Life stops when it cries...

People say life must go on... and I wonder how can this be? When so much around you is standing still, for so many... can you ignore, and if you can, for how long? Some start singing, even though so many can be seen crying. How can that be? What is not real... the singing or the cries? For me, a happy song appears fake amidst all the cries but a sad situation makes tears trickle down spontaneously and feels so real... Stop singing and start sharing the sadness. Grief and sufferings of someone -- anyone -- you see close or remote to you. This is what is real life about.

Somehow, from a scale of 1-10, it is the sadness, which has been dominating, broken promises, natural calamities, hunger, disease epidemics, personal failures and social injustice. Chose something that you can share into, and you may justify singing once again.

Hope.

As the weapon show ended, we had a fairly peaceful Eid. Down came the rain... pouring in cats and dogs fashion. Wonder why they say that but somehow, I got to find some explanation for that phrase:

It has also been suggested that cats and dogs were washed from roofs during heavy weather. This is a widely repeated tale. It got a new lease of life with the e-mail message "Life in the 1500s", which began circulating on the Internet in 1999. Here's the relevant part of that:

I'll describe their houses a little. You've heard of thatch roofs, well that's all they were. Thick straw, piled high, with no wood underneath. They were the only place for the little animals to get warm. So all the pets; dogs, cats and other small animals, mice, rats, bugs, all lived in the roof. When it rained it became slippery so sometimes the animals would slip and fall off the roof. Thus the saying, "it's raining cats and dogs."

Whatever the case, that still doesn't satisfy a human mind much. We have to try and find another explanation and we can, and this is open to all. Like one in Urdu: sar mundatey he ooley parey!

So where were we? Yup. The lashing rains turning into floods, and that doesn't take months for the rainwater to drain, whilst the city is so close to sea, but when it rained and it just kept raining in up country, more so in villages of Sindh, it took all with it. Cattle, standing crops, and humans. The aftermath was epidemics of several diseases, mostly concerning benign diarrhea, vomiting to fatal typhoid, malaria and dengue fever.

With all this already taking heavy toll on human sufferings ,comes the ever so popular strikes...and they are in abundance.One self proclaimed leader of poor, who himself is richer by default! gets arrested and the payroll followers call three day strike.What must have gone in those areas ,already hit by natural calamity?

And we are still dreaming that some of the good old peaceful days, when work and business will be uninterrupted shall return. Still no harm in dreaming. They say one day dreams do come true!

Learn and Teach.

Said Rumi...
Come, come whoever you are.
Wonderer, worshipper, lover of leaving.
It doesn't matter.
Ours is not a caravan of despair.
Come, even if you have broken your vow
a thousand times
Come, yet again, come, come

Said Ghandi...
You must be the change, you want to see in the world

Said Aveccina...
Those who Know they do not Know that to Know is to Know what they do not Know.

Said Mandela...
For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.

Said Ibn Hazm...
If your pride leads you to boast,
you will be doubly guilty,
because your intelligence will have shown
that it is incapable of controlling your pride

Said Beatrice...
Princes and counties! Surely, a princely testimony,
a goodly count, Count Comfect; a sweet gallant,
surely! O that I were a man for his sake! or that I
had any friend would be a man for my sake! But
manhood is melted into courtesies, valour into
compliment, and men are only turned into tongue, and
trim ones too: he is now as valiant as Hercules
that only tells a lie and swears it. I cannot be a
man with wishing, therefore I will die a woman with grieving.

And said Ali ibn Abu Talib (radiAllahu anhu)...
Oh writer! An Angel watches over all you write. Make your writing meaningful for it will eventually return to you and you will be questioned about what you wrote.

And said Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
People are like stained glass windows: they sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light within.

- Ernst Heinrich Haeckel
"The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: 1) To return love for hate; 2) To include the excluded; and 3) To say 'I was wrong.'"

Finally:
When the world has brought you to your knees, you find yourself in the perfect position to pray

Reality.

Bureaucratic monopoly along with intentional continuation of unjust policies adopted by the long run of rulers for 65 years has created a sense of deprivation and alienation among various section of population. Even after the tragic Fall of Dhaka, no one has learnt their lesson. In Sindh, only the rural and urban division has long since been the controversial issue. As I know, when you read job advertisement for public sector, one clearly notices the quota sanctions: Punjab (6) Sindh rural (2). And if and when there are provincial jobs vacancies, it reads like Sindh rural (5) Urban (1).

