6September - Day that reshaped Pakistan

6 September 1965 was the day which was the catalyst to fully turn Pakistan into a 'security state' instead of a social welfare state.

Pakistan lost all wars against India, but our fake patriotism demands us to celebrate the stupidity & irresponsibility of power-hungry Generals instead of holding them responsible for these 

failures.

Operation Gibraltar was executed by Pakistani army to try and bring some traction to the Kashmir cause by infiltration in IOK and force India to the conference table without provoking general war.

Pakistani establishment wasn't prepared for the war, didn't anticipate Indian forces to cross the Wagah Border and start a full-blown war.

This miscalculation resulted in heavy fatalities near BRB Canal (Barki region) where Major Aziz Bhatti was martyred in fierce fighting against Indian army.

Operation Gibraltar due to two major assumptions Pakistani army made

1) Establishment based this Operation to be use the resentment element on the ground and turn it into a full-fledged armed revolt against India in Kashmir

2) Second assumption was that India will never risk starting all-out war.

Both assumptions made by Pakistani army proved to be wrong

Both assumptions were proven wrong when on #6September India attacked Pakistan across the international border without a warning or a declaration of war in retaliation of Operation Gibraltar.

This war further gave birth to in-house Mujahideen groups like Laskhar-e-Tayyaba & Jaish e Muhammad. It pretty much became part of Pakistan's covert foreign policy fully managed by establishment of the country till Musharraf rose to power and banned all these groups.

Operation Gibraltar was a failure and 6 September should have been the day to analyse & learn from our mistakes. Instead, it became the day our country became a hostage to military quarters, since 1965 war all our foreign policy decisions were taken by establishment of the country and civilian rulers were only used as a cover. 

زینب سے فرشتہ تک - سفاک و دندرہ صفت ہم!

کیا لکھوں؟

فرشتہ تمہارا کیوں نوحہ لکھوں؟

زینب ہو یا فرشتہ ہم بحیثیت معاشرہ گل سڑ چکے ہیں اور ہمیں اپنے اس گلی سڑی لاش سے نہ تو تعفن کا احساس ہوتا ہے نہ 

ہم اس کے کھوکھلا پن کا اعتراف کرنے کیلیے تیار ہیں

ہمدردی ، دردمندی ، درد شناسی کے جزبات سے عاری ایک ہجعم ہیں ہم جنہیں مخالف کے ناک پر بیٹھی مکھی بھی نظر آتی ہے اگر نہیں نظر آتے تو اپنے بدبودار ، انسانیت سوز رویے اور ریاستی طور پر خون میں لت پت ہاتھ 

ہم مدینہ ثانی کے باسی

ہم اسلام کے ناقابلِ تسخیر قلعہ کے سپاہی

ہم بھارت میں لٹتی ہر عصمت پر تنقید کرنے والے

اپنے ملک میں جاری اس درندگی کیخلاف ہماری زبانیں گنگ

مجھے یہ لکھتے ہوئے عجیب تکلیف کا سامنا ہے اور دعا ہے کہ یہ جھوٹ ہی ہو مگر سچ یہی ھے اس معاشرے کو دیمک 

اندر تک چاٹ چکی ہے

ہم صرف اور صرف"میں" کا بوجھ اٹھائے زندہ ہیں

وہ معاشرہ جو اپنے آپ کو مغرب سے کہیں بہتر کہتا ہو اور اسلام کا گہوارہ ، ریاستِ مدینہ کہلوانے پر مصر ہو اُس معاشرے میں اگر یکے بعد دیگرے زینب و فرشتہ جیسے واقعات رونما ہوں تو میں یہی کہوں گا کہ اس معاشرے کے علماء یا تو نہایت منافق و بےاثر زبان کے مالک ہیں جن کی تبلیغ کانوں سے نیچے نہیں جاتی یا پھر  انسانیت کا دین سے کوئی سروکار نہیں اور ایک لادین معاشرہ دراصل اسلام کی اصل روح کا پاسبان ھے
ہم تو فقط لفظوں کی حد تک "ٹھیکہ دارانِ اسلام" ہیں 

ایک اسلامی معاشرہ ،مسجدوں مدرسوں سے محصور ملک میں بھی معصوم کی آہ و بکا سننے والا کوئی نہیں

 ساہیوال میں کنبہ بھون دیا جاتا ہے حاکمِ وقت کے کان پر جوں تک نہیں رینگتی  ہم بحیثیت قوم و معاشرہ اخلاقی و سماجی پستی کی اُن گہرائیوں کو چُھو رہے جس میں بہتری ہوتی نظر نہیں آتی...

