Media manipulation and predation of Forward Operating Base Salerno

In June 2012 Taliban launched an attack on FOB Salerno in southeastern Afghanistan. ISAF authorities there declared it a failed effort. They also claimed that couple of soldiers got minor injuries and effort was foiled by killing number of Taliban invaders. Media giants like BBC, CNN and Algazeera simply second the authorities views. 

Surprisingly withing days Taliban shared a full fledged video of preparation and execution of operation. About a dozen Taliban fighters executed the operation after days of preparation. And about 10 tons of explosive material was used for initial explosion. It is more than any heavy weight daisy cutter bomb used by US against Taliban. Later the fighters entered and predated the camp along with number of ISAF soldiers casualties. 

Taliban did a great job by executing as well as recording the operation. With some delayed release of video they were able to expose the hypocrisy and misleading statements of ISAF as well as biased media. 

Cheer fever in Pakistan

Cheerleaders were introduced in western countries for fascinating the audience of any game. Behind it was same exploiter business mind who always use the females as a product to gain attraction and involvement. Any how may be it was not too much conflicting with the western culture.

Then we observed this mean trend recently in UAE and Indian play grounds. Again investors used the young girls for attracting and fascinating the audience. But it was very very shocking for me to have same trend in play grounds of Pakistan. A country whose culture and values do not permit this shameful act. Rather it is a social crime to perform such foolish and mean acts here.

Like ever media also promoted it as a social progress and such performances are a clear message of high jacking the culture and views of Pakistani masses.

I request every Pakistani blogger and online community to condemn cheer fever in Pakistan, else it is going to be more devastating than Dengue fever. I repeat C fever could be more devastating than D fever.

CM Punjab should take care of it also as it is being injected in Pakistan through Punjab play grounds.

Concerts in educational institutes

Few days back Punjab Assembly passed a resolution and banned the music concerts in its educational institutes. Apparently it was aftermath of incident in Atif Aslam's concert, which claimed three lives and left several injured. This specific concert was organized by Punjab Group of Colleges at Al-Hamra Cultural Complex. Any how keeping in view the trends associated with majority of Pakistani citizens, no major campaign was being expected against this resolution. One can easily find that an over whelming portion of middle class does not like such music activities for their children.
However i was astonished to watch the wind that various channels propagated against this resolution. Anchors and news persons immediately took some music related personalities online. Obviously music related personalities condemn the Punjab Govt act and declared it very harmful for peaceful society. Few politicians were also taken online and were badly depressed by media persons.
No one bothered to consult the public opinion or religious concerns. Media made his move and it was successfully deceived that Punjab Assembly banned the cultural activities and performed a very harmful act against social liberties.
Politicians became very much under pressure and another resolution was passed rejecting their prior view. It is a very shameful act of Pakistani media that they misguided the law makers against the public opinion. If there should be concerts in educational institutes then why not in hospitals, parliament, courts, prisons, nuclear installations, GHQ, air bases, naval fleets and even in homes. If it is our culture then let it flourish every where.
In fact it is part of an effort to impose and insert the music in our culture. Such music is not culture of people of Pakistan. It may culture of a minority that is being imposed on whole nation. 

Then What?

Magic of Imran Khan and Tehreek-e-Insaf is high and prevailed now a days. Student circles look dominant with PTI supporters and those who are not fully convinced are excited to test it in coming time. Palmist and predictioners willingly or unwillingly paved the grounds for PTI popularity. Such personalities along with columnists and media persons are continuously issuing statements about near future elite status of Pakistan. They are predicting about a new leadership allied with some very honest and trust worthy team and together they would take the Pakistan to a new era of success and honor in the world. Such prophecies are backed with  prophecies by famous saints of past. 

I am an optimistic individual and like every one i turn to such prophecies and predictions that are related to a happy and honorable Pakistan. However i have some solid views that are required to be satisfied. 

As long as Imran Khan is concerned, let us assume he may be like many other leaders who came in our country in past and were very loyal to Pakistan. We can start by Quaid-e-Azam himself then Liaqat Ali Khan, ZA Bhutto, Asghar Khan and may be some others. All these that i mentioned were true leaders and were very loyal to Pakistan but no one was able to lead our country out of where we are in today. 

