Safety against HIV Virus

A Pakistani doctor has pin pointed the quacks as culprits against control of HIV Virus infections. He is absolutely right. What to talk of quacks, one of our graduate engineers forestalled a MBBS doctor for using primitive syringe. The doctor rashly abused our engineer and said ‘I am the doctor not you’.

I myself have seen responsible physicians using even disposable syringe, over and over again in under developed countries.

In fact honesty has not nested in hearts of horrible number of professionals, who keep it pivoted at the tip of the tongue. In case of Aids infections, we have to fight on many fronts, out of which Government can only fight on the front of doctors and paramedical professionals. Even on this one front, the Government will badly fail without strict actions, for the health and future of citizens. Other fronts are as follows:

1. Religious leaders to warn the people against the use of used syringe in Temples, Mosques and Churches.
2. School teachers to instruct the students against used needles, daily at morning assembly or at the start of first morning period of classes.
3. Factory owners, to weekly educate the workers about the dangers of used needle.
4. Family planning staff to alert the house wives during normal visits, especially in villages.
5. It must be the responsibility of all institutions to alert all members of their organizations against the quacks.

If these steps are strongly applied, we will be able to apprehend dishonest medical professionals for healthy future of the citizens.

Written by: Geodetic Engineer M. Ashraf

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Paid and Unpaid Journeys by Pakistan Railways

Railway journeys have been essential for my professional responsibilities. Continuously for thirty five years, I have been traveling from North to South and from East to West in Pakistan. So I have been in contact with the Railway Ticket Window and the Ticket Checker only. What has been happening in other sections of the whole setup, can very well be assessed from what I have personally experienced and seen during my journeys. Following lines give a very very brief representative account of how paid employees on duty play havoc with their responsibilities. Permissiveness of irrelevant facilities without any degree of supervision and check, and over looking of small misappropriations in departments has encouraged boost of crimes and corruption in every molecule of the entire body of whole social setup. Some suggestions form part of the details below for authorities concerned.

The legal permissions of free private journeys for the railway employees continue to be misused. This sanctioned facility has given birth to countless off shoots which have been devouring the resources of the railway department very mercilessly. Not only the railway employees and their families but also the whole chains of their relatives, neighbors and relatives of neighbors and friends have been found to be managing for making use of this facility. A railway employee feels proud of offering even his least familiar friends to travel by train without ticket, advising “BUS MERA NAAM LE LENA.”

In 1962, I was proceeding to the Ticket Window at Rohri Railway Station, when a railway employee in uniform stopped me and asked me about where I was going. When I told him that I was going to purchase a first class ticket (Top Railway Class in that era) for Sukkur. He addressed me in these words: “Why waste money. Journey is short. You simply pay me half of the actual cost of the ticket and I shall manage your journey till you are out of Sukkur Railway Station”. When I refused and resumed walking towards Ticket Window, he continued walking behind me with offer of further less money in the deal. I did purchase ticket but I had been very much shocked and disturbed. It might be frivolous for some readers but due to the nature of rearing and teachings at school and college by the most responsible local and foreign teachers, of my institutions, the incidence did shock me as it was first of my long journeys from Rawalpindi.

In November 1991, I boarded the train from Rawalpindi to Sialkot. I entered the 24-Seats part of the compartment. All seats were occupied. I had to keep standing. After the train moved from Chaklala, a ticket checker entered the compartment, had a glance at the seated passengers and then asked me to show ticket. I produced the ticket which he checked. To my astonishment he started moving to other compartment without checking the seated passengers. I abruptly gripped his arm and asked him to check all the passengers. With a miserable grin he said “They are relatives of my colleague, going to a marriage party”. I still reserve my ticket of that occasion.

In 1998, on sudden death of my sister in Sialkot, I had to travel from Hyderabad with a ticket without reservation in economy class. I requested the person responsible for on spot reservation to reserve me a seat, stating the reason for my journey. The man told me that he could reserve a seat for me if I could pay him some money.

In year 2000, traveling in sleeper class from Sialkot to Lahore to Hyderabad, there were two different family groups in my cabin, consisting of two men and three women. They traveled up to Lahore and the ticket checker did not even ask them to show tickets. They must have already settled affairs mutually.

