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A Letter from a Pakistani, recently in Malaysia Posted: 11 Aug 2012 11:42 PM PDT    Dear Readers, I would like to share this Letter to the Editor that I posted on Twitter earlier this morning. It's always good to know when other people look up to us, even when we ourselves look down on one another .... PESHAWAR: I recently visited Kuala Lumpur for an angioplasty of some calcified coronary arteries of my father at the Institut Jantung Negara (National Heart Institute). Malaysia is a modern, secular country and has excellent health facilities. However, the downside to this was that seeing such a prosperous country made me wonder at the state of my own country, which seems absolutely backward in every walk of life. May I also add that Malaysia gained its independence in 1957, a decade after Pakistan! The technology used by the doctors at the medical institute in Malaysia enabled all the calcified vessels in my father's heart to be unblocked successfully. In Pakistan, doctors had advised my father after the angiogram to have a CABG (coronary artery bypass graft). Apart from the quality of healthcare on offer, I also found the country to be a peaceful place where people of various ethnic groups, such as the Malay, the Chinese and Tamils, all live in peace and harmony. It is because of this unity and togetherness that Malaysia is a successful and developed country. In Pakistan, we have to live with sectarian violence with Sunni killing Shia and Shia killing Sunni. There is also ethnic violence in Balochistan where settlers from Punjab are targeted. The next important thing is that Malaysia is a secular country where there is no ban on anyone following/practising any religion. Due to this secular approach, Malaysia is able to attract millions of tourists from all over the world, and this in turn means that tourism is an important contributor to the country's economy. Pakistan's bad luck is that it never got any charismatic leader who could take it on the path of development like Malaysia had with Mahathir Muhammad. Furthermore, as a nation we have no respect for the law and no one, at any level, wants to follow it. A small but apt example is how we follow our traffic laws with most of us following them in the breach. However, in the case of Malaysia, people follow them in letter and in spirit. Quite clearly, we need to learn a lot from countries like Malaysia.  Mian Muhammad Imran Published in The Express Tribune, August 12th, 2012.

SC's new chief to come down hard on news portal Posted: 11 Aug 2012 11:28 PM PDT According to sources (not mine), reclusive SC Chairman Ranjit Ajit is considering coming out in the big open like Batman did in The Dark Knight Rises to lynch the bad guys - in this case the people behind The Malaysian Insider. But you know-lah, some sources (especially if they are not your own) can't be trusted. I think that's what blogger Big Cat is trying to tell her friend Mr Jahabar Saddiq in Malaysian Insider's Monkey Sources.  Another source (again, not mine) said perhaps it wasn't a "source" after all, but someone the MI boys can't defy and someone who has a lot to lose if the E & O - Sime Darby matter did not go his way. Go figure! Ranjit is known to be a no-nonsence guy and is not likely to let the Malaysian Insider off lightly. But whatever he does, don't bully journalists lah, ok? Join the dots. Find out who's behind the unscrupulous article (promptly denied in the Star, SC: Sime doesn't need to make MGO).

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