سلام ہے مغرب کے اُس معاشرے کو جہاں مسلمان بیٹیوں کی عزتیں محفوظ ہیں اور لعنت ھے ایسے اسلامی معاشرے پر جہاں مسلمانوں کی بیٹیاں ہی لوٹی جاتی ہیں اور کہا جاتا ھے وہ تو "افغانی" تھی 

ہم یہاں اپنی بیٹیوں کی عصمتیں خود ہی تار تار کرنے میں مصروف ہیں اور یہ عمل کرنے کیبعد ہم کہتے ہیں وہ تو پاکستانی تھی ہی نہیں

ظالمو!  انسان تو تھی ؟؟

تبدیلی کا پہلا رمضان

میرے پیارے پاکستانیوں میں دل کی اتھاہ گہرائیوں سے آپکو ماہِ رمضان کی مبارکباد پیش کرتا ہوں

 یہ ماہ انشاءاللہ ایک تاریخی رمضان ہو گا جس کا آغاز میں ہی کپتان نے سٹیٹ بینک کا گورنر آئی ایم ایف کا نمائندہ لگا دیا ھے

میں پورے وثوق کیساتھ یہ بات کہہ سکتا ہوں کہ اس رمضان تبدیلی کے ثمرات طفیلِ نیازی بہ دستِ باجوہ آپ پر ایسے گریں گے جیسے چور کو رنگے ہاتھوں پکڑا جانے پر "لِتّر" پڑتے ہیں 

آپ پر تبدیلی کے فیوض و برکات ایسے وارد ہوں گے کہ آپ کی "خاموش چیخیں" نکلیں گی مگر آپ کسی کو زخم دکھانے یا حالتِ زار بتانے کے قابل نہ ہوں گے

 ! ہر شے کے نرخ بڑھیں گے اگر نہیں بڑھے گی تو وہ آپکی تنخواہ

مگر پاکستانیوں آپنے گھبرانا بالکل نہیں ھے

حالتِ روزہ میں ہونے کے باوجود آپکا دل کرے گا کہ آپ تبدیلی کے موجد اور تبدیلی کے پیروکاروں کو لعن طعن کریں

لیکن اگر آپکا تعلق واوڈا و مراد سعید والے طبقے سے ہو گا تو پھر تو آپ ڈھٹائی و بیحسی اور اندھے اعتقاد کے اُِس درجے پر فائض ہونگے

  جہاں آپ کو کپتان کا فاضل مادہ بھی من و سلوی دِکھتا ھے

ایک طبقہ ایسا ھے جو کھپتان کے ڈھلتے بڑھاپے سے اتنا متاثر ھے کہ اُنکو اور کسی شے سے سروکار ہی نہیں اور ہر سوال کا ایک ہی   جواب ہوتا ھے کہ ہمارا کپتان کتنا ہینڈسم ھے 

ایک طبقہ ایسا بھی ھے ، جو پٹرول کی قیمت بڑھنے ، بجلی و گیس کے نرخوں میں اضافے ، پھل و کھجور کے نرخ میں اضافے ، اناج ، چاول کی ذخیرہ اندوزی اور کپتان کے پیچش کا ذمہ دار بھی نوازشریف کو ٹھہرائے گا

مختصراً اِس رمضان میں تبدیلی کی برکات پاکستانیوں پر ایسے گریں گی کہ سنبھالنا مشکل ہو جائے گا اور چوتھے عشرے تک تبدیلی کے اثرات چہروں پر واضع نمایا ہوں گے..

آخر میں رب سے دعا ہے کہ ہماری ناقص عبادات , دکھاوے کے صدقات اور حسد سے بھری مسکراہٹوں کو اپنی بارگاہ میں قبول کرے 

آمین

Ali Raza Abidi and our empathetic disconnect

I remember writing similar post when Begum Kulsoom Nawaz  passed away.

Her death exposed our constant decline of society and our empathetic disconnect with the people around us.

I genuinely hoped that this divide of hate and act of mocking deaths would not repeat but i was so wrong.

It happened again when Ali Raza Abidi ex-MNA was murdered in the city of lights right at the doorstep of his house. Most sane people, parties, celebrities condemned and sent their condolences over this act of savagery but there was one faction that did not condemn but instead praised his demise.

What kind of mental state one has to be in to enjoy or to say that murder of an harmless,soft spoken politician who was never seen abusing or mistreating even his opponents. A soft spoken guy who belonged to MQM and worked for the amelioration of the society he was part of.

This certain party or his follower not only mocked the death of a harmless lady Begum Kulsoom Nawaz but behaved in same notorious fashion over death of Ali Raza Abidi. It seems like it's becoming a norm in Pakistan, gone are the days where you respect and don't say anything bad about departed soul.

I have seen comments on Facebook posts accompanied with scores of tweets hurling abuse towards departed soul of Ali Raza Abidi and there was only one thing common amongst all such hateful comment.

It came from followers of PTI 

The aim of this blog post is not to degrade someone but more towards understanding the psyche of PTI followers.

The need to have a foundation or logic to any disagreement is not the necessity anymore but it seems like anyone who is disliked by Kaptaan is Traitor and should just rot in hell.

Maybe i'm too much of a softie to believe that we should not celebrate death. Doesn't matter whose it is, Period.
I belong to a culture where our ancestors believed that 

"Dushman maray te khushi na karyeSajna v Mar jana"

But teachings of Kaptaan differ totally, these are teachings of disgust, hate , abuse as well as making allegations without any evidence and repeating your narrative constantly to the point
people start believing it.

