My prayer for you, oh my country tonite,

May you be given the strength and determination to fight,

Foul creatures have conquered my land,

Its the price we have to pay for the crimes done by our hands,

Let every citizen today make a vow,

Change will begin from this moment onwards now!

Education will flourish, and every hand will work!

For it to rise beyond ‘above’

United we shall stand in this hour of grief,

and together we’ll begin a new journey with this belief:

No one can erase us till the years to come,

Our pride, our honor lies in this beautiful abode!

Our spirits will not go down by your despicable acts,

We’ll turn nights into days to bring our peace back!

The candle of hope burns today in our hearts and lives,

‘Long Live Pakistan!’ is our slogan tonite!

Dedicated to every loyal Pakistani who grieves today with me at the sad condition of our homeland…. May Allah help us in making our our country the Pakistan Quaid-e-Azam left us with….Also dedicated to the Pakistani Army, the only institution that is true to our country, May God bless our soldiers!…. Let this be a note to our enemies and The international community that we will not go down… We want the Zardari government out  now! Rise Pakistan, Bring back ur identity!

Here I am, in the middle of the night wondering why am I awake!

Oh yeh, I remember now, I wanted to ‘work’ on my project. Minute after minute, i glance at the clock waiting for it to strike 2 so that i could go and rest in solitude, it pays to be a punctual being after all. Right now, its all randomness in my mind going on, At one part of my brain, I’m doing ‘the project’, the other part is thinking of the movie i just saw, and one part is dwelling on the lame co-incidences which happen to me every day

Ahh, co-incidences, they are what make my life interesting, and its funny that they happen more than necessary.  A part of my mind is trying to do self assessment and keeps on urging me to stop hating people, well that’ll have to wait, at least for now.

Honestly, i’d like to do something interesting right now, like go on a vacation, or do mountain trekking or bungee jumping (ohhh, that scares me!!!).  Oh and whats the point of writing this all, well its for all the random people out there like me who have nothing else to do either than reading my random posts

I salute you, man, Keep up the good work! … But I’m off for now to go to my world of dreams.  Oh and by the way, see how the brain can think up so many things at the same time even if they don’t make sense ….Unleash the randomness within you

Its sad but its true that the people on the other side of our border cannot stand the greatness of our leader Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah. Its even more shocking to see that India which is being praised these days for their advancement in technology are expelling a Senior member of the BJP Party Jaswant Singh for writing a book praising our leader.

http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/news/world/16-jaswant-singh-expelled-hs-02

Such attitude has no reason but lack of acceptance of the fact that Pakistan had a remarkable leader just like their own. I accept Gandhi as a great leader because i have an independent thinking and don’t “burn books” just to hide history. India has always over shadowed Pakistan and its now for the international community to decide which side of the border doesn’t believe in peace or negotiation.

I have great regards for Mr Jaswant Singh and I appreciate his valor in speaking out in a country where great leaders are over shadowed. Nevertheless banning books in some cities of India will not cover that fact that Jinnah was indeed an extraordinary leader and his name will never leave the pages of history.

One of the biggest disadvantages that the material age has inflicted upon us is the attitude of judging people by what they wear and what accessories they carry.If we see someone approaching with a Gucci bag and a latest designer outfit by Armani, we normally put up an extremely good opinion about them. I don’t object the fact that a good impression is made at the first sight by the clothes you wear but in accepting this clause, we also agree with the statement that just because the poor cannot afford good clothes, they are naturally dumb or don’t possess the mind to think and act like normal people.

We should always judge people by their inner capabilities and character and not by how they look and what they wear. This is infact a discrimination which must be discouraged or it will enable us to ignore the good and talent in people who cannot present themselves well or do not possess the art of dressing impressively.

Everyone of us has some faults, but the better person within us love people for who they are and not for what they wear.

Finally, it rained today in Karachi! After much anticipation and prayers, God finally bestowed us with this beautiful weather and amazing showers. As I saw the rain today,  it reminded me of something I had forgotten in the long run of life which I would like to share with all of you.

Everyday the weather would suddenly become as if it’ll rain but it was always disappointing to see the sun coming out of the clouds again. Today, when it rained, it felt as if all the problems surrounding us suddenly vanished. All this hopelessness, the fear of recession, the anger at the Government and the daily problems left us leaving smiles on our faces. It made me realize what you get after waiting for a long time is much more valuable and welcoming then what you’re used to getting everyday. It may be anything, success, dreams, hopes or whatever. You may not get them all everyday so that one day when you finally get it, you learn to cherish it and appreciate its true value.

So, all you happy fokes out there, enjoy the rain … and don’t forget to thank God for this blessing which no money can buy and no super power can take away from us. It is these little things in life which make life worth living and so make the best of it while its there

It has become a practice of our people, mostly among the older generation and somewhat among the younger generation to utter these words “Nothings going to become of this nation” (Is mulk ka kch nahi hone wala) as they refer to all the problems we are facing these days (electricity, terrorism and all). I can’t help thinking that why blame the nation when we individuals have never really done anything to protect it, to save it, to cherish it as our own. We have always taken it for granted, i mean think about it the food that we eat, the house that we live in, the education we are receiving are all possible because of the nation we live in.

We don’t even try to improve our nation to get rid of its little problems which we can on our own individual level like getting rid of pollution, not breaking any rules etc.

Something which i hate even more are people saying they want to migrate to another country, like there wont be any problems over there. The Japanese never talked about leaving their country when it was bombed in 1945, instead they worked hard to make it prosper and today it is one of the super powers of the world!

