By Dr. Meher Zaidi.
Ramzan comes with good news for all the Muslims to renew and re-pledge their commitment to humanity and to do good deeds. The ritual of fasting inculcates a discipline in the self to look at the rights of other fellow human beings and come out of the ego-centric self. The supreme form of worship of Allah is to give everything to fellow human beings in order to please Him.The Prophet of Islam (May peace and blessings be on him forever) made exemplary his life by showing simple deeds like charity and eating less and wearing simple things.His daily use things were simple and when he died he left a straw mat for a bed and needle and thread with which he repaired his patched clothes. The impact he made on humanity was greatest by his exemplary character of which the most outstanding aspect was his love and caring for humanity and tolerance. The Quran says of the people who are true believers that "Those who give whatever they give while their hearts are fearful because they will be returning to their Lord" (Surah Al-Muminun) and "It is those who hasten to do good deeds, and they outstrip(others) therein' (Surah Al-Muminun).
This Ramzan please donate generously to the good causes and organizations in Pakistan who are helping millions of deserving people. Some I list here:
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THIS ORGANIZATION HAS A LARGE NETWORK OF AMBULANCES AND OTHER HEALTH AND EMERGENCY ACTIVITIES. THEY HAVE HELPED THE VIOLENCE AND FLOOD VICTIMS ALSO. THEY ARE IN DIRE NEED OF AMBULANCES AS THEY EXPAND THEIR AREA OF COVERAGE.DONATE GENEROUSLY TO HELP THEM ACHIEVE THEIR HUMANITARIAN NEEDS GOALS.
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PLS AC No: 3400-6,NORTH NAZIMABAD BRANCH, KARACHI.
BANK AL-HABIB LTD.,NATIONWIDE AC No: 1100-0081-000444-01-7 HELPING CHILDREN DISABLED BY DOWN"S SYNDROME AND MENTAL RETARDATION SINCE 1960.
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EMAIL: baitulsukoon@hotmail.com WWW.BAITULSUKOON.ORG DONATE GENEROUSLY TO THIS MUCH NEEDED ORGANIZATION.
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BINTE FATIMA OLD HOME TRUST, KARACHI,PAKISTAN. WWW.BFOLDHOME.ORG.
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(Reference information account numbers etc published in DAWN newspapers (JULY 2011) , The Holy Quran(Al Muntada Al Islami), personal visit to the trust premises).
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Saturday, July 2, 2011
Nasir Kazmi....A Poet par excellence.
Nasir Kazmi was a poet par excellence. His appeal was his extremely romantic and poetic expression, using simple words yet such a sophisticated composition and the finesse of expression. He was influenced by Mir Taqi Mir.
Says he:
Pursan na tha koi tau yeh ruswayyian na theen
zahir kisi pe haale pareeshan na tha kabhi.
(Only your asking as to my well being has made my sorrows known to everyone
Otherwise I was alone in my misery.)
In his foreword in Barge Ne he says that in the days of yore the poetic expression was not an indiginity. The poet sang his songs in villages, valleys and towns and described the values and stories of love,bravery.travel, chivalry and entertained the people.People loved the poet as an entertainer and performer.He sang their desires and their aspirations in his songs.He was known as a Bhat, Creator and an inventor.They linked him to divinity.Then the rulers also wanted to rule the heart of the masses and they desired that praises be written in their favor and in their honor. The Bhat changed to Bhakti and the emperor became sure of the manipulation of the poet to say whatever he wanted.
The universality of poetic expression was lost and the poet became labelled with a place, a kingdom and he developed a need for artificial appreciation and patronage.
Writes he of the modern poet that in modern times the poetic expression is faced with a dilemma. The poetry is not really understood by the audience. The poet wants to express like a minstrel-poet of yore, spontaneity,divine connection, excellence in expression and composition yet placidity and profoundness to be a character of his verse.
Says he about poetic popularity that to find the reader or audience is not in the hands o f the poet.If the voice is strong ,it reaches far and wide.It also is important that it also reflects the voice of the masses.This is very important.If the lament is not the reflection of the heart of the masses it merely becomes a scream.
