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Pakistan, Personalities, Politics, Sindh, Sindhi, Uncategorized

Contributions of Z.A. Bhutto & Benazir Bhutto for welfare of Sindh and Sindhis

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by Khalid Hashmani
After realizing that the representation of Sindhis was substantially lower than their population, he secured buy-in from of the Pakistani establishment to reserve 19% Federal jobs for Sindh with 60% and 40% allocation between rural and urban areas respectively. The nationalization of Banks, Insurance companies, and Heavy Industries further expanded this coverage to a part of private sector as well.

Those who went to Sindh’s colleges and universities (including Sindh University) in mid sixties know that only about 30% of students were Sindhis. Z. A. Bhutto played a key role in establishing a quota system with 60%-40% rural-urban distribution.

Helped to open seven or eight major institutions in Sindh (including Khairpur University, Chandka Medical College, Nawabshah Engineering College, Nawabshah Girls Medical College, etc.) thereby substantially increasing educational opportunities for Sindhis.

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News, Pakistan, Personalities, Politics, Sindh, Video

United Nations Releases Benazir Murder Report

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Source – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2OqFnDZVNA&feature=player_embedded

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4Gnl7MwqZ8&feature=player_embedded

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via – http://www.pakfansclub.com/?p=338

History, Pakistan, Personalities, Politics, Sindh

4th April 1979: The Black Day

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April 4, 1979 Was The Day When The Founder Of Peoples Party (PPP), Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto was hanged at Central jail, Rawalpindi, and he is buried in Village Cemetery at Garhi Khuda Baksh, Larkano, Sindh.

تون ملئين تي ملامت ڪيئي
تڏهن ڦاسي تي چاڙهيو وئين
تون اڀرن جي امامت ڪيئي
تڏهن ڦاسي تي چاڙهيو وئين
تون بگهڙن سان بغاوت ڪيئي
تڏهن ڦاسي تي چاڙهيو وئين
مرڻ کانپوء ڀٽا صاحب
اوهان تي گل رتا هوندا۔
_سرويچ سجاولي۔

You were hanged because you cursed against the mullahs,
You were hanged because you led the weak,
You were hanged because you rebelled against the wolves,
There will always lay the red roses over you, Mr Bhutto,
after your death.
-Sarwech Sujawali., Sindhi poet of people/
Translation by: Hasan Mujtaba.

Music, Pakistan, Personalities, Sindh, Sindhi

Runa Laila – great singer

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One of the great singers .. was Runa Laila, but we know what big boots did to Bengalis and we lost such great people and only left with boots. Well here is unforgettable song of Talibulmaula by Runa Laila. Please Note the song is great but quality is not that high on internet. Please click here to listen Runa Laila

or click the following link;

http://sindhimusic.com/mplayer.php?song1=595

Courtesy: Munawar Ali and SindhMusic.com

History, India, Pakistan, Personalities

Remembering Shaheed Bhagat Singh

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Lahore : Institute for Peace and Secular Studies [IPSS] organised a gathering of writers, intellectuals and activists from Lahore on March 23, 2010 at Shadman market chowk to pay homage to Bhagat Singh.

To see, a RARE document! Death certificate of Bhagat Singh » http://yfrog.com/nms709j

India, Life, Personalities

Mind!

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Mind is a question-creating mechanism.Feed anything into it, out comes a question, and many questions follow. Give an answer to it, and immediately it converts it into many questions. You are here filled with many questions, your cup is already full. I have invited yo…u here – I will not give you any answers. All questions, all answers, are useless, just a wastage of energy. But I can transform you, and that is the only answer. And that one answer solves all questions. – Osho Aakash Krishna

Pakistan, Personalities, Sindh

An exclusive Interview with Mr. Ali Nawaz Memon

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Courtesy: The Capital Post

Engineer, businessman, consultant and writer, Mr. Ali Nawaz Memon, an esteemed member of the American Pakistani community has traveled across and worked in over thirty countries. He is the author of The Islamic Nation: Status & Future of Muslims in the New World Order (1995), Pakistan: Islamic Nation in Crisis (1996) and Sindh Development Thoughts. Mr. Memon shares with The Capital Post his views and ideas about the current situation in America, Pakistan and more.

