Monday, March 22, 2010
The Lahore (Pakistan) Resolution (March 23, 1940)
Monday, January 18, 2010
Nadeem Farooq paracha Has Gone Nuts
Here is a gem from our crying and frustrated baby:
“So when did the Pakistan cricket team become a propaganda and preaching platform for the Tableeghi Jamaat? Writers like the late Khalid Hassan and Amir Mir point to the year 1999, when Wasim Akram quit as captain and was replaced by Waqar Yunus.”
Get over dude, stop writing wrong facts. Also, get the writers you are mentioning right about the particulars; i know one is already dead.Waqar Younis took over captaincy in 2001, not in 1999. Wasim Akram was replaced by Moin Khan as a captain and that was in 2000 as well, not in 1999.
Here’s another:
“However, even though the team’s 2002 World Cup jamboree in South Africa was a disaster, Mushtaq and Anwar hung around as preachers and were successful in bagging flamboyant batsman, Inzimamul Haq.”
Again, the World Cup was in 2003 not in 2002. Even a child could tell the original year, but a columnist of Pakistan’s major English language daily newspaper cannot. And, by the way, how many matched Anwar and Mushtaq played after 2003 World Cup. As far as I remember, Anwar was not seen in any role with the national team after 2003 debacle in South Africa.
The talk of religion being the reason of Pakistan’s disastrous performance on cricket field is a cliché now. It cannot be regarded as reason of dismal show on the ground. Let’s extend the argument of our howling columnist: as long as players are performing on the field, whether they go to night clubs ,bars or preach the religion, it’s their personal business, and it should not bother any person.
So Mr. Conservative Liberal, again, get over and grow up. Let the players do what they wanted to do as long as it’s not affecting their professional responsibilities. And comment on anything but cricket because you don’t know a fuck about the subject.
Saturday, January 9, 2010
The Danda Youth of Pakistan
They think there is a lot of corruption in Pakistan. Wherever they go, they find people with their mouths open asking for some “mithai” for the jobs like to get their electricity meter fixed or to get their domicile made which is needed if they want to attend public medical or engineering school . They recognize that “mithai” is bad for health, and they also know that if they would give “mithai” to the official with open mouth, he or she would get addict. But they say that as long as we are the one who are giving this “mithai” and the officials are the people who are getting this “mithai”, this is just fine. They believe that they should get the easy way out by offering this “mithai” because the fair way is difficult time taking. The remember the old times when Danda was in the power and amount of “mithai” required to get a job done was less than it is today. Like, before, because of the Danda one kilogram of pure “Gulabjamuns” were enough to get their electricity meter fixed; now, it takes no less than two and half kilogram of pure “Gulabjamuns” to get their shit done. They want somebody to bring the old Danda again, but they are not willing to use the difficult and the right way; they only way they want is the easy way. They say that this is what their fathers did, and this is what they will do.
They think that the country is going through worst of its times. They hate the politicians. They believe that they are only good for corruption and nothing else. They say that they didn’t casted their vote because everyone is a “Kamina, Saala, Corrupt” and they are the poor souls who can only offer “mithai” to those who want it. They think that they can't do anything about the current state of their country because those in power are so powerful that they are just unable to do anything about that. Whenever you start discussion about the current affairs of the State with them, they stand up and in a loud growling voice, they say “ is mulk ka Kuch nahi hu sakta” ( nothing can be done of this country). They say the “Danda Man” kept everything in order. So what, if he allowed his allies to write-off the loans they had taken. At least, they didn’t build a “Surrey Palace” with that money; in fact, they started sugar mills as we all know that we need a lot of sugar for export, rather than for use at home.
They say that there were suicide bombings in the country on weekly basis during the Danda Raj. Now, they occur on daily basis. They ask the current Raj to do something about it and forget that the seeds of this problem were sown a long ago.
They say that all this “Democracy Shemocracy” is bullshit. They only want a Danda Man because they are horses tied to a carriage and you can’t drive a carriage without a Man with Danda.
On serious note: Alas! There are people in this “Land of Pure” who think they need a Danda.
Sunday, November 8, 2009
Don't Remove Zardari, Vote Him Out
Photo Credit: Reuters/File Photo, Retrieved from http://.dawn.com
Saturday, October 17, 2009
A Schoolgirl's Odyssey: An NY Times Documentry by Adam Ellick
Friday, August 14, 2009
We Are Here to Stay
Last year on 14th August most people in Swat didn’t put National Flags on their houses. A dictator was still sitting in the presidency. Chief Justice was ousted; the judiciary was neither active nor free. Even our cricket was going through its darkest days.
