Boycott the silence!

Boycott the silence!

If you do not say now, you will never say it any longer, you will keep repenting, “I wish I would have said it all.”

It is secondary to decide “how to say” but first step is to intend and decide to raise your voice for your rights. And the rights that are fundamental must be provided. If these are not provided and you remain quiet-you do not speak up-you are ok in this tyranny so nobody is either going to help you out or get you rid of this trouble.

You do not have idea it is actually darkening your future.

Boycott the silence and pick up the mike and pen and say it all. Keep saying, keep protesting until or unless you are listened and your rights come in your right hands. 

It is my belief and common truth that when injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.

(Written by Abdul Mannan Kamran

When I see I see the sea of tears!

When I see I see the sea of tears!

·        *  In the eyes of daughters and sisters who are not given their fundamental rights to live their lives…

·        * In the eyes of parents whose unlucky children are disobedient and squander the chance to get heaven…

·         * In the eyes of men who go out of their homes for earning bread but become the victim of terrorism…

·        * In the eyes of students who cannot afford the expenditures of their educations and eventually they give up…

·        * In the eyes of father who cannot fulfill his children’s needs and unable provide dowry to his beloved daughter…

·        *  In the eyes of mother who keeps sacrificing in her whole life but in return she faces isolation…

… when I see ….

                                I see the sea of tears in the eyes of every human in my society …

Friends:

Friend is a priceless gift from almighty God for us. With friend life goes on along with joys, funs, and enjoyments. If there are no friends, our lives are like curry without salt, sweet without sugar.

Friend is like a flower among thorns. The thorns are your enemies. But when your enemies intend to touch you-harm you, friend becomes thorn and protect you and do not let your enemies touch you.

A friend is actually nearer to you than even your family. Because you share each and every secret of yours with your friend. A friend is actually your secret keeper. He is your close one and best one.

There are several sorts of friends: close and best friend, childhood friend, school and college friend and nominal friend. A person is not your friend who is not trustworthy for you-he is just your nominal friend. Because friendship means trust and understanding as well as support. If there is no trust, there is no concept of friendship at all.

“A friend in need is a friend indeed.”

Yes! A true friend never leaves you in the lurch. He stands for you, bucks you up, encourages you and appreciates you in every circumstance. He tries to sort out and resolve your problems. He makes efforts to get you untangled from the web of difficulties and woes.

A friend never lets you be alone. He is always with you in every situation. He enjoys your red letter days. He stands for you and stays with you during your rainy days.

Sometimes, because of your friend, you have to face the music at your home. But this is also the beauty of life that you wander about with your friend, have fun and enjoy every moment of your life.

This is your friend who enjoys and celebrates every success of yours and holds parties. In case of your failure he feels blue, encourages you and puts the consoling arm around your shoulders. And when you fail and fall down, he lifts you up and provokes you to have a second bite of cherry.

If you cry, he consoles you and tries to make you smile. If you are happy so he is. And if you are sad so he is.

Sometimes friend gets jealous and resentful when you do not attend him, when you do not give him company.

When there is nobody around you, there is your friend. When everybody is around you except your friend, you miss him; you are alone-In the presence of all, you look for your fiend. In the presence of all you really miss him because he is not around you. You really feel alone and feel like meeting him and complaining him why he is not with you. But he is with you because he is your friend.

He is always with you whether he is awake or not, whether he has breathes or not, whether he is more or no more. You can feel him beating in your heart. You can see him smiling in your memories. You can notice him celebrating your success and observing your woes. And whether your friend is not with you, he is far away from the earth where nobody can get back from; you can listen to him saying,

“I am still with you

Because

I am your friend”

Dedicated to all my friends who are really my friends

(By H. Abdul Mannan Kamran)

