Begging is a shame for society

Kids are as innocent as flowers and as shinning as glowing stars. They all are same whether they live a relaxing and comfort life or sleep on footpaths. It’s really painful to see small kids begging with their little hands in front of this cruel world, a world for which these kids are just beggars and nothing else. Their own parents treat them as slaves and force them to beg in front of people. These kids also have some ambitions and rights to live the same life as every kid lives, a life where there is no tension and tears and they can get a chance to laugh whole heartedly. They also like to play and live an enjoyable life.

Some people are so mean to these kids and don’t realize that their attitude hurts them. I would like to share one of such incident where I witnessed a kid crying on the road

One I was going to pick my cousin from her university. While waiting on a traffic signal I saw a kid knocking at windows of each car, selling newspapers. He was refused by each and every person. I saw pain on his face because no one was buying his newspapers. I know people were thinking that maybe he is acting and to be very honest I also had the same feelings hidden somewhere inside me. But I felt so sad that I wanted to help him. I didn’t had any money otherwise I’d have helped him by buying his newspaper, which I know was not of my use as I am not really in to reading newspaper but still at least for his help. But I saw him just crying on his fate, while traveling in my car my eyes still search for that poor kid, I so want to help him but I haven’t seen him again

Kids are not supposed to beg in front of people but they should enjoy their childhood. There little hands are not made for labor or begging but to play with toys and read and write. But due to poverty they are supposed to beg to live. There are a lot of organizations and NGOs for different causes but there should be some kind of charity homes for these kids where these kids can live and spend a normal life. There should be a proper arrangement for their comfort and education where they can have a right to dream for their better future.

Every kid is dear to his or her parents so are these beggaring kids but the poverty makes their parents cruel. We all should try to help them in any way. I have seen kids finding books and eatables from the trash. There is a desire in their hearts to have a sweet and cute childhood like others. I have seen kids bewailing at their fates. They also like to make wishes in front of their parents for different things.  This shows their eager and love for life. And we should help these kids to have a relaxing life. These kids are future of our country and if we give them chance then they can do wonders.
Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven then why do we force those hands to beg in front of the whole world? It is a time to throw this cruelty out from this world and give best to the deserving ones.

Strengthening our Faith through Knowing Allah

Living in the world, it seems that we are surrounded by people who do not understand our faith. Confused by our surroundings, we must ask ourselves ‘Do we understand our own belief system?’ Our imaan is not always strong, and sometimes we find ourselves slipping away from the right path through no fault except our own ignorance, especially as to how we may strengthen our faith and ourselves in order to combat our inner desires as well as the temptations it calls us to.

Many of us find ourselves embracing Islam, or revisiting (when more mature) the Islam we were once taught through loved ones, but with a much more sincere approach. Through a lack of what should be basic knowledge, we appear to enter a state of emotional faith that places us on an almost transitional level. We rarely begin on the basis we should be working from, and we are reliant on any small conversation to guide us or help to maintain the uplifting and exciting feelings we have found.

one must know what he or she is required to embark on if they wish to become a practicing Muslim. The shahadah carries with it a great deal of important and influential status, so significant is it that we must refer to our shahadah as our first operation amongst conviction and therefore must know of Allah and His messenger.

What I would refer to as an emotional faith seems to posses and occupies many of us and we are often inclined to this state as an initial reaction to the zeal of practicing Islam and uttering our first shahadah. Being overwhelmed by the emotion that this first shahadah can bring, we become addicted to the emotion it creates. Similarly likened to the feeling of love, it has a domineering influence and can easily become addictive. The upkeep of this imaan is extremely difficult as it has no firm basis, and inevitably at times we become overwhelmed with other emotions that just as easily overpower our faith. If imaan is based on a feeling or emotion, it will become submissive, just as fear can override happiness, love can override sadness, and so on. We try to hold on to this imaan with nasheeds that we believe strengthens our faith, seemingly becoming reliant on other people to ‘lift’ and ‘help’ us. This is a dangerous and somewhat lazy way of establishing our faith, and though in the beginning natural, a dependence on this feeling of zeal has no basis in the deen.

