Why hasn't Pakistan had an uprising like other countries?

[Michin Khel]

I reported you for that senseless and untrue posts

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Who are Pakistanis btw? Never heard about such a race before? Sindh, Punjab, Pahstun, Baloch? Who are you?

No wonder that you give a bad name for "Pakistanis" in the Arab world.....

And since when is Pakistan a so called democracy??

Apart from that how dare you to disrespect all the braves Arabs who gave their life to remove secular dictators for the cause of Islam?[/QUOTE]

For 50 years you people were sleeping, then i see sudden uprising...i give credit to westren powers...brave arabs my ass. .....

[al-arab]

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Who are Pakistanis btw? Never heard about such a race before? Sindh, Punjab, Pahstun, Baloch? Who are you?

No wonder that you give a bad name for "Pakistanis" in the Arab world.....

And since when is Pakistan a so called democracy??

Apart from that how dare you to disrespect all the braves Arabs who gave their life to remove secular dictators for the cause of Islam?

For 50 years you people were sleeping, then i see sudden uprising...i give credit to westren powers...brave arabs my ass. .....[/QUOTE]

Why are you not replying my question?

Which people do you belong to?

You are not very clever. I hope you get a ban for your racist comments and untrue remarks.

[Dinosaur Khan]

The most racist people on earth: okhan

Pakistanis themselves, mired in denial
and ever-ready to engage in the
pantomime of pretending to be Arab,
are inured to this reality of Arab
racism. Easily appeased with the
promise of Gulf jobs when their own country is in shambles they consider
any paltry thankless employment a
godsend “We need slaves to build monuments,”
says an Iraqi engineer living in Abu
Dhabi to a reporter from the Guardian.
In the published report he goes to add
that he would never use the metro if it
wasn’t segregated since “we would never sit next to Pakistanis and
Indians because of their smell”. The dismal condition of Pakistani
labourers in the Gulf States is well
known and the above statements are
merely reflections of the deep-seeded
and overtly racist attitudes of Arabs in
the Gulf and otherwise towards Pakistanis. The same Guardian report also details
how Pakistani slave labourers work
up to eighteen hours a day and often
live twenty to a room without any
ventilation and with only a single
bathroom for several hundred people. Several do not see their families for
four to ten year periods, unable to
afford the airfare home and many die
on the job. Without any insurance scheme families
are often not notified of deaths for
months and the only compensation
available to them is through an
underground system through which
other workers donate thirty dirham each which is then collected and
donated. The strictly segregated
society means that the rich Arabs
never come across the lowly Pakistani
workers who build their roads, clean
their floors and drive their cars. But in recent years, the oil-rich barons
of the Gulf have found a new use for
slave labour that goes beyond
cleaning bathrooms and picking trash
off the streets of Dubai. A recent
statement issued by Special Envoy Richard Holbrooke in Brussels
revealed that the Taliban are being
funded by individuals from the Gulf
States. Secretary Holbrooke said: “The
Taliban receive more funding from the
Gulf States than they do from the narcotics trade”. As has been reported by several
Pakistani newspapers, this means that
the sources of foreign funding for the
Taliban are greater than the
approximate USD100 million they
receive from the narcotics trade based on poppy cultivation inside
Afghanistan. While Holbrooke was careful to note
that the money is not coming from
governments but rather from
individuals, his statement, based on
