Owais Mughal

With apologies to Allama Iqbal:

aa gaya ain laRaai meiN agar waqt-i-JAZZ
qibla ru ho ke zameeN bos hui qaum-e-Hejaz

The following photo is courtesy of Mr. Waheed M. Zuberi.

It shows a traffic policeman busy talking on cellular phone while controlling the traffic through a busy intersection. The photo was taken on a Clifton, Karachi Road at 5:15 p.m. on April 9, 2008. Another person who was with Waheed while this photo was taken writes in his comment at flickr.com that:

Owais Mughal

Today when Mohammad Yousuf scored a boundary off the bowling of Abdur Razzak (Bangladesh) he completed his 9000 runs in One Day International (ODI) career. He is the second Pakistani and World’s 12th batsman to reach this milestone.

The list of Pakistan’s top 10 batsmen in terms of career runs is as follows. The number in parenthesis is their World Ranking in terms of ODI career runs.

Shahran Asim

This post also contains two audio files of Inayat’s poems.

The reason I started wrote this post is because I saw a repost on Anwar Masood and I thought that we should also start introducing some more humor for ATP readers. I think these post serves a breath of fresh air in the current situation where we hear about violence everywhere.

Professor Inayat Ali Khan is one of my favorite poets and I think since ATP has started doing some humorous poetry (here, here and here), I thought that I should also continue to contribute in this area.

We have sad many sad events in the last year or so and some of these humorous blog posts serve as Oasis for the entertainment starved readers.

He was born in the State of Tonk in Rajisthan, India in 1935. He belonged to a family of poets where his father and mother also used to do humorous poetry.