QUETTA GENOCIDE

At the time when the ferocious beasts are spanning all around the state to quench their thirst for blood and their terrorist networks cutting deep into the state, due to the continual unheard barbarism towards Quetta Muslims, the mourners have refused to bury the martyrs of yesterday's blasts which killed about a hundred people until demands for protection are met.

It’s been a decade from now. Bodies riddled with bullets, pilgrims segregated and verified through identity papers to check if they have Shia-like- surnames, backs checked on for marks of 'Matam'  and opened fired on confirmation. Their buses get  plundered and set on fire every now. There have been hundreds of brutal and unheard cases of slaughter in Parachinar .This is the history of this province and now the flare which has been mounting in response of the complete ignorance of the rest of Pakistan, has given Hazara Shias the courage to sit out on streets in freezing weather side by side with bodies of their killed loved ones. How horrendous are the atrocities that forces one to resort to such measures?

Eighty six dead bodies waiting to be buried!! Millions of Pakistanis with dead hearts carrying on with their daily lives!! We can't sink any lower than this. The land of pure is witnessing the worst form of genocide ever heard of.

Leaders are a replica of nation's attitude. Our nation has turned inhumane. The real atrocity is not committed by any barbaric, but by those who remain silent when it is being committed! We have no expectations from the government but our nation too is nothing more than just a crowd. We all saw the protests, the wall chalking at every nuke and corner for  the genocide of the Burma Muslims but what is it that stops us in showing the same anger and flare when it befalls on our very own Muslim brother citizens when they get slaughtered, blasted, and target killed, OPENLY?

The hearts are diseased, fraught with hypocrisy and depleted with cowardice. The politicians are busy in boosting their populist and national credentials while people prefer to stay silent. Religion is flourishing from above and vacant from inside, which is nothing but hypocrisy. It can’t even see the inhumanity being committed in front of it; feeling the pain of a brother is something miles away!

People don’t deny your responsibilities, play the role, raise the voice, show that you stand against the barbaric culprits and be UNITED!

WRITTEN BY KANZA BATOOL HAIDER

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THE SUPERMAN SYNDROME . . . !

“Pakistan is passing through Her Most Crucial Phase”… really? *Yawn*

  WRITTEN BY: SYED ANAS BAQI

….Blah blah- very clichéd, very familiar and really worn out! We have simply forgotten the count of how many times have we heard this sentence. It is sometimes said by politicians, passionately giving a justification of why they are important for the country; while on other times by media folks to add more fervency & spice to their already heart beat seizing headlines. The truth is that these words had been used up so many times, that nobody damn cares. We are so oblivious to our condition that maybe…just maybe….we have stopped thinking to save ourselves!

What?
No?
We haven’t?

Alright, let’s accept your argument that we haven’t given up and every Pakistani wants to see his nation rise again. Well, not EVERY Pakistani of course, as there ARE many ‘Pakistanis’ who are busy in ruling & emptying the coffers of this country. So let’s stay realistic and say, 90% of the populace wants Pakistan to be a better place. 

But what are these 90% doing? Surely, the 10% are quite busy these days. But where are the good (and lazy) people?

So let the truth be told- the 90% are WAITING; Waiting, as they have waited all their lives; Waiting for the Messiah to descend from the heavens; Waiting for the Superman to come and rescue them!

Sometimes its “Chief tere Jaan Nisaar”, sometimes its “Jiye General Kiyani”, and sometimes its “Musharraf come back please”. And there might be millions of things which can save Pakistan, but THIS attitude will surely NOT!

Besides, everybody in Pakistan has his own ‘permanent’ mind set of favoritism towards a certain type of leadership. Some are inclined towards religious parties & would vote for anyone who promises to "Kick America out of this planet". Some would blindly vote for the leader who yells out ‘Jaag Punjabi Jaag Teri Pag Nu Lag gaya daagh’, no matter how many stains he has on his own history (perhaps since ‘Daagh to Achay hote hain”, he always  gets a sweep win in the elections). Then there are ‘Saeen’ people who would vote for none other than ‘Saeens’ (let me say: ‘saeen to saeen, saeen k voters bhi saeen’) :P

Getting on a serious note now… This nation has suffered more due to this “Superman Syndrome”, as I like to call it, than due to the actions of our leaders. One man’s hero is the other’s villain and vice versa. And thus, we fail to do ANYTHING about our country because we are too busy fighting for our “Dear Leaders”.

Why is that so? Because we like to ignore ideology and we love running after idols. We do not care about the idea. We care about the man behind it. We have learned nothing from the Arab Spring. We have learned nothing from The Tunisian Defiance, The Egyptian Revolution, The Libyan Revolt, The Syrian Uprising, The Bahrain Upheaval, and The Yemen Rebellion; we learnt nothing, nothing at all.  This is worth mentioning that NONE of the above struggles had a CENTRAL LEADERSHIP to call for protests and demonstrations, yet the public came out and stood for what they believed in. Stood firm and fought for it. The public stood first, and then came the politicians. And that’s where they made a difference. And that’s where we have failed every single time.

