Saturday, July 25, 2009
Relationships!
Thorns of misunderstanding test our courage in relationship..............a bloody way ,just like human nature!
Relationships!
Thorns of misunderstanding test our courage in relationship..............a bloody way ,just like human nature!
Thursday, July 23, 2009
Birds
How free are birds, thye fly, fly and fly and they spend life flying, flying and flying ........to destinations unknown and known.
Birds have wings to fly from pain, from loneliness and boredom and to the horizons of courage and mystery!
When I will be a bird?
Birds have wings to fly from pain, from loneliness and boredom and to the horizons of courage and mystery!
When I will be a bird?
Wednesday, July 22, 2009
Rains and Sadness!
whenever their are rains, a film of sadness transcends over my heart and around me is only veneer of sadness overtaking all the facts of life.
Rains and sadness are like clouds, sometimes they mere hover around and then they unleash their fury like a storm in hte ocean.
Rains will always be htere and silence of sadness will also be there!
Rains and sadness are like clouds, sometimes they mere hover around and then they unleash their fury like a storm in hte ocean.
Rains will always be htere and silence of sadness will also be there!
Monday, July 20, 2009
Sin!
Sin from a plateu turns on a flat pitch........then drags downwards......a never ending abyss. This is the hell........result of our actions. May Allah give us courage to face allures of sin..Ameen.
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
Sleepless Nights! (Corrected)
Sleepless Nights!
I dream of sleep and when I sleep I dream of being awoken! I chase the shadows which have not risen yet and I construct the shadows in my heart and they pierce deep in my soul to lacerate myself .
The pangs of searching the destination and yearning for a journey of a free destination allude me like the mirage alludes the passengers in desert.
I can not look beyond my self but can think of stars beyond the comprehension and reach of human gadgets... so is my expanse less than a grain of sand and vaster than the entire universe. I am in journey , a joureny which has begun since times immemorial and will end at indefinite limits of time.
The imagination dwarfs myself in eyes of action and ideas rage like a jungle fire to consume myself and environs to transform the nothingness into being ... absurdity at the same time. The duality of action is in my spirit and I am grappling with this giant since I was born in physical essence and in spiritual realm thousands of years ago and in future with its own limits of extrapolation and inertia at the same time. I am steeped in between flight and stagnation , my steps are moving backward and forward at the same time..........oh I am not moving! But this immobility soon will pass and from behind the dark clouds sun will rise and there will be light. The ligth will enlighten me and my surroundings and wait will be over as finding oneself in light is the essence of search ... and search continues. It neevr stops , even inertia is a stage of search..
I dream of sleep and when I sleep I dream of being awoken! I chase the shadows which have not risen yet and I construct the shadows in my heart and they pierce deep in my soul to lacerate myself .
The pangs of searching the destination and yearning for a journey of a free destination allude me like the mirage alludes the passengers in desert.
I can not look beyond my self but can think of stars beyond the comprehension and reach of human gadgets... so is my expanse less than a grain of sand and vaster than the entire universe. I am in journey , a joureny which has begun since times immemorial and will end at indefinite limits of time.
The imagination dwarfs myself in eyes of action and ideas rage like a jungle fire to consume myself and environs to transform the nothingness into being ... absurdity at the same time. The duality of action is in my spirit and I am grappling with this giant since I was born in physical essence and in spiritual realm thousands of years ago and in future with its own limits of extrapolation and inertia at the same time. I am steeped in between flight and stagnation , my steps are moving backward and forward at the same time..........oh I am not moving! But this immobility soon will pass and from behind the dark clouds sun will rise and there will be light. The ligth will enlighten me and my surroundings and wait will be over as finding oneself in light is the essence of search ... and search continues. It neevr stops , even inertia is a stage of search..
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
Thursday, May 7, 2009
Love
We are in grip of love and always yearn for love. The limits are not for love and we stop our journey to love by our reluctance, and not to embark upon journey of love.
Love is around this universe and awaits us ...we are waiting for its open arms.
Love is around this universe and awaits us ...we are waiting for its open arms.
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Thoughts on Religious frenzy in Pakistan...
Tragedies are part of humanity, and this is all result of LEGAL FECUNDITY in our cultural milieu. It has deep roots. MQM' s stance shows that how polarized our society ahs become. We need to brideg this gulf, otherwise it is sundering us aprt. Middle path is the best path, extremes are not solution.
acts always need to be seen as they are , life is not as simple as it seems to be. Debate always should be open and if you show such rigidity then what is difference between those and who profess progressive streaks? There is always room for improvement.
I remember Nizamud Din Auleya , if some one places thorns in your path and you also do same .. then there will be thorns every where in the world.Hazrat Ali RA said patience is the horse which never gets stumbled.Passions are not always the right solution.
It did not happen in one day and if THIS is the chance for peace then why not give it a chance?
HAs USA been successful in Iraq? Afghanistan? Was she successful in Vietnam? Let peace have a chance. People of Swat have right to peace as much as people in Washington, Bonn , London have right to peace. If USA can talk to Iran, and if it comes from USA in Afghanistan to talk peace with Taliban.... then it is ok. But if the same formulae is applied in pakistan. then how it can becomes darkest day?
Democracy is right of majority, although it is not always right. Let democracy carve its own path.
Guns are the enemy of humanity whether they are of talibans, Army, USA or any other else. Rome was not built in a day, and this polarization of decades can not be done away with power or brute power. How many wars have brought peace?
Imprisonment is also a way of dealing with disorders, if they fail to deliver ( although it is done under coercion) then it will die in the mountains .
Why a gun is sacred and other devil's? Guns can never be roses. Drawing lines is easy, seeing behind lines is not that easy.
We can take a horse to pond of water but can not force him to drink!
ANP has demanded this. After reading the text in depth and I am remembering that in year 1999-2000 in Peshawer Provincial Services Academy (PSA). I raised objections to this Regulation system to the person who drafted this Mr. Saleeem Khan Secretary Law in NWFP Government and I still oppose it at intellectual and conceptual level ...it can not solve the issues of people as it lacks the spirit of Islam.
But the sad reality is that people with guns have made this an issue and till this fang of slogan of religion is not taken out of their hands there can not be any peace.