آپ بھی کامران

آخر مسَلیہ ہے کیا؟

جھلسی ہوئ نعشیں، گولیوں سے چھلنی اجسام، تشدد زدہ طلباء اور پیاسی عوام، گرمی کے ستاےَ لوگ اور تاریکیوں میں ڈوبی شامیں، سڑکوں میں پھنسا ٹریفک اور در بدر پھرتے گداگر، بند نالے اور کھلی نالیاں، بارش کی دعایئں اور سیلاب کا خوف         کچروں اور وال چاکنگ سے سجی اہم  شاہراہیں، اور آسمان سے باتیں کرتی ہوئ اشیاےَ خوردونوش کی قیمتیں، بھوک اور   پیاس سے ستاےَ تھر کے لوگ اور ایوانوں میں شاھی کھانیں اور آم کی باتیں، بسوں میں بکتے غبارے و منجن اور 50 ہزار
       نوکریوں کے جھانسے، اندرونی سرمایہ کاریوں کا فقدان اور بیرونِ ملک آف شور کمپنیاں بے مثال، ہسپتالوں میں دھکے
                                         کھاتے عوام اور لنڈن میں وزارتِ عظماء کا پڑاوَ اور حواء کی بیٹی کا غیرت کے نام پر قتل ۔۔۔
  
یہ سب تو عام سی لکھنے تک کی باتیں لگتی ہیں۔
مگر آخر مسَلیہ ہے کیا؟ جسکو حل کیا جاےَ۔۔۔۔۔۔

A soul towards the sky, a high flyer: Umaid Ali Shah

"No matter the many paths you change, the matter is each path should lead you towards your vision"

"Life should be led with happiness."

"In Pakistan one has to be multi-talented"

These sayings are of the person who has been the symbol of hard work, perseverance, sincerity, multi talent and Jack of all trade Umaid Ali Shah. He is senior sales executive in AM developers and running his side business too. People consider him a successful person. How can this man not be called a successful person who sacrifices throughout his life showing his multi talent, steady attitude and working day and night for his family? His life justifies this complement for him "jack of all trade" because of working as versatile.

"I learned from the sufferings and sorrows of my life but I always smiled and still I smile." (Shah)

He was born on 4th Feb 1981 in Kandyaro, district Noshero Feroz, division Sukkar. He belonged to a poor family. They are five brothers and two sisters. That time his father was the sole bread winner for the whole family. His elder brother did not use to work because he was studying and he lived with his maternal grandfather. Shah has only one elder brother and rest are younger than him.

In 1996 while he was 15, he started earning bread as a teacher. He earned Rs.200 monthly. It was the time when his whole family banked on his father. He was number 2^ndin his family. Shah's family was suffering from hand to mouth. Shah could not see his family surviving. Therefore he intended to strive as much as he could reach the position where he can lead his family comfortably and happily. He had the wish that his younger siblings and he also get education. He left his teaching job after 6 months and got a job as QC in a cotton factory. But it was seasonal job that is why he had to find another job. In connection to this, in 1997 he went to Larkana and got a job as shop keeper in cosmetics shop. During this period he carried on his studies too. He had completed matric with A⁺grade and was the student of FSC in Pre medical. He worked in the shop after college hours and earned Rs.1200 monthly. It was very difficult for him to survive without family, carry on education, work and earn. But he was a symbol of perseverance.

21st Aug 1998 was the day when his father left him crying and thinking about his family. "After the death of my father I totally led my family. On his funeral I was consoling my family. I was not only in the grief of my father's death but also in tensions how to lead my family now." He further stated with the tearful eyes "After that incident we shifted totally in Larkana from Kandyaro. There I became the medical representative at Manrich Laboratory." While taking deep breath and drinking water he carried on saying, "I visited the doctors in the entire Larkana on foot because I needed to save every single penny. I had only 1 pent and two shirts that I used to wear them every other day."

According to him it has been our ancestors' history to work hard and achieve goals. In fact they had more woes and hindrances in their lives. He said that he got inspired by the "Shuhada-e-Karbala" who remained steadfast and sacrificed their lives on the right path.” He said that his life's theory is based on history of Karbala. This is what encouraged him to step forward.

