Benefits of Baking

Whipping up treats in the kitchen can do more than just create yummy comfort food, according to a growing range of sources in both the culinary and mental health worlds. In fact, baking has been found to have therapeutic value which helps to ease depression and anxiety. And seeing that one in four people will experience a mental health problem at some point in their lives, this wholesome therapy is good for the whole family. But watch the sugar – how about making healthy versions of your favorite treats?

1. COOKING IS MEDITATIVE
Any activity which takes your whole attention – especially if it's simple and repetitive – can have a calming, meditative quality. The process of weighing out butter and sugar, whisking eggs, beating and folding creates space in the mind, and eases negative thinking processes.
2. BAKING STIMULATES THE SENSES
The feel of the flour, the sound of the blender, and of course the smell of the delectable final product – all these experiences stimulate the senses, which in turn increases feel-good endorphins.
3. NOURISHING ACTIVITIES FEEL GOOD
Baking – and any sort of cooking or food preparation – is ultimately about nourishing ourselves and others. To internalize this benefit, make an effort to bring your whole awareness to the healthy ingredients and love that go into your baked goodies.
4. BAKING IS CREATIVE
Psychologists have found a strong connection between creative expression and overall wellbeing – so experiment with that recipe if you dare, and make that frosting the prettiest it can be.
5. MAKE OTHER PEOPLE HAPPY
One of the best things about baking is that you can give away your creations and make other people feel happy – which in turn puts a smile on your dial. It's a win-win.

5 beauties of Pakistan

Northern areas of Pakistan is tourists’ main destination in Pakistan. Pakistan is multi culture and multi season Country. Land of rivers, snow peaks, lush green meadows and cultural places of great value. That is Pakistan which has been victim of terrorism of past few years due to so many factors but this one factor has caused great issues for habitants of our holy land.  Pakistan offers diverse landscape to its visitors. The language changes each after 15 miles and cultural changes are also evident if you move from one area to another. Our rich cultural values are deeply rooted into our system
Hunza is wonderland of northern areas of Pakistan. Hunza has always been famous in Northern areas of Pakistan as it has been frequently listed in international Magazines, during late 90s Hunza grabbed international attention when it featured in book cover of National Geographic Magazine as “Hunza Road to Heaven”.  Since then it has lived up to its reputation of being mysterious in all weather, colorful like majestic painting carefully crafted by God. Hunza is just 102 kilometre away from City of Gilgit. The Gilgit is getting one flight daily from Islamabad Airport via Pakistan International Airline. Though the flight is weather dependant as weather in northern areas of Pakistan is really unpredictable
Skardu is 763 Kilometer away from Capital city of Islamabad. Skardu is another remarkable place offering abundance of sightseeing places. Skardu has various lakes which invites each visitor to see there beauty and fell in love with them. Most famous lake is Shangrila lakes in khachura region which is artificial lake but has got fame due to world famous Shangrila resort. Just few minutes walks from shangrila resort can take you towards green lake of Upper khachura which is natural lake and its warm waters welcome swimmers to enjoy here. The Sadpara Lake is one other lake in heart of Skardu city. This blue color lake is biggest lake in skardu region with big stock of clean water. Skardu journey never completes if we don’t visit Deosai National park.  Deosai National park is just 50kilometre from skardu city. The Deosai national park is second highest plateau in the world. Deosai national park is famous for its natural life, Himalayan brown bears, Mighty Sheoshar Lake near a store region.
Narran is famous domestic location for tourists. It is part of district Mansehra and has so much to offer. Naran has been fetching more then 2 millions visitors each year and this growth ration is improving by each passing year. There are various nice locations in Naran the most interesting is Lake Saiful malook. This lake is most visited in Pakistan. Saiful malook offers sublime beauty in Northern areas of Pakistan. It is half an hour Jeep ride from Naran Baazar. The road is bumpy and only accessible by 4×4 Jeeps. During summer season Naran is full of tourist. You won’t find more tourist any other part of Pakistan then Naran. Naran top point is Babusar Top on elevation of 13600 Feet from there you can see glimpse of Rakaposhi Peak 280km away from there. Some other famous places of Naran region is Shogran, Sharan, Siri PAYE Meadows, Lalazar Meadows and Nori Top. Lulusar Lake is one other nice lake in Naran Region.
Kalam is land of rivers, towering mountains, waterfalls and lovely people. Kalam is one of top visited place in northern areas of Pakistan. Kalam has all ingredients to be termed as top tourist destination in Pakistan. Kalam has great forests for camping, nice mountains for treeking and climbing, lakes for boating and various nice resorts to stay. Mohdand Lake is one of most refreshing lake of norhtern Pakistan. Mohdand Lake is 2 hours jeep drive from Kalam Bazar. On them way you can visit USHU Jungle, and Mataltan areas which has one of biggest waterfalls. The climate always remain chilled there and you need to have warmer outfit to stay easy. The road structure is being imrpoved as road from Madyan towards kalam is not fine but it is being carpeted.
Chitral is part of Kyber pakhtunkwa province and it was princly state till 1969. The chitral is in foots of Tirch Mir Peak which is highest peak of Hindukush range. It was first scalled in 1950 by Norwegian team. Tich mir can be seen from central bazar of Chitral. Chitral has famous Badhshai mosque. Chitral also posses airport which offer one daily flight from Islamabad and Peshawar. Most famous area of Chitral Region is Kalash (Kafiristan) which has population of 2000 Kalashi People. These people are non-Muslims and has their own religion. These people are totally different from other poeple of Pakistan with there unique culture and differnt religion like no other. There language, food and way of life is different. Chillam jotish is there main festival when visitors from different parts of world and domestic tourist come Pakistan.

