Thursday, July 19, 2007

Shandur Polo Festival

Shandur is a 12,500ft above sea level valley in Northern Areas of Paksitan where a festival and polo match is held each year in July.

This year i was very enthusiastic to experiance this event live. Unfortunately i don't have enough money to fulfill my dream. From Karachi it would have cost me nearly Rs.40,000. PTDC was offering the cheapest package i.e. Rs.27,000 starting from Islamabad to Chitral to Shanduur to Phunder to Gilgit to Hunza and back to Islamabad. All travelling, lodging and food is included in the package. It also include three days camping in Shandur. Air fare for a return ticket between Karachi and Islamabad would have cost me nearly Rs.10,000.

It's really adventurous and i really want to attend this so i m thinking of going there next year. Unfortunately i found this article written by
Masud Alam for BBC News which gives a perception that this festival is not pure in its spirit now. It might have lost its cultural essense and beauty. But i m sure there are still many attractions for persons like me. So still dreaming for it.

Still to come .....

No one is sure what is happening in Pakistan these days. Current happenings in Pakistan adds to the fact that here human life has no value.

People have been killed in many different forms. Sometimes its poverty, sometimes its for the sake of godfathers and sometimes its just for the sake of Pakistan's first. We are now so much used to the deaths that we don't care much but since few days things are gone worse. The death poll is rising day-by-day. Is it all because Movernment has raid on so-called islamic extremists or they still want to divert attention from judiciary rape?


What ever the case is but i am sure that a lot worse is still to come. Things won't get normal (can't think of better) and sometime i feel ashamed of being Pakistani ;(

Thursday, July 12, 2007

Every Country has Army, Pakistan Army has a country

Besides tens of thousands of Army Men working in government-owned institutes and industries here's list of Army Officers in Civilian Govt. This country should be renamed as "Army Inc."

