As many of you might know that Musharraf regime put a ban on Pakistani govt private media after Emergency and blamed them ONE of the core reason of imposed Emergency Plus Martial law. People of Pakistan have been forced to go back to PTV era. As this is curious nature of humans, more you stop them from something, more they resist such bans and try to find out reasons to hide something from them. This was the human nature which was one of the reason of spreading Islam in US despite of several efforts by Bush regime. Musharraf is following same path of ignorance and stupidity and believes that he was doing right while Pakistanis on other hand become more active to watch such news channels which they might not be paying attention much in past. Pakistanis rejected this baised Imposition of media ban by showing their reaction when they started buying Dish Antennas. Mush regime couldn’t bear it either and ordered officials to ban sale of Dish Antenna as well.

 

The picture you are seeing above was published in today’s Jang in which a Nomad is busy in reading a paper. It shows how an ordinary man is hungry to get informaton. For a moment I found this picture funny but later I realized that I am just making fun of myself. I didn’t find myself different than this nomad who is living in a pipe. I am also living in a shell of Martial law and have been forced to rely on newspapers only. No free media for me anymore. The naked body of this man actually reflecting the naked truth that we have been pushed back in ancient time by using dictator’s Time Machine where people used to lead life in caves. Do you see how careless he is about the internal decor of his home? We are no different than him, have no interest about the filth around us and yet busy in earning money and have food. Just like this nomad who have no issue whether he eats thing in broken pots. Infact this nomad is better than us. Unlike us, he’s living within a single shell while we have been trying to hide ourself behind the several layers of ignorance,arrogance,stpudity and illetracy and yet we feel proud of. I don’t know what making us proud while we 16 billions Pakistanis are not better than this  naked nomad.

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When I read things like following, it makes me belief that no matter how much a Foji takes education, he always gets failed to getrid of dictatorship mentality. Following incident take place with Prof. Khwaja Masood, the former teacher of Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz. From Jang:

بریگیڈیئر طارق اسلام آباد( عمر چیمہ ) وزیراعظم شوکت عزیز کے ٹیچر پروفیسر خواجہ مسعود کو ایک ریٹائرڈ بریگیڈئیر کے ہاتھوں سخت بے عزتی کا سامنا کرنا پڑا اور انہوں نے معروف ماہر تعلیم پر سولو فوجی بیورو کریسی اور سیاستدانوں کے منافقانہ طرز عمل کی نشاندہی کرنے پر مغلظات کی بوچھاڑ ‘کر دی وفاقی وزیربرائے پارلیمانی امور ڈاکٹر شیر ا فگن نے اسکا آغاز کرتے ہوئے سیاستدانوں کو منافق قرار دینے پر سبق سکھانے کیلئے قابل احترام پروفیسر کو تختہ مشق بنایا اور اس کے بعد ایک نام نہاد ادبی شخصیت بریگیڈئیر (ر) خواجہ طارق محمود نے اس نامور دانشور کو اپنامنہ بند رکھنے کا کہتے ہوئے احمق قرار دیا اور کمرے سے نکل جانے کو کہا ۔اگرچہ وفاقی وزیر میجر(ر) طاہر اقبال بھی وہاں پر موجود تھے لیکن انہو ں نے خاموش تماشائی کا کردارادا کیا اور دونوں کو70سالہ پروفیسر خواجہ مسعودسے بدلہ چکانے دیا

Jang further reveals:

