امت کے دھارے کٹے ہو ے

ہے مسجد ان کی الگ الگ ،امت کے دھارے کٹے  ہو ے 

زبان پر ان کے کلام خدا ،کردار ان کی پھٹے ہو ے 

پھر خون بھا،اور لاش گرا ،بھا بھا ذرا اور بھا 

تم چپ کیوں سادھے بیٹھے ہو ، تیرے سر پڑے کٹے ہوے 

تیری آ نکھ میں یہ جو پانی ہے ،جھوٹا ہے صرف پانی ہے 

اہل حکم تو دیکھ ذرا ، میرے کفن پڑے ہیں پھٹے ہوے 

یہ رنج و غم کی بارش ہے ، یہ خون و آگ کی سازش ہے 

اے بےغیرت تجھے کیا خبر ، تیرے محل سستی سے اٹے ہوے 

ہے کافر یہ بھی کافر ہے  ،جو بولے وہ بھی کافر ہے 

ایمان کی حد تو دیکھ ذرا ، فرقوں فتووں میں بٹے ہوے 

 ہے جبر جو حد سے گزر گیا ، یوں صبر کا اب یہ جواز نہیں

اب ان کوچوں سے نکل ذرا ،میرے قافلے ہیں لٹے ہوے

اب باغی ہو کر نکل ذرا ، کہ ظلم ہے حد سے بڑھا ہوا 

اس پاک وطن کے ہر دھارے، ہیں خوں کے رنگ سے اٹے ہوے 

محمد سعد صديقي 

Watan ki Mitti - The Sands of Pakistan

Watan ki mitti Gawah Rehna,
Watan ki mitti Gawah Rehna,
Watan ki Mitti Rangeen Hai Tu,
Lahu aur hum bahaa rahay hain,
Gawah Rehna, Gawah Rehna.

Insaniyat ka wujood jaisay,
Khushi Khushi hum mita rahay hain,
Aag o Khoon ki roshi ne,
Is Sheher ko ab jagmaga rahay hain,
Watan ki mitti Gawah Rehna.

Hain nafratain har wujood main,
Hain Sazishain ab urooj pay,
In Nafratoan ki aag se,
Zarra Zarra ab jala rahay hain,
Watan ki Mitti Gawah Rehna.

Hai Muhammadi Wujood Main,
Per Ibleesiat Sujood main,
Apne hi Uloom se, Apne hi futoor se,
Nar-e-Takbeer se, Kufr hum pehla rahay hain,
Gawah Rehna, Gawah Rehna.

Yun bech ker apni Khudi,Khud hi ko ab luta bethay,
Saya-e-Khuda se ab, Khud-hi ko hum chura bethay,
Taqat Nahi mujoan main ab, Toofan kya jawab de,
Jannat ki Aarzoo main hum, Jannat luta rahay hain,
Watan ki Mitti Gawaah rehna.








- Saad

Identity Crisis - Will the real Pakistani please stand up

Case 1 :

2 years back I was on my way home in a public bus, it was the month of Ramadan, and as we all know that in Ramadan during rush hours people go mad . It was just another evening, I heard 2 people talking on the back seat, discussing the situation of Pakistan after some bad or unpleasant news they heard from someone, the conversation was somewhat like this .

MAN 1 : Pata nahi is mulk main kyun reh rahay hain, bas bhaagna hai yahan se ( Why are we even living in this country, we should leave this place )

MAN 2 (Laughing) : Ab to Green Passport ki bhi koi izzat nahi kerta, kon poochta hai Pakistanio ko (No one respects our Green Passport, and no one on earth gives any kind of respect to us)

MAN 1 : Bas yaar bahar niklo is mulk se ( Bro, we just need to get out of here )

And they carried on with the same old criticism, usually I don't keep quite when someone is blaming Pakistan for their problems, but I don't know what kept me from arguing with them, I controlled my anger and few minutes after I get off as my stop was there .

