Kabirwala - Mahfile Musalma

Kabirwala - Mahfile Musalma

Tariq Mehmood Joiya Advocate Memorial Blood Bank Kabirwala

Facebook has a group named after Late Tariq Mahmood. Tariq was no doubt a gentle soul with excellent manners. I had a relationship of respect with Tariq and he never disappointed us.

Please recite Fatiha for his forgiveness.

Though content and members list is public, you will need permission by admin to join it.

Please click here to see the group.

You can be in two places at once

A device that exists in two different states at the same time, and coincidentally proves that Albert Einstein was right when he thought he was wrong, has been named as the scientific breakthrough of the year. The machine, consisting of a sliver of wafer-thin metal, is the first man-made device to be governed by the mysterious quantum forces that operate at the level of atoms and sub-atomic particles.

Normal, everyday objects obey the laws of conventional Newtonian physics, named after Sir Isaac Newton, but these rules break down on the sub-atomic scale and a whole new branch of theoretical physics had to be invented to explain what happens on this sub-microscopic level.

Einstein was the first to embrace quantum physics but later rejected it on the grounds that it made everything unpredictable – "God does not play dice with the universe," he famously stated.

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The Cold Start doctrine

According to leaked documents, India’s contingency program to attack program is named Cold Start. The Cold Start doctrine was announced in April 2004 by the BJP-led government that was replaced shortly thereafter by the Manmohan Singh government, which has not since publicly embraced Cold Start.

The Cold Start doctrine explained…

Cold Start attacks could begin within 72 hours after the attack order has been given, and would be led by armored spearheads launched from prepared forward positions in Punjab and Rajasthan. As described, the plan emphasizes speed and overwhelming firepower: armored formations and accompanying infantry would advance into eastern Pakistan with limited goals in terms of distance and in terms of duration. Although the plan reportedly has a significant air support component, it is unclear to us how much joint versus parallel planning has taken place.

A positive attribute of Cold Start from the Indian perspective is that the short 72-hour time period between decision and attack could shield the GOI from international pressure to refrain from taking military action against Pakistan.

So the people of Kabirwala, though cold war is dead yet the threat of Cold Start still looms on our heads.

Hamid Yar Hiraj given Rs 6 bn plot for Rs71.6m

The Chief Justice of Pakistan, Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, on Friday summoned the Capital Development Authority (CDA) chairman to appear before the court, along with record, on Monday and explain as to how he allotted a 26.5 kanal plot in the Diplomatic Enclave to Hamid Yar Harraj, Member of Parliamentary Accountability Committee, and the chairman of the Earthquake Rehabilitation and Reconstruction Authority (Erra), in violation of rules and policy in December 2007, when he was working as a minister of state.

Hamid Yar Harraj has also been issued a notice for Dec 13. The CJ took suo motu notice on a report telecast by a private TV channel stating that the CDA had allotted a plot measuring 26.5 kanals to Hamid Yar Harraj for a school in the Diplomatic Enclave, Islamabad, in violation of the laid down rules and procedure.

According to the telecast, the Master Plan of Islamabad has been altered without the approval of the cabinet, and 37 kanals plot has been changed into a 19 kanal plot. Thereafter, the 19 kanal land worth Rs 6 billion was allotted to Hamid Yar Harraj for just Rs71.632 million, whereas 18 kanal land has been given for school in the name of green belt.

Hamid Yar Hiraj is member of National Assembly from Kabirwala tehsil.

Wikileaks – my favorites

Friends are asking for my favorite bits from wikileaks – watch this space people of Kabirwala, I will soon share them..

You can still help...

You can still help and support flood relief activities...Please contact the following schools and they will have more information for you...

Khalid Bin Walid School, Kabirwala
Haji Afzal 0333-6223721


Zakria Public School, Kabirwala
Mehmood Siddique - 0300-8392664


Shoukat Public School, Kabirwala
Moshan Raza 0301-7812680


Al-Faisal Public School, Kabirwala
Muhammad Aslam 0346-7083171


Al-Haidar Public School, Kabirwala
Aaqbit Nawaz 0346-7277377

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Eid Mubarik....

Eid mubarik people of Kabirwala....

Wish you and your loved blessed and safe Eid.

Eidan toon pahlay pahlay Dhola Manawana Hay

Let me confess that I still listen to Ataullah as I used to do and love it...for all those sitting around the world and especially in streets of Kabirwala on Eid night, thinking about the possibility of love....

Qantas has grounded its six-strong fleet of Airbus A380

The Australian airline Qantas has grounded its six-strong fleet of Airbus A380 airliners after one of the superjumbos made an emergency landing. Qantas flight QF32 experienced engine trouble shortly after taking off from Singapore on its way to Sydney. Mobile footage taken by a passenger captured the moment the flight landed back at Singapore, where it was met by fire crews.

I'm impressed by the decision of grounding plans, Remember O'People of Kabirwala that nations prosper due to integrity & not dishonesty...

PM Gilani inaugurates fly-over

Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani here on Thursday inaugurated newly built fly-over at Chungi No.9, completed under the PM’s Development Package.Chairman National Highway Authority Chaudhary Altaf Ahmed briefed the PM on the development project. Chaudhary Altaf said that eight fly-overs were being constructed at six different sites in the city which would cost Rs 3.9 billion.The NHA chairman also informed the Prime Minister that work on fly-overs at Chungi no 8, Kalma Chowk and Double-Phatik was in progress   and it would be completed by April 2011.
 

Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani also performed ground breaking ceremony of two grid stations that would be constructed in nearby localities of Kabirwala at a cost of Rs 630 million.  One of these would be constructed at Maan Kot while the other one would be built in Bati-Bangla. Link

Karzai confirms Iran cash payments

So people of Kabirwala, if you're tired of loathing our own president, here is news about Hamid Karzai...

Afghan President Hamid Karzai has claimed that once or twice a year Iran gives his office $700,000 to $975,000 (£445,000 to £620,000) for official presidential expenses. He says the US has known about the Iranian assistance for years and that Washington also gives the palace "bags of money."

Mr Karzai's comments came in response to a The New York Times report that Iran was giving cash to the Afghan president's chief of staff, Umar Daudzai, to buy his loyalty and promote Iranian interests in Afghanistan.

The newspaper quoted unnamed sources saying the money had been used to pay Afghan lawmakers, tribal elders - even Taliban commanders.

Mr Karzai says several nations give his office money because it lacks revenue.

Police Torture

Kabirwala

Kabirwala - Police toture story

Honour killings: Saved from India's caste system by the Love Commandos

Believe it or not, in India volunteers have set-up a helpline to rescue couples whose lives are in danger because they want to marry across caste lines.

The Love Commandos' phones ring night and day. What started as a group of like-minded friends protecting couples trying to celebrate Valentine's Day is rapidly becoming a national movement, with 2,000 volunteers across the country and more coming forward every day.

The Love Commandos rely on individual donations of 100 rupees (£1.40) a year from their volunteers to keep going. "We need places where the khap panchayats can't come and kill us," says Sachdev. "We are appealing to everyone who appreciates love to help us. We are branded people. We have had death threats and our effigies burned."

Read complete story here...

Bitten by sectarian hatred, Can we not volunteer in Kabirwala to help bring different communities together?

India - Failed State

If you're in love with Indian massive growth, Please see this as well..

STEP Kabirwala

STEP Kabirwala

Saleem Kausar at his best

Saleem Kausar has his roots to Kabirwala. I will share the whole story sometime, if time permits.

Mukdi mukao sonhian

Mukdi mukao sonhian, Ajmal Waseem - and I hear that guy is from Kabirwala.

Kabirwala on Wikipedia

I have noticed updated entry about on Kabirwala on Wikipedia.

Great work, whoever has done it, my respects for you.

Thanks

The Henley Visa Restrictions Index

The Henley Visa Restrictions Index is a global ranking of countries according to travel freedom their citizens enjoy. Henley & Partners has analyzed the visa regulations of all the countries and territories in the world. It has created an index which ranks countries according to the visa-free access its citizens enjoy to other countries. This is the first time that a global ranking shows the international travel freedom of the citizens of the various countries as well as the international relations and status of individual countries relative to others.

