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.
Sunday, October 2, 2011
Mixed Thoughts.
The human aspect of
development has always aliened man from his surrounding, his social
responsibilities. More individualistic has he become amid personal development.
The ethical sense of him has vanished and so the sense of social
responsibilities.
Gone are the days when
man was ready to initiate social change. Idealists are gradually decreasing in
number. Sense of greed is taking over sense of service and volunteerism seems
to many a wastage of time.
People supposed to serve
people are serving their own cults and interests. Focus has shifted to
accumulate more and more wealth and power. Society has largely engulfed its
middle class. Every year, either poor turns to be more poor and rich more
richer.
God is used to terrorize
people. Curriculum is taught to spread more hatred on the base of color, creed,
language and sects. Space for diversity is shrinking. Those propagating
pluralism and diversity are labelled as atheists and sick-minded
individuals. The society has failed to value pluralism and diversity.
A nation afraid of its
minority identity prior to independence is coaxing its citizen belonging to
minority sects after becoming a majority in their independent state. Constitution
of the country prohibits any Christian, Hindu, Buddhist and Sikh to hold key
government posts. Those high up posts are allocated for Muslims only.
Every day papers are
filled with stories of gang rapes, bodies burnt by putting acid on, killing in the
name of honor. Poor Christians are put under bars in blasphemy cases, poor
Hindus are discriminated in aid distribution during flood crisis. Hazaras of
Baluchistan are lined up and shouted in front of their children and women.
People are picked up from their homes without any search warrants. Mosques have
become a place to spread hatred and preach bigotry. Religious leaders publicly
ask people to kill apostates. Many states within states are functioning for
establishing their own laws. Economy is reeling back. Unemployment is
increasing. Universities leak the exam papers and it has become a major source
of earning for academic intellectuals.
Judging Pakistan and
analyzing its future is not an easy task. Any analyst, expert, activists can
never understand this country and there is reason to not believe what they say
or consider authentic. Pakistan is indeed a hard country; understanding of this
country needs much more sensitivity and focused thinking, which seems to be
impossibility in a country where inequality runs in every soul.
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