بریگیڈئیر (ر) خواجہ طارق محمود نے اپنے قریبی رشتہ دار پروفیسر خواجہ مسعود کو جمعے کی شب ایک بھرے اجتماع میں اپنی عز ت افزائی کیلئے بلایاپروفیسر مسعود معروف شاعر جوش ملیح آبادی کی شاعری کے انگریزی ترجمے سے متعلق کتاب کی افتتاحی تقریب میں مہمان مقرر تھے لیکن وہاں ایک ادبی شخصیت کے ساتھ جو کچھ بھی ہوا پروفیسر خواجہ مسعود نے بریگیڈئیر (ر) خواجہ طارق کی طرح کے مداحوں پر تنقید اور تنقیص کے ذریعے جوش کی یاد ضرور تازہ کردی بریگیڈئیر (ر) خواجہ طارق محمود نے صنف ادب میں داخل ہونے کیلئے انگریزی تراجم کاسہارا لیا ۔تاہم ان کااصل چہرہ اکثر لوگوں کے سامنے بے نقاب ہو گیا جنہوں نے ایک اور شخص کو وصی ظفر کی طرح کانپتے ہوئے دیکھا جیسے ہی پروفیسر خواجہ مسعودنے شاعری پر اپنی تقریر کا آغاز کیا تو انہوں نے موجودہ حالات اور ان کی شاعری میں موازنہ کرنے کی کوشش کی انہوں نے کہا کہ جوش انقلابی خیالات کے شاعر تھے انہوں نے پاکستان میں موجودہ حالات پر کڑی تنقید کی انہوں نے کہا کہ پاکستان میں بھی انقلاب آسکتا ہے اگر سیاستدان اور فوجی وسول بیورو کریسی منافقت چھوڑدیں ۔ بریگیڈئیر(ر) خواجہ طارق کے بارے میں گفتگو کرتے ہوئے انہوں نے کہا کہ انہو ں نے انہیں فوج میں شامل نہ ہونے کا مشورہ دیا تھا کیونکہ یہ ان سے میل نہیں کھاتی لیکن انہوں نے فوج میں شمولیت اختیار کی۔ ان کے ریمارکس سے ڈاکٹر شیر افگن اور بریگیڈئیر (ر) طارق دونوں غصے میںآ گئے ، افگن جو کہ ایک بدزبان شخص کے طور پر جانے جاتے ہیں نے آغاز کیا اور قابل احترام پروفیسر کو اظہار خیال سے محروم کرنے کی کوشش کی ۔وہ سیاستدانوں کو منافق قرار دینے پر مشتعل تھے اور انہوں نے اس پر چلانا شروع کردیا ۔ چکوال کے رہائشی بریگیڈئیر (ر) خواجہ طارق نے بھی اس لفظی جنگ میں ان کی پیروی کی ”او بے وقوف ، اس ہال سے باہر چلے جاؤ“انہوں نے خواجہ مسعود سے جب یہ کہا تو وہ سناٹے میںآ گئے بعدازاں بریگیڈئیر (ر) طارق نے سامعین جن میں ریٹائرڈ جرنیل بھی شامل تھے سے خطاب میں کہا کہ اس احمق کو دیکھو یہ ہمیں اپنا فلسفہ پڑھانے کی کوشش کررہا ہے ۔ ہم نے اسے ایک لکھاری کی حیثیت سے بلایا اور یہ ایک مبلغ بننے کی کوشش کررہا ہے ۔ بدقسمتی یہیں پر نہیں ختم ہوتی سامعین جن میں اکثر فوجی پس منظر کے لوگ شامل تھے خاموش رہے اور کوئی بھی معروف کالم نگار اور معمر شخص کی اس شدید بے عزتی پر صدائے احتجاج بلند کرنے کیلئے کھڑا نہ ہوا ۔ سول سوسائٹی کی ایک کارکن ثمر من اللہ جو وہاں کتاب خریدنے گئی تھیں یہ برداشت نہ کرسکیں اور اٹھ کر کھڑی ہوئیں ۔ ایکسکیوزمی ، بس کریں یہ حد سے زیادہ ہے وہ چلائیں ، ثمر نے سامعین کا سویا ہوا ضمیر جگانے کی بھی کوشش کی اور کہا کہ سوسائٹی کے اس افسوسناک اور لاچار رویے کی وجہ سے پاکستان مسلسل زوال کا شکار ہے اگرچہ خواجہ مسعود اپنی زندگی کے بدترین لمحات کا شکار تھے لیکن انہوں نے اس وقت بھی وقار کا مظاہرہ کیا اور کہا میں ایک درویش منش ہوں جو کچھ میں نے کہا وہ بھلائی کیلئے تھا اسکا مقصد کسی کا دل دکھانا یا کسی کو نشانہ بنانا نہیں تھا اگر کسی کا دل دکھایا ہو تو میں معذرت خواہ ہوں یہ کہہ کر وہ چلے گئے ‘ ثمر من اللہ نے کہا کہ میرا دل اب بھی غمزدہ ہے ، میں اپنی9سالہ بیٹی کے ساتھ کتاب خریدنے گئی تھی لیکن اس کے بغیر ہی واپس آگئی ۔مترجم اس قابل نہیں کہ اسے پڑھا جائے۔ انہوں نے دی نیوز کو کہا کہ اگر ایک دانشور جو کہ وزیراعظم کاٹیچر بھی ہے کو معاشرے میں عزت کا یہ مقام دیا جاتا ہے تو دوسروں کیساتھ کیا رویہ ہوتا ہوگا ۔ ایک اور ادبی شخصیت سرمد صہبائی جو اس افسوسناک واقعے کے وقت وہاں موجود تھے نے کہا کہ ڈاکٹر افگن نے ہتک آمیز انداز میں مداخلت کرکے پروفیسر مسعود کواظہار خیال کے حق سے محروم کرنے کی کوشش کی صہبائی نے دی نیوز کو کہا کہ وہ میزبان سے یا اپنی تقریر میں اعتراضات ریکارڈ کراسکتے تھے لیکن افگن اس شرمناک حرکت پر بھی نادم نظر نہیںآ ئے ۔ وہ پروفیسر کی بے عزتی کا بڑا ذمہ دار بریگیڈئیر (ر) طارق محمود کو ٹھہراتے ہیں جب دی نیوز نے اپنا موٴقف بیان کرنے کیلئے ان سے رابطہ کیا تو انہوں نے کہا کہ میں نے سیاستدانوں کو منافق قرار دینے پر اعتراض کیا تھا یہ سیاستدانوں کو بدنام کرنے کیلئے چلائی جانے وا لیے مہم کا حصہ ہے انہو ں نے کہا کہ بریگیڈئیر(ر) طارق نے ہنگامہ کھڑا کیا جب ان سے پوچھا گیا کہ بریگیڈئیر (ر) طارق نے انہیں مدعو کیا تھا تو افگن نے کہا کہ وہ انہیں نہیں جانتے اور وہ چکوال کے ایک صحافی خواجہ بابر کی درخواست پر وہاں گئے تھے ۔،وفاقی وزیر شیرافگن بھی مشتعل ہوگئے

I try to summarize in English. A brig Tariq Mahmood translated the work of Famous Urdu poet Josh Maleeh Abadi. He invited his relative who is a wel known scholar and teacher of PM Shaukar Aziz. Prof. Masood criticized society by saying that Pakistan could also have a revolution if Army, politicians and bureaucrat quit hypocrisy. As you know that a dictator never listens anyone else, Brig Mahmood started abusing Prof.Masood by saying, O Silly man! get out of here. That lamer was invited as a writer and trying to be a preacher and showing off his philosphy.