These words of Nasir Kazmi express and describe his own poetic expression. He is undoubtedly one of the greatest and most popular poets of modern time in the subcontinent of the Urdu language.
Nasir Kazmi wrote with great spontaneity, total abandon, excellence in composition and an expression that reflected the desires, feelings and the trials and tribulations of a person or a people.
His intensity of passion and the need to get away from intense love is expressed in this ghazal:
Hoti hai tere naam se wehshat kabhi kabhi
Barham hui hai yun bhi tabiyat kabhi kabhi
Ai dil kise naseeb yeh tufiq-e iztiraab
milti hai zindagi mein yeh raahat kabhi kabhi
Tere karam se ai alam-e husn aafreen
Dil ban gaya hai dost ki khilwat kabhi kabhi
Joshe junoon mein dard ki tughyaaniyon ke saath
Ashkon mein dhal gayee tere surat kabhi kabhi
Tere qareeb reh ke bhi dil mutmaen na tha
Guzri hai mujh pe yeh bhi qayamat kabhi kabhi
Kuch apna hosh tha na tumhara khayal tha
Yun bhi guzar gaye shabe furqat kabhi kabhi
Aye dost hum ne tarke muhabbat ke bawajood
Mehsus ki hai teri zaroorat kabhi kabhi
(The distress of your name sometimes causes my heart's ailment.
How my heart turns in agony is a sweet forsaken joy that few are bestowed with.
Ah, sweet sorrow
you have made my lover's company a possibility sometimes.
Alas this madness, this passion
Has made the tempestuous sorrows
My beloved's face shielded in tears
Even your sweet closeness could not provide
This unruly heart a comfort , sometimes.
Some nights of love have passed in distress
Neither was I thinking clear nor was I in remorse
Alas I thought I was finished with you
But that was a thought in vain.
Nasir Kazmi had a style of sweet abandonment in love. His expression of despair and longing in love is explicitly expressed in this ghazal:
Girifta dil hain buhat aaj tere diwane
Khuda kare koi tere siwa na pehchane
Mitee mitee se umeedain thake thake se khayal
Bujhe bujhe se nigahon mein gham ke afsane
Hazaar shuker ke ham ne zaban se kuch na kaha
Yeh aur baat ke poocha na ahle duniya ne
Baqadre tashna labi purseshe wafa na hui
Chalak ke reh gaye teri nazar ke paimaane
Khayal aagaya maayus rahguzaaron ka
Palat ke aagaye manzil se tere diwane
Kahan hai tou ke tere intezaar mein ai dost
Tamam raat sulagte hain dil ke weerane
Umeed -e pursishe gham kis se kijeeye Nasir
Jo apne dil pe guzartee hai koi kiya jaane.
He laments his beloved's insensitivity to his own intense passion in this beautiful ghazal:
Woh dil nawaz hai laikin nazar shanas nahi
Mera ilaaj mere charagar ke paas nahi
Tarap rahe hain zaban par kai sawal magar
Mere liye koi shayane iltimas nahin
Tere jaloo mein bhi dil kaanp kaanp uthta hai
Mere mizaaj ko aasudgi bhi raas nahin
Kabhi kabhi jo tere qurb mein guzare the
Ab un dinon ka tassawur bhi mere paas nahin
Guzar rahe hain ajab marhalon se deeda -o dil
Sahar ki aas to hai zindagi ki aas nahi
Mujhe yeh dar hai teri aarzoo na mit jaye
Buhat dinon se tabiyat mere udaas nahin.
(Alas my beautiful beloved is only enchanting in her ways
She knows not what my restless heart wants.
My heart is filled with a lava of questions
None makes it to expression lest she knows my sorrows.
Your nearness is but a test on this restless soul of mine.
Aah, I am trying to forget in vain
The days I spent in my beloved's company.
Alas my heart's torment is great
I have hope of dawn but not of life.
I do dread forgetting you
My sadness has left me quiet.)