General Pervez Musharraf (President of Pakistan)
Major General (Retd) Muhammad Anwar (President of Azad Kashmir);
Lt Gen (Retd) Khalid Maqbool (Governor Punjab);
Commander Khalil (Governor NWFP);
Lt General (Retd) Javed Ashraf Qazi (Federal Education Minister);
Col (Retd) S.K. Tressler (Federal Minorities & Culture Minister);
Lt Gen. Hamid Javed (Chief Executive's Chief of Staff);
Lt General Muneer Hafeez (Chief of NAB);
Major General Usman Shah (Deputy Chief of NAB);
Major General Shujaat Zameer (Deputy Chief of NAB);
Major General Abdul Jabbar Bhatti (Chief, Regional
Accountability Bureau, RAB,Punjab);
Air Vice Marshal Zakaullah (Chief of RAB NWFP);
Major General Tariq Bashir (Chief of RAB Sindh);
Major General Owais Mushtaq (Chief of RAB Balochistan) ;
Lt General (Retd) Hamid Nawaz (Secretary Defence);
Air Marshal (Retd) Zahid Anees (Secretary Defence Production);
Lt General (Retd) Saeedul Zafar (Secretary Railways);
Major General (Retd) Fazal Ghafoor (Ambassador to North Korea);
Brigadier (Retd) Abdul Majeed Khan (Ambassador to Tajikistan);
Major General (Retd) Salimullah (Ambassador to UAE);
Major General (Retd) Muhammad Hassan Aqeel (Ambassador to Thailand);
Lt General (Retd) Asad Durrani (Ambassador to Saudi Arabia);
Vice Admiral (Retd) Shamoon Aslam Khan (Ambassador to Ukraine);
Air Marshal (Retd) Najeeb Akhtar (Ambassador to Brazil);
Major General Syed Mustafa Anwar Hussain (Ambassador to Indonesia);
Lt General (Retd) Muhammad Shafeeq (Ambassador to Bahrain);
Major General (Retd) Agha Masood Hassan (DG of Postal Services);
Major General Farrukh Javed (Chairman National Highway Authority);
Rear Admiral Ahmad Hayat (Chairman Karachi Port Trust);
Rear Admiral Sikandar Viqar Naqvi (Chairman Port Qasim Authority);
Vice Admiral Tauqir Hussain Naqvi (Chairman National Shipping Corporation) ;
Major General (Retd) Muhammad Hassan (Chief of National Fertilizer Corporation) ;
A Lt. General (Chairman Pakistan Steel Mills);
Lt Colonel (Retd) Akbar Hussain (Export Processing Zone Authority);
Major General Shehzad Alam Malik (Chairman Pakistan Telecommunications Authority);
Air Vice Marshal Azhar Masood (Chairman National Telecommunications Authority);
Brigadier (Retd) Muhammad Saleem (Chairman NADRA);
Brigadier Mirza Babar Aziz (DG NADRA);
Brigadier (Retd) Muhammad Anwar Khan (DG NADRA NWFP);
Major General Raza Hussain (Chairman SUPARCO);
Major General Sabihuddin Bokhari (Surveyor General of Pakistan);
Brigadier Javed Iqbal Cheema (DG National Crisis Management Cell);
Air Marshal (Retd) Shafeeq Haider (Chairman Federal Public Service Commission);
Lt General Arshad Hussain (Member Federal Public Service Commission);
Lt General (Retd) Jehangir Nasrullah (Chairman Punjab Public Service Commission);
Major General (Retd) Arshad Chaudhry (Member Punjab Public Service Commission);
Major General (Retd) Arshadullah Tarar (Member Punjab Public Service Commission);
Air Vice Marshal (Retd) Aliuddin (DG Civil Aviation Authority);
Air Vice Marshal (Retd) Arshad Saleem (Deputy DG Civil Aviation Authority);
Major General Zafar Abbas (DG Anti-Narcotics Force);
Major General Syed Haider Javed (DG National Logistics Cell);
Major General (Retd) Inayatullah Khan Niazi (DG Auqaf, the Deptt. of Historical Relics);
Major General Pervez Akmal (MD OGDC);
Brigadier (Retd) Rizvan Ashraf (General Manager OGDC);
Brigadier (Retd) Ishtiaq Ali Khan (MD Pakistan Mineral Development Authority);
Major General (Retd) Hamid Hassan Butt (Chairman Pakistan Railways);
Lt General (Retd) Syed Shujaat Ali Khan (Rector Engineering University Lahore);
Lt General (Retd) Arshad Mehmood (Vice Chancellor Punjab University);
Air Vice Marshal (Retd) Sardar Khan (Vice Chancellor Engineering University Peshawar);
Captain (Retd) U.A.G. Isani (Vice Chancellor Islamabad University);
Lt General (Retd) Sardar Ali (DG National Institute of Public Administration) ;
Brigadier (Retd) Maqsoodul Hassan (DG Directorate of Education);
Brigadier Muhammad Ejaz (Home Secretary Punjab);
Brigadier Abdur Rehman (Director Health NWFP);
Brigadier Shadab (Secretary C&W Punjab)
Brigadier Anees (Chairman Punjab Privatisation Commission);
Colonel (Retd) Shahid Qureshi (DIG Sindh Telecommunications) ;
Colonel (Retd) Ghulam Hussain (Secretary S&GAD NWFP);
Brigadier Mukhtar (Home Secretary, Sindh);
Brigadier Zaheer Qadri (DG, KDA, Sindh and not Secretary C&W NWFP);
Brigadier (Retd) Akhtar (Secretary to Governor Sindh);
Major General (Retd) Imtiaz (Chairman Pakistan Athletics Federation);
Brigadier Saulat Abbas (DG Pakistan Sports Board).
Brig. Khalid Javed, DG Projects Directorate, NADRA, Islamabad
Col Talmeez Abbas, DG Dataware Housing, NADRA, Islamabad
Maj Tahir M. Alvi DDG, Project Directorate, NADRA, Islambad
Brig Safdar Husain Awan is the Secy (C&W) NWFP Brig Qadri is DG KDA;
Brig Mohtarim is Home Secretary Sindh
Major General (Retd) Hashmi, Registrar, Pakistan Engineering Council;
Major General (Retd) Anis Bajwa, Chairman PTDC;
Major Genera (Retd) Asif Riaz Bokhari, NRB;
Brig Muhammad Toseef Uz Zaman Khan, Civil Aviation Authority;
Brig Saeed Ahmed Malik, WAPDA Head Qtrs Lahore;
Brig Muhammad Iqbal, WAPDA HQ Lahore;
Brig Mushtaq Ahmed, WAPDA HQ, Lahore;
Brig Khalid Sohail Cheema, DG Pak PWD;
Brig Shamshad Khan, GM NWFP NHA;
Brig (Retd) Zareen Khan, Project Incharge Ghazi Brotha Dam WAPDA;
Brig (Retd) Mukhtar Ahmed Tariq, GM Admin OGDC;
Brig (Retd) Muhammad Hamayoun Khan, GM Procurement OGDC;
Brig (Retd) Sardar Javed Ashraf, MD KW&SB;
Brig (Retd) Nisar, IG Prisons (Sindh);
Brig (Retd) Zafar Ahmed Malik, Karachi Building & Control Authority;
Brig (Retd) Aftab Ahmed, DG PHA;
Brig (Retd) Dilbar Husain Naqvi, MD National Construction Company;
Colonel Rauf, IG Prisons, NWFP;
Colonel Asif Jamal, MD, Multan Development Authority;
Colonel (Retd) Najam ul Hasan Malik, TMO Rawalpindi;
Colonel (Retd) Hafiz Abdur Rehman Malik, MD WASA, Rawalpindi;
Colonel (Retd) Kanwar Muhammad Sherbaz Khan, GM CS&E OGDC;
Lt Col Muhammad Azim, GM NHA;
LT Col Naqeeb Amjad Malik, Manager CS&E OGDC;
Lt Col (Retd) Aziz ul Haque Mirza, Member (Operations) NHA;
Lt Col (Retd) Hafeezullah Awan, MD WASA Quetta.
Major General (Retd) Shujaat Ali Khan, Ambassador to Morocco;
Major General (Retd) Badruddin, Ambassador to Brunei;
Vice Admiral(Retd) Khalid Mir, Ambassador to Lebanon;
Brig (Retd) Muhammad Nisar, Ambassador to Argentina;
Brig. Sikandar Ali, Director, Anti Narctics Force;
Brig (R) Saeed Ahmad Rafi, Director General, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Brig (R) Mian Khalid Habib, Chief of Protocol, M/o foreign Affairs;
Brig Tipu Sultan, Director General, Ministry of Foreign Affairs;
Group Capt (R) Khalid Aziz Babar, Director General, M/o Foreign Affairs;
Naval Lt (R) Ghalib Iqbal, Consul General, Toronto (son-in-law of former Air Chief Anwar Shamim) {Anwer Shamim is a Quadiyani and had served General Zia {Ameer ul Momineen as per Jamat-e-Islami} , Anwer Shamim has huge ranches in California, USA, which he
and his brother in Law Khursheed Anwer Mirza made through trafficking Narcotics during so-called Afghan Jihad {the Time Weekly that carried this news was banned in Pakistan in 80s}.
Naval Lt (R) Qasim Raza Mutaqqi, Counsellor, Rome;
Col (R) Salik Nawaz, Deputy Chief of Protocol, M/o Foreign Affairs;
Capt (R) Masood Akhtar, Deputy Chief of Protocol, M/o Foreign Affairs;
Capt (R) Shaukat Muqaddam, Counsellor, Dublin;
Capt (R) Zaighamuddin Azam Khan, Counsellor, Berlin;
Capt (R) Sohail Ittehad Hussain, Director General,M/o Foreign Affairs;
Capt (R) Khalid Durrani, Director, M/o Foreign Affairs.
General (R)Jahangeer Karamat, Ambassador of Pakistan in USA.
Brigadier (R) Ejas Shah, Director General Intelligence Bureau.