The following is an overview of selected countries taken from the Henley Visa Restrictions Index - Global Ranking 2010:

Rank Score
1 United Kingdom 166
2 Denmark 164
3 Sweden 163
4 Finland 162
4 Luxembourg 162
5 France 161
5 Germany 161
5 Italy 161
5 Netherlands 161
6 Belgium 160
6 Japan 160
6 Spain 160
7 Ireland 159
7 Norway 159
7 United States 159
8 Austria 158
8 Portugal 158
9 Australia 157
9 Canada 157
88 Nepal 38
88 China 38
90 Pakistan 36
92 Iran 34
94 Lebanon 32
98 Afghanistan 26

*Number of countries and territories which can be entered without a visa by a citizen of the respective country

SUTA Activity at Kabirwala

SUTA Activity organized by STEP Berti Kabirwala. Good work!

Zafar Najmi Kabirwala

Good night people of Kabirwala

No more Kabirwala groups on Facebook please!

I see fame hungry, socio-paths creating Facebook groups associated with Kabirwala. All of you’ve done great work in creation of them, why are you not keeping them active?

STEP was the first group, what’s the group activity – none. With three administrators, the guys haven’t done anything.

Latest in the list is “Kabirwala news”, only one lunatic liking it (i.e. the same harebrained who created it)

I am not against creation of social networking platforms, but I would not like to see personal endeavors in the name of dharti peer kabir. No more garbage please – if you can’t do it, don’t start it.

how women treat men

Hey men, women in Kabirwala wouldn't treat you like this, isn't it?

Match fixing, Can you deny it?

Match-fixing allegations hit England v Pakistan Test at Lord's

Lord's Match-fixing allegations over two Pakistani bowlers, Mohammad Amir and Mohammad Asif, who are alleged to have delivered deliberate no-balls against England in the current test at Lord's. Photograph: Tom Shaw/Getty Images

England's Test match against Pakistan was embroiled in scandal last night after police arrested a man reported to be at the centre of a huge match-fixing ring. Play is due to resume at Lord's today overshadowed by allegations that several members of the Pakistan team were involved in cheating during the game.

The News of the World alleged that two bowlers, Mohammad Amir and Mohammad Asif, delivered three deliberate no-balls against England on Thursday and Friday – in line with the predictions of an alleged middle man in London who met undercover reporters posing as members of a gambling cartel.

A police investigation is now under way and a Scotland Yard spokesman said last night: "We have today arrested a 35-year-old man on suspicion of conspiracy to defraud bookmakers."

Vote with pleasure

It's an unusual campaign pledge: a strip club in every town. That, however, is what Adriely Fatal, a stripper and "erotic actress" from north-eastern Brazil, is promising voters as she hits the campaign trail in search of a place in parliament.

With general elections taking place in October, four adult entertainers are preparing to battle it out for a seat in Ceara state's local assembly, aiming to rock the political establishment by forming a powerful "sex lobby" within government. Leading Ceara's campanha erótica is 23-year-old Fatal, who also promises to focus on hospitals and education and is campaigning outside the local football stadium, where she dances on an open-backed truck dressed in skin-tight shorts.

Fatal is joined on the campaign trail by the Democrats party candidate Maria Adelina Nascimento, AKA Katia Heffner. Named after Hugh Hefner, the founder of Playboy, she runs a popular swingers club in Fortaleza. Another adult entertainer, nicknamed Deborah Soft, is running for office with the slogan "Vote with pleasure".
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A word for the guy who recorded video in Sialkot

It is said that Imam Hussain A.S in his journey to Karbala took camels from a trader. On 10th of Moharram, when this trader saw that Mazloom was about to be killed; he came to Imam and asked for the money. Imam Hussain A.S gave him money and also told him a safe route. Pity on the man who could have got heaven, but he preferred his immediate benefit.

Same to you my friend in Sialkot, you did good job in collection of evidence. But did you not feel any mercy for them? Why did you not jump to save them?

People remember that the day a fire will surround you and your murderer will be ready to shoot – your closest and top sympathizers will only be there to take your pictures…..not to help you…how will you change this outcome, any thoughts folks from Kabirwala!

Mob kills two brothers in Sialkot

Two brothers hanged in Sialkot by mob, and police watched it. Zindabad impotent Pakistan police! Was this only Police who was there? If I’m not wrong, crowd was over 100.

The news has it…

The two brothers, 18-year-old Moiz Butt and 16-year-old Muneeb Butt, were beaten to death by a mob after an alleged theft and murder in Sialkot on August 16. Deputy Commissioner Sialkot says that the charged mob killed the two brothers for injuring four people in a dispute during a cricket match. The Supreme Court has ordered the establishment division to suspend DPO Sialkot for failing to stop the merciless lynching of two teenage brothers in Sialkot.

I am not sharing the video here, but could see police organizing the mob. The incident shows growing mercilessness and hollow social structure. They killed guys with sticks, hanged them, paraded dead bodies around the town, and then insulted deceased by dragging them by ropes. Eye for eye, arm for arm, but where is this brutality permitted? If you look at this unfortunate episode, you will notice few men in beard as well, where was their deen (faith) gone? I am not saying that every man in beard is maulvi; but assuming them religious wouldn’t be wrong. Go and ask them, where was Islam within them? Trust me; these shameless bastards wouldn’t have any answer.

Where is writ of state? If crowd becomes the judge, the outcome will be bodies stained in blood. From Sialkot to Kabirwala; O’men of God, if you’re silent because you’re un-hurt, I can see dogs hounding you and beasts getting ready to kill you….

Shame on you, if you’re sleeping peacefully in your homes and not doing anything to promote tolerance in the society!

Kabirwala flood

This is what Daily Jang said about flood in Kabirwala. God Bless you all.

I hear that Sardpur is on red-alert tonight…

People of Kabirwala in your homes when sleep takes over; please remember those who are in Sardarpur and have been given red-alert due to flood.

May Allah help us all in these hard times.

Log asaan....

Trawling on the net, I found this picture...As sad we are, hope it will make you chuckle for a moment...Good night people of Kabirwala.

Cameron sparks diplomatic row with Pakistan after 'export of terror' remarks

Nicholas Watt in Delhi
guardian.co.uk
Wednesday 28 July 2010 18.07 BST

David Cameron today sparked a furious diplomatic row with Islamabad after accusing elements of the Pakistani state of promoting the export of terrorism. In the strongest British criticism of Pakistan so far, the prime minister warned Islamabad it could no longer "look both ways" by tolerating terrorism while demanding respect as a democracy.

But in an angry response, Pakistan's high commissioner to Britain accused Cameron of damaging the prospects for regional peace, and criticised him for believing allegations in the Wikileaks documents published in the Guardian earlier this week. The leaked documents claim that the ISI, Pakistan's intelligence agency, is still encouraging the Taliban.

Wajid Shamsul Hasan, Pakistan's high commissioner, writes on the Guardian Comment is free site: "One would have wished that the prime minister would have considered Pakistan's enormous role in the war on terror and the sacrifices it has rendered since 9/11. "There seems to be more reliance on information based on intelligence leaks which lack credibility of proof. A bilateral visit aimed at earning business could have been done without damaging the prospects of regional peace."

The prime minister initiated the row this morning in a speech to Indian business leaders in Bangalore, when he spoke of his horror at the 2008 terrorist attacks in Mumbai. Delhi directly blamed the Pakistani authorities for the attacks. Cameron came close to endorsing Delhi's view when he said: "We cannot tolerate in any sense the idea that this country is allowed to look both ways and is able to promote the export of terror, whether to India or Afghanistan or anywhere else in the world.

"That is why this relationship is important. But it should be a relationship based on a very clear message: that it is not right to have any relationship with groups that are promoting terror. Democratic states that want to be part of the developed world cannot do that. The message to Pakistan from the US and from the UK is very clear on that point." Abdul Basit, a spokesman for the Pakistani foreign ministry, told Radio 4's World at One: "There is no question of Pakistan looking the other way. I think the prime minister was referring to these reports, which are unverifiable and outdated. If we start drawing inferences from these self-serving reports, then obviously we are distracting ourselves."