In case of Imran Khan, the morally and financially corrupt team around him is not capable of leading the Pakistan to a better future. His prominent corrupt team members are Shah Mehmood Qureshi, Khurshid Mehmood Qasuri and a famous singer and corrupt social worker Abrar ul Haq. Who the hell these people are who claim to lead our honorable nation? And even if Khan successfully filters out the sub standard members of his team even then he would not allowed to act freely in satanic democratic system. He would get indulged in complicated rules of bureaucracy and number games of politics. And last option is always there to eliminate him from the scene like other leaders those i mentioned above.

So i think the real concern should be change of system rather than change of faces. The satanic, corrupt and exploitery system of democracy should be thrown out of Pakistan and a system should be configured which should strictly follow the frame work of Islam. This is our only way out and those who work for it would lead the Pakistan to her elite destiny.

Dead by drone and martyrs of crusader coalition

While US/NATO has predated couple of posts leaving dead dozen of front line state soldiers, every one in Pakistan is now talking about martyrdom, sovereignty, justice, honor and other terms like these. Pakistan army awarded the dead soldiers with lofty title of Shaheed, as this title is reserved for Pakistan Army soldiers by the Almighty. And no matter how much they are involved in assisting the modern oily crusaders, every of their dead soldier is ready made Shaheed.

Propaganda and deception has mesmerized the whole Umma in general and Pakistan in particular. The reality is that as long as Pakistan is an ally in war on terror, Pakistan security forces are as condemnable as NATO and US army that are involved in plundering and looting of whole muslim world. Dead ones of Pakistan security operators may be called Shaheed in nationalistic sense but they can never be declared Shaheed as an Islamic title.

As in case of Salala check post, the dead ones are an example of losers in this world and here after. Here they have lost their lives in a far away area while being ally of crusaders, and here after they would be deal with those who assisted the armies against muslims and muslim countries.

Saving country, nuclear assets or other lame excuses like these are not acceptable before the Almighty Lord. His orders are clear, when there is exam, choose your side.

In deed those who have denied the obedience of all but Allah are true in their faith and they would be rewarded for this by Allah.

Tracing the Haqqani Network

The disputed and dangerous Haqqani Group is unleashed now. Amazingly it was not settled in tribal belt as always narrated but found in elite circles of power connecting Islamabad and Washington. The bad boys were very near to national security setups than ever expected. Every one was convinced to eliminate Haqqani Network if it was the case of a tribal warrior. But in case of a elite conspirator only resignation is enough. In fact Hussain Haqani and many others like him are state enemies, they have nothing to do with national interests of Pakistan.

But his resignation refreshes many other occasions in my mind when resignations were due but not processed. None of military establishment took responsibility of any of their incompetence during past and near past. Haqqani resignation once again highlights the military dominance in Pakistan.

Leadership required! a tranquilizer and a myth

Our country Pakistan is facing a number of challenges and problems in almost every field. A nation whose majority is not loyal to Islam, humanity and law. It is effect of various factors that operated here for a long time. And the remaining is covered by corrupt politicians along with civil and military establishment.

People are now in a state of pessimism about almost whole current political leadership. Often i hear views which show that majority of people consider the lack of leadership as main problem and they think that without a real and bold leadership nothing could be made better.

In fact it is a misconception and is being planted by media intentionally or unintentionally. In near history we have experienced a very successful movement which is known as lawyers movement. This movement has very profound effects on politics and democratic system of country. Following are some of these effects

• CJ Pakistan along with other judges was reinstalled 
• Played role in demolishing of Musharraf dictatorship
• Strengthened the democratic system
• Strengthened the supreme court for major decisions

These along with many other are the achievements and effects of lawyers movement. If we analyze the movement from its start, we have following important observations.

• Lawyers movement was not planned
• CJ was not a leader even not a well known public figure
• There were no campaigns to pull out the common people from their homes in to protests and gatherings
• No leaders were nominated, few determined lawyers came forward without and external influence

What we learn

This shows that leadership is not pre-requisite for any positive change. Leadership emerges automatically and it may be not well known to masses. So we should come out of dormancy and should believe that leadership would be there naturally whenever public would be mobilized.

