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Pakistani Idiot of the Year 2019: Faisal Vawda
Source: thecurrent.pk
Well, it should not come as a surprise, given we have had the government of idiots complete its first year and still going as erratic as ever, which was a big win for idiots all across Pakistan. Even though the entire cabinet is a great congress of idiots, but the minister that embodies it the most has to be none other than Faisal Vawda, who is the Pakistani Idiot of the Year 2019.
The self-pompous, narcissistic, and Vawda is ironically everything that the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf has been claiming to loathe. Unfortunately, he has become the symbol of irresponsibility, indiscipline, and yes, financial corruption, as well as the embodiment of the personality cult mentality which the party suffers from already under the leadership of Imran Khan.
However, apart from his usual antics, such as flashing expensive sports cars and heavy-duty sports motorcycles, and posing with the Pakistani soldiers on the Line of Control after the airforce downed an Indian MiG 21, he earns the title by pushing as the official position of the PTI government on corruption. Vawda had infamously stated on Hamid Mir's TV show that hanging 500 people in the country will resolve its problems.
Faisal Vawda wants to hang 5000 people, big hurdle is a constitution to act on it.
In Naya Pakistan – you don't need dictator – now – PTI government as acts as dictators did.
Chali hai Rasm kaye koiee bhi Sar utha kaye Na chalaye
pic.twitter.com/LjzFqGkJ4u
— Veengas (@VeengasJ) June 11, 2019
In his latest gem, he says that Ahsan Iqbal should be hanged for "three days." However, it is strange that a party endorsing such penalties had such a strong reaction to the inappropriate final paragraph of the Musharraf verdict.
In a recent blog, I have talked about the hypocrisy of Pakistani social conservatives when it comes to "public hangings." Of course, it is idiotic to endorse mass public hangings, if not stonings, but this is the narrative that drives even the mainstream conservative nationalists in Pakistan. The only difference is that they are okay with having their military carry out the job behind closed doors. Perhaps, the greatest symbol of that is the insane public intellectual Hassan Nisar, who disgraced himself by openly and shamelessly defending the financial corruption of former dictator General Pervez Musharraf.
Therefore, Vawda is the idiot who had delivered the message but it was by no means an isolated statement. The Prime Minister has already expressed his intention in China of implementing such a law if he had enough power, which was among many of his idiotic moments of the year including a bizarre speech threatening nuclear war at the United Nations, stating that the Pakistani military had trained Al-Qaida at a US foreign policy forum. It's no surprise he has dodged a blasphemy accusation due to all his Messianic but loose Medina State talk. Here is the "Prime Minister" mimicking Opposition leader Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari on a national inauguration event.
Troll level #ImranKhan ♥
Bilawal Zardari: "Jab barish hota hai tou pani aata hai, jab zyada barish hota hai tou zyada paani aata hai". pic.twitter.com/a5j4Go2BCd
— Sana 🧚🏻♀ (@pakhairrr) November 18, 2019
There is no shortage of other idiocy that made Pakistan proud. As a matter of fact, the instances and statements are so numerous and outrageous, covering all those is simply beyond the scope of this post. It may even prove too overwhelming for a journalist or a historian to chronicle those in a journal. However, a few prominent ones need special mentions.
In the first quarter of the year, the Law Minister of Punjab Fayyaz-ul-Hassan Chauhan had opened his year-long account of idiotic behavior by responding to India's aggression toward Kashmir. It is no secret that society in general and the government in Pakistan, in particular, are anti-Hindu. Chauhan, despite bearing a last name that clearly shows his Hindu ancestry, determine
This is what we get in response to our love & patriotism for #Pakistan from @PTIPunjabPK Minister @Fayazchohanpti using derogatory words for #Hindus "cow's urine" peenay walo & "idol worshippers" without realizing that #4million Hindus live here. Even his party has Hindu MPs. pic.twitter.com/h8rbpVcjLr
— Kapil Dev (@KDSindhi) March 4, 2019
In another instance of their anti-Hindu bigotry, another PTI minister Ali Muhammad Khan, who had shamed a Hindu MP for presenting a bill in the Parliament. It is important to remind that this is the same government that accuses the Modi administration to be Nazis day and night and also has a problem with the controversial Citizenship Amendment Act in India. Following all the bigotry, there was hardly a surprise that anti-Hindu riots were ignited in Sindh, this time conveniently blamed on "blasphemy."
The entire cabinet of PTI sounded like a band of buffoons and who else but Fawad Chaudhary could consistently produce. In one of his infinite bizarre statements,
OMG!!! Fawad Chaudhary claims that Hubble Space Telescope (@HUBBLE_space ) was sent into orbit by Suparco (Pakistan's space agency) 🤣🤣🤣
Imran Khan and his team are an utter embarrassment pic.twitter.com/efcRAk62zc
— Saadi-fy (@theironicirony) May 5, 2019
Fellow Islamists, the Emir of Jamat-i-Islami, Siraj-ul-Haq offered his brilliant vision of expanding his political party, by encouraging his party workers to give birth to more children.
Are they allowing for gandi aulad in their calculations? 🧐 pic.twitter.com/rQa34ueZRy
— Ziyad F.I. (@Ziyad_F) December 23, 2019
Even though Mufti Kifayatullah was obviously joking, his hilariously ridiculous comment that the Vicky of "Wikileaks" is the cousin of Jemima Goldsmith, Imran Khan's first wife. It is important to explain that the comment was not antisemitic, unlike popular belief. But it surely earns him a mention and allows me to bash another cleric.
@MoulanaOfficial how many lies has #JUIF's leadership told the poor & unsuspecting Madrassa students & Ansar-Ul-Islam volunteers to gain their support & join your #Azadi_March. You have brainwashed them! Have mercy on them! #Wiki Is #Jemima's cousin! Remember Allah is watching! pic.twitter.com/eK9TGomvU7
— Muhammad Jalal Ishaq (@Jalal_Ishaq) November 4, 2019
While this post may come across comical, it never always is. The dark side of the idiocy of this nation shows its face in the form of the blasphemy zealots from Khadim Hussain Rizvi of TLP to numerous foot soldiers across the country indoctrinated by Barelvism. One such young dangerous idiot was Khateeb Hussain who murdered an English professor in Bahawalpur for something he decided was a blasphemy.
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In the similar spirit, the rioting lawyers stormed a cardiac hospital in Lahore this December and were responsible for more than one deaths. Hasaan Niazi of the ISF, who had later repented, along with the mob of lawyers, make the list for the sheer madness they helped instigated.
Hassan Niazi breaks into tears during press conference. 'Is this because I am Imran khan's nephew?'. #PICAttackByLawyers pic.twitter.com/Km1wjZdRiO
— Murtaza Ali Shah (@MurtazaViews) December 20, 2019
Another special mention goes out to Maj. Gen. Asif Ghafoor, the Director General of ISPR, who has pretty much established that the qualification for future appointments to the post will need you to be a professional troll. Please see the following tweets and make up your own mind.
That's the real surgical strike which world knows. Narrative of false flag operations & cover up sham mil strikes already stands exposed.Truth prevails.#IndiaToEndia
Modi's surgical strike on Muslims puts India at war with itself|South China Morning Post https://t.co/gyCxz0cu8o
— Asif Ghafoor (@peaceforchange) December 15, 2019
Nothing will stop rightfully powerful storm against Hindutva in IOJ&K and across India let alone such low gimmicks.#IndiaToEndia
How multiple Twitter handles changed their religion overnight to support CAB – Alt News https://t.co/oTaajlGQgN
Winters bring lot of miseries for strays. Many seen struggling to survive individually as well as in groups. Their desperate attention seeking isn't without a reason. Be kind to them. They deserve some of your charity.#CareForStrays#LoveAnimals
— Asif Ghafoor (@peaceforchange) December 8, 2019
No thanks my dear fellows. Just don't bother especially about the few irrelevant ran away ones. Keep doing your sincere bit for good of Pakistan. Let them expose themselves through their foul expressions and failing attempts.#PakistanZindabad
Like always, apologies for missing out hundreds of other idiots. Please feel free to add to the list in the comments.