In Oct.1999 after consistent hard work he got the fruit in the shape of a private job in "Bhutto state Fuel Station". This belonged to the Bhutto family. As a manager he performed his duties and earned a handsome amount of salary. Now his life took U turn and his family rose. His siblings and he started studies. He completed his B.S.C in 2003 and afterwards M.A in sociology in 2005. He continued this job as a manager by 2007 and then due to some problems had to leave. After that he took a bold decision and opened a fuel station on contract with the partnership of his two friends. But could not succeed and had to close it on no loss no profit in 2008. After that his life's struggle went on and he started his services at Parisson Inn Hotel by 2009. Where ever and whenever he got good opportunities he availed them.

He thinks "Unless luck and God are with us we cannot get through." But he explained that luck and God are always with the person who endeavors. Furthermore he started free lancing business for the fuel station. And once he worked for Total Company in 2009 in Karachi. Since that time he has been doing this business too. He has worked as Logistic Procurement Merchandiser too.

Now he has been performing his services as senior sales executive. And he has his side business too. By the grace of God and by his ceaseless hard work and efforts his both two sisters have got married and two brothers too. He has bought his own house like a palace for him in Larkana. Now still he is on the path where he wants to go for the best. As he says the dialogue of a film:

"میرے بارے میں اتنا مت سوچو، میں دل میں آتا ہوں سمجھ میں نہیں"

Now he is enjoying his life. He joins parties, goes visiting and likes being with other people. He listens songs too and is a bit interested in poetries.

He spent his life's 35 years for taking care and managing his family. Now he is happy with this. And now he is independent and very much satisfied but one is missing in his life. "I did not have time to think of my marriage. I focused on my vision. Now soon I am going to get married."

Finally he said a couplet from Parveen Shakir's:

اس شرط پہ کھیلونگی  پیا  پیار کی   بازی
جیتوں تو پاوْں تجھے، ہاروں تو میں تیری

Streets Beggars

• Are they really needy or well trained professionals?
• Where is our government?
• Where are our welfare societies?
• What is our society doing?

Karachi is metropolitan city and among the biggest cities of the world. It is economical hub of Pakistan and the biggest city of our motherland. It is the capital of Sindh. Seaport and airport are its outstanding features. In spite of all above characteristics Karachi is the pub of problems.

One of them and a big problem which needs to be eradicated is street begging. Karachi city is fully business city. Here each and every kind of business is run so does street begging. Some actual deserving needy people come out of their homes and ask money, food and clothes for living their lives but among these needy ones many of them have become professionals. Now in fact they can earn bread but they are addicted of begging. They beg as they do jobs. They wake up early in the morning and get to their targeted places and start begging. In the buses, at the signals, on the roads and in the markets they do their work (bagging). Moreover, they train their children and send them to different areas to beg. Well trained children are found in the streets, on the roads, in the buses, in the markets, in the food streets. Professionally they do this work and collect enough amount of money. It has become their business to stand and make people listen their same domestic story so that people would have sympathy for them and they would earn money.

A six-year old girl asks money in such a very polite way as she has been trained well and almost every child beggar has the same words to ask money; like, “I am orphan, I have younger brothers, sisters, nobody is earner in my family, my mother is sick, and she needs money for treatment…...” Somehow these things are true too but not every beggar is true. Some are really needy, but many of them are professionals because their elders are shirker and bone Idle. And some of them have become victims of the business groups which are based on street begging. As it has been shown in the Bollywood movie “Slum dog millionaire” There must be severe actions against these cruel who make the children disable and handicap for their begging purpose.

Where are our authorities? Where are our welfare societies? Is this not the matter that must be looked after by our welfare societies regardless “Dastarkhuan” program? Is this not the work of our welfare societies and human rights organizations to provide shelter to the innocent and compelled people street beggars? These welfare societies have made the record in the world to have the largest ambulance services in Karachi. So can they not do something to remove street begging from this city? If the welfare societies can make the people eat meal and they spend millions of rupees in these sorts of programs so can they not do something for street beggars? Yes, they can get the jobs provided to them; they can help them financially to open their own small businesses even.

Children are actually the future of any society, if they are begging in present so what will be the future of this present? This is my humble request to the government, concerned authorities (if there is any) and welfare societies to make plan, join hands and convert these street beggars into workers. And children who are begging, who are wiping the windows of vehicles should be granted stipends and free education. Vocational training should be provided to them with education so that they would be able to work and earn, not beg and earn.