The above list was of 2002

Dr. Zakir Naik Debates

The following links are related to debates and knowledgable information by Dr.Zakir Naik, Islamic Research Foundation Scholar.


MISCONCEPTIONS ABOUT ISLAM

Part 01 : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvHHYrdiXHE
Part 02 : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCjiXeWM4pg
Part 03 : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oG00Zw-FvkA
Part 04 : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zhxdW04pGo
Part 05 : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y69bL-aPthc
Part 06 : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-E82qu7INdI
Part 07 : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nW3qnM2lDM4
Part 08 : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5q_Nu1XVWDY
Part 09 : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxIRLeafh8I
Part 10 : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxnhL6Bzc3A
Part 11 : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHblgiBMcHo
Part 12 : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUWKoN1dW-Q
Part 13 : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NVKQeYoo2c
Part 14 : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqFh1AM95fw
Part 15 : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPmOeqU8CvE
Part 16 : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8t3GxVwsM9U
Part 17 : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jn9K1QWfrCw
Part 18 : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kISMiOUMxQQ
Part 19 : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ols0czWNdL4
Part 20 : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsIgSe9Fg9c
Part 21 : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBDdSLcmixc
Part 22 : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBq6h7dc-5M
Part 23 : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvhQodWQi38
Part 24 : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCqHsTnJREA


THE QURAN AND THE BIBLE IN THE LIGHT OF SCIECE
A debate between Christian scholar William Campbell and Muslim scholar Zakir Naik.

