Pakistan – before and after the election

The upcoming parliamentary elections in Pakistan scheduled for February 18 seems to be first ever bloodiest experience in the history of the nation as not only the nationalist party saw its supporters bathed in pools of blood but the country’s most popular and the largest political party leader Benazir Bhutto was also sent heaven after addressing a rally in Rawalpindi on Dec 27.

However, her tragic death, which not only shocked the nation but the entire world as well, could not overshadow the brutalities meted out to the political workers in Karachi, Rawalpindi and Charsadda.

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Rehman Baba

Known as “harbinger of peace and love” and “the nightingale of Peshawar”, Rehman Baba (1632-1707) is a poet living in the heart of every Pashtoon.

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Pakistan under political crisis and militancy

There were two big news for Pakistan on Aug. 30, 2007. In London, former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif announced that he will return to his country on Sep. 10. In Waziristan, nearly three hundred armed and fully equipped soldiers abducted by scores of the Taliban. read more

Meet Haji Gulzar Alam

The other day when we were returning from Bacha Khan markaz, we stopped at his shop to meet Haji Gulzar Alam. The signboard erected over his shop was portraying a bearded Haji Gulzar Alam, the once adorable Pashtoon singer.

In Bacha Khan markaz, we had seen an old issue of Pakhtoon magazine which had published Gulzar Alam’s interview. He was quoted on the title: ‘Pashto music has no future.’

I don’t know whether he quit singing because ‘it has no future’ or it was due to growing Talibanisation in the country? I should have asked him about this, but we could not meet him as the shop was closed.

My friend, who is also a singer, told me, ‘He is still a singer, but he is Talibanised!’

Some two year ago, he announced to set up a music academy, but then he ‘founded’ a Property Dealer Shop instead of music academy.

So singer Gulzar Alam is now Haji Gulzar Alam, whom you can meet at his shop ‘Haji Guzar Alam Property Dealer’ on Pajagi Road, near Bacha Khan markaz, Peshawar.

The Un-Islamic Mobile Phones

According to Pakistani media, 12 armed Taliban carried explosive devices to the Matani Bazar in the Pakhtoonkhwa province and blew four markets.

Reports said that they have destroyed music centers, barbers’ shops and mobile phones’ markets.

After committing the crime, they fled but threatened the watchmen that they will let not the un-Islamic business run.

The mullahs and the Taliban fanatics were calling music centers and barbers’ shops un-Islamic but it is new that they declare mobile phones too un-Islamic.

Some mullahs in Swat and Bajaur have declared anti-polio campaign un-Islamic. In Charsadda and Shabqadar they have declared net cafes un-Islamic and terrorized people.

This time they will appear with a fatwa at one hand and a bomb in another declaring vehicles un-Islamic. Wait and see.

Bombs started to take bribe!

Tow suicide bobm blasts in Peshawar, known as the city of flowers, killed more than fifty and wounded more than one hundred innocent poor people.

It is similar in Afghanistan, where the bomb blasts kill only poor Afghans.

 There is a Hiko on this situation written by Lal Zada Sagir, which says:

Watan ke zay pa zay bamoona khlas sho

Wazhni ghareeb maldar ta hees na wayee

Bamoona ham rishwat khwara sho jorey

(Translation)

There are bomb blasts in every corner of the country = Only poor people are killed in these blasts and the rich are safe = I think the bombs also started to take bribe.

Annual celebration of Rahman Baba starts

Rahman Baba is the great Pashto poet who has a wide and deep popularity among Pakhoon. His annual celebration starts Today in Peshawar.
A seminar, arranged by Rahman Baba Literary Organization, was held Today in Khana-e-Farhang Iran, Peshawar.
A mushaera (poets gathering) and Urs will be held tomorrow and the day after tomorrow (07 and 08 April 2007). Thousand of poets and people attend these gatherings and recite the meaningful poems of Rahman Baba