Zardari sab pe bhari

In this post whatever you will read is only and only my personal views. However, these views are molded by the events, circumstances, and my understanding of the Pakistani politics.

Zardari sab pe bhari has become a quite common phrase being pronounced by many a men in our country. What I understand of this phrase is that Zardari is cunning than anyone else in Pakistani politics.

Asif Ali Zardari is the 11th President of Islamic Republic of Pakistan. He took this honor on 9th September, 2008 and gave disgrace in return to the whole nation of Pakistan. Asif Ali Zardari is the widower of the two times Prime Minister of Pakistan Ms. Benazir Bhutto, the daughter of the Prime Minister/President/Civilian Martial Law Administrator Zulfikar Ali Bhutto.

While writing the above sentence, I realized how unlfortunate our nation is. What leaders do we choose?

It is not wealth only that is important to change the ways society develops and progresses. The most important thing in improving lives of people is through learning. Learning comes through education. Zulfikar Ali Bhutto earned his B.A. in political science from  University of California, Berkley, and L.L.B, Advanced L.L.M and MSce in Political Science from Christ Church, a constituent college of the University of Oxford. Benazir Bhutto attended Radcliffe College at Harvard University and received a B.A with a cum-laude honours in comparative government. Later she studied Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. Whereas, Asif Ali Zardari, got his early education from an army college, Cadet College Petaro, where he was notorious of breaking rules in the college and indiscipline behaviour with the college administration and students. What would you expect of such a person for higher education who was not interested in education at the early age? Well one can argue that people can realize later about education and many actually do who come from at least educated families. However, in case of Asif Ali Zardari, he chose not to. This is nothing, adding salt to wounds is that he claims that he went to London Business School and graduated from there and attended Pedinton School in Britain, however, this is not confirmed. How funny it is? Isn't it. His education is not confirmed!

The good thing is that he has never been elected by Pakistani people but he has been selected by senators. He served in Benazir's second government and got tagged as "Mr. 10 percent". People get titles of Sir, Allama, and so on, but our President started his political career to get the title of Mr. 10 percent. Even that did not suffice to his CV. He very cleverly added more to this, Jail - which he rightly deserved - I must say he should never have been released from Jail, he must have got life imprisonment. Anyways, the people who released him are in some way his accomplice. Not only corruption but also murder cases have been his degrees on his CV - Murder case of Murtaza Bhutto, brother of Benazir Bhutto. I don't know but I think he could be involved in his wife's murder as after Benazir's death, he announces himself as the Co-chairman of Pakistan's Peoples Party (the governing party, party found by Late Zulfikar Ali Bhutto).

It is shame for the people of Pakistan that they still chose him to be President. I would say people of Pakistan are more uneducated than Zardari. We as a nation have a very short-term memory and we are very emotional nation. Just at the killing of Benazir Bhutto, rather than mourning the death, the whole nation goes crazy, destroying the people's wealth in the form of banks, shopping centers, business buildings and schools (my God). Already we lack the proper utilization of resources, skills, education, learning, facilities, infra-structure, etc, we dont bother to save them. Every year, we push ourselves back economy wise, development wise, by four to five years. This is what we want as a nation? Probably yes, when we see the majority of people doing this.

Asif Ali Zardari after assuming office as a President has been running a puppet show in a Piccadilly Circus. The chief Puppet is Yusuf Raza Gilani, the Honourable Prime Minister of Pakistan, the second in command is Rehman Malik - wow who has been awarded an honorary PhD degree by Karachi University - Shame on Karachi University Board of Governors! This is the height of illness of education in our society. If anyone wants to measure the level of competency of education system, he/she should see how our universities award the most prestigious degrees and to whom they award. By rewarding degree to Rehman Malik, it seems that we have black sheep teaching and grooming our young generation. I don't have more to say about it.

Zardari sab pe bhari, the most cunning person. He has been playing a game of wolves. If any wolf tries to sleep, the other wolves will attack him and tear him apart. Zardari has played all his cards. He has not left any institution of Pakistani federation to cast a slur upon. Army, the most respectable institution has been targeted very badly in his government period. ISI, one of the most efficient intelligence agency, gets darkened by the Zardari coal mines. Judiciary is treated as a piece of shit. The government's slogan is we want the parliament to be stronger, we want the institutions to be answerable to the parliamentary committees under the auspices of corrupt politicians. Haha! What a joke!