Leadership Tips from Tony Hayward (or Not)

By Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Jul 26, 2010

Tony Hayward's expected departure as CEO of BP today won't be the biggest surprise; the surprise is that it's taken so long. (I called publicly for his resignation some time ago.) The Case of Tony Hayward and the Gulf Oil Spill will be fodder for business school discussions for years to come, as a how-not-to-do-it guide for leadership when disaster strikes.

Mr. Hayward must have studied management in a parallel universe, where a set of anti-rules for bad leadership are taught. Here's what I imagine are those anti-rules.

Deny and minimize problems. Drop any mention of the high-minded principles you announced at the beginning of your term, such as safety and a culture that puts people first. Sweep them under the rug as you play down the significance of the crisis. Or better yet, find someone else to blame — a supplier, a business partner, a lowly employee or two.

Emphasize your own power and importance. Keep yourself front and center all the time. Rarely bring forward the rest of the team, nor even indicate that it's a team effort.

Make the story all about you. Talk about your heavy burdens and the costs to your life. When forced to acknowledge the true victims, pay lip service.

Never apologize, and don't even pretend to learn from your mistakes. Brush off public disapproval, and persist in the same mindless behavior that provoked criticism in the first place.

Hang onto your job even when it's clear you should go, in order to negotiate the highest severance package, whether you deserve it or not. Don't even consider a deferred resignation to allow for smooth suggestion. Cling to power, and keep everyone guessing to the very end.

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How Social networks are shaping life around us?

Notes from one of the best presentatiosn, I have seen for many weeks.

We're also seeing a much bigger shift in how people spend their time online. People are spending much more time interacting with other people, and much less time consuming content from websites. This shift is not about any one particular social network. It's about people connecting to each other online.

The social web, and all social media that operate within it, is a way of thinking as opposed to a new channel. Its not about sales, or ads, or click-through rates. Its about pursuing relationships and fostering communities of consumers. Its about rethinking how you make plans when your customers are in the center and in control.

The first is that people often don't know what they are going to do with the things they build. There are so many Facebook fan pages with hundreds of thousands of followers yet nothing is happening. So 100,000 people became a fan of yours on Facebook. Now what? This is the fan page for the magazine seventeen. There are 174,000 fans but no conversation. You need to look at things like Facebook fan pages and think: “How is this going to fundamentally improve my relationship with my customers?”

For decades, people have spoken about strong and weak ties. There is an abundance of research on strong and weak ties. Strong ties are the people you care about most. Your best friends. Your family. People often refer to strong ties as their “circle of trust.” We rely on strong ties for emotional support throughout life. Research has shown that maintaining our strong ties is important for our wellbeing. People with strong friendship bonds have lower incidents of heart disease, and get fewer colds and cases of the flu.

A study of 3000 randomly chosen Americans showed that the average American has just four strong ties. Most had between two and six. Another study of 1,178 adults found that on average, people had about 10 friends they meet or speak with at least weekly. Many research studies have shown that the vast majority of usage on social networks is with small numbers of strong ties. The average number of friends on Facebook is 130, and many users have many more. Yet despite having hundreds of friends, most people on Facebook only interact regularly with 4 to 6 people.

Strong ties often wield the most influence over people's decisions. For example, they are often the biggest factor in purchase decisions. Think about the last time you consulted a friend on whether to buy something. Chances are, it was quite recently.

Most of us can only stay up-to-date with up to 150 weak ties. This is a limitation of our brain. This number has been consistent throughout history. Neolithic farming villages tended to separate into two once they reached 150 inhabitants. The Roman army was split into groups of 150 so that everyone in the group knew each other.

Paul Adams
http://www.thinkoutsidein.com/blog/

In the name of God, leave us alone and go!

Not a rebel, but I have got a brain in my head which makes me think and occasionally question few certainties. Corrupt as they are, many of them, believe that (God forbid) they are masters of the universe?

Tell me respected “monsters” of Kabirwala:

Why would you enforce religious values on us when you’re morally dishonest? Why would you talk about social justice, when you’re an icon of un-just? Why would you sermon on unity, when you preach hatred in private meetings? Why would you say good stuff on my face, when you are more likely to bite in my absence? Why would you close your doors and expect others to open their hearts for you? Why would you educate generosity of Hazrat Usman, when in personal lives you’re miserable bastards. Why would you mourn Imam Hussain A.S., when your daily acts shout about your allegiance to yazeed.

You vouch solidarity and your manners illustrate contradictory image.

Shame on your hypo crates of Kabirwala, I understand until you’re elders of this unfortunate town, the fate will remain same!

When will you leave us please? In the name of God, leave us alone and please go!

Three years ago, Malik Mahboob was killed

Three years ago, Malik Mahboob was killed.

IT was SUNDAY morning of 15th of July 2007; I heard that there was firing in Sadat Market, Kabirwala. Worried about sectarian problems, I thought it was beginning of another riot in town. I didn’t realize that it could be Malik Mahboob who had embraced the bullet.

Next day – The daily dawn newspaper carried story of shooting in the town.

Police said the gunmen sprayed bullets at Malik Mahboob Yazdani sitting in his mobile phone shop in Sadat Market, killing him on the spot.

Also present in the shop were Imran Gardezi, the son of market owner, and Sheikh Abu Bakar, who sustained serious injuries. They were shifted to the THQ Hospital, Kabirwala, from where they were referred to the Nishtar Hospital, Multan, but Abu Bakar could not survive. Reports said that soon after the occurrence, other businessmen tried hard to contact police on emergency 15 but no one attended the calls.

The business community of Khanewal and Kabirwala pulled down their shutters in protest to mourn the killings and press police to arrest the assailants.

I can't write more than that at the moment but will touch this topic again.Mahboob, Allah ki amaan merey veer, I will inshallah see you soon.

Celine Dion singing my love

With love to people of Kabirwala...

People aren’t spreading ideas on Twitter; they’re spreading observations, perhaps.

Interesting insights from Malcolm Gladwell on social media!

Celebrated writer Malcolm Gladwell seems to have penned the script for the first part of the 21st century, with his provocative bestsellers on ideas such as contagion (The Tipping Point), the power of instant conclusions (Blink) and the genesis of genius (Outliers). But Mr. Gladwell, who returns home to Canada briefly this week, is conspicuously and deliberately absent from a central part of modern life: social media. His blog posts are biannual, his Facebook page is a placeholder and he has never ventured on to Twitter . On Wednesday in Vancouver, he speaks to the F5 Expo, an executive conference on changing online technologies. But first he spoke to The Globe and Mail on the social media – and why he’s cut himself off from much of that world.

On balance, are the social media a positive or negative thing?
I’d like to think that on balance any innovation, at the end of the day, is usually a net good. But that doesn’t mean there aren’t significant and sometimes adverse consequences that we need to find another way to deal with. While we’re in the midst of the revolution, we need to stop and talk about its broader consequences.

Can you give me an example?
The ease with which you can organize people means you no longer have to go to the trouble of things like building strong grassroots organizations, developing a coherent message, forming strong and lasting ties with individuals. That’s one consequence. The reason that people did that in the past is that it was really hard, that you had to that to build a broader organization. Now, you can do the broad part so easily, you don’t have to do your homework first.

Click here to read the complete interview

YMCA rebrands itself as The "Y"

Ed Pilkington in New York
guardian.co.uk, Monday
12 July 2010 19.38 BST

It was perhaps the most joyfully proclaimed acronym in the history of popular music. Four letters, four actions, one exuberant hit record that came to be seen as a symbol of gay culture in the 1970s, on a par with moustaches and wide lapels.

But on Monday, the YMCA was laid to rest in the US, marking the end of its 166-year history. Or to be more accurate, MCA was laid to rest, leaving the Y standing tall and proud as the sole surviving letter of the Youth Men's Christian Association, the original Bible study group founded in London in 1844. The board of the organisation's American branch announced that it will henceforth call itself by its common street name, "The Y", unveiling a new logo as part of a major "brand revitalisation".