We have to endure many hardships and calamities in our lives, and in this state of imaan we do not stand a chance. At one point or another we will find ourselves weakened without even noticing. Learning and studying other branches of what could be politics and global legislation before our grounding upon the pillars of faith could almost certainly be described as a deception of Shaytaan helping us to believe we are gaining knowledge and that it is helping us succeed. While all of this is happening, he is helping us to bypass what we really need to adhere to – our basis and rationale that is Taw hid.
If we occupy ourselves with the learning of Allah, we are doing what we were created for. The meaning of imaan is not merely to think we believe in Allah, or blindly assume that we know Him, for real imaan is based on solid knowledge, and a true dependence is based on a reliant trust.
The Prophet Mohammed (pbuh) spent over a decade with his Sahabah in Makah, strengthening their faith even before the inclusion of prayer which occurred in Medina. Most early chapters are those of imaan and can be related to the pillars. Belief is penetrated by a cognitive, astute and sophisticated wisdom all through knowledge.
Allah the Most High says in the Qur’an:
“Except for those who bear witness to the truth knowingly (that there is no god but Allah – la illaha il-Allah) and they know – (in their hearts the meaning of the words they utter with their lips).” “
Our whole lives have been based on knowledge. We were never born with wisdom. We are only at the stage of ability we possess now through knowledge and guidance we have been allowed to acquire, given by Allah through our environment. Let us not retire to anything less when it comes to our deen, and knowing our Creator.
It can always be a taboo subject when admitting we are slipping in our efforts to maintain a hold on our faith, and hence, we don’t always refer to such subjects. Through complete understanding of who Allah is, and our knowledge building us instead of our emotion, we hope to accomplish our relationship with Allah that we so desperately need and live for. In procuring such knowledge we will find our emotions are of a deeper and more meaningful level of faith. We must know our Lord to satisfy ourselves, and render ourselves a true imaan, fully restored which no emotion can sway, emotions that register as a result of knowledge.

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Entrepreneurs are not Born

Co-founder Jack Dorsey Had Idea for Twitter at Age 8

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yes its true that they are not born, A person who has its vision and have skills and ability to go on and work for  we can sure go on , its true that they are not born they are made by themselves with their skills and abiltiy.

Pakistan Ranked as THIRD most dangerous country in the world for Womens

Pakistan had cultural, tribal and religious practices harmful to women, including acid attacks, child and forced marriage and punishment or retribution by stoning or other physical abuse. More then 1,000 women and girls are victims of “honor killings” every year, according to Pakistan’s Human Rights Commission, a large number of women faced domestic violence and it was also reported that women earn 82% less then men, which too is not a surprising fact
The issue here is to highlight the fact that women are seriously being oppressed in Pakistan, on one hand we have a Supreme Court judgment setting Muktaran Mai’s rapists free on the ‘lack of evidence’ while we all know how the police system works in Pakistan enough to understand the nuances of how they may have possibly presented the evidence to favor the rapists

There are ample witnesses to testify that the Panchayat did condemn her to these men and later paraded her naked on the streets, if that weren’t humiliation for women then I wonder how many more women need to be subjected to such torture before an iron clad force is used to prevent such unholy practices from reigning supreme in our country.

We must accept that there is such a problem and it must be solved. I am embarrassed to observe that educated people in the past few months have used Mukhtara Mai’s judgment as a snub against her accusing her of having fabricated the rape, which in my opinion I find utterly unacceptable, at least such an argument should not even be tolerated by anyone respectable person in society, god forbid it were to happen to one of your loved ones and had if the charges been dismissed merely on the whim of “Lack of Evidence” the humiliation and torture shall never be healed. Pakistan needs to vehemently denounce any maltreatment of women and ensure that such practices are stopped for good.

Taliban: the New Super Power?

At the time of invasion of Afghanistan it was clear in the minds of Americans that they will enjoy a quick and comprehensive victory against those who were alleged to be terrorists, blood thirsty savages, threat to the civilized world, a burden on the face of this planet and were declared disqualified for any possible negotiation. The contrary has proven to be true today. Instead of winning the war Americans are now facing a devastating defeat, and have found themselves on there knees to negotiate those who were declared as blood thirsty terrorists [in fact Americans are the ones who have proven worthy of wearing the titles they tagged Taliban’s a decade ago. This is evident from the manner in which every day in America we see any high ranking government official telling to the world that they are negotiation with the Taliban. Interestingly the Taliban's are denying with an equal intensity of receiving Americans on a negotiation table. This makes one feel like Afghan Taliban are the one who deserve to be called the superpower of the world; a true turning of tables indeed. It is important to ask at this point that what have actually caused this historic flip and that Americans are know found to be a defensive and humiliating state, as never seen before. The history tells us that such a situation arises in a battle field only when one party knows that they don't have much cards left to play with ... After 10 years of spendthrift of their military, technological and economic resources, Americans have now realized that they are running after a ghost, therefore they are now left with no option other then to beg in front of Taliban to get to a mutually agreeable situation.