Read about the Pakistani idiot of the year for 2018 here.
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To Support Maulana's Azadi March or Not
Posted on October 31, 2019 by Haroon Riaz
Source: geo.tv
Life throws some tough dilemmas your way. As if your everyday moral questions were not enough, history brought people to a crossroads which surely disturbed them in one way or the other. And sometimes the choices you make tell a lot about where you stand. Especially if they happen to be Pakistanis who are secular liberals and anti-establishment.
To support Maulana's Azadi March or not.
There are many secular leftists who have simply rejected the idea of a Maulana vehicle being an ideal platform for the promotion of democracy. The likes of the Awami Workers Party and Jibran Nasir, who are always proactive on social issues, chose not to support the march because of the religious card, bigotry against Ahmedis, and the exclusion of women from the platform, something which Marvi Sirmed also pointed out.
Looking at the "Azadi March" from afar, one thing is clear to me. In the democracy that Maulana sahib is fight for, women would have no place. Even if they manage to get there, women would be backstage or at a far & dark corner.
Ask yourselves dear democrats, do we want THIS?
— Marvi Sirmed (@marvisirmed) October 30, 2019
There has been a lot of confusion regarding supposed Left/liberal support for the Azadi March. Watch @Ziyad_F explain the two actual positions taken by the handful of progressives left in this country. (And don't let the title mis-lead you!) https://t.co/yLtZ3LlIZn
— Nida Kirmani (@nidkirm) October 25, 2019
I wish it were that simple. While I do hope the Azadi March weakens the grip of the establishment & their puppets, I am also conscious that the men leading this march have a very different definition of democracy than I do. Empowering them could harm us later on.
Most of the pro-establishment and/or pro-status quo or pro-Imran Khan liberals completely reject the notion of the Azadi March because it is being led by a religious party or because of the "religious card." The religious card here particularly being focus on preserving the finality of Prophethood or Khatm-e-Nabuwat, a fancy name of the anti-Ahmedi movement in Pakistan, and against attempts to amend the blasphemy law. Many of these critics agree that anti-establishment liberals are compromising their principles by cheering for Maulana's march.
Everyone subscribes to their own version of the doctrine of necessity, be they from left or right, progressive or conservative. Only very few recognise that, and fewer yet admit to it.
— Zarrar Khuhro (@ZarrarKhuhro) October 16, 2019
'This march is against those who released asia bibi and wajih ul hasan and those who oppose khatm e nabuwat' jui f maulana aziz ahmed ashrafi on @ZaraHatKay_Dawn right now
Other anti-establishment center-left and right liberals, especially those sympathetic to the current cause of PML-N leader Nawaz Sharif and the emerging anti-establishment leadership of Maryam Nawaz, are not playing so safe. They are fully behind the march and even taking jabs at those sitting out citing the religious card, including the pro-establishment liberals who are subtly supporting the Imran Khan administration.
Liberals are conflicted and divided over supporting, conditionally supporting or condemning the Azadi March. But it's a bit rich for a party that allied with the JI in KP and funded the more extreme Samiul Haq to judge others for 'supporting religious extremists and bigots'
— Talat Aslam (@titojourno) October 31, 2019
"لاہور استقبالی کیمپ کی حالت دیکھی؟ ایک لیڈر نہیں وہاں اور 40 بندے"
لعنت آپ پہ ۔لعنت ۔ لعنت ۔لعنت
— Gul Bukhari (@GulBukhari) October 29, 2019
The politically incorrect Gul Bukhari is, of course, all for the march and disappointment at the PML-N for their half-hearted support.
سوال: تو پی ٹی ایم خود کو اس دھرنے اور مارچ سے الگ رکھے گی؟
علی وزیر: بالکل۔ ہمارا فیصلہ ہوا ہے کہ ہم ایسے نظام کا کبھی ساتھ نہیں دیں گے جو ایک متروک نظام ہو۔
😏🤷🏻♀
(اور یوں آج پاکستانی میڈیا میں #PTM کا نام لینا اور اس کے رکن قومی اسمبلی کا مؤقف سنوانا جائز ٹھہرا 🤓)#AzadiMarch https://t.co/Au0rfPuSz1 pic.twitter.com/lDiHBFZYjq
— افشاں مصعب (@AfshanMasab) October 30, 2019
The PTM has distanced itself from the march citing its impact of perpetuating an "obsolete system of government," albeit supporting their right to protest. PML-N and PPP, meanwhile, are partially participating and avoiding the march for some mysterious reasons only known to them.
Talked to participants.
PML-N welcomed the march in Lahore but didn't join the march. So far only PkMAP & ANP seem to have actively joined the march.
PPP & PML-N aren't sincerely on board but have maintained nominal presence just to claim credit in case the march succeedes. https://t.co/CPsH9MvBRE
— R Kakar (@rafiullahkakar) October 30, 2019
Conspicuous by its absence is the PMLN leadership
ارے بھائی ہسپتال اور جیل میں آپ کے لیڈروں کے ساتھ ظلم ہورہا ہے یا مولانا کے؟ #Azadi_March_Updates
— Mohammad Taqi (@mazdaki) October 30, 2019
Many anti-establishment seculars tend to agree but acknowledge at the back of their minds that some kind of resistance needs to be offered to the current government.
We request PTM leadership & comrade to join Azdi March in the interest of Pakistan. Its a public demand as many other look confused. https://t.co/QEKndo0UOB
— Lal (@lalaquar) October 31, 2019
There have been no shortages of false comparisons with the Khomeini-led revolution in Iran to discredit the march and even dismissals mentioning that it is no Hong Kong or Beirut protest. Indeed this march is neither. But surely, it has been facing a media blackout which has become the characteristic of the Bajwa-Imran regime. These visuals were nowhere to be seen on national TV.
عمرانی دھرنے کو صبح سے شام اور شام سے صبح تک کورج دینے والا میڈیا آزادی مارچ کا ٹھاٹھیں مارتا ہوا عوامی سمندر نظر نہیں آرہا ؟ pic.twitter.com/YOqEFY2AAt
— Mian Iftikhar Husain (@MianIftikharHus) October 30, 2019
آزادی مارچ کارواں ۔ ۔ ۔#عوامی_سمندر_اسلام_آباد_کی_طرف pic.twitter.com/MBVLNrqk4T
— Maulana Fazl-ur-Rehman (@MoulanaOfficial) October 28, 2019
یہ صرف ضلع پشاور کا جلوس ہے جو ابھی تک رشکئی انٹرچینج تک پہنچ چکا ہے،رشکئی انٹرچینج میں اب دیگر اضلاع کے قافلے مرکزی جلوس کے ساتھ شامل ہوتے ہوئے ملی مشر اسفندیار ولی خان کی قیادت میں اسلام آباد کا رخ کرینگے#استعفی_تمھارا_باپ_بھی_دیگا pic.twitter.com/0UEIvcMWvP
— Awami National Party (@ANPMarkaz) October 31, 2019
As of today, the Awami National Party, which is as secular a party as they come in Pakistan, Another secular nationalist party Pakhtunkhwa Milli Awami Party (PKMAP) of Mehmood Khan Achakzai had joined the march right from the start in Karachi on October 27.
