The helicopter crash to which Athar referred to in the link he provided relating the joking success of his "giant swatter" was later reported by US officials as being a US helicopter that was destroyed after a mechanical failure to keep it from falling into the wrong hands.
Athar's blog has been dormant since July of last year, but his opinion of the Pakistani state is clear from his last post before today's events:
Most of us Pakistani IT professionals spend our lives shielded from the 'system'. Yes, we sometimes come out of our shells and protest against whatever we believe we have to demonstrate against and yes, we do write blog posts and opine and criticize and debate, and sometimes attend the feel-good TEDx talks to spread ideas but living in front of our computers, we rarely get a first-hand experience of the system that we loathe (but one that we have to live in).
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