This is peculiar to the area as FCR failed to adjust with the social set up of modern times in Swat and adjoining areas. It will be another law ... but if it brings peace then its faults are welcome.
Legalization in the area is a way to peace. As to hype that such things can happen in other areas...yes it is a threat in certain areas. But it is overly exaggerated to say that this narrow minded interpretation can triumph over whole of pakistan. Not at all, Pakistan is a diverse country, and its ethos are of peace and peaceful existence at dominant level. Unfortunately religion has overtaken normal debate in our country as we never thought with mind and now it has become monster. This monster of jihalalt can not be done away with killings. Simply can not be . Technology fights technology, this fight can not be fought with tools which people can not understand and correlate with.They exploit terms of Islam and interpret it as per their own ideas, but how far we have employed its real interpretation to negate their ideas? We have not done it simply , this is a real test of intellectual leadership of society. Power can never hold for longer. Nights can be long and long, but there is always DAWN.We need to take away their weapons of steel and fire and of hatred in the form of ideas. Till we deal with them holistically, they can not be defeated , this is truth sooner we learn better.
cheley chalu key manzil abhi nhin ai!
TRUTH can be overshadowed but can not be done away.
acts always need to be seen as they are , life is not as simple as it seems to be. Debate always should be open and if you show such rigidity then what is difference between those and who profess progressive streaks? There is always room for improvement.
I remember Nizamud Din Auleya , if some one places thorns in your path and you also do same .. then there will be thorns every where in the world.Hazrat Ali RA said patience is the horse which never gets stumbled.Passions are not always the right solution.
It did not happen in one day and if THIS is the chance for peace then why not give it a chance?
HAs USA been successful in Iraq? Afghanistan? Was she successful in Vietnam? Let peace have a chance. People of Swat have right to peace as much as people in Washington, Bonn , London have right to peace. If USA can talk to Iran, and if it comes from USA in Afghanistan to talk peace with Taliban.... then it is ok. But if the same formulae is applied in pakistan. then how it can becomes darkest day?
Democracy is right of majority, although it is not always right. Let democracy carve its own path.
Guns are the enemy of humanity whether they are of talibans, Army, USA or any other else. Rome was not built in a day, and this polarization of decades can not be done away with power or brute power. How many wars have brought peace?
Imprisonment is also a way of dealing with disorders, if they fail to deliver ( although it is done under coercion) then it will die in the mountains .
Why a gun is sacred and other devil's? Guns can never be roses. Drawing lines is easy, seeing behind lines is not that easy.
We can take a horse to pond of water but can not force him to drink!
ANP has demanded this. After reading the text in depth and I am remembering that in year 1999-2000 in Peshawer Provincial Services Academy (PSA). I raised objections to this Regulation system to the person who drafted this Mr. Saleeem Khan Secretary Law in NWFP Government and I still oppose it at intellectual and conceptual level ...it can not solve the issues of people as it lacks the spirit of Islam.
But the sad reality is that people with guns have made this an issue and till this fang of slogan of religion is not taken out of their hands there can not be any peace.
This is peculiar to the area as FCR failed to adjust with the social set up of modern times in Swat and adjoining areas. It will be another law ... but if it brings peace then its faults are welcome.
Legalization in the area is a way to peace. As to hype that such things can happen in other areas...yes it is a threat in certain areas. But it is overly exaggerated to say that this narrow minded interpretation can triumph over whole of pakistan. Not at all, Pakistan is a diverse country, and its ethos are of peace and peaceful existence at dominant level. Unfortunately religion has overtaken normal debate in our country as we never thought with mind and now it has become monster. This monster of jihalalt can not be done away with killings. Simply can not be . Technology fights technology, this fight can not be fought with tools which people can not understand and correlate with.They exploit terms of Islam and interpret it as per their own ideas, but how far we have employed its real interpretation to negate their ideas? We have not done it simply , this is a real test of intellectual leadership of society. Power can never hold for longer. Nights can be long and long, but there is always DAWN.We need to take away their weapons of steel and fire and of hatred in the form of ideas. Till we deal with them holistically, they can not be defeated , this is truth sooner we learn better.
cheley chalu key manzil abhi nhin ai!
TRUTH can be overshadowed but can not be done away.
Monday, April 6, 2009
Thoughts on Religious frenzy in Pakistan
Talbanization was an issue, is an issue and till it is rooted out will remain an issue.These punishments, mode and method as understood or portrayed is entirely not in line with practices of Islamic culture and history.This present extremism is not new to Muslim culture , such extremists have been there and they have been crushed with reason and power. But this time American presence and an advanced media presence and legacy of dictatorship is making it more difficult to develop consensus. This is also exaggerated by foreign score settling in this hour of crisis. To equate this with true teachings of Islam is wrong morally, historically and factually. Extremism is enemy o humanity and especially religious extremism is most dangerous. We should fight it with all means.
If we do,nt understand history of a process then we fail to control its present and ultimately its future. And Mian brethren, they are most important characters in the past and present of this issue. Do you remember when Anti-Terrorism courts were made and by whom and for what purpose? By NS in 1997 ,to curb and control menace of religious and sectarian violence. It was first practical and conscious attempt to curb this menace.
Why they get bad press I fail to understand. NS had a deal with Clinton to train Pakistani Commandoes and they will catch OBL form Afghanistan and hand over him*( Se Bob Woodward). SS got killed many terrorists in police muqabelas. The same solution now adopted was adopted for implementation in late 1990.s ... but coup stopped this process.
Stereotyping always results in narrow targets, in times of crisis, emergency, and open rebellion demand more justice and deeper understanding of the facts to chart a healthy future.In Islam even war has principles, these butchers of human beings have no relation and reason of Islam. If the terms and symbols of Islam are not used they turn the debate as Western propaganda and confuse masses and all related. We need to single out them from within islamic debate , otherwise their influence will increase. There is local old saying iron cuts iron! Mere opposing is not solution.
Diverting the debate and taking superficial view of things happening in pakistan related to violence can not help us understand the reality of rise in extremism in Pakistan. Karachi is different story and in mid 1990's I was offered to join terrorist organization SSP and was asked to join and get money and weapons on hatred of Shias and all other non sense.