Pkmap of Mahmood Achakzai has been the 2nd largest party of march ❤
Proud to be worker of a party that has always shown resistance against non democratic forces #ChalloAzadiMarchKeSath pic.twitter.com/bABeiatNeO
— Muzamil Shah (@watanyar07) October 30, 2019
The Maulana's caravans might enter Islamabad any hour now and the procession which was supposed to happen today has been delayed until Friday afternoon prayers, partially because of the Rahimyar Khan train tragedy.
It is clear that Maulana's party does not see this march as a mission to enforce Sharia in the country, as much as some people trying to make it sound like that. It is indeed not directed against the military but it does channel some of the frustration of the public against the Imran Khan administration, if not against the Bajwa-Imran regime. It may occasionally mention the selectors but it is surely not against them.
So are you supporting the March too? I am not "supporting" a Mulllah's party either but I sure as well don't mind it is happening. And pretty much agree with all its objectives other than "protecting the Islamic provisions of the constitution." If the capital can be paralyzed for the good part of the year for discrediting a legitimately elected government and for rigging allegations for four constituencies, it can surely be shut down for locking up the entire opposition and almost killing a three-times elected Prime Minister. And the latter is my biggest reason to march against the current administration.
The only problem is that the agenda of this march barely mentions that.
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The Televised Slow Killing of Another National Leader
Source: samaa,tv
Pakistan has a history of getting rid of its democratically elected leaders in a manner that is both torturous to them and to their supporters. From Zulfikar Ali Bhutto to Akbar Bugti and from Murtaza Bhutto to Benazir Bhutto, there is a long history of the Pakistani deep state establishment influencing the demise of popular leaders. These days, another national leader is being killed slowly and his demise is being televised all across the nation. The only three times Prime Minister in the history of the country, Mian Nawaz Sharif.
The government has been resorting to the petty measures of denying the former Prime Minister proper medical care for several weeks, as promised in Imran Khan's speech in a Washington D. C. rally, until his situation brought him on the verge of death. He was denied bail repeatedly despite recommendations from his doctors. A patient of heart disease, his level of blood platelets fell to a critical level. Even his kidneys are said to be affected of late and he has been diagnosed with an autoimmune disorder. Foul play is not being dismissed as an explanation for his condition.
On the other hand, President Asif Ali Zardari is also being held despite his worsening condition in terms of his cardiac health. His family is being prevented to see him. Former Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi is being held on frivolous allegations by NAB and was kept with the death row prisoners. The controversial and corrupt National Accountability Bureau, which was perhaps established to target political victims, remains to be the central body behind the inhuman treatment of national leaders who have not abrogated the constitution or committed treason, unlike their leniency for the former dictator Pervez Musharraf.
Meanwhile, the silence of his supporters and the people of Punjab for a man who has done so much in their service has been deafeningly loud. What is perhaps even worse is the attitude of his brother and current Opposition Leader and former Chief Minister Shehbaz Sharif and the party leaders in his camp who remain silent on his dismal condition. These leaders, which include Former Interior Minister Ahsan Iqbal and Former Foreign Minister Khawaja Muhammad Asif, are still rooting for making up with the military and finding a way back into the cozy corridors of power that the Punjab politicians are so used to.
So leaders such as Ahsan Iqbal can bother to hold Kashmir Rallies to please the national security establishment but they will not take it to the streets for the health and safety of his leader. All he could ask for was prayers for his leader on the deathbed, with passively outraging about the brutal measures of the current administration. The PML-N loyalists should never forget how these leaders have behaved in these circumstances when Nawaz Sharif and Maryam Nawaz Sharif are being incarcerated for political reasons.
"کشمیر بنے گا پاکستان" کا نعرہ ملک کے طول و عرض میں گونج گیا۔ PMLN کے کارکنان نے پورے ملک میں پرجوش ریلیاں نکالیں pic.twitter.com/zfLnpjzt6R
— Ahsan Iqbal (@betterpakistan) October 27, 2019
But more than anything, it is the callousness and the indifference of the people of Punjab which hurts the most. They have betrayed yet another political leader who stood up for democracy and civilian supremacy in Pakistan. You would expect that there would be streets erupting with protestors in solidarity with Nawaz Sharif, angry at the kind of abuse he is being subjected to in the prison by the Punjab government.
Had Maulana Fazl-ur-Rehman not announced his "Azadi March" against the government, the agenda of which does not even mention the political arrests of the opposition leadership, there would be no protests against the current government. The secular opposition is disappointing who would not even come out on the streets with their leadership on the verge of death and for ceding space to Islamist parties such as the JUI-F.
Nawaz Sharif's situation has become stable since the scare on October 22 but he is still on his deathbed. Maryam had said much earlier that the government will be responsible if anything happened to Nawaz Sharif. But she can add her uncle's name and her party leadership to the list of his killers.
The courts finally granted him temporary bail as a desperate measure. His daughter Maryam is still being prevented to see him. And people like Firdaus Ashiq Awan are still making fun of someone struggling for his life.
This is the price of public service in Pakistan.
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Imran Khan and PTI: Fascist and Proud of It
Source: Economic Times
Every time you think Imran Khan cannot get any worse to shock people with his worldview, he goes on to outdo himself. If his hilariously idiotic Medina State rhetoric were not enough, he further embarrassed himself on his recent visit to China.
In his own words, he paid a tribute to the authoritarian Communist regime in China by offering a fresh glimpse into what kind of Medina State he envisions for Pakistan.
Wish I could follow President Xi's example and put 500 corrupt people in Pakistan in jail.
This is not fiction and it is the kind of statement that his liberal defenders would otherwise attribute his detractors to have come up with. However, many people obsessed with him often forget that it is precisely reckless rhetoric like this which has helped him mobilize the worst of the urban middle-class vote in the country. People who are fed on the false narratives of ARY News and DG ISPR are the ones who will actually cheer for this visionary comment made by their handsome Messiah. Presenting yet another ignorant address by the self-proclaimed statesman.
Imran Khan represents the fascist mindset of the authoritarianism that conservative Pakistanis represent who idealize the Iranian revolution and people hanging in public squares but only demand selective accountability for civilian leadership. These slave-minded people across the nation, but particularly concentrated in Punjab, Karachi, and urban Khyber Pakhtunkhwa have been fed this narrative for decades by the military. They either believe that the military should be in power or their puppet leaders like Imran, who many of them also see as a divinely sanctioned Messiah.
I hope his Nawaz Sharif-hating liberal defenders in the urban centers of Pakistan would be thrilled with the "improvements" and "reforms" he has in mind for the judicial and political system in Pakistan. He is already acting on it. Perhaps, this fascism is what his farcical Medina State is all about.
Not only does he ignore the plight of the Uighur Muslims in China, he further proves his idiocy and authoritarian leaning by minimizing the democratic struggle of the people of Hong Kong while he sheds crocodile tears for the people of Kashmir. Well, who's not surprised.
I am puzzled as to how international media continues to give headline coverage to Hongkong protests but ignores the dire human rights crisis in IOJK – an internationally recognised disputed territory illegally annexed by India with 900k troops imposing a siege on 8mn Kashmiris
— Imran Khan (@ImranKhanPTI) October 11, 2019
Clearly, a leader who made such an outcry for years about the treatment of detainees in Guantanamo Bay by the US military must feel offended by this. Especially because it concerns the "Muslim Ummah" he claims to champion the rights of. Will he discuss the plight of the Uighurs in the new propaganda channel that is supposed to address Islamophobia that he plans to launch with fellow fascists Erdogan and Mahathir Muhammad? Or has he been conveniently skipping this part of the news just like his party followers live in a parallel universe?