Misadventure of Iraq and Afghanistan has indeed been unimaginably heavy for the American economy to bear. The military expenditure is as huge as 1.5 trillion dollars, and if all social, economic indirect expenses are included then the figure accumulates to as much as 6 trillion dollars; in view of various independent analysts as a result American economy has now been indebted so much that bankruptcy seems to be just around the next corner. It is perhaps this economic pressure which has forced Americans to think to find a financially viable alternative. However if Americans escape like a goat from battlefield then they would have to pay another cost in terms of global humiliation, as never seen before, subsequently diluting America image of the most powerful country in the world. Perhaps to safe its face, the option which now seeps plausible to Americans is that of Negotiation with Taliban.

Hamid Karzai is a puppet erected to power by American Government. It would not be possible for Karzai to imagine such a royalty without Americans. The present situation should have neared Karzai with Americans even more; however in a press conference on 19th June 2011, Karzai's words stunted the journalist community and the world. Karzai alleged America as a selfish aggressor and invader. Analysts suggests that Karzai also believes now that American victory in Afghanistan is as much possible as in a fairy tale, that is why the Americans are now trying to find a state of peaceful coexistence with the Taliban as well.

If we look closely then it will become only clearer to us that such a response from Karzai is vivid proof of American defeat in Afghanistan. If situation would have been the other way around, then Karzai would not have dared to utter such words. The extent of American helplessness can be estimated from the bitterness with which Karzai has come up, which is being tolerated as Americans now know they don't have anyone other then Karzai who could support their agenda in Afghanistan. 

This is the status of a world super power which is present in Afghanistan with its 49 allies. It is also important to note that the Taliban have approved Americans not even once for the said negotiations, it’s the Americans and its allies who have been stepping forward indeed. It is the Americans who have changed their stance toward the Mujahedeen’s, not the Mujahedeen who instead are still strong on their views and consider Americans as an aggressor, invader and occupier of their lands. They also believe that the only and only solution of these crises is to through Americans out of Afghanistan.
The altered stance of Americans in fact proves that there was no ethical or moral foundation of the narrative Americans held against Taliban in the beginning, as otherwise they would not have step forward to negotiate with those who were declared as blood thirsty terrorists, traitors, drug dealers, enemies of the civilized world etc, by none other then the America it self. Today we see that military and economic might (so called) has brought no advantage to American position against Taliban. With all its might they were not even able to produce any anxiety, disturbance or disunity among the ranks of Mujahedeen.

In amongst of all the chaos America is also trying create a conflict between Taliban and Al-Qaeda as an option of last resort, perhaps this is due to the confidence America has got due to OBL assassination, which is wrongly assumed, by Americans, to have shaken the ideological foundations of Mullah Omar or Al-Qaeda. However a job which America couldn't do when it was in a much stronger position in Afghanistan, how can it be done now when the evidence of American defeat are visible as never before.

Ramadan makes your family unit

Being a Muslim it is our duty to follow all the aspects and teachings of Islam which we got from the Qur'an and those we learn from the hadith of Prophet(pbuh). The Qur'an and hadith teach us how to behave with our family and teaches us the norms and rules which every person need follow being a member of a family.

In Today’s fast and global world we have easily neglect all the requirements of a family and neglected to think about the needs of family and our rule in a family, after all, who can cope with our fluctuating temperaments as we struggle to cope with certain daily issues that come to test us? Misunderstandings ensue when we get all too caught up with the need to provide, the need to learn, and the desire for better, causing us to fall from the grace of our loved ones.

Without realizing it, family members become strangers to each other, slowly growing apart. Our homes become hotels where we just come to visit, all of those things develop because we are not putting any efforts and time to be together, Ramadan is the month which make all the family members tied and it is only Ramadan in which most of us will sit together to have a meal whether it is the meal of sahur or the meal of iftar.

Ramadan is the month in which all of us will sit together and this is time when all the members of family sit accordingly and this is the time in which children gets benefits with keeping touch with their family like aunts, uncles and cousins and particularly grandparents. We know that everyone wants give love to their grandparents but because of the schedule they can’t make it, but Ramadan is the month which offer you a opportunity to love ones grandparents give love and show attraction towards children of the house and all these joys are there because of the holy month of Ramadan.

According to one philosopher “A family grows stronger and closer with acceptance of one another, respect of differences, open and accurate communication, assertive and non-aggressive expression of emotions, love, freedom and space to grow, trust, time and effort invested, and the will to make it work.”

