Wake up Pakistan (Episode 1): A look at corruption in elite and feeling of nothingness in our public
Monday, November 30, 2009
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
True Mujahideen
Dear All,Its a long debate and in all these years everyone has developed its own idea and reasons about the current situation. I have been debating and trying to convince people that do not show blind faith for the Media. Its all controlled, you can sense it very well if compare the Media we have right now with the one we had 10 years back. Have u ever seen a proper Taliban representative in Media, any spokesperson??
What do you think why has America wasted a good budget on Afghanistan and aids to Pakistan? If you think its really for the "war against terrorism", u r fooling urself.
Many many reasons r behind, suppressing the only Strong Muslims in muslim world (Pathans), gaining control of Nuclear Pakistan, establish in the area of world to be a threat for China & Russia, Keeping eye on India, Iran and Arabs, Dividing Pakistan to finish Muslims last hope, capturing Balochistan for its Mineral reserves, involve all the Muslims in the issues of their own area so that America can attain their other targets for Libya and Lebanon. Oil, Arms, Geographic position and ZIONISM are the big issues too.
Now coming towards TTA issue (Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan). If we talk about our political parties, we can find a big group of black sheep, but we shall definitely find few good ones too. Even if we like some party we cant declare that every person in the party has pure soul and a perfect example. Can we? No never.
Same is the case with people in Tribal areas, there was chaos everywhere after drones. If u could remember the daily news of killed children and women, destroyed houses and shops. Keep in mind that im talking about those people who develop animosity even on very minor issues like "calling names" or wrong parking etc. How could we expect that they would remain silent on brutal massacre of their relatives, and if they seek help from Government then dont get anything but laugh.
In such conditions America took help of Pakistan agencies and developed few Mir Jaffars and Mir Saadiqs. It took much time for the people their to realize who is good and who is bad.
Few Sardars at that area took privilege of the situation and grabbed a lot of dollars from both Pakistan and America, to keep running these aids they also did tricks even against their bosses (America & pak).
Few Sardars quietly surrendered for the safety of their people from drones, but few tried to fight against. Few were bribed and few were provided by Indian arms. Drones kept going all this time.
In short, a big mess had been their and other Pakistanis like us were just sitting watching Geo, mourning and pitying for the people there. Even we were not getting the complete picture and figures of death rate. To further finish this sympathy towards Afghans and Pathans so that America can further move on its agenda, suicidal attacks were planned by agencies (both American & pak). Media showed it worse and here we are. 70% of our youth now thinks that Taliban are wrong and Tribal people are fool and bla bla.
Someone ask these people, are Taliban that much in number to attack people in whole Pakistan and at the same time fight with Pak Army, NATO, America and American Allies??
Where Pakistan Army was when there were drone attacks on daily basis, wasn’t those attacks on sovereignty of Pakistan??
We all know that Black water is there, Raw is active, Expansion of American embassy, Americans found in Afghani getups, uncircumcised people found in army operation (means non-muslims), Hindu persons found in Mosques in mulim getup. These all the things we know, and media has also leaked some glimpses even being controlled. BUT still we don’t agree that Taliban has to do something if war is forced on their heads and Media has drilled the wrong vision in our brains, that if we find a clip from TTP we r not ready to accept its truthfulness.
Just suppose if we go out one day, come back from office and find our house blown down to earth and all family dead, whet shall we do. We go to police and they say “we cant help at all”, we go to Army/Gov. and they just laugh don’t even listen to us than what shall we do?? Just think, I hope we all can find the answer.
So I request you all to please don’t get all ur news from Media, specially TV and Paper, use ur own mind too and do a little research and also get guidance from Quran and Sunnah.
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Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Shanaakt 2009
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The festival features on exhibit:
- Never-before-seen photographs of dashing young men of Pakistan Air Force from 1940 and 1950s
- Rare photographs of pre-partitioned Kashmir
- “A man for all seasons” Hashim Raza photogrpahic tribute to one of the first civil servants of the country.
- original film posters from golden lollywood era
- snippets of films and songs from the Citizens Archive of Pakistan (CAP)
- recollections of cinema-lovers
- film screenings of blockbusters: Koel, Sassi and Armaan
- a slice of vintage Pakistan in an exhibition of some of the most beautiful vintage cars in the country
- Sheema Kirmani's thetarical performance in 'Rang Badal Lo Bhai'. a drama which shows how things change colours in our country
- readings of Pakistani literature in Urdu and English by Fahmida Riaz, Haseena Moin, Ilona Yusuf , Mohammad Hanif and Musharraf Ali Farooqi
- an evening of musical fusion with popular Pakistani bands joined by traditional folk singers.
