Cyber war

There might not be an actual war with bombs and missiles but this Mumbai incidence and the later happenings has filled a lot of hatred in the people of Pakistan and India against each other. What could be a better source to know that than Orkut; the youngster's place.

While calling each other the worst names, abusing each other's religion, they are now hacking the communities and profiles on Orkut. Indians have the advantage of being greater in number. Up till now I haven't seen any hacked Indian community/profile, while the largest Pakistan community which had above 40,000 members and a lot of profiles have been hacked. And theres no doubt that this war has been started by Indians, when they first hacked the OGRA (Pakistan Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority) web site. This hacker group calls itself HMG, Hindu Militant Group. Not only Orkut, theres a lot of dirty crap on Facebook and YouTube. How far will this Cyber war go, that can't be said for sure.

I had some friends in India through. One was a medical student and he used to scrap me almost every other day. After the Mumbai incidence, I scraped him, offering my condolences and condemning the attacks. He never replied. And I felt ashamed on scraping him in the first place.

A few weeks ago, President Zardari, while addressing some Indian journalists via video conference, said, 'There's a bit of a Pakistani in every Indian and there's a bit of an Indian in every Pakistani.' He must have realized the futility of his statement now.

Things might get normal as they were on political scenario, but it will be difficult to extinguish these burning coals of hatred in common people, fueled by the wrong policies of some stupid people.

Happy Birthday Quaid-e-Azam

If only he had lived a few more years...

Bari mushkil se hota hai chaman main deedawar paida

Beauty, minds, expression and voice all in one. The world has yet to see another example. There are a few people who can put emotions in their songs and there are fewer people who become style icon at the same time. She did it all. She had elegance, charm and beauty. The national songs she sung during wars must have playe a great role to bring up passion and patriotic feelings. And this great transformation of voice that took place from her youth to old age, I've never seen a kind. When she died eight years back on this day, I remember that it was 27th night of Ramazan; the Shab-e-Qadar. I don't know what significance it has got; many people die on that night and many would choose that night to die, if given a choice.

Being in war

I don't want war, no one does. But I've frequently imagined my self in it, like in those second world war movies where I and other companions are hiding in a destructed place in some old building killing any enemy who passes by. :-D And today I heard the fighter planes flying across.

I was having lunch when I heard the first one. The sound was so clear and distinct from the regular passenger planes and those two seater training planes that fly daily above my house. Then there was another. Mom came in, contended, smiling. Before she could say anything, I asked to confirm, 'Mom those were fighter planes right?' (Just a day before she was relating the 1971 war and how there were black outs at night and how they used to hear the fighter planes.) She replied in affirmative still smiling. When I heard another, I ran out hurriedly to see it but couldn't. Later I heard on different TV channels that people went on their roofs raising slogans of Allah-o-Akbar and in favor of Pakistan Air Force. My aunt told that she was in a market when the planes passed and that all people in the shops came out on the road and started looking up at the sky. No one was afraid.

I've been seeing planes in my dreams for the past couple of days. I saw one being hit by a missile and falling, like a mile away from me. :-D Though the wars would now be very advanced, planes and missiles and all that and the actual participation of common people without training seems difficult, as was possible in older times, and I don't know how many will be left after a week or two of war this time, but God forbid if such a time comes that the government has to ask for the recruitment of common people, then we will go and fight. :-) We will fight for Pakistan.

Libretto

You rock my world.

You make me 'sharp'

when I'm 'flat'.

You make me 'major' 

when I'm 'minor'.

You pull my strings 

when they are lose.

You fill the air around me

with notes

who lift me up,

like a flying carpet.

You define my chords,

melt my soul. 

My instruments.

A. Shahid

The other world: Pakistan and Youth

Aik roz subah sawairay meri beewi iqbal ne muhjhay jagaya. wo sakht ghabrai howi thi. us ne honto per ungli rakhi howi thi. 

Mera bazoo pakar ker wo mujhay baramday main le ai. wo dekho, us ne sehan main bichay howay takht ki taraf ishara kia. takht per Aksi (Mumtaz Mufti's son) betha tha. us ka chehra doosri janib tha.

