Filed Under (Pakistan) by Teeth Maestro on November-25-2007

A very touching film which must be watched by all alike, it was set to be released on Nov 21st in a viewing at FAST-NU Lahore but the authorities clamped down on this and prevented the viewing. Since then it has moved on to the digital world originally uploaded at [ The Critique Aggregator ] while simultaneously uploaded on the Missing in Pakistan blog. Watch the video and spread the word, if you want to download a full screen version then download from RapidShare 103MB

Message from [ The Critique Aggregator ]

The Critique Aggregator (http://paki-blogger.blogspot.com) is a blog maintained by concerned activists, academics, some of them of Pakistani origin, some non-Pakistani but concerned with the situation in Pakistan, living wherever they are. The aim of the blog is to resist state oppression in Pakistan and to disseminate critical information. The bloggers have just uploaded a video on people Missing in Pakistan. We are not taking the credit for the video either. We are only the disseminators. Watch the video released today by the students at a protesting university in Lahore. The names of the documentary filmmakers are in the movie. So the credit goes to the brave filmmakers. Not to us. The bloggers also seek anonymous contributions from all concerned citizens of the world on the situation in Pakistan.

Send in your anonymous contributions to this email address. We will not publish any story with a name so do not send anything with your real name. The focus is on privacy and safety. Not on gaining fame. Namelessness and facelessness are the most well-known resistance tactics. Forget them and you are eaten by the agencies of Pakistan.

It is a viral movement. We want to publish fearless stories. Individual opinions. Cutting-edge reports. Protest tactics. We are trying to become the faceless multitude. The flash protest. The autonomous viral movement of resistant action. This is not the time to cut a deal with Musharraf or his cronies or the Empire that supports Busharraf or to garner fame. This is the time to try and push for a change in Pakistan.

NOTE: If you send something to us for publication and it has your REAL name on it, we will change the name. So it is better if you use a consistent nom de guerre / pen name for yourself. It is even better if this name is symbolic or figurative (like LUMS Pamphleteer) so that there is no accidental resemblance with any real person. We can give due credit to your nom de guerre. Please also try to substantiate your analysis with pictures and videos. We are not trying to replace other blogs but to complement them because we have very fast uploading connections. We support the movement at LUMS, FAST-NU, BNU, Quaid e Azam University, Punjab University and elsewhere in Pakistan. We do not seek any recognition. We are part of the collective struggle.

ANOTHER NOTE: Some of the stuff on the blog is rude or uses coarse language. But after seeing the video on the missing people, you will forgive our little rude jokes on Musharraf. It is our attempt to laugh in the face of extremely rude dictatorship by being a little bit obscene every now and then. It is all political humor. Milan Kundera has written somewhere that, during the Soviet Occupation, people recognized the members of the resistance in Czechoslovakia because of their tendency to laugh. Laughter is subversive too. This blog will be maintained by volunteers and many people already know the password. So if one or two persons are removed or hunted down, it will not be silenced. It is already a work of a multitude and all of them use the same username and password.

Yours in solidarity

The Human Text Collective
Email: human.text@gmail.com
Lahore, Islamabad, Paris, Berlin, New York, London



Comments
MB on December 1st, 2007 at 3:01 pm #

Thanks for sharing

C V R Bharati on December 6th, 2007 at 6:20 pm #

Whatever currently is happening in Pakistan is really saddening. How can we tolerate such a situation in our midst. The people who are disappearing are real people, fathers, brothers, sons, husbands, to their near and dear ones. Really tragic that so many innocents are having to suffer for the faults of few erstwhile rulers of Pakistan who didnt not have the foresight to see that if they play with fire, the fire one day could also singe you. The terrorism and fundamentalism which the rulers of Pakistan have been playing with all these last 30 years is wreaking havoc on the innocents of Pakistan. In this dark hour, I can only offer my sympathies and nothing else. I am an Indian, and anything that we say or do to help people will affect negatively on the people of Pakistan.

Nikki on January 8th, 2008 at 9:00 pm #

The only thing that i could think about after sparing my 24 mins was that i love my land and hate the people residing on it, why couldnt anyone possibly save that kid who was forceffuly being put in the police van, everyone around there was busy in making reports and taking pictures, our leaders are cursed. And we are foolish enough to bring them back again and again evrytime despite the fact that watever has been done over the past years. With power comes responsibilities, but we r the most selfish of all. God always provides His being with two options and the right to choose between them.

Alas! We are blind

Web Designer Group on February 9th, 2008 at 12:24 pm #

Thansk for sharing. We all are sad from this situation. After the dismissle of Chief Justice of Pakistane, the problem becomes worst.

omar on February 24th, 2008 at 3:02 am #

i don’t get it why is Pakistan turning into a country which falls in the list of dangerous and black list. from the day in moved to Canada with my family i have never even thought about going back because like the man said in video i don’t even know when i will be killed or picked up by government fucking police. Pakistan have no rights for anyone expect person with power. tell me if any international country’s company is anymore interested in investing money in Pakistan. Pakistan was better in 1980s then this. biggest problem is the freaking parties like mqm and mma they will kill everyone to become the prime minister.

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