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Pakistan, Personalities, Poetry, Sindh

Sufi poet: Bhittai: the visionary

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By Khurram Ali Shafique

Courtesy: dawn

Some people say that he fell in love, left home, became a phenomenon and came back to marry the woman who had been refused to him earlier. There is no way of knowing whether the career of Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai of Sindh actually paralleled the Count of Monte Cristo so closely (and we need to be careful about apocryphal stories woven around the lives of great saints), but there are other testimonials to the warmth of the heart that throbbed in him.

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Balochistan, History, Pakistan, Personalities, Politics, Sindh

Book on Comrade General Sharof by a Sindhi writer

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– Zulfiqar Halepoto

Sher Muhammad Bijarani (Marri) was a Baloch nationalist tribal chief and militant. He fully favoured a struggle against Pakistan. He was also known as Babu Shero, Shero Marri, General Sherof and Baluchi Tiger. He was the first Baloch who gave the Baloch armed struggle a new shape by following the tactics of modern guerilla warfare, against the occupiers of Balochistan. He was a military commander and an expert on Marxist literature.

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Pakistan, Personalities, Politics, Punjab, Sindh

Speech Of President of Pakistan Asif Zardari – Substance vs. Style

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by Khalid Hashmani, McLean, Virginia

This is one of the rare times that I saw a video of Pakistan’s President Asif Zardari giving a public speech. I was kind of impressed with his style and delivery.

http://www.youtube. com/watch? v=97Ap6beRKxc& feature=related

In my view, his decision to give this speech in Punjabi, one of the national languages of Pakistan, was a quite shrewd. There was an aspect of humility and irony when he said that he learnt Punjabi in a Lahore jail and other jails in Punjab. I also liked his focus of on the poor of Pakistan – farmers, workers, and others from deprived areas. He rightfully pointed out that the importance Kashmir to Pakistan also lies in the fact that water that flows in Pakistani rivers originates in Kashmir. It makes a lot of sense to look at Kashmir and water as one issue. This may open up other possibilities of a negotiated settlement between Pakistan and India on the two issues.

One aspect of his speech that disappointed me greatly was his reference that he traveled to many foreign countries and has secured 700 millions in loans to build several dams in Pakistan. He talked about 5-6 dams that will create fertile lands (obviously implying that more water will be siphoned away in Punjab) around the new dams. He promised those newly created fertile lands to the poor people of the areas where the dams will be built. This statement amounted promising more share of water to Punjab when the lower riparian land throughout Sindh and particularly down stream from the Kotri barrage lies barren. Further, tmangrove forests in the delta area where the Indus River meets Arabian Seas are fast disappearing. In believe that PPP will not be able deliver on such promises as Sindhis are in no mood to loose even loose one drop of water being diverted from Sindh in the times when terrible poverty prevails in the rural areas of Sindh.

I hope PPP leadership will realize that giving more water to Punjab is far from being a balancing act but rather amounts to creating further distance between PPP and the people of Sindh.

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Personalities, Politics

Ajmal Khattak: the Revolutionary Dervish

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by Dr. Mohammad Taqi

“To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them”.

Courtesy: Wichaar

He was a true polymath – a poet, journalist, broadcaster, linguist, scholar and a politician .However despite all his patrician qualities this Renaissance man was a plebeian at heart.

Despite his capability to – and opportunities available to him for – upward social mobility, Ajmal Khattak chose to live and die in his dignified poverty. In a polity where comprador bourgeoisie, feudals and their quislings were rising to power, Ajmal stood head and shoulders above that upstart crowd, relying solely on his intellectual and political acumen. He was a giant in a political landscape dotted with pygmies.

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Pakistan, Personalities, Politics

Husain Haqqani -An inspiration

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Hussain Haqqani

Mr. Husain Haqqani -An inspiration to young leaders

Courtesy: The Capital Post

Prominent Journalist, Editor, Spokesperson, Commenter and Correspondent, Mr. Husain Haqqani currently holds the position of Pakistan’s Ambassador to the United States. Prior to this, he has held numerous important designations. To name a few, Pakistan’s Ambassador to Sir Lanka, Minister of State and Federal Secretary for Information and Broadcasting are some of the positions he held in the past. Mr. Haqqani is also recognized as one of the youngest people to serve as Pakistan’s Ambassador abroad.

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Culture, History, Pakistan, Personalities, Poetry, Uncategorized

Baba Farid- The intellectual developments of 12th century Punjab and rise of Sufism

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People’s history of the Punjab: Baba Farid
by Dr. Manzur Ejaz, USA
Courtesy and Thanks: Wichaar.com
Every invasion of historical proportion resulting in prolonged occupation of territory results in reconfiguration of the intellectual discourse and state of knowledge in society. Mahmud Ghaznavi’s several incursions triggered the process which led to the reorientation of intellectual and scholarly pursuits, and the formalisation of the Punjabi language in the Punjab.