Enjoy the spiritual month of Ramadan with your family

Pediatrics Gets it Wrong about ‘Facebook Depression

   

You know it’s not good when one of the most prestigious pediatric journals, Pediatrics, can’t differentiate between correlation and causation.
And yet this is exactly what the authors of a “clinical report” did in reporting on the impact of social media on children and teens. Especially in their discussion of “Facebook depression,” a term that the authors simply made up to describe the phenomenon observed when depressed people use social media.
Shoddy research? You bet. That’s why Pediatrics calls it a “clinical report” — because it’s at the level of a bad blog post written by people with a clear agenda. In this case, the report was written by Gwenn Schurgin O’Keeffe, Kathleen Clarke-Pearson and the American Academy of Pediatrics Council on Communications and Media (2011).
What makes this bad a report? Let’s just look at the issue of “Facebook depression,” their made-up term for a phenomenon that doesn’t exist.
The authors of the Pediatrics report use six citations to support their claim that social media sites like Facebook actually cause depression in children and teens. Four of the six citations are third-party news reports on research in this area. In other words, the authors couldn’t even bother with reading the actual research to see if the research actually said what the news outlet reported it said.
I expect to see this sort of lack of quality and laziness on blogs. Hey, a lot of time we’re busy and we just want to make a point — that I can understand.
When you go to the trouble not only of writing a report but also publishing it in a peer-reviewed journal, you’d think you’d go to the trouble of reading the research — not other people’s reporting on research.
Here’s what the researchers in Pediatrics had to say about “Facebook depression:”
Researchers have proposed a new phenomenon called “Facebook depression,” defined as depression that develops when preteens and teens spend a great deal of time on social media sites, such as Facebook, and then begin to exhibit classic symptoms of depression.
Acceptance by and contact with peers is an important element of adolescent life. The intensity of the online world is thought to be a factor that may trigger depression in some adolescents. As with offline depression, preadolescents and adolescents who suffer from Facebook depression are at risk for social isolation and sometimes turn to risky Internet sites and blogs for “help” that may promote substance abuse, unsafe sexual practices, or aggressive or self-destructive behaviors.
Time and time again researchers are finding much more nuanced relationships between social networking sites and depression. In the Selfhout et al. (2009) study they cite, for instance, the researchers only found the correlation between the two factors in people with low quality friendships. Teens with what the researchers characterized as high quality friendships showed no increase in depression with increased social networking time.
The Pediatrics authors also do what a lot of researchers do when promoting a specific bias or point of view — they simply ignore research that disagrees with their bias. Worse, they cite the supposed depression-social networking link as though it were a forgone conclusion — that researchers are all in agreement that this actually exists, and exists in a causative manner.
There are a multitude of studies that disagree with their point of view, however. One longitudinal study (Kraut et al., 1998) found that, over a period of 8–12 months, both loneliness and depression increased with time spent online among adolescent and adult first-time Internet users. In a one-year follow-up study (Kraut et al., 2002), however, the observed negative effects of Internet use had disappeared. In other words, this may not be a robust relationship (if it even exists) and may simply be something related to greater familiarity with the Internet.
Other research has shown that college students’ — who are often older teens — Internet use was directly and indirectly related to less depression, 
Furthermore, studies have revealed that Internet use can lead to online relationship formation, and thereby to more social support which may subsequently lead to less internalizing problems.
In another study cited by the Pediatrics authors, simply reading the news report should’ve raised a red flag for them. Because the news report on the study quoted the study’s author who specifically noted her study could not determine causation:
According to Morrison, pornography, online gaming and social networking site users had a higher incidence of moderate to severe depression than other users. “Our research indicates that excessive Internet use is associated with depression, but what we don’t know is which comes first – are depressed people drawn to the Internet or does the Internet cause depression? What is clear is that for a small subset of people, excessive use of the Internet could be a warning signal for depressive tendencies,” she added.
The other citations in the Pediatrics report are equally problematic (and one citation has nothing to do with social networking and depression . None mention the phrase “Facebook depression” (as far as I could determine), and none could demonstrate a causative relationship between use of Facebook making a teenager or child feel more depressed. Zero.
I’m certain depressed people use Facebook, Twitter and other social networking websites. I’m certain people who are already feeling down or depressed might go online to talk to their friends, and try and be cheered up. This in no way suggests that by using more and more of Facebook, a person is going to get more depressed. That’s just a silly conclusion to draw from the data to date, and we’ve previously discussed how use of the Internet has not been shown to cause depression, only that there’s an association between the two.
If this is the level of “research” done to come to these conclusions about “Face book depression,” the entire report is suspect and should be questioned. This is not an objective clinical report; this is a piece of propaganda spouting a particular agenda and bias.
The problem now is that news outlets everywhere are picking up on “Face book depression” and suggesting not only that it exists, but that researchers have found the online world somehow “triggers” depression in teens. Pediatrics and the American Academy of Pediatrics should be ashamed of this shoddy clinical report, and retract the entire section about “Face book depression.”