Night packages and our youth

Ban on Mobile night packages by PTA has a long history. Every now and then they announce that night packages are getting banned because they have negative impacts on our youth and society as a whole. Nevertheless they haven’t banned the packages or at least no permanent step has yet been taken. The latest ban news brings up the discussion once again on the floor.
What does Pakistani youth think about mobile phone night packages?
Firstly who needs to talk for long hours in the late night hours? The answer is simple. There is a rising concept of love and to put this emotion of love to affection, young boys and girls talk whole night on the phone.
If the situation is carefully analyzed, it is quite obvious that night packages are there only to promote a new culture of “boyfriend and girlfriend” which does not belong to our culture or our religion. It is not necessary to provide the packages during the late night hours. If purpose of these packages is to provide cheaper calls to the customers, then why only late night? Why not provide packages during the day time so that a larger mass can be benefited. But it is intentionally made available by the mobile companies to take advantage of the youth.
A person does not need to talk for an hour to communicate his message to the other end. You need probably a few minutes to say and communicate whatever you want. Only quite a few occasions come where you need to talk for long hours and you can manage that once in a while without much problem. The point of emphasize in this is that mobile night packages are useless but yet mobile companies are providing these packages on a large scale targeting the youth and bringing bad habits in the youth. Young generation waits for the late night time and talks for hours, then sleep late and their whole schedule and routine is quite disturbed. Majority of the Universities offer classes in the morning shift. If a student stays awake till 4-5 AM, and sleeps only for 3-4 hours before he could join the class, how is he supposed to study with full concentration?
So mobile phone night call packages must be banned and save our youth and society as a whole from the evil.

Siblings, Blessing of God

Most sisters have their ups and dow1ns in their relationship, especially while growing up. Having a sister can sometimes be a tough nightmare that is driving you mad. But when it all boils down, sisters stick together. Your sister can be your best friend and a wonderful person that inspires you. She might even be your other half who makes you whole—the person who will always be there for you whenever you have a problem. Siblings do not only share beautiful childhood memories, but they also do know each other inside out. Research has also shown that your siblings truly shaped you as a person, even stronger than your parents and friends. We look up to our older sisters as our role models, protectors, and counselors. Maybe you even have a younger sister who was looking up to you and what you can guide with your life’s experience. Sisters is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.