Zardari does not need to resign but the nation needs to wake up! It is a wake up call, the person who could not study in high school, the nation wants him to build an education system competing the world education system. The person who is known as Mr. 10 percent, the nation wants him to clean the country of corruption shit. The person who is blamed to murder his wife's brother, the nation wants him to have a strong judiciary. The person who embezzled country's assets, the nation wants him to strengthen the tax/revenue system. The person who is of loose character, the nation wants him to make our country stronger.

We need good leaders but most important is that we need good nation who chooses good leaders. If we do not have persons of good character, then we must choose leaders who are of less bad character. I don't think we can change the fate of our nation in another 20 years, but at least we can try punishing people who take the responsibility of reigning this country and do not deliver. We have to have our character and moral principles intact.

I forgot to mention that when we want to read jokes, we usually enjoy jokes about stupid people. Every culture/nation have their characters who they joke about. For example, Swedish or Europeans have jokes about Blondes, Indians have jokes about Sikhs, and so on. But do you know what kind of jokes do we have in Pakistan? Two kinds of, one about Pathans and other about Zardari. Now Zardari has been a gali (gali is an urdu word for abuse). I am not joking but it is the fact! You just type Zardari jokes in google or bing search engines and you will know what Zardari Jokes are!

Zardari sab pe bhari hay sab se bari gali! 

Bye for now!

We are blind!

My come back inspired:
O Lord! Make me the instrument of peace,

Where there is hatred, let me sow love,
Where there is injury, pardon,
Where there is war, peace!!! .................................

(Mother Teresa)

We are not only forgetful but we are blind as well. When I sit back and try to remember many of my old days, I hardly remember much. If i remember, I sometimes realize that I was blind on many occasions. Sometimes, when I remember that others were around too, then I question myself, how can others be so blind as well. Life is too short and learning from small mistakes quickly is very important. If you don't mend your ways, you will be dragged into the mud.

My wife shared a news with me about American soldiers peeing on dead bodies of Taliban. My reaction was terrible. I could not believe that how disgusting soldiers can be when it comes to treating the dead bodies of enemy. I am sure this is the reaction of the hatred for Muslims in general and taliban in particular taught to them during their training. Even when Paroah was drowned into the sea, God chose his fate like that. Paroah was not the enemy of mankind only but he was the enemy of God. Even then, mercy in his killing was shown by Almighty.

I must say it is extremely painful to know such an act of american soldiers. Many people quote everything is okay in love and war. There are bundles of books inked with rules and laws to be followed. These have been ratified by all the civilized nations of the world. Yet they don't follow. Rules can either be followed or broken. This suggests that rules are only supposed to be followed by the weak and developing countries and broken by the strong/rich and developed countries.

What are the times of decline? The times of decline are simpler. These times are when one breaks the rules.
It is time of these so called civilized nations to fall apart.

We have many scholars who have told us the stories of success and failure. Why not we try to follow them and learn from them? Life is too short and we must mend our ways. Specially, the war stricken people should learn from their experience and its time to say good bye to all the wrongful things people have been doing. In all such countries the main problems are that of illiteracy, corruption, mis-management, ditching the own people, brain drain and so on. May Almighty Allah lead us on the right path and make our people realize their mistakes and come to terms with foreign powers.

The strength of such poor countries is their people and I do not know why these countries do not make the most of such a productive resource. I only hope that it is never too late to mend ways as life is too short.

Peace is the demand not from Taliban but from Americans, Europeans, British, Canadians and all the countries who are part and parcel of killing people in the name of war on terror.

Quotes: Great falls have great rebound

There are many forms of failures the souls face during their physical existence on the smallest island of the universe. The failures are the test to the success. Only souls that face hardships or the temporary failures are chosen which have strength to rebound. With the composure, patience, determination, hard work, and faith, the greater the fall awaits (mirrors) a great success ahead.

Thomas Edison
"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that don't work."
"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up."

John F. Kennedy
"Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly"

Beverly Sills
"You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try."

John Keats
"Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, in as much as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid."

Lovely Autumn in Tilburg, towards Tilburg West Station!

Autumn, Tilburg and Tilburg University!

Some motion moments of the autumn in Tilburg

Tilburg and Universiteit van Tilburg

On the Tilburg West train station - I know you will say dashing! It was really lovely sunny day!

Beautiful view from my office window. It faces


the south. The building shown is Cobenhagen building "often called C building".














The tallest building of Tilburg University!
Koopman's building!
















Tilburg University Monument (Really don't know what it stands for)















One of the fountains in the east side of university!

Ye Dolat Bhi Le Lo!!

One of the most favorite song of mine!

