An Eye Opening Article

This article is for "millions of those Pakistanis" who have their hearts ruled by political leaders like Altaf Hussain. I personally have no grievances against MQM be it Muttahida or Muhajir. Being a Karachiite myself, I personally believe that all ethnicities have complete right of representing themselves thereby fostering an environment of healthy competition by competing with each other on positive grounds. I appreciate the cause for which this party (MQM) was created and I would still favor that cause. Karachi generates 70% revenue of the country and people living there should have a fair representation in Provincial /National Assembly accordingly.

My concerns with Aftaf started not because of any ethnic cause. Most of us have a very short memory. I can easily say that nobody knows what I am going to tell today. It was the time of early 90's (just before Altaf flee to UK), I was though very young but my parents developed a habit in me to read a page of newspaper every day for them. This is the time when a child needs answers of every thing and if he/ she doesn't get a satisfactory reply then his/ her mind strive to get the information from all possible sources such that the issue gets a perminant place in his/ her brain. I remember once I read in the newspaper, "An image of Altaf Hussain appeared on a leaf of Croton (a plant) by itself". I couldn't understand. I enquired my parents about that news? As my mother listened to the news, a mixed feeling of astonishment and infuriation appeared over her face. "This isn't possible", she replied. "It is pure lie which could have many purposes. She tried to explain it in simple words to make it intelligible for me. It can be that he wants to gain overnight fame or it can be the case that at a later stage, he will claim himself to be a Prophet or a saintly person". "But does he not fear God then ", I asked. Perhaps not. God knows. She wrapped up the topic and dropped the discussion.

Some days later, another similar news appeared and this time also, it was the headline. "Image of Altaf Hussain appeared on a rock of a mosque". People were praising Mr. A like anything. I again referred to my parents. My mother explained that there is no Prophet or Saint whose image can be appeared. In fact, Islam prohibits depiction of humans, animals, or any form of figurative subjects. We all were shocked how a top newspaper was disseminating such baseless information which were purely coinciding with Islam.

I still cannot forget or forgive this. I wonder in which form Altaf is ruling over the hearts of people? This is a claim made by a friend of mine who is asking me to apologize over my last blog. I just made a mockery of his speech style. He is not a prophet (nazobillah) whose respect is incumbent on me. I have a question with those having their hearts a dwelling for Altaf? Do they consider him a god or a prophet or a saint?

I have a question from all educated people and educated not in terms of holding this many degrees and this many diplomas, but educated in their mind; Do you not reckon that this was a malicious plea made by so called leader of our highly educated ethnicity? Don't you think that he was planning to announce his false prophecy? Why do we forget the history? There are many many other allegations against Altaf, but media doesn't highlight his past which has a dust of "Kufr" over it. In fact, media played a very negative role at that time by spreading this flimsy and unscropulous information in the public. Every body should be afraid of standing in front of Allah at the day of Judgment, and particularly those who blindly trusted this piece of ---.

Now I want to tell a very interesting fact that took place soon after these two news. Operation 92 took place and Altaf had to flee from Pakistan. Because of making such false claim, Allah removed him from that land where altaf was seeing himself as god and it has been 19 years so far, he never got a chance to come back. Even though his party remained in government through out, but due to his false claims, he was plucked from the roots and I am sure he will never get a chance to return. Mighty is Allah and Has all the powers.

I would stand by my words in my last blog and at no price, I am going to apologize. This is the least I can do being a Muslim! Thank you all for making this article to an end (I know its hard to read or listen about Altaf).

Lets have some fun

I am back after a very long time. During this time, two important events happened in my life. First of all, I graduated from Tilburg University on September 6, 2010 and second one which in fact happened six days before my graduation; and it is my new job in Technical University Eindhoven as a Doctoral Candidate from September 1, 2010. I am very thankful to Almighty who has blessed me with His endless bounties and I pray that may all of you  also see your dreams coming true soon. Amen. 

