A picture equals a thousand words. The occasion seen here is the signing of presidential nomination papers.
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You guys never seen pictures of Bush or Blair like this?
Did you folks say the same things when pictures of musharraf were published signing the pro-women’s rights legislation?
Pakistani,
your post is very inspiring and informs us about our society, but unfortunately the soil is not fit for secularism,totaliterian communism or desi musawaat, earning money and spending
is not at all a sin, how & where?? once again I have to say in a beautiful punjabi muhavra :
Rab dangan nei marda, denda mat no maar. !!!
yeh tera Pakistan hai
nah mera Pakistan hai
yeh uska pakistan hai
jo Sadr-e-pakistan hai
Once upon a time in a small city of Pakistan there was a culture of benevolence, respect of integrity and hard work. Peace prevailed. No one could even think of drugs or guns or violence even if he wanted to as they were non-existent. In my humble street, it was understood that everyone’s child was supposed to go to same school in the street. Therefore everyone had a stake in it. It was agreed that no one would go to bed hungry at night as this our responsibility. Women would go for a walk in the evening without men and no one could think of any thing bad happening to them.
Then in mid seventies, some young kids left for Gulf. And soon their relatives back home had much more money than anyone could think of, and they also had some toys that no one had ever seen before. Soon their children started to go to private school. Many thought that is the best life. In stead of sending to schools or colleges, parents started sending their children to learn some skill so that they could go to Gulf. As more money poured in the street, a strange thing happened. Now it was not our responsibility that someone would go to bed hungry. It was his kismet.
Pretentiousness that was never seen before became a requisite of so called shurfa. As the desire to have more even if one did not deserve increased, new methods of making money were discovered. And of course drugs were on the corner. Some of the best children in the street got addicted as the shurfa started making more money. It was no longer our street. It was his money and my kismet.
I visited my city few years ago. I was surprised to see the number of cars as it hardly takes twenty minutes to walk from one place to other. I was told crime had soared. There had been a murder in my own humble street. Men, let alone, women do not go out alone at night. I was admonished by my mother for coming late one evening as it was very dangerous.
In the Dawn paper, in the section of news in pictures, I saw a picture of a cobbler working at his shop in Islam Abad. Two of his children were sitting with him, and he was teaching them how to read, as he can not afford to send them to school. I have heard that some of the best schools are in Islam Abad.
We have done this to ourselves. Do not blame others. No Yahood or Nasara came to tell us how to be corrupt, selfish, and pretentious.
In the movie, Traffic, there is a scene when father of the girl hooked on drugs goes to drug dealer’s place and knocks on his door. The dealer comes out and the father hands him a heap of money and says ‘take this and give me my girl”. Dealer replies “White man when I need your money, I will come and get it”. If we ignore our masses, they will come and get it. Lal Masjid saga may have been the beginning.
These people will get lost only when general public will wake up from long sleep
All the king horses and all the king men could not put Humpty Dumpty together again…
Our great leader’s shell has been fractured and therefore not likely to hatch.
i bet even Bush instead of Mush signing in for president …these lotas remain their and support him..these people was their before 47,after 47 till today and will remain their in future…nothing will change.
He is NOT in his military uniform !!!!!