Honest citizens perhaps do not know that there is another meaning of word ‘Oblige’. It is not in dictionary. This type of ‘Oblige’ means picking pocket of some unfortunate stranger to afford financial aid to a friend. Here is how I learned this from an aged railway employee in year 2004. A group of three elderly railway employees dressed in uniform, standing in economy class near my seat, had been discussing something in Punjabi language. I was alerted to a statement by one of them. The statement was “You know, I obliged him so many times but he is utterly a thankless chap.” I was aroused by abrupt urge to interrupt asking the man about the nature of obliging his friend many times. He proudly explained that he permitted and managed his friend’s railway journeys without tickets.

I have generally seen ladies with very long ‘Tusbeeh’ moving their hand and lips silently. They always travel without ticket and nobody checks them as the ticket checkers are afraid of their curse. In all fairness, these ladies must be heavily fined and charged as they deceive God as well as people.

We have poor men hesitating to attend the funeral of their nearest relatives due to lack of money for railway journey. All Pakistanis be treated impartially. The rotten custom of “Hardships to be equally shared by all, facilities for Government and the companies’ employees only” must now be abolished.

For a poor and seriously indebted country of ours, I have never been able to understand:-

A. Unlimited free private journeys, legal or managed, by railway employees including highly paid officers, whereas our poor majority postpone or cancel journeys even for very urgent reasons.

B. Free electricity to WAPDA employees including highly paid officers.

C. Free gas to gas employees consuming precious energy ruthlessly whereas poor man hesitates even genuine consumption to avoid high bills.

D. Profuse concessions in Air tickets and number of journeys for very highly paid members of government sponsored Air Lines. I have known PIA employees weekly flying to Pakistan from Saudi Arabia, simply to buy kitchen items.

This limitless permissiveness reflects that governments have never assessed the degree of poverty and helplessness of poor lot of the country and the oft repeated boisterous statements in their favor are simply because they are the casting-vote for the power chair. We have been getting foreign loans with ever increasing interests their on and still we have permitted New York facilities to civil departments.

Let us learn to live within our means. Except for the disabled and the special persons, no free of cost facility should be permitted to anybody, who so ever. Government, semi government and even purely private bodies must see that nobody gets anything free of cost, so that every penny is accumulated for the benefits of the poors. This will definitely result in the following:-

1- A lesson to live within our own means.
2- Equal treatment for all citizens.
3- Funds for better maintenance of Railway, PIA, WAPDA and Gas companies.
4- A lesson going deep to minds to avail of a facility only on payment of cost.

Written by: Geodetic Engr. Muhammad Ashraf

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Professional Journeys’ Narrative – 2

Every huts’ settlement or village has its own well of bitter water for the survival of camels, goats, sheep etc. These animals have physically adjusted themselves to this kind of water. In summer this water is very cold and the animals drink it greedily. Such wells are 150 to 200 feet deep. Long rope and sizably large bucket is made up of animal skin. One end of the rope is firmly attached to the bucket whereas the other end is adjusted to the hump of a trained camel. Owner of every flock uses his own Camel to draw water from the well as manually it is not possible to undergo such hard job continuously for hours. Flock after flock take their turn on water and the process continues almost day and night. On our track we did not come across a village having two wells. As soon as the bucket touches the water surface below the well, it is filled manually and submerged inside the water in order to fill it completely up to its full capacity. The person on duty voices a sound which only the Camel understands. The Camel starts moving on the fixed track. As soon as the bucket is about a foot above the well’s wall, a second different special sound is voiced by which the Camel stops. The heavy bucket is pulled over to the well’s wall and poured into the small pond nearby, around which the animals gather for quenching their thirst. The empty bucket is lowered into the well and the Camel starts moving towards the well. The process continues till whole flock drinks to its fill.

A man’s stomach gets disturbed with single glass of bitter water. Animals take it regularly without any complaint or trouble. Local people told us that the Camels’ milk also gets slightly saltish due to the bitter water. Inspite of that I had been stunned by the statement of a resident of Nagar Parker who said “I don’t understand why you do not drink such sweet water calling it bitter”.

