The vitality of ‘HOPE’ to our National Integrity

Don’t be hopeless my dear people, the storms will soon be over and our valleys green again, however we shall not forget how hard our enemies hit us, and how hard it was to bear the global harassment and discrimination of every form. If we are the children of our land and we do believe in ourselves we will realize our ideology we will not only recover from the trauma of statuesque but will give back in return peace, prosperity and hope to the falling nations of the world as our ancestors did. We always had great chances of success than failure, we just kept on taking our chance….it’s time to change now!

Suleman Hadi

Why Is India So Scared?

Since 14th of August 1947 India is playing every of its card to somehow come up as a Regional Power either by proving that it is much more powerful than Pakistan, the sole Nuclear Islamic Power, or boosting about its defence and economic capabilities to shoulder itself with China. However in its overall propaganda against Islamabad and its weak campaign  to deter Beijing and confine its influence in South Asia and Fareast every move that India had made had propagated a message of hatred, power hunger, and its fear of the past experiences of failures and self intoxication. All this can be seen not only in the speeches of Indian Prime Ministers and other public figures but has also been woven in its electronic media, entertainment and film industry financed and supported by Hindu radical organisations. Been scared India on the front shows its deterrence capabilities but behind the scene is mourning the interstate war on resources, liberation movements, and freedom movements which are further worsen by the level of poverty and ignorance prevailing across most of the country.

The article will be published in detail soon. Thanks for reading.

 further read ”Pakistan thus won the war without firing a single shot. Now Bharat is going to put more emphasis on covert actions–stuff that RAW is already doing in Baluchistan and FATA” by  Moin Ansari

گلزار ہست و بود نہ بيگانہ وار ديکھ

 

گلزار ہست و بود نہ بيگانہ وار ديکھ

 ہے ديکھنے کي چيز اسے بار بار ديکھ

 آيا ہے تو جہاں ميں مثال شرار ديکھ

 دم دے نہ جائے ہستي ناپائدار ديکھ

مانا کہ تيري ديد کے قابل نہيں ہوں ميں

 تو ميرا شوق ديکھ، مرا انتظار ديکھ

کھولي ہيں ذوق ديد نے آنکھيں تري اگر

ہر رہ گزر ميں نقش کف پائے يار ديکھ

The withdrawal of NATO Forces from Afghanistan is in US benifit

The failure has been witnessed since the very first entrance of the NATO forces in Afghanistan in the form of Civilian Massacres, high collateral damage, and the current situation in the northern areas of Pakistan, which is feared to worsen further after the arrival of more US troops. After witnessing human loss on such a large scale in both the neighboring countries, the failure of the armed campaign, and the current suicidal attacks on every day bases, most of the influential think tanks, famous public figures, policy makers and military strategist suggest only one solution to the troubled region of South Asia, “The withdrawal of NATO forces from Afghanistan”.

For further inquiry read;

Senator says Afghan forces, not US, key to success

Alliance rejects UN peace force

UN peace force to deploy out of Kabul

UK troops to lead interim peace-keeping force in Afghanistan

The establishment of United Nations political and humanitarian offices in Afghanistan did not mean the recognition of Northern Alliance as the new rulers.

Peace force delayed by Alliance objections

by Suleman Hadi

The illegality of drones

By Dr Tariq Hassan

 

“The US does not have any legal right to launch missile attacks on Pakistan through drones or otherwise. Under international law, it is only entitled to self-defence pursuant to Article 51 of the UN Charter which preserves ‘the inherent right of individual or collective self-defence if an armed attack occurs against a member of the United Nations’. This limited use of force under Article 51 is an exception to the general prohibition prescribed by Article 2(4) of the UN Charter.”

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Working with Clarks Kensington

2. Rumi and spiritual verses

3. Brazinsky & the Grand Chess Board

Not A War For America’s Pakistani Apologists

“This is exactly the profile of LTTE terrorists, UNITA rebels and other shadowy militias that litter the Cold War history. The emergence of these new Pakistani warlords over the past four years in Swat and the tribal belt, flush with money and weapons, recruiting the innocent using Islam and Pashtun identity, is part of a wider problem. It is not just ‘Talibanization’ as U.S. officials and some of their Pakistani apologists are claiming. “

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By Ahmed Quraishi

Monday 18 May 2009.

