Adil Najam
This new August 14 video from Zong is very well done. A very smart idea. Very well executed. And so very right in the message it conveys. Take a watch. Keep listening carefully, and if you know how to then read the text carefully. The magic lies there.
Hope, after all, is just turning despair on its head.
One should also take a moment here to acknowledge that there have actually been some wonderful television messages from telecommunication companies that have very elegantly tries to influence and improve the national conversation. A few that we have featured at ATP include: Mobink’s tribute to Mehdi Hassan Yeh Watan Tumhara Hai (here and here); Zong’s Sabb keh do on Pakistanis abroad (here); Zong’s Mother Day song (here); Mobilink’s tribute to Ustad Amanat Ali Khan Ae Watan, Piyare Watan (here); Mobilink’s tribute to Farida Khannum, Hum Bolain Mohabbat ki Zaban (here).
Very Nice ! Full of Hope!
Excellent Idea. May Pakistan Prosper in future. I feel really sad over what is happening these days in Pakistan. The despair has taken our selves and only Hope can take us out of sadness.
It was just another typical Monday morning in London until I hopped on the tube to go to my office. Everything was working almost as clockwork until I noticed the picture on the Front Page of the morning Metro paper in the hands of a lady who just picked this unattended paper and sat next to me. We both looked at the front page probably at the same time and the world just stopped for me. Usually this front page gets turned in a second but this morning was different, very different. It seemed as if my heart just sank and probably the feeling was mutual with the reader of the paper.
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/838130-un-chief-tells- world-to-wake-up-to-pakistan-the-worlds-worst-disa ster
20 minutes later, while climbing the escalators out of the station, I heard a public announcement for the collection of money/aid for my countrymen engulfed in yet another calamity. People would yet again throw their change in big buckets which would possibly provide for food and shelter, possibly but what about empowering our own people and becoming self-reliant? What’s the fault of this young kid for having to go through this? Granted disasters and tragedies are not new to nations but what’s the fault of this kid to be born in a society which doesn’t have any hope in store for him? I couldn’t resist asking myself if I am more responsible to do ‘something’ about this before people of other nations start throwing their change and take out their checkbooks, yet again! I got to be doing something different here. Even if it’s trying to create opportunity for a few back home, I got to be doing something different! It was definitely a very different Monday morning for me. One that I’d remember for times to come! I firmly believe that even God doesn’t help those who don’t help themselves!
It surprised me. And then inspired me.
Certainly the message got across very well.
Excellent Share!
interesting but i dare say not original. i have read something like this on world peace a while ago