As a society there is a constant disconnect of empathy and lack of humane feelings, the amount of killings we see on TV or hear about on daily basis it appears we have developed some kind of strange fetish where we enjoy the death, especially if it's of our rival.

Such societies only get further drawn into violence and the culture of healthy debates die eventually.

In the end all i'd like to say that I hope some day this country turns into a garden instead of a pricked barren desert where there is no room for dissent and anyone having different opinion to the one "approved" by the government is either labelled as traitor or Kaafir.

Live and let live please.May Allah bless all the departed souls with his eternal mercy .

Because if it was up to  us only hell would be filled and heaven would be empty.

#RIPAliRazaAbidi

In the Land of Pure - Be a Rao Anwar, Don't be Tahir Dawar

Title of this post is what seems to be the unwritten law of Pakistan these days,  Every sane voice shall be silenced, Every critic small or big is under threat and every upright, honest officer shall be eliminated 

Recent killing of Superintendent Peshawar leaves a big question mark on so called "safe city" projects as well as the competency of administration.

This is nothing but simple case of we have two characters in law-enforcement forces and the fruit or reward you get for being a Rao Anwar or being Tahir Dawar.

Who is the winner? 

Rao Anwar or Tahir Dawar, 

Rao Anwar wins hands down - Yes. you be a uniformed goon and nobody will touch you, even the highest judge of the country will not only release you bail but unfreeze all your bank accounts and declare your house as Jail.

This is the privilege  you have for being part of mafia while being in uniform.

You're the judge, jury and executioner and even if you end up being caught red handed nothing shall be done against you.On the other hand if you're honest, upright officer who protects the locals and takes on the terrorists then you shall be made example out of.

Even your own government will refuse to comment on your death and anyone asking questions or raising voice will have their noose tightened.

The affect it will have on the morale of law-enforcement forces as well as on mind of a layman on street can be nothing but negative and to make it worse we are actively discouraging the truth seekers.

Our Government however is totally mute on this issue as it's a very "sensitive issue". Indeed it's better for all Govt officials to stay muted as they will only worsen it by rubbing salt into wounds of relatives of Tahir Dawar.

Not so long ago we had a hashtag trending on twitter  #chaudhryaslamkhan. An SSP killed in bomb attack who also was known to be a real tough cookie for the terrorists in Karachi.

But we are a nation with short term memory, we are hardly done mourning the death of first one and another catastrophe strikes 

So many deaths that all of these equate to nothing but statistics now, it's like we going numb.

In a nutshell, we are training our children not to be Tahir Dawar, or Chaudhry Aslam but to
be
Rao Anwar.

Kulsoom Nawaz - A Punjabi Iron lady!

Begum Kulsoom Nawaz's death has once again highlighted one the ugliest face of our society, the fact we have lost all moral , humane code of conduct and do not even let go of any occasion to slander our opponent even if it involves launching barrage of abuse for a woman who died fighting cancer.

The little that i remember of her from my childhood is pretty much shown in the picture above, She rose to the challenge of steering her party while her husband and rest of family were imprisoned by the dictator Parvez Musharraf.

I remember her visiting my "Mamu" Pir Binyamin Rizvi at the time he was put under house-arrest by Musharraf's regime, A very soft spoken yet an Iron Lady who was strong critic of Musharraf and gave her tough time by reorganizing the party under her leadership.

She was a truly motherly figure and a homemaker who now had to do the job of her husband while he was behind bars and was later on sent in exile.

Uncertain of the outcome of trial and allegations leveled against his husband she gathered what was left of PML(N) at the time while Chaudhrys of Gujrat jumped the ship.

But at no point she was seen hurling abuse or letting go of the grace even when the dictator was potentially preparing to hang the ex-PM (her husband)

I don't know why but whenever I saw her all it reminds me of a typical mother , a wife who was very protective of her family and kept it together till her demise.

Least she deserved was a "changed" send-off maybe? Least we could do is respect the dead. Our moral code is long dead as society that we have to stoop to the level of not sparing someone even after they die and continue with our hate speech.

As tickers went across the Pakistani TV channels we covered our ugly faces with masks and came on the telly to give our condolences to the family yet there were some of us continuing pouring out the filth of our minds and showing the kind of upbringing we had.

Social media was filled with PTI's followers/activists calling her names i would not even dread anyone calling, let alone dead.

As if doubting her illness was not bad of an act we went even lower , setting new standards of bigotry, hate and prejudices.

Biggest casualty of social media trends of Pakistan is always the decency. 
The lack of educated dialogue is shocking or should i say it was shocking initially but now i pretty much can predict what event is going to bring about what kind of "hashtag".

A nation who idolizes pseudo self righteous clowns like Hamza Ali Abbasi and Amir Liaquat really has no hope.

A very bad precedent has been set by our celebrities / prominent leaders mainly calling themselves as torch bearers of a "Change".

It seems as though we have forgotten that death is something all of us have to experience and surely none of us would want such social media campaign to be launched against our dead ones.

Least we can do is let them grieve in peace, this is very least one deserves as human being.