The logo comes in five different colour combinations and depicts the letter Y in a design that lends itself to a number of possible interpretations. The creators presumably wanted to suggest a forward-looking, energetic youngster, as befits the group's founding principles of helping young people to become healthy in spirit, mind and body. Equally, though, you could see it as a penguin flapping its obsolete wings.

Neil Nicoll, president of the YMCA of the USA, said the change was necessary to communicate "our story, bringing more people to the place where they can realise the benefits we bring".

Audrey Haynes, the group's vice president, said it was a "momentous event in the history of the Y". She said the new logo was a symbol that "honours our past and represents our future".

But for many, that was precisely the problem: honouring the past. Specifically, what on Earth now happens to the famous Village People pop hit that took the US and the UK by storm in January 1979?

What will thousands of teenagers at coming-of-age parties and barmitzvahs now dance to at the end of the evening, and what becomes of the choreographed hand movements with which they spell out Y-M-C-A in time to the legendary chorus? "It's fun to stay at the Y-Y-Y-Y" doesn't quite cut it.

No one gossips

No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
Bertrand Russell

How true for most of my friends in Kabirwala!

My best city Kabirwala Facebook group

Face book has seen emergence of many groups dedicated to Kabirwala. Unfortunately, nobody has done any serious effort and service to the town.

I was sent invitation to join “my best city kabirwala”;  Please click here to see the group

I will decide later on joining the group. I had a sneak on discussion board and saw conversations on topics like…

“What technical education we can give to madarsa students in kabirwala”? Important question but none has replied yet.

“What do you like most in Kabirwala?” Answers range from people to writers of Kabirwala. The answer depends who is actually answering the question. Exposure and mentality both countJ

 38 members so far, but you may want to join the band:)

Asghar Tirmizis book in Haryanvi published

Meri Baattan, a book of poetry by Asghar Tirmizi, has been published. The book, being in Haryanvi language, is first of its kind in Pakistan.

Asghar Tirmizi belongs to the poor section of society. The harsh conditions he faced in his life are amply reflected in his poetry.

A reading of the book Meri Baattan, unveils the unfulfilled desires and unending constraints faced by the unfortunate lot of this country. Besides, the reader also enjoys reading poetry in Haryanvi as this language strongly appeals to the sense of humour.

Literary writings, such as Meri Baattan, in Haryanvi language are rare. Haryanvi is one of the oldest languages of India. The majority population of Haryana province speaks this language. Hundreds of thousands of Muslims who used to live in that area migrated to Pakistan in 1947. Many of them now live in Khanewal and Multan districts.

This book is an asset not only for those who speak this language, but also for all those who enjoy reading books.

Literary circles of Kabirwala, Khanewal and Multan have urged the government to award this piece of rare literature by Asghar Tirmizi with Tamgha-i-Imtiaz. This, they believed, would encourage and give sense of contentment to a considerable section of people who speak and understand this language.

Yaro Meno Rona Na

Yaro Meno Rona Na - Ataullah

I don't fell like...

Emails I had from well-wishers...

All I want to say is that I am fine and I don't feel writing any post.

Love you people of Kabirwala.

Frogs and humans are kissing cousins

What's the difference between a frog, a chicken, a mouse and a human? Not as much as you'd think, according to an analysis of the first sequenced amphibian genome.

The genome of the western clawed frog, Xenopus tropicalis, has now been analysed by an international consortium of scientists from 24 institutions, and joins a list of sequenced model organisms including the mouse, zebrafish, nematode and fruit fly. What's most surprising, researchers say, is how closely the amphibian's genome resembles that of the mouse and the human, with large swathes of frog DNA on several chromosomes having genes arranged in the same order as in these mammals. The results of the analysis are published in Science this week1.

"There are megabases of sequence where gene order has changed very little since the last common ancestor" of amphibians, birds and mammals about 360 million years ago, says bioinformaticist Uffe Hellsten at the US Department of Energy's Joint Genome Institute in Walnut Creek, California, a co-author on the study.

That close genomic relationship doesn't hold true for all vertebrates, he notes. The zebrafish genome, for example, shows a much different gene order.

Such conservation has important evolutionary implications. "By comparing the genomes of these different animals, you can really tell what the ancestral complement of genes may have been," says Richard Harland, a molecular and developmental biologist at the University of California, Berkeley, who also took part in the study.

In addition, says Harland, it belies the view that genomes as a rule evolve quickly. "I think the old expectation was that there was a lot of chromosome rearrangement, but I think increasingly we are finding that chromosomal translocations are pretty rare."

The similarity in genome sequence also validates the frog as a human disease model. Within conserved sequences in X. tropicalis, the researchers found genes that are similar to 80% of human genes known to be associated with diseases. "It's going to make genetic screens in Xenopus immediately more useful," says Frank Conlon, a geneticist at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, who is not an author of the new study but helped to assign biological functions to genes in the sequence.

Having the sequence in hand, he adds, provides a crucial tool for bringing a host of Xenopus assays on basic biological functions — such as cell division, protein expression and phenotype identification — down to the genomic level.
Prince among frogs

X. tropicalis has gained a foothold as a model organism in the past decade, but it isn't the most widely studied frog species. Since the 1940s, its cousin the African clawed frog, Xenopus laevis, has been the go-to organism for developmental and cell biologists. Both species are easy to raise, having large eggs and transparent tadpoles that are especially conducive to studies of development and embryology.

Left-handed pets....

SCIENTISTS have discovered that most pets — including cats, dogs, parrots and even fish — are right or left-”handed”. They prefer using one paw, foot or eye over the other.

Researchers previously assumed that the trait of being left or right-handed — known as lateralisation — was confined to humans, and that animals were ambidextrous. They have now found that nearly every creature has evolved to specialise in using one side over the other.

In cats, scientists have concluded that females tend to favour their right paw when trying to extract a treat from a jar, while toms favour their left. The same gender divide applies in dogs.

Fish tend to have a dominant eye when looking at potential predators. Right-eyed fish circle threats clockwise and left-eyed fish move anti-clockwise.

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Faisalabad torture victim, in her own words

Female tortured in police station

A woman was made to lie down on her stomach and tortured in a police station of Faisalabad in the presence of senior male officers who appeared to be taking pleasure out of watching the humiliating act.

It has become a common scene where accused, normally males, are subjected to flogging by police. But what happened in the above police station is enough to make humanity feel ashamed where the woman was tortured and abused before senior male police officers.

A female DSP and SHO Women Zahida Perveen were also present on the occasion.

Women constables slapped the woman, wearing red Shalwar Kameez, whoe was later made to lie down on her stomach for flogging on the orders of male police officers.

SHO Nasrullah Niazi, on the occasion, appears to be talking to the woman, being subjected to the humiliation, about learning some lesson.

The woman in the TV footage appears to be shouting, asking the female and male police personnel to stop the insulting act.

Woman torture story...

At least 45 dead in Somalia mosque attack

Somalia is in the same boat like us, and mosques are under-attack as well.

Twin explosions at a mosque in Somalia's capital on Saturday killed at least 45 people and wounded many more, hospital officials and the African Union's peacekeeping force in the country said.

The mosque is in the heart of Mogadishu's Bakara Market, a stronghold of Al-Shabaab, the militant group waging a war against the government in an effort to implement a stricter form of Islamic law.

The bloody incident took place about 1 p.m., according to Ali Muse, a local ambulance service director. He said hundreds were wounded, and he expects the casualty figures to rise.

Fighting ensued in the city hours after the incident, when a pro-government militia group slugged it out with militants.

An Al-Shabaab spokesman, Ali Dhere, initially blamed "foreign elements" for the attack, but an AU peacekeeping official said no group has claimed responsibility.

Dahir Mohamud Gelle, the government information minister, called the attack "barbaric" and said it illustrates "a total lack of wisdom and a disrespect to the holy places."

The special representative of the chairman of the AU Commission for Somalia, Ambassador Boubacar Gaoussou Diarra, deplored the killings of innocents and any attacks targeting mosques and other public places.

What was the last mission of Khalid Khwaja?