Vertigo or Dizziness feeling

I have been fasting all days in the month of Ramadan since I was in class three or four. As I remember well, I never missed a day. Today, Saturday 21st Aug, 2010 (11th Ramadan) I decided not to fast because of my health. On Friday, after sehri when I got up and tried to come out of my bed, I felt a sudden fast round of the world. The whole world moved around me and I chose to lye immediately back into my bed. After couple of minutes rest it was alright. I chose to stay at home rather than going to university and work. In the mid-day, I went for Jumma prayers and then decided to go to office. In the evening, I had a long long chat with my family.

In the evening, I came back home. An hour after iftaar, I felt this jerk again. It was strong as in morning. After some time, I felt a small vertigo again. Then after this happened quite regularly. On my request, Faraz, who was near his place near City Center, came to my place. On the way to my place, he met and got advice from Ather's morrocan friend, Yahya that I could call Emergency and inform them of my situation. Yahya talked to me on mobile as well and I am highly thankful to him for all his support that he offered to take me to hospital at such late time (12 midnight) if emergency hospital asked me to visit doctor.

Well, after a long wait on emergency phone number, a person finally got a chance to talk to me. It was almost after 15 minutes of hold on phone. I told him the whole story that this dizziness/ vertigo started in morning, and happened again in late evening at 10pm. Continuously, I felt this dizziness/vertigo with small breaks of few minutes and I felt it specially when I turned from my one side to other side while lying on the bed. I also felt lightness while walking as otherwise when walking I usually have a firm footing on the ground. The woman on the other side of the phone asked several other questions about the story. The surprising thing is that I was fasting the whole day and I didn't feel it but I felt it only after iftaar when I had already eaten alot. When I informed her, she immediately was of the opine that I do not need to see a doctor and it was probably because of Ramadan/fast because she put forth the argument that during fast we don't eat and the dizziness could be just a cause of it. However, I also had a severe cold and sweating at the same time. I told her this several times but she was stubborn and firm that I can not see a doctor.

Well, by that time Faraz was already there. I took one paracetamol and decided not to fast the next day (that is today). I felt extremely bad about it but I couldn't help myself.

Today, after I got up in the morning (10 am perhaps). I felt the same thing again but I was not feeling cold as such. Then the vertigo/dizziness feeling remained still. Sadaf, Faraz and I searched on internet about the near by doctor. We went to see a near by house doctor. Unfortunately, the house doctors work from Monday to Friday and the house doctor hospital at Lage Witsiebaan 400, Tilburg was closed. We came in contact with Sadaf, Ather and Yahya again. Yahya called the emergency hospital and took me an appointment of 10 past 15. Ather was here before Yahya and then Yahya brought his car near the gas station at 15.00 hours. We went to the hospital (I dont remember the name, I will ask Ather again).

At hospital, doctor called me in. He asked me the story. After my narration, he took me to the diagnosis room. There first he peeped into my ear with a some device and told me that I don't have fever. Then he asked me to undress top. I took off my jacket, shirt and vest. He checked my blood-pressure and said it was normal. He then checked my breath, heart beat and lungs by listening to stathoscope. Later he asked me to do straighten my hands in front and by closing eyes, I should touch the finger of one hand to my nose and repeat for the other hand too. The next exercise was to walk towards him by closing eyes. The last exercise was to walk with eyes open but by putting feets in one line.

After such number of exercises, his remarks were that I was completely alright. He informed me he checked my fever, my blood pressure, my brain, my chest, my lungs and he thought everything was good.

Lastly, he mentioned that though he can write me desciption of medicines but he will not do that. He suggested I should not take any medicine and I should only relax and take rest and do things as normal. He informed me that this vertigo feeling could remain for some days and would reduce slowly and gradually. However, if I think that things are not improving then I can visit him after afew days, may be Tuesday or Wednesday.

This was the first time, I had such vertigo or dizziness feeling. I pray to Allah that this dizziness/vertigo feeling goes off soon. Amen.

I am thankful to Yahya, Sadaf, Faraz, and Ather for all the help they did. Thanks buddies. May Allah grant you Ajar. Amen.

I will talk about insurance / house doctor / hospitals in Holland in my next blog.

Humans or Animals: Karachi Bloodshed

No civilized nation ever fights within its own circles. Killing a fellow human is the worst act a human can even think of. Blaming small groups over ethinic grounds as terrorists has been the playfield of the ethnic party of Karachi, MQM. With the huge size and population of city, approximately 18 million (many nations in the world even don't have such number of people), it becomes the utmost responsibility of the most influential party to maintain peace and show both the maturity and the patience.