The event would be open to schools between 9:00 am and 1:00 pm, while the general public would be able to attend it between 3:00 pm and 9:00 pm.
Shanaakht festival is conducted by the Citizens Archive of Pakistan or CAP. CAP is a not-for-profit educational institution and heritage centre that was established in February 2007 with the aim of strengthening the civil society and giving full rein to the creativity of Pakistanis, allowing them to explore their heritage and history. Their largest projects to date include the Oral History Project and the Government School Outreach Tours, which are part of a wider attempt to showcase Pakistan’s history and celebrate our nation’s achievements.
More info about current event and their other programs @ CitizenArchive.org
Monday, November 9, 2009
Allama Iqbal : "Falsafa-e-Khudi"
His poetry is enough to understand the Falsafa-e-Khudi...
Ho jis ke jawaanon ki khudi soorat-e-faulaad
Shaheen kabhi pervaaz se thak ker nahin girta
Pur dam hai ager too, to nahin khatra-e-uftaad
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Her lehza hai momin ki nayee aan nayee shaan
Guftaar mein Kirdaar mein Allah ki burhaan
Qahhary-o-Ghaffary-o-Quddusy-o-Jabrood
Ye chaar anaasir hon to banta hai muslmaan
Ye raaz kisi ko nahin maloom k momin
Qaari nazer aata hai haqiqat mein hai Quran
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Aaeen-e-jawaan merdi, haq goi-o-babaaki
Allah ke shairon ko aati nahin robaahi
Kaafir ho to shamshir per kerta hai bharosa
Momin ho to betaigh bhi lerta hai sipaahi
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Mein tujh ko batata hoon taqdeer-e-umem kya hai
Shamsheer-o-sina awwal, taaoos-o-rabab aakhir
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Jahaan mein ahl-e-imaan, soorat-e-khursheed jeetay hein
Idher doobay udher niklay, udher doobay idher niklay
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Clean the cities not HIV
HIV Virus is problem for mainly non-muslim countries where sex becomes just another form of entertainment rather than a responsiblity. Pakistan Alhamdulilah doesn't have that as a big problem. Lets go over the statustucs posted by CIA World Fact book:
- Pakistan approximate population: 176,243,000. Making it 6th most populated country of world.
- 0.1% of population is HIV infected (5000 deaths per year)
- Most infectous diseases: bacterial diarrhea, malaria, hepatitis A and E
- Total overall deaths: 1,350,000 per year
- Percentage of total population living in slum settlements: 74%
- Sanitation provision: 59%
What our government, health institutes, NGOs and general public should be working for is a cleaner environment. Our budgets should not be focusing on HIV but on:
- Proper sanitation in non-urban areas. If you check the population influx in hospitals then you will realize that most of the city hospitals are treating people from villages more than city people themselves. Nip the evil in the bud! If proper sanitation is provided in their areas, then medical facilities budget will automatically reduce to cure these common diseases.
- Reduce the garbage cans street time in urban areas. Currently IF there is a garbage can provided in any city area, it remains there.. till its full and flies are flying over it.. and it fills to brim and garbage starts to fall out of it. if the cycle of picking them up is shortened then the garbage throwing areas would be much cleaner and the cans wouldn't become a house of disease themselves.
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- Supply of clean drinking water. Purification and disinfection of underground water, and obtaining potable water from evaporation and re-liquidification of rain water. desalination or reverse osmosis of sea water.. all of these can be used to obtain ample water reserves for drinking purpose.
- Regular cleanup of city sewer system and rain water drains. Once they choke up, water stagnates on city streets, it not only deteriorates the roads, but also become bacterial hazard.
Fight for cleanliness! Our Prophet (SAW) announced it as a part of religion; and we can see the effects of it. HIV in Pakistan have been reported in: Commercial sexual workers, drug users, people from abroad and prison inmates. So, why are we giving importance to them rather more than rest of regular public? I am not saying to abandon fight against Aids.. I am just saying that everything should be given consideration as their level of vitality. The NGOs should also stop telling you about illegal sexual relations and first work on creating awareness of clean living and Islamic habits.
