Comments on: “Zero Dark Thirty” finds no takers in Pakistan

By: Chanakya

Chanakya — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 09:57:48 +0000

Look,what Osama brought to Pakistan and Afghanistan ,a great contribution and gifts so these nations and generations to come will have to pay back to his contributions and the gifts so dearly,I wonder if these nations will ever get out under the heavy yoke he had put upon them.And the good name of Islam, the whole world shudder at the very mention of it now.The whole Muslim world is falling apart.Asia, Africa, Arab.

By: Mishra

Mishra — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 06:14:40 +0000

I am totally against Pakistan bashing at any forum.People have already grown up ,now is time for politicians to grow up as well.
Mishra,India

By: Indian

Indian — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 05:39:29 +0000

Instances like these …. further isolates them (Pakistanis) from the rest of the world ……..

By: Zain

Zain — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 05:38:53 +0000

ajit, you just contradicted yourself; you want people to think on the basis of rationality without an evidence? Maybe that post had no supporting evidence; not only me but in fact many people would like to know, if you can depict some concrete grounds the OSAMA did died in Pakistan? In this contemporary world, not even people in fact courts take decisions in empirical evidence.

I am astonished, the way you presented this biased comment. And just for your reference, language has no influence on your intelligence. In the era of stone age there was no English; but still they gave you basic tools ?

By: Hasnain

Hasnain — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 05:17:35 +0000

I can understand why they aren’t showing it. The topic of the film is at least embarrassing for a lot of Pakistanis. I don’t believe many people would’ve watched it at the cinema. However, I think some people will watch it at home. It’s much easier to consume something embarrassing in private. The report, however, shows everything through the lens of ‘censorship’. Whoever wrote this report forgot that people might not actually want to watch such movies at the cinema, and hence there is not much demand for the film. It’s become fashionable to show Pakistan as a fundamentally repressive society.

By: Hassan

Hassan — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 02:10:38 +0000

You used good examples to illustrate your point, but there is flaws in your argument. by the way moon lander (and rover) has taken pictures and rocks for scientific research (which been accessed by many international researchers till date). While in OBL’s drama, no pics or DNA available to support or assess that event. Aurangzaib is still liked or hated by people, there is no question on his existence from either side; whereas in OBL case his presence in that compound is claimed by american but it denied by Pakistanis. You have to extract parallels from your examples to prove the common sense in this case, where basic things -like pics and DNA- been kept suspiciously secret. This unnecessary suspicious behaviour arouse my common sense to question the event. .

By: Mohan Nair

Mohan Nair — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 23:28:55 +0000

Couldn’t agree with you more. I don’t know what it is with South Asians that draw inspiration from ostriches and hide their heads in the sands of reality when it comes to civilisational, social, geographical, historical, ethical and many other truths. They seem to figure that if certain truths are denied, loud enough, long enough and in numbers, then these truths would somehow go away. I am personally extremely pessimistic about the prognosis for that part of the world where people would kill under various frivolous pretexts, rather than endorse humanity and fraternity.

By: cautious

cautious — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 23:21:32 +0000

I don’t suppose the eye witness testimony of OBL’s wives/children who watched him die are considered “proof”? One thing that conspiracy theorist have in common – they go to extraordinary lengths to ignore mountains of evidence.

By: Nasir Abbas

Nasir Abbas — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 22:17:28 +0000

Washe in Pakistan and not killed in Tora Bora or is he still living some where in this vast world

By: Nish

Nish — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 21:18:50 +0000

He means that in Pakistan, generally English speaking people have got their enough education that they can speak their own language and also English. General population speaks their native language but some educated ones can speak more than one. And some really educated can speak common language of love and respect. In US, people who speak English are just educated in one language but those who can speak more than one are respected more, they are more wise as they have ability to understand more than one culture. This is what he means, but as you guys are radiclalized against west, your first thought and hence reaction was like they way you replied.