Hamid Mir
Sunday
May 02, 2010

The last mission of ex-ISI officer Khalid Khwaja failed but his assassination exposed many hidden secrets, including differences between the Afghan Taliban and the Pakistani Taliban, and has put a spotlight on his highly complex underworld life, as a mediator, sometimes on behalf of the Americans, a power-broker, a mover and shaker besides an ardent Islamic preacher.

Squadron Leader (retd) Khalid Khwaja had been playing an active behind-the-scene role in domestic politics of Pakistan for the last 22 years. He became an important international player 11 years ago when he first tried to establish direct links between the Kashmiri militants and the Clinton Administration but failed.

He had been trying to establish direct contacts between the USA and the Taliban for the last five years. He also tried to mediate between the Pakistan Army and the Taliban many times in the last two years but all his efforts failed due to lack of trust between him and the current military leadership of Pakistan. His known contacts with some former CIA officials and an American businessman Mansoor Ijaz also created problems for him. He was intelligent enough in maintaining links with Americans and their critics like Hameed Gul at the same time but unfortunately he could not anticipate the seriousness of his adversaries, who did not miss any opportunity to strike against friends and foes alike.

He was sacked from the ISI on the direct orders of General Ziaul Haq in 1987 but he remained active with the ISI even after his sacking. He was the right hand man of former DG ISI Hameed Gul in 1988 and played a significant role in the making of the anti-PPP political alliance, the Islami Jamhoori Ittehad (IJI).

He claimed that he arranged a meeting between Osama bin Ladin and Nawaz Sharif in Saudi Arabia in 1989. He made this revelation just a few weeks before the dismissal of Nawaz Sharif government in 1999. Khalid Khwaja tried to convince Nawaz Sharif not to support Asif Zardari as president in August 2008 but the PML-N leader did not listen to him.

Khalid Khwaja was assassinated by a group of Punjabi Taliban on April 30 near Mir Ali in North Wazirastan. He was kidnapped on March 26 along with another former ISI official Col (retd) Ameer Sultan and a British born Pakistani filmmaker Asad Qureshi. An unknown group of Punjabi Taliban, with the name of Asian Tigers, alleged that Khalid Khwaja was working for the ISI and the CIA but that was not the main reason behind his killing.

A few weeks before his abduction, he met Taliban leader Waliur Rehman Mehsud in North Waziristan and handed over a list of some militants and alleged that they were working for Indian spy agencies. Within a few hours of that meeting, the vehicle of Waliur Rehman was attacked by a US drone but the Taliban commander survived. Waliur Rehman immediately informed the Punjabi Taliban to be careful about Khwaja, who then decided to trap him.

A spokesman for Punjabi Taliban hinted on Saturday that “charges against Col Imam are not strong and we may release him”. He also admitted that the Afghan Taliban were also putting pressure on the Punjabi Taliban to release the former ISI colonel.

While talking to this scribe on phone from North Waziristan, the spokesman reacted to the statement of Khalid Khwaja’s wife, who declared that her husband was a martyr because he was killed by some criminals.

The spokesman for the Punjabi Taliban said that both Mr and Mrs Khalid Khwaja played an active role in Lal Masjid tragedy in July 2007. They forced late Abdul Rashid Ghazi not to surrender but disappeared when the operation started.

Some friends of Khalid Khwaja, however, tell a different story. They say that Khwaja was arrested just a few days before the operation in Lal Masjid but they also admit that Khwaja was not supporting the surrender.

It is also learnt that Khalid Khwaja was investigated by a three-member committee of the militants for more than four weeks. Initially, Khwaja claimed that he had moved a petition in the Lahore High Court against the drone attacks along with former PML-N MNA Javed Ibrahim Paracha and he came to North Waziristan for recording the statements of drone victims to be produced in the court on April 6.

The militants confronted him as to why on the one hand he was opposing the drone attacks but on the other hand he was trying to establish contacts between the USA and the Taliban. The militants claimed that he arranged a meeting between US Under Secretary of State Karen Hughes and a religious cleric Javed Ibrahim Paracha in 2005 in Serena Hotel, Islamabad. They also produced some articles downloaded from the Internet and asked about his links with former CIA officials, James Woolsey and William Casey.

Khwaja had met these former CIA officials through an American businessman Mansoor Ijaz, who was very close to the Bill Clinton administration. Ijaz played a key role in forcing the Sudanese government to expel Osama bin Ladin from Khartoum in 1996 and helped Khwaja to establish direct links between the Taliban and the Bush administration in October 1999 when he wanted Mulla Omar to meet James Woolsey to avert an American attack on Afghanistan. Mulla Omar refused to meet the then CIA leader.

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Khalid Khawaja

Khalid Khawaja was killed after the confession, but I wouldn't buy the statement given by him in distress. I would like to wait for detailed insights.

Egypt Court Sentences Badge of Honor

Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah said that the verdicts in Egypt against the freedom fighters who were offering support to the resistance in the Gaza Strip are politicized and unfair.

Speaking to the Kuwaiti Al-Rai television to be broadcast Thursday, Sayyed Nasrallah said that “when those brothers were arrested in Egypt, we stressed – and I’ve said this personally – that those are honest resistance fighters, not outlaws, criminals, and terrorists as the judge described them. They are honest people and their only crime is that they were supporting their brothers in Gaza and giving help to the legitimate Palestinian resistance which should be embraced by everybody. Those men were fulfilling their duty and everything beside this are mere fabrications to cover the measures that were taken against them.”

After France, its Belgium now...

Another Burqa madness in Europe. France started this discussion but French never went to Parliament. Sometimes I thank to Allah Almighty for being in a muslim country where my izzat is safe.

Belgium's lower house of parliament has voted for a law that would ban women from wearing the full Islamic face veil in public. The law would ban any clothing that obscures the identity of the wearer in places like parks and on the street. No-one voted against it.

The law now goes to the Senate, which is also expected to approve it. It would then become law by June or July. The ban would be the first move of its kind in Europe.

Parliament fight in Ukraine.

Fighting broke out on Tuesday and smoke bombs were thrown during a session in Ukraine's parliament over a deal with Russia extending the lease of a key naval base, an AFP correspondent reported. It has also been reported that thousands of people have protested outside the Ukrainean parliament building over a Russia fleet accord.

Scuffles inside the building broke out after eggs were thrown at the speaker, Volodymr Lytvyn, who then took cover behind two black umbrellas.

A smoke bomb was then thrown from an unknown source and the chamber filled with smoke, making it difficult to watch proceedings. Some deputies covered their noses as alarms sounded. A second smoke bomb was thrown shortly afterwards, filling the chamber with more smoke as deputies nonetheless continued their rancorous debate.

The deputies in the notoriously fractious parliament were takingn part in a session that was to debate a controversial deal last week to extend the lease on Russia's Black Sea Fleet naval base in Ukraine until 2042. It has been reported that the deal has been ratified in the last few moments.

Earning bad name for Kabirwala

Internet is a free place and people are using YouTube to wash up some dirt. Why they will do it? Has anyone got answers? 2 comments here though don't use the right language but they make the point.

zayedcold First Of all good comment made by mister cocain , who the hell is that beared asshole son of a 33 pound mac d chicken zinger burgers salad with spice in his anal , hay man one give u one suggestion why cant u upload your moms and sisters naked videos fucked by your dad youtube ...........u better shave your beared dirty cunt

cocaininmybrain first thing who ever uploaded this video is a mother fu**** ass hole son of a whore....and second thing look at the man with a bear mother fu****....p***** face faggot sharam kar itni bari dari raki hai aur ye kaam...aur b****** hai wo jiss ny ye video upload ke hai...mother fu**** go fu** ur self 6 months ago

Sain Zahoor interview

Sharafat - Punjabi poetry

Asaan safrain...

Joan Eliya

On existence of aliens

The eminent scientist warns that if there is life out there, we probably don't want it messing with us.

It would appear so, as his opinion of whether we should make contact with any alien life forms we discover in the future has suddenly hardened. According to a new documentary series he has made for the Discovery Channel : "If aliens visit us, the outcome would be much as when Columbus landed in America, which didn't turn out well for the Native Americans."

