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Saraiki Sooba

pinky — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 08:15:58 +0000

i think now i have a fair inkling what the anti-partition Indian Muslims must have experienced at the hands of pro-partition muslims…the allegations of betrayal,the accusations of defection to ‘the other side’ etc…and i am NOT even opposed to the idea of creation of saraiki sooba!!!..i just want people to convince me that it will change our circumstances for the better…

so this exchange took place on ET’s post Seraikistan is our right…

Pinky Jan 20, 2012 – 2:16PM

tussaan gaal changi kitti ai ;p per ai dassao ;
whats the guarantee that attaining the status of a province will reduce the disparity and address all the grievances of the province??! last time i checked Balochistan was a province too.. having that status didn’t do much good to its cause, did it?
yes, i belong to saraiki belt, and YES i want the socio ecomonic deprivation of my people to end, but that can be done within the existing framework too…
just saying ;p

and in doing so, i invoked the wrath of a fellow saraiker ;p

Qaisrani Jan 20, 2012 – 2:33PM

@Pinky.

D’not you know how it will decline our deprivation.how Naive.Let me enumerate here few of them.

1)We d’not have any representation in federal jobs.In CSS,Judiciary,army every share is enjoyed by Punjabis.
2)For little work to be done,we have to move to Lahore??Why so.
3)All the provincial level jobs are also taken by Cental Punjab.Check Punjab Public Service COmmission website for yoour own satisfaction and look att he domicles who are being given jobs by them. Why so??
4)AT the name of entry test system in medical college and Engineering Universities,they have marginalized our students from getting higher Education.
5)Systematic annihilation of Saraiki language.Punjabi as subject is being taught in D G Khan and Rajanput too.Why so??

and the list of grievances goes on and on.

Long Live Saraikistan.Long Live Pakistan.

But yours truly happens to be a very relentless & talkative adversary

Pinky Jan 20, 2012 – 3:06PM

@Qaisrani
“D’not you know how it will decline our deprivation.how Naive”
hehe..where in my comment did i divulge my naivety about the possibility of a dramatic change in our fortune in the event of getting a province? you completely ignored my point about Balochistan, didnt you? ;p

1) you are wrong when you say “We d’not have any representation in federal jobs” “,army every share is enjoyed by Punjabis. ..er correct me if i am wrong, but until further notice arent we, the Saraiki ppl, Punjabis ourselves?! so the quota for Punjab which admittedly is considerable considering its population, doesnt exactly exclude saraiki punjabis, does it?..Cheer up, it encompasses us!…the 50 percent quota punjab has in CSS, includes you and me…(i am taking a (really) Wild guess here but i believe you are from 39th CTP, DMG, arent you? ;p)

2) genuine concern…so if a branch of provincial headquarters is opened at Multan, you will welcome it, right?

3) oh please..leave the domicile argument alone..anyone can get a domicile of ANY province in pakistan..dont tell me you havnt heard of the abuse of Sindh domicile in FPSC exams..how naive! ;p

4) er..sorry cant relate to it..my youngest sister is enrolled in Rawalpindi medical college and has a domicile of Muzaffargarh…its all about merit, isnt it? if all the top slots are taken up by saraiki ppl, no one will deny them admission i promise ;p

5) whoa! dont be so dramatic @ Systematic annihilation….at most you can say its being ignored…ok, fair enough…lets introduce it as a subject too…happy?

and so does the list of solutions ;p friends?
Pakistan Zindabad
Pakistan Police Paindabad

apparently my brand of logic didnt leave room for anything but senseless sarcasm

Qaisrani

@Pinky.

I agree with each and every point of your discussion.How naive we Saraikis are that we d’not know that 50 CSS share of Punjab is directed towards us.In Judiciary,Media,Military we are over represented.How good our Punjabi brothers are that they have given us every thing?Still we are racist and not thankful to them despite their love and sacrifices.Pity on us.

(Between this,i am not that Qaisrani who has been selected in 39 common last year).

*sighhhhhh*

kia banay ga humara!