facebook

Now a days we cannot survive without modern technologies. We use some technologies education purpose, some technologies for entertaining purpose, like internet. Internet is the global system of interconnection. Internet is a source of entertainment, education, information and many more. Every person of society wants to be social through the social networking sites such as Facebook, twitter, line, WeChat, snap chat, WhatsApp, tumbler, Instagram, skype, imo and many others. With the help of these sites people can interact with each other easily.
Facebook widely known as FB is one of the most popular social networking site. People of all ages are addicted to these days it has millions of subscribers. Facebook has many advantages but we cannot neglect the disadvantages. Facebook helps to create a brand for many individuals and business. Moreover it’s a major source of entertainment for people around the globe social networking sites available in various parts of the world where location is not a barrier.
Facebook is arguably the most powerful social media and social networking site you can use Facebook to connect with your family, friends, colleagues and you can meet new people on Facebook. It is a best communication site to connect people easily as compare to others sites. Anyone can take advantage of Facebook to maintain a good relationship with others who identify with certain tastes or products. This is very important because as a business you can sell or promote a product to a highly targeted audience. Thus increasing the possibilities of making money on internet. The real advantage of Facebook is that it’s a real time social networking site. This make it one of the best source to stay updated with the latest news and information. Major news usually goes viral on Facebook, and most brands use it to announce important things regarding their products. Facebook’s timeline gives a completely news took regarding your personal profile. The viewer can judge your personality just to see your timeline.
One of the major concerns and disadvantages of Facebook has to do with Facebook’s privacy. In the past there were a lots of cases appeared due to misuse of Facebook. Usually people keep their Facebook friend list visible to the public and this helps Facebook stalkers find more information about you. Facebook is full of fake accounts. There is no limit to these profiles. It makes difficulty to recognize real/official or fake accounts. All of between Facebook’s disadvantages, I believe this is one of the major reason why people deactivate or delete their Facebook profile. Being one of the best way to stay update about what your friends are doing, people spend too much time on this vast social networking site. If you want to use Facebook to your advantage, set yourself in time limit spending too much time on Facebook might make you a Facebook addict. I thought it is totally depend on user to use it in advantage or disadvantage.

20 YEARS OF BOOM BOOM

It was Octuber2, 1996 a new name was mounted in the ODI team of Pakistan during the four nations “Sameer Cup 1996-97.” In the first match against Kenya he went wicktless and also didn’t get chance to bat. The second appearance was against Srilanka, the player who came to bat at number 3 as a pinch hitter smatched fastest 100 of ODI history from 37 deliveries! His innings comprise of 0610400600661166264400661411041606024100, the name SHAHID AFRIDI (born name SHAHIBZADA MOHAMMAD SHAHID KHAN AFRIDI) now emerged as youngest player to score an ODI century, 16 years and 217 days. After a spam of playing 66 ODIs Shahid Afridi made his test debut in 1998 he didn’t played a big inning from bat but was able to get 5 wickets against Australia. The second test was against India, and the rounded performance here was remarkable. Here Afridi scored his maiden test century scoring 141 runs from 191 balls and manage to get 3 wickets for 54 runs. The journey continued, scorning more runs from bat and collecting more wickets, Shahid Afridi was named as most consistence player of 2005. With regard to focus on 2007 World Cup Shahid Afridi announce temporary retirement from test cricket on April12 2006 but he came back on coach Woolmer calls and played his last test in 2010 vs. Australia. His test career include 27 matches in which he played 48 innings and scored 1716 runs with 220 4s,52 6s and 156 as highest score. He further reached to pick 48 wickets with best bowling average 5-43.

The well known title BOOM BOOM was given to him by recognized Indian commentator Ravi Shastri, after he scored second fastest 100 of ODI history of 45 balls against India. The famous name of Shahid Afridi by his natives and fan is LALA (big brother). Asia cup 2010 was the first ICC event in which Shahid Afridi led the National side in ODI, during his first three matches as ODI captain he scored two centuries against Sri Lanka and Bangladesh he finished as the tournaments highest run scorer with 384 runs from 3 matches.Shahid Afridi is the only captain who take Team Pakistan in semis of ICC world cup after 1999. The name Shahid Afridi is rope in among 22 bowlers of the ODI’s who has taken 250+ wickets and he got the average 33.68 and on number two among 22 bowlers of the world. The aggressive boy hasn’t faced 100 balls in his entire carrier, his longest innings winds up on 94 balls. BOOM BOOM also deals with most number of man of the match awards from Pakistani side in ODIs. In Pakistan's opening match of theICC world cup 2011, Afridi took 5 wickets for 16 runs against Kenya, giving him the best bowling figures by a Pakistan bowler in a World Cup .He remained the captain of national team in ODIs from 2009-14, in this duaration team played 38 matches out of which 19 ends up with victory, 18 loss and 1 with no result. The most remembered event of his captaincy was ICC world cup 2011 when Pakistan was defeated by India in the semis knock out. Shahid Afridi said good bye to another form of cricket and played his last ODI on March 20, 2015 against Australia in the ground of Adelaide. In total, he played 398 games scored 8064 runs, 124 as highest score with 730 4s and 351 6s and took 127 catches. With ball he picked 395 wickets with best bowling figure 7-12 and conceived 13632 runs all together. His extraordinary achievement includes twice runs and wickets in comparison to legendary Imran Khan in ODIs.