When we realize the truth that there is no liberator, no savior and no messiah to rescue us, may be then we will become conscious to the fact that the Superman we had always been waiting for, is not out there, but inside the each of us.

As Ernesto Che Guevara once put it,

“I am not a Liberator. Liberators do not exist. The people liberate themselves”

So one final sentence for all Pakistanis…

“DON’T WAIT FOR A CHANGE….BE THE CHANGE YOU ARE WAITING FOR!”

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Islam and Science

WRITTEN BY BATOOL ARHAMNA HAIDER

Read! In the Name of thy Lord & Cherisher…And Read! Thy Lord is the Most Bountiful. He taught by the Pen. Taught man, that he knew not...                       (92:1-5, Quran)

The earth has turned into a battle field. With Raptors and Jet Harriers ruling the warring skies; with the dropping of nerve shattering bombs in Lebanon, Iraq and Afghanistan; with the core shaking screams of thousands of people of Ghaza Strip; with the breath taking and mind thundering scandals of Abu Ghraib prison-the world seems to be doomed. But what do we have except for cursing the officials who entitled Salman Rhushdi with ‘Sir’ or burning our own streets in protests? Despite these, the conditions are so pathetic that many Muslim countries buy even bullets of simple riffle guns from the west.

This is not a matter of core grievance. Something that almost blew the wind out me was when I heard a school bus driver telling a 5^th grade boy that his school education was worthless in the Hereafter and added further that “your MBA won’t go with you to the grave”! 

Who are these people who partition knowledge as ‘deeni’ and ‘dunyawi’, even though knowing that the miseries of Muslims today in this world are due to their lack of knowledge of all kinds? Don’t they know that these were the Muslims who literally made the world know what science and mathematics were? Shall we now consider a new revolution taking place in the Muslim World? A revolution of illiteracy in the name of religion.

I often argue on calling literates of religious laws ‘Aalim-e-Deen’, for deen is very vast and no one can possess knowledge of the entire deen. They are in fact ‘Aalime shariah’ which is only a portion of deen. Let me prove this from Quran:

Quran Corroborates Deepest Secrets of  Science:

The words “man” and “woman” have been mentioned 23 times each in Quran. Human body has 46 chromosomes and what is surprising is that exactly 23 of these are inherited from ones mother and 23 from ones father. No one except for a gynecologist can offer details on this subject. God famously described in 55:19-20, the “barrier” between the seas. Scientists have very recently discovered a barrier of ‘surface tension’ in water. Atlantic water has low salt and mineral density than Mediterranean Sea. Thus when the water of Atlantic splash into the Mediterranean, the surface tension caused by the different salt concentrations pulls water back, thus maintaining the unique characteristics of each. Who can describe this ayat of Quran except for an oceanographer?

In 57:25 god said “and we also sent down iron…” today astrologists have found out that iron is one of the metals that did not exist on earth but was “sent down” to it externally through the supernova explosion of other stars. further researches on the above surah “al Hadid” revealed that its numerological value (amjad) is 26, which represents the atomic number of iron. Thus Quran provides a portion within itself for chemists to research.

God stated Alfred Wegener’s theory of the moving continents in 27:88 and Einstein theory of expanding universe in 54:47. Yes it is all there in Quran! Biologists are invited to discover the stages of embryo’s formation in mother’s womb in 23:14 while geologists are told of the seven skies and the seven earthly cores in 65:12 and are informed of Dead Sea being the deepest portion of earth in 30:1-4. Astrologists are told of the black holes in 86:1-3. Even the theory of relativity of time is mentioned in 32:5. Further researches show that every word in Quran alone has a unique amjad number and a unique frequency.

                             

Can anyone be a master of all this when God himself says “And there is no dry and wet thing that has not been mentioned in Quran”? This is true for the ones we call ‘Alime-e-Deen’ as well. Except for the one on whom this Holy Book was revealed, Prophet Muhammad (SAWW), no one bears the capacity to know the entire Quran. Now do you know why the Prophet called himself “The City of Knowledge” and why he said that if this Great Book was revealed on a mountain, it would have “shattered into bits”. Thus, if some arrogates who think of themselves knowing the entire of Quran actually knew it, they would have been bits by this time.

Cause of Conflict between Adam & Satan was the Knowledge of Science-

The root cause of the conflict between Iblees and man was this knowledge. Iblees was a master of worship and he knew all regulations of prayers but that was the only thing he knew. God ordered all the angles to prostrate before Adam just because he was able to recite the names of certain plants, something they couldn’t. We all know that Iblees condemned this, so his centuries of worship was nullified instantaneously. Thus when Allah did not consider decades of worship in front of the knowledge of Botany (not shariah) Adam had, how do some elements of our society consider them to be the true heirs of paradise, stopping others from acquiring knowledge?

And as far as MBA going to grave is concerned, one can imagine how much Muhammad Yunus may have earned for his hereafter by giving 6.6 million impoverished Bengalis new lives. It’s hard to imagine how will the inventors of air conditioner, vaccine and the artificial Jarvik heart not go to heavens, even when I know they were not Muslims. I would only say that a good Muslim through his good education can earn both the worlds.

                                                                                    

                                                                                                                           

                                                                                                                             

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