Student refuses award from US Ambassador
As the video shows that Samad Khurram is called on stage to receive the award and simply walks past the US Ambassador in defiance and to the podium where in his 30 second speech, he simply hits out on the American Government for supporting this illegal military ruler and severely condemns the recent American attack within the borders of Pakistan. It reminds me of the photograph from China when a lone man stood in front of a tank. The United States is also a similar juggernaut all muscles and no brains. They are not used to seeing people who can stand up with dignity and protest boldly and publicly.
What really make us proud that our leaders stumble over their feet trying to please the American leaders and an unknown student has the courage to defy this hegemony and chooses to stand up for his country
I personally had a telephonic discussion with him barely and hour before when he was going to the event - at that time he mentioned that ’someone’ might not be ready to take the award and he is going to the event to support him, little did I know that the ’someone’ was he himself. Bravo Samad you make us proud
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ONLINENEWS: A Pakistani student, Samad Khurram vociferously refused his Harvard University scholarship award presented to him by the American Ambassador Anne W. Patterson, which simply awed her into a terrible confusion. The said student refused the award, which was presented in an event held by a private collage at the National Art Gallery, as a protest against the recently carried out American attacks on Mehmand Agency. The American Ambassador greatly regretted these attacks, terming them as a “terrible misunderstanding”, and stoutly refuted the notion that the student was refusing the award, maintaining that currently there were 5400 Pakistani students studying in America. The entire hall resounded with thunderous clapping for the student, who was later on restricted by management to talk to any media member.
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Taha Baig mashAllah good samad…we are proud of u man.:)…
u did a nice job..may Allah protect u frem each nd every evil..and u succedd in life….thts the spirit..man..:)..
Nice work…inshAllah u will be so high in life i m sure..:)..Best of luck and applaudz fer ya..=)
shobz good. at least he has the balls to stand up to someone. wish our leaders would learn from him?
mohsin well done man. we all r proud of u,, every student try to do such peacefull protest
ALLAH bless u
Silence That is the reason many of us believe on Pakistan and believe in change, we are not looking for a “Bloodbath” but change of mind and we will see more to come.
Althought we are an emotional nation and jump to conclusions to fast on incidents which are not according to our wishes.
The present movement was started by Lawyers and later on supported by civil society and media.
Samad Khuram has shown that we are a different Pakistan today. I am proud of him.
Do you still think our movement has failed or was fruitless?
Imran Mashallah, Subhanallah !!!
Hang Musharraf, Shoot Down American Drones, and Kick out CIA, FBI out of Pakistani Soil.
Kashaf Bravo! A true reprsentative of majority of the youth , i would say. Very motivating for the rest!
Mutazalzaluzzaman Tarar Well done, Samad. We are very proud of you. It is never easy to take a stand especially when it involves personal sacrifice. So, well done again. Hope to see more of you on the web and one day hopefully on the national political scene.
We need more people like you - people with principles - not NRO’ed “leaders” that inherit supposedly “democratic” political parties.
The time to hang the dictator is close.
zak May Allah bless you always……we need leaders like you….I hope one day you can be a leader of Pakistan, ameen
Kamran (Hyderabad, Pakistan) Mr. Obi Wan Kenobi, the is this to show the american that people dont love your policies, and some peole have the courage to show the difference and show the hate they have with american policies.
Well done samad may ALLAH bless u and give u the courage and honor to do more AMEEN
MALIK AMAN back in 2004 i know a guy Atif majeed from CASE who refused to take his degree from musharraf i dont know why didn;t media covered him any way a job weldone sammad
Teeth Maestro Malik sb
You wrote in a comment about a kid who refused to take the degree from Musharraf would you have any details to that extent on who it was and when - in 2004 Musharraf was not an open target so it may have gone in noticed -
Let’s give credit where its due even if its four years down the road
Thanks
Musab I. Khan This nothing less than gaining political mileage. If he really wants to protest why don’t he return to Pakistan and study here. It seems senseless to criticize USA, refuse to accept the scholarship and then go on to study from the same country.
Kashif-X Well done dude !
All hats off to you, hope our a** licking politians can learn a lesson from this act.
Zack While it does take a lot of courage even to do something like this, equating it to Tiananmen square protest is quite an exaggeration.
Teeth Maestro @Zack - LOL at the Tiananmen square comment - I might agree
But it required guts - which most of us could never do - he has lead by example - it will make a difference
M@NI Rehman Malik openly denies that america dint hit and killed pakistan soldiers …WTF!!!!!