Religion's political and vested interest use is the issue , it is not as simple fighting between USA and Taleban. religion when ever in human history has been used to protect power or improve morals of society is bad bad and will remain worst crime.
But this giant has been unleashed in Pakistan and ethnic strife should be separated from religious one. My point is that in hands and minds of Taleban the fang is use of religion and it s poisonous use for personal agenda. Not all people choose them due to poverty, money or other issues. The silent majority of our writers in Urdu press , mosques and many many anchorpersons supports them or helps to support them through garb of religion.
Till this garb of religion is taken away from them, they can not be defeated. Me and you can know them in our safe havens , the people and forces who face them have strong strong adherence to popular religion. It is issue of leadership of minds and it is unfortunate due to state and out of state elite's apathy they have created their base in society.
As k those who do,nt want to kill their Muslim brethren , although they are ready to kill no-Muslims. It is an issue of Asbiyah, solidarity . they are using false interpretation of Islam as their bases of cohesion. Are their opponents coherent? They are not ... and this confusion and half hearted debate has shown them more powerful and enduring. Mere killing people is not solution.
Peaceful solutions are longer and one defeat can lead to another war. Treaty of Versailles sowed seeds of Second Greta european war of 1940's. The solutions should be enduring, not fragile and breakable.
No one is angel here and we all have our personal issues and yes length of hair should not be determined by a decree!
If they did it was nom sense and it is not a good idea to repeat even .
But if some one has done something to curb this menace we should have perspective at least. Although politicians never do things of public concern till they have pressure from public.
Cultural ideas keep on changing and nothing is permanent in this regard. even if they have qualms that they will also determine fashion hair and design, then they certainly live in fool's paradise!
Self cantered interests are not always suitable for society. Every one has freedom , but it stops when one's nose starts!
Issue is terrorism on the religious ideas... this is a menace and we should fight it at all forums. If this flood is not stopped it will have implications of our choices even to wear what one likes or dislikes.
They (Taliban)have narrowest possible approach to life... and unfortunately they have bullets and bombs and use them to kill innocent people. This is inhuman and it grows from false and narrow interpretation of religion, this is fundamental issue. USA, Afghan War , poverty, all other issues come later.
If we do,nt understand history of a process then we fail to control its present and ultimately its future. And Mian brethren, they are most important characters in the past and present of this issue. Do you remember when Anti-Terrorism courts were made and by whom and for what purpose? By NS in 1997 ,to curb and control menace of religious and sectarian violence. It was first practical and conscious attempt to curb this menace.
Why they get bad press I fail to understand. NS had a deal with Clinton to train Pakistani Commandoes and they will catch OBL form Afghanistan and hand over him*( Se Bob Woodward). SS got killed many terrorists in police muqabelas. The same solution now adopted was adopted for implementation in late 1990.s ... but coup stopped this process.
Stereotyping always results in narrow targets, in times of crisis, emergency, and open rebellion demand more justice and deeper understanding of the facts to chart a healthy future.In Islam even war has principles, these butchers of human beings have no relation and reason of Islam. If the terms and symbols of Islam are not used they turn the debate as Western propaganda and confuse masses and all related. We need to single out them from within islamic debate , otherwise their influence will increase. There is local old saying iron cuts iron! Mere opposing is not solution.
Diverting the debate and taking superficial view of things happening in pakistan related to violence can not help us understand the reality of rise in extremism in Pakistan. Karachi is different story and in mid 1990's I was offered to join terrorist organization SSP and was asked to join and get money and weapons on hatred of Shias and all other non sense.
Religion's political and vested interest use is the issue , it is not as simple fighting between USA and Taleban. religion when ever in human history has been used to protect power or improve morals of society is bad bad and will remain worst crime.
But this giant has been unleashed in Pakistan and ethnic strife should be separated from religious one. My point is that in hands and minds of Taleban the fang is use of religion and it s poisonous use for personal agenda. Not all people choose them due to poverty, money or other issues. The silent majority of our writers in Urdu press , mosques and many many anchorpersons supports them or helps to support them through garb of religion.
Till this garb of religion is taken away from them, they can not be defeated. Me and you can know them in our safe havens , the people and forces who face them have strong strong adherence to popular religion. It is issue of leadership of minds and it is unfortunate due to state and out of state elite's apathy they have created their base in society.
As k those who do,nt want to kill their Muslim brethren , although they are ready to kill no-Muslims. It is an issue of Asbiyah, solidarity . they are using false interpretation of Islam as their bases of cohesion. Are their opponents coherent? They are not ... and this confusion and half hearted debate has shown them more powerful and enduring. Mere killing people is not solution.
Peaceful solutions are longer and one defeat can lead to another war. Treaty of Versailles sowed seeds of Second Greta european war of 1940's. The solutions should be enduring, not fragile and breakable.
No one is angel here and we all have our personal issues and yes length of hair should not be determined by a decree!
If they did it was nom sense and it is not a good idea to repeat even .
But if some one has done something to curb this menace we should have perspective at least. Although politicians never do things of public concern till they have pressure from public.
Cultural ideas keep on changing and nothing is permanent in this regard. even if they have qualms that they will also determine fashion hair and design, then they certainly live in fool's paradise!
Self cantered interests are not always suitable for society. Every one has freedom , but it stops when one's nose starts!
Issue is terrorism on the religious ideas... this is a menace and we should fight it at all forums. If this flood is not stopped it will have implications of our choices even to wear what one likes or dislikes.
They (Taliban)have narrowest possible approach to life... and unfortunately they have bullets and bombs and use them to kill innocent people. This is inhuman and it grows from false and narrow interpretation of religion, this is fundamental issue. USA, Afghan War , poverty, all other issues come later.
Thursday, April 2, 2009
Thoughts on Religious frenzy in Pakistan
They were here we never noticed it. and let them grow and they have become monsters. I still remember 1995 in Lahore we were buying corn from a rehri and there was my female class fellow with me and it was summer she was wearing dupatta in her neck a mullah passed near her and made some stupid remarks which I did,nt listen I asked her what happened she said kuch nhin huwa . I insisted and then she tried to avoid it and said it happens. I asked her correct words then it was why you are not wearing dupatta on your head . I wanted to rush and ask that guy who the hell you are to tell her this? BUt my class fellow stopped me but I was really angry although it was my first year in lahore . This non sense was there.