 Shahid khan Afridi the man with record of taking most wickets by any all rounder and recently named as leading wicket taker of world t20 led the side in T20 format first time in 2009 after ICC WT20 and Younis Khan’s retirement. He remained captain from 2009-11 and later in 2014 he was again crowned as captain till current. Team Pakistan marked 15 victories and defeats out of 30 matches under his captaincy. With 210 matches yet played he is the man with most played T20 in history of cricket also Afridi is the only player in T20 cricket who made 2000+ runs and take 97 wickets. The name Shahid Afridi is not small in the history of cricket, not only in Pakistan but in the entire world the crowd chants for him whenever he steps on the pitch either with ball or bat. His rapid fire batting & his signature style after picking batsmen each is equally enjoyed by his followers. This magnificent cricket career has completed 20 years today!  Number of records keeps getting aside the name with passage of time.

One can’t forget that fastest 100 in very first inning, 100 of 45 balls against India, 2009 t20 World Cup and his duty on the pitch the most recent and breath taking last over of Ashwin (ASIA CUP 2014). It isn’t easy to neglect his services and it wouldn’t be fair even. People who even don’t know cricket knows Shahid Afridi, half of the kids of Pakistan quote his name as their favorite cricketer.

LALA is hot in news these days as struggling for a farewell match, the PCB is working over it. One who entertained us for 20 years is waiting from long just for a single match to end his career with honor. It’s about respecting our legends and with sorry we are really poor in this, we give rise and fall to players just after witnessing particular game and same trend is adopted in Afridi’s case, couple years of ghastly show and your entire career seem as dust.

Probably no one can put clear justification why he shouldn’t be granted with send off game.?

                               Protest
as we all know that Mass protests all over the nation stirs revolutionary movements and stop the activities of the government if it gets to a strike, which in turn gets the attention of the media and the law insurers are bound to take an action against an issue to which they would otherwise turn a deaf ear

advantages of protests
> Right to justice: When justice is delayed or sometimes simply denied, it is the right of the citizen to fight for it. 
> .Bringing to attention: Protest rallies draw attention of the public as well as the media, who in turn spread the news to the entire nation
> .United we stand: Most of the time, these protest rallies demonstrate the unity amongst people of different caste, creed and religion against a common enemy
> Call for a change: If the government thinks that these protests and strikes could actually impede the economic development of the nation , it would definitely act upon it to make better rules and law-insuring bodies to prevent such cases from happening.
Disadvantages of protest rallies:
> Waste of time and energy: Protesters waste days and sometime weeks and months, which most of the time fails to get any result. They are driven away by the police, or worse, arrested for violent demonstrations.
> Losses of common men: Those who work on an everyday basis to earn their daily bread suffer loss of income on the days of strike which usually follows such protests
> Unlawful assemblies: The state might term the protest to be an unlawful assembly and implying to the IPC, the protesters could be subject to the consequences of the act.

                                                                                                                              written by :
                                                                                                                  syeda kainat zehra naqvi

THE MACE INTO DESERVING HANDS

Analytics criticism, allegations, taunts and disrespectful comments were all over. People didn't recognize the worth then. A defeat in world cup semi's against India make just one person responsible for it. The title TUK TUK rest every where aside his name,Captain Misbah-ul-Haq was not now favorite of many. People who know cricket from heart were still aware of his capabilities.