To be a fan does not loose the right to disagree

Keeping a view about some personality is not digital 1 or 0. You can not tag a person as right always or other wise. I have observed that when people like some one they always praise the thinking and idea of that personality. You can note this behavior at face book pages of  public figures. If you have some reservations about a point or you disagree from what the public figure mentioned that your views should be expressed with free mind. A person with right views may be wrong some time.

It becomes more important when you are dealing with social, cultural or religious matters. Right to disagree is always there and every one should use it for moving towards a better society. 

15 years long hunt with over 3 trillion $ ends at a disputed claim

US claim of Osama Bin Laden hunt became dubious due to a number of reasons. From common people to media and political representatives there are many voices with different questions about the issue. Along with these the changing statements of US officials regarding the Abbottabad operation have further complicated the issue. Majority of people have accepted the death of Osama due to reason that Al-Qaeda announced his martyrdom after couple of days. 

Osama Bin Laden emerged as a symbol of struggle and Jihad against the exploitative systems in the world. It is bad luck of America that Bin Laden ideology has got its roots inside the hearts and minds of vast majority of Muslims all over the world. Muslim youth got a real alternate of Che Guevara that may be even more problematic than a hidden Bin Laden of past.

What to do, when you get a suspect job offer letter?

Recently i came to know about a case where some one started coordination with a fresh graduate (i would call Mr. X) about a job contract. A Email was send with attached contract letter and Mr. X was asked to send a signed and scanned copy of offer letter along with scanned copies of passport and photographs. Email and contract letters were showed to be from Shell Company Malaysia. A lucrative package was offered as salary and benefits. Also some amount was mentioned for visa processing in contract letter but not demanded at the moment. 

Facts  in Case

• Mr. X never applied for Shell Malaysia
• He was never called for phone/online test/interview
• Offered package was much more than normaly being offered in market
• Mail senders were insisting for one day for document submission

Further investigation revealed

With these apparent points, Mr. X further investigated the issue and came to know that 

• Domain used for Shell Malaysia (deducted from email) was proved fake as Shell official domain pointed to its domain in Malaysia, that was totally different
• EMail of Malaysian man power ministry was provided the further cover the case
• That domain (concluded from Email) was also proved fake as original Malaysian man power ministry website was found on Malaysian domain

Potential threats

This was terrible effort of disguise and fraud. It involved following major threats.

• Signatures on scanned agreement were subject to potential misuse
• Scanned photographs and passport may also be misused in very dangerous manner
• With further home work and disguise Mr. X may be convinced to pay a suitable amount on behalf of case processing or documentation

What to do?

If you get any such agreement/ proposal from unconfirmed sources. Then try to confirm the origin of offer. You may easily verify the domains related to EMail used in whole coordination process. Try to talk on phone also. You may involve the related departments to get verification of suspect employer. And most important thing is that never ever expect that some one would issue you a job contract without any test/interview and without your application for that job. Be extremely conscious for over seas offers because that may be complex to verify and may result in great loss.

Nationalism or Islam, Nation or Ummah, have to make a choice

During my Childhood
Like any other Pakistani boy i grew up with strong lessons and slogans of nationalism in my course books, TV, newspapers and schools. We were used to put CRUSH INDIA badges on shirts. India was primary enemy of Pakistani nation and Islam. Kashmir was burning issue and Govts were used to exploit the sentiments of people over Kashmir as it was national as well as Islamic matter. Israel was always unanimously cursed by all segments of society. Later my nation got engaged with Russia in Afghanistan. Even then it was OK as Russia was a threat to Pakistan and Islam as well. Those were very good old days.

Middle phase came
Then there were some matters where i like other common people was disturbed by US attacks on Iraq. I was not satisfied by Govt stance on these issue. Collation forces captured the major resources and sensitive points of Arab world (till today). Any how it was still not a threat to nationalism ideology as Pakistan was not involved in any of collation activities there.

Along with that Ex-Jihadi groups appear with war slogans against US and west. Osama Bin Laden declared war on America from Khost. US navy targeted that camp through cruise missiles by violating Pakistan's air space. It was a clear response of USA for Osama's declaration. Till here nationalism did not confronted the Ummah or Islam.

