Samad Khurram - The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly!

By AHMED QURAISHI

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — For the past few months, Samad Khurram and another Pakistani student, Aqil Sajid, were responsible for creating many fake email IDs and then using them to send offensive emails, using an unusually grotesque and filthy language, to any Pakistani citizen who happened to disagree with their views on the lawyers and on the President.

Samad has gained the respect of many Pakistanis, and mine too, because he snubbed the U.S. ambassador at a ceremony where he was to receive some award from her for being a student at an American university on scholarship.

We at www.ahmedquraishi.com had the distinction of spreading out his story, Pakistani Student Snubs U.S. Ambassador, Payback For Attack , on June 18, within the first few minutes of the incident. Knowing firsthand about Mr. Khurram’s other unflattering and childish activities, we decided to overlook them and highlight his reaction to the June 10 U.S. military attack against the Pakistan Army, killing over 30 Pakistanis, half of them our soldiers.

What we did at that time was the work of real Pakistani nationalists, overlooking frivolous issues for the sake of something that we thought was more important. During last year’s lawyers’ movement, Mr. Samad and Mr. Aqil had emailed me some of the most offensive emails containing language that I have not seen anyone use during political or intellectual discourse. I have almost the entire record of their emails. One of them made the mistake of using a mail server owned by Harvard University to send the offensive email. They didn’t repeat the mistake subsequently. They were smart. I never thought this could be the work of young students at good universities. I honestly thought this was the work of uncivilized supporters of a political party.

I can’t reproduce here the dirty language used by these two gentlemen. It’s really sick. Instead of using their Harvard education to improve Pakistani politics, they spent hours prowling the net and planting abuses on every Pakistani forum that disagreed with the lawyers’ movement. Sometimes their writings were a smear campaign against Pakistan itself, hurling abuses at every Pakistani State institution, including, of course, the Pakistani military. In a short span of time, even Indian Internet campaigners and hackers have not been able to produce so much anti-Pakistan material like these two kids did. And their only problem is that they are blind supporters of Imran Khan and Aitzaz and won’t tolerate any legitimate opposite opinion.

One of these two gentlemen even went as far as impersonating a lady lawyer from Lahore who is also a writer, Yasmeen Ali, and disagrees with Aitzaz Ahsan. These gentlemen used her name to post sexually explicit posts on various forums, including AhmedQuraishi.com.

I endorse Samad Khurram’s act of refusing to take an award from the U.S. ambassador. He registered a peaceful protest, shared by a majority of Pakistanis. But the other side of Mr. Khurram’s face is an ugly one. Let’s hope he will not repeat it.

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