And we let it grow by our own complacency, we never spoke against this abuse on name of religion and this has become fashion now to do all non sense things on name of religion and stifle debate and healthy way of life. We are afraid now to speak truth, mullah has taken over terms and definitions of Islam as per his narrow interpretation.
These bigots pasted wrong translations of Qur'an in public transport and distributed pamphlets on all non sense issues. they have hijacked the space of thinking and by propaganda taken all the authority of dictating norms of society in their own hands. and we merely say it is reaction to USA, no these are inner complexes and are inhuman and against spirit of humanity and Islam.
And we let it grow by our own complacency, we never spoke against this abuse on name of religion and this has become fashion now to do all non sense things on name of religion and stifle debate and healthy way of life. We are afraid now to speak truth, mullah has taken over terms and definitions of Islam as per his narrow interpretation.
These bigots pasted wrong translations of Qur'an in public transport and distributed pamphlets on all non sense issues. they have hijacked the space of thinking and by propaganda taken all the authority of dictating norms of society in their own hands. and we merely say it is reaction to USA, no these are inner complexes and are inhuman and against spirit of humanity and Islam.
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
Random Thoughts on Human rights
The human rights are universal and they are not exclusive to any specific religion, difference in intyerpretation and implementation is always there.Does Shari'ah and Muslim law acknowledge the human right to exist regardless of religion, race, etc...?This question has an answer, that in Islam there is no distinction of human beings on the bases of religion or idea to be reason for denying fundamental human rights.All human life is sacred irespective of race,co.,or, ideas and any thing else....
Human life can not be taken away except as prescribed by Law... in Islamic culture equivalent of this term is Shariah ( used in Cairo Declaration)Dear Paula , as to Jewish legal tradition , it has many many points which are not compatible with modern realities of life as interpretation of many Islamic laws is not in line with present realities of social and culturla level.
The point being referred usually in debate on the issue of killing infidels is about the situation when it is WAR, active war and in the battlefield not outside that specific context. Because Islam 's legal ideas even are applicable in war, Wars were humanized by Islamic ideas of humanity.IN no circumstances , a life can be taken only due to reason that he or she differs from one's... Read more rel;igious or other ideas. Human life is sacrosanct in all the circumstances except when one;s life in dnager then eevry one has rigth for self defence but it does not approve pre-emptive strikes. A blatrant cruelity of our modern state craft.As to legal comparison of different traditions of Law, it is amazing field where new ideas are explored. If you have any questions please let em know.thx.
Human life can not be taken away except as prescribed by Law... in Islamic culture equivalent of this term is Shariah ( used in Cairo Declaration)Dear Paula , as to Jewish legal tradition , it has many many points which are not compatible with modern realities of life as interpretation of many Islamic laws is not in line with present realities of social and culturla level.
The point being referred usually in debate on the issue of killing infidels is about the situation when it is WAR, active war and in the battlefield not outside that specific context. Because Islam 's legal ideas even are applicable in war, Wars were humanized by Islamic ideas of humanity.IN no circumstances , a life can be taken only due to reason that he or she differs from one's... Read more rel;igious or other ideas. Human life is sacrosanct in all the circumstances except when one;s life in dnager then eevry one has rigth for self defence but it does not approve pre-emptive strikes. A blatrant cruelity of our modern state craft.As to legal comparison of different traditions of Law, it is amazing field where new ideas are explored. If you have any questions please let em know.thx.
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Thoughts on Terrorism!
It is same as in West teens spray bullets on school students. All violence is conceived by seniors and perpetuated through innocent teen agers.Youth is always choice for frantic ideas.It is also another world view which has neevr been accepted by our elite whther in power or from civil soceity. They have,nt taken up arms in a day.t has long past history behind it. Mere economy and brainwashing are not its bases. It has deep roots within in structure and make up of society and not all madresas are indulging in violence. We need to see the people and human beings from a perspective which is free from any biases. The use of stereotypes is good for popular media but not a truth.
If we keep the same thought process going , then how can we think that those guys in their 20,s from slums of NY , who fight in Afghanistan are not brainwashed?It is not war Mullah vs State, it is basic exploitation of human beings on the name of religion, democracy, peace , war against terrorism by vested interest.Killing innocent human beings is bad whether by suicide bombings or drone attacks.Maulvi is a facade, facts and reality is different, we have never tried to look into truth.I worked as a Magistrate, I also thought economy is the prime reason but when I asked one activist of these outfits he replied no I left my job of per month 10000 Rs. in Sui Gas and joined Kashmir Jihad and they paid me 10000 Rs. after three months.Yes it has one factor of economy, but also a factor , perhaps more stronger than economy of betterment in life after death.
The mind of those persons who come for suicide bombings is inspired by ideas and , it is a fact , they are desperate . for justice, and these semi-literate Mullahs allure them that Islamic system will establish justice. And due to lack of knowledge they think that these power hunger Mullahs will establish peace, they have a choice and they do it in majority cases by their own consent.It is a fact that these brainwashed youth are ready to sacrifice even their lives for a cause. How many are so committed? Their commitment is wrong and is result of ignorance and injustice of society, but it is the only option available to them so they get it and perform it.In this process the state of our sleuths is most horrible and permanent and we are not still able to bring those hidden powers under ambit of law to work as people want not as some dark , narrow minded sleuths think. The real struggle is spanned over generations, mere searching causes in poverty, and free education is not its crux.
poverty makes them vulnerable, it is one factor and is OBL poor? Is Baitullah Mehsud poor? Are the foreign guys living in FATA poor... they take Betasoles in their breakfast... and have three to four wives local and may be foreigners also.Remember Yvone Ridley? The UK journalist who embraced Islam, was captured by Taliban and is placed 25th on the list of influential women in UK now.In Pakistan we repeat the mantra that terrorism is result of Afghan War and in recent times poverty factor has been brought in. But West understands this far better than us , that it is an ideological war and they need to win this at every cost, as it is developing into alternative mode of thinking ( despite all its limitations and drawbacks) .Pause for a moment and take violence out of this debate and think if they resort human beings or their fellow religious brethren to resist peacefull onslaught of West and modernity ... I am sure many more followers will be there.