The big question that arises here is; why the rural-urban divide only for sindh, even after 65 years? Why does this cleavage still exist? If it is on the pretext of being underdeveloped areas then why is it so? Even after more than half a century they are, to me, the only answer. An honest, true and hard to swallow fact is, urban Sindh is mostly populated. In fact, statistically 70% comprises of those who left the Indian part of the Subcontinent, leaving all their wealth and jobs, for the love of being taken into one nation that was to be Pakistan. A nation that was not meant to be. We broke it into pieces for same one reason: injustice to the people of our beloved and beautiful eastern wing, mashriqi Pakistan. On the fast track move, we are watching the dark of history being pushed to be repeated in Balochistan and going on since a long time and suddenly the same picture in Sindh can be clearly seen by one.

You want those who migrated from Indian part of the Subcontinent to merge as Sindhi. Although they do keep trying to make believe but to no avail. Abolish quota system in Sindh at all levels. For once in 65 years, let one of the elected representatives from the urban area be the CM. Revise the seat allocations for both the National and Provincial Assembly according to the fresh population census. Make them -- those who are still being reminded of being the immigrant --believe they are in their home country. They, too, are the sons of the soil because so many have been born here. Some in JMPC and a lot at New Karachi or hospitals at Hyderabad, and from there they are taken to homes close by and not migrated. Only then will the word Muhajir disappear. If we don't call, they will keep uttering and showing fron actions that Muhajirs still exist... like Balochis and past Bengalis!

Dhool Ka Pole

Some of the gossips that spread here are that something miraculous is being carried out in Karachi against the "bhatta khor" or the brutal killers. Nothing of such sort. Lyari was first attempted to be rid of criminals, but as it became clear. all women of the area were made the front line wall to protect and giving the chance of escape. Since the last two days, only sixteen -- yes, just sixteen -- people have been produced in courts, like the ex-interior minister eloped. All those involved in the heinous killings were told to "leave the city" so they did and are enjoying some more comfortable surroundings.

free for all..

are we trying to defend some one or wishing the accused stepping aside....get punished if found guilty...or else shine as hero...yet again...but will they find the courage...or they fear....the only way self accountability first...if not let the law be the decider!!!!its the only way out...all in one line....we can start the trip from right here..Karachi..few hidden talent here too…than Punjab…money laundering….raiwand…poultry….and what not….moving on to Gujarat…co-op scandal…monis elahi…sugar and wheat mafia…and reaching as far as the PM house…now being newly to be constructed…with infinite millions of tax payers hard earned money..haj scandal…..sanctioning…millions to fake advertisers by PM….and thence to….the royal presidential suit….from prison to…..this guy sure is lucky….with BB ..removed from scene…it’s the batees daant ka aadmi….and yes this man is in action now with full swing….won’t even budge to supreme court orders…mard ka baccha!!!!so where we go from here….status quo…killings…corruption….lawlessness…paper parliament…public sector….in shambles….even bankrupt….so what is left…just an egg shell!!!!!!…unless….even that is saved…all will be squashed under the foot…so to shield the handful, we want to sacrifies our …left over country that is still called….lets think about a new name now….Pakistan , was created in 1947.…but what was brought out of that in 1971...must get a new version….name…and we can keep turning the leafs of our history…and present…we must get answer…and that too sooner than later….

I may still defend the last general...or like i remember...from my childhood ayuub khan...A common man was getting sugar for meagre 22pkr...mangoes now outa reach of poor was 25pkr...and i can go on...this is ground reality....4times army...what about...more time the sham democracy...did they change themselves...vote and keep voting...and who is counting....I never came to know...what are the methods....ok i accept...you are so called head of my own country..not yours or your son's as they point to their kids while during speech...this is my country...and land of my son and and so many kids of those poor peasents who are always befooled by...slogan of rooti...and what ever now left on their bodies...more white it appears now...this is not going to be another ...sons country whose daddy just waited for mom to be displaced.may almighty bless her soul...may be it would have been a good chnage ..as she promised...just may be without Mr.100%.....this is ground reality sir.....they are not willing to budge ...correct mistake committed...they get chance...for themselves.. either they start serving..like they are supposed to do..instead of ruling..like they are doing..or pack up and go...in better way...or the same way they go each time...may be thats the only way they have come to know..

Leaking Wikis!

What ever the motives behind leaking viz a viz wikis, so many analysis, anticipations, assessments, back-door generating conspiracies and speculations have come true and well documented. From where were they generated? The horse's mouth.

One thing in all this "typhoon wiki" seems strange; in almost each corner of world, politicians and cronies are put to shame and some or the other kind of embarrassment but biggest and strongest US ally, Israel, has been pardoned and come clean. Why is that? Is the creator of all this a Jew or an American agent himself?

For citizens in the third world -- and that too all Islamic states -- it is a big relief and an eye opener. Perhaps it proves to be a blessing in disguise and their so called ruling class corrects their follies no sooner then later.