Comments on: The year that pushed us further from being human

By: Neeraj Bhushan

Neeraj Bhushan — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 16:19:59 +0000

What a review! I also heard the soundcloud audio. Liked throughout. Thanks for the boldness which you told your story.

By: George

George — Tue, 01 Jan 2013 20:05:00 +0000

For years the rich and upper middle classes in Pakistan have been living illegitimately on the earnings of the lower classes. Upper class Pakistanis have been living off the alms from the developed world, which was actually being sent to help the poor of the state. But by living off borrowed/ donated money and not paying any taxes or if I can say the least possible and evading taxes wherever possible the upper classes ensured they could enjoy all the goodies. And as if this wasn’t enough the upper classes unleashed the worst possible corruption on the country. The turn of events Pakistan now finds itself is therefore not a surprise. The “have-nots” thus grabbed the opportunity they got and raised there morbid heads against the state. Pakistan is now an international embarrassment. Upper class Pakistanis want a continuation of there “free-ride” the lower classes are finding it difficult to remain alive due to rampant corruption, inflation and lawlessness. The state is fast losing its legitimacy to exist.

By: pathanoo

pathanoo — Tue, 01 Jan 2013 18:03:53 +0000

An EXCELLENT ARTICLE ONLY TO BE SUPERSEEDE BY THE COMMENTS BY MUSADIQ SANWAL’S URDU BLOG. WHAT LUMINOUS THOUGHTS BY MUSADIQ!!
Dawn and it’s staff is a credit to Pakistan. It is one of the very few sane voices and a flickering light of rationality in a sea of hatred, fanaticism, exclusion, killiing and religious barberity.
MY HATS OFF TO YOU DAWN AND MUSADIQ SANWAL. MAY THE GOOD LORD BLESS YOU ALL AND KEEP YOU IN THE PALM OF HIS HAND.

By: Rob

Rob — Tue, 01 Jan 2013 16:22:44 +0000

Dawn never published negative remarks about India or its own columnists. It is not a fair newspaper.

By: AHA

AHA — Tue, 01 Jan 2013 15:26:04 +0000

Wow, simply superb.

By: Koi-Kon

Koi-Kon — Tue, 01 Jan 2013 13:33:24 +0000

Like most of you guys there…Master Stroke

By: R Naqvi

R Naqvi — Tue, 01 Jan 2013 11:11:21 +0000

I read your article twice and both times I felt the knots in my stomach. My heart feels heavy and even though I should rejoice knowing that it’s a new day, a new year. I feel melancholic, mainly because there is nothing right now that can make me feel hopeful about the lives we’re living. No matter how much I try to tell myself that change will come, at this point, I only see a bleak future. I just hope that people learn to become humans before they meet their maker.

By: nnn12

nnn12 — Tue, 01 Jan 2013 09:25:36 +0000

I am impressed..especially …. the last line, just can’t digest…well said.

By: nnn12

nnn12 — Tue, 01 Jan 2013 09:18:01 +0000

I am impressed…

By: Omar

Omar — Tue, 01 Jan 2013 06:01:41 +0000

I have now been gone from Pakistan for some 40 odd years and have have made my life in the U.S. The retrospective editorial from Musadiq Sunwal is one I would hold up against the best that any western newsmedia editor might offer. Actually, if, I think of it, more honest than most western editors might offer.