After the spot fixing case of 2010 Pakistan test cricket was in great trouble. Predictions of Pakistan Test Cricket downfall to extent of end were common. The incident was marked as huge in history of Pakistan cricket. But all predictions went wrong when the team started working to overcome their flaws. A new journey under new guidance was on progress. Numbers of tons and double tons were registered during this efforts. Incredible victories, inning defeat,5WH and many series step by step team Pakistan conquered each. The re building of strength was not that easy but under great leadership and will to do make every thing to your way.

A victory a defeat,a ton or duck,no wicket or 5WH can't decide your faith it is ur devotion towards nation that decides and team Pakistan is living example of it. We are away from home cricket since 6years but the passion is still so alive in our nerves and no one can take it away. Year 2016 brings up to much good things to Pakistan in terms of Test Cricket. Into the lands of England after 6years! It was a big big deal and the world witness what class we showed there. By the end of test 1 two names from green team appeared on Lord's Honor board,it might sound easy but it wasn't. Dreamy debut with bat and remarkable performance with ball, Captain Misbah and Yasir Shah did this. We didn't won the series but leveling it was almost equal to victory since it was after two great failures. We are not afraid of failures because our leader is so courageous.

The devotion and concentration was not effected from harsh words. In 6 months from 6th position Pakistan Test Cricket team climbed to top. 25 match 2767 points 111 rating the best test team of world and we reached here for the first time in history. Now everyone is happy of Pakistan and Misbah-ul-haque. People are now willing to call him back in ODI’s for our better position, yes the same guy they use to call TUK TUK! 

From TUK TUK to KING Misbah! The journey include less appreciation and loads of criticism but the most successful skipper for Team Pakistan make the image clear he is not just best in number but in actions too. Soon after returning back from England tour ICC will present honorable MACE to Misbah-ul-Haque

 It takes time to build up things at certain level. Just cheering after victory and abusing after defeat is not actual spirit.The matter is of owing, if not us then who else will own our team. ?

                                    TEST SERIES 2016, PAKvsENG

After 6year!

It started from July 14, 2016 when National cricket team started their fight against English team on the pitch of Great Lord’s. 3:00PM PST the game started, the 1^st inning for Pakistan was not going in stiff position till the captain was in pavilion. After the departure of four batsmen who collectively scored 87runs arrives the man with dreamy debut at Lord’s. It turns to Pakistan side after Misbah ul Haque provided a much needed stand and smashes a ton! His first at Lord’s, that made his name appeared on the Honor board. The skipper was accompanied by under rated but extremely talented Asad Shafiq who scored 73 facing 130 deliveries and later was caught by Chris Woakes the one who was ruling with ball from English side. With 339 as total team Pakistan make their innings end as Woakes claimed 6 wickets.In return Captain Cook scored 81 that was highest from their side and the innings was wind up at 272. Here Yasir Shah the Pakistani spinner played a vital role by trapping 6 batsmen and this name was also displayed on Lord’s Honor board. Incomes the 2^nd innings where Pakistan was alredy standing with lead of 67 further additions of 215 runs gathered a total of 282 runs as target for English side. England didn’t opened with strong position as Rahat Ali guided both opener and another player to dressing room. But the sticking stand of Jhonny Bairstow of 147 balls and of 108 balls by Chris Woakes made troubling situation added 48 and 23 runs respectively till getting caught by Yasir shah. Game one make dramatic end when the last player loss his wicket as Mohammad Amir destroyed the stumps! Achieving a victory of 75 runs Pakistan celebrated with push-ups and saluting the Army camp for training to great celebration and the push up trend was viral on social media. The situation was ideal for Pakistan, confidence level was high the nation was happy but England was looking for better plans to level the series.