Hats off to you Samad.. Proud of you:-)
Say no to Musharaf
Say no to illegal attacks by american’s on pakistan land
Restor Pre 3rd november judiciary
I think our politicians should watch this video every morning they get up and learn a lesson.
Nadeem MashAllah weldone samad, we are proud of u.
Mr. Khuram has shown that we are living in a different Pakistan. today.
That is the reason many of us believe on Pakistan and believe in change, we are not looking for a “Bloodbath” but change of mind and we will see more to come.
I am proud of him.
Quli Great work! Finally something for me to take my mind off all the selfish acts going on lately by our politicians!
Fahim A. Sheikh Mashallah
we are proud of you Samad. you have done a great job.
May GOB bless you.
I.Shah Dear Samad,
Thankyou for taking such a brave initiative. We are all proud of you and I hope and pray that all Pakistanis become at least as brave as you are.
nazia He really deserves sitara jurat as he is unique breed in my educated class.My heart is now filled with proud that we still have live minds who can practically proof their strength in one of finest civilised way.
Big cheers for our new hero.
BORN_ACHILEES YOU HAVE MADE US PROUD. US SHOULD FEEL SHAME FOR ITS DUOBLE STANDARD OF DEMOCRACY. ON ONE SIDE AMRCA SUPPORTS DEMOCRACY AND TALKS A LOT ABOUT ITS DEMOCRACY AND ON OTHER SIDE AMRCA IS SUPPORTING MUSHARAFF WHO IS MOST !!!!!!!!! PERSON IN PAKISTAN. ALSO AMERCIA SHOULD FORGET OF ATTACKING PAKISTAN. WE ARE NOT AFGHNISTAN OR IRAQ. THIS TIME USA WILL GET A REAL LESSON. INSHAALLAH
KP.LAWRANCE WE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE AMERICA & MUSHARAFF. FOR GOD SAKE LEAVE US. WE CAN MANAGE WELL WITHOUT YOU MUSHY.
SHAMS We love and appreciate your stance you bravest heart. if every Pakistani (especialy our Leaders) act like this no dictator can think of “TAKING OVER” in future. You have made us proud. We love You.
And for Amercians please do atleast any single good thing for which generations to come will remember you.
Karim G There lies the paradox…
I am fascinated by this chorus of thumbs up on the gesture of defiance and protest of this young man while the irony of the situation is completely ignored. The privilege of being educated in countries like USA is an ultimate wish and desire of majority of young people who want access to higher education. For USA it serves well also because they get tomorrow’s Zalmai Khalilzad and Shaukat Aziz from this pool. But fundamental unasked and unanswered question is why it is such a great thing to be educated outside Pakistan? Why is it that every body wants to find a job outside Pakistan? Why is it that given half a chance people wants to live some where else than Pakistan? How come nobody, in politics or otherwise can state that to gain true independence, respect and dignity nations must stand on their own feet and end beggary to survive.
Aid, aid, aid…handouts, that’s all we are always waiting for, and when we are treated with contempt, SURPRIZE!!!
Our economic and political weakness has only increased every year, our dependence on IMF and World Bank has only increased every year. Besides nuclear technology, there is nothing noteworthy the leadership of this country has given to the country.
So I submit, while I applaud this young man’s gesture whole heartedly because it does take guts to do what he did and obviously his heart is at the right place, it is not USA that takes liberties with us, it is us who have ALLOWED USA to treat us the way they do, let’s ask WHY and HOW?
Adnan Siddiqi civilized and brave way to registered protest. Something which Pakistani govt should learn. Those who are criticizing sArmad are those who themselves have no courage to call spade a spade.
Muhammad Farhan Ali This is the right way of protest.. may Allah Give our all people this type of sense so that they can not distroy their own home, village, city, country ,,, Good Samad you are an example of our upcomming nation ,,,
Silence My company will be honoured to extend a scholarship for Sarmad to continue his education and finance it completely where he chooses, some one please convay him and tell him to to contact me.
He make a right decison and he is future of Pakistan, we can not afford to loose such people who believe in truth and Pakistan.
If Sarmad needs any finacial support or anything to support his thinking, I humbly offer him and would like to see him to shine in future as a bright star for our comming generation.
Sarmad, no worries, just send me your contacts, what I can not do, you have done that, and I see you as my future, I am there to support you for my dreams.
Long live Sarmad, Long Live Pakistan.