His beautiful use of metaphors and words to express his vast feelings of love is very grandly expressed in this beautiful ghazal:
Tere khayal se lo de uthee hai tanhaai
Shabe firaaq hai ya teri jalwa aaraye
Tu kis khayal mein hai manzilon ke shidaayi
Unhein bhi dekh jinhein raaste mein neend aayee
Pukaar ai jarse karavane subhe tarab
Bhatak rahe hain andheron mein tere saudaayi
Theher gaye hain sare raah khaak urdhane ko
Musaafiron ko na cherdh ai hawa -e sehrayi
Rahe hayat mein kuch marhale tou dekh liye
Yeh aur baat teri aarzo na raas ayi
Yeh saaniha bhi muhabbat mein barha guzra
Keh usne haal bhi poocha to aankh bhar aayi
Dile fasurda mein phir dharkanon ka shor utha
Yeh bethe bethe mujhe kin dinon ki yaad ayi
Mein sote sote kayee baar chonk chonk para
Tamaam raat tere pehluon se aanch aayi
Jahan bhi tha koi fitna tarap ke jaag utha
Tamam hosh thi masti mein teri angrdai
Khuli jo aankh tou kuch aur hi sama dekha
Woh log the na woh jalwe na shehre raanayi
Woh taab e dard woh saudae intezar kahan
Unhee ke saath gaye taqate shakaibai
Phir uski yad mein dil beqarar hai Nasir
Bichar ke jis se hui shehr shehr ruswayi
The singability,melodiousness, profound expressiveness in small verse ,of which he is a king, is expressed in this beautiful ghazal:
Dil dharakne ka sabab yaad aya
Woh teri yaad thi ab yaad aya
Aaj mushkil tha sambhalna ai dost
Tou museebat mein ajab yaad aya
Din guzara tha bari mushkil se
Phir tera waada-e shab yaad aya
Tera bhoola huwa paimaane wafa
Mar rahen ge agar ab yaad aya
Phir kayee log nazar se guzre
Phir koi shehere tarab yaad aya
Haal-e dil hum bhi sunate leikin
Jab woh rukhsat hua tab yaad aya
Beith ke saaya-e gul mein Nasir
Hum buhat roye woh jab yaad aya.
(Translation:
Ah, I remember why my heart beats so
Tis but your sweet love's memory.
I stumbled but was saved
Tis but your sweet memory that helped
The day was passed in agony
Yet the night comes again to torture
My love, you forget your promise
Only to remember when I am dead.
I wander amongst vales in your love
Remembering thine hearty town
Ah but I remembered to lament
Only when my beloved left
I cry tears of remorse and desire
Under the tree of love, tis spring!
The passion of love's desire and the depth of feelings for the beloved in a relationship is lamented in this ghazal:
Khayal -e tark-e tammana na krsake tou bhi
Udaasyon ka madawa na karsake tou bhi
Kabhi woh waqt bhi aaye ke koi lamha-e aish
Mere baghair gwara na karsake tou bhi
Khuda woh din na dikhai tujhe ke meri tarha
Meri wafa pe bharosa na karsake tou bhi
Mein apna aqda-e dil tujh ko saunp deta hun
Barda maza ho agar wa na karsake tou bhi
Tujhe yeh gham ke meri zindagi ka kiya hoga
Mujhe yeh zid ke madawa na karsake tou bhi
Na kar khayale talaafi ke mere zakhme wafa
Woh zakhm hai jise acha na karsake koi.
(Translation:
I wish that the pain of my sorrow
does not leave your heart
That you never forget my love lest I lose you
I wish that there is a time
That each moment without me is a torture for you.
Ah, may not there be any moment for you
That my love is not assured .
I entrust you with the knot on my heart
Open lest you fail to find my love
I do not want my love's wounds to heal
Worry do not for me, my love.
Nasir Kazmi
Fikre Tameer-e aashiyaan bhi hai
Khofe bemehreeye khizan bhi hai
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| Meherzaidi, writer, translator. |
Monday, May 30, 2011
Pakistan's May Dilemmas.
To qoute Sartre A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.
