Mr. Rauf Kalasra is one of those journalists whose columns always create a buzz in the society. Most of the times the stories he break have the power to melt the stone hearted people. I agree to the fact that on some points I keep my differences with him but this place will not be used to discuss his political stance. This column is strictly related to his column published in TDJ on Friday 26th march 2010.
After reading this column I felt like a sick dog whose body is filled with blood sucker fleas and he’s inching away to death. The pain in the column is so strong that it can dumb struck anyone. As I am typing this my fingers are shaking with sorrow and grief. I can’t even think straight. I feel on an all time low. Why do incidents like this keep on happening on such a regular basis? I’m sure many of us hear these kinds of stories every day. I remember my ammi telling a some what same story on 10 October 2005.
The column is about an 11 year old girl from swat whose life was turned around by the GOD forsaken Taliban’s- the real enemies of Islam. The story is very short. The father of the girl joined Taliban’s because he received a ticket of heaven from them. He quitted on his family and started a quest against his own country men. He died when the forces started the operation. Her mother died a medical death soon after. At that point the girl left the house and ended up in the red light area. Just imagine a girl who is just 11, who has seen nothing in her life, who doesn’t even know the meaning of life properly ended up in the SIN HEAVEN and would have lived or died there had it not been for the merciful taxi driver in pindi who instead of dropping her to an alien place took her to his home and kept her with his family. Later on he took her to the Edhi centre.
Have we become so morally corrupt that for our own pleasure we don’t even resist from playing with young girls lives. The girls who have already lost every thing they have and the only thing they have with them is there pride. Yet we take that. How low can we get? How many girls have suffered through the hands of such morally corrupt people? How many stories are buried under the ashes? Who will look after these girls even if they are rescued? Who will marry these girls? Will the society ever accept them? Will they ever get justice?
Questions like these are just popping into my mind. I have started to loose it. I have come to a conclusion that it’s because of incidents like these our prayers don’t get answered and our nation is not making any progress. Unless and until we become morally pure we won’t be able to make any progress and will keep on lurking in the dark shadows.
P.S
I always try not to preach in my posts but some how I end up doing the same thing
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Monday, March 22, 2010
My National Hero
I for one am a strong believer of the fact that Pakistan is the greatest country on mother earth. The potential that we hold is way beyond the limits of our imaginations and now As 23rd march is approaching fast, our media channels have started to broadcast special patriotic program’s. I’d like to ride the band wagon and write some words for a very special person who apparently is neglected by the material media these days.
That individual is my hero, our hero, pride of our nation, the founder of Khan Research Laboratory and the father of Pakistan’s nuclear program Dr. Abdul Qadir Khan.
Words are not enough to praise the services of this certain individual. If you ask me Pakistan till the Judgment day will not be able to repay the debt that we owe to Dr. Khan.
Dr. Khan left a very prosperous career for the security of Pakistan. In 1976 started he uranium enrichment program in Kahota. Since that point onwards there was no looking back. Pakistan came under severe pressure for its nuclear program by the western world but luckily this was one issue on which our leaders showed consensus.
From what I have heard Dr. Khan conducted 2 soft tests in early 80’s and that was the time Pakistan had unofficially become a nuclear power.
Dr. Khan is not just a scientist but he is a multi talented person. He writes a column in Daily Jang and it gets published every Wednesday. His column on the first mosque of sub continent was indeed an eye opener for a huge amount of the readers including me. Then his knowledge about the current developments in technology is also applauding. He single handedly sabotaged the American plan of locating our nuclear assets in 96 via the Permissive Action Links is also something amazing.
In the end I’d like to say that words are just not enough to praise the greats like Dr. Khan. The single shake hand with him when I was on class 7th was one of the most memorable moments of my life.
Long live Dr. Khan! You are and will always remain my Hero.
PAKISTAN ZINDABAD
That individual is my hero, our hero, pride of our nation, the founder of Khan Research Laboratory and the father of Pakistan’s nuclear program Dr. Abdul Qadir Khan.
Words are not enough to praise the services of this certain individual. If you ask me Pakistan till the Judgment day will not be able to repay the debt that we owe to Dr. Khan.
Dr. Khan left a very prosperous career for the security of Pakistan. In 1976 started he uranium enrichment program in Kahota. Since that point onwards there was no looking back. Pakistan came under severe pressure for its nuclear program by the western world but luckily this was one issue on which our leaders showed consensus.
From what I have heard Dr. Khan conducted 2 soft tests in early 80’s and that was the time Pakistan had unofficially become a nuclear power.
Dr. Khan is not just a scientist but he is a multi talented person. He writes a column in Daily Jang and it gets published every Wednesday. His column on the first mosque of sub continent was indeed an eye opener for a huge amount of the readers including me. Then his knowledge about the current developments in technology is also applauding. He single handedly sabotaged the American plan of locating our nuclear assets in 96 via the Permissive Action Links is also something amazing.
In the end I’d like to say that words are just not enough to praise the greats like Dr. Khan. The single shake hand with him when I was on class 7th was one of the most memorable moments of my life.
Long live Dr. Khan! You are and will always remain my Hero.
PAKISTAN ZINDABAD
Saturday, March 13, 2010
C.P.E elections
Back in high school, a very good friend of mine contested in the school body elections. Unfortunately she lost by a huge margin. It was a good experience though.
Now after some years I found that C.P.E is organizing student body elections. At first thought of contesting but immediately dropped the idea because the election is for only two posts- President and Vice-President.
