Wednesday, 2 November 2011

The Curious Case of Retarded PTA

 
Something is seriously wrong with Pakistan as our country truly is a paranoid State. Pakistan Telecommunication Authority or PTA have again banned explicit websites so that Pakistanis who are epitome of morality don’t give in to horde of sinister evil plans by supposed Western Zionist along with their Hindu counterparts who in turn maliciously counter Pakistan through hell lot of pornography that result in death of millions of lives pre or sometimes post spermatogenesis. These Western goons are responsible for mass genocide, yes actual massacre that have hurt Muslims and Pakistani’s true sense of morality.

 So not only have they banned explicit sites after placing filters, they apparently have banned “Muhammad Ali Jinnah’s Wikipedia page as well. Of course here PTA is not directly responsible for it, my cable internet provider WorldCall is but for how long Pakistan as a state will continue to ban something that in my opinion complements our basic rights. Every internet user should have the choice to do whatever on internet he or she pleases and even if pornography is banned then why ban loads of other sites along with it? I remember way back in 2007, Government banned Youtube for few days and last year they again banned Facebook due to “Blasphemy and religious reasons”. Few days ago, PTA's website was hacked by some hacker who left a message demanding ban on all websites containing explicit material and probably that is why PTA have quickly give in to such blackmail. We have to realize that in order to counter claim of others such as “Pornistan” etc, Pakistan and Pakistanis have actually made a laughing stock of themselves in front of the world.


I am against such ban because I believe whatever one does on internet is in fact one’s right of freedom of expression and content unless of course they are some exceptional cases. I am a proud Muslim and Pakistani who loves his religion and country but we don’t have to give in to these odd demands but rather we should ignore them because in time the actual trolls will learn to stop their hateful campaign as well.

Tuesday, 1 November 2011

Good on you, Mr.Khan!

 I have always been Imran Khan’s fan but deep down I also knew he was not like any major politician in the country but this was to be proven wrong on 31st october,2011 as not only he made sure he’s taken serious again but he finally stake his claim on Pakistan’s political ground. According to him, it was his 15 years worth of continuous hard work that lead to more than 100,000 people mostly Lahoris to attend his rally at “Minar e Pakistan” and of course I have to accept the reality that no matter whatever the number, Imran Khan did in fact made his rally very successful.

I did not attend the rally since I was busy preparing for my exam the very next day but since I have already attended Pakistan Tehrik e Insaaf’s rally twice before so I did not at all feel being left away when most of my friends were there. For me, Imran Khan has finally come of age and this has made politics in Pakistan way more interesting. For many of his old and new followers he is their new “Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto” who too had somewhat similar charisma and initially that was entirely the reason he was elected by the people and Imran Khan certainly did mention Bhutto in his speech because to him he was “Nationalist” which his party’s current co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari is not. But Imran Khan had a point nonetheless but why blame PPP alone? And he did not stop there as it was Nawaz Sharif and his political party “Pakistan Muslim League-N” who faced most of the brunt. Right now the province of Punjab is all up for grabs and Imran Khan seems in better position to not only form and consolidate his position in Urban Punjab but also stealing PML-N’s vote bank as well. Same pretty much goes for Khyber Pakhtunkhwa as Urban Khyber too seems to be favoring Imran Khan and his party.

Now again to his rally, around 100,000 or more people attended as I have mentioned but what I liked the most is a fact that Pakistan’s political scenario is changing and it is changing very fast and this is great for country like ours since democracy here never thrived much but I have to give it to Imran Khan as he has been successful in bringing most young Pakistanis from elite to lower class background on one forum and they all yearn “change” under him. Another change in Pakistan is that slowly but surely people are continuing to realize the importance of voting and hence big parties like PPP and PML-N are not the only one's getting votes but smaller parties like MQM,ANP,JI,PTI are people's choice as well and Pakistan is at a stage where no political party can have 2/3rd majority anymore, this is astoundingly democratic in nature and perhaps this is exactly the "change" that we needed. I for one absolutely love this change. I have recently registered my vote and I will be voting for the very first time next time around thanks to Imran Khan and PTI’s “Get your votes registered” campaign.

Let me make it clear again that even though I admire Imran Khan and have attended his rallies in Lahore before, I certainly have a lot of reservations against his party as well due to various reasons which I hope to write on about next time. But 31st October belonged to Imran Khan, PTI and his followers and I have no qualms in admitting that. Good on you Mr.Khan!

