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Rust former Junoon guitarist and rather self-duped solo act, Salman Ahmed, to continue with his cornerstone habit of shooting himself in the foot while always trying to jump on various social and political bandwagons to remain in the picture. The latest example is Salman's rather theatrical letter that he wrote and circulated in the media a few days ago in which he ogled venom at the MQM, alleging how the party members threatened him in the '90s for not playing for Altaf Hussain on his birthday.
The letter is another case of Salman's knee-jerk tendency to jump in and proclaim himself as some kind of a mistreated hero when in reality, and as usual, all he really ends up doing is sounding silly and overbearing. Especially whenever he is trying to throw his weight to push a cause espoused by his idol, Imran Khan.
Imran's commendable boldness in trying to speak and serve the truth on various political issues almost always ends up seeing him flounder and hesitate whenever certain sticky happenings of his personal and political past are raised by his opponents. On most occasions, he's been found speechless or simply repeating that he never claimed to be a clean and pious man in the past.
This begs the question, if such is the case, then on what moral grounds is he trying to judge the ethical, political and social behavior of others? Salman is even worse. There is nothing consistent about him, and unfortunately, good as he was as a guitarist, he isn't good as a thinker. His band, Junoon's early cultivated image was of a group driven by left-leaning angry young men, unafraid to write politically-tinged lyrics with a persona and posturing that flamboyantly mocked the complacency of their more apolitical and corporate-sponsored contemporaries.
However, in 1996, when Junoon decided to record their long-awaited third album, Inquilaab, it was suddenly made clear that Junoon were no more about a political revolution, but a "spiritual revolution." What caused the shift from the political to the spiritual? As it turned out, out went old dusty books by Faiz, and in came Salman's new-found fascination with the great Iranian Islamic scholar, Ali Shariati.
An insightful writer, Shariati was to Irans 1979 Islamic Revolution what Rousseau had been to the French Revolution. So did this mean that by "spiritual revolution" Salman meant an Islamic revolution? But more so, did this also mean Imran Khan had been reading Shariati too?
After the success of Inquilaab, Salman returned and announced he was working on a "very important song." The song's name was Ehtesaab (accountability). In 1995, Imran had formed a lobby with ex-ISI chief and staunch Islamist, General Hamid Gul and a number of Gul's well-placed Islamist supporters. The lobby was to "pressure the president into taking action against the Benazir Bhutto government's corruption through a rigorous process of accountability."
Nadeem F. Paracha
The Daily Dawn
Dated: July 10th, 2007
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Nadeem F. Paracha
Before Anyone Doubts About Nadeem F Parachi ..Let Me Tell U Abt Him... Waise Every Guy Knows Him As He Is very Famous Journalist He Has Wrote Daily Times, The Friday Times and Dawn (newspaper) & Many Others & Still In Business.U Can Also Watch Him On Many TV Shows Now A Days "Niews,Views" On Aaj TV Is One Of Them.
He Is An Punjab Based Journalist Used To Live In Karachi ... His Father Farooq Paracha Was Also A Very Famous Journalist & A Die Hard Supporter Of PPP ... Like His Father Nadeem F. Paracha Is Also A Loyal Supporter Of PPP. So No Relation With MQM At All.. 
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