credible reports tracing wire transfers
from the region, illustrates a new use that rich Gulf Arabs have found for
expendable Pakistani lives. Similar to the onerous burden of
cleaning one’s own bathrooms, or
drilling one’s own oil or building one’s
own monuments, the task of fighting
one’s own holy war has proven to be
far too burdensome for Arabs intoxicated with the seemingly never-
ending largesse of a resource-fuelled
economy. Smelly Pakistanis, the Arabs
have discovered, are not only good
enough to build crass monuments to
consumerism but also to fight misguided holy wars that destroy
nations and eviscerate thousands of
innocent lives. Holbrooke’s statement is not the only
basis for believing that the Taliban are
receiving support from the Gulf States.
In May of this year, the United Nations
sent out an international appeal for aid
for the nearly 2 million people displaced by the fighting in the tribal
areas and the NWFP. While the US has
pledged USD320 million for the IDPs
and the EU has pledged up to USD121
million, no significant pledges have
been made from the Gulf States. This strange dichotomy in which our
supposed Muslim brethren have
turned their back on the suffering of
the people of Swat, Buner and Dir
makes far more sense in light of new
information that illustrates that in picking sides, rich sheikhs from the
Gulf have chosen to place their bets
with the Taliban rather than with the
Pakistani soldiers fighting them. Pakistanis themselves, mired in denial
and ever-ready to engage in the
pantomime of pretending to be Arab,
are inured to this reality of Arab
racism. Easily appeased with the
promise of Gulf jobs when their own country is in shambles they consider
any paltry thankless employment,
even if it denies them basic human
rights, a godsend. Ironically, the standards they expect
non-Muslim countries like the United
States and the European Union to
uphold in terms of equal employment,
egalitarian laws and freedom of
expression are all abandoned when it comes to the assessment of Arab
nations. No attention is given for
example to the Arabs’ discriminatory
employment practices that pay a
Pakistani a fraction of what is paid to a
European citizen for the same engineering job. Some workers make as little as 400
dirhams a month, barely able to afford
meals while surrounded by
unimaginable excess. Even less
emphasis is received by the
condescending and racist attitudes of Gulf law enforcement authorities that
regularly detain immigrant workers
without any legal process and
routinely beat and abuse them. All this injustice, perhaps because it is
committed by fellow Muslims, who
make a great pretence at religious
devotion, is somehow unthinkingly
and unquestioningly forgiven. The fact
that such discrimination overtly and blatantly flouts any minimal allegiance
to the concept of the Islamic ummah is
never even considered. This latest news presents an urgent
challenge to the apathy of those
Pakistanis unwilling to acknowledge
the reality of Arab discrimination and
disdain toward South Asians. The fact
that Gulf sheikhs are contributing hundreds of millions of dollars to the
Taliban who are bombing schools,
marauding villages and devastating
the economy and infrastructure of our
nation while shutting their coffers to
the IDPs languishing in tents should irk even the most minimal nationalist. More pressingly, it should expose the
duplicity of our Arab overlords who,
while freely engaging in debaucheries
behind their castle walls now wish to
use the Taliban to impose a virulent
and dogmatic form of Islam on the poor smelly Pakistanis. Sending money to fuel a war that is
depleting Pakistan’s already meagre
resources, turning young men and
boys into human bombs and
transforming Pakistani cities into
battlegrounds exposes their desire to condemn Pakistan into oblivion.