Main isay sihan main baithay dekh ker hairan howa. is liye ke wo kabhi sehan main na baitha tha or subah sawairay kabhi nahi jaga tha. in dino so CSS imtehan ki tyari main masroof tha, is liye raat ke aik do bajay tak parhta rehta tha.

behar soorat main Aksi ke kareeb gaya.

is ne mu mor ker meri taraf dekha. khof se meri cheekh nikal gaye. is ka mu sooja howa tha. chehra masakh ho raha tha. ankhain surkh theen or yoon jal rahi theen jaisay koilay dehaktay hain.

mujhay khof zada daikh ker us ne apni abnormal kaifiyat ko dabanay ki shadeed koshish ki jis ki wajah se us ka chehra or bhi bhayanak ho gaya. bola, kuch bhi nahi abu kuch bhi to nahi.

kuch to hai, mainay kaha.

nahi nahi, wo bola, koi khas baat nahi. aik aam sa mushahida hai. jo pakistan ke nojawano ko ho ga. ap ko bhi ho ga.

aik mushahida aik vision, wo bola, pakistan ki aanay wali azmat ka vision. raat ke pichlay pehar sooraj meray kamray main ghus aaya. us wakt us main hiddat nahi thi, sirf noor hi noor tha. main chaka chond ho gaya. abu, wo sooraj simat ker pakistan ban gaya. ye keh ker wo khamosh  ho gaya. der tak chup chap baitha fiza ko ghoorta raha. us wakt us ke chehray per diwangi ke asrat bilkul numayan thay. kuch der ke baad us ne meri janib mu mora bola, abu ye mushahida bohat so ko ho ga. sab is ka tamasha karain gay.

wo phir khamosh ho gaya.

kuch der baad bola, aap pakistan ko nahi jantay abu, nahi jantay. us ki awaaz phati phati thi jaisay koi dara howa ho, sehma howa ho. aap nahi jantay wo kehnay laga, laikin main janta hoon, mainay apni aankho se dekha hai, laikin main bata nahi sakta ke kya dekha hai. isay bayan nahi kia ja sakta, sirf mushahida kia ja sakta hai.

wo phir khamosh ho gaya or tiktiki bandh ker fiza main dekhnay laga, jaisay beetay howay ko phir se beet raha ho.

abu, wo phir bola, pakistan ne duniya ki rahnumai karni hai. duniya ko rasta dikhana hai. ab main civil servant hoon. mujhay pakistan ki chakri ata kar di gaye hai. bohat so ko ye chakri ata ki jaye gi, bohat so ko. ab mujhay mutalia karna hai, mutalia, mutalia, mutalia

us din ke baad Aksi k mamoolat badal gaye. us ne namazain parhni shuru kar dee

Mumtaz Mufti, Alakh Nagri

I never looked at CSS and government service this way. That's a thing of honour. Those who get it have a chance to get their world hereafter made beautiful. Medicine can also mean the same too. Just depends on the person and his 'niyyat'. This book gives another objective of doing M.B;B.S. Serving Pakistan

More of shoes

Ahahahah. Stop it yaar. Now they have made a video game. One who hits Bush the most number of shoes, wins. Something like this:



I heard in the news that they have broken that Iraqi's ribs and arms. I hope he gets eternal relief soon.

The historical shoes

Ahahahahah. A Saudi man has offered $10 million to buy the shoes thrown at President Bush. Wah wah.

My heart goes out for that courageous Iraqi man. He has been transfered to an unknown place already. We all know what are they going to do to him :(

A farewell gift

Sorry Mr. Bush, you certainly deserved more than this. This Iraqi journalist called him a dog and said that it's a farewell gift for Mr. Bush who had come to visit Iraq for the last time before his tenure ends. He got thousands of people killed in Iraq and couldn't even justify it. Called it an 'intelligence failure', a mistake you know. I'm in search of an interview in which Bush, when asked that how much he feels responsible for the current circumstances of the world, replied something like this: 'In the coming times, people will come to know that many decisions were made ten to eleven years before my holding the office.' Good bye Bush.

Testing testing...