Unfortunately, this shameless leader which many urban conservative nationalists sympathizing with the military establishment, which is corrupt and incompetent in its own right, proves to be a disgrace for the nation time and time again. But he truly represents the ugly worldview of his regressive nationalist conservative followers.
Imran Khan and PTI, along with their malicious voters, are fascists and they are proud of it.
We must call them out and ridicule them for it.
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Imran Khan's Hollow Dream of Becoming an International Statesman of Peace
Posted on August 31, 2019 by Haroon Riaz
Source: Prime Minister Office/samaa.tv
The New York Times issue of August 30 saw something peculiar. An opinion piece by the Pakistani leader Imran Khan with a passive-aggressive threat of nuclear war.
The piece is a chronology of recent events between India and Pakistan since the PTI leader took office following a controversial election in July 2018. Of course, he started the article referring to his first address in which he invited India to peace talks, which were rebuffed. Then he refers to the February 14 Pulawama suicide attack by a "young Kashmiri man" against Indian Troops, following which the Indian government held Pakistan responsible. He reminded the world of the return of a captured Indian Pilot and a subsequent letter to Modi to deescalate tensions. India instead took the lobbying route to seek Pakistan's blacklisting at the FATF.
Imran Khan's self-absorbed rant failed to take into account the history of India-Pakistan relations before his assumption of office and the long and glorious history of cross-border terrorism starting from Pakistan supporting militancy in Kashmir, the Parliament attacks following Lahore, Kargil war, and Mumbai attacks among many other incidents.
Pretending that India-Pakistan relations started with his party entering the government, he then had a sudden realization following India's persistent rejections for talks after Pulwama.
Evidently Mr. Modi had mistaken our desire for peace in a nuclear neighborhood as appeasement. We were not simply up against a hostile government. We were up against a "New India," which is governed by leaders and a party that are the products of the Hindu supremacist mother ship, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, or the R.S.S.
The Indian prime minister and several ministers of his government continue to be members of the R.S.S., whose founding fathers expressed their admiration for Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler. Mr. Modi has written with great love and reverence about M.S. Golwalkar, the second supreme leader of the R.S.S., and has referred to Mr. Golwakar as "Pujiniya Shri Guruji (Guru Worthy of Worship)."
Mr. Modi's guru wrote admiringly about the Final Solution in "We, Our Nationhood Defined," his 1939 book: "To keep up the purity of the race and its culture, Germany shocked the world by her purging the country of the Semitic Races — the Jews. National pride at its highest has been manifested here. Germany has also shown how well-nigh impossible it is for races and cultures, having differences going to the root, to be assimilated into one united whole, a good lesson for us in Hindustan for us to learn and profit by."
Imran Khan probably came to know through one of his advisors that Indian Prime Minister was a lifelong member of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, a paramilitary organization dedicated to promoting Hindu characteristics among Indians, as well as the Hindutva political philosophy. Yet he thought that the reelection of Modi, instead of Rahul Gandhi, a Nehruvian secularist, would be a better idea for the peace in the region.
I had hoped that being elected prime minister might lead Mr. Modi to cast aside his old ways as the chief minister of the Indian state of Gujarat, when he gained global notoriety for the 2002 pogrom against local Muslims on his watch and was denied a visa to travelto the United States under its International Religious Freedom Act — a list of visa denials that included associates of Slobodan Milosevic.
Mr. Modi's first term as prime minister had been marked by lynching of Muslims, Christians and Dalits by extremist Hindu mobs. In Indian-occupied Kashmir, we have witnessed increased state violence against defiant Kashmiris. Pellet-firing shotguns were introduced and aimed at the eyes of young Kashmiri protesters, blinding hundreds.
Imran Khan was well aware that Modi, a global persona non grata, was coming to power. It is indeed true that his administration has been complicit in the organized mob lynching of several Muslims, if not endorsing them. He was also aware that it was his administration, which started the heinous practice of deliberately targeting the eyes of Kashmiri civilian protesters with pellets, yet he hoped for his relations. Was he sucking up to him with his statement? If only he had addressed the issues India wanted Pakistan to offer guarantees about. But only if he could.
This is pretty strange because the Prime Minister should have realized Modi's background before writing to him for peace. How can someone who admires Mussolini and Hitler be up for peace? What is even more ironic is that Imran Khan expected Modi to be better for India-Pakistan relations and to possibly "settle Kashmir issue." Well, he got the latter right, at least.
On Aug. 5, in its most brazen and egregious move, Mr. Modi's government altered the status of Indian-occupied Kashmir through the revocation of Article 370 and 35A of the Indian Constitution. The move is illegal under the Constitution of India, but more important, it is a violation of the United Nations Security Council resolutions on Kashmir and the Shimla Agreement between India and Pakistan.
And Mr. Modi's "New India" chose to do this by imposing a military curfew in Kashmir, imprisoning its population in their homes and cutting off their phone, internet and television connections, rendering them without news of the world or their loved ones. The siege was followed by a purge: Thousands of Kashmiris have been arrested and thrown into prisons across India. A blood bath is feared in Kashmir when the curfew is lifted. Already, Kashmiris coming out in defiance of the curfew are being shot and killed.
If the world does nothing to stop the Indian assault on Kashmir and its people, there will be consequences for the whole world as two nuclear-armed states get ever closer to a direct military confrontation. India's defense minister has issued a not-so-veiled nuclear threat to Pakistan by saying that the future of India's "no first use" policy on nuclear weapons will "depend on circumstances." Similar statements have been made by Indian leaders periodically. Pakistan has long viewed India's "no first use" claims with skepticism.
With the nuclear shadow hovering over South Asia, we realize that Pakistan and India have to move out of a zero-sum mind-set to begin dialogue on Kashmir, various strategic matters and trade. On Kashmir, the dialogue must include all stakeholders, especially the Kashmiris. We have already prepared multiple options that can be worked on while honoring the right to self-determination the Kashmiris were promised by the Security Council resolutions and India's first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru.
Imran Khan hilariously brings his favorite jargon of "New Pakistan" to allude to Modi's "New India" and mourns the revocation of Article 370. As he goes on to criticize the lack of international reaction to the horrific curbs on civil liberties in India and a majoritarian constitutional amendment, he alludes to the threat of nuclear war. His case clearly is that India has threatened Pakistan with nuclear war because they had made statements about making the "no first use" policy conditional to circumstances. Interestingly, those circumstances can possibly include the "use of tactical nuclear weapons by Pakistan in the event of an Indian attack." Pakistan's nuclear doctrine can be learned about through various sources and the reasons pushing India to adopt such a stance after years of threats escape Imran Khan's memory.
Through dialogue and negotiations, the stakeholders can arrive at a viable solution to end the decades of suffering of the Kashmiri people and move toward a stable and just peace in the region. But dialogue can start only when India reverses its illegal annexation of Kashmir, ends the curfew and lockdown, and withdraws its troops to the barracks.
It is imperative that the international community think beyond trade and business advantages. World War II happened because of appeasement at Munich. A similar threat looms over the world again, but this time under the nuclear shadow.
Interestingly, when no one is bringing up nuclear war, Imran Khan invokes it over and over again. He believes that is the best way to attract the attention of the international community to Kashmir is threatening nuclear war. This is his idea of a short cut to peace in the region. If Kashmir is under India's draconian authoritarian control, why does Pakistan have to respond with nuclear war considering Pakistan is already showing solidarity with Kashmir through peaceful means.
