Nirala Sweets Controversy-Media Politics?

I must confess that we are living in the era where media propaganda is accepted more than a religion. The same media can make masses to believe that there was WMD in Iraq hence it should be invaded. Off course same media was used to attack on Afghanistan by inventing a ‘terrorist’ organization by naming it as ‘Al-qaeda’. Recently same media propaganda was used by Musharraf regime to declare old Hudood law a ‘brutal law’ against women by spreading that ‘it asks for 4 witnesses by a raped woman anyway otherwise it prisons the raped women’. I will make a detailed post about new and old Hudood laws and would discuss that whether new law really protects a woman or whether old law was really so brutal and violent against women. Inshallah I will be given reference of original text of both laws so that readers decide themselves rather I ask them to put my words in their mouth.

My 2^nd last post was about Nirala Sweets and as I said everyone who contacted me via SMS and forwarded me the message about the accident blamed to the son Nirala owners and asked to boycott the sweets[which I don’t support at all] but nobody cared to find out the reality and whether the things are really true or not. I am one of those who stopped trusting in media after its negative use in Iraq war, this is why I never bought the theories of recent Hudood law controversy while I had access to original laws. Anyways Iqbal Bhutta sahib left a comment in that post and did bring up an important point; that is ‘media politics’. Iqbal Sahib’s reply is given below:

I've been a supporter of the freedom for press, but this is forcing me to change my mind. This particular news item is just plain sensationalism. What makes this worse is that it was a tragedy that can make the stoutest of hearts weep & here we are with 2 giant companies out to gain mileage out of it. A 2 month old baby lost its life & The News & Mobilink are taking sides in a fight that doesn't really matter! Because they feel that they can give their bland & inhuman organizations a human face by taken the side of "the little guy". This is worse than a tragedy. There is no undoing the past.

The events have been grossly misreported & exagerated. The way it really happened was that the driver of the Honda City took blind u-turn in the middle of the road, into the path of the oncoming Boxter driven by Faisal Farooq. There was no race. I know Faisal to be a particularly cautious driver & he rarely exceeds the 100 km/h while driving. If there was an accident, something must've popped up real fast in his way for him to react; i.e. the blind u-turn taken by the driver of the Honda City.

Faisal did not flee the crime scene either. He waited till the ambulance came. He made sure the victims of the accident got to the hospital, & after the authorities allowed him to leave, he left for home, only to come back with his frail old father in the morning to ask if he could to do anything to help. Instead, he was threatened with dire consequences. There was no beating up at the National Hospital, DHA by Faisal's uncle & his goons either. The price of compassion.

What happened that night is, without doubt, a tragedy. It is beyond words to describe the loss the two, now, have to brave. But, lets pray for them rather than speculate on what happened & come to our own conclusions based on nothing but conjecture of those who weren't even there that night.

May HE also bless the soul of the poor child that presihed that night. & may HE grant courage & patience to the berieved couple who had to loose their only child. May HE lift the veil from our eyes & let justice be done in this world for our patience is as limited as our wisdom & understanding, unlike HIS; infinite & unfathomable.

May Allah keep our hearts pure & not force us to judge out of ignorance, for HE is the True Seer of all that happens under the sun & the stars.

Ameen!

Thanks Iqbal Sahib to bring an alternative and valid perspective.

Update: Just got a site about that situation and it explains further. Visit aslibaatt

I recieve some lunatic messages by readers who named me whatever they wished. Someone went to such extreeme that he got ready to kill me and another suggested to put me on jail and while another MUSLIM PAKISTANI fellow siad that people like me supported freedom to publish cartoons while my reaction was clearly mention here , here and here. Sorry as I mentioned earlier that I don't prefer to react like an emotional fool like we reacted about cartooon issue which was globally and now this Nirala issue. I wish we could demonstrate similar emotions for the betterment of Ummah or Pakistan but we will not because we're hypocrite morons. At one side we whine for an accident JUST because it happened with a RICH kid while we don't say a word when our women raped by Feudals and they re forced to walk naked on roads as punishments. I think we should curse ourselves first before we think to condemn others.