[Michin Khel]

Arab Racism against Non-Arabs:
Slavery in our Times Irfan Husain
The Daily DAWN
Karachi, Pakistan
Among the many daily tragedies
blighting the lives of Asian migrant
workers in the Middle East is the harassment, physical abuse and
cruelty they have to put up with if they
want to stay. A recent issue of Sri
Lanka’s Daily Mirror informed us that
more than 300 Sri Lankan women
workers had left Bahrain over the last six months, complaining of “physical
abuse, sexual harassment, non-
payment of salaries and being over-
worked”.
According to Mr Higgoda, Sri Lanka’s
honorary consul to Bahrain, “We are handling many cases where the maids
are assaulted by employers. Some
were not paid for months and some
were denied medial care, enough food
or the right to go home, and also faced
violence and harassment… If the maids want to leave their work and
complain to the police, they are called
runaways by their employers. As a
result, the victim is usually deported,
after serving time in custody.”
An extreme case of this nature is that of Ms Sumiati Binti Salan Mustapa, a 23-
year old Indonesian worker in Saudi
Arabia, who was recently hospitalised
after her face and mouth were
savagely cut with scissors, and her
body burned with a hot iron. Just seeing her slashed face is enough to
give you nightmares. To the best of my
knowledge, her Saudi employers – the
people responsible for the attack —
are still free, despite the government’s
assurances to the Indonesian authorities of its intentions to
investigate the assault.
One reason Saudi employers get away
with this routine mistreatment of
foreign employees is that despite the
terrible conditions many of them are forced to endure, many Asians are still
willing to come to the kingdom.
Currently, around 80,000 Indonesians
flock to Saudi Arabia every year. And
yet, talking about the attack on Ms
Mustapa, the Indonesian foreign minister said: “Everyone knows about
these abuse cases, they happen all the
time.”
But both the employees and their
governments are desperate for the
remittances they send back home. Hence the conspiracy of silence.
According to Human Rights Watch,
many Asian domestic workers suffer
“conditions of slavery”. Saudi Arabia
alone has some 8.8 million foreign
workers, most of them from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and
Indonesia.
This works out to two foreign workers
for every Saudi.
Despite the appalling conditions they
work under, and the duration of their stay, none of these unfortunate
people ever acquire citizenship rights.
They are thus vulnerable to constant
abuse with virtually no laws to protect
them. Ignored by the police and their
own governments, they fear deportation if they leave their
employers.
This pattern is repeated across the
Middle East with hundreds of cases of
abuse being reported throughout the
region. Dubai built its skyscrapers on the backs of tens of thousands of
brutally exploited South Asian
construction workers, and yet they
have remained invisible to the
shoppers who flock to this island of
glitz and fool’s gold. Then there was the scandal of child
jockeys from Pakistan – some as
young as five and six — who were
tied on to racing camels.
Many fell to their deaths, and others
were crippled for life. It took years of international outrage to persuade the
UAE government to ban this
disgusting practice. Successive
Pakistani governments remained silent
spectators to this crime.
Migrant workers are exploited all over the world as mostly, they work in a
grey area with few rights and little
protection. But nowhere is the abuse
as flagrant as in the Middle East.
Because few employers responsible
for assaulting their staff are ever prosecuted, most citizens feel they can
torture those they employ with
impunity. States exporting this labour
do not want to upset the host
countries by demanding a proper
enquiry and prosecution as they want to keep the petro dollars flowing into
their coffers.
Had Asian workers been subjected to
the same kind of abuse in the West as
they are in the Middle East, the media
and civil society groups would have been up in arms. As it is, millions of
migrant workers have become citizens
of the Western countries they live and
work in. They and their families now
benefit from all the advantages of
being in welfare societies with free education and medical care and,
above all, protection of the law.
What causes this widespread abuse of
the weak in so many countries in the
Middle East? Clearly, their seems to be a
deep contempt for those not of Arab descent. And while Westerners are
given favoured status, other non-
Arabs are subjected to the worst kind
of racism. This despite our loud
proclamations of the equality that
supposedly exists in Islamic societies.These double standards are
common knowledge, and yet few in
our part of the world are willing to
speak about it. The racism inherent in
the situation has its roots in the early
days of Islam. Tarek Fatah, the Pakistani-Canadian
intellectual, has quoted Maulana
Maudoodi, the founder of the Jamat-i-
Islami, in his ground-breaking book
Chasing a Mirage [The Tragic Illusion
of an Islamic State]: “Right from the start, the
Umayyad government took on
the colours of an Arab
government in which the equality
of the Arabs and non-Arabs was
negated. In clear violation of Islamic principles, the Arab rulers
imposed Jazia on non-Arab
Muslims… Non-Arab Muslims felt
that they were the slaves of the
Arabs…” Fatah also quotes Professor Liyakat
Takim of the University of Denver: “(Under the Umayyads between
661 and 750) Arab Muslims were
granted honorific status
relegating, in the process, non-
Arabs to a status of second class
citizens. Despite the Quranic injunction of egalitarianism, Arab
sense of pride in Arab identity
reasserted itself soon after the
Prophet’s (PBUH) death. Non-
Arab converts to Islam, whatever
their previous social status, were treated as second-class citizens.” And if this is their attitude towards
non-Arab Muslims, imagine how they
must feel about non-Muslim Asians.
Clearly, this racist mindset has only
grown stronger over time. Now, with
egos bloated with billions of dollars in newly acquired unearned wealth
derived from an accident of geology,
many in the Middle East feel they are
chosen above all others, and can
mistreat those less fortunate than
them. Until states exporting surplus workers
to the region begin to assert their
rights, this modern version of slavery
will continue.
2010 November 24 DAWN.COM | Latest news, Breaking news, Pakistan News, world news, business, sport and multimedia.
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[Michin Khel]