After the success of American 'mistakes', now presenting the Indian 'mistakes'. Why did these mistakes never occur in the past seven years? Why just after the rising tension? And why did these mistakes occur at two separate times? Why did the PM had to say just a day before that we hope that they won't launch an air strike? (They were expecting it, surely?). What wrenches the heart more is not the attack per se but the response of the our 'leaders'. Everyone here is shouting against the violation but those in the government. Not a single strong, aggressive statement while their counterpart is taking advantage of this very leniency perhaps? Threatening to strike the 'terrorist' spots in our land, backed up by the west. Couldn't the President today, while assuring the world again to act against the terrorists also assure the his nation that Pakistan will retaliate with full force against any external incursion? Just this simple statement would have meant a lot. We, on the other hand, as a faithful dog, have already begun to obey their orders by launching an operation against Jama'at-ud-Da'wah without any proof.

I've always longed to see miracles. But I see this miracle here: the existence of Pakistan for the past sixty one years. It's creation doesn't seem such a big deal in front of how Pakistan has survived in the past years.

American control?

Dad said he thinks that Americans have got some, if not all, control over the nuclear assets of Pakistan. That is why India is being so fearless. Well, that scared me a bit. But I want to remain optimistic. I want to think that it's just because of the very weak and irresponsible leadership that every one putting pressure on us. Atomic bomb is the only thing we have. That gone, then every thing gone. But that is not supposed to happen. No.

The other world: Islam and Pakistan

Shahab ne Atiya ko phone kia. Aitya kehnay lagi, aap yahan aa jain, main aap ko aik bohat bari khush khabri sunana chahti hoon. jo kisi or ko nahi suna sakti. Shahab Atiya se milnay gaya to sath mujhay bhi le gaya.

Us roz Atiya baray mood main theen. kehnay lageen ajkal arsh per bohat khushian sunai ja rahi hain. charaghan ho raha hai. hazoor dulha banay howay hain. phoolon ke haar pehnay howay hain. gulab ki pattiyan nichawar ho rahi hain. sab khushian mana rahay hain.
kehtay hain islam ki nishat-e-saniya ka dor shuru honay wala hai. arsh or farsh aik doosray ke kareeb aa jayen gay. Pakistan is dor ka gehwara ho ga. wo ruk gaye, phir wakfay ke baad kehnay lagi, mainay dekha hai ke sadar-e-pakistan ki kursi khali pari hai, wahan kala jhanda laga howa hai. jo shakhs in ki jagah le ga wo bohat sakht geer admi ho ga. is ki darhi ghani hai. aankhain sabz hain. main dekh rahi hoon ke aik khooni jang ho gi. east pakistan hamaray hath se nikal jaye ga. kashmir hamain mil jaye ga. Pakistan ke ilakay main wus-at ho gi. ham Delhi per kabiz ho jain gay.
us roz Atiya baray josh main thi, wo musalsal batain kiye ja rahi thi. shahab or main chup chap baithay sun rahay thay. phir shahab bola, kehnay laga, mohtarma kuch aisi batain bhi to hain jo aap arsa-e-daraz se dekh rahi hain laikin woh wakoo pazeer nahi hotee.
haan wo boli kuch aisi batain bhi hain. laikin nashat-e-sania ki baat to ho kar rahay gi. chahay aaj ho ya chalees saal baad. or Pakistan nashat-e-sania ka markaz ho ga. ye to te shuda batain hain.
Atiya ki batain meray liye baihad paraishan kun theen. ye nashat-e-sania kya cheez hain. bhai jan bhi is ke baray main baat kia kartay thay. kaha kartay thay, tum Pakistan ka fikar na karo. Pakistan ka fikar karnay walay Allah ke banday mojood hain. tum jab bhi koi kadam uthanay lago to socho, kya mera ye kadam Pakistan ke liye bais-e-nuksaan to na ho ga.
is per mujhay khayal aata ke Pakistan ko itni ahmiyat kyoon de ja rahi hai. kya is liye k ye musalmano ka mulk hai. musalmano k to duniya main beesion mulk hain. phir ye bhi hai ke ham Pakistani to baray-e-naam musalman hain. phir ye bhi hai ke ham Pakistani to baray-e-naam musalman hain. na hamaray kirdar main islam ki jhalak hai, na aamal main islam ka rang hai. albatta aik wasf zaroor hai ke ham main islam ke liye, hazoor sal allaho alayehi wasallam ke liye, jazba mojood hai. kya pakistan ko ye sharf is jazbay ke liye hasil ho ga. ye to koi baat na hoi.