In local language well is called ‘Tar’ and flat sand fields are called ‘Tal’, whereas sand hills are called ‘Bhit’. In Tals we usually encountered groups of dears and sometimes rabbits jumping from bush to bush. Dears gave every indication of getting surprised to see us. They will stand still to see us then abruptly start jumping at full speed towards some hiding spot. At many locations we also saw partridge.

Scenes of sunset and moon light at night have been especially blessed for the sandy deserts. Green fields and hilly areas are absolutely unfamiliar with such kind of attractive beauty. A person from irrigated areas feels himself to be inside another world on the globe. The tremendous calm is occasionally broken by the sounds of bells of some grazing animals far away. It is perhaps due to this peace filled calm and pure simplest food that people in the area very rarely get sick. Minor ailments are successfully treated by intake of specially processed garlic, onion, egg, spices or some natural bushes. God Almighty helps these people by miracles, otherwise there is no medical aid available near and far. ———– To be continued…..

Source: Part from a book in process.
Copyright: Reserved

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Anecdotes for Young Men About to Marry

Special for citizens of countries of Subcontinent

Conservative brides prove to be good wives and excellent mothers even if they are less educated.

Modern women, modern in any form, are too busy in their dresses, matching shoes, matching ornaments and matching nail polish and lip-stick, to look after the babies to concentrate on their rearing.

Remember! Loose hair ladies do the kitchen work with loose hair (if at all they agree to do that instead of ordering you). So you will have to tolerate a few shampooed silky hair in every dish (please see the TV demonstration of recipe shows on some channels). Particles of nails polish and odour of some face cream might be additional ingredients, denoting love for you. Special boon shall be doctors’ regular share in your hard earned income because loose hair ladies are extremely touchy about every sneeze or sore that you and the children might have.

So be patient and cool and do not behave like an American father who, in era of boys’ long hair, ordered his 17 years old long haired son, never to sit at the dining table when he takes meals. If ever, by mistake, you committed the error of taking a silky hair out of the dish and show it to your wife, hanging it on spoon or fork, you might face a medium thunder of the clouds under clear blue sky. Fashionable ladies are not accustomed to such insult-some gestures. The little exercise shall be ending with a feeling of guilt in you.

Off and on, when the child is crying, you might be altered by an instruction from the dressing room, for soothing the baby only for half an hour. At such a time never offer an excuse even if you have to leave for an urgent appointment immediately. As soon as your wife gets out of the dressing room, always keep your praiseful dialogue ready with selected fancy words.

Fashionable ladies generally go for shopping as a matter of time pass, whether or not purchased material is really needed. In such a condition, always say “O Dear, we needed all this so badly”.

On the other hand a conservative lady will remain to be a blessing for you. No artificial serious makeup, no instruction for babies, no silky hairs in dishes, no dish washing, no washing of clothes and above all no out of the way shopping for mere recreation at the cost of your hard earned money. No regular visits to the doctors. Home is well maintained without your help. Meals are simple but nourishing. Anything good for family is attended with utmost care. Healthy wife, healthy children and healthy home atmosphere. You mind your own business and go ahead as far as your capabilities can proceed.

Written By: Geodetic Engr. M Ashraf

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Tips for Practical Life

1- People ruined by mismanagement say that they have been affected by bad luck.

2- If you worry about matters beyond measure, it will mean that you are shortly going underground.

3- If you have known about the world a lot without knowing your own self, your life is a failure.

3- Take care of your confidence, your doubts will be killed.

4- Enjoy best use of availables and don’t worry about things not available.

5- A very practical prayer for life: Dear Lord! Guide me, help me, protect me and bless me with success in all good efforts.

6- Real life is living for a great goal and living for eating and merriment is no life.

7- You cannot achieve comfort in life by pursuing comfort. Comfort is by-product of continuous hard work.

8- Climbing towards apex needs extreme hard work, whereas, to fall in ditch needs very little effort.

9- You can kill people fighting an ideological war, but you can never kill there ideology.

10- Never be cruel to a person who has no helper except God.

11- Uncontrolled conversation brings calamity for man.

12- A person keeping his own secrets, in fact confirms his security.

13- Fix a great aim for life, then apply all your capabilities towards its achievement.

14- Character makes a man great, not miracles.

15- A wise man achieves by remaining ordinary and a foolish man degrades himself with display of greatness.