Case 2 :

Years back when I was studying , I posted a nationalist sort of article on my department's mailing group. After few months I received an email from a senior of mine who belonged to an Islamic organization, claiming that if you are a nationalist then you are against the teachings of Islam, as Islam teaches universal brotherhood beyond borders . Accepting that as a true point, I argued that my post doesn't disagree with this fact, if I love my country that doesn't mean that I am against the Universal Brotherhood teachings, but according to her even fighting for the country is against the teachings of Islam and insisted that I should drop the idea of loving my country in order to be a true Muslim, the point of her was that we need to come under the umbrella of Khilafah . The discussion ended with no conclusion .

Case 3 :

I often get laughed at for my too much of "Pro-Pakistani" posts on social networks, they call me Jazbaati (Emotional) , Pagal, or whatever they could think of, its not that I am wrong , its just that I feel sorry for other people's attitude towards Pakistan, it was one sort of discussion that cleanliness begins from home, so if you want to make Pakistan a better place to live then we have to change ourselves like we should keep our streets clean, we should follow traffic rules, and these are just a tiny bit of responsibilities that fall on each and every citizen of this country. But for my these points I got nothing but the same attitude that "these things wont help Pakistan" only true leaders will help you, and "1 Banday k change honay se kuch nahi hota" ( You can't change Pakistan, by just changing yourself" , we are too rigid to change ourselves ,then how do you expect a change in the whole damn system ?

Case 4:

A colleague of mine while trying to make fun of me told me that "You will look like Quaid-e-Azam when you will grow old, I said " At-least I will look like a Great Man" , this statement led to him claiming that creating Pakistan was a conspiracy to divide Muslims and all the crap and Jinnah wasn't a great man . My response was "Don't get me started on this"

Above mentioned cases are Actual events that happened in my life, and they are just not limited to these 4, they are a lot of them, reason behind sharing was to show that how much of a confused nation we are, we are in deep and critical sort of Identity Crisis, we fight on whether there should be Islamic laws, secular laws, whether Jinnah was secular or religious, was he a Shiite , Ismaili or a Sunni, whether voting in elections is "Shirk" or not, is giving taxes OK or not, were we better in India or Pakistan, whether I should call myself a Pakistani first or a Muslim first, whether or not its my right to kill anyone in the name of honor or religion .

Are WE  REAL Pakistanis, I am sure if our ancestors who laid their precious life for a more precious place called Pakistan were alive they would have regretted their decision to do so, NO NO by no means I am saying that creating Pakistan was a mistake, what I am trying to say is that we have made it a horrible place to live by our actions, by the rules we impose in our society , by misusing religion, by vowing to kill every other person, by make it dirtier with our own hands .

Will the REAL Pakistani please Standup !

Is it too HARD being a PAKISTANI ?

  I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives.  I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.  ~Abraham Lincoln

Though I dont admire Abraham Lincoln ,but his words are true, true enough to fit each and every nation that currently exist on this planet and NO the words are not enough, being proud is just an emotion, but doing something to make your nation proud is something worth doing, let us take our very own Pakistan as an example, out of billions only a thousands of people "think" of doing something good, and out of that just a few hundreds try to achieve it, but only a handful of people achieve it. But OK, that happens in each part of the globe, I am not the one who start the mornings with bashing my country .

I wont be bashing Pakistan here, but yes I will be bashing the ignorant Pakistanis who believe that they are too good to live here, or they are too pious to live in a place like Pakistan. Don't believe me ? Here are some examples of what we really say ,do , believe about Pakistan

in our daily lives .

1. Is mulk main kuch nahi rakha ( there is nothing worthy to live in this country)
2. Kitna ganda mulk hai yeh ( How drity this place/country is)
3. Pakistan se zinda bhag (Run for you lives, leave Pakistan)
4. Itni behayai hai isiliye Allah ka azaab aata hai ( this shamelessness is inviting Allah's Wrath)
5. Sab sarkari idaray corrupt hain ( Every public/governmental institute is corrupt)

and the list continues ...