Allama Iqbal : "اقبال اور شاہین"

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” اقبال کے وجدان اور جذبات شعری کو جو چیز سب سے زیادہ متحرک کرتی ہے۔ وہ مظہر ”قوت“ ہے یہی وجہ ہے کہ وہ بلبل اور قمری کی تشبیہوں کی بجائے باز اور شاہین کو ترجیح دیتا ہے۔“
اقبال کے ہاں شاہین مسلمان نوجوان کی علامت کے طور پر استعمال ہو اہے۔اقبال کو جمال سے زیادہ جلال پسند ہے اقبال کو ایسے پرندوں سے کوئی دلچسپی نہیں جن کی اہمیت صرف جمالیاتی ہے یا جو حرکت کے بجائے سکون کے پیامبر ہیں،
بلبل فقط آواز ہے، طاوس فقط رنگ
اقبال کو شاہین کی علامت کیوں پسند ہے اس سلسلے میں خود ہی ظفر احمد صدیقی کے نام ایک خط میں لکھتے ہیں۔
” شاہین کی تشبیہ محض شاعرانہ تشبیہ نہیں ہے اس جانور میں اسلامی فقر کی تمام خوصیات پائی جاتی ہیں۔ خود دار اور غیرت مند ہے کہ اور کے ہاتھ کا مارا ہو شکار نہیں کھاتا ۔ بے تعلق ہے کہ آشیانہ نہیں بناتا ۔ بلند پرواز ہے۔ خلوت نشین ہے۔ تیز نگاہ ہے۔
اقبال کے نذدیک یہی صفات مردِ مومن کی بھی ہیں وہ نوجوانوں میں بھی یہی صفات دیکھنا چاہتا ہے ۔ شاہین کے علاوہ کوئی اور پرندہ ایسا نہیں جو نوجوانوں کے لئے قابل تقلید نمونہ بن سکے اُردو کے کسی شاعر نے شاہین کو اس پہلو سے نہیں دیکھا” بال جبریل“ کی نظم ”شاہین“میں اقبال نے شاہین کو یوں پیش کیا ہے۔
ادائیں ہیں ان کی بہت دلبرانہ
حمام و کبوتر کا بھوکا نہیں میں
کہ ہے زندگی باز کی زاہدانہ
جھپٹنا ، پلٹنا، پلٹ کر جھپٹنا
لہو گرم رکھنے کا ہے اک بہانہ
یہ پورب ، یہ پچھم ، چکوروں کی دنیا
میرا نےلگوں آسماں بے کرانہ
پرندوں کی دنیا کا درویش ہوں میں
کہ شاہیں بناتا نہیں آشیا نہ؟
اقبال کی شاہین کی صفات:۔
اقبال نے شاہین کی جن خوبیوں کا خود ذکر کیا ہے اور جن کے باعث وہ ان کا پسندیدہ جانور بنا ہے ان کا کلام ِ اقبال کی روشنی میں ذرا تفصیلی جائزہ لے لیا جائے تو اقبال کے تصورِ شاہین کو سمجھنے میں مزید مدد مل جاتی ہے وہ صفات مندرجہ زیل ہیں۔
غیرت و خود داری:۔
غیرت و خوداری درویش کی سب سے بڑی صفت ہے اور یہی حال شاہین کا بھی ہے اس لئے وہ مرغ سرا کے ساتھ دانہ نہیں چگتا جو دوسروں کے احسان کے باعث ملتا ہے اور نہ گرگس کی طرح مردہ شکار کھاتا ہے درویش اور فلسفی میں یہی فرق ہے کہ گدھ اونچا تو اُڑ سکتا ہے لیکن شکار ِزندہ یعنی حقیقت اس کے نصیب میں نہیں ہوتی۔
حکیم ِ سر ِمحبت سے بے نصیب رہا
پھرا فضائوں میں گرگس اگر چہ شاہیں وار
شکار زندہ کی لذت سے بے نصیب رہا
فقراور استغنا:۔
فقر بھی اقبال کے نزدیک مرد درویش کی بڑی خصوصیت ہے جس طرح شاہین چکور کی غلامی نہیں کر سکتا اُسی طرح درویش شاہوں کو بھی خاطر میں نہیں لاتا۔ اقبال کہتے ہیں کہ شاہین کو چکور و گرگس کی صحبت سے پرہیز کرنا چاہیے ۔ زاغ و گرگس کی صحبت میں شاہین کی زندہ شکار حاصل کرنے کی صلاحیت مردہ ہو جائے گی اور وہ انہی کی طرح لالچی بن کر فقر سے ہاتھ دھو بیٹھے گا۔ اس طرح شاہین کی صفات پیداکرکے فقیر بھی کسی چڑیا ، کبوتر یا فاختہ کا شکار نہیں کھیلے گا بلکہ وہ فطرت و کائنات کی تسخیرکرے گا یا باطل کی قوتوں کا مقابلہ کرے گا۔
آشیانہ نہ بنانا :۔
اقبال کو شاہین کی یہ ادا بھی پسند ہے کہ وہ آشیانہ نہیں بناتا ، آشیانہ بنانا اس کے فقر کی تذلیل ہے۔
کہ شاہیں کے لئے ذلت ہے کارِ آشیاں بندی
Sunday, November 8, 2009
Allama Iqbal
Talking about Iqbal, his Poetry and his Ideas is not a child's play.Iqbal in his era was among those who listened to him and understood his ideas, not completely but good enough to raise a revolution. After that, instead of understanding him more we all began loosing his thoughts and got ourselves stuck in semi western and semi Islamic psyche with some topping of Indian culture. Now we only remember Iqbal as our national poet on 9th Nov. and that's too when we see his name on TV.