Obviously it made Prof.Masood stunt and he had nothing to say against this demonstration of bad manners. Ironically no one had courage to say anything against the Foji.

Guys, when I read this, I was simply shocked! Where are we heading to? what’s wrong was said by the teacher? was He wrong? Ain’t we not hypocrite? Why to come out and teach lesson of tolerance when we don’t have one? I believe we all have become part of a society where all rules,regulations and laws are set and expected to be followed by those whom we disagree or despise.

Unfortunately Pakistan is going to be a big ‘Army Mess’ where Pakistanis are being turned to Foji who have zero tolerance and follow religion of dictatorship and guys I am not an outsider. I am also being forced to become part of it . Maybe many of us don’t know about it that we’re turning to a beast who couldn’t cope with things properly. Why? I have no idea at all. Are people protesting or standing up against it? I don’t know. am I saying anything against it? Prolly yes and these days I am being cursed because I want to stand up against such dictatorship and hypocrisy, a Civil Dicatorship and hypocrisy which is spreading like wildfire among our youth. The youth which is getting ready to feed next generation of Pakistan. Forget about Pakistan itself, first they gotta deal with their own kids.

Zainab referred an article of Dr.Najam and asked something like that. I replied Zainab that intentionally or unintentionally we are becoming a nation where we want others to follow which we wish, will never do any attempt to apply same on ourselves. Why are we being make something like that? I do have an aswer but lengthy enough which requires a seperate post or a series of post. The horrible thing is that we are becoming part of it, slowly and gradually and we don’t even have idea. We Pakistanis are at war and we don’t even know about it. Probably our enemy is unseen who is playing with our minds and defeating us. This physcolical war is leading us to no where and so far we have came out as a loser nation.

Ok I have come back to Karachi and just jotting down this post so that I don’t forget things I experienced in Islamabad. Do forgive me if you find things unlinked with previous paragraphs or statements. It will also have errors about Islamabad info so do forgive me for that mistake as well and correct me by making comments.-Thanks

Finally I was able to visit Islamabad first time in my life. Many would be surprised after reading that but I know more people would get surprised when they would learn that Islamabad is the first Pakistani city which I have visited in my life!(don’t I sound like a true and loyal Karachiite? hehe ). Incase one would like to know reason, I have one answer; I never got chance neither found any reason to visit. Have gone outside of Pakistan but this was my first ever trip for other Pakistani city and Inshallah I hope I will be able to visit more cities in future.

My Islamabad trip was an official trip on 24th October, 2007. It was so much official that I didn’t get chance to vist the place which you are seeing in above picture. The Faisal Masjid.

It was only a three days trip. I reached Islamabad around 12:45 PM. The current Islamabad Airport is comparitively very simple than Karachi’s Jinnah terminal. I had read about new Airport constrution somewhere near Zeropoint(?). I hope that airport would have all latest facilities available. I went via Airblue flight which is very good airline service so far in Pakistan. Educate host and hostesses, nice and fresh food and safer flight! Something which you can’t say about PIA anymore. I was not alone. I had my two seniors along with me. we were travelling in business class sos didn’t have much passengers so in order to balance the load, they allowed passengers from economy class to get in. I was sleepy so I tried to take some nap and fortunately I was able to take naps during flight. I suddenly wokeup due to conversation between two women behind our seat. First I thought that they were hostesses who were busy in their cabin which was behind my seat. When I woke up for meal and saw on right, I found a familiar chinese face of the woman who was wearing glasses (Pretty Zinta style) and busy in listening music. When I asked my friend,he told me that she’s a model but I remembered I had seen her in some program, my friend further increased my knowledged that the woman was Sophia Chee, A chinese living i Pakistan for loong time and now host of a TV show. I don’t know whether it’s just another fashion among models or burgers or she was too natural that she was sitting on seat like any Pakistani villager that is keeping leg(s) on seat. The other woman with her was a Pakistani and they might be travelling for official purpose too. I also saw actor Humayun Saeed and Abdullah Kadwani at Karachi Airport when I was waiting for other colleagues. Humayoun Saeed looks like a gaint. I must say he looks much better on TV than real life.

Ok, back to the topic. No, when did I go off topic? the topic is Journey to Islamabad so covering things from beginning

As I was telling, I found ISB airport very simple. My office is in Sector G-6. First thing I noticed in Islamabad that there were no rickshaws and Buses . First I thought that there were some strike but later I was told that there was no such concept in Islamabad. People use either vans or private suzuki cars as Public Transport. I think this is the main reason other than lots of trees Islamabad has wayyy less pollution than Karachi. Khair we were heading to our office. The other noticeable thing I found was a hill which reminded me famous Hollywood Sign was Jinnah’s golden words(Unity,faith and discipline) on some Hill along with his picture. I don’t know the name of that place. I don’t remember I saw any other thing prominent, all I remember I was seeing different signs of locations on roads like Rawat, Gangaal East and Gangaal West. That gangaal name just reminded me PTV drama Janjaal Pura, hehe.

