Troubles in paradise…. :,-@

While I walked towards the bus stop on my way to home one day I could so feel the sun scorching my head and yet it was good to be brisk walking after staying put and confined inside walls for several hours at a stretch……That is when it hit me….the peace that comes with liberty…wth being free and not afraid to step out and jump, dance, shout, do whatever you want to…because this is your country and u have teh right to tread its paths and roads…

The trickling of America’s fight against terrorism across the borders is starting to get tiresome now….it pains me…it definitely must be paining you too…It’s infuriating and agonizing and that too so smoothly at the peak of such vulnerable and sensitive political plus socio-economical situations….

People say it’s been predicted that the map of 2011 will not show (God Forbid) Pakland as a unique, sovereign state on the map of the world…and it sends deep shivers of fear down my spine because sometimes  that seems more like a schedule that is bound to happen than simple prophecies……. I hope NEVER does that happen Amen!!

Was having a discussion with a friend of mine regarding favorite places and he pointed out a certain place in Islamabad and then he said that Pakistan in itself is very beautiful and indeed a land so blessed that we as a nation do not even deserve it!……..his last point made me think …maybe now we don’t deserve it but it really was the labor of love of the people who got it made…and since they wanted it for their future generations to know the joy of running free on the roads with no fear of the men in greens and browns therefore for their sake we desereve it….we do…if only we’ll learn to love it. And then again maybe…all we need is an external force to prick us to come together and realize that we are all standing on the same side of the line????

Who does america think it is to be going about being a busy body and spending its million of dollars on arms and taking lives of its own young men and everyone else’s people too when it should worry about the like of Ike s hitting its beaches and its growing rate of  unemployment…

Since when has war creatred peace???!!

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And it amazes me what cheek the american leaders have to be so sanguinly declaring that they ought to attack Pakistani basis…read this and this

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Note: Searched the pic from Google images and then applied some effects

A dream lost?

They dreamt of a utopia 

A perfect heaven

Where birds chirped free

And gulls danced with glee

Where a tear, if dropped

Was caught by many hands

Where a lonely heart, if sighed

Where a child in pain, if cried

Was given a piece of time

To hear out all the grief

and put every mind at peace

 

They envisioned a life

Where hands joined

To lift up what had fallen

To retrieve what was stolen

Where faith was

The one, the only language

And patience the only law

The emotions, genuine and raw

Where they all sang one tune

and danced in this blessed boon

 

Yet what they thought

They didn’t get it all

But whatever is quite whole?

And broken as they are

They still call

The hope that comes and spawns

Inspiration that sparks, clings on

And so they vow and ascend

To see it till the end

They limp, they tumble

They get up and walk again

Never letting go ‘coz

They had dreamt of a utopia

And dreams can never be

Lost, given up

Dreams can never be set free..

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Well if you haven’t already guessed, I wrote this one specially for the upcoming ‘Independance Day’ whose glory has been sadly fading more each day

But Long Live PAKISTAN

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Till death do us part…..

 It’s just plain ironic….kinda unbelievable…..just yesterday while looking at the news flashes going at the bottom of the screen on Geo I read that BB was condoling the mother of a deceased member during the 18^th October incident, I thought….death doesn’t comes to the mighty and rich, did it?…..God smiled at my utter nonsense….he sent a quick response…..now I wish I hadn’t hoped that. No directly I never said I hoped it but thinking this, in a rather obtuse way I did hope didn’t I?

This is the way Allah (SWT) talks….subtly, silently and solidly….and then whoever understands, Quran Karim states in an ayat:

“….aur iss main nishanian hain aqal walon kay liyay.”

And there are signs herein for the people of thought (or people with intelligence)

BB dies when she gets in the car which is not only bullet proof but bomb proof as well….death calls…it called her out from the sun roof….nothing can defy what the Higher power does….I am sick of Musharraf and his disarrayed policies but do I wish for a similar fate for him….I thought for a moment after this news….my heart went cold at what my mind’s eye saw….a sudden death of a leader, how weak he may be, with no one else to take the charge….means crash of a system….crumbling of protective walls….country becoming very vulnerable……………….No I love my land, it doesn’t need more surprises.

The news is overwhelming but even more indigestible are the fake  tears of the other political leaders…or are they the tears of gratitude from God that they got spared and maybe they will now see the error of their ways? Oh me, the optimistic pessimist ever and to me it’s not even an oxymoron, it’s a way of life.

Allah (SWT) help my dear Pakland come out of yet another turmoil…oh what a crazy era I have been witness to…our grandparents saw the war of independence and we are still waiting for the day of deliverance….

World hold on….

 I could say a score on the disturbed political system of my country and bad ethical conditions and how we are so dead and morbid as a nation but frankly I’m too tired of same old wives’ tale, of too much talk and too little action…also when I know that it is a well understood truth but not necessarily the entire one. Maybe I’ve entered the twilight zone where nothing registers anymore…but the half sun is always shining….that’s me…the strangest pessimistic optimist ever….

Well 10 years down the lane and with perfect periodicity we are on the route to the martial law again (I wish I could search the graph of the martial laws in Pakland but I’m too lazy to do that right now). Democracy, dictatorship, are simply words found in the D section of a dictionary. Right now all I care about is the peace within my land. I fear for the economy, the crash that may ensue. I’m afraid of strikes and rallies and suicide bombers and I most certainly detest the concept of our own brave young men fighting and killing our own brave, young men.

Too early to say anything…the doves are straining to fly south, the eagles have spread their wings and their sharp sight is looking for prey….but most satisfied of all, are the vultures smugly perched atop trees and waiting for the first drop of blood to ooze…