MQM one one hand claims that they have not only the most middle-class/youth as their members but also the most-educated when comes to comparing with other parties population. Yet, they display no less than an uneducated mannerisms. The civilized people would never take law in one's own hands, rather they would respect the supremacy of the law.

On 2nd August, 2010, MP of Provincial Assembly, Mr. Raza Haider is shot dead by 'unidentified' men. After this news, in not less than two hours, the city of 18million goes to sleep for two complete days. Not only the city sleeps, but some again 'unidentified' men engage in the row of actual firing and kill five to seven dozen of people in just 2 days.

Simply terrorizing and killing is the price of the killing of some big person of MQM party. The price is not just six to seven dozen people but:
a. terrorizing the innocent citizens
b. disconnecting Karachi city from the whole world
c. losses from no economic activity
d. Not letting children and youth go to schools, colleges, and universities.
e. No social life.
f. Complete horror and terror.

This is the responsible action of the responsible party which makes tall claims about itself. This party is the coalition partner in the provincial government. The Governor of the province Sindh is the influencial member of the party. Education never teaches to create such environment, rather it teaches to use the best and optimum strategy that ensures the justice along with saving the environment from being suffered by terror, horror, economic loss, social loss, monetary loss and above all the loss of lives.

I hope the youth of Pakistan can make better decision as to what they want.

Floods in Pakistan: A call for a change!

Record Floods in Pakistan
I remember from my childhood, when our elders, specially my grandfather Haji A. Majeed Shaikh and my mom, used to tell us horrifying stories of floods that swept away hundreds of villages in Pakistan during the era of ex-Prime Minister, Late Zulfikar Ali Bhutto. I never knew the devastation, horror, terror, and deceases caused by such natural disaster. The odd memories of last disaster have not faded that the mother nature is testing the Pakistani people with its yet another horrifying calamity.

Everybody is well-known with the idea that a hard/solid stone can even be cut by the fierce force of water. The floods naturally cause the biggest disaster. Not only, they destroy the property, but they take with them all the essence of living - be it livelihood, agriculture, infrastructure, health, and above all the lives. The reconstruction of worldly things is delayed for couple of months but the resurrection of souls is not possible.

This natural calamity not only is the call for raising funds and helping those who have been displaced mainly but also is a big call for correcting our actions and bringing a educated revolution of mending our ways of development for the masses of the country. It now calls for thinking differently. Why we as a nation help our poor brotheren only when they are under the mercy of nature? Why we as a nation only come out and start raising funds to provide the people the basic necessity? Why we as a nation only think with a short-term thought and vision? Why we as a nation only leave our racism / ethinicity in the times of badly-hit times? Why we "educated class" ring the bells of the other friends for helping these calamity stricken people only when there is calamity? Why we call this is the time of the test for all of us?

I do accept that this is the time of the test for every countrymen, but I also think that mother nature wants us to think differently. When I say think differently I mainly mean two things. Why not we work continuously and consistently for building infrastructure that is not only strong but also viable for long-term like 30 to 50 years. Why not we voluntarily provide services to our country in various fields and build the strong foundation for developing. Just think of a building or a computer software, the higher you want to construct the building the stronger the base/foundation you need. Similarly, for computer software, the sophisticated software you want to develop, a comprehensive and clear architecture of software you need to design first.

We must mend our ways to build the country. A sudden help to poor because of natural shock will never build the country stronger but it will take our country back something like 10 to 20 years in development everytime a natural calamity hits us. We now know on average in every decade, we face 2 to 3 natural shocks and each shock takes us 10 years back. These habits will not change our future at all.

Let's hold our hands together and promise for untiring and endless efforts and hardwork for building our country each and everyday. Let's promise that we will not only act during the times of natural shocks but we will act more during our daily lives.

May Allah rest the bereaved families struck by the calamity. May Allah build the hearts of our people stronger to help eachother in everywalk of life. May Allah purify our hearts so that we can think of eliminating evils rather than fostering them.

Holland Vs Spain Worldcup final WK-2010!

This is Liedseplein, Amsterdam. Around are the coffee shops, bars and discos showing world cup final match on big screens in and outside their restaurants.
That day, in Amsterdam, more than 80,000 people came to watch the final between Holland and Spain with the hope of winning worldcup for the first time in history.
Their team with aggressive and kicking approach didn't reach upto the high-spirited fans clubs in Amsterdam.


This is Museumplein in Amsterdam where big concerts are organized. There were three huge screens showing the world cup final. People from far areas came to watch this match. I myself came to Amsterdam to watch this match.
There were more than 80,000 people at this place. It was great fun. The mood was gloomy after the dutch team lost the match.

Amazing fun!
I really enjoyed alot.