Mumtaz Mufti in Alakh Nagri

Sargodhay da leyla

Someone said, 'People, like sheep, tend to follow a leader - occasionally in the right direction.' Well, this ram has surely come in the wrong direction, as he is going to regret later. And he has destroyed all my belief of domestic sheep being naive and friendly, for he is strong, macho, very very aggressive and perverted, that makes me want to castrate him. I mean jawani sab per aati hai laikin koi tameez bhi hoti hai. And this chilling cold makes me want to rip off his thick wool and rap it around myself. OK...I actually want his spleen too. I'm only going to eat it again next year. I make it in the simplest way: cut it into small cubes, sprinkle some salt and red chili powder and cook it on a pan. After its done, season it with some lemon juice, and it makes my Eid.

I wonder why doesn't the goat and cow population become extinct, provided millions of them are sacrificed in just three days. I think sacrificing them has become a part of natural ecosystem and the same amount is produced every year again. I read some where that the sheep population in New Zealand is actually more than the human population there. Perhaps they might consider slaughtering a few of them?

More music

The other day I was at my friend's place at a little 'musical' gathering. I got it all recorded. This is my friend singing a Khayal in Raga Kamod in Aik Taal.

Destroying the first line of defense

I feel sorry for ALL those killed in the Mumbai carnage. Even the Indians have no proof of Pakistani involvement in the Mumbai attacks as yet and this video goes on to say that ISI is behind EVERY terrorist attack in the world. Why they are all after ISI, I found my answer from Gen. Hamid Gul. He said that ISI is the first line of defense of the country. Destroying ISI would mean depriving a person of his ears and eyes and thus making it easy for the predators to attack. Let us for a while believe that ISI IS behind every attack in the world. Then thinking it from another perspective, I say that ISI is the most powerful organization of the world. It can do whatever it wants, anywhere it wants. And all other intelligence agencies of the world are so inferior to it that they never get the slightest idea of what ISI is upto.

Another 9/11

Javed Chaudhry said that when the former president Musharraf had decided to resign he started meeting various journalists, one of whom was he. Musharraf told him that the Americans are fearing another attack like that of 9/11. They think that its plan is being devised in Pakistan and if such an attack does occur the Americans will need no other reason to strike. They will do to Pakistan what they did to Afghanistan.

Now that would be the best way for America to invade Pakistan and perhaps after killing millions of people they might say, 'Oops, there aren't any terrorists here. It was just a mistake, we were misguided.' I don't understand what problem have they got from Pakistan. If they were that committed, that friendly, that sincere they would have tried to make the Pak-Afghan border more secure, they would have tried to educate the people of FATA, they would have to make FATA and NWFP developed states by opening education institutions, industries etc. But they just want to kill people. And now that they are trying to enter Gen. Hamid Gull's name in the list of terrorists, I have no doubt left that they are not our friends. What problem have they got from a retired Deputy General of ISI who just sits and appears on the talk shows. Is it because he is anti American? It being the case, half of the world stands terrorist!

On the foot steps of America

Even if they hadn't called it their 9/11 it would have reminded me of the event, not because of the hugeness of it but because of India's reaction to it: blaming Pakistan without any evidence so blatantly, demanding people and threatening to strike Pakistani areas. (But it will not, seriously, I don't think they have enough courage). And now I have no doubt left in my mind that India has not accepted Pakistan up till now and that they can't miss any opportunity to hurt/blame/strike Pakistan.

One of the ways to guess the culprit of an event is to see who gets the maximum benefit. Looking at the Mumbai event I think India has got the most benefits and Pakistan is in all disadvantage.

*They are getting sympathies from all over the world and this is a plus point politically.

*The Kashmir problem which was emerging in a new way and was gaining strength has been totally sidelined. Obama announced to play the role of arbitrator in the Kashmir issue and India's reaction was worth watching. They immediately sent a group to America to give briefing to Obama and his colleagues about the Kashmir issue. They have got rid of it for the time being.

*BJP has got political advantages as the elections are coming by. As was in the news that BJP distributed pamphlets saying 'If you want to get rid of terrorism then vote for BJP'

*Another advantage went to RAW. When the Samjhota Express incidence took place, India immediately blamed Pakistan for it. Later investigations showed that their own Colonel was responsible for burning down 62 Pakistanis alive and who had contacts with RAW. This Colonel was convicted and some terrorism squad was investigating the case. Luckily for the Colonel all the members of the team, including their head, were killed in Taj Hotel.