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Swat Crises & Media

When you switch on the TV and watch any channel, Pakistani in particular, you will notice one common propaganda “Islamic Law in Swat” and the “Writ of the Government”.  The media is trying its level best to keep the common public confuse about different terminologies and thus creating and promoting uncertainty. If you switch on to PTV, you will find that there is a national consensus on the issue, and all parties agree on “Operation Rahe Haq”, and the most important that Army has gain control on the strategic locations in the region covered by this operation. However if you switch on to any other cable TV channel which fortunately only some people can afford to watch, you find that though the Government and the Army is achieving progress yet at a very big cost of IDPs, poor planning and risk evaluations. Further we are shown that some of the religious parties are not supporting this operation but are totally against it. Suddenly you see an appeal for aid for the IDPs, the complaints of displaced people about the poor arrangements for them, and clips of talk shows saying that the people of Swat are not complaining about the Taliban but about the security forces that worsen the condition in Swat, however on the other side the same channel is condemning Taliban on the issue of beheading people, and killing the influential people in Swat. Similarly we hear the Government welcoming foreign aid from various western allies, however keeping the conditions behind such bills hidden and undiscussed.In short we notice a considerable confusion among all the circles.

To be continued…

Together We can Make it Possible

Let us support each other, be unite, and work together for our nation and Muslim Ummah.

May Allah bring peace back to our country

 

JF-17 Thunder Great achievement by Pakistan and China

By MOIN ANSARI

 

“ After the 1965 war the U.S. placed an arms embargo on Pakistan. Despite being a founding member of SEATO and CENTO, Islamabad faced the American sanctions. During the 1971 war Pakistan was under another American arms embargo. During the 1990s, after winning the cold war for the USA, Pakistan was under U.S. sanctions and an arms embargo…”

“…This success story of developing and manufacturing advanced weapons in Pakistan is not limited to the JF-17 Thunder. The Nuclear bomb, the missiles and the tanks were all produced in record time, considering that Pakistan had only one dysfunctional Textile Mill, one dilapidated University, and one archaic Jute Mill in 1947. No other country has come so far in defense production in such a short period of time…”

“…The new plane has exclusively been designed for Pakistani needs–deep penetration into India.”