Although not all people will follow them. But they have point for left outs and desperate people and they sell it and every suicide bomber is an advertisement for them and nothing sells more than sense of injustice and victimhood and it is a selling point in South Asia.As to point of view that we can not talk to them and can not relate to them...........it is half truth, we have never tried to reach them , to know their working of mind and how they are able to inflict so much pain on humanity and especially Pakistan.I come again to poverty point , from whom they get their finances? It is major chunk is drugs now... but how did they begin?Foreign funds... right, for certain time but who were the real financiers. The common people not poor but rich people among commoners, I know the anxiety of many well to do fathers who supported Jehad in Kashmir and Afghanistan and regularly paid donations but were worried when their own sons went for Jihad in Afghanistan and kashmir.
In Gujranwala and Sialkot region Lashker had big rallies, processions and they collected literally hundreds of kilograms of gold in donations by extolling virtues of Jehad and this money had no record and it multiplied every year and how can poor finance them? They never gave them money, they gave their sons and rich gave them money.
This money was to save kashmir, Liberate kashmir and serve in afghan Jehad . This is a mass phenomenon and broad based not restricted to a select strata of society and we failed to see it coming as we usually fail to see things and simplify and then enjoy our own lives. This has been going since decades and 9/11, Afghanistan, Kashmir and Palestine has brought it in forefront , it is old simmering struggle and alas this has been taken over by ignorant, and obscurantist Mullahs and power drunk liberal state actors.The reasons are deeper and we need to look for truth. We have to own truth and then face it. Truth is not so simple.
If we keep the same thought process going , then how can we think that those guys in their 20,s from slums of NY , who fight in Afghanistan are not brainwashed?It is not war Mullah vs State, it is basic exploitation of human beings on the name of religion, democracy, peace , war against terrorism by vested interest.Killing innocent human beings is bad whether by suicide bombings or drone attacks.Maulvi is a facade, facts and reality is different, we have never tried to look into truth.I worked as a Magistrate, I also thought economy is the prime reason but when I asked one activist of these outfits he replied no I left my job of per month 10000 Rs. in Sui Gas and joined Kashmir Jihad and they paid me 10000 Rs. after three months.Yes it has one factor of economy, but also a factor , perhaps more stronger than economy of betterment in life after death.
The mind of those persons who come for suicide bombings is inspired by ideas and , it is a fact , they are desperate . for justice, and these semi-literate Mullahs allure them that Islamic system will establish justice. And due to lack of knowledge they think that these power hunger Mullahs will establish peace, they have a choice and they do it in majority cases by their own consent.It is a fact that these brainwashed youth are ready to sacrifice even their lives for a cause. How many are so committed? Their commitment is wrong and is result of ignorance and injustice of society, but it is the only option available to them so they get it and perform it.In this process the state of our sleuths is most horrible and permanent and we are not still able to bring those hidden powers under ambit of law to work as people want not as some dark , narrow minded sleuths think. The real struggle is spanned over generations, mere searching causes in poverty, and free education is not its crux.
poverty makes them vulnerable, it is one factor and is OBL poor? Is Baitullah Mehsud poor? Are the foreign guys living in FATA poor... they take Betasoles in their breakfast... and have three to four wives local and may be foreigners also.Remember Yvone Ridley? The UK journalist who embraced Islam, was captured by Taliban and is placed 25th on the list of influential women in UK now.In Pakistan we repeat the mantra that terrorism is result of Afghan War and in recent times poverty factor has been brought in. But West understands this far better than us , that it is an ideological war and they need to win this at every cost, as it is developing into alternative mode of thinking ( despite all its limitations and drawbacks) .Pause for a moment and take violence out of this debate and think if they resort human beings or their fellow religious brethren to resist peacefull onslaught of West and modernity ... I am sure many more followers will be there.
Although not all people will follow them. But they have point for left outs and desperate people and they sell it and every suicide bomber is an advertisement for them and nothing sells more than sense of injustice and victimhood and it is a selling point in South Asia.As to point of view that we can not talk to them and can not relate to them...........it is half truth, we have never tried to reach them , to know their working of mind and how they are able to inflict so much pain on humanity and especially Pakistan.I come again to poverty point , from whom they get their finances? It is major chunk is drugs now... but how did they begin?Foreign funds... right, for certain time but who were the real financiers. The common people not poor but rich people among commoners, I know the anxiety of many well to do fathers who supported Jehad in Kashmir and Afghanistan and regularly paid donations but were worried when their own sons went for Jihad in Afghanistan and kashmir.
In Gujranwala and Sialkot region Lashker had big rallies, processions and they collected literally hundreds of kilograms of gold in donations by extolling virtues of Jehad and this money had no record and it multiplied every year and how can poor finance them? They never gave them money, they gave their sons and rich gave them money.
This money was to save kashmir, Liberate kashmir and serve in afghan Jehad . This is a mass phenomenon and broad based not restricted to a select strata of society and we failed to see it coming as we usually fail to see things and simplify and then enjoy our own lives. This has been going since decades and 9/11, Afghanistan, Kashmir and Palestine has brought it in forefront , it is old simmering struggle and alas this has been taken over by ignorant, and obscurantist Mullahs and power drunk liberal state actors.The reasons are deeper and we need to look for truth. We have to own truth and then face it. Truth is not so simple.
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
My Younger sister has died...
Obituary of my beloved sister Naseem Akhtar……..who has died so early in spring of her age and in spring season! ( May Allah rest her in peace)
My Younger sister has died...
Death is reality of life, but sometimes it has devastating affects not for the near and dear ones of departed; but even for the ideas which prop and sustain our lives. May be this is one of the moments in my life, I am thousands of miles away from my homeland and my younger sister has departed from this world leaving two kids in this mortal world.