Pakistan’s ranking in terrorism

A recent ‘ranking by death’ study conducted by a ‘global risks’ advisory firm, Maple croft, has listed 10 countries ‘at extreme risk’; and Pakistan is second in the count after Somalia. The list has the following countries in it: Somalia (1), Pakistan (2), Iraq (3), Afghanistan (4), Palestinian Occupied Territory (5), Colombia (6), Thailand (7), Philippines (8), Yemen (9) and Russia (10). Out of the 10, six are under threat from al Qaeda or its subsidiaries. Barring the Philippines, the killers and the killed were Muslims. Somalia killed soldiers from neighboring states Ethiopia and Burundi, sent in by the African Union.

Somalia experienced 556 terrorist incidents, killing a total of 1,437 people and wounding 3,408 between June 2009 and June 2010. In the same period, Pakistan experienced nearly 1,500 deaths including some attributable to the ‘mafia’ and ethnic wars in Karachi. In Somalia, where al Qaeda is behind the youth organization Shabab, deaths were caused by ‘foreign’ warriors too, thought to be 4,000 in number including some Pakistanis sent into Somalia after training in Pakistan’s tribal areas.

Somalia may have beaten Pakistan in the ranking because of the virtual non-existence of the state there, but it is less of a trouble to the world — the Somali pirates are a problem but they fall in another category. On the other hand, Pakistan has a state structure with an army capable of taking on any external foe on the basis of its nuclear deterrence. Many in Pakistan would have thought that Afghanistan would beat Pakistan as a ‘high risk’ country. What, however, has to be taken into account is the quality of the presence of terrorist groups and the nurture Pakistan provides to foreign terrorists often killed by CIA drones in the ‘ungoverned spaces’ of Pakistan.

The study has been done for businessmen interested in investments at the global level; therefore the risk is computed with ‘capital sensitivity’ in mind. For Pakistanis, however, the long-term implications of the presence of al Qaeda on its territory are more important. Judged by that yardstick, Pakistan is far more at risk than Somalia and Yemen or even Iraq. Trouble in these two small states is containable in the long run; in Pakistan trouble is sustained over the long-term by the level of development of the state, its economy and its growing religious nature. It is now accepted by scholars that a terrorist organization like al Qaeda would be less interested in making its home in ‘thin and weak states’ with little financial capacity than in states where money and manpower are available from local sources.

EXPANSION OF PRINT MEDIA IN PAKISTAN

The expansion of print media, especially in English, is inconsistent with the number of English newspaper consumers. Apparently, there are about 150,000 buyers of all English papers put together. An extended readership will surely not be more than 500,000, which are peanuts in a population of 175 million.

Besides the three or four papers, which were in the market for more than a couple of decades (Dawn, The News, The Nation, Daily Times), there are newer ones starting very soon. While Tribune, Pakistan and Islamabad Dateline have started recently, there are at least a couple more media groups that want to enter the market. So why is it that big businessman in the country are investing their money in this sector when it doesn’t (on the surface) make any economic sense?

From a financial standpoint it would have made greater sense to invest newspapers but then this peculiar expansion of print media is supply driven, not demand driven. This means that it is not about a growing appetite for English papers. It cannot also be due to the fact that there are now more graduates in media studies, from an increasing number of private universities, in the market. Although media in relative terms has become a more attractive industry, this does not mean it has greater capacity to produce better journalists. This is because the owners are just not willing to invest in human resources. So, the tendency is to pick ‘ripe apples’ from the market — graduates from good foreign or local universities with command over the English language. These ‘new kids on the block’ may have little sense of the situation but they can write well and can be posited as Pakistan’s liberal face. Their access to the political and military elite helps in acquiring a fair amount of knowledge of the state and its politics. Unfortunately, none of this is truly backed by an ideological bent.

The above tier is assisted by a second tier of people who are better connected with the life around them. With a lesser grasp of English and non-direct connection with the elite, these aspiring journalists act as foot soldiers, responsible for gathering information, feeding it to the first tier and building ties with agencies or parts of the government that the first tier pretends they don’t care about. agencies or whoever can pay to selectively leak information or get their news printed, picks up the better or the lucky ones amongst this segment. Those who can tap into sources of information, especially in the government, have the comfort of becoming senior reporters. The main problem with this scheme of things is that the owners do not spend money on training these two tiers or invest in making them independent of the government.

Interestingly, there are no real ideological drivers to merit this increase. The only truly ideologically driven paper in the English language is perhaps the ultra right-wing, The Nation. Other papers pose to be liberal but that is mainly in terms of the space given to alternative views on India, religion, religious identity, or to some extent, national security. Generally, the emphasis is to have, what is deemed as, presenting a ‘balanced perspective.’ This means giving equal if not more space to pro-establishment views to counter alternative perspective.