We can find a good example of a Sufi in his soul, a revolutionary Mujahid, an Activist, a brilliant Poet, a Thought provoking person and a Think Tank. In his words he captured all the aspects of life, all the feelings of human being and also gave the basic solutions for the problems which one might face in its personal life and cumulative contribution to society. He was so much clear and pure in his thoughts that he enclosed all the solutions in just one word i.e. "Khudi". Giving the name of "Shaheen" (eagle) to the youth he mentioned the attitude and style which our youth should follow.
Today on Iqbal Day (9 Nov), its obligatory for us to read about his thoughts and try to act accordingly in life. Now the questions arises why should follow his thoughts? what is the criteria that he was right. For answer i would say that the creation of Pakistan and revolution in Iran is enough to judge. Yes the Iranian revolution had its seed in the poetry of Iqbal too. I would request our people just try to read once his "Falsafa-e-Khudi" and your inner-self will tell you that he was right.
Saturday, November 7, 2009
Beauty of Grey: Enough about NRO
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Corruption has always been there.. and I can never assume that there would be a time that any government of the world would be free of it. So, let there be corrupts.. but let there be also reformers.. who work for good too. Right now in current state of the country.. even the good leaders have been under force involved in just discussing and talks rather than actual work. and thus current situation of Pakistan is more worse than any time in Pakistan history.
will NRO solve my problem? will the corrupts be contained via it? NO!!! that's why we call them corrupts.. as they always find a way around the system and save their neck. So, LET THERE BE CORRUPTS. The good leaders shouldn't be fighting against corrupts.. they should dedicate their efforts on public work. At least that way the normal public will still get some benefit.
That is what is called as the shade of grey. There are hearts that are black and white. and in your leadership lobby there cannot be just white.. so let them mix with black. and I would be happy to have a shade of grey. That is why from politicians of my time I always liked "Shahbaz Sharif". He may be corrupt and laundering money for his own family business but at least he gave something back to the country too. Just look at main roads of Lahore, the motorway.. how much benefit we have of those. So, i am happy that he may have stolen my taxes.. cuz he at least spent some of it for our betterment too. unlike pure black hearts.. who sit there for 5 years and nothing good ever comes out of their tenure.
So, I request the media and all my fellow bloggers... STOP DISCUSSING NRO! and start highlighting the real problems of country: food, education, power, security and value of life. There never existed "Pure clean" politics, so why expect it now? Accept the shades of grey!
Is a lie
For some reason you never asked why
This is not a black and white world
You can't afford to believe in your side
This is not a black and white world
To be alive
I say that the colours must swirl
And I believe
That maybe today
We will all get to appreciate
The Beauty of Grey
(Song by band: LIVE)
Sunny Side: Faraz Raknuddin (Electric car)
First up in the series is "Faraz Rakunuddin Khan". So, just to give a brief introduction:
- He is a graduate from Cornell University
- He runs his own open source consulting firm called Emergon Consulting
- He created an open source enterprise mangment software Zivios
- He is a member of OffRoadPakistan.com and thus a big car enthusiast
- He has made Pakistan's first electric car under the name of Elektra Automotive
He modified an existing Mehran took out all the engine, mechanical clutch, filters, carburetor, spark plugs etc. and then custom fitted everything he needed to couple an electric motor and batteries to power the vehicle. And now the car is in fully working.