Obi Wan Kenobi Most probably he is getting funds from some resource in US, be his professor or his dept or from any one for this matter. What is the big issue if he does not accept some award , it is not like he refused green card or scholarship at Harvard. I can refuse 100s of such stupid rewards, no biggie, just a political mileage and good thing to put in his resume as Pakistanis are the most sentimental nation in the world so I am sure he could cash it and if he is good in delivering his speeches than may b he would get some political party ticket in next election. Faggot. These stupid rewards means nothing unless there is some big cash or scholarship with it. And I believe he did not refuse award, he refused to accept it from the hand of ambassador.
Stupid nation.
Teeth Maestro Let me clarify one thing - After I did some investigation around - Samad’s non-acceptance of the certificate does not mean his Harvard Scholarship was canceled - the Harvard Scholarship has nothing to do with the appreciation certificate that was been given to him by the ROOTS school for his distinction in A levels and what not - it was simply an appreciation certificate. This is my understanding, last when I talked to Samad. The media / a few sources (even the Onlinenews source cited in this blog post) may have misconceived it as such. So its not hopefully that but we must appreciate his stand - which was a strong way to lodge your own protest
MALIK AMAN i have invited atif majeed to tell his story in his own words hope he writes soon
Tariq Khan Allhumdu-lillah-o- Wallaho Akbar!
Well done proud son of Pakistan, to show courage and authority.
All the big soft generals of army and lackeys of the west corrupt politicians learn a lesson from this young man
Samad Khurram.
May Allah bless all those who highlighted this major story and commented positively.
Altaf Good work. But he is young & jazbati. He was just a kid in the 90’s so he does not know how badly BB & Sharif fucked up our country & how much relieved everyone was when the army took over.
Everything is not as Black & White as some in the media want us to believe. Democracy is better than dictatorship but that does not mean by any stretch that BB & Sharif have better record in power than Musharraf. To the contrary.
IC Few things..
Totally understand his rage against the US Government. But, what has he done against his own government. The US doesn’t choose Pakistani dictatorships, Pakistanis do. By disrespecting a foreign officer, he has achieved what? Are Pakistani morals that low that we appreciate someone for insulting? It’s not only unethical but unacceptable in any religion.
Attending Harvard, he should have known better that which school creates the most US policy makers especially foreign; so why not abandon Harvard? Why does Pakistanis forget that US Government does what’s best for them and not what’s best for Pakistan and its Pakistani Government’s job to determine what’s best for the country.
It’s just a random youtube moment for hype. It’s been over done in US for legitimate reasons but a new one stunt for Pakistanis.
Rizwan Samad’s intention was not to insult the ambassador. His intention is to record the protest against the blind killings by USA and silence of USA backed government in Pakistan.
>>so why not abandon Harvard?
Because if he would have abandon it, how would you come to see this protest?
The people appreciating him actually want to show true thoughts of Pakistanis & USA backed Pakistani Government.
Suleman Imam Samad has made me proud of my country.
It’s always depressing to hear about the politicians who have looted the country and have come back to rule it.
But this gesture by a pakistani student brings back hope!
IC Rizwan,
First things first..
the ceremony wasn’t a venue to record a protest.. and if US government is killing people in Pakistan, then why are Pakistanis wearing bangles and supporting them. And for your USA backed government?? I can understand the Q league was backed by US government but what about PPP and PML N. Are all the politicians in Pakistan are backed by USA?
Yes, and if he has to protest, do it against his own “USA backed government” not the US Government. I fail to understand his achievement. It’s hypocrisy to the extreme; he’s studying at a place where he is eager to be brainwashed with the same US foreign policy which he is protesting. Have him burn his Harvard degree and make him goto some random mom and pop university in Pakistan will be an achievement that I’ll respect.
Saadia The whole nation is proud of you Sarmad. At least there is one Pakistani who has enough courage to stand against the crimes committed against Pakistan.
Bravo.
Saadia
Silence @IC
If you have watched vidoe, Begum General Ishfaq Pervez Kiani was standing right beside an ambessador of a country who bombed and killed soliders of very same army which is headed by her “Brave” husband.
If and (a wish) she would had shown courage, a decent protest of refusal, there wont have been a second attack on Pakistani land within next 24 hours!!!!!!
But our generals are shameless slaves of Americans.
This is the army who killed our elected Prime Minister and slaved nation while surrendering before enemy, this is the army who can not respond to our enemies but can kill countless of our own citizens to stay in government.