*They have got yet another reason to blame and threat Pakistan. America and India both have said that if Pakistan doesn't do something about the terrorist (as if what it is already doing is not enough) then they will attack the terrorist places inside Pakistan.

Pakistan on the other hand has all the disadvantages due to these attacks. The only benefit I see is that this incidence has showed once again that who is a friend and who is not, which the Pakistanis tend to forget very soon.

The science of love

I saw this program in the Naked Science series the other day and noted the following interesting points:

Women in love have more blood flowing through their hippocampus.
Hippocampus is a part of brain and is concerned with memory. More blood flow means that the area is more active. Supposedly women recall their beloveds more and they talk about them a lot with their female friends.

Men and women prefer people who have immune systems different from them.
In their study they found out that men and women had very different immune systems from the partners they chose. They interpreted it as a tool of better survival. Two different immune systems provide a larger range of immunity to the offspring and helps in a better fight against diseases and thus better survival.

People prefer people having symmetry.
In an experiment they took the sweaty shirts of a group of men who had just played basketball and asked a group of women to smell the shirts and fill out a paper. The shirts were all white. They found out that women preferred men having more symmetry. (Symmetry is reflected in body odour?) Symmetry is attractive. But they found out that PERFECT symmetry is unattractive! Through graphic programming they replaced one half of the face with the reflection of the other half and the face looked ugly! So no one is perfectly symmetrical. They also found out that twenty four hours before ovulation women's ears and hands change shape to a very little fraction of length, making women more symmetrical and thus more attractive. (So if a man thinks that his beloved is looking more beautiful on a certain day, would it mean that she is ovulating and its just the right time? :-D) Humans are attracted by two other things according to their study: intelligence and body shape.

Fear and anxiety increases attractiveness and stimulates sexual drive.
Experiment: A woman gave the passing by men a certain survey form to fill and gave them her cell number in case they had any queries about the survey. She did this at two separate venues. At one place she was standing on bridge high above a fast flowing stream and the second time she was on the ground. The other day she got four times more calls from the men on bridge than on the ground!

Creativity and artistic behaviour increases sexual activity.
They said that artists have twenty five percent more sexual contacts than others. Well, I personally believed it before seeing this program and the only reason of paintings and music being prohibited in Islam, I could ever think of was exactly this. No second thought about why there is more sexual perversion, gays and all that, in media, acting and fashion designing etc.

Caudate nucleus was more stimulated in people in love.
Caudate nucleus is a part of brain of which one function out of many is to regulate the feelings of reward through the reward center. 'Recently, scientists have discovered the function of caudate in humans falling in love. When a group of college students were shown a photo of their beloved, both the caudate and the ventral tegmental areas lit up. These MRI brain scans suggest that the ventral tegmental floods the caudate with dopamine when falling in love' (Wikipedia) Now, is it possible to find out through an MRI that a person is in love or not? Not that easy. Interestingly they found out that cocaine also stimulates the same areas in brain; the reward centers. A person can do anything for his/her love and an addict can also do anything to obtain drugs (So being in love is like a drug addiction? And the other way round, do the people who abuse cocaine feel that they are in love?)

Pharmacology of love
Dopamine as I already said above increases in the caudate and ventral tegmental areas in people in love. They said that dopamine 'fuels romantic love' (Excess of dopamine causes psychosis and hallucinations. Any relation to people going mad in love? And can such people be treated with anti psychotic drugs?)
The other important drug is oxytocin which they called 'The cuddling chemical'. Oxytocin increases sexual drive and is released during intercourse. The more a couple has sex, the more oxytocin is released and the more they fall in love! Therefore people should not have with sex with someone they don't love! They found that oxytocin is important in forming monogamous pairs in certain mice. Oxytocin also increases trust and reduces fear!

Now the unanswered questions: Is love all a game of certain chemicals? How much control does a person has on love? Can the feelings of love be changed through chemicals? Can a person be 'made' to fall in love and can a person be made to forget his love just through drugs? Time and more research will tell :-)

My strength

The enemies of Pakistan. They give me strength. Yes, they do. They give me reasons to love my country even more. Whenever they attack Pakistan, whenever they try to defame Pakistan, whenever they talk bad of Pakistan they make me proud of my country.