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Pakistan, Personalities, Politics, Sindh

Glowing tributes paid to G.M. Syed

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Huston- Tx: Glowing tributes were paid to Sindhi leader and sufi politician Sain G.M. Syed at a memorial meeting in Houton Texas on Saturday on his 106th birth anniversary. G.M. Syed had spent nearly 30 years in prison or under house arrest for his devotion to Sindh.

Noted American sufi scholar, Prof. David Cook; World Sindhi Institute general secretary Humaira Rahman; scion of a family of intellectuals from Larkana, Fayyaz Shaikh; were among the speakers. The event was organized by the World Sindhi Congress and G.M. Syed Memorial Committee.

Baluch organization in the U.S.A., also attended the memorial event. Malik Baloch, presiding council member and U.S. central and west coast organizer, led the team.

Pakistan, Personalities, Politics, Sindh, Sindhi

G. M. Syed a pioneer of Sindh rights movement

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Saeen G. M. Syed, a visionary leader who pioneered the Sindhi freedom movement, remains a beacon of the Sindhi people’s struggle for national self-determination. He was repeatedly detained and imprisoned by Pakistani authorities, spending more than thirty years without trial or ever being charged. He died in custody in 1995. The Amnesty International adopted him as a Prisoner of Conscience. Mr. Syed wrote extensively on Sindhi identity, history, and political conditions in Sindh. His views continue to inspire Sindhi writers, poets, political and civic leaders, and social and religious activists. He is widely respected for his forthrightness, courage, simplicity, and insight-fulness.

Courtesy: WeSindhi.com
http://wesindhi.com/gmsyed/books/A_Nation_In_Chains/

Culture, Pakistan, Personalities, Politics, Sindh, Sindhi

Serve humanity in true manner

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by: G.M. Syed, [Translation by: Majid Maqsood, from the book Syed Ja Qol]

– In true democracy one nation may not be superior in terms of majority to talent, resources, standing and wisdom on other nation.

– I firmly believe in true politics, and it can serve humanity in true manner, it gives blessings and it develops spirituality.

– Democracy can be benefited for peace, development and unity of the country..

– In politics some principles are important to make and follow in life. Those who cannot maintain their character may not be expected to do the politics on principle stand.

– We believe in political criticism but not in personal attacks.

– Our political worker should have dare and character to face the challenges.

– To differ politically is justified but personal criticism should be avoided.

– As nobody is perfect, therefore political worker should keep in mind other persons’ services, emotion and political principle while doing criticism.

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History, Pakistan, Personalities, Politics, Sindh

Some bitter facts about late Ghulam Mustafa Jatoi

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by: Mohammad Khan Sial

Our some friends are paying rich tributes to late Ghulam Mustafa Jatoi, His life can be divided into two parts. As well as first part is concerned, their tribute to late G M Jatoi is generally correct but there were some bitter facts about 2nd part of his life.

01. When army dictator Ziaul Haq removed elected Govt of Z. A. Bhutto, there were the persons who immediately met Gen Zia in the darkness of night. They were Ghulam Mustafa Jatoi and Maulana Kausar Niazi..

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History, India, Pakistan, Personalities, Sindh, Sindhi

BHAGAT KANWER RAM – A SINDHI SAINT

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By Kalavanti Raja

Sindh has been blessed with many saints and mystics. One of the most popular saints, in recent times, was Bhagat Kanwer Ram, born in a small village in upper Sindh in 1885 in a grocer’s family. Even as a child, he showed great talent for singing and his father put him up with a prominent holy man in the area – Saeen Satramdas. From this Guru, he imbibed spiritual teachings, a sense of genuine humility and love for a simple life.

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History, Personalities

Madame Helena Blavatsky

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Helena Blavatsky was born in Russia in 1831. Her father was a soldier in the Russian army and her mother was novelist. The first real love affair Helena claimed was with Prince Alexander Galistin. But unfortunately her marriage happened with General Nicephore Blavatsky, who was twice her age. After three month she escaped and get away from him traveled to Tibet, studying with the Lama. She was in India in 1856.