A blog about racist okh people

I wrote a blog a few months back about not wanting to go to Dubai and
I got a few responses that said that I
should try my luck as it is land of
opportunities. As it was a light piece, I
never raised my biggest concern but I
think that Arabs are the biggest bigots and most staunch racist people on
planet earth and one must avoid them
if one can. Some people, especially
those who wear their religion on their
sleeves (and face, head and ankles)
would be offended that their brothers in faith are attacked in such a manner,
but it is the truth. Unlike Western
democracies, Arab racism is
entrenched in law and a non Arab
person has no hope for a fair judicial
trial if pitted against an Arab. There are racist and bigots in the West, but being
racist is generally considered a bad
thing and no one would openly flaunt
their racism like Arabs do. During my recent trip to Italy, I had a
chance to travel with Arabs. We were
waiting at the Venice train station late
one night and the minute they would
see either a black person or a South
Asian (there are lots of South Indians and Bangladeshis in Venice), they
would huddle closer and try and hide
their bags. I was also implored to hide
my purse under my coat as they
feared that any suspicious looking
man (read black or desi) may snatch it away. When I looked at one
particularly suspicious man, he turned
out to be an Indian factory worker
from Hyderabad in blue overalls,
probably going back to his home after
a long grueling day (I know it because I went up to him and spoke with him
for ten minutes after my argument
with the Arabs). When I said that he
seems like a harmless man, the girl
said, “These people (South Asians) are
jealous of Arabs and their wealth and would rob us any chance they get.”
Outraged that I was, I said, “In case
you have failed to notice, I too am one
of these people (South Asian).” To
which she said, “But you are my
Muslim sister.” I told her point blank that if I have to form an association
with anyone, I would rather associate
myself with the factory worker from
Hyderabad. After all, we share the skin
colour, food, history and we both
work for a living, something to which Arabs are not really familiar with. The reason for this tirade of mine is
that I just read this article in Guardian where an Iraqi Arab living in UAE
proudly said that he will never use the
new metro if it's not segregated and
will never sit next to Indians and
Pakistanis with their smell. “We need
slaves; we need slaves to build monuments. Look who built the
pyramids - they were slaves,” he
further added. If anyone has shown such unabashed
racism and cruelty to fellow human
beings in any other part of the world,
they would have been taken to task. If
nothing else, they would have been
bashed in the media. In Arab wonderland of Dubai, it happens
everyday and it is sanctioned by law.
They take pride in racism and bigotry
and it seems that they are extremely
proud of it

[al-arab]

I have very little sympathy for racists like you who cry about what other people (similar to yourself) do to other races.

My reply to you.



And you still have not replied to my post? Who are you? Pashtun, Punjab, Baloch, Sindh?

[Michin Khel]

I am a pashtun of pakistan.

[al-arab]

I am a pashtun of pakistan.

Thank you for your answer.

Then why do you defend Pakistan so much and it's government? I have no problem with any peoples even Jews I haven nothing against (only Zionists).

Pakistan is the reason why there is nu Pashtun country. The reason for conflict in Afghanistan also (among many other aspects).

Apparently most other "Pakistan" peoples (Sindh and Punjabi especially) treat Pashtun bad? Mosly Punjabi I have heard.

[graveyardofempires]

Thank you for your answer.

Then why do you defend Pakistan so much and it's government? I have no problem with any peoples even Jews I haven nothing against (only Zionists).

Pakistan is the reason why there is nu Pashtun country. The reason for conflict in Afghanistan also (among many other aspects).

Apparently most other "Pakistan" peoples (Sindh and Punjabi especially) treat Pashtun bad? Mosly Punjabi I have heard.

there is a pashtun country and its called Afghanistan

[al-arab]

Yes, but the Pashtun areas in Pakistan should belong to Afghanistan. That will not happen because of Pakistan existance.

[graveyardofempires]

Yes, but the Pashtun areas in Pakistan should belong to Afghanistan. That will not happen because of Pakistan existance.

i personally think whole of pakistan and afghanistan should merge and than claim indian muslim regions.

[Michin Khel]

Pakistan is federation of four nations, it is not like iraq which is arab country and kurds are a minority. I am pashtun by ethnicity and pakistani by nationality. Indians and punjabis make pathan jokes but in real life they cant make fun of us, generally they are scared of pashtuns. In pakistan no ethnicity has guts to "treat us bad"
your arabs treat poor pashtun workers in gulf very badly and humiliate them.

[al-arab]

Pakistan is federation of four nations, it is not like iraq which is arab country and kurds are a minority. I am pashtun by ethnicity and pakistani by nationality. Indians and punjabis make pathan jokes but in real life they cant make fun of us, generally they are scared of pashtuns. In pakistan ethnicity has guts to "treat us bad"
your arabs treat poor pashtun workers in gulf very badly and humiliate them.

I agree Graveyardofmepires but then the puppet governments should be removed and people from different nationalities should stop their hatred and forget former problems before it can succeed. This is what I feel.

Luffy:

Well I am aware of that but still their was (and maybe still is to some extent) discrimination towards the minorities in Pakistan from the two biggest group of people (Punjabi and Sindh). That you cannot hide.

Not all Arabs do that. There are very few Arabs in the Gulf. I think less than 10 million in total. And not everyone do that kind you have described. So again you generalize which is not good and most importantly un-Islamic.

[Karachi]

i personally think whole of pakistan and afghanistan should merge and than claim indian muslim regions.

That would be a ideal situation if all nationalism was gone from all sides

[Insaaf_انصاف]

Karachi and Luffy :

Mere pakistani bhayoo, iskee baat na suno ........