If you go outside on streets and ask people "Do you love your country" , most of them will say "Yes" and "Pakistan Zindabad" , Sounds good ? right ?. But just observe them in their daily life, you will hear them whining about the problem all day long like I already mentioned. The problem ,is most of us are not REALLY PROUD of being a Pakistani, we whine too much , we complain too much, we do very little, in fact we do NOTHING .
We proudly say that we are an "Islamic Republic", but are we really ? Is an Islamic Shariah in an Islamic State limited to the Government, Court or Financial institutions ? Is it limited to the Hudood Ordinance ? People brag too much about REVOLUTION , just because we like the sound of this word. I am not targeting any specific political or religious group, isn't there any say of religion in following traffic rules ? Isn't there any say of religion in littering the streets ? Isn't there any say of religious on how you communicate with each other ? If you go through the religious history and proper teaching you will find that these matters are deeply related to the religion, but yes we choose to ignore them because we are more interested in others' religious beliefs and actions, we pray 5 times a day daily ,but fight with our neighbors ,we fast the whole Ramadan, but break the traffic rules, we wash ourselves on Jummah but litter the streets, we pray in Masjids and stand side by side and shoulder to shoulder but yet we discriminate on the basis of status, cast and language .

Enough talk on the religion but think , just think is it only the Government, Army ,Police that has ruined the Nation, aren't we, the common citizens involved in all the mess we see today ? We discriminate, call each other Kafir, we have too much hatred in ourselves , we bribe the traffic police just to get away with the crime of not carrying license, insurance papers , or breaking other traffic rules. We bribe other govt. officers to get our work done fast . Aren't we criminals ? If we are "clean" after all the corruption we do on daily basis, then who gives us the authority to challenge the corruption of our leaders ? Should we be punished too ? Why blame the billboards for spreading vulgarity when we watch all the stuff on our televisions ?

Don't you think its the time to STOP blaming others , and start cleaning your own-selves. Shouldn't we be polishing our character, our streets. Is it too hard to follow the law ? is it too hard to keep your environment clean ? Is it too hard to love each other ?

My question is "Is it too Hard Being a True Pakistani ? "

Pakistan's National Anthem - Urdu , Transliteration, Translation

The Qaumī Tarāna (Urdu: قومی ترانہ), also known as Pāk Sarzamīn (lit. "The Pure Land"), is the national anthem of Pakistan. The words "Qaumi Tarana" in Urdu literally translate to "National Anthem". Its music, composed by Ahmad G. Chagla, preceded its lyrics, which were written by Hafeez Jullundhri. Another feature of the anthem is that no verse in the three stanza lyrics is repeated.

قومى ترانہ (Urdu)	Transliteration	Translation
:پاک سرزمین شاد باد كشور حسين شاد باد تو نشان عزم علیشان ! ارض پاکستان مرکز یقین شاد باد	pāk sarzamīn shād bād kishwar-e-hasīn shād bād tū nishān-e`azm-e-`alīshān arz-e-pākistān! markaz-e-yaqīn shād bād	Blessed be the sacred land Happy be the bounteous realm Thou symbol of high resolve O Land of Pakistan! Blessed be the centre of faith
:پاک سرزمین کا نظام قوت اخوت عوام قوم ، ملک ، سلطنت ! پائندہ تابندہ باد شاد باد منزل مراد	pāk sarzamīn kā nizām qūwat-e-ukhūwat-e`awām qaum, mulk, sultanat pā'inda tābinda bād! shād bād manzil-e-murād	The order of this sacred land Is the might of the brotherhood of the people May the nation, the country, and the Republic Shine in glory everlasting! Blessed be the goal of our ambition
:پرچم ستارہ و هلال رہبر ترقی و کمال ترجمان ماضی شان حال ! جان استقبال سایۂ خدائے ذوالجلال	parcham-e-sitāra-o hilāl rahbar-e-taraqqī-o kamāl tarjumān-e-māzī, shān-e-hāl jān-e-istiqbāl! sāyah-e-khudā-e-zu-l-jalāl	The flag of the crescent and star Leads the way to progress and perfection Interpreter of our past, glory of our present Inspiration for our future! Shadow of God, the Glorious and Mighty

“Pity The Nation” by Khalil Gibran

 

This a poem by Khalil Gibran, a Lebanese America poet/writer. 

