Today died Arifa Karim and with her died another hope of better and enlightened Pakistan. Rest in Peace Little Angel. You shall never be forgotten!!. :-(
إِنَّا لِلّهِ وَإِنَّـا إِلَيْهِ رَاجِعونَ
Saturday, January 14, 2012
Friday, January 13, 2012
We Shall Rise Again: My Poem
The long days of sufferings
Shall come to end
Never has it been
That the tyrants always rule
The creation of God
The weak, the oppressed
Shall stand again.
Monday, January 9, 2012
Saturday, January 7, 2012
My Latest Poem
It was not in your
proximity
That I found You.
It was, but your
solitude,
That I felt You in my
heart.
I lost You when I was in
Your company
But found when I was
dejected.
Oh My beloved!!
To find You
I subdued My wishes.
I burnt My heart in the
flames of Your Love
Than only I saw You
In the ashes of My body.
Your Love has encircled,
the every being of My
Soul.
The fibers of My
existence
are held by Your Mercy.
Drunken from the cup of
Love,
I found You near, very
near to me.
YOU were None
But ME.
Friday, January 6, 2012
Remembering Salman Taseer.
Taseer’s killing was the most evil act ever done in the land of pure. His
symbolic death depicts many hidden facets of our society. His killer is symbol
of our deep fanatic heritage, divergence from state responsibilities,
divergence from the nature of his job, preferring his orthodox religious
practices to his duty of protecting the man who he was guarding.
Taseer stood all his
life for equality. For guarding the rights of minorities and oppressed people
of the land in which they are bullied, tortured and killed in the name of
religion. Taseer unequivocally supported the marginalized segment of the
society in the land of suppressors, killers and religious lunatics. He
veraciously spoke against the blasphemy laws, the draconian laws introduced by
the most corrupt and sick mind of Pakistan, the military dictator Gen. Zia.
Taseer was killed in the
dark paths of the ideological state. His killer was garlanded with flowers year
back and a day has been dedicated to the killer today. The killer is perceived today
a ‘Savior of faith and savior of religion’ by orthodox minds of the society.
Pages were created and
dedicated to the killer on Facebook and other social media networks to applaud
his services to religion.
Most urban middle
class educated youth and lawyers attended the protests in his favor. The court
kicked off the petition against him and today he enjoys every facility in the
jail he is kept in.
After one year, when the
secular people of Pakistan (very less in number) are remembering Salman Taseer
for his enlightened vision, the orthodox religious clergies and lunatics (much
more in number) are rallying in favor of his killer. To add more vigor among
the audiences, the little kid of Mumtaz Qadri, the killer of Slaman Taseer is
being portrayed as the son of religious hero in the circle of
brainwashed mobs. The impact of such acts can easily be anticipated. Our
society will sink more deeply to the hands of religious bigots.
Taseer lost his life for
a cause – to obliterate and reform blasphemy laws, often used in Pakistan to
avenge one’s own personal grudges in the name of Islam. Every man can easily
turn to a serial killer if such laws are not removed. But the silence of
liberals and secular people and even the Party whom Taseer was representing on
the blasphemy laws is a matter of concern. Judging through this way seems that
Taseer was killed in vain. Nothing can be done. Nothing can be change.
The strategic depth of
the state is lastly turning to be a strategic death and the coming days will
bring more chaos in the land if people like Taseer are forgotten and his legacy
is not carried forward to our next generations.
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