The ideological perspective of a newspaper is vital to form not just the opinion of its readers but to constantly train them ideologically. Sadly, print media in this country is as problematic as the electronic one, partly due to increasing control of the owners who are tempted to get planted stories published in their papers for personal benefits. In fact, the primary explanation for why the number of English papers has risen is due to the fact that all business and industrial tycoons see benefits in becoming media barons as well. It gives them great leverage with their own government and the outside world. Newspapers and television channels are an excellent front to protect other economic and power interests. It wasn’t too long ago that a drug baron ran an exciting newspaper.

Edhi, we expected better from you

We all suffer from occasional bouts of madness. It is a hazard of being a human, a side effect of possessing a mind. We all have thoughts, wishes that cannot and should not be taken seriously. Mostly, we keep these thoughts to ourselves but sometimes, we blurt them out.

If we are lucky, not many witness our moment of insanity.

However, if you are someone with a fan following, if you are someone who motivates and inspires, someone who has a standing in society, you are expected to refrain from having public bouts of mental diarrhea.

What to say then of Abdul Sattar Edhi who recently made a very public?

Kill all corrupt political personalities, he has asked of General Kyani. Kill them so that the next generation can step into politics.

The strange thing is Edhi made this call while opposing a bloody revolution.

When I called Mr Edhi’s spokesperson Anwar Kazmi, to confirm the statement he said that Edhi was asked what could be done to improve the situation in Pakistan and he responded with the idea of a six month long martial law during which all the corrupt politicians are to be executed.

I cannot decide what is more disturbing. The fact that he actually called for death, that this call was inspired by the recent violence in Karachi, or the fact that someone like Edhi believes that killing a couple of dozen people is the key to ending violence in Pakistan.

What is it with these calls for murder?

As if the crazy mullah’s weren’t enough for hate speech, now it seems like everyone is joining the bandwagon. Talk show hosts, politicians and now Edhi!

We have been one of the world’s most volatile nations for a while, and now the mania seems to be catching the most unlikely suspects. I have heard demands like this before, but never from someone who celebrates life and humanity.

I understand his sentiment, his frustration, but I cannot understand how someone like him could think the solution lies in the killing of some corrupt individuals.

While I am disappointed by Mr Edhi’s demand, I am far more scared; if people like him, people who have previously helped and served everyone without passing judgments, without discrimination, are starting to think that military action and execution is actually a solution, we are in serious trouble.

For decades a majority of Pakistanis have denounced violence. We have felt proud to be in this country even in its darkest hours and said these terrorists aren’t really us, we are peaceful.  But today the best of us have supported a violent track. I know we don’t need any more violence, but when I go back to the question that made Abdul Sattar Edhi give this statement – what is the solution – I can come up with no answer that doesn’t involve excessive use of power and subsequent bloodshed.

Am I the only one at a loss?

“My life as a Vampire”

Load shedding time so I decided to write a story on MS Word as modem was not connected to the generator thus no internet, thus nothing to do.  :)


With fresh blood dripping from his fangs, I stared in horror as he slowly advanced towards me wearing a cunning smile. I tried to escape, I tried to run but it was too late. I stood frozen, hypnotized by his mysterious yellow eyes.
His icy fangs slowly dug deeper and deeper into my throat and I could feel my blood abandoning me, cursing me to become an immortal monster. 
From now on, every night I would venture into the streets, sucking blood from any mortal I could find. My taste buds had developed a liking for sweet blood. I killed every night out of cold blood, without a single shred of remorse. I knew this was inhumane but I had to do this. Maybe I was being selfish or maybe I was just too afraid to face death and put an end to my killing spree. 
When sucking blood out of humans, Count Machulla usually killed them rather then turning them into vampires. I did not know why I was chosen to become one of them. I did not know why I had to carry the burden of using my own race as my life force.
Night after night I pondered over my status. Was this part of the normal food chain? As humans eat other animals, was it okay for me to kill them for my very own survival? Or had I indeed betrayed humanity? 
These subconscious thoughts grew larger and larger as I killed more and more humans. Guilt shrouded my heart as I realized the sad truth; I had truly become a monster.
I had to become a rebellion to put an end to this atrocity. It was a bold move but someone had to do it. Outside I may have had the appearance of a monster, I may have acted like a monster but inside my heart I was still a human, I still knew what I had to do for my race. I had to vanquish the ultimate thread posed to mankind, vampires. 
My self included, there were only seven vampires. I had decided to kill them all in their sleep. To paralyze them I decided to use garlic. The smell was outrageous. Never in my human life had I developed such hate for garlic. I held it at the end of a very long stick for it to have a minor effect on me.
Using several sticks like these I planted them near the nose of all of them. Their face had become disfigured, showing a very odd look. With this I took advantage of their paralysis and used an extremely long sword to keep my distance from the garlic and ultimately chop their heads off. Soon almost every one of the Vampire Order had died. Now the only one who stood in front of my path for obliterating the critical threat of vampires was Count Machulla himself. 
Sudden thoughts struck my mind as my sword cut through his neck. Was this what he had planned all along? In his subconscious mind, had he seen the potential in me for freeing him of his cursed state? I did not know, neither did I care. The vampires were gone….. all except me. 
I did not plan on killing myself just yet. I wanted to meet my family just one last time before I left this world. The reason for this was because Vampires could neither go to heaven nor hell, they just died. I wanted to utilize some of my everlasting time to meet my sister and parents. Was this alright I had wondered? 
Nevertheless, I went there. They were indeed shocked to see their supposedly dead brother/son but they knew it was me. 
While reminiscing a sudden urge shot up my brain, an urge for blood just one last time before my demise. I approached them in a dazed state of mind. After so much time of drinking blood of humans it had grown to become addictive. It was my drug. My thirst for blood had grown larger and larger after I had betrayed the vampires. 
Just one last drink I thought to myself as I approached my family, just one more time. It was as if I was hypnotized, unable to come back to my senses.
I had grabbed my sister and just as my fangs reached her neck, her desperate scream woke me. Realizing what I was about to do, I quickly took a few steps back. Was I truly about to kill her? 
Without apologizing, without saying I single word I flew out of the house. A tear raced down my cheeks as I realized what had transpired. I knew what I had to do now. Without a shred of doubt in my mind, I reached the execution chamber… 
I am writing this down right now and am about to end my life for the sake of humanity. I just hope someone finds out about my heroics so I could live forever, without using the powers of a vampire. 

