Emergency Hype- What was achieved?
Thursday, August 9, 2007 at 8:15 pm
Actually I don’t have to write much. As expected Awab beautifully covered most of the points plus the discussion on ATP also revealed other dimensions of Emergency.
As we all know that news was broken by different channels who were referring lunch party of Ladies parlimenterians of PML-Q by Shujat who revealed about Emergency decision which was later endorsed by Aitazaz Ahsan who claimed that President had already signed the document. Then what happened we all know well, Media gone mad so we bloggers. More than 70% of blogs in Pakistani blogsphere were working as a source of rumor and spreading news. Several politicians and govt officials were denying this news but they were not sure about it either and you can see the trend of their statements here.
The development which I read on Internet was a phone call by Condi a.k.a Kacrha Rani who called around 2.00 AM Pakistani time to Musharraf and asked , “Wats up?”. After that I read on Jang updates around 4:00 PM that Shujat denied any such rumors as well as his statement. Now,as sources claiming that there is NO such state of emergency in Pakistan. Too late but a wise decision.
Now one wonder what was achieved? or aftermath of this emergency hype? For quite obvious reason, KSE got crashed and there was decline of 382 points
so Shoky, did you get your target with the help of your buddies in Stock Market?
The other industry or sector, whatever it’s actually called was Media and Journalism. I am sorry to say that the credibility media earned during cj saga is a bit at stake after being a source of fueling this rumor. Every major channel was talking about emergency. Guys like Talat Hussain, Hamid Mir, Kamran Khan, Nusrat/Mushtaq Minhas were going wild like dogs and created situation as if every thing has gone down. Tonight when I was watching Kamran Khan Show, govt officials were blaming Media rather admitting their own mistakes that Media created hype which caused the crash of stock market as well. I think media has to learn lots of thing. They need to learn that freedom doesn’t mean you made headlines of news by some doodh wala just because he found a UFO in Lalukhait. I appreciate one thing that Ansar Abbasi admited the mistake and blame media fully for irresponsible behavior.
Oh, How can I forget to mention MQM who came out and take the credit of cancellation fo Emergency in Pakistan !
MQM is being like Begani Shadi mey Abdullah Dewana and Mr. Imran farooq claiming that MQM made efforts to force General to change the decision as if we don’t know who was behind this?
The thing is, was it really untentional rumor or the decision was seriouly taken? I personally don’t feel that shujat could make such irresponsible statement which he had not denied till 3:00 PM. Awab says he himself spread the news so that it could create a mess between Mush and B.B. Is this not possible that Shujaat was trapped by those forces who also played part during Lal Masjid crisis and made the deal impossible between ghazi brothers and govt officials?
Lots of questions will come out in coming days but it’s sure that Shujat’s credibility is seriously damaged. Now everyone will ask him including those who were in govt and against him. Salman Shah clearly said in Kamran Khan show that Media and those sources who spread this rumor should take the responsiblity of chaos which happened today. Now what comes out in coming days, I hope it would be better. Atleast I am glad that emergency was not imposed. It was quite disturbing because we are in month of August.
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on August 9th, 2007 at 8:32 PM
Adnan - well written
I believe more then ever that Ch. Shujaat and Ijaz ul Haq played a dirty game and then Musharraf told them to clear it themselves otherwise a bazooka up your a$$ - because both started it and both then appeared today to clear it up
on August 10th, 2007 at 1:07 PM
you know whats the most shameful thing that they are ruling this beautiful country and that have the power to create a circus when ever they feel like it…
I just hope we get a chance to wipe them out of office all of them starting from Uncle teddy bear(Mushi Uncle) to that stinky black sheep in London and to snow white who is residing in Dubai,with a Jharo seriously and throw them all in the gutters where they should all reside for ever.
on August 11th, 2007 at 3:47 AM
Salamalikum,
Hmm…interesting take.
on August 19th, 2007 at 1:07 PM
You are right about us bloggers spreading rumours but you know most of us try to filter out the garbage as much as possible
Waisay, if you put your foot on an ant its going to bite you back. I guess Shuj is better than that. Mush is trying bring a saukan on them and they are trying to create as much differences as possible between Mush and his newfound love.
By the way, though emergency news may had some impact on stock crash but this has more to do with global downfall as analysts are predicting recession in next fiscal year.