Hawking believes we would be well-advised to keep the volume down on our intergalactic chatter and do all we can to prevent any "nomadic" aliens moseying our way to take a look-see. Should they find us here tucked away in the inner reaches of the solar system, chances are they'd zap us all and pillage any resources they could get their hands on. Our own history, says Hawking, proves that first encounters very rarely begin: "Do take a seat. I'll pop the kettle on. Milk? Sugar?"

"Such advanced aliens would perhaps become nomads, looking to conquer and colonise whatever planets they can reach," says the theoretical physicist in Into the Universe with Stephen Hawking. "To my mathematical brain, the numbers alone make thinking about aliens perfectly rational. The real challenge is to work out what aliens might actually be like."

Any alien who manages to reach Earth is, by definition, going to be far more advanced than us. Contrary to the claims of our own alien abductees, Hawking thinks it unlikely aliens will come all this way just to prod and poke us, take some samples, and pop back home in time for Show and Tell. Logic dictates that we will be the Stoke to their Chelsea.

It's all well and good Hawking warning us now, but couldn't he have told us to be more careful a few decades ago? After all, we've been pumping out our musings for all to see and hear since the very first radio telecommunications were broadcast a century ago. Any alien with their antennae pointed in our direction would already have quite a good sense of our intellectual capabilities. All they need do is take their pick from any of our cultural offerings being broadcast into the ether. (Let's just hope they didn't tune in when Battlefield Earth was showing, as that paints us in a poor light on so many levels.)

It's good to see that, since the last time I discussed this subject here on Cif, no more "Cosmic Calls" have been transmitted into space by people such as Professor Alexander Zaitsev, the chief scientist at the Russian Academy of Science's Institute of Radio Engineering and Electronics, who is a keen promoter of METI (Messaging to Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence).

And there's also not been any update or addition to "Principle 8" of the International Astronomical Union's Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams, which states:

However, Nasa did beam the Beatles' Across the Universe towards the vicinity of Polaris in 2008, in the hope that an alien would take a sympathetic view of John Lennon's rather hopeful lyric that "Nothing's gonna change my world." (Personally, if I was an alien in possession of a pimped-up laser, I would set it to "destroy" upon hearing a song with the opening line: "Words are flying out like endless rain into a paper cup.")

Floppy disk finally killed off by Sony

By Harry Wallop
Consumer Affairs Editor
Published: 2:37PM BST
26 Apr 2010

The Japanese electronics manufacturer, which last year sold well over 12 million of the devices, has announced it will stop making floppy disks next year, leaving no serious manufacturer in the market place.

The decision is the final nail in the coffin for floppies, which since they were first developed in 1971 have helped consumers store documents, pictures and data on an easy to use format.

There were 12 million sold in Japan last year. Though this amounts one for every four households in Japan, the combined storage capacity of all these disks, most of which had not much more than 1MB capacity, totalled just 17 terabytes of data.

By 1996, there were an estimated 5 billion floppy disks in use thanks to the fact that most computer programmes up to this point were installed and backed up on these devices.

Maj-Gen Nadeem Ejaz: in the dock for many crimes

Hamid Mir
Monday,
April 26, 2010

For the first time in the history of Pakistan, political leaders from the Punjab, Sindh, Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa have united against a serving Army officer. They want the government to start investigations against the said Army officer not only on one count but also on many others.

The dubious role of former DG Military Intelligence Major General Nadeem Ejaz was an important unifying factor behind a large consensus between the PPP, the PML-N, the PML-Q and other parties on the 18th Amendment. Nadeem Ejaz was responsible of victimising not only the PPP and the PML-N but also abused his unlimited and unchecked powers against some important leaders of the PML-Q as the DG MI. At one stage in April 2008, he wanted Musharraf to replace General Kayani because Kayani was not ready to involve the Army in safeguarding the political interests of Musharraf but this effort failed.

The former DG MI is accused of kidnapping many political activists not only in Balochistan but also in the Punjab. Nadeem Ejaz once kidnapped not only the security guards of Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain but also picked up the brother of a sitting MPA of the PML-Q for settling his personal scores with the then chief minister of the Punjab. Background interactions with leaders of these political parties revealed that notorious Nadeem Ejaz had become a monster in the last days of the Musharraf regime and even after the retirement of Musharraf as Army chief, Nadeem Ejaz was directly reporting to him bypassing new Army chief General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani.

A UN Commission has recently claimed that after the assassination of Benazir Bhutto on December 27, 2007, the crime scene was hosed down actually on the orders of the then DG MI Major General Nadeem Ejaz. The government has constituted a three-member committee to pinpoint the responsibility for hosing down the crime scene on December 27, 2007. Political circles in Islamabad are of the view that the role of Nadeem Ejaz was not limited just in the hosing down the crime scene on December 27. He should be investigated thoroughly because he was directly or indirectly related to many other important events like the assassination of Akbar Bugti in August 2006 and massacre in Karachi on May 12, 2007.

Very few people know that Nadeem Ejaz started his political role in December 1999 when he was a colonel posted in Lahore. He forced many Nawaz Sharif loyalists to leave the PML-N. He blackmailed many PPP leaders to extend their support to the Musharraf regime. A businessman associated with the PPP, Mian Arshad, was grilled and tortured to give information about the secret accounts of Jahangir Badar. Nadeem Ejaz called Mian Arshad many times and asked him to cooperate. When there was no positive result, Main Arshad was arrested and tortured. Late Benazir Bhutto tried her level best to rescue Mian Arshad by writing letters to human rights organisations but Mian Arshad lost his life due to torture in the custody of Army officials.

Nadeem Ejaz personally met PML-N leader Khawaja Saad Rafique in December 1999 and told him to leave Nawaz Sharif. After exchanging hot words with Saad, he contacted his brother Salman Rafique and gave him a warning. When Rafique brothers refused to oblige him, he arrested Saad Rafique along with Javaid Hashmi, Khawaja Hasaan and Aftab Asghar Dar through the Lahore police and ordered that they be tortured. Saad Rafique still remembers that police officials in Model Town police station, Lahore, told him that they were beating him on the orders of Nadeem Ejaz.

One day, Nadeem Ejaz summoned PML-N leader Tehmina Daultana and her late husband Zahid Wahla in camp jail, Lahore, and asked them to stop supporting Begum Kulsoom Nawaz. This meeting was taking place in the office of jail chief. When Javaid Hashmi came back to jail after appearing in an accountability court, he heard Nadeem Ejaz shouting at Tehmina Daultana. Javaid Hashmi was told that this meeting was going on for many hours. He crashed the door of the jail chief’s office and tried to grab Nadeem Ejaz by his neck. According to Javaid Hashmi, “The brave Nadeem Ejaz locked himself in the bathroom of the jail chief and the same night I was blindfolded, my hands were cuffed behind my back and I faced torture for the whole night.”

Another victim of Nadeem Ejaz was Senator Pervez Rashid. This soft-spoken politician was tortured at Sarwar Road police station. Pervez Rashid told this correspondent, “I have no doubt that Nadeem Ejaz was the person behind the worst ever torture I faced in my political life.”

According to police sources, one day Nadeem Ejaz recorded the cries of Pervez Rashid during torture on a small tape recorder and gave lot of money to an Army Subedar as reward who had tortured the senator. Pervez Rashid is sure that Nadeem Ejaz recorded his screams for Musharraf.

For the next few years, he remained posted in Lahore and was promoted as a brigadier there. He became DG of MI in February 2005. He was given the task to win the local bodies elections for the Musharraf loyalists. During the local bodies election of 2005, he developed differences with CM Punjab Pervaiz Elahi. Nadeem Ejaz was supporting Sardar Aqil Umar in one town of Lahore while Pervaiz Elahi was supporting Sardar Kamil Umar. Ultimately, Kamil Umar won the election and Nadeem Ejaz became an enemy of the CM Punjab. One day, the MI kidnapped the real brother of MPA Ilyas Gujar from Kasur, who was very close to Pervez Elahi. Brother of the MPA was released after five days when CM Punjab directly approached Pervez Musharraf for help. That was not the end. After a few days, the MI kidnapped the security guards of Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain when they were coming back from the Lahore Airport after dropping Salik Hussain and Moonis Elahi. A military vehicle collided with the jeep of Salik Hussain, who was not present inside. Some of the guards were arrested and tortured. CM Punjab called Nadeem Ejaz and requested to release his people but there was no mercy. Nadeem Ejaz refused to release them and said that they were gangsters and CM’s son Moonis Elahi was the leader of these gangsters. Again it was Musharraf who ordered Nadeem Ejaz to release the security guards of Shujaat.

