Pakistan: A Scotchistan, Alcoholistan or Zardaristan

Somebody circulated images of Governor Punajb, Salman Taseer sitting with Najam Sethi, Jugnu Mohsin and Salman Shah drinking at a public place, later same images were placed on the web and thousand of peoples surprised to see real face of editors of Daily Times and Friday Times, and owners of Business TV. I think nobody should take it serious because all above remnants of British Raj have enough money to afford such kind of luxury, while powerful media, law enforcing agencies, judicial system and clergy has no power to raise finger against such influential personalities, then what authority an ordinary person has to tell them that peoples are dying with hunger, committing suicides, 60 percent children sleep without any food, there is no clean water for them, no electricity, no drainage or sewerage system available for them, divided education in rich and poor classes, if anybody dare to raise finger then their cronies, Lifafa journalists and overseas friends start character assassination of that individual, initially individual is declared Moulvi, then Taliban and when nobody cares then start to send emails to Bush, means President George W Bush, it is not funny that a few peoples are sending emails to George W Bush against me (I have records of such emails), against an email address. All above gang is against free speech, against sanctity of women (which did not fit in their standard of Islamic adultery or "Halal Sex"). After publishing of above images a satanic cycle of harassment is going on, terrorization and threats is a common practice, those must watch under their beds as their own friends are leaking their personal images ( I believe so).

Everybody knows that Mush is still living across the street at Murree Brewery, Rawalpindi and it is known and common practice of most of CnC's to start drinking with breakfast and end before next day. Mush still starts the day by saying "Sab say phehlay Daroo" (whisky), previously when he was CnC  after two three peg in routine use to ask two further questions on breakfast table, number of Pushtoon and Baloch murdered, and sum of dollars received from overseas lords.

All other enlightened Generals prefer to live around brewery. There is no audit (mean excise department is not allowed to count number of crates) on deliveries to top generals and politicians, trucks of Murree Brewery starts distribution of crates around the twin cities, like coke, took back empty bottles and supply new ones. Some sell empty bottles to hawkers (old newspapers buyers), a source of statistics and our information to segregate and count number of bottles supplied from diplomatic quota Vs. local supplies). Set a siding Mush, look at the face of Kiyani, with a written motto, "Tun always Tun", to whom Naseem Zehra declares sober and brave face (refer Daily News column). So neither Mush is willing to leave holy premises of Murree Brewery nor does Kiyani want to miss the chance to enjoy free fumes, if you may calculate distance with trigonometric formulas then Joint Chief Head Quarter, GHQ and 10^th Corpse HQ are also in free fuming zone.

Removal of Iftikhar Arif from Pakistan Academy of Letters:

Bare naked moderates like Fakhar Zaman and other thirsty scholars, who were dependent on cross border supply of free alcohol, have also reached Islamabad now, his story of grabbing Pakistan Academy of Letters is very interesting, and kicking out Iftikhar Arif is very painful. Among top poets rating of Iftikhar is very high, and no doubt Ahmad Faraz and Iftikhar Arif are jewels of Urdu poetry, I don't want to use past tense for Ahmad Faraz, because his poetry is everlasting, crime of Ahmad Faraz was only that he raised the flag against fascism, murders, kidnapping and genocide, his poetry after massacre of Jamia Hafsa addressing fascist generals, and his sentiments after brutal murder were not hidden, It was a main cause that lick lacking poets and so called scholars even had no courage to condole his death openly. For years I know Ahmad Faraz, even he signed on first page of his poetry book at the door step of a mosque with smiling face, I never found him that type of person which some so called neo-moderates use to claim, yes! He belonged to progressive circle, but neither was he immoral nor fascist liberal. Why Iftikhar Arif is kicked out? Story starts with "Sectarian Majalis", and another character involved is Ghazanfar Mehdi, both usually pose to be among particular sect., whereas orthodox Shia's declares them hypocrite. Both have firm belief that a few people who claimed to be Syed's are in fact, Awans or something else. Ghazanfar says it loudly but Iftikhar has been saying quietly in his circle. Particularly a matter which directly hurt Gaillani's, a leader of Imam Hussain Council, Moulvi Najam ul Hasan Kararvi even attacked on Gaillani's ancestors by declaring them "Chang Syed"(refer his book Chodah Sittaray"). Yousuf Raza Gaillani since long was looking to ousted him. Personal grudge of Gaillani was a lottery for Fakhar Zaman, his qualifications are well known and he left no chance to please Mush, in making him Chairman of Sufi council, then greater Punjab movement under Jatt brotherhood of Ch; Shujaat Hussain, later received funding for "Maan Boli" (Punjabi language), he has been visiting cross border regularly in search of  Punjabi Whisky (which is called home made, in Punajbi it is said to be "Ghar di Sharab"), it was reported in blogs and on the net that Fakhar Zaman was found pissing in front of ladies or pissed in his pants at many occasions while visiting India, due to over dosage of free "Ghar di Sharab, Apna Punjab"(beer).