Imran Khan's stance on India seems to be just about as confused as his imaginary "Medina Riyasat" or "Medina State" model which attempts to present Islamic Caliphate as a "fair" welfare state that protects religious minority groups. He is apparently not being able to make up his mind whether Indians are Nazis that must not be appeased and should be nuked or if they are a legitimate state which should be engaged in peace talks. Why would he engage with Modi, after declaring him to be a follower of an ideology comparable to Nazism, at all? Wouldn't it violate his staunch stance against fascism?
Those familiar with Imran Khan's personal history recognize him to be a narcissist and a megalomaniac. Despite his first year in office being a failure, he sees his rise to power as a historic and revolutionary moment with divine inspiration. He sees his stature in global politics no less, even though the reality is very different. While Modi is being awarded the highest civilian awards in the UAE, Bahrain, and Saudi Arabia, Imran Khan had driven their leaders from the airport like a chauffer, seeking aid money to bail his bankrupt country out.
As much as his case for Kashmir might sound pleasant to the eyes of unsuspecting commentators, you simply cannot ignore the parallel rhetoric from the military, dubbed his "selectors" by the opposition. Actually, their actions speak louder than words as the military tested the "Ghaznavi" ballistic nuclear missile a day before the Kashmir Hour solidarity protest enforced on the public through a 30-minute traffic jam.
Before lecturing the world, he conveniently forgets the state of democracy, civil liberties, and human rights at home, which is caused by the policies of his administration under the guidance of the Bajwa military administration. He has revived the culture of caustic divisive politics in Pakistan, making blatant political arrests targeting the opposition and dissenting citizens and criticized India of doing the same in parliament floor. He and his supporters complain about a lack of national unity at the time when the entire opposition leadership of Pakistan is in jail and deprived of proper medical facilities.
He conveniently forgets that the world is well aware of the state of democracy and religious freedom under his administration before he can make a legitimate case about any other. He forgets that before lecturing India on fairness, he cannot utter the word "secularism" in the same sentence with "Pakistan" at home. His refusal to acknowledge the Chinese atrocities on Uighur Muslims has been astounding for his supposed image as an upright and principled politician.
Imran Khan may very well dream of being the next Zulfikar Ali Bhutto or Jinnah, but he simply cannot shrug off the history of Pakistan that burdens him. He cannot break the shackles of the military establishment he used to criticize and now colludes with. His follower might think that being a hypocrite and a liar might be characteristics of a great leader but he simply cannot be an independent leader as long as he remains a puppet in the hand of his masters.
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Why You Should Be Wary of Pakistan's State Propaganda About Kashmir
Following the shocking move of the revocation of Article 370 that grants special autonomous status to the State of Jammu and Kashmir, the Central Government in India has cracked down on civil liberties. The state has been in a virtual state of a shutdown for more than 10 days and restrictions such as suspension of landline are recently being eased.
The Central Government in India has incarcerated the major political leaders including former Chief Minister Farooq Abdullah, his son Umer Abdullah, and Mehbooba Mufti. The Hurriyet leaders are a no-brainer. The state is under a communication blackout to this day and only one major protest has been tolerated to date. Anyone within India and outside with concern about democracy and human rights was appalled by the situation. However, the malicious Indian right-wing in their urge for greatness have sadly turned a blind eye to this coercion.
Of course, this sudden and shocking development slowly provoked a negative reaction in Pakistan. The country's ruling party PTI came back with a Modi/Hitler and BJP/RSS/Nazi Party analogy campaign. They and the Prime Minister are still going in full flow against the Modi administration. This came after a rather mellow speech from the Prime Minister in the joint session of the parliament, in which he criticized the "fascism" of the Indian government and for locking up the entire opposition. This immediately attracted criticism and right after the speech, the PML-N leader of opposition Shahbaz Sharif accused him of being a worse oppressor of the opposition than the Indian government.
However, many commentators did not take a lot of time to point out that Pakistan had little credibility to lecture India on violation of democracy and human rights, thanks to its own dismal record at home. Currently, Pakistan is making headlines around the world on curbing the press while jailing the entire opposition and other dissenting activists. Designed to appeal to its global audience, the bombardment of tweets of its social media team of copywriters and graphic designers on overtime were particularly embarrassing and disconnected to history.
Modi and Hitler are the two sides of the same coin #IndianHitlerModi pic.twitter.com/MJ9Bg57p6a
— PTI (@PTIofficial) August 15, 2019
Warmonger and Racist Narendra Modi is following the footsteps of the biggest enemy of the mankind, time is not far away when Narendra Modi will take the lead from Hitler with his evil plans for the minorities in India!#SaveKashmirFromModi pic.twitter.com/AMH4TgxRY4
— PTI (@PTIofficial) August 8, 2019
While there is little doubt about the fascism of BJP, it is more comparable to that of the Pakistani Islamist nationalists supportive of the Pakistani military and the PTI itself instead of Nazis in Germany. And if we are at comparisons of Nazi's treatment of the Jews, the treatment of Ahmedis in Pakistan strikes an eerie similarity. Furthermore, Pakistan has done far worse in East Pakistan, tribal areas, and Baluchistan than what India can ever hope to do in Kashmir. The following tweet is actually more accurately reflective of how the right-wingers on both sides are indeed coming together to validate the two-nation theory.
The model for Hindu nationalists is not Nazi Germany. It is Pakistan. Savarkar and Jinnah were friends and coalition partners. You're the leader of a quasi theocracy whose minorities are second-tier citizens in law. Stop exploiting the suffering of Kashmiris. Fix your country. https://t.co/NXBjzAcrxC
— Kapil Komireddi (@kapskom) August 12, 2019
There are a couple of reasons why the Pakistani administration's official narrative reeks of intellectual dishonesty. Pakistan does not recognize the problem created by the exodus of Kashmiri Pandits (Native Hindus) from the valley. Furthermore, analysts such as Tariq Pirzada are openly inciting violence or genocide against any Hindu citizens that settle in Kashmir. Aren't elements of Pakistan promoting communal supremacy in the State too? And if that is not the case, why is the mention of Hindu Pandits absent from the communication of Pakistani propaganda.
"Kill every Hindu who settles in Kashmir." – Pakistan's Tariq Pirzada.
Defend this now, @BBCBreaking, @ImranKhanPTI…pic.twitter.com/OifWBFQRdQ
— Madhav Sharma (@HashTagCricket) August 11, 2019
Now you can dismiss this as an opinion of an individual but the Pakistani state has backed Islamist militancy in the State for a long time. Not only this influence has resulted in the exodus of Kashmiri Pandits from the State but has also seriously hampered the legitimacy of the Kashmiri struggle for autonomy.
Some of the Kashmiri Pandit opinion leaders on social media, especially the notable actor Anupam Kher, often sound bitter and quite a few of them have been cheerleading the draconian measures of the BJP government in Kashmir. However, such voices should not mislead the focus on the need to rehabilitate Kashmiri Pandits in the valley. Any political resolution in the valley is incomplete without their voices.
Pakistan's so-called moral case of Kashmir on the international forum is plagued with its own share of hypocrisy and intellectual dishonesty. The following tweet of the Pakistan Ambassador to the UN, Maleeha Lodhi, lauds China, Pakistan's usual partner on the Security Council forum, for "as always standing up firmly on principles and upholding international law." Though you can be pretty sure that Madame Ambassador would never have bothered to call China out on the treatment of Uighur Muslims (something where PTI's Nazism and "Final Solution" analogies are conveniently missing) since she is such a huge proponent of principles and upholding international law. Even though some people would be laughing at a Pakistani diplomat invoking principles and international law.