9/11 also destroyed my ideology
Then time came when Al-Qaeda launched attacks on USA on Sept 11 2001 and US president called for a clear distinction of friend and enemy. He rejected the option to stay neutral. Pakistan at that time was under the rule of dictator Gen. Musharraf. Due to extreme strategic importance and Afghan connections US leadership asked the dictator to assist the collation forces for culmination of Taliban regime and Al-Qaeda activists. For whatever reason dictator stood on the collation side and offered every type of support to US lead forces from 35 countries of the world.

USA brutally carpet bombed Afghanistan with ferocious weapons. Pakistan on his side captured the great Arab mujahedin and sold to USA. Several ex-jihadi individuals were killed at the spot without even a single crime on their record against the state of Pakistan. Even women were sold as later came the case of Dr. Aafia Sidiqui. Here i did not find any way to satisfy my nationalism and Islamic ideology both at the same time. Along with twin towers 9/11 also destroyed my innocent and very firm bond of nationalism and Islamic ideology.

Dictator Gen. Musharraf grasped this reality very much and introduced the attractive but mean slogans like "Sab say pehlay Pakistan". And crushed every local/international individual/organization with some aim to apply Islam in society.

National Security set ups
Almost a decade has past after 9/11. Pakistan is bound to wage a war that is against the mujahideen of Islam. During this process we have created more enemies and less friends. Intelligence Agencies and national security set ups are extremely patriot without any doubt but they are totally failed to justify their actions according to Islamic perspective. This situation leaves no way to opt either nationalism or Islam. Or in other words opt nation or Umma.

Main Concern
The main concern is how could we put nationalism and Islamic bond back same as it was before and what should be done to make sure that in future nationalism and Islam would not be mutually exclusive?

Javed Chaudhry comments and sugestions about mosques environment in Pakistan

In his recent column Javed Chaudhry has analyzed the mosques environment in Pakistan. His criticism was based on following observations

• Shoes were scattered all around 
• There was dust and water drops
• Noise was being produced by snoring and other activities of people during wuzoo
• Windows and fans were covered with dust
• Imam sahib was provoking the people against India, Israel, America, media and other unseen enemies
• There was no discipline among people while leaving after prayer
• Design of wash rooms in mosque is not up to date

After sharing these observations J Chaudhry came with following suggestions to poor nation.

Monkeys got the match-box

Monkeys got the match-box and now they can burn any thing that they want. In fact this example very much resembles the Anchors of Pakistani TV channels. Of course exceptions are there, so except a couple of competent hosts/anchors, all others are terribly misguiding the nation by managing and leading the debates on very very sensitive issues. They have their agendas and loyalties. And they are major cause of increasing the gaps among different groups of society.
Recently this reality became very much obvious when majority of anchors/hosts were busy in ill prepared programs on blasphemous law issues. On the other hand some are constantly busy in criticizing every political act either on Government or opposition side. Criticism for the sake of criticism.
Hardly one can find a program that serves a single of following

• Leading the masses towards better political political sense
• Increasing general knowledge of students/learners
• Unveiling the corruption cases
• Backing any harmony effort on political scenario

Majority of programs serve any of following purposes

• Raising pessimism among the nation
• Sabotage any effort/chance of political harmony
• Presenting the evils of society as heroes
• Highlighting the views of irrelevant ones on a topic
• Posing too much consciousness on freedom of expression

So what to do?
Solution may be that never watch any current affairs program with total dependence on host/anchor. Watch it with critical mind and take care that host/anchor is not imposing his own views. Also keep in mind that the any guest person commenting on an issue is capable, relevant and worthy of that particular topic.

Islamic index launched in Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE)

Bombay Stock Exchange has launched Islamic index. Main objective is to provide a suitable environment for Muslims who are hesitant of using normal stock exchange activities due to certain religious concerns. These concerns are related to nature of company where investment is going to take place. Also interest based activities are strictly prohibited in Islamic Sharia.

It is very positive and should be appreciated that in economic filed, Indian business community have acted professionally without any religious bias.

Surprisingly, i became a little bit disturbed by reading this news. The reason was that we got a separate country by chanting slogans of Islam and now we are without any Islamic ideology. Instantly i Googled for any clue of Islamic index in Pakistani stock exchanges. And i found that The Karachi Stock Exchange (KSE) and Al-Meezan Investment Management Limited (Al Meezan Investments) launched the Pakistan’s first co-branded Islamic Index, KSE-Meezan Index (KMI).