Helena Blavatsky’s appeal wasn’t limited. Then she found herself romantically involved with an Estonian spiritualist named Nicholas Meyendorff and a opera singer Agardi Metrovich. In consequence of that love she gave birth of a baby boy named Yuri. No one came to claim the father of child. Helena took him to Spain to his medical treatment but unfortunately Yuri didn’t survive that trip. Yuri’s death put a huge impact on her. After the death of her child ‘Yuri’ she wrote that Russian Orthodox God had died for her on the day of her Child’s death. Then she traveled to Odessa, to Egypt, to Paris where she heard about the spiritualist movement in U.S.A. She arrived in New York in July 1873.

Her relationship with Colonel Olcott blossomed into the establishment of the Theosophical Society in September 1875. It was Helena Blavatsky and Colonel Henry Olcott that the Theosophical Society is still alive.

Theosophical society basically formed to study Egyptian mysteries, Science, spiritualism and other related fields. Theosophical society basically was and is; a nondenominational and no dogmatic only for cultural understanding between Eastern and Western philosophies, religions and sciences.

Madane Blavatsky wrote the Secret Doctrine 1888 to 1891. She wrote in 1888 about the reality of energy that 1. Atoms can be divided, 2. Atoms are in motion, 3. Matter and energy can be converted. And then after her death in 1897 Sir J.J.Thomson discovered the electron. In 1900 Max Plank’s discovered the quantum theory of physics and 1905 Albert Einstein unveiled the theory of relativity.

History, Personalities, Poetry

Tao Te Ching

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Heaven and Earth last forever.

Why do heaven and Earth last forever?

They are unborn,

so ever living.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Tao Te Ching or Dao De Jing (simplified Chinese: 道德经; traditional Chinese: 道德經; pinyin: Dàodéjīng), originally known as Laozi (simplified Chinese: 老子; traditional Chinese: 老子; pinyin: Lǎozǐ), is a Chinese classic text. Its name comes from the opening words of its two sections: 道 dào “way,” Chapter 1, and 德 dé “virtue,” Chapter 38, plus 經 jīng “classic.” According to tradition, it was written around the 6th century BC by the sage Laozi (or Lao Tzu, “Old Master”), a record-keeper at the Zhou Dynasty court, by whose name the text is known in China. The text’s true authorship and date of composition or compilation are still debated.[1]

The Tao Te Ching is fundamental to the Philosophical Taoism (Dàojiā 道家) and strongly influenced other schools, such as Legalism and Neo-Confucianism. This ancient book is also central in Chinese religion, not only for Religious Taoism (Dàojiào 道教) but Chinese Buddhism, which when first introduced into China was largely interpreted through the use of Taoist words and concepts. Many Chinese artists, including poets, painters, calligraphers, and even gardeners have used the Tao Te Ching as a source of inspiration. Its influence has also spread widely outside East Asia, aided by hundreds of translations into Western languages.

The Wade-Giles romanization, Tao Te Ching, dates back to early English transliterations in the late 19th century, and many people continue using it, especially for words and phrases that have become well-established in English. The pinyin romanization Daodejing originated in the late 20th century, and this romanization is becoming increasingly popular, having been adopted as the official system by the Chinese government. See Daoism-Taoism romanization issue for more information.

Source – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tao_Te_Ching

Heaven and Earth last forever.
Why do heaven and Earth last forever?
They are unborn,
so ever living
History, Personalities, Sindh, Sindhi

Robin Hood of Sindh – Kadu Makrani

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Let us remember our heroes that have been forgotten by us but they continue to remembered by others!

by Khalid Hashmani, McLean, Virginia, USA

Here comes another legend from neighboring Kathiawar who is a celebrated hero in Gujrat. A Gujrati film “Kadu Makrani” pays tribute to his bravery and sacrifice. Kadu Makrani is buried in Karachi, Sindh but is remembered in Gujrat and Balochistan, hundreds of miles away. Attached is a short story from Wikipedia that talks about this legendary hero, who fought with British with honor and bravery. He was later captured in Karachi and hanged by British.

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[From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia] Qadir Bukhsh Rind Baloch alias Kadu Makrani was a 19th century’s archetypal figure who was born and brought up in Makran, Balochistan. He rose as an insurgent in Kathiawar, Gujarat, martyred and buried in Karachi, Sindh in 1878. His final resting place in Mewah Shah Graveyard (Lyari) which has become the center of inspiration today. He is also remembered as the eastern Robin Hood.

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