If this is accurate, then it means that the police have finally responded to the threat from the EDL as they should have done all along – they have used Section 13 of the Public Order Act to secure a ban on the proposed march and then used their powers under Section 14 to impose conditions on the static demonstration to ensure that it causes the minimum disruption and intimidation to the community the EDL have targeted.

Update 2:  The EDL has confirmed that the Met have imposed restrictions under Section 14 and warns: "Please do not attend Walthamstow on Sat 27th Oct 2012 as you will be arrested."

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The Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs has contacted the Australian authorities over the visa application by Freedom Party leader Geert Wilders.

It is unclear why the visa has not yet been granted. The anti-Islam politician applied for a visa three weeks ago in order to give a series of lectures next month. The employees who would accompany him have already received their visas and the group which invited Wilders to Australia has accused the government of stalling over his application.

Foreign Minister Uri Rosenthal stressed that it is standard procedure for the ministry to become involved if a Dutch politician is having difficulty obtaining a visa. Rosenthal himself has not spoken with his Australian counterpart, but the issue has been discussed at a high level.

RNW, 21 September 2012

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Paris on Tuesday brushed off a US State Department report that criticised France for banning Muslim women from wearing full veils.

"Our conception of secularism is a common heritage of all French people, which implies rules that encourage social harmony in the public space and in public schools," said a foreign ministry spokesman.

In its 2011 International Religious Freedom Report, the State Department complains about a "rising number of European countries, including Belgium and France, whose laws restricting dress adversely affected Muslims and others".

The French spokesman noted that France and its neighbours were seeking to define "more structured European Union policies to defend freedom of religion in the world".

Expatica, 1 August 2012

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Concerned that prejudice rather than genuine zoning issues might be at work, the U.S. Department of Justice has opened 28 cases nationwide involving local denials of mosque construction applications since 2000, according to a department official.

While Norwalk's recent rejection of a proposed mosque on Fillow Street is not among them, the DOJ's investigations elsewhere are real. Of the 28 cases, 11 have resulted in full investigations and four remain open.

"Of the 11 investigations opened since 2000, two resulted in the filing of DOJ lawsuits that were resolved by consent decrees, three resulted in the local government voluntarily permitting the mosque, one led to a settlement of a privately filed lawsuit, four are currently pending, and in one case we determined that further action by the department was not warranted," said the official, speaking on the condition of anonymity.

The department is now reviewing a case in West Haven to determine if an investigation is warranted, the official said.

There is no evidence to suggest the department is investigating the recent decision by the Norwalk Zoning Commission to reject Al-Madany Islamic Center of Norwalk's plan for a mosque/multi-purpose hall at 127 Fillow St.

The commission voted 4-3 last Wednesday night to deny the special permit needed to construct the 27,000-square-foot structure in a residential zone. Mayor Richard A. Moccia on Thursday said the decision was well-thought out and had nothing to do with religion. "It had to do with density, size and traffic," Moccia said.

The Hour, 10 June 2012

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This is highly interesting topic. Everybody is aware that the US and Pakistani relations are witnessing bad patch and both governments are at loggerheads over how to deal with the situation that seems to be getting out of control. At the same time, the US officials and US embassy in Pakistan; both are grappling with ideas how to win the hearts and minds of the Pakistan public so that they could understand the public mood and get their jobs done easily.
For this, the USAID has also launched several campaigns to let the public know that the US government and officials are doing their best to help them out during these times of economic downturn. However, what is missing in these campaigns is that they are merely telling and not listening. They are telling that they are doing this and that and not asking them why they are hostile to the United States and the Americans. How can this be changed and how the public-to-public contact be formed that sometime could force governments to shake hands.
Let us first see what the common Americans think about Pakistan and its people. Most of Americans think that Pakistanis are Muslim extremists, helpers and supporters of the world’s top terrorist Usama Bin Ladin and backers of his outfit Al-Qa’ida. They think that they are poor, impoverished and the needy that are always on the lookout to get money by hook or by crook. Most of them think that they are living in the Stone Age, having no sense of education, civilized values, moral laws and international commitments.
However, the ground reality is quite opposite. Same is held in Pakistan. Most of the Pakistanis think that the Americans have no moral values, no respect for familiar relations and no sense of living. They are living in commercialized world where materialism rules the roost. The Americans are bloodthirsty people running after Muslims and orchestrating Muslim massacre and genocide everywhere in the world. The proofs they present are the state of the Muslims in Kashmir, Bosnia, Palestine, Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan and now Syria. Even several educated Pakistani see the US presence in Iraq and Afghanistan and even in Pakistan as a part of a wide crusade Bush once referred to shortly after 9/11.
This hell of difference in the opinion of the common Pakistanis and Americans has several reasons. The major reasons are the government policies of both the countries and the media that speak the language the respective government feed it with. Had media been sensible enough, it would have painted the clear picture of the both the social systems and life of the public so that the people from both the countries could have clearly seen that all are human beings. The next and other important reason is that the present day US is run by multinationals and Pakistan by landlords. Both are a part of a superstructure, as referred by Karl Marx. Both don’t let any other public know the other side of the coin so that their own factional interests should not be marred.

I think both the governments and officials should sit together and the let the people meet and see each other. The media should shed off its bias against each other, that is often shaped by the respective government. It should present a clear picture and clear opinion of the one society about the other. This public-to-public contact will lead to normalization of ties and help resolution of issues if there is any. Another great part that the US officials are to play, is to compensate the ordinary Pakistanis for the losses they suffered in the war on terror. It will help a great deal in making the people think about the US friendship and generosity.

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LoonWatch analyses the case of Tarek Mehanna, the American Muslim sentenced last week to 17 years in prison.

See also Glenn Greenwald, "The real criminals in the Tarek Mehanna case", Salon, 13 April 2012

And Carol Rose, "It's official. There is a Muslim exemption to the First Amendment", On Liberty, 12 April 2012

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