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PAKISTAN ZINDABAD

Terror, Neglect Keep Pakistan’s Beauty Hidden

By David Brunnstrom

Chitral: It’s 6:15 a.m. at Peshawar airport and a clerk is using a large screwdriver to pry the padlock off the door of the booking office of Pakistan International Airlines. When he is finally behind his counter, there are less than 40 minutes to go before the departure of the PIA flight to the picturesque mountain town of Chitral. He can sell tickets for the journey but can’t guarantee seats, or whether the flight will even take off, and money can’t be refunded until the next day. The alternative to 45 minutes in the air is a tortuous 16-hour Jeep climb over spectacular but dangerous mountain roads. Such snags are not the only reason that Chitral, a region so beautiful it should be one of the world’s premier tourist destinations, received only 88 foreign tourists in the first six months of this year. Pakistan is a country tourists have been advised to steer well clear of after a series of bloody attacks on Western targets last year following the launch of the US-led war on terror in neighboring Afghanistan. Chitral is also in Northwest Frontier Province, where the local government is accused of trying to emulate the fundamentalist policies of Afghanistan’s former Taliban regime. If that wasn’t enough, on Pakistan’s eastern border is India, a nuclear-armed rival with which it went to the brink of a fourth war last year. Pakistan’s tourism industry was suffering from neglect and external shocks even before the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States put it in the frontline of the war on terror. TOURISTS ORDERED OUT: In 1998, tourists were ordered out of Chitral for their own safety after Washington launched missile strikes on southeast Afghanistan in response to al Qaeda attacks on its embassies in East Africa. Haider Ali Shah runs the Mountain Inn in Chitral, which opened in 1968 when most of the visitors were hashish-happy hippies on the overland trail from Europe to Asia. He said tourists had started to trickle back before Sept. 11. “But since then we have had virtually none at all and those we do get are foreigners working in Islamabad.” Sitting on a wicker chair in the hotel’s exquisitely tended garden, he explains that each night only three or four of the 26 surrounding rooms are occupied. “We don’t make money, but we have this property and we have to look after it,” he said. “We have to stay in this business in the hope that it will get better again.” In the background, a hotel employee nods politely to a monologue from a solitary foreign tourist about how important travel is to bringing cultures together and how this should be understood by the likes of British Prime Minister Tony Blair and President Bush. Shah says he has had to let some staff go, but other businesses have been worse affected. Many villagers relied on trekking groups for their income, working as guides, porters, drivers, or in restaurants frequented by foreigners. Now the only alternative to scratching a living through subsistence farming is to leave the crystal clear air of the mountains and search for work in the smog of cities like Karachi. Capt. Siraj Ulmulk, a former chief pilot at PIA who owns and runs the Hindu Kush Heights, a hotel with a spectacular view of the Chitral valley, said many in the town had been angered by blanket warnings not to travel to Pakistan. “WRONG ADVICE”: “It’s the wrong advice, because Chitral is absolutely peaceful. There’s nothing wrong here — the police have nothing to do,” he said. While he understands governments have to play safe, he has witnessed embarrassing moments when diplomats whose embassies had put out travel warnings ran into compatriots at his hotel. Another troubled by the travel advisories is British movie comic turned adventure traveler Michael Palin, who was filming the first program in a new series in Chitral in July. “I think it is as safe here in Pakistan as you are in London in many ways,” he said. “Obviously you have to take precautions if you go to certain areas, but as far as we are concerned, we have had nothing but help and cooperation.” Palin said he was struck by the great hospitality, an important tradition in Muslim countries, and those who stayed away were missing out. “The mountains are absolutely extraordinary. This is the most striking and tremendous mountain scenery I think I have ever seen in my life.” Siraj said Palin could help put the region back on the map. Indeed, British travel agents refer to a “Palin effect,” which takes the form of a surge in bookings for holidays in remote regions he has visited in his hugely popular travelogues. Shah said he thought it would be at least three years before any sort of recovery in the local industry, and in the meantime, the Chitralis have been in discussions with Central Asian tour operators with a view to linking up programs. Siraj said there were reasons to be hopeful, with the government at last investing in road upgrades and promising yet again to restart work on a tunnel that would lop hours off the journey to Islamabad. “Once global conditions improve, things will definitely start to happen here in tourism,” he said.

A courtesy of Pakistan Link- Letter & Opinion

 

 

 

Glorious Pakistan Launched

In the past several years, Pakistan has made its way into the global spotlight albeit for all the wrong reasons. Unfortunately this new image of Pakistan has desensitized the world to everything that is good about this nation.

It is with this thought that we bring to you Glorious Pakistan, a platform to share with you all the things that are good and positive about our nation.

Our aim is to showcase all the goodness of Pakistan, from its rich culture to its inherent beauty and to try to bring a new perspective into the way this country is viewed globally.   

 

Coming up next…

• working towards a glorious Pakistan
• our current need Education
• how can we contribute?

BrassTacks Policy Paper – Neo-cons’ map for destroying, Russia, China & Pakistan; Still alive

by Farzana Shah

BrassTacks Policy Paper on Neo-con game against Pakistan. The paper contains some stunning information and facts about who is creating and sponsoring terror in the country. To read the paper click here.

A Tribute to My Grandfather

 It has been a year now since I lost, my best coach, my best friend, my roommate, my mosque mate, my friend in current affairs, my friend in Salath, my friend in every that thing which were a benefit to my career, my religious life, my personality, my development, my success, my joys my happiness, my laughter and my tears; and my that friend was my dear grandfather.

Some time one doesn’t even believe that some thing is missing, you wish to deny the fact that it had occurred; you console yourself that every thing is as they were and nothing has changed; and you beg inside that may it be a bad dream so that you can turn back and say, ‘you lairs, it had never happened.’