Now Zardari and Gaillani have assigned him to complete left over job of Mush, promotion of sexy Sufism, enlighten vulgarity and scholarly advantages of prostitution, benefits of alcoholism and use of diapers while over drinking etc. So Pakistan Academy of Letters will be an international repute organization like Islamabad Art Gallery, where sister of Dr. Hasnat (Princesses Diana fame) use to sell nudes to public under protection of agencies. For Iftikhar Arif we can say that broken heart or wounded spirit always produce heart-dissolving, heart- piercing and heart-touching poetry, which so called poets (slave minded) can't dream, however nobody will remember poodle of Zardari soon after departure of current Government. But everlasting poetry of Iftikhar like Muneer Niazi and Ahmad Faraz will keep inspiring generations. For Ahmad Faraz I have many memories to share but "Chootay Chootay Firoonon ka Lashkar aur Akaila Main "“ Meray hath ausa say khali "“ Hath ausa say khali houn to hasti do bhar ho jati hay" (Iftikhar Arif)

(Crowds of petit, petit Pharoahs and alone am I "“ My hands are free from stick (of Moses) "“ Survival is very difficult if you don't have any stick (of Moses in front of Pharaoh)

 Please read what International media is saying:     

A TOUCH OF SCOTLAND IN DRY PAKISTAN

Distilling the Muslim World's First 20-Year-Old Whisky, Rawalpindi, Pakistan, 08/17/2007

An almost 150-year-old brewery in Pakistan is preparing to bring the Muslim world's first 20-year-old single malt whisky to the market. Murree Brewery, however, can only sell to non-Muslims, who comprise 3 percent of Pakistan's population. The heart of the Pakistani city of Rawalpindi is dotted with paradoxes. Behind it runs the National Park Road, a leafy, residential avenue replete with road blocks and bearded men carrying submachine guns. Hanging over it all is the distinct and unmistakable smell of fermenting alcohol. What, in Allah's name, is going on here? The 150-year-old Murree Brewery is teeming with activity. One of the Islamic world's most successful breweries will soon launch a rare, one-off product of its distillery: a 20-year-old single malt whisky that is the first of its kind in the Muslim world.

But the armed police are not here to guard the amber fluid. They're here to protect the brewery's equally famous neighbor on National Park Road and currently the man most wanted by Islamic terrorists in the region: Pakistan President Musharraf, the country's leader and teetotaller-in-chief."The irony is lost on nobody," chuckles brewery owner Minoo Bhandara, peering through his glasses at the tall gates of Musharaff's house across the street as he takes a sip of a beer brewed from Bavarian hops. But he insists that the existence of a brewery in a country where the 97-percent Muslim majority is barred from drinking alcohol is not some freak occurrence: "It merely reflects an age-old tolerance which the West is ignorant about."  As a member of Pakistan's tiny Zoroastrian minority, Bhandara's own ancestors fled religious persecution in newly Islamic Persia to settle in the pluralistic and tolerant Indian subcontinent thousands of years ago.

'Even in Pakistan, Prohibition Will Not Work'

The tendency of upwardly mobile Muslims to occasionally enjoy a tipple is by no means restricted to Pakistan. "Britain's leading gin manufacturer told me that his biggest market is not the United States but the officially dry Saudi Arabia," says Bhandara. "Even in Pakistan, prohibition will not work -- it is just lip service to propriety." Earlier this year, a member of parliament whose party is part of Musharraf's ruling coalition made headlines by asking Pakistan's National Assembly to lift the ban, arguing that the prohibition on alcohol, "a minor evil," was only driving people to drugs.

A Matterhorn Climber Opens a Brewery

Still, the country's highly restrictive alcohol laws haven't stopped Murree from building one of the most successful breweries in the Muslim world. Murree Brewery was founded in 1860 by relatives of the British mountaineer Edward Whymper, who, five years later, became the first man to scale the Matterhorn. It is named after the misty, western Himalayan town of Murree, located some 50 kilometers away from Rawalpindi and the city in which the brewery was originally founded to quench the thirst of British troops in colonial India. Though the company produces only a fraction of the world's beer -- 30,000 hectoliters out of an estimated 2 million hectoliters globally, according to Bhandara -- it has long been successful in Pakistan. Despite the country's alcohol ban, Murree manages to stay afloat because of huge demand -- among both Muslims and non-Muslims -- and the company's virtual monopoly among beer producers. Of the country's three breweries -- the others are located in Quetta and Karachi -- Murree holds a 70 percent market share. Muslims are allowed to hold shares in the company, which is listed on the Karachi Stock Exchange. In the late 1990s, it twice listed as one of the country's 25 top performing stocks.