How can economy be better when we spend the biggest part of our budget to feed these cowards?
This protest not only made US realise what people think but also is a slap on face of US puppet generals who are suppose to protect our borders but they protect american intrests.
But if people want to show their real face to them, they impose martial laws and start killing Pakistani’s.
dr razahaider Assault is a means of expressing and inflicting injury.
Injury is a painful episode that causes damage physically or mentally, through deliberate or accidental infliction or expression of body move of assailant with weapon, words and behavior.
It is said that physical inflictions are easy to treat but injury caused by reserving words never escapes the mind of victim.
Similarly action speaks louder than words.
Movements serve the function of intended action towards termination of motivated desire.
A move that causes more damage than benefit is avoided although accidental happening are neglected and forgive.
If I perceive the incident under the meaningful contest of above cited definition I have no option but to conceive and curtail my thoughts and thinking process that the person has infact caused more trouble to the nation in the context of education and award of our young generation to compete at international platform.
Although at one end his desire to uplift the image is a factor but on the other hand indecent assault has created an embarrassing position for the nation.
If I shortsightedly analyze the incident there will be little difference between people who have compromised our integrity in the name of their uncontrolled lust and insane thoughts, the Taliban and Mr. Samad khurram who has indulged the whole upcoming future generation in the domain of debarring and confiscation by shuttering the door of education.
If we remove our emotional and bias mode of attitude from table of opinion, the act seems to be a very untoward behavior, and real unbecoming.
In my opinion he should have received the trophy through the hand of Patterson and then, should have requested to take action regarding his plea reflecting and endorsing his desire to revert the award if prompt actions are not initiated.
Embarrassing a representative of a nation is a serious issue, and we as nation should be apologetic to the sufferer.
Silence ””””””Embarrassing a representative of a nation is a serious issue, and we as nation should be apologetic to the sufferer””””””
Agreed 100%.
1. At the same time Vietnamese must apologise from US, they not only hurt Americans dream of imperialism but also put in to a state of humilation around the world.
2. Iraqi’s must appoligise because even they failed militarily after the fall of statute of Sadam, they are still causing ” Injury is a painful episode that causes damage physically or mentally” and fighting aginst occupation.
3. Pakistan must also appologise to Americans because 160 million people have use bad words against american killing and assasinations of leaders.
4. African Americans (Blacks) must also appoligise as they not only hurt feelings with words (and still continue to do so)of imperialist whites but fight then with guns.
4. American nation itself must appologies from Neocons as 80% of Americans are against Neocon agenda and inision of soverign states.
And in the end every Pakistani must appologise from American backed generals dead and alive, espacially Zia ul Haq who was very well mannered and loyal to US that he kept the foundation destruction which Iraq, Iran, Pakistan and Afghans are going through.
We are rude, ill-mannered and we are all liable to be killed just as alqueda members because we protest on our dead bodies.
Its a bad world!
Our generals are well mannered, soft spoken and friendly,loyal and never hurt anyones feelings have not you seen Generals wife standing by US embassedor exectly as slaves stand behind masters.
Thats is the reason we are a developed and indipendent nation today, thanks to our well mannered generals.
Farhana Kanwal Wel done Mr.Khurram.
You raised the heads of our nation.
Its the best form of Jihad.
May God Protect you by showering blessings.
Tahseen Alam Khan May Allah make us all Pakistanis as SAMAD. God bless him he is the HERO of Pakistan we all should apprecieate his Courage. We strongly belive in the policy of Live & Let Live. America should look into its own Character what harm is being done by its polices. All over the World people are suffering because of Wrong American Policies.
WELDONE SAMAD WE ARE PROUD OF YOU.
Ali Thanks Samad… all my prayers and best wishes are for you.. may Allah swt shower blessings of this world and hereafter on you.. You made as proud! :)
Shahryar Khan Sarmad is pride of this nation, USA is now the SHO of World Police Station, the award he refused was nothing for the prays he is getting now
Pakistani Ironically, after having a great publicity stunt, Samad will now go back to US and and stay there to complete his stidies from Harvard. What kind of principle stand is this??
alias if pakistanis suffer cuz of USA, then they shud not study from havard. Moreover, Samad shud not continue his studies there.
Intelligent students like samad shud study in his own country and give more fame to his own country and educational institutions like the punjab university.
we shud also not 4get that musharaf, is himself responsible for what he is doing, not USA.