Global Warming: A Deadly Threat for Human Life

Global Warming refers to the sustained increase in the average temperature of the earth's atmosphere. Human activity contributes to this change through the buildup of heat-trapping greenhouse gases. Over time, this increase may be sufficient to cause climatic change, including raising sea levels, altering precipitation patterns and changing water supplies and crop yields. It is also an increase in the near surface temperature of the Earth. Global warming has occurred in the distant past as the result of natural influences, but the term is most often used to refer to the warming predicted to occur as a result of increased emissions of greenhouse gases. Scientists generally agree that the Earth's surface has warmed by about 1 degree Fahrenheit in the past 140 years.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) recently concluded that increased concentrations of greenhouse gases are causing an increase the Earth's surface temperature and that increased concentrations of sulfate aerosols have led to relative cooling in some regions, generally over and downwind of heavily industrialized areas. Global warming has occurred in the distant past as the result of natural influences, but the term is today most often used to refer to the warming some scientists predict will occur as a result of increased anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases. The usual method to research about this phenomenon is to measure the surface-air temperature over time. Some people blame the nature for the temperature increase while other points at human causes, such as our cars, industries that pollutes the air.

Democratic Predicament of Pakistan

   

  

 The democratic project in Pakistan has always remained under assault. Popular expression about democratic governments is largely negative. The people of Pakistan forget that the relevance of democracy is directly linked to the socio-economic conditions of a given state. Urbanized middle classes wonder that how a poor and illiterate population can make sensible decisions in the electoral process. They ask: where is theirs representation. They did not understand that their representation lies in the institutional mechanisms of the state functioning. The political class, on the other side, is a transitional class suffering from myopia. It is mainly concerned with power and revolves around this agenda neglecting people’s sufferings.   In Pakistan questions about democracy are glossed over by the quality of public life. The popular expectations inducted by elected governments to deliver services, maintain law and order, promote economic progress and social stability are widespread. The fulfillment of such expectations creates legitimacy for government. The other forms of governments do not require popular legitimacy. They want acceptance based on better performance. Failure to live up to popular impulses has created legitimacy crisis. Ayub’s developmental schemes, Bhutto’s socialism, Zia’s Islamization program  and It should be kept in mind that except Bhutto’s government no one was able to complete its tenure. In that era the distributive effects of economic growth and investment in social projects were effective. It gave people a sense of empowerment. However, during dictatorships bunch of people economically gained more than other classes in Pakistan. In the post military regimes, the structural anomalies embedded by dictators help military to have hold on the politics. These may be ethnic polarization, fragmentation of political parties, corporatism of army and formation of puppetry parties.

   Democracy is an evolutionary system. It does not come in a perfect template. Pakistan has some universal principles like popular sovereignty and representative government. These have to be rooted in the socio-cultural climate of a country. The class character of society and the layers of influence and power are reflected in who usually wields real power.

    During the first phases of democratic development, it is always the aristocratic classes that dominate the electoral process. The urban landscape may have a different set of representatives, for example from Karachi or some urban centers of Punjab. Greater representation of the middle and professional classes increases over election cycle. Within political parties such trends take root. The stability of elected governments also increases with such developments.