Both sides of roads have trees and trees and trees. So much green stuff just remind me a Biiiiig park in the form of city for Jogging purpose. . Oh between there is grand park in Islamabad which is as big as a sector in Islamabad. If I am not wrong, the sector is F-9, correct me if I am wrong.

My other colleagues had visited our Islamabad office and ISB city lots of time but that was my first trip. We were dropped direcltly at office. After Salam dua with ISB team, Me and other pals just got busy at work and left office around 9:00 PM! yeah no rest at all! I was hungry and unlike our Karachi team, poor ISB team had no fixed time for lunch. I protested my senior who also came with me that I wanted to eat something. My other member of Karachi team and few guys of ISB team got up around 4:00 PM to eat some stuff. We headed towards Melody, it’s actually a food park and very good concept which is similar to Food court concept in Karachi. Unlike Karachi food courts, the Melody park was an open area and was looking quite natural. People say right tht Islamabad is expensive, the chicken role which’s worth is no more than Rs.40 in Karachi was being sold in Rs.60 in Islamabad and trust me, the taste was not outclass or exceptional and better than roles one could try at Silver Spoon Hussainabad,Karachi. I bought a chicken role and Banana shake. I felt hunger again around 9:00 PM. The guys decided to go Savour Foods which I heard a LOT by my other peers who used to go ISB frequently. One of my senior despise that place a lot. The way they used to discuss savour, I had impression that they visit some Dhabba in Islamabad which is very cheap so they call it Saver but got surprised when I saw the building which is actually owned by Emaar Group and 3 floors were under use of Savour Guys. The story of this resturant is very interesting. More than a decade ago, the owner had bought ticket(s) of Asif Zardari’s famous savour Raffle Scheme and he got a prize. He started the busines with that money. His hard work and Allah’s blessings made him millionaire and now he runs a big resturant. The thing which surprised me more that one could have Pulao(Chawal) as Garebi in that resturant. That is, you can ask as much chawal as you want beside the actual double or single plate dish. If I remember,the full name of Resturant is Savour Pulao and its famous due to its Pulao which consist of boiled rice with some color, chicken pieces and two Shami Kebabs, that’s it. I liked this new taste of chawal and being a hard core fan of Biryani, the pulao didn’t disappoint me at all.

The other thing which I noticed myself and just had read in papers that I found people NOT violating signals even there was no car on other roads and time was around 11:00 PM! I was told that the credit goes to Motorway Police who made ISLOO drivers civilized. The thing is that motorway police is not some other creatures on earth. They are just paid good enough salary(was told that low rank official earns upto RS.25,000/month) so they don’t get corrupted by bribes. The other factor is that they all are graduates. Though our assembly is graduate too but in ignorance and stupidity. I was told that same Motorway police is in Lahore now and training lahoris how to drive and follow traffic rules. I can just hope they come to Karachi, they will earn millions of prayers by Karachiites.

As I told you that I didn’ have time to go for outing and only outing I had was to go out for food or back to Guest house. Since I am fond of food stuff so did get chance to try few famous Islamabadi things. Like I tried Mango Shake with Icecream with the Bakery called Rahat. The shake was too good though I didn’t have enough room to try stuff from Rahat Bakery. I didn’t go inside the place but God! the bakery was looking very well decorated and I personally didn’t find any such well decorated bakery in Karachi. Our guest house was in Sector G-9 if I am not wrong, all I know that there is a food place called Karachi Company which locals pronounce as Karachi Kompany which was near to my guest house( i think it was named as Orion something). We chose the short cut which went thru a patch of jungle and crossed the small canal with the help of bridge. It reminded me the famous song, sanu nehar walay pull te bula k maahi kithey rah gaya. The place was looking so weired and romantic as well. Weired in a sense that there was too much darkness in the absence of street lights and we were going from a place where I was just hearing different sound of bats and other creatures and romantic because it was calm and there was a moon on sky. I was cursing that why the heck I am going with my peers rather with some beautiful soul :-).

Anyway after crossing the area we were on main roads. I found pushcarts of shoes and chappals and surprisingly they were selling good sandals in very cheap prices. I didn’t buy since I already had a pair of sandals back at home.