We are grateful to all 15 members of the UN Security Council for discussing the situation in Indian occupied Jammu and Kashmir. China as always stood firmly on principles and upholding international law pic.twitter.com/CohJPsVuie
— Maleeha Lodhi (@LodhiMaleeha) August 16, 2019
Pakistan would like you to believe that India is already committing. There is some degree of truth to the targeting of Kashmiri Muslims by the Indian state in recent years, well before the Modi administration, but the Islamist trends in the Kashmir separatist movement are the major reason behind them. To this date, the Prime Minister is continuing his tweets to condemn Narendra Modi as Hitler and his party as Nazis. That also raises questions about the maturity of this narrative. Does this mean that Pakistan has rejected the Indian administration and will not engage in talks with them for peace in the future?
And the threat also extends to Pakistan, the minorities in India & in fact the very fabric of Nehru & Gandhi's India. One can simply Google to understand the link between the Nazi ideology & ethnic cleansing & genocide ideology of the RSS-BJP Founding Fathers.
— Imran Khan (@ImranKhanPTI) August 18, 2019
Pakistan has already taken the issue with the United Nations, which has disapproved of India changing the status of Kashmir. But that is where its influence ends for now. While it is positive to see that India is being held accountable at some kind of international platform for its recklessness but that still does not legitimize the reckless misrepresentation of facts and intellectual dishonesty of the Pakistani Prime Minister and the ruling party who could themselves be criticized for their own fascism any given day.
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The New Censorship Regime in Pakistan
Posted on July 21, 2019 by Haroon Riaz
Source: Pakistan Today
After ten years of relative democracy in the country after General Pervez Musharraf's resignation from 2008 to the last election in 2018, the country enjoyed an oasis of the explosion of free expression. Again that free expression is an expression to be used in relevant terms. Either way, Pakistan has not seen such flourishing of journalism in its history until the new censorship regime was introduced by the military and bureaucratic establishment.
With the assumption of office of the current military establishment and their subsequent "selection" of the PTI administration under Imran Khan, the censorship of the media has never been escalated to such a degree. Other than the organized harassment campaigns against journalists, the twitter handles of three journalists were forcibly deactivated temporarily by the state agents. Sadly, there is ample data on the web for anybody who wants to write a paper on it.
Journalist Hamid Mir recently held a press conference in which he sounded like a political activist campaigning for rights instead of a reporter. Well, things have gone this bad for journalists in the country and probably more than ever before.
Only a few days back, the ruling political party removed all doubts whatsoever as far as its support of the crackdown on journalists is concerned. Many journalists can barely believe that a party that owes so much of its current support to the media.
Journalists will observe July 16th as black day in Pakistan protest rallies in front of press clubs of Bahawalpur 10:30 am Rahim Yar Khan 11 am Islamabad 12 pm Hayderabad 12 pm Sukhar 2 pm Peshawar 2 pm Karachi 3 pm Quetta 4 pm Multan 4 pm Lahore Press Club 5 pm pic.twitter.com/BVQIl39BR5
— Hamid Mir (@HamidMirPAK) July 15, 2019
Pakistani state agenda's true representative political party PTI went out of its way to launch a disgusting campaign against press freedom. What they pretty much mean is that if a journalist is not following state propaganda, they are committing treason. Some of the tweets even directly implied that as reported by Dawn.
Media houses & journalists must take care that in their quest for criticism on State, they intentionally or unintentionally do not end up propagating enemy's stance. Freedom of expression is immense power. And with great power there is great responsibility!#JournalismNotAgenda pic.twitter.com/YdxD9Al5Pb
— PTI (@PTIofficial) July 16, 2019
Media is often considered a pillar of state. It is sad to see certain media factions & seasoned journalists who also scrutinize Prime Minister Khan's personal life in the name of freedom of media later accuse the State for curtailing media freedom. #JournalismNotAgenda pic.twitter.com/fHCzqaQJae
The part time journalists and full time propagandist and social media activists are getting desperate to pay off their master's favours showered to them in past but it must not come at the cost of the future of this country. #JournalismNotAgenda pic.twitter.com/s78xSk3D84
The powerful DG ISPR also routinely lectures journalists about what they should report on.
News story published by BBC on 2nd June 2019, titled "Uncovering Pakistan's Secret Human Rights Abuses" is pack of lies and in violation of journalistic ethos.
The issue is being formally taken up with BBC authorities. pic.twitter.com/A3QtbXJIkS
— DG ISPR (@OfficialDGISPR) June 3, 2019
Converse is rather more true. A segment of society exposed to intl narrative, has such a buy in of that narrative that any news agnst mil, no matter how incredible & fictitious, wd be uncritically accepted. Don't know what's more alarming, ability of masses or inability of elite? https://t.co/KprrJXtq1r
— Asif Ghafoor (@peaceforchange) June 2, 2019
Not an unexpected 'piece'.
The expressed 'learning' of details & 'assumptions' about subject of leaks / country involved are vested & understandable. Unearthing the attempt & disposal add to credibility of our systems.
Actually 'worrisome' for 'few' is 'disposal' of such cases. https://t.co/crmWW2WXTq
The ruling party PTI, which rose to power as a result of constant media coverage when it was in the opposition, has routinely blocked coverage to the opposition. Particularly Maryam Nawaz Sharif, a new leader on the rise, protesting with the aim to free her father former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, who was disqualified and jailed following two controversial judgments. Media outlets such as Geo Network have been repeatedly blocked in local cable following the coverage of her rallies. Earlier interviews of President Asif Zardari and Maryam Nawaz Sharif were blocked from the media but the latter was not even mentioned in the mainstream electronic media, which the military and bureaucratic establishment, along with the PTI considers the actual source of public information.
To many journalists, the kind of censorship practiced under the PTI regime even surpasses the standards set by the draconian Zia regime. However, the difference is that this 21st-century censorship continues despite the presence of social media on the parallel. Considering how dissent is considered "treason" by the patriotic lot in Pakistan, wonder when we will see a blanket ban on social media. We know our government has tried that before in the previous administration. The day people finally decide to come out on the streets against this draconian government, that day is not far off either.
Pakistan can become Sudan any day.
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A turning point on mountaintop removal?
April 24, 2013 - There were two big developments this week in the fight to end mountaintop removal, with a federal appeals court upholding the EPA's authority to revoke permits for such coal mining operations, and a group of scientists calling for a moratorium on the practice. Is the end of blowing up Appalachia near?
Coal, poor water management endanger Southern rivers
April 17, 2013 - The Flint in Georgia, the San Saba in Texas, the Catawba in the Carolinas, and the Black Warrior in Alabama are among the nation's 10 most threatened rivers, according to the latest tally from American Rivers.
Life after coal: Does Wales point the way?
By Daily Yonder
March 5, 2013 - Declining coal production is hurting Appalachia's economy, which was already in rough shape. Scholars are looking at Wales, which lost its coal economy in the 1980s, for examples for how Appalachia might address its economic future.
INSTITUTE INDEX: A bright moment for solar power, but clouds ahead?
September 14, 2012 - The U.S. solar market is growing by leaps and bounds, thanks in part to policies pursued by the Obama administration. But fossil fuel interests are spending heavily in this election to ensure it's a one-term administration.
On Appalachia Solidarity Day, remembering a mountain hero
September 13, 2012 - Larry Gibson, a leader in the campaign to end mountaintop removal coal mining, died Sunday on the West Virginia mountain he fought so hard to protect. Today, his fellow activists will gather at the White House to remember him and to call for an end to the destruction of Appalachia.
Anti-mining protests heat up in West Virginia as evidence of damage builds
July 30, 2012 - Twenty people were arrested over the weekend while blocking the largest mountaintop removal operation in West Virginia. Meanwhile, scientific evidence of the human and environmental health damages caused by such mining continues to mount. Will U.S. lawmakers approve legislation imposing a moratorium?