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Pakistan's ides of March came in May. 2nd May when UBL found and killed by US Navy Seals in dead of night in Abbottabad, a military academy base. 24 rth May, PNS Mehran attack in Karachi on Orion surveillance planes of considerable worth and capability. Both the incidences have left Pakistan without any sheild or veil of decency left both in the diplomacy of International relations and in it's Defence capability. The self proclaimed status of world's third largest army and the number one intelligence agency has fallen apart like broken egg shells. All we are left with are the gaping wounds of shame, uncertainty, ignorance and isolation. How does the nation heal?
The now very parochial looking Nawaz Sharif with a "PUG" has changed his stance from questioning as to how and with whose hospitality was UBL sitting in our populated Abbottabad to "How dare USA attack our sovereignty?".
He screams his lungs out that we will break the "Kushkol" , the begging bowl of aid. Two things are clear that he wants the army and the ISI to answer the questions regarding May 2 in Abottabad. Also he has no idea of modern economics and what Pakistan's economy is all about at this time and what the people in Pakistan really need and the people of Sindh especially.
Again to qoute Sartre: Everything has been figured out, except how to live
Sindh has seen devastating floods.One year on it is totally destroyed.http://mehernewspappar.blogspot.com/2011/05/current-state-of-post-flood.html
It needs help in cash and kind. We cannot talk of anything without acknowledging the misery and pledging help to people who lost in floods especially of Sindh and Baluchistan which saw devastation on massive scale. The agenda for Mr Nawaz Sharif should have been to galvanize support and help for these people and not " breaking the begging bowl " That is mere rhetoric. Gone are the days of rhetoric.People are not fools.
They are free and they can think.
Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.Sartre.
So the winning choice for us would be to have two begging bowls . One to fill our debt servicing , because that is where our aid goes and the other for the poor , unfortunate people who cannot send their kids to schools now that their livelihoods, abodes and schools are destroyed. For the poor people to reconstruct their homes, their lands, their living, their jobs.The Kerry Lugar Fund will be just a drop in the ocean. Why are the Jamaatis and all the rightists opposing it? Because they do not want the poor to have schools, clinics or any semblance of help where they can get some semblance of dignified existence.
The armed forces have to improve their intelligence sharing and cooperation and coordination. They should also give mere access to the civilians/politicians about information into their budget spending and policies. If Pak army is sincerely run by jawans and officers alone who undoubtedly are very sincere and patriotic then why the fat salaries, power and perks to the generals and their children with plots in posh lands and societies, other benefits. And who will audit the efficiency and effectiveness of command and control? The civilian government cannot even ask simple questions.It is afraid.Why this should be so and this ambiguity regarding its many valid issues should be removed.What kind of commission is Mr Nawaz Sharif talking about?
The armed forces have to improve their intelligence sharing and cooperation and coordination. They should also give mere access to the civilians/politicians about information into their budget spending and policies. If Pak army is sincerely run by jawans and officers alone who undoubtedly are very sincere and patriotic then why the fat salaries, power and perks to the generals and their children with plots in posh lands and societies, other benefits. And who will audit the efficiency and effectiveness of command and control? The civilian government cannot even ask simple questions.It is afraid.Why this should be so and this ambiguity regarding its many valid issues should be removed.What kind of commission is Mr Nawaz Sharif talking about?
The law enforcing agencies should also reform and restructure their organisations immediately. They should bring about more transparency and professionalism in public dealings. The Kharotabad incidence has brought about one such glaring example of confusion and corruption.When half of what the LEA staff is doing is running errands for households of their officers, how can there be law and order?
To quote Sartre again in his seminal "Iron In The Soul" he describes how the demoralized French soldiers must fight after the defeat and humiliation of defeat.We as a nation stand defeated by our own ineptitude and incompetence. We stand defeated and in shame by our own refusal to face and strive for truth, for our failure to stand up for the down trodden, dispossessed , the poor. We stand defeated by our injustices and our failure to provide justice to the ones in need. By our conspiracies and foul tricks to gain material strength, and by compromising on principles of justice and equity we have lost this war.India is not our enemy. USA is not our enemy . We must look for and behead the serpent within. We must cleanse our souls. We must provide justice and rights to the poor, the downtrodden , the infirm. Only this way will we find the Iron in our souls. Only through egalitarianism will we be able to be free again. We must bring down elitism. We must recognize our true enemy.It is ignorance and injustice.
