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.