International recognition is nothing new for the company. Murree Beer was awarded a medal for product excellence at the Philadelphia Exhibition in 1876, and various other international awards over the past 140 years. The company's 8-year-old single malt whisky has already received lavish praise from none less than three-time Glenfiddich Whisky Writer of the Year Jim Murray.  "Not only does (Murree whisky) compare favorably, it is much better than a number of less-known Scotch malts," Murray writes in his Complete Book of Whisky. "Crisp and delicate "¦ so good is this whisky that ... (you) smell a drained glass in the morning and you are swamped by its fabulously honeyed riches." Murree will launch its real jewel, its 20-year-old single malt, as part of a one-time limited edition offer next year. There will be 200 cases of 12 bottles each, priced modestly at 2,500 Pakistan rupees (around $40) a bottle. The brewery is also thinking of selling posters and souvenirs of the original, lithographic calendars and paintings of the Murree hills made by the Whympers family. In the dark, cool cellars of the Murree distillery, many of the employees handling the huge oak casks wear Muslim prayer-caps. Murree can even boast a female bookkeeper. Of course, not all employees' drink, but those who do are not afraid to admit it. Perhaps most importantly, none are ashamed of their job, no matter what their conservative neighbors might mumble.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,500347,00.html

Murree Brewery Products Include:

Beer, Maturated Malt Whiskies, Liquors (Vodka, Brandy, Gin and Rum)

Scotchistan:  by Michael Y. Park 08/23/07

Murree Single-Malt Scotch: 174 million Pakistanis Can't Be Wrong

Of all the morally dubious things Pakistan's been fairly or unfairly accused of exporting the last few years (arms, nuclear secrets, terrorists, the Taliban), who ever expected that 20-year-old single-malt scotch would be among them? Especially considering that 97 percent of the population at least nominally believes that alcohol is the work of Satan?  But it's true, as Der Soiegel online relates. Murree Brewery, a short distance from the old British cantonment city of Rawalpindi, is planning on releasing the whisky as a one-time-only product, the first and only single-malt whisky created in the Muslim world. It's already gotten one glowing review from Glendfiddich Whisky writer Jim Murray, who raves: "It is much better than a number of less-known Scotch malts. Crisp and delicate ... so good ... that (you) smell a drained glass in the morning, and you are swamped by its fabulously honeyed riches."  Which, if you think about it, means either that Jim Murray is not on top of doing the dishes, or he reviews his scotches in bed.

Frankly, I'm a bit skeptical. I've sampled some of Murree's wares myself from an official state-run liquor store in Rawalpindi  (literally just a shack at the side of a government office), and was less than impressed, though I may have been put off by the fact that it was impossible to buy anything that wasn't coconut- or banana-flavored. But I'm not surprised by the news, either, considering how nearly every Pakistani man I met was an avowed drinker, despite a government edict forbidding alcohol use by Muslims (speaking of which, Pervez, the swaths of drug-addled men stretched out on every square inch of public park from Lahore to Peshawar tell me you may have a problem with Afghan opiates).

http://www.epicurious.com/articlesguides/blogs/editor/drink/index.html

Note: Z A Bhutto was the first political leader who declared alcohol illegal for Muslims in Pakistan, other than religious bindings it is very expensive affair, today peoples who declare them flag bearer of Bhuttoism or suck the votes on the name of Roti, Kapra and Makaan and in such a harsh environment when peoples are dyeing with hunger, committing suicides and fascists are killing citizens whether it is justified to spent large amounts on alcohols. It is entirely matter of humanity and nothing to do with liberalism. West has values and laws to prohibit public use of alcohol, I don't know to whom in west such moderates want to show criminality to break law of their own country, now virus has reached to their teen aged children's, women and think patiently what type of generation those are producing for the building of a nation. Grudge with clergy did not mean to put your own home at fire.  We have no resources to tell peoples that immorality is always curse, in every society and civilization. Audience are everywhere to listen bravery of neo-moderates of Pakistan but believe their smiles are not meaningless, in fact those are laughing on self proclaimed neo-moderates and crusaders.

Earthman

International Professor