Monday, May 23, 2011
Attack on PNS Mehran In Karachi....Why Taliban attacked?
The sad tragic deaths of our naval personnel including a lady doctor has been occurring since last one month.Initial two attacks on the navy buses showed the callousness of the attackers. This attack on the Orion surveillance planes inside a well protected air base shows the audacity of the terrorists to hit a strategic target that would be used to detect their hidden leaders in Sindh or the south regions of Pakistan. Altaf Hussain of MQM has been warning since long of their presence in Karachi. This is only half truth. The sad reality is that such forces are dwelling in safe areas of Karachi where the MQM does not hold street power to detect and point out. They are not even ethnically Pushtoon. The similarity between these attacks and those in Manawan , ISI offices in Lahore and GHQ points a finger at Punjabi Taliban or similar groups that operated there. They have a huge and easy network in Karachi where they are hiding behind trading places and residential commercial buildings. The similarity between attacks show that same group is operating under a command that is at war with the state of Pakistan.http://tribune.com.pk/story/179484/hrcp-expresses-grave-concern-over-journalists-disappearance/
It is also a fact that Imran Khan staged a small sit in protest which initially reported to be against Nato tankers,turned against drone attacks later turned against the present government, sitting comfortably on chairs to divert attention away from security in other areas of the city to his staged sit in. He also gives a public face to Taliban to stop operations against militants and terrorists in Waziristan along with Munawwar Hussain of Jamate Islami.http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/may/31/hamid-gul-pakistan-spymaster-taliban
Their tirade against present government is also directed to divert attention from action against these terrorists. Imran Khan's crowd in Karachi was mainly Jamaat e Islami workers and few students and Pushtoon strong men who are employed by Tehrike Insaaf when they come to Karachi.
The interest of the Taliban aka Al Qaeda in attacking the Orion planes is to avoid detection as they hide and their high value leaders. As UBL hid in Pakistan safely for ten long years these other leaders are also staying in dense areas safely.The Pakistan Navy has all its strategic assets in Karachi and attacking it means that their capability to offer resistance in Karachi and Sindh should be lessened.The same forces that are at war with Pakistan in frontier regions and Punjab are attacking Pakistan |Navy in the south. Whoever sides up with such forces is enemy of Pakistan and its armed forces. To imply that foreign forces like India and US are involved in these attacks is foolish. India and US do not gain anything by weakening Pakistan armed forces. It is other forces that may get an upper hand if Pakistan is relatively weaker as a state. These are the same forces and their stooges that president Zardari named non-state actors in his speeches. It is the same forces that killed Benazir Bhutto.(Remember her words that UBL is in Islamabad's basement?).
As the Dawn television network gives strange misguided and uninformed analysis by its anchors-turned- analysts regarding the reasons and the identity of the attackers and a female expert cum analyst Maria Sultan gives her camouflaged extreme right views, implicating US in these attacks on Geo tv, I wonder why the obvious is not being seen or spelt out by these people.That the surveillance planes owned and operated by the Pakistan Navy will be used by Pakistan to detect Taliban alias al Qaeda leaders and terrorists hidden in southern regions of Pakistan and Sindh.
It is also a fact that Imran Khan staged a small sit in protest which initially reported to be against Nato tankers,turned against drone attacks later turned against the present government, sitting comfortably on chairs to divert attention away from security in other areas of the city to his staged sit in. He also gives a public face to Taliban to stop operations against militants and terrorists in Waziristan along with Munawwar Hussain of Jamate Islami.http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/may/31/hamid-gul-pakistan-spymaster-taliban
Their tirade against present government is also directed to divert attention from action against these terrorists. Imran Khan's crowd in Karachi was mainly Jamaat e Islami workers and few students and Pushtoon strong men who are employed by Tehrike Insaaf when they come to Karachi.
