Accompanying the verdict was a six-page long note by Justice Asif Saeed Khosa where after quoting poet Khalil Gibran’s Pity the Nation, he made his own 321-words addition to poem. Quoting Gibran kicked off a #PitytheNation trend, where the people of Pakistan shared their own woes about the state of the country.
Top tweets:
NdKhan
#PityTheNation that lives without electricity in 2012
Sairaasif
#PityTheNation where there is 22 hrs loadshedding in Multan, 18 hrs in Lahore & solution is a creating a new province #SouthernPunjab #PPP
Sheikh Irfan
#PitytheNation where dogs have more rights than humans
Hamid Yusufzai
#PityTheNation Who Has Imran Farhat As Opener, Junaid Zia
AsBowler, Veena Malik As Actress, Awais Lovely As Youtube Star
Haleema Khan
#PityTheNation where you can go to jail for flying a kite, but not for openly going against the Supreme Court.
akchishti
#PitytheNation which doesn't do justice to Shaheed @SalmaanTaseer and convict a barbarian like Mumtaz Qadri #Pakistan
Sahar Zaidi
I dont #PityTheNation,I pity myself for doing nothing but tweet abt the miserable state of Pakistan, a country that's drowning in self pity
Sairaasif
#PityTheNation that in a protest against #LoadShedding burns its own property #Pakistan
Ahmer Murad
When a country surrenders its sovereignty, perhaps sovereign default isn't that big a deal any more :'( #PityTheNation #Pakistan
Shoaib Taimur
#pitythenation where people rant against the US but are the first in line to get a visa for the same destination.
NdKhan
#PityTheNation which protests against tax on sms but keeps silence against corruption.
COMMENTS
Comments are moderated and generally will be posted if they are on-topic and not abusive.
For more information, please see our Comments FAQ