The English language daily newspaper - The Dawn leads the most of the English language publications in the most venal anti-Pakistan sentiments. Its columnists and even editorials have an endless tirade against the country. Instead of being specific about issues and offering solutions. Some writers send their dispatches from some country abroad and on the one hand represents it with glowing colours as if – it literally is heaven on Earth while on the other Pakistan is painted is a bottomless pit of absolute despair. Entire pages are filled with such reports and columns.
One can only belong to a presumably elite club only when one has the ability damn the country with generalities – not provide the necessary information to back up their views. and praise another. When such people are challenged they have found a way around it – with outright fabrications.
The supposed brilliant and learned columnists have never been able to explain why they lack the ability express their views on some scientific discovery. They are unable to do so because they do not know the first thing about them – hence are unable to present their views. There is a lot more going on in the world than just politics – there science, there is technology, there is local rock music– but these writers only stick to what they use to know, which is very old news now. They just cannot help repeat themselves and used hackneyed phrases - ‘failed state’, ‘soft state’, ‘third world country’ and ‘terrorist state’ – all the terms to make the country look abysmally terrible.
Then there is the lot of politicians who believe that the country requires crutches to simply exist. One noted politician talks of its strategic status for some silly reason it makes it important – but what exactly that is supposed to mean is not very clear. Politicians are strong on foreign policy statements, but have little or nothing to say about specific nagging problems, which could be resolved in no time at all - just by picking up the telephone and calling the concerned person of that specific department to do something about it. But these such things are to mundane and pithy to be given any importance. Even then there is really nothing wrong with the country, all that has to be done is to stop trusting the government to be precise the junta for helping out in any way. The only priority of the generals is to hold on to power - everything else is of no consequence - so it is the up to the citizens to take on the responsibility to get things done and never rely on those who supposedly have been entrusted to do it.
The world has a dismal view of Pakistan because the media portrays as such and happily nurtures such ideas. Hating or liking the country is not a media policy it is just a way incite treason. The result is that so many people have been tricked into leaving the country - for ‘greener pastures’. A newspaper’s policy should be defined by its political aims and objectives. Whether it is rightist, leftist or liberal. It could also be representing the values of a some religious political party. But such things could take time to develop – but they will eventually. – but condemning the country is certainly not the answer.
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