Naseem was my sister, and till yesterday she was alive I talked to her days ago on phone she was admitted in hospital may be a month ago , but she was suffering silently and was victim of neglect of whom? I know, but I also don’t know. The life has painful realities and at the moment my reality is fluid and I am finding it very hard to accept my life’s decision as living away from my family. It is painful and I cannot hold my tears and I want to be stoic and there is no issue in denying that process of death is the transformation which liberates us from evils and sins of this world. Naseem is no more, now she cannot face more neglect and she died in silence as she was in her real life ………. Silent and I remember years ago , when she was sent away from our home to one of my Nanni (grand mother) as she was born very weak. For years we did not know of her and after many years she returned to our house ……. Her mother’s home or she was always homeless. She was homeless not in practical sense but in a spiritual and psychological sense and was married and she was still homeless. She has reached to her eternal abode; perhaps she was lost after death of Nanni…her mother… and searched her in the years she spent alone. My mother told me often she was silent and did not mix with others in our family, with other 10 siblings. Yes she lived in her own world and I will never be able to know secrets of that world………….we die in ignorance and live in ignorance.
My heart weeps, I weep as I try to write these lines, I cannot fathom this fact that she died so early, perhaps she endured enough. She was barely in her twenties. Daughter have to suffer, women have to suffer and this suffering wrenches my heart and it will keep on wrenching our hearts, the death is a fact and we can never run from it and no one can run from death…………but searching for love and belonging and then dying in process is a death which has pain painted over again and again with all the landscape colors of heart and soul.
Pain, pain and grief has overtaken me and also anger at human indifference and blaming cannot remove the signs of blood. Blood at invisible hands and blood spewed out of lungs, she died from lung disease and still I don’t know the real cause. Tuberculosis or what else? Perhaps there is no need to know as passed away souls cannot come back and let her rest in peace! May be her search has entered into another phase.
Life, death and pain… the eternal symphony sung in the march of human beings from cradle to grave. But these rhythms of life take a heavy toll willingly or unwillingly we have to suffer their brunt. She has left a daughter in cradle barely some months old and herself gone to sleep in the lap of earth…the ultimate cradle of human souls!
I remember her son Junaid, may Allah bestow Junaid with wisdom and courage of Junaid Baghdadi (RA), her mother is no more to look after him, to take care of him. The pictures ;when Naseem lost her path while going away from home to meet her Mausi (aunt) is in front of my eyes and I can relive the anxiety which I faced , that my sister is lost and how frantically was my mind racing to determine where she has gone. Now she is lost till the final day! Her silence had an ocean of ideas in herself. Memories have remained and they have become eternal by her untimely departure.
Spring of her age has been taken by autumn so early so suddenly and there is winter… a long long winter……when will spring come again? We mortals don't know……… we can never know depths of human heart and human limits.
She longed for company and her pleasures of company with her children have been cut short by delicate balance of life and death. She yearned and thought of her kids on her death bed, her body was frail and she could no more cope with loneliness and mountain of pain surrounding her.
Vivid memories are casting shadows of reminiscence over my heart; perhaps they were so few and so personal. Many memories; will never lose their factual contours and anguish ingrained in them. May Allah rest her soul in peace, eternal peace!
She longed for company and her pleasures of company with her children have been cut short by delicate balance of life and death. She yearned and thought of her kids on her death bed, her body was frail and she could no more cope with loneliness and mountain of pain surrounding her.
24th March 2009
Friday, March 6, 2009
Thursday, February 26, 2009
Revenge and madness!
Revenge and madness flow in my soul!
My land is drenched with blood!
Power rules supreme and
Ravan's spirit has not vanished
My land is drenched with blood!
Power rules supreme and
Ravan's spirit has not vanished
Sunday, January 25, 2009
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
Blood Thirsty Two feet Animals!
Blood suckers have closed minds
and they operate under fear that once again there can be a holocaust
and even if we write they will ignore the discussion and divert it
they have become expert in shamlessely lying and distorting history
it is like a mad dog syndrome , its short term cure is kill it and long term is not posssible as madness can occur any time
I rememebr Iqbal , the power does not accept logic!
whther it is in hands of Muslims, Hindus, Jews, Christians, worshipping power is satanic trait.
and alas satanic traits are in abundance and well worshipped under capitalistic and consumersit society.
and they operate under fear that once again there can be a holocaust
and even if we write they will ignore the discussion and divert it
they have become expert in shamlessely lying and distorting history
it is like a mad dog syndrome , its short term cure is kill it and long term is not posssible as madness can occur any time
I rememebr Iqbal , the power does not accept logic!
whther it is in hands of Muslims, Hindus, Jews, Christians, worshipping power is satanic trait.
and alas satanic traits are in abundance and well worshipped under capitalistic and consumersit society.
Light!
Knowledge is a light but to talk in terms of power is deception as power is a mirage and a tool to benefit some.
Knowledge is emancipation from greed, lust, ignorance, hatred, violence, destruction of environment. The knowledge looses its sense when its use is for power accumulation.
Then in words of Gandhi... science is a sharp razor in hands of a baby.
The present violence and destruction of humanity in Twin Towers and in Iraq, Afghanistan, Kashmir and Palestine is testimony to that fact.
Knowledge is emancipation from greed, lust, ignorance, hatred, violence, destruction of environment. The knowledge looses its sense when its use is for power accumulation.
Then in words of Gandhi... science is a sharp razor in hands of a baby.
The present violence and destruction of humanity in Twin Towers and in Iraq, Afghanistan, Kashmir and Palestine is testimony to that fact.
Religion.
Religious ideas can be a whole identity for Zionists, extremists, fundamentalists and rabid mullahs, Hindu sevaks........... but the process of civilization is beyond parts. It is a complete whole and for Muslims , the phases of historical prominence and submission are varied.
Mere number of scientists can not show the level of civilization or can show the depths of malaise.
Every civilization has its own metamorphosis and for Muslims the comparison with any other but except itself is a meaningless and absurd reality.
We simply do not know depths of agony....half baked truths are malicious and so is this information.
It distorts and negates the real issue. It is tip of ice berg
Mere number of scientists can not show the level of civilization or can show the depths of malaise.
Every civilization has its own metamorphosis and for Muslims the comparison with any other but except itself is a meaningless and absurd reality.
