Broken-Hearts, Dream-Filled eyes

Mr. Jay.... thank you sir for comment. I like people comment on my comment. One day I want to write article full 4 to 5 pages long on chowk. But I have no topic in mind at this time. I am kind of depressed due to this bad people killing good people in B.stan. qUETTA.

I am muslim but practical type not crazy like RSS type muslim or mental nut. I am religious type but NOT fanatic nut, mderate liberal democracywallah. I feel man should control procreation for others. Its men and womens fault just addicted to producing carbon copies for posterity.

i THINK india also crazy producing babies. With 2.3% of land mass and 17% world population is not easy but still go on cranking 30 million babies per year is record I think your country are also obssessed with baby production.

there is darkside sir to this as more totally economically challenged people produce more babies and this poor malnourished babies produce even babies with vengence and cycles repeat. I think its survival of fittest more you produce more chances you will have revange on your rich friends. My observation is poor people grow geometrically and mid and rich nice people no arithmatically.
I have a stupid assistant and he has unique problem. This miserable person has three pregnancies at hand. His wife is expecting another baby and he is becoming Grandpapa .Getting a grand children from both daughters. Is it not grand sceme of things- that Uncle will be younger than nephews? The man lives in Malir. Now his children can never get sick as if you survive along malir river( garbage drain) even heavely powers can not hurt you. While person like me drinking bottled water will become sick.Its all lafangebazi.

Every new born hindu is burden on india just as every new born muslim in Pak. is burden on Pakistan. Mr. Jay you are all right now but you are fanatic type nut and you know it for sure. I do not like Harimau, R.Sexana, Pmisra, M.Arjun( he paste copy specialist). I hope all above people become secular and liberal and happy. Anyway good luck. Thank you mr. Jay for writing and appreciating. You are welcome for good remark on me.

Ahmadmadani 21,

I am sorry that I did not post this earlier. You are the most honest pakistani on chowk, always hits the nail on its head, and never misses. Your diagnosis of the pak problem is spot on, less children, no polygamy. But ahmad husoor, what happens to the book, you have to live by it, even if you are in hotel business.

Culture of Human helplessness.......
regards Mano

It is great to see so many people coming up with al ine of action after reading this article.
Shukriya Dard Sahib! Again the reason I wrote this article was NOT to describe a problem and then suggest a line of action. I wanted my readers to come up with their own line of actions, and I can see that alot of you have. It gives me great pleasure to see that I am slowly achieving my goal!

This story account is and horrifyingly sad ....just atrocious

And you still claim that you are the descendents of the Arabs....

The root cause of all misery in Pakistan is too many children. In next 20 years it will 350 million they say.
Only thing that can save now is total control of family planning> FOLLOW OUR BEST FRIEND AND BOSS CHINA> ONLY ONE CHILD < NO MORE NO LESS. NO MARRIAGE BEFORE YOU ARE 25 FOR GIRLS AND #30 for boys. IF second baby is there in making abort it. ITs more human. Its human for animals also. OLd times people use to die in wars, familne, disease etc. Also no fertility drugs to overproduce. Stop polygomy its just not for this century.
IF general say you CAN not GET ELECTED if not BA. Make condition you can not have baby unless both are BA.POLITICS ALL YOU NEED IS DEAD BRAIN ALIVE BODY, LOOK AT PM. BUT RSISING CHILD IS NOT JOKE.
Everybody should have right of sex entertainment in private , but child onlly after you are qualified and certified as general Sahib did.
I have kindness in heart I give alms to beggers but that is not solution.

I think studbaker is not good man as he attacked and insulted all people in hotel and hospitality business in INDIa and pakistan.
I work IN KHI ( KARACHI ) not lahore ok.


Dost mitter is kind hindu. He said I write good thank sir. Its specially appreciated as he is living in America and is in computers and IT field( I am not worried about no nothing people crtic me) and has no hatred or pregudice etc like me. I think people should lean to appreciate intelligent and maening ful writing. I think Shridhar is also good, tahmed ,haMID also good. Harimao, Ram Saxena, Jay are people with hatred they never said i wrote good as for them how a person from karachi be good only good from India.


