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After Every Rainfall must come a Rainbow!!
31 year ago
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The official music video of After every rainfall must come a rainbow. Shot in 1 night in Medley Studio Copenhagen. All the involved people worked for free including our guitarist, cameraman, lighting engineer, video editor and producer. A special thank you to VesterKopi for delivering the 1400 printed photo’s free of charge.
Indeed, After every rainfall MUST COME A RAINBOW!!
A Picture worth a thousand words. Al-Quds is ours!
171 year ago
Nothing can describe this picture and the emotions involved. It is for all those who look for lame excuses to sit at home and not participate in what they can. This is the best way you can contribute to the great cause against the real terrorists: United States of America and Israel!
This picture is from the Al-Quds rally held yesterday in Karachi, only moments after Over 60 people were killed and over 150 are still injured after a bomb ripped through the SAME rally against USA and Israel in Quetta.
Subhan Allah!!
Had he not come today, had the children, women and men not participated in the rally in such great numbers – the motive behind the Quetta blast would have stood successful. We defeated them, like we always have! Alhamdulillah! I am sure, a Muslim CAN NOT attack a rally of Shia’as taken out in support of their Sunni brethren in Palestine. Who would want to curb a hundred thousand people chanting Death to Israel, Death to America? Answer this question yourself! A Muslim Can not!
Bring more shame to us? Please? What a disgrace!
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This has been one of the worst news I’ve ever had to hear as I got out of bed at around 4:00 AM to eat, preparing myself for the days fasting ahead. But this was all over national media! Scotland Yard’s raid on the hotel rooms of Pakistani cricketers and money found!
I feel sick to the core. International Cricket is a distant dream for this cricket loving nation due to terrorism. Playing on foreign soil, our players have left no stone unturned in bringing us disgrace and shame as “News of the World”, a UK newspaper, unveils a special under-cover report reporting how the Lord’s test has been fixed – led by none other than our captain – Salman Butt!
I am including excerpts of the report here:
Our undercover team was posing as front men for a Far East gambling cartel. In return for their suitcase of money Majeed then calmly detailed what would happen – and when – on the field of play next day, as a taster of all the lucrative information he could supply in future.
He promised: “I’m going to give you three no-balls to prove to you firstly that this is what’s happening. They’ve all been organised, okay?
“This is EXACTLY what’s going to happen, you’re going to SEE these three things happen. I’m telling you, if you play this right you’re going to make a lot of money, believe me!”
MAJEED: “There’s no risk, there’s no signal. . . these three are definitely happening. They’ve all been organised, okay? So, the first ball of the third over of the innings, yeah. (more…)
A Quiet Independence Day for Pakistan
41 year ago
Given all the pain and gloom that surrounds the life of an ordinary Pakistani today, it is no surprise that this year’s independence day (14th of August) was a quiet affair; somber expressions of joy and government events were limited to things like a formal flag hoisting in the morning.
Floods in Pakistan have displaced around 2 million people by now and there seems to be no let up in nature’s display of brute force. Currently there is another spell of rains and another round of floods adding to the misery of Pakistani’s across the country.
Pakistan Flag. Image by Flickr user takebackpakistan. CC BY-NC-ND
Bloggers have used various ways to express their feelings for their homeland. Farrukh Zafar, a blogger from Karachi, highlights the achievements of Pakistani’s at the international level:
In every 40 Pakistanis, 39 whine today about Pakistan’s worst law and order situation, the flood disaster, the plane crash, the fake degrees of its politicians, the shameless acts of thePresident, the declining performance of Pakistan cricket team and so on. BUT I WILL NOT.
… Then came August and a team from the Lahore Grammar School (LGS) 55-Main Gulberg, popularly known as LGS Kabana from Pakistan, won the NASA-affiliated Space Settlement Design Competition held in the United States of America! …
More at: ‘I Told You to Respect Pakistan’
Xainab, on a slightly depressed note, writes in her blog about why her Independence day celebrations have changed:
How can we celebrate independence, I wonder, when we’ve done nothing to deserve it? How can we rejoice in the motherland when she lies before us ravaged and broken? How can we pat ourselves on the back when we’re anything but proud Pakistanis? How can we go watch the lights when all around us there seems to be nothing but darkness? How can we sing songs and be merry, when we live every moment in fear of the next disaster?
Talking of hope and solidarity on this independence day, Sakina Younis writes at Pro-Pakistan.com:
Let’s do as much as we can in our capacity and prove to the world that we are truly the progeny of that generation of people who understood virtues of sacrifice, hope, brotherhood & solidarity. We are Pakistanis, we live in a land that was born on the premise of faith and determination. Struggle is not a new concept for us.
More at: Yaum-e-Azadi 2010
The idea behind this post is not to add to the despair and problems of an average Pakistani. The idea is to highlight that given all the problems that surround a Pakistani, this nation is still strong enough to bounce back. People still have hope. People still have faith in themselves. They have always and they have again stood up to this national disaster.
Pakistan is indeed the land of the pure, only if it was governed and managed properly, our independence day would have been merrier, happier!
Nature’s Brute Force
31 year ago
Article originally published on the Aaj.Tv website. Click here to visit.
“This would normally be a rather pleasant time of the day, 45 minutes past 6PM in the evening, but it is dark, very dark outside. I can hear the deafening roar of the skies as the powerful wind howls past by my window. It is a vicious storm brewing up as it begins to rain mercilessly. I will have to choose whether I have to leave for home or wait till the storm subsides”, Ali was thinking and talking to himself in absolute silence.
It had been a regular day at work for him and for all that he knew about Karachi, he was sure his ride home was going to be nothing short of war. He was sure the streets would be flooded and transportation would already have come to a grinding halt. Ali was sure he will find no electricity when he gets home; their power production units either ‘trip’ or they shut them down when it rains.
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