This year on 14th August Swatis are celebrating the independence day and flags can be seen on the houses of the people who, few days ago, were in different IDP Camps. There is a big celebratory function in Saidusharif with all the music and festivity; this was impossible when Talibans were there but now they are on the run. I am not saying Swat is back to normal, but, at least, it’s back in the hands of Pakistanis. The fact that Swat is back has established that when our Army seriously puts an effort, it succeeds. And for this, Army deserves all the tribute.
The retired general, dictator, traitor is also on the run. Although he left the presidency with guard of honor, judgment of 31st July against his act of cowardice has made it difficult for him to keep running as article 6 of the constitution will soon the activated against him. For the first time, there is a chance that a constitution breaker will face the music.
Chief Justice, the real Chief Justice is back in the court after a historic struggle which gives the hope to the nation that together they can achieve anything. Judicial activism has returned, with Supreme Court that is free and to which people of this land are looking with a lot of expectations.
Our Cricket Team has won the world championship in, at least, T20 form of the game, and look good enough to defend the title under the new captain.
All these events has given the gloomy nation a lot to cheer and think about.
All these events are telling us there is a lot of improvement at many fronts in Pakistan.
All these events tell us there is every reason to celebrate this Independence day with all the fervor and spirit.
But This independence day should be celebrated with a strong intent that we, the Pakistanis, will also solve all the reaming problems. And for this we will work hard and fulfill all the National Duties. Let's Rise and work like our Forefathers worked under the leadership of Jinnah and got this Gift of the "Land of Pure" for us. It's Time to get it where it is supposed to be.
To sum it up ,as Ayaz Amir says in his latest article: “One thing we can't seem to get into our heads: Pakistan is bigger and more enduring than the sum of its military or political leaders. It is bigger than its dictators, bigger than its political failures. Our political and military scumbags will ...come and go but the Himalayas will always be there as will the Arabian Sea and all the land in between”.
Happy Independence Day & Pakistan Zindabad!
Sunday, April 12, 2009
The Student Visa Abuse: Legtimate Students Are the Losers
“Many Pakistani youngsters in search of greener pastures and who can afford it, use the UK’s student visa facility to purchase permanent passage to Britain.”The questions arise here are that: what instigates these Pakistani youngsters to look for the “greener pastures” in UK by seeking a permanent passage into Britain, and what makes it possible for these students to be successful in their mission of seeking a permanent residency in UK?
As the response to the former question involves an analysis of many ground realities of the educational and socio-economical scenario in Pakistan, and I will address these issues in detail in my upcoming posts regarding the higher education in Pakistan; therefore, today, I will keep my post limited to answer the latter question.
I strongly believe the perpetrator of this student visa abuse is British Government itself. First, by following a blind visa policy witout any system of student tracking. Second, by letting a long list of bogus educational institutes to function in UK and by letting them invite hundreds of students, not only from Pakistan, but also from many other countries to United Kingdom in return of few thousand Pounds.
In 2003,United States implemented a new system called International Student and Exchange Visitor Program also known as SEVIS to track the students on F1 (Student) visa in United States. The system is excellent and almost foolproof. It is almost impossible for an International student in US to drop out from the university and start working illegally. I am telling this as a result of my personal experience as I, myslef, is an International student in US. On Contrary to that in UK we do not see any such program implemented to track the whereabouts of international student in Britain. This really makes easy for a student to drop out from the school after the first year and start looking for a job as a passage to permanent residency in UK.
In UK we also see hundreds of spurious institutions running whose representatives travel across many developing countries to recruit students. These institutions usually work with some agents in the countries of recruitment. The recruiters and the agents show the students that after getting the student visa, dropping out of school and finding a job is an easy thing to do, and all they have to pay is the first year of tuition. As a result many students from countries like Pakistan go to UK thinking that after the first year they will leave the college and will work to earn a good living.
The running of these institution without any system of check & balance and absence of any tracking system for international students have played a big role in the abuse of student visa system, and the biggest losers are the legitimate students who, very often, are robbed by these bogus institutions and also denied the student visas because somebody else has misused the system.
As the dawn reported:
More such steps are needed by British Government to stop this abuse of the system so that the legitimate candidates can have the opportunity to study in the educational system of the United Kingdom.“Only recently have British colleges been told to register with the UK Border Agency.Last month the Agency turned down 460 of the 2,100 colleges which had applied for licences to admit international students, because they were bogus establishments sponsoring students as part of an immigration
scam.”