The interest of the Taliban aka Al Qaeda in attacking the Orion planes is to avoid detection as they hide and their high value leaders. As UBL hid in Pakistan safely for ten long years these other leaders are also staying in dense areas safely.The Pakistan Navy has all its strategic assets in Karachi and attacking it means that their capability to offer resistance in Karachi and Sindh should be lessened.The same forces that are at war with Pakistan in frontier regions and Punjab are attacking Pakistan |Navy in the south. Whoever sides up with such forces is enemy of Pakistan and its armed forces. To imply that foreign forces like India and US are involved in these attacks is foolish. India and US do not gain anything by weakening Pakistan armed forces. It is other forces that may get an upper hand if Pakistan is relatively weaker as a state. These are the same forces and their stooges that president Zardari named non-state actors in his speeches. It is the same forces that killed Benazir Bhutto.(Remember her words that UBL is in Islamabad's basement?).
As the Dawn television network gives strange misguided and uninformed analysis by its anchors-turned- analysts regarding the reasons and the identity of the attackers and a female expert cum analyst Maria Sultan gives her camouflaged extreme right views, implicating US in these attacks on Geo tv, I wonder why the obvious is not being seen or spelt out by these people.That the surveillance planes owned and operated by the Pakistan Navy will be used by Pakistan to detect Taliban alias al Qaeda leaders and terrorists hidden in southern regions of Pakistan and Sindh.
Friday, May 20, 2011
The Machiavellian World of Pakistan.
Just after UBL was caught dead in Abottabad,Pakistan the broken egg shell around the almost tattered moral cum political fabric of Pakistani people fell apart suddenly overnight. Geo television anchor Kamran Khan who was questioning as to how was UBL hiding conveniently in a military town in two days time reversed his entire line of questioning to a tirade against US and left the real questions back and quickly too. Machiavelli will be intrigued?By Pakistan and it's army,by Pakistan and its politician and by Pakistan and its foolish/naive/innocent /illiterate /uneducated people. The questions that arise in his mind will be:
How will a stable state of political affairs occur? What will be the paradigm/definition/hologramic image of a stable political system?
Who will define this stability and how? army? ISI? Politicians of various flavors? Does anyone know the favored political stability that Machiavelli described? He should have been around to have a real "test state Republica Pakistana"!
Like the description given by Bernard Crick of Machiavellian thinking that "Political stability is a value more important than the princely or republican rule itself " seems to come back to haunt Pakistan again and again. martial laws or "personal, princely"rules again and repeatedly in Pakistan in order to bring stability fail to weave a fabric of strength and endurance. Experiments in to bring in a new order with political stability by "personal rule" bring in more chaos unlike the "republican " rule as cherished and favored by Machiavelli .http://www.androidzoom.com/android_applications/books_and_reference/niccolo-machiavelli-collection_grww.html
Huh! We are all Machiavellian here in Pakistan ;wanting the republic passionately and being denied again and again,
The fault my dear lies in our stars. Unread, unexposed to world politics and such complex politics now we stand and fall unprepared. From Raymond Davis case to Kerry Lugar bill, from drone strikes killing foreign terrorists and now doing un -controllable collateral damage(Consensually, scandalously leaked by WikiLeaks to Dawn Media Group),to the US Seals strike and killing of UBL in a military town,our philosophy of life , religion, theory of existence stands exposed. To be questioned by all and sundry. Machiavellian thinking , thoughts exposed to confusion in politics, power play.
Imran Khan, a third force so vocal in questioning the authenticity and truth of Nawaz Sharif PML-N attacking the status quo,the army. Nawaz Sharif asking as to we will ask all the questions and "arrive| at the truth as to how the US attacked |our sovereignity" and killed UBL? and poking army in the process and Imran Khan today declaring that "what good is the resolution passed in the assembly as they, both Nawaz League and the Pakistan Peoples Party are in league with the US". The listener and the "political man" is confused. What and how is Imran Khan cutting or undermining the "political/Republican" process and yet attacking the "system".
Here he is the ant-hero of Machiavellian thinking as described by Bernard Crick. Or is he attempting to thwart the republican stability by bringing in some sort of chaos and instability by negating and weight lessening the skewed verbal attack on establishment ala army by Nawaz Sharif?
