TPS Blogger Mona Sarika’s Latest Article at Huffington Post
By Mona Sarika • Jun 18th, 2009 • Category: Politics • 3 CommentsWhen Mahwash Badar watched the speech at her home in Karachi, she was pleased that for the first time a US President has reached out to the Muslim world. She said, “It’s a big shift from ‘Are you with us or against us?’” After President Obama’s address from Cairo to Muslims around the world, people of Pakistan have great expectations and hopes from the American president. Pakistan is one of the largest Muslim countries in the world and the relationship between the United States and the Pakistan has been on shaky ground due to the war on terror but now there is hope among Pakistanis that President Obama will change that. Sara Jamill, a Pakistani Professor of Textile Designing, is quite optimistic. “This speech,” she says, “will start the cycle of change and will be powerful enough to find its way to action.” Sana Saleem, a feature editor for BEE magazine, feels confident “…that the United States is serious about reshaping its policy towards Muslim world.” President Obama’s conciliatory tone is playing out well in changing the image of the US. “The shift from the more adversarial tone of the Bush Administration is certainly a welcome change,” said Ali Lalani, a young Pakistani professional.
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Wow, thats great.
Hi Mona,
You want the following items to be followed by Obama for pakistanies to love America.
1.Stop drone attacks inside pakistan which is killing Alquaeda and Taliban terrorists. But your Army chief is Flying the F16 and kills them, then it is OK Infact Brigadier Junaid in this TPS asked Americans to help in eradicating Taliban. is there any difference in Taliban as seen from F16 of pakistan and the drones?
2.Midle east conflict and palestenian issue. Why should it bother pakistanies? This is the root cause of failure of your nation.Black goggled Saudi kings are fooling your population in supporting their MUSLIM UMMA while they themselves will not fight the Americans or Israelies. Infact They give money to Taliban to kill worldwide innocents in the name of Islam or burn Danish embassies when cartoons are published. Why not Danish embassies in Egypt,Jordan,UAE,Saudi arabia etc?
3.Why americans must help your nation a nd your refugees? Why not your leaders/?Why not Saudi kings and UAE which are the wealthiest in world?
Mr. Johann,
It is all about “Double Standards”.