Finally I reached Karachi Company another open place. The place was like parking area of Clifton Center, if one start using the area as sitting arrangment for customers then you would have something like I saw at that Karachi Company place. I don’t know why do they call it Karachi company but all I saw that it was live like any other food place in Karachi even after 10:00 PM. We decided to sit inside the resturant since whether was getting chilled and I was just in jeans and t-shirt, so my other two colleagues. I have a habit(good or bad you decide!) that whenever I go in some hotel, I do see what stuff others are eating. I saw two guys were having Pulao while I just saw menu of Biryani as a rice dish. Then I learnt another thing that in Punjab, there is no such thing as Biryani and they call Pulao as Biryani. I also learnt at same place that in ISB, Roti and Naan, both are same things while in Karachi roti as referred as Chappati. The thing which they call one roti is its due to flour which is usually look brown or red which makes roti reddish or brownish. Other is same like Tandoori Roti of Karachi. I ordered Chappal Kebab which I was trying first time in my life. Yeah I know I claim i love foods and I would be sounding hypocrite to you but yaar, I had not found good place in Karachi. Only good places in Karachi for Chappal Kebabs are Shah Faisal Colony and Banaras and both are way out of my way. The worth of chappal Kabab was Rs.40, not much!. IT was very tasty. we also had ordered Qeema fry and Chanay k daal. I also noticed and other guys from Karachi that 1 ^1/2 litre 7up bottle was more stronger than Karachi. I experinced it first at Savour food than at The Karachi company. I don’t know its true or its just we guys felt like that, no idea *shrug*. When we were returning back to guest house, I said to my friend that I didn’t find any Paanshop in ISB and I wanted to eat Paan. The thing which shocked me that Paan is not common in Pakistan and if Paan is available, its cost is around Rs.15!..I was like w00t??..Rs.15!!. My friend who’s a Karachiite but spent more time than me in iSB, told me that the only place of Pan he found was at Melody Food pak. It was quite surprising for me.

I offered Friday prayers at Masjid-e-Bilal near my office and there my friend helped me to taste something new and that’s called Challee, Bhutta(Corn on Cob) whic is actually a steamed rather baked or roasted and trust me it sounds so amazing and good. The process of stramed Corn is itself very interesting. They boil water in some big drum for hours and put bhutta on some filter stuff for hours(from 8-10 hours). The steam keeps cooking bhutta for whole night and they have it ready in the morning. Another good experience!

Last night we all went to have Icecream at Jinnah Market or Jinnah Super market I don’t remember but I do remember that Icecream parlour’s name was Mama’s (am I right??). I ordered one scoop of chocolate crunch and one of peanut crunch. The worth of cup was Rs.50 but very well justified. I was having a good icecream after a looooong time. I was told that it’s a home-made Icecream. God knows. All I can say that it was cool!

One thing which I felt a lot that ISB is the place where you can feel a big gap between elites and poor. There was no such middleclass areas like we have in Karachi. Maybe I don’t know much that’s why or it’s really true. ANyway, this was the only thing which I felt painful about Islamabad.

The last thing which I noticed today that there were lots of banners about Kashmiris and Kashmir. I don’t know it’s a norm in Islamabad or just there is something special which is going on in Islamabad. Ironically, Islamabad is the place where a regime has hurt Kashmir cause a lot by declarding Kashmiris freedom fighters as terrorists- *sigh*

After spending three days in Islamabad, I can just say that if you want to enjoy Islamabad, DON’t go for office work, just go for outing otherwise you will feel restless like me. There are so many lovely sights that one could just wish to spend life on that place, even there are lovely sights around my Islamabad office and guest house but then a Karachiite like me who loves too much noise and activities around could get bored soon after experiencing too much serenity in surroundings.

Thanks Islamabad to bring a minor change in my routine. I hope I will visit you soon for non-official purpose or even if I come for office work, I will make sure to visit famous sites of Islamabad.

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Sunday would be the 1st Shawwal-ul-Mukarram in Pakistan which would start a three days festival for Pakistani muslims. Eid as most of you might know is the gift of Allah for those who actually take advantage of this month.

2007 is the year which is not good for us and made us cry many times, still it’s bleeding like hell and on occasion of 27th Ramadan, I heard news of bombartment in Wazristan areas which converted several women and kids into pieces.

So, this is another EID which we we’re going to celebrate. People are buying lots of stuff from markets. I am recieving greetings via mails, eid cards etc. I am usually not a party person and Eid was always just another day for me.

Imagine if someone in your family or beloved one passes away before Eid or in month of Ramadan, how would you feel? would like to smile, have fun,throw parties or you would try to celebrate it simply and according to Sunnah. Don’t get confused or take me wrong that Muslims shouldn’t celebrate Eid. It’s the reward by Allah for those who perform Ibadah in whole month, refusing to obey His order would just ruin all our prayers. Unfortunately Eid for us has just become an excuse of excessive shopping,buying clothes and visiting relatives, nothing else. None of us try to seek the spiritual side of the Eid.

My fellow blogger and a known figure Sabahat Bhai(aka iFaqeer) lost his dad in month. I don’t need to tell worth of father or mother for any child and definately it was more than a pain for Sabahat bhai’s family. It would be quite natural that his family would not feel same on this eid and wouldn’t be cheerish enough to enjoy the ‘glamorous’ side of Eid(which we should always avoid). This is why Sabahat set a message on his Facebook profile which I agree 100%, Sabahat says, let’s focus on the spiritual side of the season.

My fellow blogger would be in pain because he lost his loved one. People like you or me are still lucky that so far we have not lost any closed relative and we are mast in our life and busy in buying stuff even during prayer times. Imagine if(Godforbid) you hear a news that someone in your family passes away, how would it make you feel? will you like to continue shopping by saying, I am busy at the moment!? Imagine you hear such news during shopping which just takes away your soul and then you see few people near to you busy in Hulla Gulla and masti and laughing out loud. How would it feel to you? For a moment you would like to throw them away and you would like to cry out loud. Why the hell are you going to feel like that? Just because you lost someone closed to your heart? why do you expect others cry for you or even feel for you?… But then your heart will not listen any logic. Your brain won’t respond you sensibly, after all you have just lost your closed one.