We simply do not know depths of agony....half baked truths are malicious and so is this information.
It distorts and negates the real issue. It is tip of ice berg
Saturday, January 17, 2009
Blood!
Blood flows and some times its impact is so deep as that it marks the places and then just flows............and flows unstoppable.
Wednesday, January 7, 2009
Pakistan
I will quote some examples to show that not all things are on decline.
- Pakistan's tele- density has been most intensive throughout last 2 decades, well before this mobile frenzy... it was spearheaded by PTCL... a Civil Institution.
- Pakistan's women engineering ratio 16 % is higher than even USA 10 % ( see rozee.com's survey of employment.)
- The doctors, Chartered Accountants, engineers produced by our institutions work in whole of the wolrd and their quality is not lower than any one. Despite all our efforts to politicize our institutions.
- In last year's CERN's landmark experiments to ncreate Big Bang particle collission there were four Pakistani scientists who participated in the experiments... they were from Government Departments.
- Late Zafar Ullah Khan worked in International Court of Justice for about one decade showing great admiration from all and sundry.He was Pakistani!
- An agriculturist in Agriculture department developed 7.5 mm Basmati rice , the largest kernel size in wolrd , later on it was sold to Guard rice and Guard rice is earning lot of money by selling this rice through exports.
- In Pakistan the ratio of lawyers is the highest in the world about 400 per 100000 persons even higher than USA about 350 per 100000 persons. It was one of the reasons for recent active Lawyers Movement in Pakistan.
- Since many years Pakistani students are performing excellently in World Debating Competitions .... although more students are from Public schools!
- Pakistan is one of the countries whose expenditure is highest on higher education , that is the reason that in high professions wolrd wide a lot of Pakistanis are seen.
- Jamshed Marker, Agha Shahi, Munir Akram,and many other people worked in United Nations system and earned a great name for country and Pakistan.
- Dr, Nafis Sadiq rose to be Head of UNFPA ... she is Pakistani.
- in NASA and other institutions of research there are many Pakistanis who studied in Pakistani Universities .
- Many new varieties of wheat, maize, rice and citrus have been developed in Pakistan.
- IBA in Karachi was one of the first Business Schools in Asia in Public Sector.
- Family Planning at Public level was initiated in Pakistan.
These are some examples, my point is not that all things are green, there are problems and they need to be sorted out but it does not mean that every thing is doomed and we have done any thing. Life is amde of controversies and healthy debate is a way to get clearer. In next e-mail I will write statistics . We need confidence... not over confidence. We are experts in knowing our weaknesses and short comings but at least we should try to learn our strengths also. I have intentionally mentioned a few things , the point is too see the both sides of the picture.Glass in not always half empty , it is also half full!
Sunday, January 4, 2009
Palestine!
O Palestine ! O Palestine!
I bleed and weep for you........... tears roll from my eyes and I cry and cry!
Palestine, how far can pain be endurable?
Palestine how far can human beings be blind?
Who will sweep these thorns from cheeks of children?
Who will choke the hands of death?
How far blood will spill?
O Palestine! O Palestine!
Let the pain turn into panacea!
Hope neevr dies and darkest of the nights have to give way to dawn!
We have to bleed , we have to sacrifice we have to keep on walking!
Blood will not be wasted!
We will create gardens of hope and love not of revenge!
Although we are under fire , but fires have their limits also!
I bleed and weep for you........... tears roll from my eyes and I cry and cry!
Palestine, how far can pain be endurable?
Palestine how far can human beings be blind?
Who will sweep these thorns from cheeks of children?
Who will choke the hands of death?
How far blood will spill?
O Palestine! O Palestine!
Let the pain turn into panacea!
Hope neevr dies and darkest of the nights have to give way to dawn!
We have to bleed , we have to sacrifice we have to keep on walking!
Blood will not be wasted!
We will create gardens of hope and love not of revenge!
Although we are under fire , but fires have their limits also!
Thoughts on Understanding Pakistan's Cultural Landscape
Nice, remember attacks of an ethnic party in Karachi?Remember threats to reporters of Jang recently?Remember when hawks of so-called mullah parties threaten media?Remember attacks on Geo office? We are not always right, we commit errors and mistakes and we should learn to be rational and not try to defend acts of our supporters . We should get out of dhera bazi! All animals are equal but some are more equal!
t is not raising questions against any one's honesty or dishonesty. Going back to history this same Mumtaz Bhutto under Bhutto in 1970's sowed seeds of linguistic hatred and fighting in Sindh and Bhutto supported him despite the riots in city and objections by many cabinet members of that time , (see Dr. Mubasher Hussian's Mirage of Power).I remember Nizam Ud Din Auleya 's saying if you also place thorns in the path of a person who places thorns in your way then in whole world will be thorns.In Sindh no doubt Mumtaz Bhutto is known for sowing seeds of regional biases, but this can prove counter productive in long run.
Media represents the society's views .. albeit in a selective way... The cultural realities of Pakistan can be done away in a flash of eye.
Nice, these conspiracies are our own follies and our own ideas of grandeur and a cliche statement, power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.As a student of Pakistan polity, I am amazed at the slogans of democracy , when the power accumulation is only purpose of all the subsequent rulers military or dictators alike!reasons are also politicians but the real culprit the framework of our state based upon colonial ethos and constitutional legacy of Indian Act of 1935. It is based upon contradictions and we always mutilate its face and then claim democracy, security and many many other issues.Conspiracies are easy way to divert attention from our own failures and when we do,nt want to resort to introspection then "conspiracy theory" is the easiest task! and alas Muslims have become the most avid lovers of such theories... liberals and conservatives alike!
eudal society, mullah controlled minds, authoritarian structures of society. Retrogressive attitudes of social expression. Increasing religious extremism. Intolerance, hypocrisy, desire for power accumulation, gender discrimination, caste ridden social fabric,Power hungry elite, militarized society.have you ever researched how organized is the influence of hidden powers but with clear agenda to control the opinion making of our society?
they consider themselves hidden but broader research shows that how the minds in Pakistan are poisoned on the name of ethnicity, religion , politics, language, sectarianism and lot more.Heard of Pavlov's experiments?