Kasana rocks!!!

pinky — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 21:30:58 +0000

Mehreen kasana, you are one gutsy girl! m SO proud of you…this is for you

Yayyy!!!!

pinky — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 17:14:23 +0000

we won! we won! this is the second good news of the year!!….(first one is even better, will share it later (lengthy post!) )

i thoroughly enjoyed the twitter commentary by perfect strangers @ #PakvsEng.
RT @HarrisDenver: Remember today as the day that Pakistan made India happy

Shaikh_SZ .da rational part of me wnts 2 drop my grudge n accept Misbah. But I’m Pakistani, so…for now ill pass all the credit to ajmal

M_Usman24 : Pakistan neh goron ko Lal , pila, nila kar diyah… #PakvsEng

Brashna : Saeed Ajmal cricket ranks : ODI – Pehla … T20 – Doosra … Test – Teesra

Suhail Warraich se ruju kurain RT @SamiSaayer Jeenay ke hain chaar din aur. 1st Test ke sirf teen. Kya ye khulla tazaad nahin hai? #PAKvsENG

Brashna Broady must be telling Adnan to drop her catches n she’ll go out for a date with him #LoveBirds #PakvsEng

Brashna Broad is cheating both on Gul n Adnan Gul will never take her wicket, he is trapped in her fake love #BroadTheCruelWoman #PakvsEng

Brashna Breaking news ; Broad cancelled the date with Adnan n Umar #PakvsENg

Bad Judges

pinky — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 16:56:03 +0000

no, i am not talking about our superior judiciary…(though admittedly, the holier than thou airs of that judge dont sit too well with me considering that he WAS guilty of getting his incompetent son inducted in police illegally..filthy hypocrite/ honourable judge!)

but i digress..

i was merely saddened and offended by the comments about those poor girls who died in a stampede at a concert recently…on nearly every forum where this news was posted, pious angels descended from heaven itself to tut-tut at the depravity of the departed souls..tauba Astaghfar, they died at a CONCERT?!…pakistan aik islami mulk hai, college ko concert karana he nai chahiye tha…maa baap ki ghalti hai, na bhaijte..Allah bachaye aisi maut se…etc

read the comments on the given link ^…press ctrl+F and search for RIP (Rest in peace)..your search would draw a blank….

why such limited sympathy for the innocent departed souls? did they die with suicide vests on, after blowing up other innocent humans?? No..Did they commit some (real or imagined) blasphemy?? No..were they involved in antistate activities of some sort? No..foreign Spies? Murderers? Thiefs? NO…they were attending a haram concert listening to haram music!!!!!!

How easily it comes to some people to judge others!!

and what if the one labelled as “bad character/ bad muslim” by them is actually a decent muslim?? (as in he/she performed all the major obligations, 5 prayers a day, zakat and charity, Hajj, roza etc)).. wouldnt the whole judging thing backfire spectacularly in the faces of these judges of character??

Allah says: “And those who malign believing men and women undeservedly bear upon themselves the guilt of slander and a manifest sin.” [Sûrah al-Ahzâb: 58]

The Prophet said: “The most prevalent kind of usury [riba] is going to lengths in talking unjustly against a Muslim’s honor.”

The Prophet said: “Everything of a Muslim is sacred to a Muslim: his property, honor, and blood”

*sigh*

once a companion of our beloved Prophet (PBUH) killed a guy on a battlefield, even though he had shouted out “La ilaha illa Allah, Muhammad Rasul-lullah,” yet that sahabi struck and killed the man anyway. The Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, heard of this and strictly interrogated his companion , “Did you kill him after he said it (the Shahadah)!?” He replied, “Oh Messenger of Allah, he only said it our of fear of the sword.” Prophet (PBUH) inquired,“Did you look into his heart?!

so those of us who dont know about the matters of heart (and none of us do) should abstain from judging the piety (or the lack thereof) of others..

i hope i am not being guilty of the offence i am condemning…i just want all of us to leave the unenviably diificult task of judgement to our All-knowing Allah….just by looking at someone’s dress,appearance, or a single act which appears questionable to our sanctimonious sensibilities, we cant possibly declare anyone a good or a bad muslim….

retired hurt

pinky — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 14:27:01 +0000

I kinda like physical injuries…always did

Why?

Well..for one thing, they are quantifiable…they can corroborate your story.. as compared to the dodgy emotional scars….she irritated me and caused me mental trauma *yeah right* NO, SHE DID! *eyes roll* ..on the other hand, look! she bit me *shows scars* you are right, let me spank her

in a cop household, evidence is the only thing that matters..

a pity my younger sister also knew this and never retaliated in concrete, proof-leaving ways….she would always irritate the hell out of me until I would snap and pull her hair or drag her across the room…*sigh* yup, I was the one who got most of the spankings….thanks mum…

sometimes I wonder if those punishments made me this tall, 5.9 while my sis, Es, is 5.5..

but having the “model” physique is not without its pitfalls…I am clumsy like hell…as a tall and lanky kid (when I was 9, I was 5.4), I used to fall three times the average of a normal kid…I was always bumping into things, injuring my toes..or tripping over stuff and banging my head…my mum thought the distance between my brain and the ankles was responsible for the accidents, she even took me to a doctor..my own paternal uncle! Really embarrassing…

khair eventually the incidence of accidents decreased…but a bit of clumsiness still remains…per month one fall from stairs, one slippery dash in the shower,one head bang against the gate is my average score..

