The aim was to conduct a cerebral, physical, emotional X-ray of the disparate elements that shape the unique Pakistani national identity, 30 positive elements were presented along with 11 negative elements. While inexcusably promoting one's own book - but only because it is perhaps relevant to the subject of this reflection - I wrote a slim volume published three years ago titled What is Pakistaniat? (Paramount Books, Karachi).
They exulted in the safety and security they experienced all the way. Just after New Zealand cricketers insensitively declined to play their first game hours before start-time due to an allegedly credible threat of a terrorist attack - the source of such dubious, malicious disinformation has never been shared - a group of about 20 single American female motorbike enthusiasts completed their journey from the spectacular mountains of North Pakistan to the Arabian Sea coastline. Now, three years later, I do not want to leave.” Most foreign visitors, especially from the West, who see Pakistan for the first time, say: “How different your country is from what I thought it was through media coverage.” Some years ago, an outgoing Consul General of Germany said at a farewell dinner: “When I was posted to Karachi, I did not want to come. By virtue of not being “reported,” this vast majority seems not even to exist.
Because it does not spew hate or hurl stones or fire bullets, it receives no coverage because it is not newsy enough. The silent, non-violent majority is generally passive. When such excesses periodically recur, misleading notions take hold. Verbal extremism and physical violence of individual zealots, fringe groups, and fanatic mobs receive prominent coverage by news media. This second contribution’s title may fortify strongly entrenched misperceptions which actually deserve reconsideration. My first article published on Novemjuxtaposed “moderate” with “Pakistan.” That probably raised some sceptical eyebrows - until the text was read. However, we accept our mistake that we should not have posted this content and we apologise to every single person who was offended by it,” the brand said.The country's strongly entrenched misperceptions deserve reconsideration “These pictures were provided to us by a third party (blogger) in which they were wearing our dress. However, Mannat Clothing clarified that the pictures posted on its accounts were not part of any photoshoot done by it. Information Minister Fawad Chaudhry said the designer and the model must apologise to the Sikhs, adding that “Kartarpur Sahib is a religious symbol,not a film set.” According to a report in Dawn, the model’s photos were shared on the Instagram page of Mannat Clothing, but were removed after the criticism. Punjab Chief Minister Usman Buzdar issued a statement, saying he had ordered an inquiry and that action would be taken also against officials who had allowed the “modelling” at the gurdwara.
Punjab province’s Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf government got into action following the criticism on the social media. “Modelling bareheaded for ladies’ attire, in the premises of Gurdwara Sri Darbar Sahib at #KartarpurSahib in Pakistan, by a Lahorite woman has (severely) hurt the religious sentiments of Sikhs (sic),” he tweeted. Noting that the pictures have been uploaded on the social media, Ravinder Singh in a tweet highlighted the disrespect shown to the community and also tagged Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan. New Delhi: The DSGMC on Monday wrote to External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar, asking him to take up with the Pakistan Government the issue of an agency using the premises of Kartarpur Sahib for promotion of women’s apparel. The Pakistan police on Monday launched an investigation against a Pakistani model and a clothing brand for hurting religious sentiments of Sikhs by conducting a bareheaded photoshoot at Gurdwara Darbar Sahib in Kartarpur following an Indian Sikh journalist’s criticism of the pictures.
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