    The quality of democracy and its stability has thus depended generally on the growth of the middle class universally, which in our view has expanded and continues to rise. But the middle class in Pakistan sees every phenomenon in negation. It is anti-democracy, anti-Indian, anti-secularism and anti-Socialism. Its economic character makes it achieve more profits and savings. This tendency pushes it closer to the idea of economic freedom and makes it a stakeholder in political stability.

KESC Problem :(

Today in our area of SOLDIER BAZAR power off from 3 PM after noon and no information when power comes back. More or less same situation remain the different parts of city but how KESC over come crisises and control their sacked staff those are nun hurdle and creates problem to supply electricity.
If a few punished in right way than no one have power or dare to do this evil work from this how many millions consumers suffers but they do not realized their problems. Realized how those who are infants, women’s and elderly people force to staff in totally darkness when more than 5 hours power gone no hope when power supply get back.

Those who got UPS have maximum run not more than 3 to 4 hours if such type of load shedding than no UPS can run but I pray to God teach with own silent sticks all culprits and responsible people who are doing load shedding in which millions suffers human beings, perhaps they have no relation with any region or they do not even deserve to called them Muslims due to their evils attitutide which is even worse than animals.

KESC management think positive to crush all evil forces and expose those invisible hands are behind the sacked staff which give more flues to burns they are equally involved in the crimes and ever power or strength to skip from God punishment which is everlasting?

What is fault from consumer’s side than why they suffer. If KESC can’t overcome crisis take the support and help from higher authority immediate basis so in future same type of problems never re-occur.

OUR PEACEFUL COUNTRY PAKISTAN. WE LOVE OUR NATION:)

Pakistan came into being on 14 August 1947. When Pakistan get indolence its had a lot of problems like education. Health. Good gorvence and so on while India was in good condition compare to Pakistan. After the death of Quaid-e-azam its faced a lot of problems like it has no constitutional and so on. Now the Pakistan had dependent on the other countries its make a bad impact on global world against the invest of Pakistan so that trends still followed by our leaders.
                Today Pakistan is barring a lot of problems the biggest issue is that how to sole the problem but our leaders have no idea n manner and they r careless about Pakistan. They just know how to earn money for their personal sake and to make property. They are nor taking interest to solve the problems.....

NOW WE TALKED ABOUT THE SOLUTION
THE civilized Pakistani people r already facing a lot problems regarding electricity, gas, pertol and much more the Pakistan people are deepened on government leader’s n on ALLAH.. THE FAMOUS SAYING IS " HELP UR SELF .. ALLAH WILL HELP U ... If the people of Pakistan stands against the government and made their own parties and run their own beloved country honestly without any tension so the problem will solved automatically ......... the young generation of Pakistan are migrating on other country for the sake of good jobs and education... 

    

The Whole Day with No Electricity :(

Today on Sunday, there is no electricity in our area from last night. Its 7 and it comes after 19 hours. Oh my God, Midterms are on head this electricity is paining in head, I m tensed how to complete my assignments , prepare for my paper … My mind stuck on one position , cant help out what to do. This loadsheding and this power failure make our students life panic, when to study, how to study and what to do in these two hours. Electricity comes for only two hours. Confused! What to do? Now at this level,  my mind is not working. Hope everything goes well, my paper, my assignment.Oh God! Help me please in my paper... Stress!

PAKISTAN IN MY VIEWS

Pak means clean and pious, Stan means living place lucidly Pakistan means a clean and sacred place for living is it really so? Are we the people for whom our in sectors sacrificed their selves? Are we worthy enough for that arduous struggle? Have a brief glimpse upon our religion and just be sincere with yourselves. As Islam are the peerless religion and a great perpetrator of humanism and spiritualism. Are we following those teachings of Islam? Pakistan was made on the name of Islam but Islam has been vanished away from the land of Pakistan. Calamity is that we even haven’t bothered yet to search the real essence of Islam that where it had gone away? Alas! From long ago we have been taking a slumber sleep and don’t know when and how we will wake up from this pernicious journey towards jeopardy. Though Muslims have split into numerous sects but humanism is the quintessence of all sects but these preaching are only confined to the premises of the pages of religious books.

Our nation is totally in a stupor world imbedded with materialism and selfishness. Everyone is running after making money while neglecting the ethics of our religion no matter their covetous acts is besmirching our nation.

Pakistan is infected by a malignant disease which will surely led us towards an obnoxious world of l destitution. According to Quaid-e-Azam to fight with such situation the only prop is the backbone of every nation which is the youth. But alas! The iconoclastic Pakistani youth is doing what to cure our motherland from this pestilential disease?