Friday 30 September 2016

Pak-Indo Relations and the WAR mistery

The thought of war between the two strongest countries in South Asia is a little too scary because both of them are nuclear power and if anything happens between India and Pakistan, it will eventually leave an ever lasting impact on the World Map. When I see talk shows regarding Pak-Indo war it reminds me of Hiroshima and Nagasaki attack, I don't know why but just one thought of war gives me goosebumps and somewhere in the future I can foresee that.
About four years back when the conditions were pretty worse of Karachi (the hub of the country), worse as in not economically or socially but here I mean political conflicts and fights, target killings and blasts. I remember I was in college and whenever something unfortunate used to happen my father used to rush to pick me up from college for the sake of my safety. One day something like that happened (can not exactly remember the tragedy but I guess a worker of one political party was killed) and this whole city of lights was burning, every shop was closed, offices were shut down and schools/colleges were closing too. That day I read one tweet of an Indian journalist saying:
Pakistan do not need missiles and nuclear bombs to eradicate their existence, just spread a false rumor and they will burn their whole country into ashes.
Because later the killing of that political figure came out to be a hoax. That day I realized whatever India says or do can never be in the favor of Pakistan. I do not remember the name of that journalist but his tweets were so manipulating and anti-Pakistan even if we accept something was wrong with us but I have never seen Pakistani journalists spitting on India so badly. Because of course there are certain ethics of journalism too.
Let us all accept this bitter fact that we can never be friends with India the way we have good relations with China. We can never like Indians the way we like Chinese. WHY? Why these thoughts even cross our mind when in reality it should be the complete opposite of what I'm saying. We were united with India through social media and entertainment but divided otherwise. And sadly, we have been divided by that means as well. Pakistani actors are being threatened, their security is a big question mark in India and even Indians are boycotting Pakistani TV channels now. Another conflict has been raised here.

 So basically, India and Pakistan both are not ready to build good relations with each other. Even if political parties agree or militants sign another treaty - nothing would work. There is an enormous quantity of hatred between the individuals of both countries. I am not being a pessimist here but showing you some factual figures. What if I tell you the current scenario is all planned? What if I tell you this was planned to just distract public from certain issues including PTI gathering? Do you think Modi is indirectly favoring our dear Prime Minister? I do not think this war is going to be productive or will end up with good results. Here are a few things that you people need to know.
  • This is not the first time that forces have been sent to the border. It has been done at least thrice in the history. First it was done by Indra Gandhi during her tenure and as a result it turned out to be nothing but a pointless war in which many soldiers were killed. But then she was shot dead by a Sikh soldier which was a consequence of her order in Golden Temple (Holy place of Sikhs), many Sikhs were killed in that encounter.
  • Secondly when Rajiv Gandhi was acting PM of India he sent forces to the border again in 1984, at that time Pakistan was under the dictatorship of Zia ul Haq. Later, when Zia was invited by India, so while shaking hands on the airport with the legacy of Gandhi Zia said, Pakistan is an atomic power as well. This got famous as an open threat to India. After that the forces were called back.
  • Thirdly when General Musharaf was acting as the President of Pakistan even then the forces were sent to the borders but there was no productive outcome of that. 
So technically, it has been researched that as many times the forces were sent to the borders there was no proper outcome or reason to it. Let's say that there is no end to Pak-Indo conflicts or you may call it a war too. This time there may be lives lost because Indians see our country as a terrorist state when the HEAD of their OWN country is known as the biggest terrorist/killer/smuggler. So, Mr.Modi needs to calm down because he must know all he is talking is utter stupidity to divert the minds of individuals of both states.
Pakistanis should not take his statements so seriously because Modi himself is aware of the fact that if there will be war between Pak and India then both of these countries will be no more. You know why?
  • Both countries are super atomic powers.
  • Have the strongest military.
  • Both have new technology advancements.
  • There will be no productive outcome of war but consequences overall.
  • India will be no more.
  • And Pakistan is the best (HELL YES!)
There is an idiom that 'Barking dog seldom bites'. So Pakistan just relax, this drama shall end soon and when this country was created the most handsome man in the history said, 'No power on Earth can UNDO Pakistan'. He was ABSOLUTELY RIGHT! This is our country, our homeland and if anyone will try to threat us so we have people to put them in hot waters! Pakistan Zindabad!