I was on District Line Train, on my way back from school, that suddenly I heard my mobile phone receiving a text message, while the train came out of tunnel. I searched my self, located my phone, and pressed ‘read message’. It was from my uncle saying that our Baba has passed away; ‘wait…wait’, our Baba has passed away and that he himself is at the airport boarding a plane back home. I was sitting among my friends, Bilal on left, Yasir on the right and Kashif on the front seats. Every thing was normal; every one lost in their own worlds and I was in mine; people laughing, chatting, sleeping, sitting, standing, getting off the train, boarding the train, making gestures, but I wasn’t normal, I felt pain in my stomach, the muscle of my face drew hard, and I started feeling a headache, shook  my head in disbelief, read the text again and again, as if I were dreaming. The noise from the running train was normal, but it was distracting me, though reluctantly, however I wanted to concentrate, to make sure I haven’t read it wrong. I had suffered this trauma for a quarter,

Humble Answers to Mehmud Madani

 

Though I am just a student, and as I have already confessed my political views or religious views may be immature, yet I will really like to share the answers that I would have given to Maulana Mehmud Madani, who is considered the leader of Jamat-e-Ulamie Hind. Mr. Pervez Musharraf though satisfied his questions in a very diplomatic way, neither allowing nor encouraging any strict comments. The main purpose of the post is to express my views to gain an insight in the Global Politics, with a special interest in the Geo Strategic Importance of Pakistan in the world as whole, and in South Asia and the Muslim World in specific.
Maulana Mehmud Madani starts with a sarcastic comment showing disrespect to a Pakistani and Muslim Leader who is widely respected for his understanding of the issues in the Muslim world. Some of my friends will not agree with the word leader that I have used for our ex-president, however the term is deliberately used for the people who understand; the geo strategic positioning of Pakistan; our national and global interest; the era of oil politics; the middle east crises; the role he played in his first five years, and the role he played during the Muslim league Quid-Azam Group era. In general Mr. Mehmud Madani is not considered as expert as Mr. President in Global Politics. I presume the Indian administration may even keep him at an arm distance while handling certain strategic issues. The whole question drama that Mr. Mehmud Madani framed was to gain Hindu support in the coming elections. I will be proving Mehmud Madanies concerns as malicious in the scenario under discussion.
Mr. Mehmud Madani provides for a nationalistic view, according to him Pakistani leader should keep their views to themselves and they don’t have to think about the Muslims in India and the rest of the world. While Islam doesn’t support nationalist view; in Islam the world Ummah is used instead of the world nation; and Ummah has no boundaries.
Further Mehmud Madani in his pursuit for support in the coming elections presents a count of Muslims in India and Pakistan and its comparison. According to Mehmud Madani there are more Muslims in India than Pakistan and they know how to seek solution to their problems. I personally presume that Mehmud Madani is forgetting the One Body concept of Muslim Ummah; its not that a certain number may find solution to their problems; in Islam every Muslim is responsible for the prosperity of the whole Ummah in specific and humanity in general. Mehmud Madani is trying to define the Muslims in Pakistan and India as two separate bodies; considering the physical boundaries between India and Pakistan. Here I failed to grasp that how can such an establish and learned Muslim say that while he know the Hadith of the Prophet (SAW);

Coming Up Next

1.        A tribute to my Grandfather.

2.       Where is our pride?

3.       Assertiveness

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The cry of the current time……….

Condemning Injustices in Swat

We strongly condemn the assassination of Late Journalist Moosa Khan Khel. We salute all those journalists of Swat who are struggling for a cause and those who scarified their lives but didn’t let the truth to be suppressed. They will always live in our hearts.

 I believe that those responsible will never be successful in achieving their illegitimate, and malicious objectives.

“And the rule of justice (haq) arrived and will prevail, while the (elements) injustice will flee; and indeed it is injustice that always runs off ’’ (al Qura’an)

 

Humble Regards

Imran Iqbal

Independant Journalist

Abu Dhabi U.A.E

 

News: More photos added

I have added some more photos to Pages, Memories, and Me. It was just a try to make things more impressive. I am trying to develop a better photo gallery that might take some time. Thanks for visiting.

 

Suleman Hadi

Akhlaqiyaat/ The Islamic Moral

well, I am very much aware of the fact that I am taking very much time to draft this post. There are certain issues that one faces while  writing on a subject concerning ways of life. I need to look in good books, so that I communicate my message in a rational way that can easily be grasped. I hope my reader will give me some time. Well not that much, InshAllah hope fully you will read it this weekend.

Kind regards

Suleman hadi