As per the title of my blog, I am going to tell you about some fun related thing. It is because our nation really needs some fun. Since July 28, 2010 when a private plane crash happened near Margalla Hills, so many dreadful events happened proceeded serially in a very designed manner, one after the other such that the whole nation is wretched with pain, praying to get rid of all the calamities following our nation. We all got so busy in fighting against the natural calamities and man made desasters that now we don't know what happened to the plane. The last news I got was that the black box was found. What happened after that, I dont know. If somebody knows about further investigation, please let me know.

Oops i diverted from the fun thingy, which fun I am talking about. Let me tell you how I keep myself happy and light. Sometimes, when I feel lonely in the breezy Autumn or cold snowy nights of winters, I switch my laptop on, type the URL http://www.youtube.com/ and then search for ALTAF HUSSAIN's clips. Yes the one who is leading MQM since 1984 and will remain the leader for an unforceable time period. Don't get bewildered after reading this. If you never experienced this fun, I would highly recommend you to watch it and decide yourself. Can any best comedian ever beat our Altaf. I claim "NO". I don't why Imran Khan says, "I feel pity on those people and wonder why they go and listen to his speeches"? At least he brings smile on your face and make your happy. Imran Khan, the people who go to listen to his speeches are in search of fun which is available for free. You want to take this single piece of fun from the lives of Karachiites. Please don't do that. So Mr. Imran Khan leave us alone as we will never give up this costless opportunity of laughter from our lives. I have a recommendation for you Mr. Khan to at least watch "Punjab ko Salam" and get some laughters also in your life.
Well, please just don't stop reading my blog now. My blog is not to recommend this. It wanted to make my blog a little sweet & sour by adding some political spices in it. I have a fun game to share with you. Yesterday I was in a session about Social Networks. The lecturer was explaining some kinds of social networks and he asked a question! Do you know how short is the path length of a Social Network now? If you don't believe, then let us look at an Actor naming Kevin Bacon and let us find his connection with any actor in the world. Suddenly he shifted the question to me, tell me the name of any Pakistani Actor. I was astonished for a while just because I could not bring any Pakistani Actor in my mind. Does any Pakistani Actor know Acting...???? hey don't get emotional, i am just joking. He asked me 3 time "Any Pakistani Actor??? No one .... and suddenly a name popped up in my mind, I replied, okay I know an Actor, "Shan". How do you spell it, he asked. I spelled it. S-H-A-N. He put the name into a field. I saw the Web Page, the title was "The Oracle of Bacon" with URL: http://www.oracleofbacon.org/ The Professor then asked the whole class if they knew this actor. Every body replied in negation. By that time, he had typed the name. As he pressed ENTER, it showed Shan's connection with Kevin Becon. This isn't correct, may be its some other Shan, I said in my heart. Professor asked me if this is the same actor, and said the connection loudly:

ShaanII= was in => Khuda ke Lia (2007) = with => Jocelyn Wesler = was in => Death of a President(2006)=with => Gerry Becker = was in => Sleepers (1996) ==>Kevin Becon.

To my surprise, he was the same Shan that I referred to. I nodded surprisingly. Pupils were smiling. Every body then got a courage to take the names of their local actors/ actresses and there was a connection. It was amazing that no single connection was longer than three nodes. I was then desperately waiting the class to end as I wanted to check out this fun game myself. Professor further explained, there is nothing important about Kevin Becon. He stands on number 507 in the list of people who have a highly built-up network (those who have worked with most actors/ actresses). It is the beauty of Social Networks that beautify Kevin Becon and others like him. As I reached home, I started to investigate this magical networked world myself. I put all the names of actors/ actresses I knew and they had a connection with Kevin Becon. Even unknown or local (punjabi, pushto movie) actors/ actresses had a link with Kevin. I enjoyed it a lot. After exploring this phenomena of networks, the old axiom stroke my mind that the world is really very small. Yes it is. I hope you will also enjoy exploring the small world as I did. Have a nice weekend. Bye for now.