These words seem to whisper in my ears when i think about all this

“Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country“

– John F. Kennedy

We never think what we can do for this country and blame everyone else. Have we even educated one child that we talk about illiteracy in this country. Have we stopped others from polluting it that we talk about the cleanliness in other countries, Have we ever tried to support even just one family to eradicate poverty that we talk about beggary in the country.Have we ever woken  up and realize that we are the people who will save the nation. The answer is NO!

Only traitors and losers condemn things which they themselves are doing. Yes other countries are powerful because their people are dignified and know how to make their country progress. Unless we try helping our country in reaching towards success, we will be doomed. Saying everyday that  ”This country is hopeless” is perhaps far more easier then actually trying to work for it and thats the easy way out our people have taken.

How easy it is to take someones life away? How easy it has become to justify killing in the name of pride, honor, religion, nationalism, ethnicity, wars etc. The last century brought new evolutionary killing techniques and today’s favorite technique is to blow yourself up!

What astonishes me is that how is it that we can become so cruel, so inhumane, so disastrous that we respond to these killings by behaving as if its something ordinary! You open up the TV and all you get to hear is: ten people killed in Iraq today, 9000 people killed in Palestine, 4000 people dead in America, suicide bombing in Pakistan: 20 killed and not to mention, 1 million people killed in WWII!

The crime never ends if we subject to it and act as if nothing’s happened, infact we ourselves are the criminals if we don’t do anything about it. It is time that we realize that even though we speak a lot of different languages, come from different cultures yet our hearts beat as one and it is up to us to stand up and do something to end this cruelty!

Will we act like humans and  stand up against this organized butchery by few people and few governments or will we wait until we ourselves become victims of these heinous crimes?  The choice is yours!

In the words of Barack Hussain Obama:

“Change will not come if we wait for some other time, some other place or some other people, we are the people we’ve been waiting for, we are the change we seek!”

We all talk about friendship, taking oaths of remaining friends forever but does this ‘everlasting friendship’ really exist?

Take a look at our lives, I’m sure that almost 90% of the people reading this contact their school friends far lesser then they used to and college friends even lesser and these were are ’till death do us part’ friends . The reality is we humans learn to exist according to our environment and therefore find mates according to our needs living in a particular environment resulting in forgetting about our past relationships!

Even nature doesn’t agree with our ‘everlasting’ concept since it will part every human one day from all relationships in the form of death. We travel our road alone, no matter how many friends we have by our side, we travel the eternal road alone.

So, in my opinion we shouldn’t  depend on our friends for most of the things in life because a day will surely come in your life when no friend, no mate would understand what you want, it’ll just be your inner friend who will be happy and willing to help you out!

What do you think?

Disappointment… It hits like a rock hanging on the edge of a mountain ready to fall and before you know it, it strucks you flat into oblivion. Have you ever wished for something so much that every part of your body feels like its yours already and then suddenly when you don’t get it, you feel so numb that you cant put into words the disappointment you feel at the bottom of your heart.

Its like trying to find out where the light is coming from hoping that it might be an exit from a dark cave where you’ve been imprisoned for years and when you’re so close to freedom, you discover that it was just a torch.

But if there are disappointments in life, so are surprises, surprises which overwhelm us, sometimes make us feel special, sometimes so everlasting that we forget about every little disappointment we ever felt!

Life isn’t fair, yet disappointments only make us realize what we’re worth, what we still need to do before witnessing the dawn when all disappointments are gone. So next time when you’re disappointed, think of it as a new opportunity to rise beyond the ordinary and strengthen yourself against these little boulders in life

Here I am thinking how I could help my nation and most particularly my muslim  brothers and sisters who suffer everyday in Iraq, Palestine and Kashmir and now in Pakistan too. I feel so helpless when I see on tv how Israel butchered my Palestenian brothers and sisters, how Iraq is being held captive for no reason at all. And well heres the funny part. We muslims are 1.5 billion in number, and are spread across 57 countries, yet we remain helpless

Why? Why is it that we have not realized uptil now that unity is the only source of our survival?? Palestine, Iraq and Kashmir calls for unity of the muslim world! We are oil rich nations, the thing they call black gold, yet we cannot put an end to poverty in our countries?

We donot realize how the enemy is breaking us everyday because its scared of our unified strenght. Didn’t we see how the British broke up Hindus and Muslims when they entered India so that they can gain power, Don’t we realize that Iraq was never subjected to Shia-Sunni fights (aside from Saddam Hussain’s cruelty of killing Shias) untill the Americans attacked it? Now even when the media talks about Iraq, kit refers people as Shia muslims and Sunni Muslims, Don’t you see? Don’t you realize how they are trying to break us up??? Its been the rule of the thumb for the Imperialist countries: Divide and Conquer and sadly we are foolish enough to fall to their prey!

What do we not have in common between us? The Kaaba, The Holy Book, The Holy Prophet (p.b.u.h) or most of all, one God? The Jews and Christians have far more sects within their relegion then us, but do we ever hear of them fighting?

Unless we aquire faith and become united, we cannot bring back our dignity, our pride and our PEOPLE! We will continue being slaughtered at the hands of enimies untill its too late….

If anyone reading my blog thinks we need unity, then do reply with “NO SHIAS, NO SUNNIS, WE ARE UNITED MUSLIMS”

In the words of Imam Khomeini, Supreme Leader of The Iranian Islamic revolution:

“We, Muslims are arguing with one another on the subject of whether we should pray with our hands folded or not while the enemy is making schemes of how to cut our hands”

— Ayatullah Khomeini