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Professional Journeys’ Narrative – 1

During November 1960, we reached Khokhra Par on Pak-India Border. We had to start our journey by Camels, for 80 miles distance towards North. It was seven days journey in all. On an evening we were informed that Camels had been managed and that we had to start our journey the very next day. Following guiding instructions were imparted:-

“Continue journey from morning to evening. Night stay should be at a location where water is available. There is no perfect track for your destination, only the Camel-men will fix the direction through flat sand and sand hills. You have to complete whole work by the end of March, 1961. Instructions for vigilance against snakes have already been imparted and first-aid kit for snake bites has been issued. Historical danger of decoits in the area exists for which you will be accompanied by armed Rangers. Camels’ drinking water is available in the area. Sources of Human drinking water are not less than 40 miles away from your planned camping sites. The Camel-men will manage the shuttles of Camels for supply of water. Stocks of monthly rations shall also be managed by Camel-men only once a month, as these are available at a distance of at least 80 miles. Your salary shall reach you every month in cash, so the Postal Money Orders shall be managed with the ration purchasing team. Camels’ feed is available in the area in the form of dry and green bushes. Be kind to the huts’ residents in the area. Help each other for rations and eatable, etc. etc.”

Camels were loaded with tents, water containers, rations and instruments. So the journey started. I intended to walk my way all along but the team members insisted that I ride a Camel. A row of 14 Camels and about 20 team members looked very impressive and beautiful. Most of the team members were walking on foot. Thank God, they were all healthy and well built. We had our ration for a month and drinking water for 7 days only. Every evening the Camels were set free into the area for grazing and every morning they were collected from the area and loaded for starting the day’s journey. Each day’s camping sites were near a well of bitter salty water which the Camels did not refuse to drink.

There were sand fields and hills all around our passage. These had an exceptional beauty which cannot be seen in irrigated areas and green hills. It is a very beautiful landscape not seen and visited by vast majority of human beings. Shape of the landscape changes after every 500 yards. Colors of sand keep changing from place to place. There are scattered bushes everywhere but no tree. Very rarely if there is a tree, it is carefully guarded for its shade for human beings and animals. Such miracle trees have a well nearby. A scientific research is needed for discovery of its growth and survival in such a harsh area.

Along the route of our journey, we saw small settlements of huts made from dry branches of bushes. Hindus’ villages were disciplined and neat, whereas Muslim villages were in the shape of scattered huts. Hindus’ villages have a disciplined system of proper living. Every such village had its chief whom every individual sincerely obeyed. He is called ‘Mukhia’. At every Hindu village, we were respectfully greeted and offered milk or curd. These Hindus belong to Thakar Rajput tribe. They have numerous Sheep, Goats, Cows and Camels. ———– To be continued…..

Source: Part from a book in process.
Copyright: Reserved

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Needed Superb Negotiators

What ever the long list of justifications for use of bullet force in Swat, force of negotiations has not been technically put to practice. It might be due to incompetence or due to pressure of debts providing parties, in reckless effort to divert attentions from failures in Iraq and Afghanistan. When 70% military and economical power of the entire world is at the verge of surrender to a few hundred homeless and helpless meandering resistants, pushing Pakistan for killing its own citizens carries justification howsoever ridiculous. Heavily indebted country in need of more and more debts, is easy to be put to task. Everybody knows that Swat situation does not carry any similarity to situations in Kurdistan, East Pakistan (Now Bangladesh), Golden Temple (Operation Blue Star of Indian Army) and Sri Lanka where ground and air forces had been used or continue to be used. So far we have not heard a word against Pakistan. Why then the, matters cannot be sorted out through dialogue. Process of dialogue is tedious and intricate for which quite a volume of patience is principle need. Use of bullet force requires to press the trigger only. No patriotic Pakistani will tolerate Islamic Jamhuria Pakistan to become practically secular in behavior. This seriously injures Two Nations Theory. This conspires in developing atmosphere for reunification with India. Swat people might be confronting these conspiracies for Pakistan.