Friday 23 September 2016

Liberalism vs. Religion

The literal definition of a 'liberal' person is someone who is ready to accept  or respect different school of thoughts, opinions and ideas of every individual without having any personal contradictions to it. But unfortunately, the concept of liberalism is highly misunderstood because of high ratio of social issues involving religion, cultural and traditional barriers. And just because of having such taboos in consideration a liberal person is somewhat not considered religious and a religious person is not considered someone with a liberal approach. I've seen people debating about this issue with full fledged aggressiveness that turns out to be a conflict from where a personal war arise and that's the point we all lose our so called liberalism because honestly I tell you something the moment you start showing your intolerance and abusiveness to any thought and calling yourself a liberal person, exactly shows how much you're aware of its definition.  No, that does not mean that you have to agree with everything or you have to show acceptance of a certain idea but have enough tolerance to deal with the idea that has been presented to you no matter how badly it conflict your views, having an amount of respect to that is the basic characteristic of liberalism.

  So what basically our religion says? I say every religion on this planet tells you to mind your own business and pay attention to your own deeds despite of getting curious 24/7 that what lifestyle other people are living and how does it effect their deeds. It does not matter if you are a follower of Islam, Christianity, Bhuddism or any other religion in the world, the statistics of ethics and morality remains the same. Let me give you a very common example of our daily life; we see a girl wearing short skirt (something that is pretty much unacceptable for our society) and the other girl covered in Hijab, so from a religious perspective you are not suppose to judge who is pious and who is not, who is well-dressed and who is not, who is a SINNER and who is NOT. Deep in your heart you know your boundaries so you do not follow what you feel is not right but in the same way you are not even suppose to point out your fingers to someone who is doing it. This is EXACTLY what liberalism says too.

 On the other hand liberalism does not even mean that one should forget all the boundaries and limitations and go wild in public. NO. In fact it says to keep your limits in your mind before you do something. Because at the end of the day ethics are one basic asset of liberalism.

 There is no war between liberalism and religion and the thought of practicing them together is not incorrect. Some people believe that both are different things and can not be practiced together, whereas, I believe you can be liberal while practicing your religion because what both the things promote is somehow linked to each other. You can be liberal and religious both at the same time so I guess I can say that both can go hand in hand. 

Sunday 11 September 2016

15 years to the incident that changed our world forever - 9/11

    Today I'm going to talk about the very famous incident that changed our world forever, if you observe closely you wouldn't deny that statement either. Take a look at Syria, Palestine, Afghanistan and Iraq who are pathetically still suffering with non-stop torture, missiles and severe attacks that has utterly changed the infrastructure, design and position of these countries in the world so I believe its completely just to admit this fact and there is no denying to this statement when I call this incident an 'intentionally miserable world changing plan'. As far as I have observed talking about 9/11 and admitting the facts regarding it has become a taboo, if an American talks about it then he is labelled as a non-American considering that he or she should be kicked out of the country, and if a non-American enlighten his views and researches then guess what he is called? anti America! This is ridiculously funny. It doesn't matter which country you belong to, if you are a part of this land and if anything has damaged you/your country/your identity or even the world you live in then you have ALL RIGHTS RESERVED to speak on it, put forward your opinions regardless the circumstances. So here I am today breaking another taboo. You may hate me after reading this or you may agree to what I have researched or thought. It really doesn't matter, my job is to make you people SPOT THE DIFFERENCE between 'Reality' and 'Fake'.