The second battle started on July22 this time England was looking keenly for a victory as it was now the game of leveling the series or give Pakistani side a clear lead 2-0. Old Trafford, Manchester was the venue and England batted first here. All plans here were strong enough by English team the Captain played inning of 105runs that give England an supportive start and this become even more helpful after double ton of Joe Root. With firm position England declared their innings on huge total of 589. An eye on bowling card displayed wahab riaz as leading wicket taker with 3 wickets, the hero of Lords remained ordinary here with 1 wicket only. The figures were enough to disbalance the confidence level of team green. Pakistan team put on show poor batting performance, openers went to pavilion without any heavy duty and so does the middle order except of the skipper. Stand of 114 balls and scoring 54 runs he remained top scorer in first inning by Pakistan. Facing a lead of 589 , Pakistan manage to trail 198 and this left England with stronger position to build on target with 391 runs already in hand. Beginning with 2nd innings England loose Alex Hales in earlier span but Captain along with Joe Root add 173 runs and this all together came out as huge target of 564. 2^nd innings broke out for Pakistan & batting order another time exhibited a poor show. Blocking balls didn’t help team Pakistan to achieve the target or end up the match on no result, batting line collapse at 234 and England wipe out the game by gaining victory of 330 runs and leveling the series 1-1 after the Lord’s show. Hafeez remained highest scorer on card with 45 runs where as Moeen Ali, James Anderson and Chris Woakes contributed equally picking up 3 wickets.

 Edgbaston, Birmingham, August 3 game 3 begins!  All set on field team Pakistan, picking up Alex Hales in early 10 over boost up Green team. Till 18^th over the situation was under control as top 3 batsmen were departed to pavilion. Stiff stand from Moeen Ali and Garry Balance brings back Engalnd team into the game. Till last wicket 297 runs as total was displayed on scorecard. Incomes Mohammad Hafeez and sami Aslam to open for Pakistan, England make their position strong from 1^st over after Hafeez was caught on 4^th delivery of James Anderson. Early wicket didn’t broke Pakisatn as Azhar Ali and Sami Aslam provide a worthy stand of 469 balls scoring 139 and 82 respectively. By the end of inning Pakistan scored 400 runs that bring them 103 ahead.  England opened second inning with big come back,till 33 overs openers remained firm on the pitch. After words Cook departed after scoring 66 runs. Middle order performed their duty with responsible sense. 8 players appeared on the pitch and except Garry, Vince and Woakes all managed to score 50 plus before Captain Cook declared the innings on 445 that make 342 final target for Pakistan. For chasing 342 and maintaining better position in series team Pakistan started their final innings. Opener Hafeez get caught in early over and this was not good news indeed. Sami Aslam and Azhar Ali deal with good stand but the res didn’t follow the footsteps. The last on pitch Sohail Khan and Rahat Ali crested a scene of draw after the middle order not make the grade, but this all ended when Moeen Ali caught and bowled Sohail Khan in 71th over of the day. Comfort level was great as England made their lead 2-1 in test series compiled of 4 test matches. England won the third game by 141 runs.

A new day a new game! Step in with confidence of coming back into series team Pakistan while Cook was eyeing to remain hegemonic. Oval was the station of decider!  Here England batted first gathering a better total of 328 runs, Moeen Ali with his 108 runs remained prominent on the score card while on bowling card Sohail Khan’s name was shining with 5wickets. Placing a change in opening couple Azhar and Sami starts the inning. Sami Aslam departed in second over. Middle order in this game was on the mark. After committing so much misfiled mistakes Younus Khan acted as old is gold! Hitting a double ton he gained almost all back he loosed in previous games as it was a much needed stand. On the other hand Asad was witnessed with good sense, smatched 109 runs. These two brings up enough for Pakistan to maintain a solid position. With addition of further runs by remaining players team managed to pose a lead of 214 runs. In second innings both teams were posturing a different image! Team Pakistan started it like they are here to win this game by hook or by crook. The lord of Lord’s was back in action. Getting early wickets gear up team green. English side tried their best to remain with stand on itch but Yasir shah didn’t let them to stay. It was almost a inning defeat, two consecutive wickets on Wahab Riaz’s delivery nearly marked end of England batting with brutal defeat but then come the last join up. Tail Enders managed to draw together a total lead of 39 runs & 40 come into sight as target for Pakistan. Day 4 of game 4, August 14, 2016 the 69^th birthday of Pakistan and the team gifted their nation with enormous come back performance! Leveling the series 2-2 after so many downfalls was no less than winning it. The final match was ended giving 10 wicket victory to Pakistan and also marking the end of test series.