Negotiated settlements work wonders and are lasting. Out of many examples, Red Indians have been calmly living their own way of life for the last 120 years. Bullet force even if apparently successful generates un-ending hatred, ultimately causing irreversible destruction, in the process of time. Genuine demands of citizens reflect their concern for the state and for that they deserve honor of discussion towards settlement. Refusing them a dialog is like refusing them citizenship. We do need to learn from our history. We are very badly in need of extra ordinary superb negotiators. Embowering people of most conservative traditions and lifestyle as Pakistanis and asking them to forget their own way of life, is like asking somebody to stand on pivot and then order him not to move.

Extremists’ reactions need to be analyzed as these might not be hundred percent unjustified. We have to discover the elements responsible for tactfully obstructing the implementation of Nezam-e-Adal. It is necessary to quote here late Chief Justice of Pakistan A.R. Cornelius who said “When Pakistan had been achieved for Islam, Islam should govern Pakistan”. This is the judgment of a faithful Christian for the sake of justice.

Blowing our own trumpet of Ideological Islamic Jamhuria Pakistan and permitting running of inland TV channels competing exclusive sex display TV channels of secular Bharat, nullifies Two Nations Theory as well as results in odds of extremism, crimes and corruption. Television is a domestic device for information and learning for the family members with growing and young children. Misuse of TV as cinema hall in sex free social setups may be justifiable. Two Nations Theory means two different ways of living. Two Nations Theory is such formidable power that split the Sub-Continent resulting in creation of a new state with the name of Pakistan. We do not have any right to use TV as public cinema hall like the Indian channels are functioning. Now you are invited to see the get-up of news casters and comperes of Islamic Jamhuria Pakistan. See sex agitating advertisements involving couple dances, squeezed dresses and littering dingy hair. See ongoing business by display of female body limbs. All this invites the conservatives and youth to react in shape of extremism and sex crimes. A venomous treason is in progress against our traditions, against our people and above all against the Two Nations concept. The treacherous elements behind these conspiracies appear to have been working for horrible goals, but right now they have succeeded in turning this most beautiful territory into hell of blood shed and citizens’ miseries.

Now government is claiming that victory is near, whereas news and circumstances speak that extremism is spreading more and more. We need to talk to them at all costs whatsoever. This seems to be the only way of solving this problem for ever. It needs to be mentioned that if the set for lashing a young girl is true, then sets of all scenes of films worldwide will have to be accepted as reality. All those responsible for shooting this set must go to prison. All those spontaneously crying in response to shooting of this set must see the psychiatrist. Countless real incidents of severe punishments to daughters, sons and male / female servants in Punjab and Sindh are matter of daily routine, but nobody cries, because these are real and not result of camera shooting.

Now government might permanently capture the areas by force. This will never work. There is no way out accept to win the hearts of the people and let them live as citizens without unnecessary control and pinching supervision.

Government’s long list of justifications for use of bullet force against angry citizens in Swat and Wazirastan will instantly vanish by a no-more-shooting order from abroad.

Written by: Geodetic Engineer M. Ashraf

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Additional wisdom and experience available

1- In the past of every successful person, there is a long list of failures.

2- If you keep blowing your own trumpet, you will be left with less endurance for climbing.

3- Results of hurried performance can never be equal to results of performance with patience.

4- When the elephant is on his way, dogs keep barking, still you have never seen an elephant running after the dogs.

5- A person of perfect character never needs status.

6- If you aim at achieving happiness, you will always be sad.

7- A person devoid of self respect can never truly respect anybody else.

8- If you are not disciplined, you can never control others.

9- Satisfaction achieved during struggle for some aim, vanishes on achievement of that aim.

10- You can define genius as a person with superb concentration and tolerance.

11-  Knowledge does not come easy, it needs sincerity and hard work.

12- Every generation must keep in mind that independence does not mean doing things on choice. Independence means sincerely performing for commitment. (Pope John Paul II)

13- Attitude of hopelessness kills morale.

14- While helping others, never expect thanks.

15- Great character is a power that is invincible.

Sources of collection: Various

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SIX DECADES (1950 onwards) RULERS IN PAKISTAN

If any citizen of the globe compares people’s sacrifices for Pakistan with rulers’ performance in half century, he / she will be simply shocked. Sacrifices, sincerity and tolerance of the people have been adversely used by the rulers.