so it was kinda surprising when I exceeded my average for this month, with two weeks to go

I entered my pitch dark room, stumbled over a lil table, overturned a heater and smashed into the bookshelf….heavy books rained over my head , leaving me almost buried and suffocated…the noise of the collision (for I certainly didn’t scream) brought my two sisters and mum running to my aid…..according to the eyewitnesses, i was sprawled all over the place. an upturned table was hugging me around my waist and legs like a long lost dwarf relative, my face wasn’t available for public viewing..my arms which must have been flailing like windmills seconds ago were now lying uselessly around me…by the time, my mum extricated me from the mess, I had dark blue bruises over every foot of my existence in an unbelievable left right sequence…casualties included my left ankle, my right knee, my left thigh, my right elbow, my left shoulder….plus my clavicle and big head…

But as they say one should always thank Allah for saving us from bigger injuries…so Alhamdulilah my front teeth are as big as ever,my innards intact and I am thoroughly enjoying the vip treatment that comes with being an invalid (temporary one)

Oh And I doodled to capture the accident..(btw isn’t it a new blogoshphere fad? Doodling?

PS : at first I drew a chalk outline like they draw on crime scenes, then I added the clothes as you can prolly tell…..oh and really I couldn’t draw myself lying above the upturned table so the accuracy has been sacrificed at the altar of creativity (or the lack thereof)

BEFORE ACCIDENT

after accident

Baying for coup

pinky — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 20:48:06 +0000

almost sixty percent of the populace is :@

most of the problems Pakistan is facing have been created during miltary rule. The continuation of feudalism, corruption, religious extremism and uneven distribution of national wealth has been overseen by the miltary. Therefore, asking the miltary to come back and clean the mess reminds one of Mir Taqi Mir’s famous verse:

“Mir sada hain keh bemar hoey jis ke sabab;

Usi attar ke londe se dawa mangte hain.”

(Mir is a simpleton. He is taking medicine from the chemist’s boy who caused the illness in the first place)

________Dr Manzur Ejaz

i dont get it..at all!!

how would you feel about a health policy finalized by aeronautical engineers..your roads & bridges planned by orthopedic surgeons…your dress & jewellery designed by top cops and your kids taught by famous actresses, your house painted by a phd professor, your airplanes flown by expert motormechanics??

see? even if all of these chosen ones turn out to shining stars in their own fields, they cant possibly be equal to the task..simply because they are neither qualified nor trained for it…yes, i know the institution in question as a whole, has almost 33 yr experience, but that died (or fled) with the experienced ones!!!..those paranoid, megalomaniac tough guys who believed in micromanaging things themselves didnt exactly groom heirs for succession, did they?

oh but look at the present mess! anyone is better than these corrupt “elected” bloody civilians....
if they are corrupt, which admittedly they are (Hajj scam,NICL scandal, PSM, PR, RPP case etc) let the system punish them through legal process (isnt the judiciary already breathing down their necks?) and through a lil something called “elections”..ever heard of them? they are like really frequent exercises where ordinary people go and stamp on colourful papers to choose lesser of the available evils…and coincidentally thats exactly what you are, my men in the black boots :/

if my country has become a pariah in the world today accused of double dealing, you wont have to look too far to see who is responsible..who died and made all of you de facto foreign minister?.if i sound bitter there is a reason for it.those who claim to be ever vigilant to gouge off evil eyes with evil designs against my homeland cant even protect their own men and bases..somehow their costly guns cant shoot down the drones infringing upon the very sovereignty they have sworn to protect “at all cost” but their aim always has this deadly accuracy when its directed at their angry compatriots..think B…..Bangladesh?! come on!…we have moved on!! we have another battle yard these days….yes, when we are not playing pretend in the northern areas, we are drilling holes in the southern one…

Men at their Best? or Men at their Best?

PTI fever

pinky — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 10:18:41 +0000

the laxity of my immune system has resulted in a mild case of PTI fever…
symptoms: i find myself coining complicated political slogans like

aayi aayi aayi aayi
PTI PTI
AAYI AAYI AAYI AAYI
PIT PTI

sometimes these slogans are accompanied by bouts of clapping..but otherwise, i am perfectly normal thank you

universal appeal

pinky — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 11:52:31 +0000

*sigh*i should have learnt to shape my eyebrows myself..