Mr. Dost mitter I have filled THAT MY RESUME. i REQUEST ALL TO GO AND READ IT. tHANK YOU VERY MUCH EVERY BODY. i AM FOR SENSORSHIP TO SOME DEGREE as many people and not cultured and low mentality and have propensity to abuse as they were are abused by pareants and children and wifes. We can not select relatives. I am for peace and let economy. I hope india comes to sense and jon TAP and iran India gas line. I think wajpai is not bad man. I worry if some person like turkish govt comes in India and start playing with water and diverting it can be killing of pakistan. tHEN SINDH AND pUNJAB WILL FIGHT OVER LITTLE WATER LEADING TO TROUBLES. iT CAN HAPPEN IN FUTURE IF THIS HATRED NOT STOPPED. tURKEY BUILT dams IN upper tiger and Euphetris river and killed prosperity of IRAQ and Syriya , though both are muslim countries part of Muslim Ummah. And world said nothing.

Any way please stop producing children. WE paki Men have problem. We feel as if we are namard if we do not squeeze 6 children out of poor woman.

STOP this litter of people. OR its water torture slow death. Please see my resume. Thank you every body and good wishes for every body. Let us hope we get good rains all over pakistan and india and water misery and power misery goes away. good luck

#14 Hariman,
We will find a way to just one candle``
I appreciate ur spirit.in fact every individual can contribute in reforming of society.My cousin
ENt specialist,apart from his job is managing a school for deaf and dumb children.lot many ppl from over seas are donating for this noble cause.many of them brought hearing Aids for them.there are 50 children,expenditure for each is 1000RS.ppl are very help ful.all these children belongs to poor families,who can``t even afford two meals in aday.
I am known to a doctor in America,he has built a cardic centre in his home town.
we must share how little it may be,that is benefical for such ppl.
thanx for the patience to read me

PS. That`s 10-20 years, not 20-30 years.

Thank you
Umer M.

PPS. Another things that get`s on my goatee is when people say `we need more people like you`. What the flooda! Why aren`t you that person yourself? Since when did it become someone else`s job to do your dirty work?

Any how.

Umer M.

t,

I know, I know, (shows his plams) I came out a little wrong.

Immediately after posting what I had written, I wrote an apology note to Hamid but thought, for reasons unknown, to not put it through.

No offence to Hamid but I have an allergy with middle-aged people lamenting and self-flagellating. Either put up or shut up but for God`s sake, don’t start crying and sending laanut over each other. All this hai hai and beating one`s breast becomes a little boring after a while.

Universal issue? Backwaters of Pakistan? t, you insult my (limited) intelligence. But I can only talk of people I`m connected to. I only have (if God wills) 40-50 years of useful life before my battery power, along with my circuitry, goes down and I expire. That`s not long enough to start thinking of the Eskimos:)

I`m not blaming his generation for the ills of society but I will maintain that they didn’t do enough for their times. The newer populations of Muslims in various Muslim majority states are, in the next 20-30 years, going to be in the age range of 15-24. That`s pure grade, raw, revolutionary type of material: full of enthusiasm, full of faith, full of raw power, ready to take chances, ready to learn, not afraid of experiencing failure or taking knock backs. These sorts of qualities, in good hands, transform.

Please don’t be offended or take what I said personally. t, what I said was common sense. It`s no longer a question about paying your 2.5% or going to an orphanage to give little boys and girls Kit Kats (as this dumb person did on telly once. Just the sheer audacity of what he considered the idea of `help` to be. I could not help but say, `Is this what you think those fcukers need? Milk and cocoa?`).

The newer generations will have to do more and there`re no two ways about it. You just have to take on the responsibility. They will have to go out of their way to not only face the problems of their times but to correct the problems that should have been handled more effectively by the previous generations.

And this is why some of us are not being nice; we`re designing our whole lives around it. And maybe I`ve just been fortunate enough to speak to some of these types of people but I cannot help but think that their numbers are higher now than they ever were. And I`m not talking about the usual bring-shariah-back-whilst-I-boast-about-my-escapades types, and neither the glory seeker or the Mr and Mrs cliches types.

Then again, I`m sure you`ve also known these sorts of people in your early times…and in no way am I trying to say you’re a wise old man; wise and a man you may be but not old, no siree:)

I tell you what, give me a few years. Let me become a busy husband, a father and a house owner and if I can still give a $hit about others and do something, then I`ll consider my earlier statements valid. Everyone talks (I`m doing the same here- I believe there`s a word in Punjabi for it...`badak` is it?) but very few actually do something about it.

Best wishes,
Umer M.

Dear Hamid,

Please, accept my sincere most admiration, appreciation and well wishes for portraying the agonies of our society in such a moving way.

