Pakistan is my soul, Pakistan is my life, Pakistan is my world. I am a Pakistani and I am proud to be one. Where ever I’ll go in this world, I will be recognized with my identity and my identity is the name of the nation to which I belong too. In August 2009, Farhan Masood and I started an online campaign called “Go Green Pakistan” which took a strange turn in the online community of Pakistan. The patriotism that we were losing in our busy life, started to return back. Oh, by the way Farhan Masood is not my blood related brother. Our last names matched by coincidence 
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“Dear Allah, we are your people and we do make alot of mistakes in our lives. Please forgive us and give us strength and courage so that we can do good in our lives and help all the other people in this world. Allah you are The Most Beneficent, The Most Merciful.”
One of my best friends Muhammad Shoaib Khan Niazi’s father passed away on 19th November 2009. I have no words to say right now. Only the ones who lose someone can feel the pain. All I can say right now is, may Allah bless him and his family, give them courage, and may his soul rest in heaven. This life is just too short, and totally unpredictable. I hope we do good in our life so that we are remembered forever in the hearts of people.
Tu Ghani Az Har Do Aalam Man Faqeer,
Roz-e-Mehsar Uzar Haye Man Pazeer,
Gar Tu Mee Beeni Hisa Bum Naguzeer,
Az Nigah-e-Mustafa Pinhaan Bageer
(Allama Iqbal)
Translation (Explanation) in Urdu: Ay Allah tu dono jahanon ka ghani hai or main aik aajiz maangnay waala faqeer houn. Ay Allah qayamat ke din mujhey maaf farmana or mujh se hisaab na laina, laykin agar waqai mera hisab wa kitab lena hi hai to aik meharbani farmana, mera hisab Sakar-e-do A’alam Hazrath Muhammad Mustafa (sallallahu alaihi wo sallam) ki nigahon ke saamne na lena. Main gunahgar, pur taqseer un ki nigahon ka saamna nahin kar sakun ga!
I received a very interesting email from my teacher Sir Tariq Malik. It explains why all the digits like 123.. are 123.. ? So here are some slide show captures which explains why all these numbers are actually written in this way.
Just few minutes ago, an earthquake shook the major cities of Pakistan – including Lahore, Islamabad, Peshawar, Multan, etc.
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The details of the earthquake are:
- Magnitude: 6.2
- Date/Time: Thursday, October 22, 2009 at 19:51:28 UTC (Friday, October 23, 2009 at 12:21:28 AM at epicenter)
- Location: 36.471°N, 70.925°E
- Depth: 196.5 km (122.1 miles)
- Region: HINDU KUSH REGION, AFGHANISTAN
- Distances:
77 km (48 miles) SSE (155°) from Feyzabad, Afghanistan
115 km (72 miles) NW (306°) from Chitral, Pakistan
229 km (142 miles) NW (326°) from Mingaora, Pakistan
130 km (81 miles) SSW (205°) from Khorugh, Tajikistan
268 km (167 miles) NE (35°) from KABUL, Afghanistan
God Bless Our World.
Today is kinda bad day for me. Is it? Just see how all these things happened to me in last 30 minutes.
- No one is at home.
- Opened the fridge and nothing in there. I’m damn hungry.
- Checked my wallet, luckily found Rs.100 cash in it so was thinking what to order on phone in just Rs.100.
- Received a phone call from my aunt. Now I had to go to pick my little cousins from school and drop them at their grandma’s home. The precious Rs.100 will now be gone!
- Oh yea! and forgot to tell you, don’t even have a bike or car. So went on a Rickshaw to pick the children. On the way the Rickshaw wala was in such a hurry that he didn’t see the speed breaker and my head banged on the rod.
- Took the children dropped them at their grandma’s home, and asked the Rickshaw wala to drop me at the ATM Machine. Gave Rickshaw wala the only Rs.100 note and thought he will charge me like Rs.50 but that idiot didn’t had any change and the whole market was closed. So that trip (just like 3km total) costed me Rs.70.
- Went into the ATM to get some cash out so that I can order something to eat. The card went in, the message appeared “Please wait while we process your transaction” and the screen stuck! Nothing is working. The card is still in, and holy shit .. it gave the message “ATM is out of service, Sorry for the Inconvenience!”
- I went into the bank, asked the guy at a desk to get my card out. He asked me to wait. After 15 minutes – Yes Yes Yes! he got up from his seat and took out my card. I got it back in my hand.
- I went back into the ATM, entered my card – Wow, it accepted it. I entered my Pin code, entered the amount to withdraw and a message appeared “Sorry this ATM is out of cash”. F**K!
- Now what to do! Oh there is another ATM near by, let go there!
- Outside the ATM room on the door it was written “ATM ki service arzi toor par band hai, hum mazraatkhuan hain” (ATM Service is temporarily out of service, we are sorry for the inconvenience)
- Hungry, and with my face down .. I just walked back to home .. and now here I am writting my damn story of last 30 minutes.
