Monday, March 7, 2011

Murree the Hill Station


The most developed and most popular of Pakistan’s hill stations, Murree (7,500 feet height), is at an hour drive from Islamabad along a good quality, winding alpine road. The scenery is superb, the climate cool in summer and crispy cold winter, the hotels are good and drive easy.

When the British annexed the Punjab in 1849, they soon decided to establish a hill station at Murree as it was conveniently located near the important military cantonment of Rawalpindi. It was actually found in 1851 on pastureland of a ridge and developed quickly.

Today Murree is Punjab’s leading hill resort and very crowded in summer. The long summer days are ideal for lazy strolls or riding ponies along shady path on the Mall – Kashmir and Pindi points.

There are the Gallies with their charming red roof chalets, covered with snow in winter and set amidst fragrant pines. Murre a jewel of a hill station, nestles in the shadow of snow-clad peaks.
Zakriya the shopkeeper


Saturday, January 1, 2011

Looking for a Beautiful Daughter in law for a Ugly Looking Son?


Another tradition of our country is that, when a family looking for a daughter in law for them, they go to the several houses where they can find beautiful girls for their ugly looking sons. They want tall, fair and slim girl for them no matter how ugly looking son they have. The way girls are being presented in front of them is quite ridiculous.

Sometimes she is being interviewed if she can be a great cook, dhoban(laundress) and other services that she may offer. And most of the families find it as a hobby, they go to see girls houses pretending to see a daughter in law and are being served with so many food items, next day they go to see another girl.

When some people came to see me, it was a great experience for me I enjoyed it thoroughly. The lady who was supposed to be my mother-in-law was a huge lady.

I had no idea what to say, all I knew was I have to give an interview, so I gave it as if it was a job interview. I tried to be more confident but later I realized confident girls are being rejected often by these kind of families as they can be a bigger threat for them in future.

Obviously I felt bad when no response came from them for a long time. But I realized I was too good for them. My request to the girls who has to go through this phase is that please don’t be dishearted and be confident enough.

Tuesday, December 28, 2010

Sindhi Channels Misrepresenting Our Culture

There was a time when good Sindhi drama’s were broadcasted on PTV, people used to wait to watch them. There was message being given to the audience through those dramas. Good actors and actress were being given chance to grace these dramas with their talent.

One famous Sindhi drama was Marvi the whole cast were brilliant, this drama later broadcasted in Urdu as well, and caught audience attention. The cast of the drama was as follows:


Another hilarious drama of Sindh was Chotti Si Duniya, this drama contains a message which were given to the audience in a way which caught their attention. I was very young when I watched the drama but still I’ve memory of it.  Its cast was as follows:

  • Yousuf Ali
  • Sakeena Sammo
  • Noor Muhammad Lashari
Here’s a video clip of the drama I hope you’ll all enjoy watching it the way I did.

Saturday, December 25, 2010

Benazir Bhutto Shaheed: The Visionary Woman of the Modern World


It was 27th December, that year, the gloomy twilight, shadowing havoc, too awful for words alarm, uncanny offshoot of the day and an eerie happening that we came across out of the blue. Birds were returning to their abodes, herds were moving towards their folds, laborers were treading wearily ways and moms were having children in their kind laps. There suddenly happened like some huntsman shoots an innocent  dove, sitting and chirping with kids. All the birds taking refuge on the trees flew in terror and scattered under the horrible sky.

Mohtrama Benazir Bhutto was taken to hospital but with the signs of agony and the same thing happened which was never welcomed in the country and abroad. She was removed from the scene physically and obviously but her legacy is lively and she is placed in the hearts of people more strappingly. This would continue to be so as long as there is breathing aspirant humanity, struggle for oppressed people, Socratic courage and faith in betterment.
    
Miss Benazir Bhutto (1953-2007) opened her eye in such an atmosphere that was recent birth of a country when new born nation was finding her appropriate place in the world community. All the happenings of the greatest partition of the world were fresh and hurts were soaring to a score. In all that phenomena, she has closely seen the rising confidence of the people to put together the country with new ideologies and a faith and bloody incidents what they have experienced during all that process of crumbling at the same time. She, being a daughter of the great person who was closely sitting at such an air corridor from where every scene of millions of people could easily be seen wounding and bleeding from the horrible incident has witnessed all of that.
    
Thereafter, she came across the well known panic of her father’s trial under the tyranny of a military dictator. At that moment she was fully at her wits to judge and feel the situation. In all that prosecution she remained very close to her great father, Shaheed Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, who had significant influence on her political career, and passed the ocean of suffering and distresses. She could not do except to accept the consequences and suppress herself. In all that she could accumulate to look to future and change the way of governance to save the people and country. Thus she knew the things practically what she had gotten from her teacher Mother Eugene. Her teacher, Benazir tells had greater influence after her father Shaheed Bhutto. She says, “My father gave me a love for books. He loved reading books and he’d make sure that I bought books and he’d buy me books. And then Mother Eugene made my imagination run wild through Shakespeare~Twelfth Night and Julius Caesar~and Keats and Browning and Byron”.