The way you suffer or could suffer, someone else would have suffered or suffering in your country. Ghazala Khan of TPS made an excellent post about disaster in Wazirstan area, I second/thired/nth to words of Ghazala. Do remeber this is not the only one. In 2007 we faced horrible Balochistan flood and people are still suffering over there, we are not hearing any news due to political stunts one after another. We then experienced 12th may massacare in karachi when I lost 45+ people of my own city. We then suffered deaths due to rain, again 30+ people died and then we had lal masjid’s sadist incident when I saw that soldiers invading a mosque, offending books of Quran and Hadiths by dumping them in nullah(savrage lines). I am not including Waziristan crisis because it has become an obvious conflict in Pakistan. One after another we faced so many problems. On top of that, we have not yet made those people calm who lost everything in earthquake 2005. I remeber that during earth quake crises(which is still ON), I didn’t find too many crowd in markets and even newspaper reported it. Everyone was willing to contribute and help those people. Even beggers were complaining that people were not given them money and they were mad their all Kamai went for Earthquake victims.

The question which bothered that time and bothering me this year again, Do we always need a natural disaster as an excuse to realize others’ pain? Is it necessary that unless we suffer ourselves, we can’t feel pain of others? Things have changed a lot from 2005, we have faced so many crisis that even Balochistan flood couldn’t motivate us. Maybe we are eagerly waiting for some kind of disaster which Quran tells us about nations of Aad and Samood or Noah’s? If there’s something like that then we are going to make the biggest mistake because then we would not survive either.

I would just say one thing, just try to consider all those who lost their lives this year due to different crisis your loved one and feel their pain. I am not gonna tell you WHAT YOU DO FOR THEM because you are not told when you lose your own relatives. I am sure once you consider them your own relatives, you wouldn’t require any teacher to teach you a lesson, just like nobody asks you to give you tips to feel pain when you lose your mom,your dad,your sister,wife or anyone who’s near to you.

May Allah bless all of you. Do celebrate eid but by thanking Allah who gave you another chance to become a zero-meter Muslim rather polluting yourself more after getting involved in same activities and fantasies. Eid Mobarak.

On a related note, as I requested/advised all Muslim men on earth, do pay attention what I’m expecting from all of you. Do give them credit to make you a human being and keeping your name high.

Roznama Boriat has suspended their online e-paper.

Shariq Mustaqeem, the owner of Boriat News paper says:

قارئین کرام، ہم غم و خوشی کے ملے جلے جذبات کے ساتھ روزنامہ بوریت کراچی کی تمام اپ ڈیٹس کی معطلی کا اعلان کر رہے ہی

Shariq tells the reason:

دنیا میں محبت کے سوا اور بھی غم ہیں اور یہی وہ وجہ ہے جس کے باوصف ہمیں سائٹ کو معطل کر دینے کی ضرورت پیش آئی ہے۔ یاد رکھیے، ہر انسان کے ساتھ ایک پَیٹ لگا ہے، اور آج کے سقراط کو بھی بجلی کا بل ادا کرنا پڑے گا۔

As expected, lots of Boriat fans are not happy with the decision. I got introduced with this website one and half year ago via friend and become fan of it. The unique style of sarcasm was too good to send the message across. At that time I didn’t know that Shariq was my university fellow.

Shariq has suspended his paper due to his career move which I accept but it really saddens that a good urdu service will not function anymore. I can just hope Shariq will continue his love for Urdu from the place where he resides now. I can’t publicly reveal where Shariq is working now without his permission but I wish him best of luck for his new and bright career.

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BuzzVines has started an online Movement to create awareness of freedom and independence. Pakistanis are thankless nation that they seldom value their country. They are mostly busy to screw it up. Interesting thing is that we call our country Mother Land but then we are always ready to screw it up, screwing the Mother Land!!, doesn’t it sound sick?? Actually we have not suffered like Kashmiris and Palestinians that’s why we don’t give up our pathetic activities which are harmful for Pakistan.

I am honored and thankful to BuzzVine Administration that they considered me worthy enough and asked me to join this movement. I am very much agreed with them and have added the promotional image on my blog. Thanks for tagging BuzzVines!.

Since we are talking about Pakistan and 14th August, it’s usually being observed that Pakistani are not so enthusiastic like they used to be in past. I kinda disagree because things were very different in Past than today. 2007 was one of the bloodiest year in the history of Pakistan where we have been facing lots of difficulties. The other thing is that most of us in past were kids and now grownup men and women so obviously we feel more vacuum than anyone else but the beautiful fact is that our kids still celebrate 14th August like we used to do in past. Is it not beautiful? Is it not thrilling?