The show goes on, the fabric tatters further. It is a difficult situation. We try to find try truth,Like Machiavelli,"who in a most disorderly, incoherent way, stumble upon certain truths which are important in understanding human society in its political forms " and yet remain placid in ignorance and become fools in ignorance while the world closes in on us. We refuse to be Spartan and united. We refuse to be truly republican and egalitarian.
(Ref:Machiavelli, Discourses, edited by Bernard Crick., internet, Dawn newspaper, Geo television, Samaa television, Dawn television, Dawn media group, internet)
How will a stable state of political affairs occur? What will be the paradigm/definition/hologramic image of a stable political system?
Who will define this stability and how? army? ISI? Politicians of various flavors? Does anyone know the favored political stability that Machiavelli described? He should have been around to have a real "test state Republica Pakistana"!
Like the description given by Bernard Crick of Machiavellian thinking that "Political stability is a value more important than the princely or republican rule itself " seems to come back to haunt Pakistan again and again. martial laws or "personal, princely"rules again and repeatedly in Pakistan in order to bring stability fail to weave a fabric of strength and endurance. Experiments in to bring in a new order with political stability by "personal rule" bring in more chaos unlike the "republican " rule as cherished and favored by Machiavelli .http://www.androidzoom.com/android_applications/books_and_reference/niccolo-machiavelli-collection_grww.html
Huh! We are all Machiavellian here in Pakistan ;wanting the republic passionately and being denied again and again,
The fault my dear lies in our stars. Unread, unexposed to world politics and such complex politics now we stand and fall unprepared. From Raymond Davis case to Kerry Lugar bill, from drone strikes killing foreign terrorists and now doing un -controllable collateral damage(Consensually, scandalously leaked by WikiLeaks to Dawn Media Group),to the US Seals strike and killing of UBL in a military town,our philosophy of life , religion, theory of existence stands exposed. To be questioned by all and sundry. Machiavellian thinking , thoughts exposed to confusion in politics, power play.
Imran Khan, a third force so vocal in questioning the authenticity and truth of Nawaz Sharif PML-N attacking the status quo,the army. Nawaz Sharif asking as to we will ask all the questions and "arrive| at the truth as to how the US attacked |our sovereignity" and killed UBL? and poking army in the process and Imran Khan today declaring that "what good is the resolution passed in the assembly as they, both Nawaz League and the Pakistan Peoples Party are in league with the US". The listener and the "political man" is confused. What and how is Imran Khan cutting or undermining the "political/Republican" process and yet attacking the "system".
Here he is the ant-hero of Machiavellian thinking as described by Bernard Crick. Or is he attempting to thwart the republican stability by bringing in some sort of chaos and instability by negating and weight lessening the skewed verbal attack on establishment ala army by Nawaz Sharif?
The show goes on, the fabric tatters further. It is a difficult situation. We try to find try truth,Like Machiavelli,"who in a most disorderly, incoherent way, stumble upon certain truths which are important in understanding human society in its political forms " and yet remain placid in ignorance and become fools in ignorance while the world closes in on us. We refuse to be Spartan and united. We refuse to be truly republican and egalitarian.
(Ref:Machiavelli, Discourses, edited by Bernard Crick., internet, Dawn newspaper, Geo television, Samaa television, Dawn television, Dawn media group, internet)
Tuesday, May 3, 2011
UBL:THE GUY WHO PROVED HISTORY WRONG AND PALED MEPHISTOPHELES.
http://hanariaz.com/2011/05/02/wheres-bin-laden-has-justice-been-served/
http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2011-05-02/osama-bin-laden-dead-his-pakistan-protectors/?obref=obinsite
http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2011-05-02/osama-bin-laden-death-will-reopen-americas-911-wounds/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mephistopheles
Philosophy is odious and obscure;
Both law and physic are for petty wits;
Divinity is basest of the three,
Unpleasant, harsh, contemptible, and vile.
'Tis magic, magic that hath ravished me.
The man who brought hatred, death , destruction to the modern, contemporary world, the world so modern where internet and remote technology made real look magic and magic look real, a world where thither met thence, a world where Biblical was contemporary in terms of natural disasters and human tragedies. The man who made Mephistopheles pale in comparison to his own image and persona, a man who brought death, poverty, destruction and sheer hopelessness to the millions of Muslims in the world, a man who single handedly damaged the good name of Islam and the millions of Muslims who follow this peaceful religion.