Two posts! just two posts. What on earth are they thinking? It seems that they don’t even know the whole concept behind elections. As this is not a place to give lectures or preach I’ll just highlight some of the funny things that I have noticed till now. The voting will be on Wednesday so actual winners can’t be predicted.
First thing that amused I was the sms alert by the management which said that Rs. 150 should be deposited to obtain a student card. As students without the card will not be allowed to vote. Excellent idea to mint money out of this whole plan. Kudos to the guy who came up with such ingenious idea.
The second thing is the party slogans. Quoting some of them right now:1. vote for me if you think life is beautiful
2. Vote for the lukyz
3. I am the solution to all your problems (it should have been I am behind all your problems)
4. Vote for evolution and revolution
5. Vote for justice for all
I haven’t been to C.P.E for past 3 days so I don’t know how things are turning out to be with the slogans and the chants.
The third thing is the interesting photographs on there banners. I mean do you have to put up pictures in which you are not even recognizable. Most of the candidates have printed pictures in which the flash of the camera is more visible than there face.
The most interesting thing is the distribution of ribbons by the candidates to the potential voters. One great person is distributing red ribbons every where as he’s running HIV awareness campaign.
There are some more interesting things as well but I am censoring them. As I don’t want to start controversies over here.
In the end, all the best to all those who are competing. Thanks for providing us with some much needed amusement.
Now after some years I found that C.P.E is organizing student body elections. At first thought of contesting but immediately dropped the idea because the election is for only two posts- President and Vice-President.
Two posts! just two posts. What on earth are they thinking? It seems that they don’t even know the whole concept behind elections. As this is not a place to give lectures or preach I’ll just highlight some of the funny things that I have noticed till now. The voting will be on Wednesday so actual winners can’t be predicted.
First thing that amused I was the sms alert by the management which said that Rs. 150 should be deposited to obtain a student card. As students without the card will not be allowed to vote. Excellent idea to mint money out of this whole plan. Kudos to the guy who came up with such ingenious idea.
The second thing is the party slogans. Quoting some of them right now:1. vote for me if you think life is beautiful
2. Vote for the lukyz
3. I am the solution to all your problems (it should have been I am behind all your problems)
4. Vote for evolution and revolution
5. Vote for justice for all
I haven’t been to C.P.E for past 3 days so I don’t know how things are turning out to be with the slogans and the chants.
The third thing is the interesting photographs on there banners. I mean do you have to put up pictures in which you are not even recognizable. Most of the candidates have printed pictures in which the flash of the camera is more visible than there face.
The most interesting thing is the distribution of ribbons by the candidates to the potential voters. One great person is distributing red ribbons every where as he’s running HIV awareness campaign.
There are some more interesting things as well but I am censoring them. As I don’t want to start controversies over here.
In the end, all the best to all those who are competing. Thanks for providing us with some much needed amusement.
Savour Foods
Hailing from a family that is notoriously famous for its excellent home made cooking (I am sure my foreign friends will testify to that) I was, is the first person to drift away from the home made delicacies to experiment on the food at the fancy restaurants, cafes and the desi restaurants. In my journey I discovered some excellent places to eat and on occasions paid a jaw dropping amount of bills pursuing my endeavors.
However, today I’d like to write about a restaurant which offers a lot of quantity and qua… well let’s just stick to quantity at a very reasonable price. Savour Foods Pulao Kebab has literally just one thing on the menu as every other thing they introduce fails miserably.
What started out as a humble place on college road offering cheap pulao for students and working people turned out to be the biggest revenue generator in the food and beverages industry of the twin cities. Now operating through four branches Savour by par is the most famous place for a quick meal among students. I bet there is very little number of people who have never been there or have never eaten pulao of Savour.
So what makes the very simple dish like a pulao so successful on a commercial scale? Well it’s a sum of number of factors. One the price, two the quantity, three the provision to get extra rice and curd at no extra cost. What more does an empty belly want.
Yet there are cons to this establishment. The biggest of them is that you have to share tables with random people. Sometimes you end up sitting next to a tableghi dude who starts his lecture at the spot. Once I sat next to this old timmer who was telling everyone his love story.
Yet no matter what time you go to Savour the place is crowded. On occasions I have waited for as long as 15 minutes to get a table.
So if you’re short of cash and want to eat out. Savour is the place to be.
However, today I’d like to write about a restaurant which offers a lot of quantity and qua… well let’s just stick to quantity at a very reasonable price. Savour Foods Pulao Kebab has literally just one thing on the menu as every other thing they introduce fails miserably.
What started out as a humble place on college road offering cheap pulao for students and working people turned out to be the biggest revenue generator in the food and beverages industry of the twin cities. Now operating through four branches Savour by par is the most famous place for a quick meal among students. I bet there is very little number of people who have never been there or have never eaten pulao of Savour.
So what makes the very simple dish like a pulao so successful on a commercial scale? Well it’s a sum of number of factors. One the price, two the quantity, three the provision to get extra rice and curd at no extra cost. What more does an empty belly want.
Yet there are cons to this establishment. The biggest of them is that you have to share tables with random people. Sometimes you end up sitting next to a tableghi dude who starts his lecture at the spot. Once I sat next to this old timmer who was telling everyone his love story.
Yet no matter what time you go to Savour the place is crowded. On occasions I have waited for as long as 15 minutes to get a table.
So if you’re short of cash and want to eat out. Savour is the place to be.
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