Invaluable contributions of the people:
During and after independence movement, people pledged everything for Pakistan. On achieving independence they sincerely gave every indication of unprecedented tolerance, forbearance and hard work amid extreme poverty, unemployment and suspended business, without complaining for bread, job or financial support. As a boy, I have seen cooking pots on hearth containing only salt and chilli in water. Inspite of that the miserable lot of people coming from India were helped with everything anybody possessed. I have been a boy volunteer collecting meals eatables, pots and cloths from my locality and distributing these, along with other boys of other localities, amongst ‘Mohajars’. Anybody visiting their camps could not stop flow of tears. If I explain to you the plight of those ‘Mohajars’ (injured, sick, hungry, without proper dress) you will certainly start crying. There was only shock full silence. No wailing, no protesting, no demanding. People deprived of homes, properties, relatives and family members only for the sake of Pakistan, were simply stunned but calm and patient. No expression can narrate their plight. Even in such state of affairs they maintained their dignity and self respect. I have seen ladies not possessing head-sheet (Doppatta) covering there heads with used shirts and even used jute sheets. Greatness of people entering Pakistan from India, deserves supreme respect.

Sections of people of various other religions, who choose to be Pakistanis, continued sharing sacrifices sufferances and hardships along with all. On achieving independence, they felt happiness, satisfaction and honoured. They deserve everybody’s’ salute of honour. I remember the special incidence when my agriculturist uncle spoke to a Christian employee in the old colonial harsh tone, the Christian employee reacted with unforeseen courage, saying “Mind you Chudhary Sahib, the foreign occupant are now gone and we are now independent Pakistanis”. My uncle was stunned at his courage, he became dump for moments, then resuming his senses, to my astonishment, apologized.

Rulers’ performance for more than half century:
Who could bring Pakistan in to existence without exceptionally sincere sacrifices especially of the common man and the middle class? After Quid-e-Azam, Muhtarma Fatima Jinnah and Liaqat Ali Khan, every member of the political and non political ruling lots, always posed to be the creator and saviour of the country called Pakistan. To remain in power and yearning for everlasting power sans capabilities, turned out to be the nucleus of overall performance. Motto was ‘keep strategically placating the people and go on grabbing the ruling chair’. Half of the country was lost in power struggle games. So many concerned Pakistanis cried bitterly over this accident whereas idol status politicians rejoiced over it. There came gay rulers, saint rulers, omnipotent rulers and clerically expert rulers, but citizens’ fate did not improve. If at all they cared, they did care for such upper class who worshipped them for all rights or wrongs they did. The sincere and sacrificing lot of common person and middle class citizens were virtually neglected and ignored.

No ruling group planned sequences of creative strategies for near and the far future. The ruling tenures were consumed in copying and imitating other countries and alien hanging social systems. Resources of the territory and capabilities of the citizens were not utilized or encouraged. Great efficiency was displayed in procuring huge foreign debts, as a result of which this territory of exceptionally rich resources went under huge debts resulting in surrender of foreign and internal affairs over to foreign powers. Collective effect of all this got to the extent that even the verdicts of country’s Supreme Court had to be explained to foreign missions (March 2009) who, ironically retorted “But this is your internal affair, why explain to us”.

What to talk of creative planning for future necessities, all efficiencies and resources got consumed in confronting the crimes whereas the real job of reforming the nurseries of crimes, was absolutely ignored. Comparing a year’s crimes of 1950s and 1960s with a week’s crimes after 1971, especially after year 2000, will conspicuously depict the action plan for fighting crimes. We have to secure citizens at all costs.

Worship of Persons instead of respect for Institutions:
Instead of monumentations of institutions, the rulers deliberately and deftly projected their own self for worship. Political parties are known by the name of the persons and not by party’s charter. Many parties and their names became extinct with the death or retirement of the leading person or family. It sounds strange that the tenure for elected ruling group is five years, but tenure for party’s top position is endless, almost forever for a particular person or family. As the worst effect of this, political parties became family possessions and this turned out to be the root cause of inefficiency and misappropriations all kinds. Naturally to save such family possession, incompetent and flattering lot of worshippers is a necessity. This situation has ever been destructive for states and peoples. Such important an institution as opposition, has been a symbol of hatred for ruling parties. One of the rulers defined opposition as “A group of wild cats”. In order to eliminate opposition, various strategies were adopted including rigging of polling and horse trading. In addition they used engineered terminologies for unilateral grab of power:-

1- Pakistan is on a very critical juncture.