  The story that has been told by the government of America is a paradox and completely contradicts the reality. So, I'm just going to precise what you people already know. Total four planes were hijacked by 19 Saudi Arabians apparently (or may I add 'terrorists' for that's how it has been portrayed) from the Eastern Coast for California. Then about 2 planes departed Boston, one from New Jersey and the other from Washington D.C. The hijackers took over the planes with box cutters (as the resources have told). There was no distress signal from the pilots. The first plane hit the World Trade Center then about 15 minutes later the second plane hit the other tower. One hour and some minutes later the Pentagon was hit with a third airliner and then the fourth crashed into a field in Pennsylvania. Let me add there was no military interception on ANY of the flights. However, they say it was directed from Osama Bin Laden within about 40 seconds of the very first tower being hit. About almost an hour after being hit each tower of the World Trade Center collapsed into its own footprint. About this they say that was from the jet fuel in the planes melting the steel and weakening it causing the buildings to collapse. Above 3000 Americans lost their lives including 343 firefighters. Now this is the story that was broad casted and over-hyped on television screens and unfortunately Muslims were to blame about it. After that day every Muslim was seen as a terrorist especially in America by their very own Americans. It became impossible for a Muslim to live in States without being humiliated, traumatised, harassed, mocked, tortured or even killed. Nice tale tellers!!

But I hope they have not forgotten that every picture has two sides, one that you want others to see and one that you don't want to be revealed. Here is a list of untold facts about 9/11 that actually make sense and can prove this whole incident ALL PRE PLANNED!!
  • The total collapse of WTC 7 in 6.5 seconds at free fall acceleration (NIST admits 2.25 seconds). Larry Silverstein used the term “Pull it”. Steel framed high rise buildings have NEVER totally collapsed from fire or structural damage. Builidng 7 was not hit by a plane. ‘Building 7’, ‘WTC 7’.
  • 6 out of the 10 Commissioners believe the 9/11 Commission report was “Setup to fail” Co-Chairs Hamilton and Kean, “It was a 30 year conspiracy”, “The whitehouse has played cover up”, ‘Max Cleland resigned’, ‘John Farmer’.
  •  FBI confiscated 84/85 Videos from the Pentagon. ‘Moussaoui trial’ revealed these videos. Released Pentagon Security Camera (FOIA) does not show a 757 and is clearly Missing a frame.
  •   Osama Bin Laden was NOT wanted by the FBI for the 9/11 attacks. “No hard evidence connecting Bin Laden to 9/11.” CIA created, trained and funded “Al Qaeda/Taliban” during the Mujahideen. OBL was a CIA asset named ‘Tim Osman’. OBL Reported dead in Dec 2001 (FOX).
  •  100’s of Firefighters and witness testimony to BOMBS/EXPLOSIONS and MOLTEN METAL ignored by the 9/11 Commission Report.
  •  5 Dancing Israeli’s arrested in ‘Mossad Truck Bombs’ on 9/11 that stated “We were there to document the event.
  •  The PATRIOT ACT was written before 9/11. Signed into law October 26th, 2001.
  •  At least 7 of the 19 listed hijackers are still alive (BBC). No video footage of 19 hijackers or passengers boarding the 4 planes. Pilots of the 4 planes never squawked the hijacking code. 
  •  The 911 commission was given extremely limited funds. $15 million was given to investigate 9/11.
If I get a little argumentative then I would ask WHAT those Israelis were doing at the incident and DOCUMENTING it? What do you mean by SETUP TO FAIL? If any of the hijacker is still alive then why don't you hang them the way you hanged Saddam Hussain?! Don't they deserve to die who killed 3000+ civilians? But how can they hang 'the invisible'? Because Ladies and Gentlemen those 19 hijackers NEVER existed.

   The funniest part is that even less than 5% Americans are aware 3 buildings fell on 9/11.
1st Building: 9:50 am (WTC South Tower)
2nd Building: 10:29 am (WTC North Tower)
3rd Building: 5:20 pm (WTC Building 7) for no apparent reason
Look at the time difference here and you're wise enough to analyze the conspiracy made by the government.