last sunday i dragged myself to a parlour (that wasnt my regular one)…utterly taken with their showbiz lights (the ones they have in those green rooms, bulbs around the mirror n all) i sat there glued to the chair, mesmerized with the scene in the mirror *dreamy look*..m telling you, if you want the answer of who is fairest of them all in affirmative, deploy at least six bulbs around your favourite mirror..it will do the trick khair so engrossed was i, that i barely registered the entry of a uniformed girl in the background…

next thing i knew, my head was being made to recline in the standard position..my eyes were in a state of mutiny, determined to feast on the splendid sight for as long as they could…but then
something happened
and even my movie star look was lost to my mind

i felt a hand on my exposed neck..most tender….misplaced sense of self-importance that i have always harboured first led me to the conclusion that i was being assasinated!!! i mentally searched the instruction manual for the situation; offer the kalma, offer the kalma!..oh great,i know first 5…twisted that i am, i started with the last one..forgot it midway, switched to 4th confused it with ayat-ul-kursi..*sigh* NO wait!! if this were an actual assassination attempt, i would have been dead by now,,no?

so what was it? i admit my eyebrows are a bit on the heavy side, kinda keira knightlish, but still they were never that problematic to metastasize to my neck!!…but then what on earth were those hands doing on my neck?? it felt like a er caress…(i used “felt” because erm admittedly i have never been really caressed to know for sure *sheepish*..unless, ofcourse, you count the visual and the virtual ones)

tha!!!! the penny dropped.

i glanced back and sure enough her top two buttons were nowhere in sight and the third was not really putting up a fight….and i bolted…

WTDH!!

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btw, my interest in the books instead of quadrupling is on the wane…yeah, i am undertaking far more productive exercises these days…like self portraiting..hehe, these days visitors to my room are treated to sights that rank disparately along the continuum between hilarious and obnoxious…

yeah i know..the blog is totally going to the dogs..but then, it was never known for quality in the first place

i love med students

pinky — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 20:09:45 +0000

seriously they have the best sense of humour in the world!!! and i have a natural affinity for clowns..

the OSPE,(Objective structured practical examination) {pronounced ospee} that my kid sister takes features interacting with a live patient..usually a helper from the medical college….so in one such test, they had to record the ECG of an old man (a maali of the college)..my sister who was the last in line to check the ECG, asked her friend, “saddy, a quick recap plz, where exactly are we supposed to attach the electrodes to his body?”……
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“jahan budhay ki body pe pehle se chutkiyon k nishan hon, wahan” came the bored reply.

daikho daikho kon aya…shair aya, shair aya ;p

pinky — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 18:36:31 +0000

lol..2 things usually happen when my exams are just around the corner…#1, i start praying with a gusto thats missing from my normal (sans exams) prayers(yeah, hypocrisy n chaploosy at its best)..#2, my focus on studies starts crumbling (hence heightened activity on blog & increased inactivity in bed (er as in snoozefest)..

following post is also a product of my wandering concentration…my typically lame urdu ashaar!

they are seriously SO lame, they are a class apart in lameness!!..honestly,if you mix my shiari with other shairi (of same class), mine would stand out like a sore thumb..i wont even have to bother about the takhalus anymore, my signature lamesness would suffice! er then why do you sound like you are bragging about it?, i hear you think…simple: modesty was never really my strong suit..i have bragged too often to notice when i really shouldnt brag..oh did i mention 2 of the 5 IGs are my dad’s best buddies? *finally noticing the murderous expressions*

ok ok, dont die of envy..not when my ashaars can easily offer a pretty painless alternative

her ek hath main pathar hai
her zuban per gali
koi kasta hai taanay
koi peet’ta hai taali
humari jug hansayi pe hansne walo
humain parsayi ka dawa he kub tha

hussn khuda ne dia gharoor tum karte ho?

apne aur humaray pe kyun itna zulm krte ho?

yun beyitani se guzarte ho jaisay hum juz-e-dewar hon

ghalban humari shakal mizaj pe garan guzarti hai

jin se tarshay ho tum humain unhi hathon ne tarasha hai

maana k hum ziada sandali o marmarri na hain

per variety bhi kisi cheez ka naam hota hai ;p

us ne hum se ishq kia he kub tha

usay faqt humaray qad 0 qamat se piyar tha

kaash hum ne ye surat sarapa paya na hota

khuda ne yun humari parsayi ko aazmaya na hota

ok, the last two qataats (or whatever the hell they are) offer two really divergent claims about the looks of the shaayr..just to be clear, the second one is relatively closer to the reality

mohabbat ka dawa tu kartay hain log

nibha nai patay aksar

mitani ki koshish tu kartay hain dil se

bhula nai patay yaksir

wah wah..

bhayi waqayi wah

PS: I found a really cute blogger couple!!!!! Furree Kat and Russian bear…there are 17 sth cute kids, who make an assome couple! i wish them all the happiness imaginable…read this post if you wanna know them