If an American had spied for Pakistan, that would have been treason and US courts would have convicted him. It's the same in our case, and besides it's an internal matter, So American Govt should just shut up.

This cartoon is, of course, a funny exaggeration, but it conveys the point. The Nation's Daily Cartoon

EDIT Glenn Greenwald talks about the same issue from a different angle:  

The Imperial Mind: on vivid display with US rage at Pakistan for punishing a CIA-cooperating Pakistani physician http://www.salon.com/2012/05/26/the_imperial_mind/singleton/

پاکستان کے پاس دنیا کی ساتویں بڑی فوج ہے۔ پاکستان دنیا کی سات ایٹمی طاقتوں میں سے ایک ہے اور تمام تر مسائل کے باوجود پاکستان کی معیشت دنیا میں ستائیسویں نمبر پر ہے۔ پاکستان میں نمک کے زخائر پوری دنیا میں دوسرے نمبر پر ہیں۔ سونے کے زخائر میں پانچواں ، کوئلے کے زخائر میں پانچواں اور کاپر کے زخائر میں ساتواں ہے۔ گندم پیدا کرنے میں پاکستان کا نمبر گیارواں، چاول پیدا کرنے میں بارہواں اور دودھ پیدا کرنے میں پانچواں ہے لیکن پھر بھی پاکستان ایک غریب ملک ہے۔ کیوں؟ اس لئے کہ ہم صرف اپنے حکمرانوں کو جھوٹا کہتے ہیں، ہمیں اپنے جھوٹ نظر نہیں آتے۔ ہم نمازیں پڑھ کر جھوٹ کا کاروبار کرتے ہیں۔

(حامد میر کے 14 مئی 2012 کے کالم سے اقتباس)

Dr Aafia gets raped, tortured, contracts cancer and is sentenced to 86 years in prison for *intention* to kill US soldiers. Raymond Davis guns down two unarmed Pakistanis in broad day light, the vehicle that comes to pick him up kills another, and he walks away.

Taken from The Nation's Daily Cartoon

taken from The Nation's Daily Cartoon

I was associated with PTI for a long time (since mid 2000's) till recent past. However, no leader is above criticism and I cannot treat any human (even Dr AQ Khan, my hero of the current era) as the Divine, so it goes without saying that I wasn't really popular among his "worshipers" even when I was with them. About 8 months ago, I started to realize how big of a hypocrite was Imran Khan and how he had betrayed his loyal followers, eventually I quit PTI.

I do not consider Nawaz Sharif and his PML(N) a good party, but in the current circumstances, they do rise up as the lesser evil. Today's column by Irfan Siddiqi summarizes Imran Khan's hypocrisy very elegantly. (the column is in Urdu, sorry)

This email was sent to Ansar Abbasi (a Pakistani journalist) in response to this Urdu column of his, I usually agree to his opinion, this column is one of those where I feel he is only looking at the surface of the issue. He has been writing about blocking porn for quite some time, while I totally support blocking porn, I do not support the way he promotes the boy who prepared the list which supposedly has 2 million pron sites (how he checked and verified so many sites is still a question mark and amazing to say the least) and the way he thinks blocking porn would be a panacea for all ailments.

text of the email follows (slightly modified to include explanations)

Assalaam o Alaikum Ansar Sb,

I am Ishaq, a programmer by profession and a regular reader of your columns.

Unfortunately I am one of the people who are tagged as "Kaafir" by Mullahs and "Fundamentalist" by Liberals (I have a beard). My problem is that I cannot be a part of any extreme and I cannot accept things at their face value, I try to find the root cause and then form an opinion.

Just read your column dated April 16, 2012, while I agree with the sentiment that we need to fix this sorry state of affairs. I do not agree with your diagnosis (or Abdullah Ghazi's diagnosis) and the set of actions that you propose to fix it.

Have you ever wondered why people watch porn? or why people resort to un-Islamic and unethical relationships? Let us see:

 

These days, men usually get married in late 20s or early 30s, women in mid 20s or late 20s.  A man becomes (physically) an adult at around the age of 16 and a woman becomes adult at around 14. What do you think such a man/woman does for the next 14-18 years of his/her life before marriage? As much as we don't want to face it, it is a fact that a human body has desires. And that's exactly why Islam encourages marriages at a young age.

In our society, however, that's not how it works. A boy has to work half of his life to raise enough money for a marriage ceremony and a girl has to work half of her life to raise money for dowry. Both dowry and necessary big ceremonies for marriage are probably borrowed traditions from Indian culture (since Pakistan and India were one country for over a thousand years)

Another non-sense is parents' over-control on when one gets married and who one gets married to. My (little) research tells me that in the days of Sahaba, it wasn't so. In fact, even a woman could ask a man for nikah, now a days this is considered taboo and "waldain ki izzat ko chorahey per rakhna". What a shame.

Yet another non-sense is that multiple marriages are considered taboo. this is again probably borrowed from Indian culture. I am not encouraging multiple marriage by a man, but if someone (or even me) has to do it for some reason, I would totally support it and it should not be a matter of life or death for the first wife.

So if a person becomes an adult at around 15 years and is being married at around 30 years, He/She has to go through 15 years of abstinence, Do you honestly think it is possible? Specially in this era when access to pornography and erotic material is so easy? When through internet and mobiles developing, unethical relationships is even easier? I am not encouraging unethical and un-Islamic relationships, I am only stating the ground realities.  I don't put all the blame on the people who somehow get involved in all this.

The correct fix is to develop a culture where it is easier for people to be lawful couples. But this is hard, we'll have to change people's attitudes and we'll have to gradually instill a practice that's foreign to them. Since this is hard, probably that's why we are going for easier fixes? e.g. blocking porn? And let me tell you that these filters have blocked many of the legit sites (e.g. comic sites, I read comics regularly so I know) and these "baby" filters installed by PTA are very easy to bypass for any experienced user, the others can just google it . Note that I am totally in support of blocking porn. What I hate is: 1. we are going for a fix that is not going to fix the real issue . 2. we are filtering sites that are legit and thereby annoying regular users like me. 3. govt would start using it as policing tool. 

 

Do block porn by all means, but please also fix the society.

One question: why isn't Abdullah Ghazi being punished for watching porn? He is underage too.

Please stop promoting people like Abdullah Ghazi as heroes and raise your voice to eradicate the root cause of the problem. Stop imposing discipline on people, inculcate self-discipline. You can't expect a society where such large population of adults is unmarried and yet they act like saints. that's not going to happen.

I know you might not go through this email, much less respond to it, that's okay, I only wanted to let you know my concerns because you seem like a person who can be convinced through reason.

--
MI

Taken from The Nation's Daily Cartoon

۶۰ کا عشرہ پاکستان کی تاریخ کا سنہرا دور تھا کہ جب یہاں صنعتی انقلاب اپنے عروج پر تھا، وطنِ عزیز کو آج بھی وسائل اور با صلاحیت لوگوں کی کمی نہیں، بس ہم کو پھرسے اسے اپنی چاہتوں اور کامیابیوں کا محور بنانے کی ضرورت ہے۔ حکمراں تو خیر سب کے سب بکے ہوئے ہیں اور وہ اس سر زمیں کو انجانے میں نہیں بلکہ دانستہ اندھیروں میں دھکیل رہے ہیں کہ ان کو اسی کام کی اجرت ملتی ہے، ہم میں سے بھی مگر کتنے ہیں جو پاکستانی ہونے پر فخر کرتے ہیں؟

چاند تاروں سے سجی،
میری سوچوں سے حسیں،
سچے خوابوں کی زمیں،
تیری میری سرزمیں۔