Also, it’s said that we don’t love our country and the reason is given that we are involved in corruption, looting, cheating others etc etc. Fine this is true but does that mean we don’t love our country? the mother land? How many of you are 100% obedient kids of your parents? you don’t show off your love for your parents all the time, you also don’t listen them but if any of them fells ill, you just forget everything as nothing exist other than parents. Same thing is with Pakistan. We do love Pakistan but we don’t care of it, we don’t show off love but when our country suffers we become a united nation and gets ready to help our brothers and sisters. This is not a fairy tale, something like that happened after Oct’05 Earthquake in Pakistan when everyone was desprate to help victims regardless of colur,race and community. Everyone at PAF base was busy to help. I myself witnessed that both bicycle owner and BMW owner were working together. There was no difference at all. Why don’t I experience similar feeling all the time? Is it necessary that we suffer then we demonstrate our love for Pakistan. In Urdu it’s said, Latoun K bhoot batoun se Nahi mantay, we re just like that and I think there is a dire need of changing attitude. People don’t respect others anymore. Everyone has become selfish. This is the selfishness which is the core problem of traffic jams in Karachi. I am damn sure that even if you make thousands of underpasses,flyovers or subways, we would keep complaining about traffic jam issues because construction of flyovers and underpasses doesn’t construct our attitude.

If there are lots of bad and negative examples in our society, there are some beautiful examples as well which give us hope that our future is not so dark. Just look at the following picture which published in DailyTimes.

From the source:

Aslam Pervez, a disabled man, arrives in Islamabad from his native town Ummarkot, Sindh. He claims to have travelled this distance on his hand-driven cycle to promote the cause of peace in Pakistan. He plans to celebrate Independence Day in Islamabad. shabbir hussain

See, people like Aslam gives us hope that not everyone in this country is selfish. People like Aslam also make us embarrass that despite of being normal human beings with all organs intact, we are more disabled than Aslam. Actually we are more lower than Aslam. Allah just made him physically disabled while we made ourselves mentally disabled. Our minds are nothing but infertile wombs which can’t produce anything constructive. How pity we are ,ain’t we?

I don’t know how things will get changed, who will change us. All I know that we have to bring changes ourselves because Allah clearly told us that He(SWT) would not be helping hands for those nation who themselves are not willing to accept changes. We actually don’t like to accept changes and prefer to live in state of Inertia. Sometimes we reject things by saying, These Mullahs are just to lecture us all the times while sometimes we reject to bring changes by saying, Govt sucks ,system sucks and we can’t perform well. It has become our national game to blame others. This blame game is leading us towards nothing.

I can just hope that we just change our attitude. We should start thinking about others. We should start thinking about future generations. Our generation and our past generations have suffered a lot and the only reason behind this that they didn’t strive to bring changes and continued the blame game. Atleast we should think about our future generations. When I see cute kids on roads who are begging , I just get trembled due to fear that what kinda future lot of Pakistan are we producing? Try to see Pakistan thru the eyes of your kids. Even If you don’t have kids, just step out of your home and you would see lots of lovely flowers around who are our future. See Pakistan thru their eyes. Try to see Paksitan thru the eyes of those kids who died during Lal Masjid operation, you might see nothing but blood which just covered all their dreams which can’t be fulfilled now *sigh*. Live for others, do something for our future generation please! you don’t have to be some politician,nazim or a leader, all is required Pakistaniat which is driving force for us.

God bless Pakistan and God bless our future generation. Ameen

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This post might be unexpected and unusual for the readers who have been reading me for many months but not for THOSE who are with me since beginning because I often discussed things about past. This post is also an attempt to open the door of my past. This is the first time I am writing about my hot favorite singer as well as friend Kishore Kumar or Kishore da and prolly last time as well because I will not have anything further to discuss about him. Someone might get surprised what’s so special to discuss him after 1 and half years of blogging? well, I just came to know that tomorrow that is 4rth August is his Birth day so I think it’s right time to share associated memories with you. It’s a loong journey, from Kishore to Ka’aba with no relation with each other, prolly there is one? anyway, read on.

I don’t remember when did I hear Kishore Kumar first time because I had been listening him since childhood. My mamoo used to hear him. Dad used to listen old songs on All India Radio in the morning after BBC news and in night so I don’t remember which song exactly I like. I remember first few songs I heard by him were “Dekha Ek Khuwab tu Ye silsilay Huway”,”LArki Ya Ya Shola” both from Silsila. Actually almost every song of that Movie was cool. Then I remember that my other uncle used to hear Chingari Koi Bharkay and few more.

First time I started listening him seriously when I was in 9th grade and my childhood frined who was fan of kishore and other old singers, gave me a cassette of Kumar Sanu who was very new at that time(91/92) and used to copy kishore. I got the cassette from him and I LISTENED kishore’s song first time . Songs like Ghungroo ki tarha , Merey Naina Sawan Bhado, were not new for my ears but I had never paid attention to them.

I really started liking the songs by him. Infact I started listening his solo or sad songs first. Chingari Koi Bharkey was really a classic song, a very different song. I also liked other said songs like “Ghungroo k tarha” or “Koi Hamdam na raha” etc. The reason I was liking more such songs because I thought I was getting mature or maybe I was inclined towards some lady?