Mohsin Naqvi

Shahkir Mehrvi

Shakir Mehrvi - I have seen him after 14 year

On reflection

On reflection, I have realized that there are few things which helped me in shaping my current perona…next week; I will share some of those…

Watch this space Kabirwala...

Qamar Raza Shehzad

Qamar Raza Shehzad on Abdul Qadir Qadri Late, he is after 7:00 minutes

Corruption adds extra spice to the IPL

Gethin Chamberlain in Navi Mumbai
The Observer
Sunday 25 April 2010

At 11.20pm last Thursday on a hot night in the DY Patil cricket stadium, all hell was breaking loose. The Deccan Chargers' last batsman had just swept the ball straight into the hands of the Chennai Super Kings' deadliest bowler and the ground erupted.

As the cacophony of sound cranked up another notch, fireworks exploded in the sky above the stadium, across the waters of Thane Creek from Mumbai. The international cricketing superstars hired to represent what used to be Madras were heading for the final of the Indian Premier League and the chance to call themselves champions of what is rapidly becoming the world's most controversial league.

Just another high-octane night in the IPL, now among India's most glamorous, intense spectacles, and a brand worth an estimated £2.7bn.

For Indians the IPL is the Champions League, FA Cup and Premier League title race rolled into one, uniting and dividing hundreds of millions of fans gathered wherever a television can be found, from the depths of the jungles to the highest mountain passes.

But it is becoming increasingly obvious that there is a dark underside to the glamour. Ever more popular, the IPL has fallen prey to the whims of politicians and the vast corporations benefiting from India's rapid transformation into an economic superpower: the plaything of a world riddled with financial skulduggery, allegations of match-fixing and rigged betting, and a unhealthy dose of political revenge.

Even as the last four teams slugged it out over the past week, the IPL threatened to implode after a spectacular row over the bidding for two new franchises cost one of the country's brightest politicians, Shashi Tharoor, his job and then engulfed its own boss, Lalit Modi.

Tharoor, junior foreign minister, an MP for a Kerala constituency and a cricket fan, had been brought in to advise a consortium bidding for one of two new franchises for next season. The London-born former UN diplomat had already racked up an impressive string of gaffes, largely through his fondness for the social networking site Twitter ("Flying cattle class out of solidarity with all our holy cows!" is a typical offering). His western style has made him enemies. And when his consortium secured a 10-year franchise for £216m and deprived some very rich people of the chance of becoming much richer, he became a marked man.

It was Modi, the public face of the IPL, who set the pack on Tharoor. It seems that Modi wanted the franchise to go to another bidder. He started to tweet, naming members of the winning consortium. Among them was Sunanda Pushkar, a Dubai-based businesswoman and reportedly Tharoor's girlfriend, who appeared to have been gifted a £10m stake. However much Tharoor denied it, it looked like a pay-off for securing the deal. He was forced to quit the government.

Modi barely had a moment to savour his victory before he was caught in the backlash. No one reaches ministerial level in India without having powerful friends. With opposition parties claiming the IPL was merely a front for money-laundering and illegal betting, Modi suddenly found the tax authorities breathing down his own neck. They let it be known that they were interested in how a man with a history of failed ventures could suddenly fund a private jet, a yacht and a fleet of Mercedes and BMW cars.

Modi's offices were raided and rumours started to circulate about a cocaine possession charge from his student days, and a South African model. Tomorrow – when the IPL's owner, the Board of Control for Cricket in India, meets to tackle the crisis – he faces the axe, although he has denied all allegations.

Jey pata honda

Jin ko guman tha

Poet: Ali Zaryion
Created by: Urdu Artist

Hon pandh hiati

The Ghost Writer

Last night, I watched The Ghost Writer.

A revealing tale of ghost writer who has been tasked with writing biography of ex-premier has striking resemblances with Tony Blair, and CIA’s influence on global politics. My favorite film in 2010.

The Ghost Writer, Film Review

Hussain Parhna - Hussain Likhna

Hussain Pahna - Hussain Likhna
Late Rahat Hussain Rahat - Kabirwala

Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears

I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him;
The evil that men do lives after them,
The good is oft interred with their bones,
So let it be with Caesar ... The noble Brutus
Hath told you Caesar was ambitious:
If it were so, it was a grievous fault,
And grievously hath Caesar answered it ...
Here, under leave of Brutus and the rest,
(For Brutus is an honourable man;
So are they all; all honourable men)
Come I to speak in Caesar's funeral ...
He was my friend, faithful and just to me:
But Brutus says he was ambitious;
And Brutus is an honourable man….
He hath brought many captives home to Rome,
Whose ransoms did the general coffers fill:
Did this in Caesar seem ambitious?
When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept:
Ambition should be made of sterner stuff:
Yet Brutus says he was ambitious;
And Brutus is an honourable man.
You all did see that on the Lupercal
I thrice presented him a kingly crown,
Which he did thrice refuse: was this ambition?
Yet Brutus says he was ambitious;
And, sure, he is an honourable man.
I speak not to disprove what Brutus spoke,
But here I am to speak what I do know.
You all did love him once, not without cause:
What cause withholds you then to mourn for him?
O judgement! thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason…. Bear with me;
My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar,
And I must pause till it come back to me.

Mark Antony on Julius Ceaser

Depression

Tulambah blog

I am glad to see a blog from Tulambah - Kabirwala

Keep up with the good work:)

Shia ulema council asks govt to step down

QUETTA - Leader of Shia Ulema Council Pakistan Balochistan chapter Allama Ghulam Mehdi Najafi while strongly condemning suicide blast at Civil Hospital Quetta has said that if govt was unable to ensure safety of people than it should step down.

Addressing a Press conference here on Saturday flanked by other religious leaders demanded for immediate probe into the suicide blast through a high-level committee that had claimed life of a journalist and several other innocent people. He said that people had highly appreciated the suo moto notice against incidents of target killings by Chief Justice of Balochistan High Court.

‘We hope that perpetrators of deadly suicide blast would be arrested and brought to justice’, he added.

Ghulam Mehdi Najafi alleged that Quetta was confronted with a grave situation due to terrorist acts while govt had failed to curb the incidents of terrorism. ‘It is the responsibility of the govt to provide protection to its people, otherwise it has no justification to remain in power’, Najafi remarked.

Can anyone tell them that this current regime is impotent and can not save their lives? do they not know that sitting president doesn't want to reveal the names of murderers of his wife? Do they not have the information, that decisions of stepping down are not made in castle of Islam (Pakistan) and are done by our "guardian" of Islam (America)?

They should know that...

Beggars of Kabirwala

I gave him 10 rupees and his shoes were better than mine.
We give them thousands of votes and they spend a better life.

Who is winner in the end?

Us (Common People)
Beggars (as they are)
or Buggers (politicians of Kabirwala)

Mobile telephones more common than toilets in India, UN report finds

More people in India, the world’s second most crowded country, have access to a mobile telephone than to a toilet, according to a set of recommendations released today by United Nations University (UNU) on how to cut the number of people with inadequate sanitation.

“It is a tragic irony to think that in India, a country now wealthy enough that roughly half of the people own phones, about half cannot afford the basic necessity and dignity of a toilet,” said Zafar Adeel, Director of United Nations University's Institute for Water, Environment and Health (IWEH), and chair of UN-Water, a coordinating body for water-related work at 27 UN agencies and their partners.

India has some 545 million cell phones, enough to serve about 45 per cent of the population, but only about 366 million people or 31 per cent of the population had access to improved sanitation in 2008.

