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	<title>Comments on: Smokers’ Corner: Crown of thorns</title>
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		<title>By: El Cid</title>
		<link>http://dawn.com/2012/05/27/smokers-corner-crown-of-thorns/comment-page-1/#comment-126325</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[El Cid]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jun 2012 11:30:23 +0000</pubDate>
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&quot;Generally violence, detention without charges and corporal punishment are forbidden in a democracy.&quot; India, Israel, US don&#039;t think so. O&#039;h but the US is a republic...but than so is Pakistan. LOL. 
 
 
 
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&quot;Generally violence, detention without charges and corporal punishment are forbidden in a democracy.&quot; India, Israel, US don&#039;t think so. O&#039;h but the US is a republic&#8230;but than so is Pakistan. LOL. </p>
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		<title>By: El Cid</title>
		<link>http://dawn.com/2012/05/27/smokers-corner-crown-of-thorns/comment-page-2/#comment-126277</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[El Cid]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jun 2012 10:49:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[NFP desires a democracy with himself as Herr Dictator! ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>NFP desires a democracy with himself as Herr Dictator! </p>
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		<title>By: El Cid</title>
		<link>http://dawn.com/2012/05/27/smokers-corner-crown-of-thorns/comment-page-1/#comment-126273</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[El Cid]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jun 2012 10:43:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reasonable...but you did leave out that democracy voted in slavery, and voted out women, among other atrocities. ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Reasonable&#8230;but you did leave out that democracy voted in slavery, and voted out women, among other atrocities. </p>
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		<title>By: MythBreaker</title>
		<link>http://dawn.com/2012/05/27/smokers-corner-crown-of-thorns/comment-page-1/#comment-116606</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[MythBreaker]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 May 2012 08:59:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[at no point in history india was poorer than pakistan..what the F are you talking about mate. Infact India was the first to give money to Pakistan immidiately after partition. Get your facts right. ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>at no point in history india was poorer than pakistan..what the F are you talking about mate. Infact India was the first to give money to Pakistan immidiately after partition. Get your facts right. </p>
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		<title>By: G.Nabi</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[G.Nabi]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 May 2012 18:15:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every day people are being targeted, only 10 days ago a peaceful procession in Karachi was fired upon,12-14 people including women were massacred. When a murder is treated like a minor traffic violation and government fails to protect its citizens, only person like NFP can indulge into ambiguities. ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Every day people are being targeted, only 10 days ago a peaceful procession in Karachi was fired upon,12-14 people including women were massacred. When a murder is treated like a minor traffic violation and government fails to protect its citizens, only person like NFP can indulge into ambiguities. </p>
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		<title>By: Farhan</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Farhan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 May 2012 07:24:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[some of your criticisms are right and some wrong. The power one is wrong. We still have surplus generation capacity but we are not utilizing it. Balochistan was a mess long before that. War on terror &amp; Kargil are justified criticism. 
 
But what has been given to us by alternative democracy? I think both are evil and none have superiority over another. What matters is through which route good governance can come to country. I have no love lost for democracy now ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>some of your criticisms are right and some wrong. The power one is wrong. We still have surplus generation capacity but we are not utilizing it. Balochistan was a mess long before that. War on terror &amp; Kargil are justified criticism. </p>
<p>But what has been given to us by alternative democracy? I think both are evil and none have superiority over another. What matters is through which route good governance can come to country. I have no love lost for democracy now </p>
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		<title>By: NASAH (USA)</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[NASAH (USA)]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 May 2012 17:20:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Democracy is indeed a crown of thorns -- but nobody compelled Mr. Zardari to wear it -- he decided knowingly he did not deserve that undeservingly painful wear -- and we from US implored him not to do so -- instead to work from outside -- but he was the &quot;Man Who Thought  He Would Be The King&quot; -- with all the Musharraafian trappings intact -- bestowed upon him. 
 
