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Dear Readers,
While All Things Pakistan has remained alive and online, it has been dormant since June 11, 2011 - when, on the blog's 5th anniversary, we decided that it was time to move on. We have been heartened by your messages and the fact that a steady traffic has continued to enjoy the archived content on ATP. While the blog itself will remain dormant, we are now beginning to add occasional (but infrequent) new material by the original authors of the blog, mostly to archive what they may now publish elsewhere. We will also be updating older posts to make sure that new readers who stumble onto this site still find it useful.
We hope you will continue to find ATP a useful venue to reflect upon and express your Pakistaniat. - Editors
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@Expat Engineer,
your very long but comprehensive post is not to avoid,
parh chuknay kay baad post app ki
Ji chahta hay kay likhen marsia aik
Kia khabar ro parai’n Diwarayn bhi
Roaiy ga kiun na kisi ka dil abb aik
@Daktar
I totally agree…
Saman
This is not the time to despair, this is time to be proud of Pakistan. I am very proud of the Pakistanis who keep demonstrating, writing against injustice, speaking out despite all the beatings and jailings and the extreme measures this givernment is taking. In the past in Pakistan and even now in many places, people just sulk and go quiet at much less, but in Pakistan the students, the journalists and the lawyers keep protesting despite the extreme injustice and hurt to them. This is something to be proud of, not to dispair. I remain proud to be a Pakistani more than ever. I am not proud of the generals but very proud of ordinary Pakistanis.
These days I am shying away from calling my self Pakistani. The sort of news that come across through news paper are not only depressing but also embarassing to own as a nation. I totally agree with the poem of Rafay Kashmiri this is the sort of Badmashi our forces are involved in these days. I believe illiteracy is the cause of all this, alas we are still no where near to be called a developing nation.
@The commentators,
My first Nazm ” Ye log” disappeared, alas I did’nt keep a
copy, this is my second, hopes for Democracy !!
Policy Dehrion ki ye hay, keh jhoot Phaiyla’ain
Sirf Zubani batla’in, sirf Natak hi racha’ain
Hath mein gar ajaiy inn kay iqtidar,
bheint Kazibon par sachai ki charhadain
Ikhtilaf kar nehein sakta koi inn say
kehein wo app ko Suli pay ne charhadain
Seh nehein saktay, ye sachai ki Zuba’n
kisi aur say Zuba’n, app ki ne katwadain
Syasat Pesha hay inka, ye kartay hein shikar
Kehein such bolnay walon ko, ye ne marwadain
Ghareebo’n kay bantay hein, ye Thekedar sabhi
Josh hi mein kehein Ghareebo’n ko ne marwadain
Nazariate ki jang ho, ya daulat ki
Insaniat ko ye kehein ne marwadain