To bridge the gaps among religious and less religious classes in Pakistan, Government and private sectors should try to come close by such steps in every filed of life.

No wikileaks about Israel, Really?

I have heard many people saying that unlike many other countries there are no wikileaks about Israel. And with same mind most of people declare the wikileaks as a conspiracy by US Govt itself. Am so sick of these conspiracy theories. ): Even one of leading columnist in his recent column mentioned the same point and at the end declared the leaks as conspiracy of US Govt to develop a new strategy of diplomacy around the world.

I think such issues are not so simple as people give authoritative view on same. If you discuss this issue with people around you (as Pakistani folk is eager to discuss such topics) or read columns/articles in newspapers you may get a funny vision that Obama administration and Pentagon high ups are sitting together and approve the plan to reveal truth about their spy type diplomacy in form of wikileaks. It is ridiculous to think so.

Back to main point, today i have captured a snap on Google.com with results of term "wikileaks Israel". Google is showing lot of results on web and in news. So leaks are there about Israel also and these are serious. So there is no reality to say that there are no wikileaks about Israel.

You can try it yourself.

Distinction of problem types

Pakistan is now a country full of problems and challenges. From a pedestrian to president of country every individual has grieve challenges on daily basis. Media is acting as an important character to highlight the problems.

Among the debates and commentaries every where, one thing is confusing (even funny) that common man is spending a lot of time on watching, reading and commenting the Govt level constitutional, judicial and policy issues and is paying less attention to problems that are really affecting his life.

Political parties are also neglecting these issues that are directly affecting the lives of people.

If i try to list the issues that i think are directly affecting the people, then it is surprising that about 60 to 70 % of issues are not even touched in our print and electronic media. Even people themselves are not too much involved in solution and highlight. The list may be as follows.

• Inflation
• Food contamination
• Traffic jams
• Fake medical practitioners
• Poor quality medicines
• Increasing black magic operators in society
• Corruption for services
• Law and order
• Poor transport facilities
• Awareness of women rights
• Insufficient facilities at courts and jails
• Insufficient and polluted drinking water
• Optimizing Telecommunication sector policies. It includes revision and censorship of SMS and call packages. 

These are few problems that hit my mind at this time. Of course you may point many more along with these. But main point is that these problems are not touched by any authority. And even media do not pay due attention to these issues. 

It is required that to make the life a bit more better, people should talk and care about the problems that are really their own and truly affect them.

Poor genius of dormant Muslim Umma

Prisoner No. 650 Dr Aafia Siddiqui, a Pakistani PhD. Having 144 honorary degrees and certificates in the field of neurology from different institutes of the world. She is the only Neurologist In the world having honorary Ph.d from Harvard University. Dr. Aafia is Hafiza-e-Quraan and Aalima. Not even a single American matches her qualifications. 

She was kidnapped from Karachi along with her 3 children in 2003. This operation was performed by FBI with help of authorities in Pakistan. She was transferred to notorious Bagram jail in Afghanistan without any legal process or channel. First there was no information provided by US or Pakistan to her family. Later she was charged for alleged connection with Al-Qaeda.

Nadeem F. Parachoaf, a confused mind of Pakistan

After watching this confused Nadeem F. Parachoaf in "News, Views and Confused", i read several of his blogs and columns in daily English dawn. I mostly enjoyed his critics on values and conservations in society. With the passage of time a common resemblance emerged in dominant number of his writings. He always get a religious or cultural issue to make mock of. Along with criticizing the religious scholars he also looks of the vision to ban the freedom of thinking and expression for religious mind people.

How to permanently delete your facebook account

Instead of mentioning any reasons like biased policy of facebook or no privacy respect, for your good decision of quitting facebook, let me come straight to the point. Take few minutes to read following lines for graceful quit process from facebook. I would discuss the process of permanently deleting the facebook. So if you are looking to temporarily de-activate your facebook account then this post is not meant for you.

Utilize your problems in a Tai-Chi way

Some years back i watched a movie 'Tai-Chi' where hero (jet li) uses a special fighting technique of using force of opponent to attack him. It is told by his old master.
I think this Tai-Chi type method is applicable against problems and hardships of life. Here i would quote some examples.