Beautiful Pakistan

My sister suggested why not put some beautiful places of Pakistan. We live in the cities that are so busy and dirty no matter how posh the area is. But here some nice photos of various places in Pakistan. My particular favorite one is Nathiagali ...it was so peaceful and serene. Have not been to any place like that in ages. Malam Jabba is a place which reminds me of a particular time and the adventurous hiking. There all these amazing places here that we don't get to see because we are so busy in our daily routine and rut but they are definitely quite wonderful.

Angelina Jolie

Angelina Jolie is known for a lot of things ... beauty, sexy looks, hot affairs, many adopted kids and famous men in her life. But, her kind heart and passion to help out people who need help is phenomenal. I mentioned it before also that on her visit to Pakistan during the floods she did lots of work for those who lost everything due to the floods. In fact, she even donated much more than what our own president Zardari donated for his own country.

She even wrote a very honest report after her visit to Pakistan to UN that she was sadly disturbed at how Pakistani government was handling the situation. In fact, the Prime Minister's family's enthusiasm in meeting her shocked her. The way they gave her expensive gifts and presented various menus on the dining table left the actress disturbed.

A very dramatic journalist wrote a bitchy article on her that was irrelevant because her being a foreigner who is going out of the way to help people in our country, and he was suggesting and wished she should be stoned to death. Anyway, since we are lost, we can expect educated people to talk like this anytime and any day.

Remembering Salman Taseer

We all know by now that we have lost someone who had the courage to stand up against the wrong and who knew how to fight for what was right. Sadly, he was mercilessly killed on just another busy day and left us all to understand how hopeless a nation we have become. Our condolences are with his family.

His friends said, he did know that he was risking his life by speaking out loud about blasphemy law.

He wrote on Twitter on 31st Dec, "I was under huge pressure sure 2 cow down b4 rightist pressure on blasphemy. Refused. Even if I'm the last man standing."

Asked earlier that month by the BBC Urdu Service about fatwas, or religious decrees, issued against him in Pakistan, he criticised the "illiterate" clerics responsible.

"They issued fatwas against Benazir [Bhutto] and Zulfikar Ali Bhutto [her father, an executed former president], and even the founder of the nation, Muhammad Ali Jinnah. I do not care about them," he added.

HAPPINESS:

Yes, it is so inhuman, but there is actually a group that is happy about what has happened because they took it all as a fight for safeguarding religion.

Before this day, I never really searched about him and was quite baffled to see that people have created pages against him and his family calling them as corrupt and wild if they openly showed they were cool about partying, drinking, fun. In a country where almost everything happens, it is so hypocritical to complain about such things and to target people based on these elements.

FIR:

According the sources, the FIR was lodged under clause 302 and anti-terrorism act clause 7 with Taseer’s son Shehryar Taseer as claimant.

It should be noted here that Taseer’s family yesterday denied filing the report saying they will do the same after holding family consultations.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-12111831

Happy Birthday Mr. Jinnah!

It’s the 134^th birth anniversary of Mohammad Ali Jinnah & if he had lived for few more years, things would have been different in Pakistan.

Mr. Jinnah

I think it would be too early to wish Mr. Jinnah right now, so I would just write a small note.

Mr. Jinnah is one of my favourite personalities. Beyond any doubt, he was a man of substance. The movie on Jinnah was not that bad, but people in our country have no respect even for the founder of Pakistan. They didn’t even go to the cinema to watch it. I think Mohammad Ali Jinnah is the best thing that happened to Pakistan & in all these years, nothing has happened. I really like what he said:

“Think 100 times before you take a decision, But once that decision is taken, stand by it as one man.”

The key word is of course man, because taking a decision & standing for something…these things come much later.

And no one could have put it more aptly than his own daughter: ‘No Jinnah, no Pakistan.’

But we are such a selfish nation, we don’t even ponder on it.

Lord Pethick Lawrence, the former Secretary of State for India, very rightly said, "Gandhi died by the hands of an assassin; Jinnah died by his devotion to Pakistan".

When I read about the War of Independence for the 1^st time, it dawned on me that we shouldn’t take freedom for granted. People were suffering very badly at that time & even at the time of partition, countless people sacrificed their lives, left their country…we cannot just ignore all of it.