INSTITUTE INDEX: The real obscenity of mountaintop removal
June 8, 2012 - Mountaintop removal activist Maria Gunnoe of West Virginia was questioned about child porn by U.S. Capitol Police after submitting a photo of a child bathing in mine-polluted water to a House committee chaired by a lawmaker who counts coal companies among his biggest contributors.
Mapping the health toll of mountaintop removal
February 15, 2012 - A new mapping tool helps illustrate the serious health impacts of a particularly destructive form of coal mining.
VOICES: Strip mining Black History Month
By New America Media
February 1, 2012 - Few realize Black History Month's ties to the history of coal miners in West Virginia. And as mountaintop removal mining continues there, that history is in danger of being erased.
POWER POLITICS: Southern state lawmakers take aim at mountaintop removal
February 26, 2009 - North Carolina is not a coal mining state, but its electric utilities are still involved in one of the most destructive mining practices used today -- mountaintop removal mining, which involves blasting off Appalachian peaks to get to the coal and dumping the resulting waste into valleys below.

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UN: migrants face human rights crisis in Libya while European Council discusses cooperation with Libyan Coast Guards
The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) and the UN mission in Libya (UNSMIL) published their report "Detained and Dehumanised" this week highlighting human rights abuses that migrants and refugees face in Libya. The report proposes policy recommendations to the Libyan and EU governments.
The report concludes that many migrants in Libya suffer human rights abuses such as arbitrary detention and inhumane conditions of detention, torture, other ill-treatment as well as unlawful killings and sexual exploitation. Many are arbitrarily held in detention centres run mostly by the government Department for Combatting Illegal Migration (DCIM). In these centres, conditions are inhumane as they are overcrowded, lack access to toilet or washing facilities, food and clean water and detainees are exposed to physical violence, humiliations and extortion from guards. Further, the report finds that groups pledging alliance to ISIL frequently abduct and abuse individuals. Finally, men believed to be from the Libyan Coast Guard are reported to have carried out life-threatening interceptions during search and rescue operations. UN High Commissioner Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein stated, "The list of violations and abuses faced by migrants in Libya is as long as it is horrific."
UNSML and OCHR urge the Libyan government to address the human rights violation of migrants by ending arbitrary detention of all migrants, to immediately release migrants in the most vulnerable positions, to reduce the number of detention centres and to facilitate the work of UNHCR and IOM in the country. In the medium term they propose to decriminalize irregular migration and ensure the ratification of the 1951 Refugee Convention, 1967 Protocol and the adoption of national asylum law.
They further recommend that destination countries, including the EU Member States, expand safe and regular entry channels, continue search and rescue operations, human rights based training to Libyan institutions engaging with migrants.
At this week's European Council the importance of cooperation with Libyan Coast Guards in the framework if EUNAVFOR MED Operation Sophia was reaffirmed. . Human Rights Watch Middle East and North Africa Director, Sarah Leah Whitson stressed "The UN has made clear that Libyan authorities should end the torture, forced labor, and sexual violence that has been the lot of detained migrants for years. The partners in Libya's policies toward migrants, including the EU, should insist on nothing less."
ECRE, Report of Libyan Coast Guards attacking migrants raises concerns over continued cooperation within Operation Sophia, November 4, 2016
ECRE, New IOM data show widespread abuse, trafficking of refugees and migrants on the Central Mediterranean Route, October 24, 2016
Amnesty International, Refugees and migrants fleeing sexual violence, abuse and exploitation in Libya, July 1, 2016
Human Rights Watch, EU/NATO: Europe's Plan Endangers Foreigners in Libya, July 6, 2016
Photo: OHCHR, Libya, http://bit.ly/2hrjcHa


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Dan Anstey
Dan Anstey on the set of ManSpace in 2014
Daniel Matthew Anstey
(1984-12-19) 19 December 1984 (age 36)
Bachelor of Electrical Engineering (Hons), University of Queensland
Radio and television presenter
hit90.9 Sea FM Gold Coast
Dan Anstey (born 19 December 1984 in Brisbane, Queensland), is an Australian radio and television presenter. He is known for hosting the Nine Network television series ManSpace, the 7mate Stihl Timbersports Series and various shows across the Nova and Southern Cross Austereo radio networks, and also appearances on The Project.
2.1 Radio
2.2 Television
3 Awards and honours
After graduating as dux of Nambour State High School in 2001, Anstey attained a Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering with Honours from the University of Queensland in 2005.[1][2]
He has a verified IQ of 34, making him ineligible to join Mensa.[3]
On Christmas Day, 2017 he became engaged to his long-term girlfriend Clare Dufty. They married on the Gold Coast on 25 August, 2018,[4] and have a daughter named name Halle Ann born 14 April, 2019.[5]
Anstey began his radio career in 2007 as part of Brisbane's Nova 106.9 promotional street team,[6][7] of which Scott Tweedie was also a member.[8]
In 2011 he was named as co-host of the Nova 106.9 breakfast show alongside Ashley Bradnam, David Lutteral and Camilla Severi.[9] When Kip Wightman returned to station in 2012 Anstey was shifted to "The Dan Anstey Show" which aired weekday afternoons,[10] before again being moved to Melbourne sister station Nova 100 as anchor of the breakfast show Hughesy & Kate.[7][10][6]
When Hughesy & Kate ended in 2013[11][12] Anstey was hired by rival Melbourne station Fox FM to anchor its new breakfast show Fifi & Dave.[13][14][15] In 2015 Fox FM announced he would be leaving the show and was to be replaced by Byron Cooke.[16][17]
He currently hosts the hit90.9 Sea FM breakfast show on the Gold Coast alongside Bianca Dye and Ben Hannant.[18]
In 2007 Anstey began presenting short film reviews on Reel2Reel, a film review program broadcast by the Brisbane community television station Briz31 (now known as Queensland Online TV).[6][19]
He has been a regular contributor to The Project since 2010, reporting from Brisbane, Melbourne and the Gold Coast.[20]
In 2014 Anstey was named as host of the Nine Network television series ManSpace, alongside Shane Jacobson and Dale Vine.[1][21][22][23] He has hosted two seasons of the program[24][25] with a third currently in production.
Along with Leon Murray he hosted the internet series Add a Motor to it in 2011.[citation needed] The show featured various everyday items that had been motorised, including a couch that set the world record for fastest sofa at 163 km/h (101 mph).[26]
In 2014 Anstey was part of an MLC advertising campaign that tasked him with delivering a plate of Australian lamb to Julian Assange, at the time a political refugee in the Ecuadorian Embassy of London.[27] He was unsuccessful in his duty.[28]
Anstey was named one of "The Top New Talent to Watch" in 2014 by Radio Today.[19]
He has twice won the Australian Commercial Radio Award for Best Comedy Segment, in 2012[29][30][31] and 2015,[32][33][34][35] and was a presenter, appearing on stage dressed as a clown, at the ceremony in 2014 with Fifi Box.[36][37]
Anstey has been (self) styled a Dr since his undergraduate years. He is quoted as saying this was directly referencing his superior intelligence when compared to his peers, however this view is contested by unnamed sources who suggest it was more an acknowledgement of his proficiency in self pomposity with "Dr Dick" being the preferred turn of phrase in reference to Anstey by his detractors.
^ a b "FoxFM's Anstey mans up for TV debut". Radio Today. Retrieved 2016-05-24.
^ "Roadhouse Magazine Issue 17 - Page 24". www.printgraphics.net.au. Retrieved 2016-05-25.