As much as I explored songs of Kishore, I found out that I just don’t like him due to his sad songs but also songs which were filled with Advice(Naseehat). How can I ignore the classic song Zindagi ka Safar from movie Safar(Journay)? The song which was penned by Indevar was equally sung well by Kishore. Let me tell you that I was never social in life, despite of I have a big friend circle but since I am lazy enough to party around. The time I started Kishore was my school age so also busy in school work so was not used to go outside much other than playing street cricket with pals. And as I said in other post that I was very fond of music so the interest was developed after listening Kishore seriously. So being a not-so-social person, songs of Kishore and his voice had become my friend. His songs had become like oxygen and I remember I used to listen him late night in dark room, enjoying full moon light. Listening songs like Is Morh se Jatey Hain from Aandhi and Wo Shaam Kuch Ajeeb thee from Khamoshi and Merey Deewanay pan ki dawa nahin in late night used to give a different taste to me. In early 90s, there was no Internet neither I had any computer. Since I was summer vacations so I never missed any program of All India Radio and Aakash Vani radio channel where they used to play old song. Acha in early 90s, I had no idea about composer, who penned the song or other thing, all I knew it was sung by Kishore. Infact after listening songs like O Majhi Re!, Ye Laal Rang, Musafir houn Yaroun, i never bothered to find out who else behind such creation because Kishore always took the lead. Kishore also had great quality of Yoodling. Though he did yoodling in many songs but song Mey houn Jhumroo was imaginary awesome. The other song in which he did great Yoodling was Tum Bin Jaoun Kahan. Later when R.D.Burman and Gulzar also joined my favorite list then I specially tried to find songs in which these guys worked together. Songs like Teray Bina Zindagi se Shikwa from Aandhi and Janay Kia Soch kar Nai Guzra from Kinaara were my top favorite songs by these three.

He was not just copied by Indians but several famous Pakistani singers tried to copy him and sung his songs in their career. Singers like Alamgir, Sheikhi ,Sajjad Ali were great fans of Kishore and sung his famous song of that time.

I could write on and on but I have to end it somewhere. Kishore Kumar was not only favorite of my generation[Late 70s] but also young kids of late 80s and 90s liked him as well.

Though I liked almost most of his songs. I also claimed I have not listen all 35,000 songs sung by him but whatever I listen by him, I did like few of them more than others. This is not some Top-nth List so it doesn’t mean song on 1st position is my MOST HOT favorite song.

1. Is Morh se Jatey Hain(Duet with Lata)
2. Yeh Laal Rang Kab mujhe Chorey ga
3. Yeh Merey Bandhey Haath
4. Koi Hamdam Na Raha
5. Ye Jo Mohabbat Hay
6. Woh Shaam kuch ajeeb hay
7. Mey Pyasa tum Sawan
8. Janay kia Soch kar Nahi Guzra, ek Pal raat bhar nahi Guzra
9. Jeewan se Bhari teri Aankhain
10. CHingari Koi Bharkay
11. Ye Kia Huwa, Kaise Huwa
12. Man karay yaad wo Din
13. Terey liye mey ne Sab ko Chora
14. Aye Khuda har faisla tera Mujhe Manzoor hay
15. Bari Soni Soni se hey zindagi
16. Merey Naina Sawan Bhadoun
17. Zindagi ka Safar
18. Terey merey milan k ye naina
19. Zindagi k Safar mey guzar jatey hain Subho Shaam
20. Kora Kaghaz tha ye Man mera
21. Jan-e-Jaan Dhoondta phir raha
22. Moti Ho tu Bandh kar rakh doun
23. Dekha ek Khuwab tu ye Silsilay huway
24. Jan-e-Man Kisi ka Nam nahin
25. Rim Jhim giray sawan
26. Ye Raat ek se kio hoti hay
27. Ham bewafa hargiz na thay
28. ye dil na hota bechara
29. Tuney hamay kia dia aye Zindagi
30. Aap ki aankhoun mey mehkay huwa se raaz hain

The list could go on and on but these were few which I remember used to list most of the time

That’s all folks! I think many regular readers who know me as a blogger who write more about religion and politics and recently ranted about Music is not part of Islam , would consider me a hypocrite. I thought twice before making this post that whether I should have done this or not or what others think about mine? but then I just refused my own thought because first, I write for myself , second , why do I pretend? what I am today was not in past. I want that others know my past and what I was fond of in past. I hope I wouldn’t have disappointed my readers, if I have then I am sorry but my whole purpose of this post was to say something about old friend whose 78th Birthday is being celebrated today by his fans. I WAS one of Kishore’s fan.

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Amir liaquat is a funny guy. The other media generated scholar after Ghamidi. There was an article by Him in which he’s informing us about 72 signs of Qayamah while on other hand he’s making an attempt to justify his point of view about Cinema because His company has been promoting Shoaib Mansoor’s KKL. After all he’s the director of the channel.

Interesting thing in his article that He mentioned few things which are being promoted by his own channel. For Instance , he writes one of the sign is “Sharai sazaoun ko Moattal Kia jaye ga” that is “suspension of Islamic laws of Punishments”. The recent WPB is an attempt to violate few clauses of Quran itself. There are many others which his political party and the channel not following at all.

The funniest bit is that Aamir is abusing to Enlightened and Progressive class. Um.. Aamir did you take permission from Altaf Bai in London who kicked you off just because you said Rushdie should be assassinated because he offended our Prophet(SAW)?
I wonder whether Aamir made any attempt to realize that He’s contradicting himself or it’s he was not told that both Ad and article would published on same date?