Part 01 : http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6693125820690597622
Part 02 : http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3772698787977185627
Part 03 : http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7727650085009916595
Part 04 : http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2840601180460198326


SIMILARITIES BETWEEN ISLAM AND HINDUISM

Part01 : http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5463724505480326724
Part02 : http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1334401470279399976
Part03 : http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6032776679880404825


WAS JESUS REALLY CRUCIFIED

Part01 : http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2294876665735364519
Part02 : http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5283623989368520963


CONCEPT OF GOD IN ISLAM AND HINDUISM
A debate "The Concept of God in Hinduism and Islam in the light of Sacred scriptures" between Dr.Zakir Naik (Islamic Research Foundation) & SriRaviShankar (ArtofLiving):

Part01 : http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2423829886745319361
Part02 : http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6161351915241374974
Part03 : http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-979033391704165036
Part04 : http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1724090453457058535


NON VEGETARIAN FOOD PERMITTED OR PROHIBITED

Part01 : http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3775022861563813322
Part02 : http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1719204291514655475


RELIGIOUS FUNDAMENTALISM A STUMBLING BLOCK

Part01 : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9v_p2YvRFro
Part02 : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTlOcXc31FE
Part03 : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKnqvPBQfiM
Part04 : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-PY5h-7EdE
Part05 : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqlgBtrMckk
Part06 : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEKt2kKoD9I
Part07 : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dItkeZmUQV4
Part08 : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gojBc_3e_o
Part09 : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaH_MeFMdZU
Part10 : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwnciGZzR88
Part11 : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ge6p6xEqiA
Part12 : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcWDPcMkptE
Part13 : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pv-MeNW40fk


WOMEN RIGHTS IN ISLAM

Part01 : http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6252112331790749306
Part02 : http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2193587996061269852
Part03 : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdNnG1ZR7-g
Part04 : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7yyGt7zMYA


TERRORISM AND JIHAD

Part01 : http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1209138480560823039
Part02 : http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5071265718635364196


QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS IN URDU

Part01 : http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7845384636809047368
Part02 : http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1536229582215533067
Part03 : http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6764140312571143775
Part04 : http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2355640483472559724
Part05 : http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5348912480272298122


A BRIEF DECISION ON DAWAH

Part1 : http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6279062323862554374
Part2 : http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2448635914694529444


PUBLIC TALK

Part01 : http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6263189981206172400
Part02 : http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=897052651225261032


MUHAMMAD(P.B.U.H) IN VARIOUS RELIGIOUS SCRIPTURES

Part01 : http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8193366074778916455
Part02 : http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8155519851893060905


IS THE QURAN GOD'S WORD

Part01 : http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8638113782795578224
Part02 : http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3704081952251716668
Part03 : http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4197242005069416437
Part04 : http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2082152319210238622


IF LABEL SHOWS YOUR INTENT THEN WEAR

Part01 : http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3402909560042912123
Part02 : http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8873484637853056329


QURAN AND MODERN SCIENCE

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=9189456537478918098(3hr9min)


READINGQURANWITHUNDERSTANDING

Part01 : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3q9_ksLAhk
Part02 : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmO9j7G9l9s
Part03 : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRf2jYTpSjo


FOCUS ON ISLAM AND UNIVERSAL BROTHERHOOD


Part01 : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wARGxdaB0s
Part02 : http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-563458337774447449(google)
Part03 : http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6377675691622721340(google)


QURAN AND MODERN SCIENCE - CONFLICT OR CONCILIATION

Part01 : http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2260954296979594912
Part02 : http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5123853843535568596


AHMED DEED AT AMAZING ANSWERS

Link01 : http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2287492988094559892(about4wivesinIslam)
Link02 : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0plMbcfVBE(AmazingAnswerregardingHijaborviel)
Link04 : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utPstdChbt4


Part02 : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WU8RvlPHSUA
Part03 : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89J7NL7St6w

Wednesday, July 11, 2007

i m not surprised ....

I m not surprised that Maulana Abdul Rasheed Ghazi has been killed in military final action against the unlawful acts from Lal Masjid. I was sure that this will happen otherwise he might produce facts which will not be acceptable in any conditions to some people.

I m not surprised that Movernment killed its own soldiers and many other people just to divert the people's attention from Judiciary rape and/or APC's reunion only for power.

I m not surprised that media has not been allowed to capture the actual happenings just because the Movernment cannot justify what they are doing.

There are a lot of voices now against and in favour of drama that last nearly for a week and which is prepared for years but i m assure of one thing that Abdul Rasheed Ghazi was just a puppet. Either his strings were in a hand of an indivisual or a group which surely come again with some other puppet very soon. So hangout and wait for a new show coming to your city very soon.