Dutch politician Geert Wilders' anti-Muslim short film "Fitna" has been placed online amid an uproar from muslims all over the world, The video shows passages from Quran and graphic images of terror attacks. The video was supposed to be releaed in a press conference which was cancelled due to security fears. It is now hosted on liveleaks.com in both english and dutch (youtube had only dutch but loads faster) . The Dutch government is having meetings to discuss the impact of the film and surely there will be an impact once more people around the world find out about the release.
Link to Video I have provided a link for educational purposes, unreasonable comments will be deleted.
Haal ab tak wahi hain ghareeboan kay, Din phiray hain faqat waziroan kay,her Bilawal hai Dais ka maqrooz,paoon nangay hain Benazeeroan kay.
Friday, March 28, 2008
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
Living our dreams
I have been around the world and met a lot of people from all walks of life, all over the world and I have come to a realization, most people simply dream their dreams, very few actually work to turn them into a reality, and a time comes when we lose touch with our dreams or feel that our dreams are impossible and once we do that we resign to fate and start living a life thats just ok instead of one that we might love.
Saturday, March 22, 2008
Politics or Family Business ?
Although Pakistan can still be considered a young country, and people can and do claim that we need some time to adopt a true democratic system which will take everything into account and be perfect for the betternment of the country, Pakistan has yet to take a single step on the highway of democracy.
In its short 60 year history, Pakistan has been ruled by either the strong military or one of the few ruling families who control Pakistan's few political parties. How can these political parties claim that they are the beacons of democracy when the parties themselves have no democatic principles guiding them. Out of Pakistan's 3 biggest political parties, Pakistan Peoples Party, Pakistan Muslim League and MQM, 2 (PPP, PML) are directly controlled by 2 families with no room for anyone else to take the helms and the 3rd MQM is in the firm grip of Altaf Hussain who sits in exile in the UK and yet can get his popular party leaders in Pakistan to follow his every command.
Pakistan People's Part is in the lime light these days since the assasination of Benazir Bhutto, the "Life Time Chairperson" of what she claimed to be the biggest democratic force of the country. On her death the helms of the party that she inhetreted from her father did not go to one of the loyal party leaders who guided the part while Benazir and her familyy were in self imposed exile in the UAE. The leadership of the Party was "willed" to her 18 year old son. What kind of a democracy is this? In a swift and well planned political move her son was "renamed" Bhutto and made the co-chairperson of the Party to take command after his education was completed, in the mean time her husband Asif Ali Zardari also known as Mr 10% (on account of his taking hugs kickbacks while his wife was the Prime Minister) was to be at the helm of affairs. These types of politics will never lead to a democratic country. There is a power struggle going on within the PPP which can turn bad and derail the whole political senario in the country and no matter how much Mr Zardari uses the sympathy card if he continues with his stupidities he will ultimately suffer. There was a news item in Pakistan today that Bilawal "Bhutto" Zardari the son of Benazir has just arrived in Pakistan to announce the choice of PM in the new Government, lets hope its a wise choice and doesn't lead to disintegration of the democratic process. Family run politics have to give way to a true and realistic democracy within parties before democracy can be established on a wider scale.
In its short 60 year history, Pakistan has been ruled by either the strong military or one of the few ruling families who control Pakistan's few political parties. How can these political parties claim that they are the beacons of democracy when the parties themselves have no democatic principles guiding them. Out of Pakistan's 3 biggest political parties, Pakistan Peoples Party, Pakistan Muslim League and MQM, 2 (PPP, PML) are directly controlled by 2 families with no room for anyone else to take the helms and the 3rd MQM is in the firm grip of Altaf Hussain who sits in exile in the UK and yet can get his popular party leaders in Pakistan to follow his every command.
Pakistan People's Part is in the lime light these days since the assasination of Benazir Bhutto, the "Life Time Chairperson" of what she claimed to be the biggest democratic force of the country. On her death the helms of the party that she inhetreted from her father did not go to one of the loyal party leaders who guided the part while Benazir and her familyy were in self imposed exile in the UAE. The leadership of the Party was "willed" to her 18 year old son. What kind of a democracy is this? In a swift and well planned political move her son was "renamed" Bhutto and made the co-chairperson of the Party to take command after his education was completed, in the mean time her husband Asif Ali Zardari also known as Mr 10% (on account of his taking hugs kickbacks while his wife was the Prime Minister) was to be at the helm of affairs. These types of politics will never lead to a democratic country. There is a power struggle going on within the PPP which can turn bad and derail the whole political senario in the country and no matter how much Mr Zardari uses the sympathy card if he continues with his stupidities he will ultimately suffer. There was a news item in Pakistan today that Bilawal "Bhutto" Zardari the son of Benazir has just arrived in Pakistan to announce the choice of PM in the new Government, lets hope its a wise choice and doesn't lead to disintegration of the democratic process. Family run politics have to give way to a true and realistic democracy within parties before democracy can be established on a wider scale.
Sunday, March 16, 2008
"Tears" - Another Bomb Blast
This is the third consecutive blogpost I have done and all three have had a mention of a suicide bomber or a blast. Enough is enough. This is getting ridiculous, with no claims of the atrocities by any terror group, no specific targets, this is just being done to induce a sense of terror in the general mases, innocent lives are being lost, we can only hope for a safer tomorrow, may God bless the departed and put some sense excuse my language into the impotent bastards targeting innocent civilians.