Read report on UN website

Ullu kay pathay, it’s the president

Zardari has this attitude of insulting and deriding workers as well as the top leaders, sometimes publicly. He runs the presidential affairs as if it was some cricket club or his family-owned Bambino Cinema. He has this habit of calling world leaders and local functionaries directly, something that almost caused the war with India over the alleged call from their foreign minister. Recently, trying to call a minister, Zardari somehow got connected to his PA to whom he said “Ullu kay pathay, it’s the president.”

“The president cannot be so obnoxious; please learn some manners,” responded the PA only to learn later that it was really the president.

PPP Story

Pir Mohsin Qureshi protesting against chaos in Kabirwala

No would question the current chaos due to load-shedding. Here is how Pir Mohsin Qureshi protested on it...

Please follow the link to see the image

Har Gobind Khorana, Nobel Prize winner was born in Kabirwala

According to wikipedia...

Khorana was born in Raipur, (now in Kabirwala Tehsil, Khanewal District), a village in Punjab, British India (now Pakistan).

 Profile at Nobel Prize website
 Khorana's profile at MIT

Kabirwala's Medical Officer among five named and shamed

Fake medical certificates are bing business, and our respected doctors earn a lot of money through this "mean". I was gutted when I heard that a best in health culprit was on medical leave. Give our masiha's 700-1000 rupees and you will get MC. Any "hatta katta" LUNATIC can take bed rest.

According to news Dr. Ashar Masood has been transferred from THQ Hospital Kabirwala and posted at DHQ Hospital Nanankana Sahib. The newspaper says that....

The Health Department, on the report of Enquiry Committee constituted by the Chief Secretary Punjab, has initiated action under disciplinary rules against five medical officers, involved in issuance of illegal medico legal certificates, and immediately transferred them from their present place of posting.

The concerned EDOs (H) have been directed that not to allow these doctors to work on medico legal or forensic science related cases.

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Kabirwala has two groups on Facebook

1st Group is Kabirwala and has 31 members, here they are located at Kabirwala on Facebook

2nd group is also called Kabirwala and has 17 members as of today. Interestingly, the guys have copied images from this blog but have not given any reference. Amazing, See the Kabirwala Group

Back to reality: giving up the internet

Mark Hooper
The Observer

Could you survive for a week without checking your email or looking at the internet? How about no mobile phone and making it two weeks?

So, I called someone up the other day. An acquaintance, of sorts. Someone I've spoken to by email countless times over the past two years, discussing work. Halfway through the conversation, it became obvious that we'd never actually spoken before.

"We must have spoken at some point," I say, a little awkwardly.

"Yes," she says, meaning no. "Maybe, a year ago?" Meaning never.

There's nothing shocking in that. I'm sure you've experienced much the same situation yourself. But surely the fact that it isn't shocking is something we should be shocked by? Why is it acceptable to not actually speak to the people we deal with on a daily basis? Why do we prefer faceless anonymity? Is it cowardice, or mere laziness?

Of course, the stock defence is efficiency. We're so busy, the line goes, that we don't have time for idle chitchat. We live – as we're constantly told – in super-accelerated times. But no one seems to have decided what to do with all this extra speed in our lives, apart from emailing each other amusing YouTube videos. We're so intent on consuming the new that we don't give ourselves the time to properly absorb it, let alone reflect upon it.

Ironically enough, this is something I've been reflecting on a fair bit recently. For a variety of reasons, top of which was an almost perfect alignment of stress-inducing greatest hits (trying to move house while my wife was pregnant, and having to deal with the worry of unexpected complications) I felt the need to slow down a little. And there doesn't seem to be an app for that.

I'm not just being facetious: more and more people appear to be thinking the same thing. Mobile phones have made us permanently contactable; remote emails mean that the work week stretches into the evenings, the weekends and even holidays. Under the barrage of tweets, Facebook invitations and instant messages, it has become almost impossible to switch off. The idealised version of social media is that it is like a river – you can just dip your toe in or you can dive in and get fully and joyously swept along with the current. Increasingly, I felt like I was drowning.

Already, as I discovered while wasting time on the internet, a report by Leeds University has claimed a link between increased internet use and stress. Recent research by Microsoft reveals that 99% of men use the internet every day, 80% would feel lost without it and 18% checked social networks on their phone before they had even got out of bed. Cosmopolitan even found that three out of four teenagers claim to feel stressed if they're not online.

But the internet isn't the problem: it's the people on it. In other words, me. I spend so much time on my laptop that my wife's taken to calling it my "square-headed girlfriend".

So I decided to do something about it. And in true self-help style, my road to redemption began with a single step: I quit Twitter. I'd already been worrying about how easily I let myself get swept up in predictable online flashmobs of moral outrage. For a nanosecond, joining a campaign against a Daily Mail columnist might have seemed like a worthy thing to do. But step away from the stampede of indignation and you realise you're just another one of the dumb cattle they've successfully prodded. And I'm not convinced by the supposed innate liberalism of Twitter – not if a vigilante campaign to out Jamie Bulger killer Jon Venables can become a tweeting trend.

But the tipping point came when someone who I thought I admired started announcing to me in 140 characters or less that Marvin Gaye was overrated. Pathetic, I know, but the mere fact I'd allowed myself to get annoyed by something so petty only hardened my conviction. It was obvious that I was the only one making myself angry. So I decided the best option was not to look, and cancelled my account. And then I just kept going. This need to wipe the slate clean, to de-clutter – or at least de-complicate – my life, took over. I needed a holiday from the world of stuff. So I decided on a very literal form of regressive therapy: I was going to go offline, to see if I could last a week without looking at a website or checking my email; to somehow re-connect by disconnecting.

Symbolically, my iPhone was the next thing to go (partly thanks to a friend's disdainful description of it: "Are those the things I see men stroking like little pets on the tube?"). My constant, portable window to the internet was too much of a temptation to carry round with me if I was to seriously attempt life offline, so I "de-simmed" it. (This is not an easy exercise in itself – you need a paperclip to get the sim card out and, as I discovered, paperclips aren't as abundant as they used to be in pre-digital days.)

If quitting Twitter and ditching the iPhone was relatively easy, Facebook made it as hard as possible, tugging on all the virtual heartstrings they could dredge up from their data. Having selected "deactivate account" from my settings, I was faced with a gallery of family and friends who I was told would miss me. Fortunately, as someone had tagged the contents of a barbecue grill with my friends' names, this was less of an emotional strain than was intended ("Andrew will miss you," pleaded a photo of a forlorn and slightly singed chicken drumstick). To alleviate my worries, I was given a final reminder: "Remember, you can reactivate at any time…" But by then the deed was done.

Next came the hard bit. For this to really work, I shouldn't tell anyone what I was doing. But then again, one of the great things about setting yourself an arbitrary task is that you get to decide on the ground rules, set the parameters and cheat accordingly. So I emailed a friend to explain why he wouldn't be getting any more emails from me for a while. His reply was to the point: "How on earth will you do any work?"

It was a fair question.

So I decided I'd wean myself off. On the first day, I allowed myself to look at my inbox, but not to send any replies. To start off, it was a doddle. I walked around the office and talked to people. I delegated. I rang people up. The first person I called – honestly – rang off with the words, "Thank you so much for calling me." See? Being offline was making me a nicer person already. And it's amazing how quickly misunderstandings can be defused when you put a voice to an anonymous email. For a start, there's no sarcasm font on email, and typing "ha ha!" does have the tendency to make you look a little unhinged.

But I won't pretend it wasn't without its difficulties. As time went by and I got into the habit of checking in with the people I needed to talk to, hopefully pre-empting any electronic conversations, I found ever more subtle pitfalls lying in wait. For instance, I'd never before considered the implied rudeness of talking to someone when you've clearly avoided reading their last email. I soon learned to brazen it out by saying, "Oh sorry, I've not opened my inbox yet."

It wasn't long before another one of those acquaintances-I've-never-met asked, "Don't you have it on in the background all the time?"

"Er, no, I find it easier to just check it occasionally –  otherwise I never get any work done."

"That's a really good idea," they said.

Come to think of it, it is a good idea.