Maria Samad, let me tell you you weRE very brave out there. may God enlighten your mind and help you in making the right choices in life so that not only you but sleepy people like us also get to realise the ways in which we can, if not physically but verbally express our solidarity to our nation. May God gives us all strength to stand up for our country and do something against all the atrocities we have to suffer.
hoping that whatever you did will have a positive impact on you, and everyone who sees it and last but not the least our country.
Karim G There is a lot of HOORAY, BRAVO, WELL DONE, WHAT A GUY going on here… this is all fake adulation because given half a chance most of us will jump without thinking twice on the opportunity that this guy has.
I don’t blame him for any thing, I think we all do have individual responsibilities and even with his protest he should continue his education in Harvard, this is unparalleled opportunity. However, if his morals and values remain at the good place he will remain in Harvard, play the game right, make the empire believe that he is their loyal foot soldier and when he is ready he will come back (not like our last prime minister) to serve his country and deploy all that he has learned to serve his people. But alas, having said that, what will most likely happen is that the power, money and glory will intoxicate him, he will buy a big mansion and will have a big mortgage, soon after he would want to send his kids to Harvard, Yale or Oxford with hefty tuition fees, and he will say well…I just did what any body else would do! In the meantime please do go on with …..HEY SAMAD WE ARE WITH YOU MAN….
sabahat double salute to you SAMAD!!we need more youngsterslike you who have the courage to stand up to these low down no good americans…bravo samad!!may AlLAH always keep ypu this strong always
Maham Zahoor Mashallah !
Superb !May Allah give u guidance to the right path !
but from where we can get the 20 sec speech which he gave !!!
plz reply….
Shahid Anwar First ~ Well Done Khurram for protesting in the most literate manner for the poor people of FATA ~ May ALLAH Bless & Reward You (aamin).
Second ~ what for Khurram, we people, all 160 million are a bunch of assholes, for whom your Great Gesture does not matter at all. we are not bothered whether your future is spoiled by this, we just are clapping AND SHAMEFULLY wishing for a glimpse of the US Amabassador.
All of us in the hall had no shame, to leave the hall at your gesture, but kept on sitting there.
Third ~ as for Mr. Musharraf, I salute him for being a GREAT Solier ~ BUT as for his acts, imposing himself on Pakistan as American agent ~~~ we shall not worry, as all such people are KILLED by the Americans like a Gali Ka Kuta, such as Zia Ul Haq, and other ~ Mr. Mushasrraf time is just there.
Forth ~ will all those congratulating Khurram, MAKE SURE that he continues his studies, and extend financial support, etc. if required by Khurram ~ NO, because we all, starting with me are Pakistani assholes.
Finally ~ Bravo Khurram, I will second you ~ BRAVO.
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Sarah Iqbal Kutay ka bachay sala.. nothin more
bus.. aisay he number bana rahoga bastard apnay.. huh who gives shit to them
[...] I become extremely occupied with things after the Ambassador incident and Aitzaz later wrote an article for me in the Newsweek to ensure I am not labelled into something [...]
[...] I become extremely occupied with things after the Ambassador incident and Aitzaz later wrote an article for me in the Newsweek to ensure I am not labelled into something [...]
saadiqa SUBHANALLAH !!! THIS IS REAL LIVING ISLAM….ENJOINING GOOD AND FORBIDDING EVIL..
WELL DONE BROTHER - IT IS YOUR DUTY TO TELL AND YOU DID!!!
THIS NOT ONLY REQUIRED GUTS BUT TOTAL SELFLESSNESS…HOW MANY OF US WOULD BE PREPARED TO SACRIFICE ALL THE POMP AND GLORY IN RECIEVING SUCH AN AWARD … SOMETHING THAT YOU MAY HAVE SPENT SLEEPLESS NIGHTS - TOILING AND STUDYING TO ACHIEVE…
I COULD GO ON AND ON BUT I CONCLUDE BY MAKING DUA THAT ALMIGHTY ALLAH GUIDES YOU ON THE STRAIGHT PATH UP UNTIL HE TAKES YOUR SOUL AWAY AND REWARDS YOU WITH JENNAHTHUL FIRDHOUSE…ON THE DAY OF JUDGEMENT - WHERE ALL OF US INCLUDING THE SELF ASSUMED SUPERIOR AMERICANS WILL SEE TRUTH BEING HURLED AGAINST FALSEHOOD!…THAT DAY THEY WILL BE THE GREATEST LOOSERS AND INSHALLAH WE MUSLIMS WILL BE THE WINNERS…AAMEEN!
Kudos!!!