I follow Wusat-u-Allah’s writing on BBC Urdu site regularly, today I had a chance to read an interesting article on basics politics in Pakistan. I would love to translate that article in English, need to ask his permission before doing that. In the mean time just read that article and enjoy. Here is its excerpt from that article.
مجھے پچھلوں کا تو معلوم نہیں البتہ ایوب خان کے آخری دور میں جب کچھ کچھ باتیں سمجھ میں آنے لگیں تو ایک بات تواتر سے سنائی دیتی تھی۔
Some days back I received an email from one of my friends. It had a very interesting picturesque story in it. A well-dressed gentleman, comes in a bank, goes to the a teller counter. That teller was not on his desk at the moment. But he has mistakenly put a huge amount on his counter. That gentleman did an astonishing act, he noticed those bundles of currency, picked them up and started moving out of bank.
Banks do have such an arrangements that main door and all cash counters are constantly monitored through digital cameras, and captured video is saved for a specific time-period before discarding them out.
That gentleman obviously did not noticed those cameras, and had guts to do this. A good confidence but not for a good cause.
Here are some snaps from his adventure for your thoughts.
Yesterday I was watching Capital Talk with Hamid Mir, there was a mention of a Youtube video, which had Chairman CBR Abdullah Yousuf displaying his agility skills to the audience. And the audience was none other than world renown Musharaf and recently going Prime Minister of Pakistan, Shaukat Aziz.
It shows us one side of our social face, where we love to appreciate these kinds of gathering and other where it displays how our top cadre think of our people.
So enjoy it yourself too, he is really very agile and athletic.
I was reading a blog entry by Wussat on BBC Urdu, and find myself agreeing to the point he has raised in it, how we are changing our thinking process.
Adding more to this, yesterday similar incident happened in Lahore, check it out.
The first session of Pakistan’s National Assembly appears to have taken place in a bizarre legal vacuum. No one even knew which constitution they were taking an oath of allegiance to. If the members felt perplexed, here is a tale of two former inspectors-general, both pilloried endlessly but who were at least following the law. On Friday, March 9 around a year ago, the inspector-general of the Islamabad police would have probably heard the news that the President of Pakistan had called in the Chief Justice of Pakistan and confronted him with some illegal fuel bills, some garbled medical claims and a letter by one Naeem Bukhari.
The story of Pakistan is one of remorseless tug and pull between the civilian and military rulers on the one hand, and the liberal and religious forces on the other.
In the process, the country has failed to become either a democracy, a theocracy or a permanent military dictatorship.
The chief casualties have been the rule of law, the state institutions and the process of national integration, with grave consequences for the civil society.
The “Talebanisation” of the north-western region is one manifestation of the prevalent disorder; an unending separatist campaign by nationalists in the south-western Balochistan province is another.
Meanwhile, sectarian and ethnic tensions have kept the two largest provinces – namely Punjab, which is the bread-basket of the country, and Sindh, which is its trading and industrial mainstay – perennially instable.
How and why did all this come about?
Traditional Version
The Ant works hard in the withering heat all summer building its house and laying up supplies for the winter.
The Grasshopper thinks the Ant is a fool and laughs & dances & plays the summer away.
Comes winter,the Ant is warm and well fed. The Grasshopper has no food or shelter so he dies out in the cold.
Today I received an email from an old colleague, we were together at Habib Rafiq Technologies Ltd, and he was one of my senior, that email’s title was “Dessey Cow” means “Local Cow”, title was so amazing I was intrigued to read it. This is an essay submitted by a candidate for CSS 2002-2003 exam, and rumors are that he passed it and is serving somewhere in Pakistan. Below are some excerpt from his essay.
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