Nadeem Farooq Paracha Lambasts Salman Ahmed For Siding With Imran Khan

Nadeem Farooq Paracha, the self-proclaimed critic of anything and everything Pakistani, is at it again. And he’s at it again because according to him, the Junooni Salman Ahmed is at it again too.

What’s it? For Salman Ahmed it’s his penchant for jumping on the bandwagon that’s going to earn him one more 15 minutes of fame in spite of the fact that the guy has had so much fame and publicity owing to Junoon’s global stardom as well as his own work with the UN. But still his affinity to be in the spotlight remains as much as Mr. Paracha’s ‘obligation’ to bring Salman to justice.

The latest publicity stunt by Salman Ahmed that brought the ire of NFP on him is his grievance against the already shattered MQM that once they forced him to play at the birthday of Altaf Hussein and when he refused they threatened to kill him. NFP blasts Salman to pieces for following in the footsteps of Imran Khan every single time and not having the courage to take the initiative.


NFP doesn’t spare even Imran Khan who he momentarily praises for his bold initiatives. then it’s business as usual for NFP. He asks on what grounds is Imran Khan blasting the other side when he himself has a few skeletons in his closet.

The question is; does committing sins strips you of the right to pinpoint the wrongs of other especially if those sins were committed way back in the past? If that’s the case, then journalism should cease to exist, and NFP should be the first one to pack up his bags, for we are all sinners. Even if you look objectively at it, NFP’s objection that Imran Khan is exposing the corrupt and murderous practices of MQM while he himself has committed many religiously immoral acts in the past is at best bizarre. What’s your sexual adventures got to do with saying the truth?

NFP himself has never been much fond of religion; he’s always after the religious clerics whom he refers to as the ‘mullahs’ with as much disdain as he can muster. Going through his plethora of articles, he doesn’t seem to have much understanding or interest in Islam. And hasn’t he indulged in premarital or extra-marital (now that he’s married) affairs at all in his life? And yet he’s in the forefront blasting everything under the sun to smithereens.

So if he doesn’t believe in the strict injunctions of Islam which includes no sex out of wedlock, then his criticism of Imran Khan ceases to be valid. Needless to say, it’s not the first time NFP has gone on a lambasting spree and it won’t be the last. But what it does is hurt his credibility. He has yet to say something really positive about something other than pop music.

So when he says all those things about Salman Ahmed, he may be right to the hilt, but he’s at it so many times, that people are gradually beginning to give no shit to what he has to say.