The Movement (Rhyme)

My 2nd effort for the blog in shape of a rhyme. I followed this lawyers' movement so thought should contribute by writing something ......



Here goes the rhyme



Something substantial that at last happened
and it all ended up in the month of the march
When the lawyers movement entered the final stage
and they planned a grand long march

it was to start from the major city of Karachi
they had plans to travel whether it rain or sun scorch
they were to reach Islamabad at any cost
whether to move in dark or use any torch

But the government had other plans for them
They acted like drought and tried to make the movement parch
But the political parties were out there with them
They presented full support and acted like arch

Few couldn't leave Karachi and others stopped at the border
the situation was getting more and more absurd
But the clever lawyers escaped as they changed the plan
like i in this stanza changed the rhyming word

The next destination was my Holy city of Multan
Things got a little brighter, which gave wings to the bird
PTI, Jamat e Islami and lawyers successfully put up a rally
Stupid was the government but it made them more nerd

They left for Lahore and started to gather there in numbers
Governor rule, 144, and what else could be done by little turd
Could plan no more, Could stop no more, could think no more
Oh how i forgot, he banned the entrance of Ali Ahmed Kurd

The rallies were moving to the GPO Chowk, but still no momentum
Leaders got worried, esp Nawaz Sharif and he purred
"I'm breaking the law and will lead u people, plz come out!"
That motivated the people and soon on roads there was a mini flood

Different leaders were hiding to come out at the right time
Shahabaz sharif, Qazi & Imran Khan hmmm the one from oxford
They wanted to take the reigns if one falls
not like Ali Ahmed who was at airport but not on board

Police threw tear gas, did baton charge to control
Even tried to stop them like a flock, like a herd
At last they had to kneel down to the people
They knew one never look behind if start to move upward

The great flood of people started to move towards Islamabad
The containers, the trolleys were swept like the balls of billiard
The government got worried, could do nothing except restoring
Even the tricks were not left with the Zardari Wizard

Kept people waiting and moving towards Islamabad
Hoping that they(the gov) could come up with some fraud
But it all ended up as they had nothing more to do or think
and at around 5:50am the PM played the real card

The judges were all restored, prisoners released and 144 lifted
The decision was not all that hard
People were Wishing and hoping to bring prosperity and stability
Praying all night to the Almighty lord

Public and everybody should realize what "people power" is
Never gets blunt its such a sword
one who ignores this thing
always gets hurt and ends up in a hospital ward


Copyrights: Zohaib Aslam :-P

Killing the dead!

After successfully burning schools, colleges, telephone exhanges, killing men and brining trouble to people's life they(the millitants) have now started to kill the already dead people. Well I'm writing something unmeaningful but it still make sense as yesterday the millitants blasted the mausoleum of the 17th century sufi poet Rehman Baba.  3 days back they delivered a letter to the management of the mausoleum warning them of the "shrine culture" and saying them that the women were coming there.

And in case if they don't stop these activities they'll gonna blow it and so they did. 

No measures were taken by government whatsoever to protect that place after the warning, well i'm stupid of saying this coz they can't even protect the belongings of the living people and even themselves, how in the world they'll gonna protect these sleeping souls.

Rehman Baba's poems are full of islmic sufiism and he is respected alot and considered as one of the best among all time great pushto poets alongside Khushal Khan khatak.

Today while watching tv news I also come to know that they have plans to blow the rest of other shrines and such places in the near future if the things like these aren't stopped.

Now these people only know one way of  spreading islam(of which they know nothing) and thats through the language of bombs and destruction.  Bloody ignorants don't even know where they are heading to and why they are doing this! 

Only one Mighty power can show them the right path else their own destruction is really soon IA!

Our system

Rhming for the first time on blogger. Its sort of something scattered. But the main idea can be easily understood if one tries to ... :) .... Actually the main idea for writing this whole thing was taken from the italic lines in the rhyme which i stole from here . :P

So here goes the whole thing .....

Our system

Whats right about our whole system?

The thing that I don’t want to be is a mocker...

Legs once broken, never treated by anyone

How can we make it run? which is not even a walker!

 

Take our political system, like a deer

Always followed, always killed by a cougar

Then someone slips in with “nazriya e zaroorat”

Sharam nahi guzri inn ko choo ker

 

Then there is a continuous movement of politicians

One day they are in power, the other day they are in locker

That’s all hats off to their characters for the activity of being in and out

Its like routine of a coolie who loads in and then unloaded like a docker

 

Then there is our judicial system, nothing right about it

People are judging who can easily end up being a hawker

If you point anything, they’ll say “are you insane?”

Shut your mouth! We don’t tolerate such a talker

 

Being part of it

Anybody would die of shame, sharminda

Hokar

But oh no, not one man

Abdul-Hameed-Dogar

 

o' o' o' stop stop, he is not a bad man

kyoun mein peeche parh gya hath dho ker

Is he doing anything wrong

has he been losing in the game of poker?