But once those toys were taken away from him -- he turned pensive -- he turned himself, his prime minister and his party into a bunch of -- do nothing static potted plants -- whiling their time just to complete the so called TENURE -- not as a means to move the country forward -- but as the prime PURPOSE for the existence of a inactive passive government eating and drinking the national resources at the tax payers expense. 
 
Now one would ask -- what good is that democracy -- what good is that elected government -- and what good is that Tenure a so called government -- that just sits passively and half-dead in Islamabad doing nothing -- no formulations of policies -- no decision making no actions on any decision -- swaying this way that way whichever way the wind is blowing -- letting the country afloat rudderless with no one in-charge. 
 
Just waiting to complete -- its  good for nothing Tenure -- and then hoping to come back again after the election -- for WHAT -- to go through the same cycle of passive aimless governance - once again?  
 
No way. 
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Democracy is indeed a crown of thorns &#8212; but nobody compelled Mr. Zardari to wear it &#8212; he decided knowingly he did not deserve that undeservingly painful wear &#8212; and we from US implored him not to do so &#8212; instead to work from outside &#8212; but he was the &quot;Man Who Thought  He Would Be The King&quot; &#8212; with all the Musharraafian trappings intact &#8212; bestowed upon him. </p>
<p>But once those toys were taken away from him &#8212; he turned pensive &#8212; he turned himself, his prime minister and his party into a bunch of &#8212; do nothing static potted plants &#8212; whiling their time just to complete the so called TENURE &#8212; not as a means to move the country forward &#8212; but as the prime PURPOSE for the existence of a inactive passive government eating and drinking the national resources at the tax payers expense. </p>
<p>Now one would ask &#8212; what good is that democracy &#8212; what good is that elected government &#8212; and what good is that Tenure a so called government &#8212; that just sits passively and half-dead in Islamabad doing nothing &#8212; no formulations of policies &#8212; no decision making no actions on any decision &#8212; swaying this way that way whichever way the wind is blowing &#8212; letting the country afloat rudderless with no one in-charge. </p>
<p>Just waiting to complete &#8212; its  good for nothing Tenure &#8212; and then hoping to come back again after the election &#8212; for WHAT &#8212; to go through the same cycle of passive aimless governance &#8211; once again?  </p>
<p>No way. </p>
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		<title>By: Pushtoon</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Pushtoon]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 May 2012 11:12:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My dear education does not mean to only go to schools and unis but it means bringing real change in the attitudes of the masses. If it does not bring a positive change in the behaviors then we should not call it education at all. ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>My dear education does not mean to only go to schools and unis but it means bringing real change in the attitudes of the masses. If it does not bring a positive change in the behaviors then we should not call it education at all. </p>
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		<title>By: jk45</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[jk45]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 May 2012 09:04:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[@ gp65: In india, what it seems in not the fact.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>@ gp65: In india, what it seems in not the fact.</p>
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		<title>By: gp65</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[gp65]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 May 2012 05:51:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The last authoritarian dictator gave you 
- the war on terror 
- Balochistan mess 
- the power crisis by not adding a single watt of electricity 
- Kargil 
 
The dictator prior to that gave you 
- Afghan jihad 
- sectarianism 
- drug culture and weoponization of your cities 
- intolerance and radicalized society 
 
The dictator before that gave you 
- 1965 war 
- roots of country&#039;s dismemberment. 
 
Do you think that was better? ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The last authoritarian dictator gave you<br />
- the war on terror<br />
- Balochistan mess<br />
- the power crisis by not adding a single watt of electricity<br />
- Kargil </p>
<p>The dictator prior to that gave you<br />
- Afghan jihad<br />
- sectarianism<br />
- drug culture and weoponization of your cities<br />
- intolerance and radicalized society </p>
<p>The dictator before that gave you<br />
- 1965 war<br />
- roots of country&#039;s dismemberment. </p>
<p>Do you think that was better? </p>
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