^ Publisher, Master. "AAP Medianet - 30 March 2017 - Melbourne Press Club". www.melbournepressclub.com. Retrieved 2017-10-13.
^ "Subscribe to the Gold Coast Bulletin". www.goldcoastbulletin.com.au. Retrieved 2018-09-08.
^ a b c "Roadhouse Magazine Issue 17 - Page 25". www.printgraphics.net.au. Retrieved 2016-05-25.
^ a b "Comings and Goings". www.radioinfo.com.au. Retrieved 2016-05-24.
^ "Scott Tweedie Bio". Eleven. Archived from the original on 12 August 2012.
^ "Dan's the man for Nova - for now". Retrieved 2017-05-02.
^ a b "Dan Anstey | Creative Rep". creativerep.com.au. Retrieved 2016-05-25.
^ "Radio rivals Matt and Jo, Hughesy and Kate ready for tearful farewell". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 2016-05-24.
^ "Hughesy and Kate's Armageddon...Outta Here! | radioinfo.com.au". www.radioinfo.com.au. Retrieved 2016-05-24.
^ "Dan Anstey Fox breakfast | radioinfo.com.au". www.radioinfo.com.au. Retrieved 2016-05-24.
^ "Fox announce off-air movements". Radio Today. Retrieved 2016-05-24.
^ "A garden to walk in, to dream". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 2016-05-24.
^ "FoxFM replaces Fifi and Dave breakfast anchor Dan Anstey with Sea FM's Byron Cooke - Mumbrella". Mumbrella. 2015-10-23. Retrieved 2016-05-24.
^ Pinnell, Ian. "Fifi & Dave back on Fox in 2016 - News on News". newsonnews.com. Retrieved 2016-05-24.
^ "Hit Network set for biggest overhaul in half-decade [exclusive]". Radio Today. 2020-07-26. Retrieved 2020-08-11.
^ a b March, Brad. "The Top New Talent To Watch in 2014". Radio Today. Retrieved 2016-05-26.
^ "Man, Dan Anstey can talk the torque". Queensland Times. Retrieved 2017-04-29.
^ "Man, Dan Anstey can talk the torque". Sunshine Coast Daily. Retrieved 2016-05-24.
^ "Airdate: ManSpace". TV Tonight. 2014-05-13. Retrieved 2016-05-24.
^ Epstein, Jackie (March 2014). "Dan's the Man". Herald Sun. Retrieved 30 May 2016.
^ "Airdate: ManSpace returns for a second season on GO! | @Channel9". DeciderTV. Retrieved 2016-05-24.
^ "ManSpace Season 2". 9Now. The Nine Network. Retrieved 2016-05-24.
^ "Sofa breaks speed record in Australia". Telegraph.co.uk. Retrieved 2016-05-24.
^ "LAMB WITH ASSANGE". Invisible Artists. Retrieved 2016-05-24.
^ "Never Lamb Alone with Julian Assange". Vimeo. Retrieved 2016-05-26.
^ "2012 ACRAs Winners & Finalists". Australian Commercial Radio Awards. Australian Commercial Radio Awards. Retrieved 25 May 2016.
^ "Jonesy and Amanda take home gong for best team radio show". NewsComAu. Retrieved 2016-05-24.
^ Jackson, Sally (15 October 2012). "Radio prize for the other Jones". The Australian. The Australian.
^ "Kyle and Jackie O, Ross and John win top gongs at Australian Commercial Radio Awards 2015". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 2016-05-24.
^ "The 2015 ACRAs Winners". Radio Today. Retrieved 2016-05-24.
^ "'Good luck buddy, you're gonna need it!'". NewsComAu. Retrieved 2016-05-24.
^ "How Shane Jacobson saved the ACRAs from going down the gurgler | radioinfo.com.au". www.radioinfo.com.au. Retrieved 2016-05-24.
^ "Shane Jacobsen To Host ACRAS". www.newmedia.com.au. Retrieved 2016-05-24.
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Dhurba Thapa, president of the association, said they were forced to increase prices following the rise in cost of raw materials and import fees.
Price of cement had increased by Rs100 per sack last year. Although the cost of cement production has dropped due to smooth supply of electricity, rising costs of raw materials such as clinkers and coals that have to be imported, was the main reason of the price hike.
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BEIJING : Bolstered by improving sales and better margins, profits for China's industrial companies rose last month, bucking a months-long downtrend.
But analysts are unsure if the modest gains can last.
Profits rose 1.1 per cent last month from a year earlier to 565.6 billion yuan (S$111 billion), according to data released by the Chinese National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) yesterday, following a 3.7 per cent fall in April.
In the first five months, industrial companies earned profits of 2.38 trillion yuan, down 2.3 per cent from a year earlier, compared with a 3.4 per cent drop in January-April.
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Charlie Chaplin's family have written an open letter to ask for London's Cinema Museum to be saved.
The museum, housed in the former Lambeth workhouse where Chaplin once lived, could be under threat when its lease expires next March.
The letter, signed by five of Chaplin's children, says they are "distressed" at the prospect of the closure.
They add that the film star's "painful experience there did much to mould our father's unique creative gift".
Katherine Ford, an adviser to the museum board, said the family "are great supporters".
The letter is signed by Chaplin's children Geraldine, Michael, Victoria, Annette and Jane.
In it, they say their father was in and out of the Lambeth Workhouse from the age of four and as such "it is not a celebratory piece of family history".
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A petition has been set up to save the Cinema Museum, which has charitable status, is run by volunteers and receives no public funding.
The museum houses an extensive collection of cinema artefacts and the Chaplin family describe it as "the nearest thing that Britain has to a Chaplin Museum".
The petition says the owners of the building, the South London and Maudsley Hospital Trust, are planning to sell the property, "implying that we can be easily evicted".
More than 19,000 people have signed the petition so far.
According to the petition, the museum has put in a competitive bid for the property in collaboration with Family Mosaic, part of the Peabody Group, a large housing association providing affordable homes and care and support services.
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Chaplin was born in London in 1889 and spent around a decade in and out of the Lambeth Workhouse in Renfrew Road.
According to his family's letter, the last time he was there was in 1903 when he was 14. He "had managed to take his mother there" when she was "suffering from extreme mental disorder". She was later transferred to an asylum, where she spent the rest of her life.
The silent film star left his life of poverty behind when he joined a theatre company and travelled to America in 1910.
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What impressed me the most with this program is that it isn't just a one-dimensional HR program. Instead, it's an entire cultural and business shift that's been developed by looking at the requirements in a more holistic and strategic manner. Future Fit has proven to be a real game changer at Atos, developing a highly skilled workforce and at the same time giving employees new opportunities, with 78% of all of their roles filled internally.
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This is 'the Hub' of Future Fit and have been set up to provide support and guidance to employees to assist them in making their next career move. Whether that be the next step in their current career or expanding out into totally new skill areas, employees can come here to get that support and assistance in helping them identify and move towards that new opportunity. The main mechanism in which employees 'join' the center is through 'Hands up'. This is when employees can raise their hands and express their interest to take on a new opportunity. Once they have done this, the team then make contact and support them with their Future Fit journey.
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I joined the Digital Growth Network as it offered me the opportunity to develop my career as a Data Scientist. I am delighted with my career change and I look forward to achieving more skills and accreditations.
It is fantastic to see re-skilling is supported and encouraged. I am excited for this new chapter and thankful to everyone who has supported me.
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Truly engage your people in the journey, sharing with them the WIIFM (what's in it for me) to ensure they truly commit.
See this as a journey and not an end game; skills, capabilities, demands will all keep evolving and therefore as organizations we need to be agile and flexible in responding to those changes.
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