In this, the second episode of Amrika Edition, Taraqqi Pasand Media speaks with Lal Khan about the operation in Waziristan. Lal Khan is a leading member of the International Marxist Tendency in Pakistan.
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Lal Khan
We also talk to Lal Khan about the work of the IMT, its entirsm in the PPP and its independent work with The Pakistan Trade Union Defence Campaign and Unemployed Youth Movement. The IMT’s international website is marxist.com and many of the Urdu articles of the Pakistani section can be read on chingaree.com.
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Coming up next, an interview with Khurram Nayyer of the Communist Mazdoor Kissan Party and after that episode an interview with Riaz Ahmed of the International Socialists (Pakistan).
Shaheryar Ali
November 14, 2009
Very good. The most important point in think is what Dr Ayesha Siddiqa has raised as well, that we must consider the issue of strategic alliance between Taliban and Army.
It is a big mistake to support army in name of fighting Taliban. Because all Taliban leadership is safe after swat operation and also Wazirstan operation. Wazirstan is actually empty as noted by BBC which has asked the important question where are Taliban?
Army is just using all these operations as “image building” and we must look critically at them. One must ask for example
1) Why 700 Jihadi news papers and publications are in circulation in Pakistan still?
2) Why Banned organizations are openly operative
3) Why state is protecting taliban in south punjab as noted by Dr siddiqa
4) Why there is no independent news access to areas of operation
5) why army refuses UN and humanitarian agencies into these areas?
6) Why in these successful operations the main leadership of Taliban are either captured or covered?
7) Why no independent investigation of those who have been killed in operations because according to sources of ground and analyst like Yousafzai , Taliban were helped by Army to escape and civilians were killed or 3rd layers militant the untrained lumpan element was killed
Ali Kamran Chishti
November 16, 2009
good yaar! LAL Khan is someone I had been following for over some time and he came out as one of the most vocal voices – appreciate his talk and there’s no doubt about his knowledge!
asjad
November 20, 2009
Lal Khan did impressive participation recently on national networks but this was kind of disappointing, not only from argument side but mostly from technical aspect:
These are few of my observations for further improvement:
Language of the program was Urdu and hosts were consistent into that – But the guest was switching from Urdu to his broken English too often, that makes hard on audience to concentrate on the argument he was building. I think for coming shows, hosts need to communicate clearly to the guests…. what is the official language of the show. Apparently, guest was on phone line and there was little delay in signals but guest was not to paying attention (or not briefed) on this issue and the result was overlap during discussion. Hosts seems very respectful to their guest, nothing wrong with that but in some parts it seems with this esteem they lost the control on the direction of discourse.