Random thoughts

A dear friend would always blame everything wrong in our lives on ‘the distance from the religion’

 “دین سے دوری” Probably, it is because we have Faith (ایمان) but not Trust (یقین). Muslims by birth and million times lesser Muslims than Tate, Alfie etc.

Did politicians make the puddle muddy? Or they were restricted to this puddle? Often hear, they were not allowed to grow. But did they want to grow (except financially by hook or by crook)? Is it not easy to fix the blame on 'invisible forces’ (though quite visible in post PTV era) but they want to believe they are invisible and who can dare claim to see them anyway. Politicians don’t matter, they get importance for a short-while as long as they remain below two-third majority. However, appreciate the sacrificial gesture of apparently invisibles, ‘they’ inadvertently take all the blame and yet they are apolitical, non-aligned, neutral, impartial, uninvolved and non-penetrative. 

Mango people want the most precious thing on God’s earth i.e ‘freedom’ without breaking sweat or getting out of their niches. 

Lahoriaites didn’t watch as powerful movie as Maula Jutt in decades. The violence jettisoned at the wrong place at the wrong time and the same violence is seeking them out. 

Well, there is no law. No constitution. No institution. Law makers are the best law breakers. Law enforcement agencies are greatest exponents of lawless enforcement. It’s the stick that rules. Height of ruthlessness is that they don’t even show the carrot, it’s all stick, all the way.

The day ‘they’ shake the conscience of diaspora causing them to quit out of favour political party, we might begin to believe ‘them’. 

The day expat Vloggers spoke half the truth on returning to the soil they claim to love, we shall call them real soldiers. Till then soldier may speak but, schadenfreude - make money (from social media) on misfortune suffered by your countrymen.

We are worst than incest infested Lanisters, at least Jamie slayed  The Mad King. 

Corporate interest is above patriotism, the money involved is beyond mango people’s imagination, hence, ruthless vindication.

Beholden is the only reason for apparent fury of the powerful against the powerless.

For martyred and Ghazis with injuries were sincere, may God bless them but empires are built on carcasses. Extremely adroit emotional encashment is the game. Few men less than hundred have become Rockefeller and Rothschild of tiny US colony.

Recently, discovered Jinnah House is sacred. Damage done to it condemned already. In all honesty, protest was brewing up and was organic, however perpetrators of violence need to be identified and brought to justice. Jinnah’s Pakistan should also be taken into consideration. Those who dared to damage it should be damned.

Those who have doffed uniform are equal soldiers rather more because when they wore uniform the sacred profession of arms was not as ill-famed as it is now. Their women are as respectful as anybody else’s. You are because they were.

Warning ❗️Warning ❗️ Warning ❗️ 

This is not a political commentary, nor politically biased opinion. There is less than one year to sort out the shit.

Hunch of humiliation, psychological trauma and physical torture appears lesser than the losses that can occur to one place I call home. Feel obligated to share these thoughts. 

Current model is not sustainable.

Not easy to run the show by twisting the facts. Not possible that opinion will sway by managing media or stage managing ‘civil society or clergy’ or by seeing roadside signages by touts. In fact, sold out intelligentsia, compromised analysts and pseudo intellectuals less useful more counterproductive. It ain’t working. Not anymore.

Gateway to info is held in every palm and IQ in this part of the world is the best by some measure. 

Can fool them in love, not in despise. 

People are frustrated, furious, hungry, bemused, awestruck rather shell-shocked. Feeling of betrayal is bitterest when it comes from the most trustworthy. Riposte has to be even shocking and bitter. 

Ubiquitous power is a fact but highly divisive in its manifestation. There ain’t any unifying force in the country except that foolhardy political figure. If he, his leading associates, his party even ideology is dead and buried, there will always be possibility of resurrection from the ashes. Next time lava eruption will create divide. Not only opinionated divide. Not only emotional divide. Not only ideological divide. But physical divide.

It was easy to wipe out ZAB from short term (should we say short circuit) memory only because of PTV era. 

So, ‘sorting’ the current political protagonist will minus an individual. Pacifying his members (actually they were never his associates) will only satisfy those who were already anti-antagonist for example Sersei Lanister (albeit without Jamie). But those whose opinions are primed, may be hushed for a while but no power on earth can change their views. They will be back with venom & vengeance sooner than later; max a year’s time unless the economic fortunes change which is highly unlikely when there is no emergency seen on economic front and all the energies go in settling the matter at home front while protectors overcome the protected. 

Respect the times which have changed. 

Or give up this hypocritical hybrid hotchpotch and adopt North Korean model. So like Kim - The Rocket Man we might proudly present to the world; Him - The Pocket Man. No kidding it’s workable if approved by Sam - The Man.

Desire to be associated with Ali Ibn Abi Talib or Umer Ibn Khatab (May Allah be pleased with them) but the irony is that actions only point towards Hujjaj Ibn Yousaf. Some wise man said, if you wish to be associated with The Companions, give up all you’ve got. Quite impossible, isn’t it? How could we give up anything we earned at the cost both the worlds? Irony is that we come and go naked except that when we come, we don’t remember how helpless we were but when we grow, we outgrow everything specially ego forgetting that even pocket man shall wear unstitched pocketless robe in the end.

I guess, my dear friend was right, we misunderstood or didn’t want to understand it, hence all this misery because of the distance from the religion.