 

He doesn't deserve being mentioned anywhere

as he is a mere system's joker

There are numerous goons above him

who can easily remove him with a thoker

 

these people are working on a common agenda

to make Pakistani qaum a choker

that’s why they even die like same

one die with a bullet, and other in the crash of a Fokker

 

I listen to their speeches no more

Coz I don’t like them saying “janab hum khadim, hum noker”

And there are more moral activities then this one

like watching the dance of Urmila Matondkar :p

Zohaib your ryhming is directing nowhere

So fear God and bus ker .... :P

Copyrights:  Will think over it! :P

Little hopes! (Just an observation)

I "hope" the title of the post will match to the post. Writing something that I've been observing over sometime now. There is one stop which is at a walking distance to my house, its a chowk actually. On 6 out of 7 days the part of my daily routine is to drop my sister there in the morning and then pick her in the afternoon.
That spot or chowk is somewhat different from others in a sense that, its also a stop for the laborers(mazdoor). On Daily basis a huge number of laborers gather there excluding some that prefer waiting in the nearby market.
I go there as early as 8am and mostly find hustling and bustling among them as whenever they see a stopping motorbike or vehicle they gather around them hoping to get some work for day. Few of them could be seen rushing towards such people without caring that they are on road or caring for themselves with just one thing in mind to find the livelihood for them and their family. Well will come back to the morning latter.
When i go in the afternoon at around 1pm i could see no activity left. At that time almost half of them have gone to their work with others lying in the shade of trees, few still waiting for any work and few leaving in despair. The thing that irritates me most is the age of few of those laborers i.e how bad our economical system is, that in the age when they should be playing and passing time with the grandchildren and resting at home they are waiting for the work. The things gets further severe in summers in our part when the temperature goes around 50 degree Celsius.
Even with all those sort of hardships these people are not paid well. Me myself on many occasion have heard people bargaining with them and settling a lumpsum amount if they take 3 or 4 laborers with them, which of course is always less then the individual amount they could have received.
Seen them working during the night. There are no labor rules being followed as well. I think it was Bhutto who crafted labor laws which could now be only found in the worn off pages of some well mounted book placed in somewhere cupboard.
At morning after some days i started to observe something really strange, i.e almost everyday i used to find a "Naan"(bread) in the hands of almost every laborer. There was a "naan channe wala" at the walking distance. I thought they buy it from there as they couldn't have their breakfast that early but it wasn't the case as after few days the mystery(sort of) resolved. There was a person who used to bring two to three packs of Naans(one has a total of 50 i guess) and something to eat with them. Don't know why he was doing this as part of his daily routine. Must be getting some bliss out of this activity or don't know. One can say that it isn't anything noticeable but don't know why I found it something really great as one can't say how many of them could have slept the last night without eating anything especially those who failed to find anywork and things like that.
It was just an observation but these things do pinch when sitting idle and thinking or when i pass that place.

PS: One thing that i forgot to mention was that i couldn't see the face of that person who used to come up with the breakfast as he had everytime covered his face with some sort of veil(gents chader) etc.

Mosques as the community centers!

In the last month or so I've thought and talked with some of my friends and others on this thing i.e only Namaz is not the only thing mosques are there for (even that we don't do ;( )....

Coming straight to the point, what I think is that the mosques should be used as community centers not just for offering prayers and doing nothing for people.

Whenever we give something to those who are begging in streets and etc we often hear some elders "don't give them ... they have made it a business" and when we ask them who are the real "haqdars" of these ... they say that they never beg and stretch their arm. We should find them and deliver their right at their door step. And we almost never able to find them.

If this thing is done through mosques it can get very easy. In mosques people from almost all the surroundings come and offer prayers, People from different economical background are also there .... If there is a fund in mosques for the needy and people contribute to the fund and if mosques point out those people through a committee or something like that, things would get damn easy and the needy would also not hesitate taking that from mosque (and their pride won't hurt) rather then given by someone personally .....

Similarly mosques can also help in carrying out marriages and helping if someone is jobless or etc. Mosque should and can also help in resolving minor family disputes by having some sort of counselor. The money can also be used for helping someone ill who is unable to pay for treatment.

MashAllah almost in all mosques there are people who can easily pay thousands of rupees just from their pocket money.

If transparency is ensured and things are carried out in the right direction we can easily help those who deserve and can stop someone from taking any extreme steps just out of depression or something like that.....

I have been to many mosques but never experienced any such thing being done. But there must be such mosques out there working as the community centers. On Television I've seen on a couple of occasions few of these things being done in mosques outside Pakistan but nothing here.

Hopefully we do try and implement these little things that can help us on a long term basis!

My trip to job fair!

Yeah, as the title say i did go to a job fair organized by our university and it was for the first time I had ever paid a visit to such an event 'coz I think it is for the first time that I'm in need and in search of a job.

There was also a job fair last year but it wasn't of any use to especially students like us who belong to the field of telecom & networking as told by one of my friends who was a witness of the last year activity.
But this time companies like Telenor, Wateen and Zong had their official presence there. So we thought that we should pay a visit as we had nothing to lose :P if not gaining anything ....