The heart consumes I clearly see
Every fiber of my soul and me
That’s when the pain begins to grow
And yes the tears begin to flow.
The heart consumes I clearly see
Every fiber of my soul and me
That’s when the pain begins to grow
And yes the tears begin to flow.
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
Weekend on the farm and More blasts
This weekend I figured getting away from the city might be a good idea, It turned out to be quite a lot of fun and some relaxation, came back last night and went to sleep late. This morning i woke up to the news of three suicide blasts in Lahore, 2 bombers struck the office of the FIA and 1 a school in a residential neighborhood of Lahore, over 25 dead and hundreds injured. Now I'm thinking maybe living in Pakistan is not that good an idea, but afterall people are living here and if everyone "runs" away how will things change, I came here fo a reason, I have a worst case senario backup, so what the heck, have faith in God and keep at it. Some pictures from the farm and Sialkot are posted below.
Update: There were apparently 3 explosions in the FIA building, the dead include several innocent children.
Update: The suicide attack in the residential area of model town was not at a school but rather at an advertising agency.
Update: There were apparently 3 explosions in the FIA building, the dead include several innocent children.
Update: The suicide attack in the residential area of model town was not at a school but rather at an advertising agency.
A Field of Mustard on the Farm
Endless fields of wheat
Standing in the Guava Orchid
Wild flowers
Holy Trinity Cathedral Sialkot
Wednesday, March 05, 2008
Another Suicide Bombing
After the recent suicide bombings in Rawalpindi and NWFP, a couple of suicide bombers struck closer to home today. Blowing themselves up at the Naval War College in Lahore. Seems like there is no end to this, not in too much of a mood to blog about it right now but I'm really getting sick of it.
Tuesday, March 04, 2008
Bilawal Bhutto needs help, Anyone?
Of all the email scams to hit me this one was by the far the funniest.
From: "Mr. Bilawal Bhutto" mr.silva07@yahoo.fr
Dear Sir/MadamMy name is Bilawal Bhutto the son of Benazir Bhutto who was murdered inPakistan by the present Pakistan Government on Thursday, 27 December 2007,Ms Bhutto was leaving a rally of her Pakistan People's Party(PPP)supporters in a park in the garrison town of Rawalpindi whenattackers Opened fire. Then a bomb was set off by the same attacker whichleft my mother dead and some 20 other people. You can find details of thekilling of my mother on this website below:-
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6653475.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/2228796.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7165892.stm
Life has become unbearable since she was shot dead. Since then, my familyand I have been Living with shock and uncertainties, the Government ofMusharaff has made life difficult for us by ensuring that we are notdisposed to our finances and other properties that is owned by my motherand this has made life difficult for us. Just before my mother died shecalled my attention to the money she deposited in foreign account andcharged me to look for a foreigner who would assist me in the retrievingof the funds abroad which she wanted to use for the election, So l wouldbe very grateful if you could accept to help me achieve this greatobjective. For now, let all our communication is by e-mail because my lineis right now connected to the Pakistan Telecommunication Network services.I will give you details after I have received a response from you. Pleaseget back to me via this email bbhutto@jmail.co.za
Thank you very much.
Bilawal Bhutto
From: "Mr. Bilawal Bhutto" mr.silva07@yahoo.fr
Dear Sir/MadamMy name is Bilawal Bhutto the son of Benazir Bhutto who was murdered inPakistan by the present Pakistan Government on Thursday, 27 December 2007,Ms Bhutto was leaving a rally of her Pakistan People's Party(PPP)supporters in a park in the garrison town of Rawalpindi whenattackers Opened fire. Then a bomb was set off by the same attacker whichleft my mother dead and some 20 other people. You can find details of thekilling of my mother on this website below:-
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6653475.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/2228796.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7165892.stm
Life has become unbearable since she was shot dead. Since then, my familyand I have been Living with shock and uncertainties, the Government ofMusharaff has made life difficult for us by ensuring that we are notdisposed to our finances and other properties that is owned by my motherand this has made life difficult for us. Just before my mother died shecalled my attention to the money she deposited in foreign account andcharged me to look for a foreigner who would assist me in the retrievingof the funds abroad which she wanted to use for the election, So l wouldbe very grateful if you could accept to help me achieve this greatobjective. For now, let all our communication is by e-mail because my lineis right now connected to the Pakistan Telecommunication Network services.I will give you details after I have received a response from you. Pleaseget back to me via this email bbhutto@jmail.co.za
Thank you very much.
Bilawal Bhutto
Saturday, March 01, 2008
Blogspot Blocked Again?
Is is possible that the government of Pakistan or individual ISP's have blocked blogger again? since late last night I have been unable to access any blogger website. I have had no problems with othe sites, in the evening I called my ISP which is Wateen and they claimed there was nothing wrong fom "their side", just now I tried another blogspot website which has a non blogger domain forward on it and it opened, tried opening blogger sites through https tunneling and they seem to be working, its just when its a blogspot domain in the url they dont work, anyone else having the same poblems please let me know?
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