2- Democracy is in danger.

3- We are only to serve the people (Looks they did have a doubt).

Six decades’ rulers brought a country of sacrificing, sincere and tolerant people, down to following status:-

1. Half of the country was lost.
2. Scarcity of Electricity, Natural Gas and ‘Atta’.

3. Deterioration of education standards and ignoring of merit.

1. Exodus of competent and experienced man power.
2. Inadequate and poor civil amenities and health care including production of large scale fake medicines.
3. Heavy foreign debts and weakening local currency.
4. Appalling law and order situation in the country.
5. Earned name of “failing state” for Pakistan.
6. False and unnecessary TV ads devouring family and national savings.
7. Hitting every limb of country’s cultural heritage through TV’s nakedness of ads, obscene dramas and foreign films, resulting in boost of insecurity, corruption and crimes especially sex crimes, involving minors and married women.
8. Worship of personalities instead of respect for institutions. Destructive interference with judiciary.

Pertinent Conclusions:
1. In these six decades rulers deliberately and vehemently blocked the way of a Pakistan-born Mahateer Muhammad to raise the status of Pakistan and Pakistanis above that of developed states, only in 20 years period.

2. If somebody complies the statements pertaining to promises made to Pakistanis, it will certainly be an extra ordinary work for other nations of the world.

3. Inland salary and wages cannot raise the status of a person to billionaire / industrialist. Numerous persons with a poverty background got to that status only through politics or government service. No dominant system of transparent accountability could ever be devised to recover the public money.

4. You can precisely feel the agony of shock for veterans who donated selfless meritorious services to the country and the nation.

Based on assessment of sacrifices of the people, any bench of judiciary in the world, will declare extra ordinary severe punishment for all misappropriators and usurpers, of any status, in this country.

Written by: Geodetic Engineer M. Ashraf

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Remedies for Youngsters Suffering from TV Bites

I have a sound apology for children whose parents / guardians complain that their kids have been affected by negative effects of TV dramas, films and advertisements. The complaint clearly reflects the serious cavities in rearing standards adopted by parents and teachers. (Excesses of inland TV channels are not subject of this article). Just as the children cannot defend themselves against a crazy killer or abductor, likewise in absence of comprehensive guidance and training they are easy prey to 100% deceptive displays on the screen.

Example of a Sincere and Dedicated Teacher:
Myself and my class fellows are extremely lucky that in 1953 the principle of Murray College Sialkot, Mr. Scott guided us in details for self defense against the negative temptations of films. Most of the parents of that era were uneducated and no high school teacher guided us about cinema films. Mr. Scott’s guidance helped us further to guide our own children. The guidance has worked well and it will go for generations. As for me, I continue to guide my relatives and friends as respectful tributes to Mr. Scott. This helps others to fight the ongoing illnesses of TV displays as well as further misappropriations of more sophisticated devices to be introduce in near and far future. Mr. Scott was such a dedicated teacher that he offered free time for helping weak students. What about today’s teachers? Mr. Scott’s example must stand as an eye opener for all educationists and intellectuals of present and future times.

Deceptions of TV / Film Screens:
There is hades of difference between the highly finished continuity of screen display and actual difficult and tedious task of shooting scenes. Shooting scenes is a process far from the sweet convenience of ultimate displays. Process is ridiculous and funny. There is chemical to be applied to the eyes to create flow down of liquid shown as tears for actor’s weeping. There is a device blown on actor’s body parts to show the poor creature perspiring. Red substance is profusely used for showing bleeding. There are many kinds and shapes of wigs, beards, mustaches, eyebrows and eyelashes for the actors and actresses.

One single action that you see on the screen is the aggregate result of numerous movements shooted and mosaiced together. For example, on screen you see a person kicking an other man as a result of which the other man falls far away. This action is not so simple for shooting processes. If you happen to watch it during shooting, you will simply laugh. So the continuity of scenes in film and TV are not only deceptive but also treacherous, especially for children. Children and illiterate adults are bewitched and adversely affected by the highly processed and managed fake continuity of the screen displays. Affected children become drop-outs. More seriously affected uneducated adults resort to various shapes of crimes including easily available sex crimes. This has been turning the whole setup of calm and peaceful social systems over to hell of crimes and diseases.