As Iqbal says:
Kanta wo de ke jiss kee khatak la-zawal ho
Ya Rabb wo dard jiss kee kassak la-zawal ho

See, it’s “dard” what is needed, and tragically what is miserably missing in the land of pure. My personal opinion is that the prevailing compact indifference, the almost total lack of empathy, is probably the root cause of the umpteen miseries being faced by us in Pakistan.

“Ehsaas”, probably the only difference between human beings and wild beasts, yet so scarce in our country. Really heartening to observe that still there are people like you around.

Hamid-81:

...thank you for caring enough to interact with your readers...am serious and not being facetious...it is becoming oxymoronish...writers not inter-acting on an interactive medium!


umer:

bud...this is a universal issue...not confined to the backwaters of pakistan...it is nice that you do what you can...but you are wrong to blame it all on hamidm or his generation...

digression (what else!):

when traveling/visiting the sub continent i never offer money to any beggar or alms for that matter...partially based on selfish motives (give to one and a hundred come out of woodworks to gherao you) and partly based on other motives...what was that chinese saying?...feeding fish to hungry will ward off hunger for a day, teaching them to fish will ward off hunger for ever?....

…t

Don`t worry about the defence budget, don`t worry about the corrupt politicians.

Pledge to yourself that you will pay for the education of one child in Pakistan. Choose any charity such as World Vision, CARE, Christian Children`s Fund, Edhi Foundation, etc.

If each Pakistani abroad will educate one child in Pakistan, you can see a million more children in school there.

When I read about a housewife in Chennai who learnt how to make jams and preserves from the local Seventh Day Adventist Church and now runs a small business from her home selling home-made preserves and cordials, I am happy to see one more family raising itself up by its bootstraps.

Hamid Mahmood may have pointed out that is dark out there but he is not simply cursing the darkness. He is hoping that each one of us will find a way to light just one candle so that there may be some light in some lives at least because of our efforts.

No hamidm,

Don`t pass that shame onto me. I`ve been doing something, anything, since I was 19. You should shame the people of your age for doing nothing, for leaving this $hit for people of my generation to clear up. Shame on you, sir.

Umer M.

Thank You everyone for your comments!
#1 by Inquirer
To write about some issue and then suggest some sort of action is very easy. Help these children! If you are goving 5 Rupees give 10! But that was not my intention. My intention was to let my reader decide what action should he/she take? I wanted to make my reader aware that he/she shares this world with alot of THINGS. And one of those Things are these children.

#6 by soundmeister
Yes! You are very right. This is not hamidm. My name on chowk is hamid_81. And it might sound like a speech to fat goras with charity on thier mind, but trust me, it is this country where we can expect people to listen and provide us with charity to help these children. In Pakistan, the Sahib`s and the Begum`s are better off humiliating and beating these children.

Thank You Nazar Sahib, jay,aminarasool ,temporal , septran and aquaris.

#4 by sri on July 2, 2003 3:39pm PT

``As Inquirer said, where is the call for action ? ``


This article was not meant to have a call for action. The call for action should come from within you. Why do I need to give a call for action? I will be only the voice of these children. You have to decide to listen to it or ignore. Let me share with you why i decided to write this article. I was coming out of a big restaurant in Karachi, with a couple of friends, when a boy of about 5 or 6 came running to us with flowers in his hnads. He was wearing a torn Kurta Shalwar and was bare foot. He was grabbing the flowers like he was guarding something precious. He looked at me and smiled. Something about that smile just shattered me. I looked into his front pocket and asked,``How much did you make today?``
he replied, by looking into his pocket,``25 rupees, Sahib``. I took out whatever I had with me and gave it to him, and did not even ask him for a flower. He looked at me and said,``Sahib, I am not a beggar!`` I was so stunned, but quickly i took a couple of flowers from him, and he smiled, and happily ran away, literally crying with joy.
I am not sure what the call for action should be? Hmm, should it be that plzz do not give as much money as they ask you at your local Masjid to Palestine, and donate some of that to Pakistan? Or should it be that next time you pass a child of this sort instead of giving 5 rupees give 10? Or should it be that we need to work towards a Pakistan in which these children can have the oppurtunity to go to school, and strict laws should be enforced to stop child-trade, and the Hira-Mandi in Lahore and Napier Road in Karachi and all the other such places in the rest of the provinces should be completely shut down?
I don`t know. You as the reader decide.

........ this is the real tragedy of our people .......... while we quibble over kashmir, piree-muridee, web etiquettes, tnt and other such nonsense, the children go to bed hungry ............. so we throw them a few rupees, or buy them a hot meal but the problem is much much bigger and we are too busy worrying about ``bigger`` things ........... shame on us .............