On over all judgment the series produced good cricket. Many names were added in the record list. Lord’s marked new attendance record during first test, 113,637. By every mean this series entertain the viewers, passion, aggression & celebrations a complete combo! About the dropped catches, it would have appeared as great point to criticize incase of different result in last game and indeed it should be because that didn’t happened once or twice. Dropping catches in slip was followed by Team Pakistan as routine! But when the nation is happy from the team they forget and forgive each mistake of past. And on the Independence Day the entire nation was happy of this victory.

Shane Warne said: 2-2 is not a justified result, its poor that test series didn’t hold 5 matches. It can be said that he stated correct words, the winning trophy looks more handsome in two hands rather than 4!?

                   TEHREEK-E-EHTESAAB

Soon after the blast of Panama Leaks situation was sounding to be hard enough for Prime Minister Nawaz Shareef. The unity of opposition parties was quite unbelievable as the claim of all was same, to get answer from PM about the assets outside country. Opposition was stiff but so was the ruling government! The call was for accountability of PM but the answer was again a question that why should PM answer when the name in leaks is of his children. Then stared the blame game and long play scene.

Chairman PTI Imran Khan who acted most actively in all scenario, earlier announced their presence on road for justice if the TORs session ends with no proper result and this was highly expected. In the same span PAT head Tahir Ul Qadri reaches Pakistan also claming justice for BALDIA Town incident and questing PM over Panama issue. On the other Hand Pakistan People Party also submitted a reference against running government in the Election Commission Pakistan (ECP) well that's other issue to discuss that PPP submitted their case to ECP which is under formation! It's like they handed over the file to watchmen to forward it after the commission officers are appointed.

Following no results on TORs after conducting several sessions of meet ups the time comes to convert words into actions. PAT announces rally and so does PTI from 6Aug 2016 and 7Aug 2016 respectively and it has already started.

Pakistan Tehreek e Insaf mounted their famous container once again to kick off the Rally. The Tehreek-e-Ehtisaab by PTI claims justification over Panama and also demands for anti corruption institutes in Pakistan. “Corruption has crippled national institutes" said Imran Khan while addressing the huge crowd on day 1 of Tehreek. Chairman PPP wished good luck to the participants via tweet. The rally will move to different places on different days informed the chairman PTI to huge crowd following him. I will fight till the end were the words of Imran Khan quoted with great confidence. #Tehreek-e-Ehtisab remained first in Twitter trends as rally started, more than 21 thousand of tweets were appeared under the trend praising and cursing the captain. People and few of the senior journalists praise Mr. Khan saying his claim is not just for himself or particularly for PTI it relates to every common citizen of Pakistan while some consider it Imran’s favorite task to appear on road and harm the development of country!

Regardless of what specialist says about this movement we can make our opinion, either to support or to reject? Huge mass gather on every call of Imran Khan & one can’t ignore the fact that people follow him, indeed it lacks when converting that mass into voting bank. An accountable and corruption free system is primary requirement of underdevelopment countries like Pakistan. Joining hands wouldn’t be a bad idea.

Analyzing to which extent this movement will prevail would be too earlier now. But so many questions are revolving around and top most of them are probably “will this accountability tehheek achieve its ultimate goal of answerability of PM Nawaz Shareef?” “The call is for accountability or Imran Khan is making strong side for election 2018?”

LEADERS SHOULD BUILD PAKISTAN:

BUT ONLY LEADERS?

When a country came into exists it’s like a new born baby that has to build a character which would appear in world with identity of its own. Islamic republic of Pakistan was the land that came into being after the struggle and sacrifices of great Muslim leaders and also the entire Muslim Ummah. At the time of independence the leaders shake up the Muslim community in order to start the mission of getting own homeland, such piece of land where Muslim would be free to practice their religion. Since it was certain that the Muslim population is actual strength & revolution wouldn’t be possible without hands joined together the leaders raised the down fallen Muslim and take them to the level that make the appearance of Pakistan on the world map on August 14,1947. A leader has a great role but so also the people of state.