I was to leave with one of my friends around 11 am and so we did. Our university is out of city and it takes more then an hour to reach there provided no traffic jam and other stopages and just according to our daily routine of 4 years university life we took IB that took us to 9 Number which is at the half way mark from where we have had been catching the university shuttle that is available every half an hour.

We reached universtiy around 12:30 pm. First went to our department to freshup as it was saturday an offday university so there wasn't anybody there except the guarad uncle. Spent some time in checking the noticeboard for whats been going on in our department. Two of our classfellows arrived in the mean time and they were coming from the job fair, we asked whats the progress and they told that telenor was conducting interviews and asking things from the topics like GSM, CDMA etc ..... I was good at topics but hadn't revised them for some time then so something started to pressurise(depress a little) me by the time I listened to the interview thing as I've never been to an interview before.
We had our CVs in the quickdrive and got them printed. The print wala was charging 2 Rs extra for the occasion ( Typical Pakistani thinking ... kama lo kia pta kal ho na ho! :P )

Skipping the wait thing that we did for our friend and etc we reached there at around 1PM and I was really astonished by the number of people that had reached there for the job hunting. I never thought that there was that a bigger crowd waiting there .... Student from all types of field had reached .... There were students who had reached there by car, by bike and like us on Public transport (ek he suff mein kharhe ho gye mehmood o ayaz! :P) for a common goal that was job.

I had read and listened that the "berozgari" is one of the major problems but at that time i was watching sadly for the first time the biggest demonstration ....

I moved in the big covered place with a huge shamiana and started looking the different stalls...... Many different companies had their presence there ..... there were also consultancies and counselors there ..... I could see many different students giving interviews ...... I could see students' faces, few of them had really worried looks, few of them were confident and few of them were just there for enjoyment.

Some strange kind of depression started to prevail ...... shayad the situation was such ..... I moved on and witnessed the 3 mentioned companies' stalls that were of interest to me .
Telenor were having a break of an hour and zong people said just upload the CV to our website but we do have some "golden numbers" at ok price for you .. (:@) and the wateen people were doing don't know what! ......

Another thing that started to depress me was the way students were dressed ( most of them were is suit shuit .... yeh woh ...fit shit)...... i was just in my routine clothing with unshaved face :( ... Never thought i could be there for an interview.....

An hour passed by and telenor had again started cunducting interviews ... When i reached there there were 3 long lines waiting for us ..... one comprising of students for the marketing thing ... one with the IT and CS people and the 3rd having telecom and electrical people .

I also put myself in line ..... The time I was waiting for my turn somebody told that now wateen and zong are also receing CVs(dekha dekhi shayad) .... I thought first let this interview be over then give them the CV . I stood there for around half an hour and the lines then had become 4 as announced "Those people who are here on the reference should make a separate line" (:@)

I was depressed further when i met 3 of my university seniors who were jobless for more then a year now and they also put their selves in the line ..... I was standing there thiking ..... most of them were negative thoughts ..... A strange kind of anxiety took over me and I could stand there no more ..... I started to think that those people were there to make us fool and nothing else .... the line wasn't moving either ...... I left the line , went to zong and wateen .... droped the CV knowing that it was useless and left the university , took the university route(bus service) that could drop me to my home .

I was depressed and really feeling low that day ... don't know why (i guess i do know) ....Don't know whether i should have left or not but .......

Zong had also started cunducting interview around 5pm as told by my friend who was there almost till the last moment ... I think again dekha dekhi.

Learnt a lot from the event but few of my worries are still with me especially the overall condition economically ....

I think the account has lengthen too much ... :P

First Words!

I've never written anything and never even tried to, except a few rhymes and little raps here and there .... that too for having a good laugh at somebody out of my friends when sitting together or when i wanted a little praise for my not so literal work of matching similar sounding words ....

Its been sometime now since Umer(my close friend) for the first time asked me to write a blog and always has tried to motivate me towards books and writing stuff..... I'm little free(sort of) these days and spending my most of the time sitting on my PC so i started reading blogs lately and being impressed by how my young fellows (and of course people of my age) are writing, pushed me towards writing something and again Umer suggesting few days back .....

So I'm here writing my first post .....

The thing that has always hindered me from writing is my hesitation towards my poor English(I feel so) language ... i.e my fear what one would say if I write something wrong or If I improperly convey my idea or what if someone assumes something wrong if write something with humor etc ....

I also do own a problem(I feel) of expressing myself wrongly in words ........ So again a fear of being misinterpreted by anyone.

(I also do know that one can't learn without making any mistakes but still thoughts are thoughts and fears are fears .... :( )

In spite of all this thinking I'm here and will try to write my heart out .... Hopefully readers(if any) of my blog let go my language thing and will just concentrate on the idea and thoughts being conveyed here ........

PS: Posting today on the 4th of Feb. Had composed this on 31st but wasn't sure whether to post it or not.

Thanks.