Monday, 10 October 2011

My Motivational formula

You know I am a person who gets down a lot, who have seen failures upon failures and even though I am in no way any successful as I should have been(Yeah right :p) but there are two things that I always look onto whenever I feel low. First one is something that I made up in my mind that i always think and second one is a video that I found on Facebook on a friend's wall. I paraphrase my very own motivational formula from time to time,mostly on my Facebook statuses and you know what It has helped me quite a lot but here how it goes:-
"Right ahead of me is an ocean full of misery,loss and pain but right ahead of it is my very own land of glory. There is no way to reach that place except to swim in the ocean and hence I dive and I swim. I swim for myself,I swim for my present and future. No need to look back, eyes all ahead at the prize. No need to fear, instill the roughness you possess into the ocean,let it know that a warrior swims in it,beating wave after wave - I shall be glorious" :-)

I always think of this when ever I feel depressed and its great that a guy like me who's very ordinary and good for nothing can actually think like that but you know, apparently i can :p

The second is the video that i watch too ,from time to time. I am sure many have seen it already but let me share this again:-

Saturday, 8 October 2011

Rest in peace, Mr.Jobs

 I was around 16 when I first got my iPod shuffle. My older brother was studying in England that time and when he came to visit us during his holidays; he brought me this tiny gadget iPod which at that time seemed ‘waste’ to me. It took me around a month when I finally opened up the packet, when I read the manual to check what it was all about. From that day onwards, I still have that iPod shuffle with me but now possess iPod nano chromatic and iPod video classic as well and I’ve never looked back. And finally when i woke up early on 5th october that I learned about Apple’s former CEO Steve Jobs’s death.

Let me make it very clear that I am not much of a tech savvy and when I got my first iPod, I did not really know what to do with it. I had already heard about it, Apple and Steve Jobs from my brother, friends, news and of course the internet but I was still very much unfazed. I never really liked having new cell phones, laptops, cameras etc (I still don’t by the way) and even though it’s great if you have one of those cool things but that’s never been the case with me. It was always like having them when there was need. Yes, I did not consider laptops, computers, and cell phones as ‘The needs’. Even my very own PS2 and Xbox 360 don’t faze me much, I don’t play on them that much either but there was something about that little iPod shuffle that made me have Nano and iPod video classic as well. I have always loved music but have never used any gadget for it. I never bought any radio, cassette recorder, mp3 player for it. But having that iPod made me their fan and especially that of Steve Jobs.

I still maintain that I don’t know much about gadgets and even Steve jobs except he was an orphan who was adopted, he never graduated from any university or that he was fired from his own place that he created and I think anyone who is not tech savvy like me and still use their products, may know this because it seems pretty basic now. And this is just another great perspective about how us folks who don’t know much about gadget having to buy and be a fan of something that is so much user-friendly. That characteristics instilled in those gadgets made us their fan.

So, when I learned that Steve Jobs died because of pancreatic cancer, I too was sad but at the same time I admired how he fought the same disease earlier. But He is no more and May God blesses his soul now. Earlier I read somewhere that He was 21st century’s “Thomas Edison” and for some, this maybe a bit too much but I do agree with who ever coined the comparison. He truly was a great visionary, the world have lost. I now hope Apple continues the success they are enjoying and provide us with more gadgets that changed the way we live. Salute to Mr.Jobs,rest in peace.

Tuesday, 30 August 2011

Eid Mubarak Everyone

Tomorrow is Eid and it will mark the end of month of Ramadan which in my opinion have been a very short month this time around. The whole month went by in a jiffy,seriously. For whole Ramadan most of us fasted in the name of Islam, gave alms to poor, prayed all day long and of course on Fridays for our and others well being.

Tomorrow we will gather early in the morning in our mosques or some outdoor fields to perform our Eid prayers, followed by a sermon and hopefully not some Funeral prayers this time around(YES We have prayed those as well on eid). But hopefully it'll be a good Eid this time around. So let us celebrate Eid and learn to stay away from few desires that take the best of us. Instead we should focus on the people around us, help them in the hour of need and thank Lord Almighty for all of His blessings. Let us use this day to bolster our belief more in God and His creation.

Again,Eid Mubarak everyone and May Lord Almighty bless all of you and our Pakistan with immense joy,peace and happiness :)

Monday, 29 August 2011

The Mauling Mirza

 Yes,Dr.Zulfiqar Mirza is back in the headlines yet again and for reasons which are not entirely wrong this time. Around Three and a half years of brewing frustration finally exploded on Sunday as Pakistan and World witnessed Sindh senior Minister Zulfiqar Mirza lashing out against Federal Interior Minister Rehman Malik and MQM.

It is not a hidden fact that most Pakistanis absolutely hate Rehman Malik so much so that most Ive encountered with have agreed with what Dr.Mirza had to say about it. He called him "Compulsive Liar" and "Single biggest threat to Pakistan",accused him of working with MQM,their target killers etc and Not only this ,he also came up with huge charge sheet against MQM which quite frankly in my opinion is equally responsible for Karachi Debacle just like PPP and ANP.