The Islamic Republic of Pakistan presently is not at the place it was achieved for, full of flaws in almost every aspect. But there are people who still love their land and are working for its welfare. We can easily criticize our politicians, but have we ever concluded our role? Have we counted how much steps we took for our country? No! We usually don’t, blaming is the most common and easy game these days. Raising finger is easy task but to evaluate the rest 3 fingers that are pointing us, is difficult!

 We complained about the garbage on every street, but we forget that we are the one who dump it their! If the responsible are not performing their duties cant it be us who can act bit more towards responsibilities? If we stop dumping the waste on road side there would be no stock then. There are some matters that common citizen can’t solve but what is bad in participating in those whom we can deal with.

Abdul Sattar Edhi the icon the gem of Pakistan never claimed that the government is not working for needy people then why should I, he never said we have corrupt politician and all that just because he was so busy in his duty. What if every one of us keeps our self busy in amount of welfare we can handle. Similarly the people who are working according to their resources, example FIX IT team and number of young students are busy in spreading the spark of education. Why not each of us is doing so?

The leaders of early stages joined their hand with common population because they know the power of population! Now we need to understand what we can do. Keep in your mind what Allama Iqbal said “hum lain hain toofan sai kashti nikal kay iss mulk ko rkhna mere bachoon sambhaalkay” if leaders were only responsible then Iqbal would have used the word “iss mulk ko rkhna mere HUKUMRAANO(leaders) sambhal kay.”

We hands in hand we can create a chain that would be able enough to face enough worries of the country. It’s time to save our country because tomorrow never comes! Neither time waits for anyone. Decide today to build Pakistan or just keep playing with words.

Decandence Of Pakistani Music

There was a time to wear baggy T-shirts, flapper jeans, watching Ainak Wala Jin, play Sega drive and Ataari, to feel lucky of having dish antenna, to listen Vital Signs and Junoon and many such things. It happened to be the time in history when  Pakistan music industry has been assorted as recognized and efficacious across the borders. The music produced here has always been out of the ordinary. It was us who gave the world the most amazing and outclass voices like Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Madam Noor Jahan, Mehedi Hassan, Abida Parveen and many more. There was a time when our pop industry was considered as a trend-setter, not only Pakistani but also people all around the world loved to hear these melodious voices.  Our singers like Nazia Hassan, Vital signs, Jawwad Ali and others were broadly followed by people from all over the world. By mid 90’s Ali Haider, Sajjad Ali, FAkhr-e-Alam, Awaz, Strings were the most famous. These people came forward because of their own hardwork and talent. At that time radio FM boom had also played a great role in giving birth to aspiring bands.

But now, in this modern era of 21^st century where we are introducing new technologies and developments, sadly there our music industry is suffering from a great downfall. We have lost many golden voices but it does’nt mean that talent has been fade away from our country. Undoubtedly still there are melodious voices with us which are unfortunately stay unrecognized. This is because our people are busy in listening music produced by west and other countries. There is no doubt that Indian singers have great voices but why we are neglecting our talent?

Our young talent stays struggling to receive a little share of recognition but they fail and stay underground. This is because a talented person cannot come forward unless he has any powerful source. On other side where our Pakistani industry do not support our deserved ones, they get that fame from India, then Pakistani industry recognize the as a Pakistani singer.

In older days singers had a platform of different Tv Stations to launch their music there were many channel where we used to listen our pop music like Oxygen, MTV Pakistan, VH1 Pakistan etc but now many channels have been closed and the open ones show Indian contents, in this case how could people hear our voices.Our radio stations are not listened much so that they could introduce new voices as like they did before.

Moreover, due to our terrible law and order conditions of our prominent cities like Karachi, Lahore and Islamabad, concerts are not failed to maintain rolling like before. As concerts too play a vital role in the growth of the music industry of a country but we Pakistani are deprived of this benefit as well.

I have personally met some people having great voices with excellent pieces already crafted by them but the conditions of the industry do not let them to come forward. A great singer Azeem Khan who recently launched his music Album “ Tum Laut Ao Na” with his melodious voice, but he does not get that fame he deserves. Other than him our singers like Asim Azhar, Rafay Israr, Zain Ali, Jimmy Sanam, Basit Ghori and many others are struggling to show their talent. We are not only destroying our heritage and culture but also our literature and music. What should we do to bring our new talent at a platform like before?

By Laiba Babar