Muhammad Aslam Khan Khattak: A Man for All Seasons stuka ... for each of us there is someone we think is 'great' ... we have different values ... i guess Buta Singh reflects yours?

Muhammad Aslam Khan Khattak: A Man for All Seasons BJ2 ... When ppl KNOW what other ppl think about them it points to a deep seated inferiority complex!

Muhammad Aslam Khan Khattak: A Man for All Seasons bulleya ... THIS was a great man because I said so ... and i knew him ...he was a great human being... :)

Muhammad Aslam Khan Khattak: A Man for All Seasons Thank you for the condolences tahmed32 ... yes, he was a very charming, very warm person and we will all miss him...
and thank u for welcoming me back to Chowk ... i am trying to write a novel these days, but i am losing steam...:(

Muhammad Aslam Khan Khattak: A Man for All Seasons pmishra2 ... get over it ... Pakistan is a fact and it is here to stay ... :)
as for your remarks about my uncle ... one day you too shall die ... and i guess the world will be well rid of a hate mongerer!

Muhammad Aslam Khan Khattak: A Man for All Seasons hellooo pinku ... i think u r on the wrong article!!!
THIS one is about a great man who died recently... and tho he was a muslim, it has nothing to do with 'islamists'!

A Walk down Memory Lane Re: # 25
i guess u r a fighter ... if u have a cause, well and good... if u dont, i guess it wont be long before u find one!...:)

A Walk down Memory Lane Re: # 23
Parvaiz, i really dont have any answers ... i only report what i have seen and continue to see... my cousins and I were once having a discussion and my cousin asked about the one thing that has to be in place in order for Pakistan to get out of the morass it is in ... we all had our opinions, but his answer left a lasting effect on me... he said it was 'Justice' ...without Justice no country can prosper or progress becoz there is no oversight... ppl in power can do wotever they please... Pakistanis r generally a submissive lot ...i connect it to the fact that this part of the subcontinent has seen invaders since times immemorial and the ppl learned to keep their heads down, fall into line and wait...
IF Zardari means what he says about the independence of the Judiciary, and follows thru with it, he may erase forever the Mr 10% epithet....;) ... personally i dont see anyone in power doing that as it would be 'Apnai pa'oo'n par kulharee'...
literacy levels r judged by anyone being able to write their name and even at that it is abysmal.. without literacy one cannot have an informed opinion ...and so they listen to the village mullah who is equally uninformed...
like i said, i have no idea when this augean stables will be cleaned out... there seems precious little hope of it happening in my lifetime!

A Walk down Memory Lane Re: # 18
OKAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYY... i see wot u mean... and i admit you are right and i am wrong...so in future i will not pin the badge of media freedom on Mush's chest...:)

A Walk down Memory Lane Re: # 3
Islam jeeta hai har Karbala kai baad.
i guess the times r not very different today ... so i hope that the scholars will once again allow 'Ijtehad' ... (is that the term i need?)...Ijtehad is the soul of modernity as it upgrades and keeps in step with changing times.
Stoning to death is an ancient punishment ...it is in the Torah, the Old Testament and the Quran ... the only difference being that the youngest religion decided they did not need 'upgrades' in Law and Ijtehad was done away with many centuries ago.
the 'tragedy' with us Pakistanis is that we insist on stereotypes and 'same ole, same ole' ...maybe that makes us feel safe? ... maybe we dont think we r 'mature' enuf to say something off the beaten track?...
the 'tragedy' is that very few Pakistanis actually bother to find out Islam's position and tend to take the word of someone who does claim to know...
the 'tragedy' is that the majority of Pakistanis would not even be able to find out what Islam says since they r illiterate ...
the greatest tragedy of all is that in spite of claiming to be Muslims we do not use God's greatest gift to us... our brains!...;)
"You shall not accept any information, unless you verify it for yourself. I have given you the hearing, the eyesight, and the brain, and you are responsible for using them." Quran 17:36

A Walk down Memory Lane Re: # 2
i see it... and i thought i replied it in one of the interactions ...
no, Mush did not give us the internet etc etc... i know that... but, he did give the media a free hand... until of course it turned against him...LOL... :)
if i remember rightly, GEO etc had to beam in their programs via Dubai and other offshore, foreign spots ... it was during Mush's time that we got a whole slew of news channels that had been the preserve of the PTV until Mush!...:)

A Walk down Memory Lane Re: # 2
just as the Press still is like a rambunctious kid, the Judges may 'overdo' their oversight of wot is going on in the country... but i would rather have more than less at any time!...
i think the answer to Pakistan's woes is an independent Judiciary and a free Press... Mush gave us one, Zardari may give us the other...:)

A Walk down Memory Lane Re: # 4
Hamidm2 ... i think that in spite of themselves the politicians may finally do the one thing that is of ultimate importance in a country like Pakistan ... the Judiciary might finally be independant, altho i have a nagging feeling that Zardari is only saying that to curb NS's enthusiasm vis a vis the judges restoration... i remember him saying that the issue is larger than just this Judge or the other... and basically he is very right ...
IF NS doesnt back down about the restoration of Judges (who if memory serves me right took an oath on an earlier PCO) then i guess we may finally have a Judiciary that is independant of the Executive ... and with the Press that Mush freed (!) it should make an interesting time in Pakistan...:)

A Walk down Memory Lane Re: # 1
Zeemax!... how r YOU? ... ok, i wont talk about the article since u confess u didnt read it... but as u see, i am hoping to start writing once again... maybe the juices will begin to flow... but i have a (13, soon to be 14) yr old grandson who is writing very well ... i have some of his stories on my website...another grandson is writing poetry... do u think they r being 'influenced' by granny?...;)

A Walk down Memory Lane Re: # 5
Mush may be bad, but i dont see where the Nawaz and Zardari duo will be any better ... it has been said that those who ignore history r bound to repeat it...
our problem is that we hate the present 'ruler' and love those who had stiffed us in the past ... a few years after Ayub Khan was pulled down with slogans like "ayub kutta hai hai" and "cheenee chor" I remember seeing trucks painted with his picture saying 'tairee yaad aa'ee, tairai janai kai baad!'...:)

A Walk down Memory Lane Re: # 6
Those who were born and bread in the UK are technically not really 'Pakistanis' and therefore not a part of my memory bank... but if u want me to guess, i would say that their problem is they have become like the Dhobi ka kutta, na ghar ka na ghat ka... they r not 'angraiz' and they r not 'daisee'... they need an identification and so they over identify and thus fall in with the radicals... maybe it is their way of reacting to the prejudice they face in the UK?