Monday 7 April 2014

Marso Marso Bs Marso


Few moths ago few close friends of mine decided to visit sehwan shareef using our private transport
we started from our home town Dera Ismail khan and then we have to cross taunsa,dera ghazi khan,jampur,rajanpur,kashmore,,khandh kot,shikarpur,larkana,qambar,khairput,nathan shah,dadu before we reach sehwan.
. Though route was very long but purpose was to go through interior Sindh and see how's is the life there.

Expected 12 to 14 hours journey we were heavily rely on  Google maps and our GPRS guide line.

soon we cross kashmore the border between Punjab and Sindh we observe huge number of salt-water lakes arround roads.
The flow of water in River Indus effectively checks salt-water intrusion from the Arabian Sea into the flood plains of Indus. During the past few decades, as the storage and consumption of water has continued to increase in the northern plains, seawater has started flowing up in to Indus and its estuaries.
With the reverse flow of salt water into the southern part of Sindh, the sweet water aquifer gets contaminated,adding to the salinity of irrigated lands.only crop I can see was rice as Now rice are being grown using salt water.

Throughout the way poverty, lake of infrastructure observed every where. Even crossing through big cities like shikarpur larkana I just feel we are passing through small towns fill with garbage ,dusty roads. We reach larkana on sun set and found a nice smooth road from larkana to dadu it was kind of relief to drive on such road but an other problem comes out after
every 20 to 30 km we have to cross check posts where we were asked where are you going and where are coming from soon they hear word "sewan"  they asked for LAL NOTE (100 RS) as we are going to visit Lal shahbaz qalandar shrine so we have to pay them a LAL NOTE. They even did not ask us show documents or driving license etc but they insist on only and only Lal Note.

if you live in sindh for long time as I get chance to live for a month or so in Hyderabad and before that 3 years in Karachi you will feel that this is most corrupt  province in all Pakistan. you may have also
heard about Wadera system in sindh but fact is its more cruel then you heard. They never allowed ordinary person to sit on chair or sofa and keep them on ground close their feet's all the time.

I got a chance to visit the hala close to Bit shah the home town of Makhdoom Ameen Faheem and found more then two dozen dishes are serve on each dinner every night. So you
can imagine that from top to bottom there is one lesson for all sindhi grab what you can and how much you can.

In near future I can not see major changes in sindh as they never tried , they don't want to establish cities because they already know what happened in Karachi and Hyderabad where PPP is become irrelevant as compare to interior Sindh so if you want to succeed keep
them where they are just feed them with 1000 Rs as benazir income support  given rashan  few times and keep them buzy in mela urs (more then 50 urs are celebrated in one year) in the name of sindhi culture and thats all you will win again and again.


History shows that independent movements actually begin when dominant party refuse to give the genuine rights to weaker parties. Our own history why we demand the division of Hidustan. why Bangladesh is separated and why this situation in Baluchistan is getting worst day by day. if we can answer all these question we have answer for all those who want Sindh to be divided etc etc. and this marso marso Sindh na Daso will never stop Sindh division unless core issues are addressed.

Currently interior Sindh is not happy they way things are going on and nationalist parties are exploiting these issues while in urban areas not a single major  project initiated in last 6 year are so while Karachi is called financial capital of Pakistan so they have right to be angry are't they..?


 I think its time for new generation to stand up, new PPP chair person bilawal Bhutto must change tradition for sake of Sindh and Sindhi people who gave them so much respect and love and slogan marso marso will be replace with geso geso shan nal geso.(we will live and live with respect and honour).
 

Wednesday 2 April 2014

The losers

The losers

 
while watching the last match between Pakistan and west indies in T-20 world cup few very interesting  observation comes in to my mind which I want to share.
 
Did you notice that how much things are commercialize now, is there any thing called "consumer rights" ?.
 
we all saw the match on TV using PTV Sports or any other sports channel, do you feel that actually you are watching advertisement all the times and in between for few minutes you can see cricket match and some time it is very hard to understand what's happened because when you are watching advertisement wicket was fallen , how  ? you have to wait and may you get a chance to  see replay of that if it is not time for an other commercial break.
 
Coming back to match we lose the match not big deal one team should win and one loose that's fine but the way we  accept the defeat is the actual representation of  our  character. From  last 30 years or so I am watching Pakistan cricket team doing mostly same in big tournaments and at the end we sit down and criticize them loudly and before that whenever we  get success specially against India , Oh my God our team become hero's, super man , shaheen  bhla bhla.
 
The question that comes to my mind is this has  something to do with our national psyche.
 
the answer is yes if you go through the history pages you will see on each occasion we got into trouble we accepted the defeat long before actually we were defeated and start Criticism (our favorite subject as nation) you did that and he did that we did that and A is innocent and Y is culpable.
 
Lets comes to 20014
 
see we are defeated by so called Pakistani Taliban (TTP) are we?
 
Listen to popular political leaders on tv talk show and you will hear, some on shouting Taliban was created in Benazir Bhutto Government other shouts more loudly no it was general zia who is responsible for all this Shit ,Nawz is supporter of TTP, Imran khan is part of TTP , Pakistan religious parties are actually behind all this bhla bhla.
 
Now sit down relax and analyze this  question are we really defeated by TTP, the answer is Big NO
then what's going on ??
 
our national psyche is forcing us to accept the defeat before it happened and we all making our mind to follow that and  for preparation we are starting Criticism just to show  that we are doing something for that or we did out best , but due to A or B it was failed.
 
There is an English saying I quote
 
"How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser"
 
 
we are actually in the second half now .
 
lets see What we are doing, our Government is trying to start negotiations with TTP , what I learn the purpose of this negotiations is to compel Taliban to stop terrorist  activities ,  laid down their weapon , become good citizen and in return we will do what ..??
 
Govt. narrative is that in this way we will control law and order situation and it will be peace in our country but they are not answering where will these Taliban go and what they do and what about the objectives they have ?? but they are sure that by negotiations we can win this war as we were sure that with spin attack we can defeat west indies
 
The threat posed by TTP isn't just law & order it's a full-blown assault on the Pakistan dream. Where's the incentive to play fair and do well, when what we see rewarded at the highest levels of society is failure, stupidity, incompetence and meanness?
 
 If this is what winning in our system looks like,
 
who doesn't want to be a loser?