For the western brought up young people and all those involved in fighting the "War on Terror" his life and death may just seem a statistic/analysis/strategic win etc but for a human being who sees her beloved country people killed, maimed, handicapped, widowed, orphaned every day by his followers (Tehrik-e Taliban , Pakistan , Jamaate Islami and other similar organizations in Pakistan )on a daily basis, where the deaths and destruction are justified by media and their affiliate groups everyday, where people just turn their faces away when a widow or orphan wails, it is the truth revealed as in the words of Marlowe we are all people who sold their souls to the devil. Yes Zia ul Haq, who was the great devil worshipper, and at the behest of the US, made UBL a hero.So in Marlowe's words
Go bear these tidings to great Lucifer:
Seeing Faustus hath incurred eternal death,
By desperate thoughts against Jove's deity,
Say he surrenders up to him his soul,
So he will spare him four and twenty years,
Letting him live in all voluptuousness,
Having thee ever to attend on me,
To give me whatsoever I shall ask;
To tell me whatsoever I demand;
To slay mine enemies, and aid my friends,
And always be obedient to my will.
We all sold our souls to the devil; and we all pay the price, the ordinary the poor, the widows, the orphans and the children. The Muslims in West pay the price with discrimination, targeting and ostracizing. The religion of Islam pays the price by being maligned and detested.
For those who justify violence and the ugliest kind that UBL preached, here is an array of pics that you will love and really want your own loved ones to go through, especially in Pakistan. Follow UBL and follow Mephistopheles, sell your soul to the devil.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2011-05-02/osama-bin-laden-dead-his-pakistan-protectors/?obref=obinsite
http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2011-05-02/osama-bin-laden-death-will-reopen-americas-911-wounds/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mephistopheles
Philosophy is odious and obscure;
Both law and physic are for petty wits;
Divinity is basest of the three,
Unpleasant, harsh, contemptible, and vile.
'Tis magic, magic that hath ravished me.
The man who brought hatred, death , destruction to the modern, contemporary world, the world so modern where internet and remote technology made real look magic and magic look real, a world where thither met thence, a world where Biblical was contemporary in terms of natural disasters and human tragedies. The man who made Mephistopheles pale in comparison to his own image and persona, a man who brought death, poverty, destruction and sheer hopelessness to the millions of Muslims in the world, a man who single handedly damaged the good name of Islam and the millions of Muslims who follow this peaceful religion.
For the western brought up young people and all those involved in fighting the "War on Terror" his life and death may just seem a statistic/analysis/strategic win etc but for a human being who sees her beloved country people killed, maimed, handicapped, widowed, orphaned every day by his followers (Tehrik-e Taliban , Pakistan , Jamaate Islami and other similar organizations in Pakistan )on a daily basis, where the deaths and destruction are justified by media and their affiliate groups everyday, where people just turn their faces away when a widow or orphan wails, it is the truth revealed as in the words of Marlowe we are all people who sold their souls to the devil. Yes Zia ul Haq, who was the great devil worshipper, and at the behest of the US, made UBL a hero.So in Marlowe's words
Go bear these tidings to great Lucifer:
Seeing Faustus hath incurred eternal death,
By desperate thoughts against Jove's deity,
Say he surrenders up to him his soul,
So he will spare him four and twenty years,
Letting him live in all voluptuousness,
Having thee ever to attend on me,
To give me whatsoever I shall ask;
To tell me whatsoever I demand;
To slay mine enemies, and aid my friends,
And always be obedient to my will.
We all sold our souls to the devil; and we all pay the price, the ordinary the poor, the widows, the orphans and the children. The Muslims in West pay the price with discrimination, targeting and ostracizing. The religion of Islam pays the price by being maligned and detested.
For those who justify violence and the ugliest kind that UBL preached, here is an array of pics that you will love and really want your own loved ones to go through, especially in Pakistan. Follow UBL and follow Mephistopheles, sell your soul to the devil.
Tuesday, April 19, 2011
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