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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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@ Ander, bahar kartay raho, tum Aitezaz ko
Nazron say Jo giratey ho tum Iftikhar ko
Saaman, Ramday ka utha lay geiay hein Pir,
thaam di WC ki kunji, mukhtar-e-kar ko
Mak’an Gha’ib, Maki’n Ghai’b, Baser Gha’ib,
Shikoh hoti nehein naseeb kisi Bakhtiare ko
RK
Justice should be on duty immediately
Heart bleeds to see and hear news about unending imprisonment of all those who said no to authoritarianism and dictatorship.
I dedicate following stanza from Richard Lovelace to Mr Atizaz Ehsan, Mr Ali Ahmed and Justice (retd) Tariq Mehmood particularly and all other honourable judges who have been put under forcible detention since the imposition of second martial law on the land of pure.
Stone walls do not a Prison make,
Nor Iron bars a Cage;
Mindes innocent and quiet take
That for an Hermitage;
If I have freedom in my Love,
And in my soule am free;
Angels alone that sore above,
Injoy such liberty.
(To Althea From Prison)