Was published in early 1900's and shows the current face of Pakistan

Pity The Nation…

 

Pity the nation that is full of beliefs and empty of religion.
Pity the nation that wears a cloth it does not weave,
eats a bread it does not harvest,
and drinks a wine that flows not from its own wine-press.
Pity the nation that acclaims the bully as hero,
and that deems the glittering conqueror bountiful.
Pity a nation that despises a passion in its dream,
yet submits in its awakening.
Pity the nation that raises not its voice
save when it walks in a funeral,
boasts not except among its ruins,
and will rebel not save when its neck is laid
between the sword and the block.
Pity the nation whose statesman is a fox,
whose philosopher is a juggler,
and whose art is the art of patching and mimicking.
Pity the nation that welcomes its new ruler with trumpeting,
and farewells him with hooting,
only to welcome another with trumpeting again.
Pity the nation whose sages are dumb with years
and whose strong men are yet in the cradle.
Pity the nation divided into into fragments,
each fragment deeming itself a nation

Anger Shift in Pakistan - One Liner

    Memogate to NATO Attacks to Veena Malik , with every shift we forget the previous one . How "Not so seriously" we are concerned !

What is Martyrdom ?

"When God Wished to add glamor to death, He created Martyrdom "

Pakistan Army Documentary wins First Prize in International Film Festival “Eserciti-e-Popoli”

Rawalpindi - Inter Services Public Relations documentary has won the first prize in the recently held International Film Festival “Eserciti-e-Popoli” (Army and People) held at Bracciano, Rome (Italy).  The festival saw the participation of NATO and 24 Countries with 60 Films grouped into several categories: from ‘Institutional training information, from environmental protection to the humanitarian mission for peace. The films, produced by renowned film makers were evaluated by the international highly qualified and experienced jury.


Based on true events, Glorious Resolve highlights the events took place when a group of around 1500 miscreants attacked Pakistani Check post of  an Infantry Battalion in South Waziristan Agency on the eve of 29th May 2009 . It focuses on the courage displayed by the Infantry Soldiers and the Punjab Regiment , 43 men of Punjab regiment laid their lives, they were the part of the reinforcements .


Glorious Resolveiss the joint venture of ISPR and Mindworks Media.Brigadier Syed Azmat Ali was the Executive Producer whereas Brig Syed Mujtaba Tirmizi was the Executive Director of the film. Lieutenant Colonel Irfan Aziz was the project director and the writer of this film which was amicably directed by Sarosh Kayani. Dr Hassan Waqas Rana of Mindworks Media was the producer whereas Bilal Lashari was the Director of Photography.


The Short Film can we watched here 

A Martyr's Salute

O Dear Lord ! Stay witness

O Motherland ! Stay Witness

For I did my duty, at my best

For I bled till death, for the rest

O Motherland ! Stay witness

O Dear Land ! I stood with Pride

I fell with Honor, with Dignity as my Bride

O my Mother , Dont shed a tear

For I stood strong without any fear

O Motherland ! Stay witness

O Dear Lord ! I say a prayer

Dont Let my blood go in Vain

Let my blood destroy the curse

Let my blood bless my cause

O Motherland ! Stay witness

O My people ! Forgive me If I failed

I promise , I did all my best

I stood in cold , so you stay warm

I stood awake ,so you could sleep

O Motherland ! Stay witness

I carry the name of Umar (RA) and Ali (RA)

I fought for right, like Hasan (RA) and Hussain (RA)

O Dear Lord ! I have nothing to ask, O Dear Lord ! there is nothing I want

O Dear Lord ! Bless my people , O Dear Lord ! Bless my Land

O Motherland ! Stay Witness

O Motherland ! Stay Witness

- Muhammad Saad Siddiqui