As for MQM,He accused them including their head Altaf Hussain of being directly responsible for the violence in Karachi. Not only this held Quran over his head telling everyone he's speaking truth and what came next shocked everyone in Pakistan ; He blamed Altaf Hussain for trying to divide Pakistan, allegedly with the help of the United States of America which in my opinion could be true considering our allies as She is has turned our Pakistan into a heap of rubble. USA is in fact an imperialist country which have brought not just Pakistan but many other countries to a standstill and have a direct hand in disintegrating them as well.Also,He claimed to have a letter written by Altaf Hussain in 2001 where He told then British Prime Minister Tony Blair that he would be willing to support them if their government would help them and in return his party will help to disband the ISI. Not only this,told Tony Blair that before "ISI creates more Osama Bin Laden,they must do the needful". The reason most are willing to believe Dr.Mirza is because He was holding Quran as his witness for much of the press conference and If the allegations are true then Altaf Hussain and his cronies must be tried in court.

But let us also not get ahead of ourselves as we must also look at what Dr.Mirza and PPP had done to Karachi as they too in my opinion equally responsible for violence in Karachi. Dr.Mirza is also accused of being racist towards Urdu speakers and we all remember his Tirade against them in the wake of violence in Karachi. or When he spoke against Pakistan(Who can forget his chant of Pakistan Na-Khappay?) but one thing is for sure that in order to prove his allegations,he must at all costs present his charge sheet with proofs to Supreme court so that an action could be taken.



In the end,Karachi suffers and She suffers equally because of PPP,MQM and ANP but I shall blame PPP more as they are the ruling party in Pakistan and then they are the one's blaming MQM as well so what sort of reconciliation they talk about when they fight all day long and when they are involved in the killings of innocents. Being just another observer of Pakistani politics then I have to be completely neutral in my approach but fact remains that Im willing to believe in not everything what Dr.Mirza leveled against MQM or others but at the same time also not willing to believe what MQM have to say as they were the one's initially who started the "Bori-Band-Lashein" concept.

Pakistanis have woken up to a new sort of Politics that will surely change Pakistan but we hope that even in such state of misery, People of Pakistan get up,strive more for hard work and change destiny of Pakistan and take away Pakistan from these vultures who have destroyed our Dear Homeland.

In the end,with whatever Dr.Mirza had to say and with whatever is happening in Pakistan ,this only leaves us with more questions about the future of Politics in Pakistan.

Sunday, 28 August 2011

Awesome Sunday!

Sunday night and It is 12:15 am but 'technically' it is Monday now but this past Sunday has been one of the best Sunday's ever. Well there are Three reasons for that. First We were hosting Iftari for someone today so food was always going to be awesome today,second Manchester United were playing Arsenal today which was always going to be treat for our eyes and Thirdly the world's most epic Press conference ever done by none other than PPP's very own Dr.Zulfiqar Mirza.

Woke up knowing we had Iftari to host for family friends and United playing Arsenal,I was texting and tweeting all day long just to get the rhythm going and getting ready for one epic evening. Day went by until I turned on TV again and switched to Geo TV to find Zulfiqar Mirza holding Press conference at Karachi Press conference which apparently bedazzled everyone. From Grinding the senseless Interior Minister Rehman Malik to coming up with charge sheet against MQM gave new meaning,literally new meaning to politics in Pakistan which in my opinion has made people woken up to new dawn of Politics here in this country and things wont be easy from here on. It is more than Personal now when it comes to Pakistan,PPP,MQM etc politics but I dont want to talk much about it. I will perhaps on my next blog post.

As for Iftari, well it was a great Iftari indeed as we hosted family friends who were visiting Pakistan after some years from America. And the food was just great. Biryani,Macaronis,Pulao,Samosay,Pakorays,Fries,Seekh Kabab,Tikkian,Fruit Chaat,Doodh soda,Jalebis and the list in endless and I had it all and Im stuffed now. Im seriously stuffed now.

And cometh 8 pm and The English Premier League's best match at the start of this season started . It was classic encounter of Manchester United against Arsenal. This time United too had young players of their own who have been branded as new "Class of 2011" based upon famous "Class of 1992" and stakes were high as we all knew but they never disappointed as yet again United ransacked the entire Arsenal defence by scoring 8 goals past them with Rooney scoring a Hat tick and in my opinion being Man of the Match.

Today was truly one awesome Sunday and loved every second of it especially the Match and Zulfi's press conference. I wish I could witness more awesome days and spend them equally wonderful as well just like Today's Sunday. But This is Pakistan and we are going through hard time but I hope that not just me but my 180 million brethren too face great days ahead of them,Insh'Allah.