  The sad side of this story is America invaded Afghanistan after this attack and destroyed the whole country. That was an era of Afghan War. Later on, Russia too got involved and more or less Pakistan too. Attacks one after the other, back to back drones and brutality on its peak. It was not the end but just a beginning to inhumane behavior of US military. In this fight to survive game Afghanistan was not the only one suffering but other countries got involved too namely Syria (on agenda to destroy their future generations and for that they started killing children), Palestine (Gaza specifically because after that incident humanity died) and Iraq (got really personal when they threat to destroy the Holy shrine of Bibi Zainab). So apparently, 9/11 was the ONLY justification to invade 4 other countries for no good. Almost whole of the Middle East.

  Imagine if Saudi Arabia was not enough on giving oil to US then there wouldn't be any Aarbia either? Its so strange isn't it? If you are blaming the whole Muslim community for just one incident and in response to that you invaded 4 Muslim countries then how could you possibly have friendly relations with any ONE of it? So basically, Saudia is saved just because they decided to be slaves of US, keep on exporting oil, making money but not bothering to educate their children! Well played Arabia, well played.

 There is a verse in Quran (Holy book of Muslims) that says:
“ He who kills a soul unless it be (in legal punishment) for murder or for causing disorder and corruption on the earth will be as if he had killed all humankind; and he who saves a life will be as if he had saved the lives of all humankind.” ( The Qur’an, Al-Ma’idah, 5:32)
 So while breathing in 2016 when I say that humanity died long time back, its pretty valid.

  I would conclude my article by saying that one day the tables will turn and the suffered beings would not be suffer again, and the killers will stand in the queue of Karma and when I say that I see Mr.Donald Trump as your next mistake. Me being a Pakistani and a Muslim can hate America and Americans BUT I am sensible enough to NOT do that because not everyone is a killer and not everyone agrees to the image that has been set up of Muslims after 9/11. Similarly, there is not valid point to hate all Muslims either of what terrorism has done so far (no 9/11 was not done by Muslims, i disbelieve that), but I'm here speaking overall.
At the end I would recommend a book to all of you 'The Reluctant Fundamentalist' written by Mohsin Hamid to get a clear view of what American Muslims faced after 9/11 and how deeply it influenced their life and how badly they survived.  Even to this day Muslims find it difficult to immigrate to America in fact there was a ban on granting Pakistanis even student visas (not sure if its removed now).
Well, these are a few drawn facts there is so much more that we all are missing and the truth is still an untold story in the history of 11th September.

Thursday 8 September 2016

The real spirit of Eid-ul-Adhaa - What are you going to sacrifice? Animal or your pride?

Finally Eid-ul-Adhaa is almost here and government has announced holidays of 3 days Monday-Wednesday. They always forget we desi people keep on consuming 'gosht' non stop for 3 days of Eid and then our moms store it in case 'koi mehmaan ajaye' or make kebabs out of it...that's not fair anyway. Well, I still have to attend my university on 3rd day of Eid daydreaming about BBQs and some nice karahi. hehe..
So what are you people sacrificing this Eid? Goat? Cow? Camel? You'd be surprised to know but my dad decided this time despite of sacrificing animals we'd be sacrificing our ego, pride and all those things that makes human mind completely numb. 

Prophet Ibrahim or Abraham (may Allah be pleased with him) was put to a trail of sacrificing his youngest son Prophet Ismail (may Allah be pleased with him) because he was dearest to him among all the children but as per Allah's command he had to follow what he saw in his dream. He took his son in the forest away from his house so that his wife would not be able to hear if Ismail screams due to severe pain, blindfolded himself and as soon as the knife reached Ismail's throat, Allah replaced him with a sheep. When Prophet Ibrahim opened his eyes, his son was standing alive right in front of his eyes and that sheep had been slaughtered right in front of him. Prophet Ismail was the son that Prophet Ibrahim got after offering so many prayers that too in old age and imagine how dear he was to him when he was ordered by God to sacrifice his son.
So why am I repeating this story when all of us had been studying about this since our childhood. Maybe because there are a few misconceptions regarding this sacrifice. Now see, God liked this act so much that he made it a festival for all the Muslims, sacrificing an animal is NOT compulsory or should be followed as an obligation because its Prophet Ibrahim's Sunnah (Sunnat-e-Ibrahimi) in the remembrance of his great sacrifice to show his love and obedience towards God. There is no need to get 4-5 animals and show-off to this world that you're capable of buying such expensive animals, aren't no race my friend it'll be of no use if you do not understand the REAL meaning behind this sacrifice. But this sacrifice becomes obligatory for Hajjis. Millions of people from all around the world go for Hajj (pilgrimage) to Makkah, and there its compulsory for them to sacrifice an animal in the name of God.