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The advantages of shifting to electric powered vehicles have grown immensly in outside world as it is more environmental friendly. Currently Faraz has run tests on the car and the economy of running Elektra in Pakistan is : RS. 1 per KM. Interested? He is thinking of commercializing it for 5.5 lac per car.
And this is not the end for his work. Faraz has already start to work on his next Prototype which will be able to travel 160km on a single charge. Use local Lithium Iron Phosphate batteries for better economy. 70 HP motor. It will easily go up to speed of 110 km/h speed. Its efficiency will be attained by custom built dent proof fiber glass body with airconditioning and custom dashboard.
Lets see where his this endevaours take him. May Allah make up successful in this. Proud of you to be a Pakistani!
Friday, November 6, 2009
Taliban: a new agenda, an old name
In 2004.. a reformed group emerged.. which only call themselves Taliban. I will not call them by that name, for they disgust the name. The media called them Taliban.. just because they were of Pashtun origins. A name represents an ideology, and their agenda or cause is neither as noble as Taliban nor based on any Islamic law.
These new formed "so-called-taliban" are bombing civilians, attacking civil protection agencies, banning education and portraying an image which is nothing Islamic in the name of Islam. It is like their agenda is to degrade Islam and do instability in Pakistan.
We can be free of a guilty conscious and blame it on "external" factors like RAW or CIA to fund and fuel these "wars". But the blaming will not solve anything. Both the image of Pakistan and Islam has already been badly damaged. If I quote from Newsweek..

Today no other country on earth is arguably more dangerous than Pakistan. It has everything Osama bin Laden could ask for: political instability, a trusted network of radical Islamists, an abundance of angry young anti-Western recruits, secluded training areas, access to state-of-the-art electronic technology, regular air service to the West and security services that don't always do what they're supposed to do. (Unlike in Iraq or Afghanistan, there also aren't thousands of American troops hunting down would-be terrorists.) Then there's the country's large and growing nuclear program. "If you were to look around the world for where Al Qaeda is going to find its bomb, it's right in their backyard," says Bruce Riedel, the former senior director for South Asia on the National Security Council.
So, this is the image we are left with... an ideal home-ground for terrorists. So, the question is what can be done? and the biggest questions in that is that as an individual who has no authority or power or money or resources... what can be done by you.
- Stop calling these suicide bombers.. "Taliban". Taliban (once) represented an Islamic movement. Just calling these new hot heads taliban, just puts it in mind of everyone that these are some "Islamists", whereas that is not the case. So, even in your general discussion with friends, collegaues, family... if someone mentions them as "Taliban" stop them and correct them..
- Support mudrasas (Islamic schools) and stop blaming all of them for terrorist activities. Once again when some school is closed by calling it "Mudrusa" we shame our religion; as it puts in mind that maybe all that is taught in any school with islamic name is "suicide" and bomb blasting.
The fault is not with school.. it is with parents. It actually becomes dangerous when parents stop takign interest in what their children are learning. If they rely 100% on schools .. then even a high profile English medium school is worse than a suicidal mudrasa; where your kids will learn to smoke, disrespect women and parents and become someone who knows how to fluently speak english, but doesnt know a thing about being a good human being. - Become pro-Islamic and pro-Fundamentalists rather than shying away. Yes these days if you stop being Islamic supporter.. then you already made the terrorist win. Their objective of degrading Islam is successful. Cuz now not only the exterior world.. but the Pakistani Muslims and its youth themselves started to turn away from the real message.
Our Islamic Fundamentals are our root.. be a Fundamentalists who believes in Quran and Hadith as guiding light.. promote them! Its an era of psychological warfare. Instead of going away from Islamic beliefs and calling them "un-modern", become a representation of true Islam in modern era. A Good or bad image decides the fate of the war... not swords and sticks.
Thursday, November 5, 2009
Police-Gardi in Pakistan
Rest of the work is of our Media, we shall wait for the feedback ... but should not carry much hopes, after all she is a child not our heroine meera.
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
and we call it Islami Jamhuria ..... ??
Revolution Destined to Youth
Some has gone way into the catchy terms of modernization and liberation while the rest has become serious about the current situation of Pakistan. The revolution depends on the second category mentioned.
We just need to unite on one platform, need a leader, straining out a good one from the existing leaders is near to impossible. Combining patriotic thoughts and Islamic thoughts is another issue. Getting agreed on a single vision seems unimaginable.
Anything could be near to it but not completely impossible, we had done this 62 years back and can do this again. Keeping faith is the first step.