An end to media-driven agendas?
IT is good to hear that the Pakistan-American relationship is on the mend as a spinoff of the recent visit to Washington D.C. of the ISI chief.It is good to see that so-called ghairat, or at least the foolish version of ghairat peddled by our hard-right press, did not stand in the way of Gen Shuja Pasha’s visit to see CIA officials to urgently straighten out the kinks that had surfaced in this vital relationship as a result, first of the Raymond Davis case, and then Osama bin Laden’s killing by US Navy SEALs in Abbottabad
Cantonment.
Astonishingly, even the Mehran naval airbase attack was twisted out of shape and put on the shoulders of the Americans by the Ghairat Brigades by letting out rumours and innuendo on the Internet by the bright young things, about five or six unidentified Americans being seen in Karachi on the eve of the attack and then disappearing the next day and other such tripe when it was clear, even before Saleem Shahzad’s book came out, that it was an inside job made that much easier because of lax naval security standards.
It is important to recall that these kinks appeared as a direct consequence of the above-mentioned section of the extreme right-wing jingoistic media, print and electronic, running a shrill and raucous campaign which even our great Rommels and Guderians (who at the drop of a tin-hat get
