Pakistani song pokes fun at Kasab, netas, goes viral

ISLAMABAD: The latest Pakistani song to have gone viral on the internet pokes fun at Ajmal Kasab, the lone surviving Mumbai attacker, being treated like a "hero" in his home country and slain governor Salmaan Taseer's assassin being treated like a "nawab".
Over the weekend, Lahore-based band Beyghairat Brigade (The Dishonor Brigade) unveiled its first single " Aloo Anday" - a sad commentary on Pakistani politics and the Pakistani psyche. The song's video starts on an unassuming note with three boys in school uniforms complaining over their mother packing "Aloo Anday" for lunch, but in the following three minutes, the band takes on everyone from Sharif brothers of the PML-N to the "good-looking fundamentalist" Imran Khan.
Sung in Punjabi with subtitles in English, the video features singer Ali Aftab Saeed grumbling about Nobel Prize-winning Pakistani physicist Abdus Salam being forgotten by most while Taseer's assassin Mumtaz Qadri and Kasab are being hailed as new heroes.
If the clever lyrics were not stinging enough, the band holds up placards to leave no scope for doubt.
Among them are: "Nawaz Sharif, bye bye. Papa Kiyani no likey you"; "Tehreek-i-Insaf = good looking Jamaat-e-Islami"; "free Judiciary = Hanged PPP"; "Your money + my pocket = we're still enemies" and "Mullah + Military + Ziaul Yuckee".Well-known columnist Nadeem F Paracha dedicated his latest article to the video."The name says it all: A tongue-in-cheek take on what is called the 'ghairat brigade' (honour brigade), the band sarcastically embraces a title that the peddlers of 'qaumi ghairat' (national honour) spit at those who disagree with the brigade's conspiratorial rants and an almost xenophobic brand of 'patriotism'," he wrote.