Yea, politicians are here targeted especially and singled out. It is wrong and we fail to take overall critical stock of social downfall.
these biases are intrinsic to our fractured and polarized society and lack of common space is being overtaken by jahil mullahs and already media... led by electronic media in pAksiatni society.
t is not raising questions against any one's honesty or dishonesty. Going back to history this same Mumtaz Bhutto under Bhutto in 1970's sowed seeds of linguistic hatred and fighting in Sindh and Bhutto supported him despite the riots in city and objections by many cabinet members of that time , (see Dr. Mubasher Hussian's Mirage of Power).I remember Nizam Ud Din Auleya 's saying if you also place thorns in the path of a person who places thorns in your way then in whole world will be thorns.In Sindh no doubt Mumtaz Bhutto is known for sowing seeds of regional biases, but this can prove counter productive in long run.
Media represents the society's views .. albeit in a selective way... The cultural realities of Pakistan can be done away in a flash of eye.
Nice, these conspiracies are our own follies and our own ideas of grandeur and a cliche statement, power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.As a student of Pakistan polity, I am amazed at the slogans of democracy , when the power accumulation is only purpose of all the subsequent rulers military or dictators alike!reasons are also politicians but the real culprit the framework of our state based upon colonial ethos and constitutional legacy of Indian Act of 1935. It is based upon contradictions and we always mutilate its face and then claim democracy, security and many many other issues.Conspiracies are easy way to divert attention from our own failures and when we do,nt want to resort to introspection then "conspiracy theory" is the easiest task! and alas Muslims have become the most avid lovers of such theories... liberals and conservatives alike!
eudal society, mullah controlled minds, authoritarian structures of society. Retrogressive attitudes of social expression. Increasing religious extremism. Intolerance, hypocrisy, desire for power accumulation, gender discrimination, caste ridden social fabric,Power hungry elite, militarized society.have you ever researched how organized is the influence of hidden powers but with clear agenda to control the opinion making of our society?
they consider themselves hidden but broader research shows that how the minds in Pakistan are poisoned on the name of ethnicity, religion , politics, language, sectarianism and lot more.Heard of Pavlov's experiments?
Yea, politicians are here targeted especially and singled out. It is wrong and we fail to take overall critical stock of social downfall.
these biases are intrinsic to our fractured and polarized society and lack of common space is being overtaken by jahil mullahs and already media... led by electronic media in pAksiatni society.
Thursday, January 1, 2009
Why people are poor?
As to how rich are responsible?
Its answer is in rampant consumerism and fundamental capitalistic mode of speculation and accumulation of wealth and concentration of wealth in a few elites,politicians,bureaucrats, corporate entities, powerful feudal and wealthy corrupt mullahs and all those who exploit the resources of society to enrich themselves at the cost of others.A poor man can not take loan of mere thousands but a mill owner can take billions and run away without paying it even. ( The present bailouts of West are also sophisticated tools of the same mentality).
Knowledge control , power control, elitist social hierarchy deny talented the right to education, health, and a decent code of life.Is the world's resources for few or for whole of humanity?Should a weak person be deprived of whatsoever he has or help him to earn more?Why WTO asks fro Free Trade and rich dole out subsidies of thousands and put pressure on poor to deny this right?Who eats, consumes , wastes resources and then says , it is my skill and then says poor are poor because they do,nt work!
Who controls sources of wealth and who develops public ideas? Who exploits African mines and gold and keeps those poor? Who buys products and raw materials at lower prices and then sells at exorbitant profits ?Who makes laws to legalize the in-just divides of wealth and power structure in society?( I do,nt believe on communist ideology of state control... it is another name of exploitation. )
Who wants to sell GM food to poor people?Who forced farmers to grow coffee in Africa and destroyed local economies and made them dependent upon greed of corporate entities?
Why suddenly prices of oil and food items are going down?Who gambles and speculates in stock exchange?Poor people?Who works hours and hours to produce and who remains poor even after 10-15 years of service but the owners build many more factories?Who wants to sell Lux and Fair n Lovely to poor who have no clean water to drink?
there is old Urdu saying leray fauj nam serkar ka( Military fights but kudos to Government.)!so is our present age, where exploitation is justified on the bases of innovation, free market economy, capitalism and free world.Power is logic here and we should accept this dark fact, if we accept the rot then may be we can try to change it.
Its answer is in rampant consumerism and fundamental capitalistic mode of speculation and accumulation of wealth and concentration of wealth in a few elites,politicians,bureaucrats, corporate entities, powerful feudal and wealthy corrupt mullahs and all those who exploit the resources of society to enrich themselves at the cost of others.A poor man can not take loan of mere thousands but a mill owner can take billions and run away without paying it even. ( The present bailouts of West are also sophisticated tools of the same mentality).
Knowledge control , power control, elitist social hierarchy deny talented the right to education, health, and a decent code of life.Is the world's resources for few or for whole of humanity?Should a weak person be deprived of whatsoever he has or help him to earn more?Why WTO asks fro Free Trade and rich dole out subsidies of thousands and put pressure on poor to deny this right?Who eats, consumes , wastes resources and then says , it is my skill and then says poor are poor because they do,nt work!
Who controls sources of wealth and who develops public ideas? Who exploits African mines and gold and keeps those poor? Who buys products and raw materials at lower prices and then sells at exorbitant profits ?Who makes laws to legalize the in-just divides of wealth and power structure in society?( I do,nt believe on communist ideology of state control... it is another name of exploitation. )
Who wants to sell GM food to poor people?Who forced farmers to grow coffee in Africa and destroyed local economies and made them dependent upon greed of corporate entities?
Why suddenly prices of oil and food items are going down?Who gambles and speculates in stock exchange?Poor people?Who works hours and hours to produce and who remains poor even after 10-15 years of service but the owners build many more factories?Who wants to sell Lux and Fair n Lovely to poor who have no clean water to drink?
there is old Urdu saying leray fauj nam serkar ka( Military fights but kudos to Government.)!so is our present age, where exploitation is justified on the bases of innovation, free market economy, capitalism and free world.Power is logic here and we should accept this dark fact, if we accept the rot then may be we can try to change it.
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