Now coming to the animal selection...well...this is complicated. God replaced sheep with Prophet's son so from where did all these cows came from?  FLASHBACK! Back to the time before partition when no India or Pakistan existed on the map of the world, there was just one land named subcontinent. Here Muslims and Hindus both lived together but oh so miserable! And I suppose we all are aware of the bitter reality about different conflicts that prevailed even from Muslims. Cow is a scared animal of Hindus and since both the communities shared mutual dislikeness and hatred so definitely there were teases performed by both of the parties. If Hindus mocked Muslims then we didn't even stay calm about it. Muslims started sacrificing cows (knowing its a sacred animal of Hindu community and will be offensive for them) and since then its a tradition to sacrifice cows in the name of Islam. huh? Did you guys know that? And are you aware of the fact that cows are only slaughtered in Pakistan and India, a very few cases in Bangladesh on the occasion of Eid-ul-Adhaa. Its not even in practice in any other Muslim countries that are even advanced and comparatively more progressive like Iran and Turkey.. Not even in Saudi Arabia - I'M NOT KIDDING! Its only practiced here and the mock continues!

So coming back to the main point that I wanted to convey...
Can you sacrifice your dearest thing if God orders you to? Would you be ready to give up your children? Your property? Your jewelry? Your favorite dresses? Your Husband? Wife? Parents?! YOUR NAFS?!!?! Majority would claim it a yes but very few would actually do it because in the first place if it was that easy then God would have not given this trail to a Prophet and then give him the title of 'KhaleelUllah' that means Friend of God. You can not just give up something so easily and especially when it comes to something that you love the most in the world of today that is filled with materialism and can't even see happiness of others. Not everyone's might is right. I read one Hadith yesterday about it (can't recall the exact words), it said, buy an animal that you're going to sacrifice some days before Eid because you will eventually start loving it and get emotionally attached to it and when its time to sacrifice that animal then you can feel the pain of losing a loved one, and then the tears that you'll shed for it would be a proof that your love for God is everything you need.
Sacrificing an animal on the occasion of Eid is not an obligation but a Sunnah of Prophet Ibrahim. But besides all this there are some positive facts about sacrificing animal:
1. Poor people get to taste meat after a long time because its too expensive for them to buy it (so why not give charity more often?)
2. Plus points in good deeds! (wow)
3. Benefits from animal skin (the one we give to mosques)
4. Good food (obviously)
and many moree..

So this Eid, while enjoying your BBQs and taking selfies with cows and sheep (uhh hate that) please do not forget what actually is the lesson that this day conveys. Sacrifice your animals but don't forget to sacrifice your pride, ego and grudges against anyone! Its all about sacrificing so why not start with our negative traits first?
Eid Mubarak! :)

Sunday 4 September 2016

Can you spot the difference?

Do you guys remember the game we used to play when we were kids? Yup I'm talking about spotting the difference between two pictures!
Now let me ask you something, can you spot the difference between REALITY and what media PORTRAYS? How far can you judge and reach the insights of a certain situation or any recently occurred event? Well, honestly we all will come to different conclusions with different observations and approaches.

What if you were given a case of murder and you are the investigator, how would you see it?
Similarly, being Pakistani (a very honest Pakistani, I must add) I am here to spot the difference between the reality and what media shows us. Enlightening you all with my opinions and thoughts about social issues, human rights and some other happenings and insight