Sigh...

No one knows about the investigation of the 3/3 attack, if at all it is being carried out. Similarly people will forget 3/30 attack in due time. No one will ever know who did it and the culprits wouldn't be captured let alone prosecuted.

Stupid Rehman Malik's stupid remark that Baitullah Masood's group is involved strengthens my view that it has been done to pave way for America. This is to reinforce the idea that Taliban have got a strong hold in Pakistan and that America needs to come and wipe them out. They are going to pay $1.5 billion per year. Thats not for nothing. This money is to shut the mouth of those officials who say that they condemn American attacks. America is already talking about Quetta. Taliban have fled from Afghanistan to FATA, from FATA to Quetta, soon it will be Punjab and Sindh. And America WILL attack Quetta but slowly and smoothly, just like the attacks in FATA were declared mistakes in the beginning and then these mistakes became regular. Obama is poor guy. He is weak. As I said when he was elected that there would be NO change in America's policy. Her advancements wouldn't stop. She wouldn't quit Afghanistan or Iraq in near future. And that she would try her best to get Pakistan. But will the Pakistanis allow her to get them that easy? Lets see.

Made in Pakistan

A documentary on the lives of four Pakistanis; Tara, Waleed, Rabia and Mohsin, each striving to make a difference. Coming soon. Waiting.

Kashf: The lifting of the veil

Why don't other 'watchable' Pakistani movies get to have the same publicity as Khuda Ke Liye, I don't know. Kashf: The lifting of the veil is a new movie in English directed by a US based Pakistani, Ayesha Khan, shot entirely in Lahore. She claims to have presented a different aspect of Islam and Pakistan, seldom talked about in movies before: Mysticism. Seems interesting. I heard it has already won some award at some film festival in the US. Couldn't find out if it will be shown in the cinemas here. Here's a trailer



Ayesha Khan, the director:

Pakistani talent

Ahahaha. Funny and sad.

Welcome spring

I had to release the anger which built up in me after hearing a professor's excruciatingly painful bakwas today. Luckily there was this classical dance performance by the students of Alhamra Arts Council at Alhamra Hall. And luckily it was the beginning of spring. The performance turned out to be good. I had some friends with me. Interestingly all the performers belonged to entirely different fields. Girls from LACAS, LGS, a veterinary doctor, a civil engineer, a guy from Sri Lanka and a traffic warden. Lol. So anyone can happen to like classical dance. The first video is sort of Kathakali, the second is a poem by Amir Khusro and the third is a Tatkar (fast foot movement). Sorry for the bad quality of the videos. It was just my cell phone. :-)

Mardangi

Here are some women defining mardangi on BBC Urdu. All mard please get benefit.

How to kill time during boring lectures

This is today's ENT (Ear, Nose, Throat) lecture. Azeem and Asad were drawing and making boats and kites out of paper while Saad and Noman were playing cricket. So here's a good idea for you. In a boring lecture you can utilize paper or you can play cricket. In case you don't know how to play cricket: Each guy has a team of players noted down on a paper. The one who's playing first opens a book randomly again and again and the second guy notes down the last digit of the even page number; 2, 4, 6, 8. That's the first player's score. When the last digit comes out to be zero the player is out. Total is done in the end and compared with the other team. See? Cricket is an adult's game. There are so many other things that we do during lectures (the boring ones only, we have to listen to the professors'). I'll post those too. ;-)

Sensational

People aren't afraid

Who would have thought that among all the bombings and threats and the recent attack on Sri Lankan team, such a huge mass would come out on roads in Lahore. People aren't afraid. Literate masses/middle class people might be, who sit in their homes and watch it all on TV but illiterate ones aren't. And it was certainly this huge crowd that made the government give up. One can just hope and pray now that every thing goes well.

Honestly, I don't think the things are going to change much. The people running the government are incompetent. There will be more such clashes and I doubt the fact that the government will complete its five years. For starters, PM has announced the restoring of CJ Iftikhar. OK, but how? Will he take a fresh oath or be restored as such? Why is the government waiting for the tenure of CJ Doggar to end? Secondly I don't think they will declare the steps taken on 3rd November invalid neither will they restore the constitution to its pre-3rd November state. This is an NRO government which itself is the biggest injustice, injustice to the 160 million people of Pakistan. But I'm still hopeful.

