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.

Download Sahih Bukhari Sharif in Software product form

In a previous post i provided Saha-e-Sitta Hadith books with Urdu translation in pdf format. The response was unexpectedly great for me as many people submitted their thanks via comments and emails. Said post got highest visits on my blog. It strengthened my view about sharing whatever i like for my self.

A couple of days back i came across another very useful product based on Sahih Bukhari Sharif developed by some very motivational people. I installed the rich featured software product and find following major aspects

• Sahih Bukhari Sharif is provided as software product
• All volumes are provided in single soft ware product form
• Index of each volume is provided 
• Search facility is provided for both Urdu and Arabic
• Link to development team are provided for contact
• Help related to fonts and other issues is also provided

Indeed it is a valuable effort from development team and may Allah accept it. Do not forget to contribute your any skills for on going projects of development team. You may contact them through links provided in this software book. By clicking on following image  you can download the Sahih Bukhari Shareef in software product form. Size of .rar compressed file is about 62 MB.

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Afghan army general addresses the forces

Although the general looks angry but its very funny. Resembles to a school class where an angry teacher founds no other way but to curse his/her disobedient students.

Diplomatic Shuttle transport Service, The Most expensive road travel

Few days back i had to visit an embassy located in Diplomatic Enclave Islamabad. It was my first visit since the intense security measures have been implemented in the area. About 5 gates like Sareena Hotel side gate and PM Secretariat side gate were closed for General use and only gate one was there to enter the diplomatic enclave. It was disturbing for me as i had to cover about 3 KM for entering the diplomatic enclave through only available gate at Quaid-e-Azam University and Bari Imam road.
Any how i passed through a security check post at main entrance and reached in front of Diplomatic Shuttle Service Terminal.

Predictions/prophecies of Shah Nemat-Ullah Wali

Shah Nemat-Ullah Wali was a sufi poet of about 13th century AD (547 A.H). He is famous for his poem related to future predictions of wars and international affairs. His poems got published in 19th century. Since then people take interest to know and evaluate his prophecies. Most of predictions and prophecies are about wars and international affairs. Many people think that his predictions were remarkably proven true. I have read the translated poem and found it interesting. Original poem is in Persian (Farsi). Here is the English translation of poem with predictions of Shah Nemat-Ullah Wali.

• The old tale comes to an end and i now turn towards India and unveil the events of coming millennium. 
• Mughal emperors would rule but it would be a cruel rule.
• They would be indulged in luxuaries and comfort, and would quit the hard and warriors like life.
• Government would be lost by them and it would be in hands of others.
• After that there would be war among Russia and Japan. In which Japan would get victory and Russia would be defeated.
• After end of war they would establish separate borders. There would be peace agreement it would be a hypocrite agreement.

If u can help to solve it

Today i received an interesting question through SMS. It looked simple in first glance but actually it proved to be tricky. I invite you to solve the following situation.

Problem
Person A took loan of Rs 1000 and 500 from his friends B and C respectively.
Later A payed 1000 to some one else.
Out of remaining 500 A gave back 100 each to B and C.
And also purchased some goods of Rs 300.
Now person A has to pay 900 (1000-100) to B and 400 (500-100) to C.
It makes 900 + 400 = 1300. On the other hand person A has purchased goods of 300.
The total goes to 1600 (1300 + 300).
While the total was expected to be 1500, the amount which was borrowed.

So could u help to solve the equation that why amount exceeds to 1600?

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.