Town arrested

I happen to live in the same housing society as our dear Nawaz Sharif. To prevent that one man from moving, whole of the town has been sealed off. No one can move out, no one can move in. While Nawaz has been house arrested, all the other residents of the society have been town arrested. Democracy rules. Lol.

Basant

Can anyone tell me one good reason why Basant should be celebrated?

At the Martyr's round about

They weren't afraid

Professor Dr. Arshad Cheema, head of the surgery department at KEMU, was the surgeon who was called at Qadafi Stadium after the attacks to treat the Sri Lankan players. He told us today that they had very minor injuries, some fragments of metal embedded in their bodies, which he removed successfully. And that they weren't afraid at all. They were joking. They were used to such things in Sri Lanka. One of them actually asked the professor to have a photo with him.

Now I didn't know that Pakistan and Sri Lanka had so much in common. :-D

To the martyrs

I'm not a writer but I still had this block. I couldn't write. And now suddenly I have a lot to write about.

A friend broke the news to us in the university. We showed the obvious reaction. With this attack on Sri Lankan players I thought the sports in Pakistan are over too. First they tried to bring an end to cultural activities by attacking the Arts Festival.

The only autopsy labs in Lahore are in our university, King Edward Medical University. All bodies are brought there. When we heard that they had brought the bodies of the Liberty carnage victims, we ran off to see them. There were six Edhi ambulances parked in the garage of Forensic Department, one body each. I stood there for a long time. There were people, two groups. One, the relatives and colleagues of the deceased, crying, shrieking, in deep shock. If I could understand one word that they were uttering, that was ALLAH. The other was the spectator group, not crying apparently, but their faces showed what they felt. From a few of them I could hear the word 'India'. Then there were the passers by who came, saw and went indifferently, again apparently. Some were coming back from Al-Karim Bakery; eating sandwiches and patties and drinking juices and I was like 'WTF, can't they just stop eating for a while, at least when they are passing by the ambulances? Can't they just stop there for a while and show that they feel, that they care, that they are human beings too? Can't they stand there and offer Fatiha, console the crying and show some solidarity? Can't they stop laughing for a while?' Or was it just me? Do I feel too much? Some people would say, 'kya hai yaar, roz hi to hota hai ye sab kuch, theek hai jo hona tha ho gaya, kya karain ab, move on.' I made this little over there



One of my friend's eyes welled up, I saw our Forensic demonstrator crying. Then I heard the siren of another ambulance and I thought, 'Oh no, another.' A guy asked a policeman who survived, 'None of the attackers were killed?' He replied, 'It takes a little while to load the rifles, we didn't even have time for that.' But I salute those martyrs who, as soon as they heard the firing, came out of their vans and surrounded the bus which was carrying the Sri Lankan players. This is exemplary braveness. I saw their blood, dripping from the edges of the ambulances and on the stretcher, gore, which had now become semi solid, black. Only if I could preserve it, the blood of the martyrs.

Later, Dr. Sajid was taking our class in his office. His cell rang. I could tell that someone just told him what had happened. He said after hanging up,
'Congratulations, Sri Lankan team has been attacked.'
'Yeah, we know Sir'
'Kitnay afsoos ki baat hai, agar ab bhi government na bolay to lanat hai in pe'
'Exactly Sir, this is so clear who has done it'
'Khair dafa karo, lets get back to the topic, so pyogenic meningitis has an acute history of headache, fever and vomiting while the history of tuberculous meningitis extends over weeks and months....you know Pakistan ke mukaddar main foj hi likhi hai, we can't go in normal way' Then he concluded his lecture way before time.

On my way back home the roads were deserted although, it were the rush hours and usually it takes my about 40 minutes to travel 12 kilometers. I must have reached back in half the time. There was harsh wind blowing which caused the leaves from the trees to fall down all along the Mall and Canal Road. It was cloudy. Water in the canal was stagnant; it flows otherwise. I felt they were all protesting. Pathetic fallacy? Is it just me?