To apprise the parents and guardians of much needed guidance to children about the shooting procedures, western countries occasionally show the actual shooting of some scenes on TV. They do care for their children you know. Here are two examples that I happened to watch on TV:

1- Sometime back they showed a part of war between two armies. Particular scene to be shooted was how a soldier falls after getting hit by a bullet. Camera is ready, soldier actor is ready, caution is given “ready”, sound of gun, soldier falls, “Cut, action rejected, repeat!” The whole scene was repeated two times and third and last time falling action of the soldier actor was approved. Then they moved on over to shooting the next scene.

2- Last year I saw shooting of another display on TV. Arrangements were made to fix a lady atop a tree without leaves. Lady was cheerful and smiling. At a distance there was a camera team. After setting camera in suitable position, a command is announced, loudly, “action-expression”. The woman immediately starts bitterly crying and shouting “Help Help”. A voice comes, “Cut, expression rejected”. Repetition is ordered after due guidelines, then the voice sounds “action-expression”. The woman starts crying and shouting for help in a much better pathetic performance. “Cut”. The actions approved. Lady got very happy. Arrangements started to shoot the next scene in which hero was to climb up the tree and rescue the lady.

In my youth, I saw actual shooting of a Hollywood film at Shahi Qila, Lahore, another Hollywood film named “Bridge on the River Kawai”? At railway station Lahore, a Pakistani film on top of Shimla Pahari, Abottabad and again a Pakistani film in Tilla Jogiyain, Jehlum. These involved repetitions, revisions, changes, in all for only one single set due to rejected acting, dialogue, expression etc.

If children and illiterate adults fully have knowledge of all these stages of shooting scenes, at least 80% of the negative effects are dissolved.

People of subcontinent are over sensitive to Pathos:
Being sentimental by temperament, we are more easily affected by romantic poetry, romantic prose and above all by deceptive and treacherous sex temptations of drama, film and advertisements. Solid proof of this is that the total number of poets in the subcontinent (Pakistan, India, Bangladesh) is multiple times more than total number of poets in rest of whole world. For that reason we need to guide our children many times more as compared to children of other countries. Our TV lounges and bed rooms have been attacked by scenes against our culture. Previously only a low percentage of adults used to be affected by treacheries of films because a low percentage of people used to go to cinema halls. Today they have entered our homes with elements of sex free systems in utter disregard to our conservative and religious culture. They live and flourish in subcontinent but love and promote the Western lifestyle. How else do you define a traitor? Saboteurs of sacred cultural and traditional values are boosters of crimes and corruption in society, and, therefore, by any justification, what so ever, they do not deserve an iota of mercy and forbearance. Such sections of the people can be made to do any damn thing against a country or a nation. They are readily available to be purchased as a very frivolous hand full of pennies because they do not have any character. We might come to know after a quarter century, about their foreign funding sources. They are using the TV screen for a merciless onslaught to destroy the social setup, to disintegrate the family unity, to encourage sex crimes and boost up the venereal and incurable diseases. They openly behave to be above any government authority or judiciary, because they have unlimited support from their masters of sex-free setup.

Youngsters affected by negative elements of TV Displays:
Adults might be knowing the facts about the films and dramas but by the time the children become adults, effects of films, drama and ads have adversely affect their whole personality as well as future career. Off and on we come across children and adults behaving under impression of some drama or film, or dress like film actors or have hair cut and partial shave like some actors in any film. A young man of 27 in my neighborhood, cuts lines in his hair copying Bollywood Amer Khan in a film. He looks extremely funny and stands as a stock of silent smiles. Another boy of 23, also in my neighborhood, drives his motor cycle like some Indian advertisement, where upon he recently broke his arm, ribs and leg and remained in hospital and home-bed for continuous four months. These are only two example of only one single neighborhood, what is happening to children all over the country. All this emphasizes need for rigorous guidance to our children and illiterate adults.

Guidance to children is must:
It is evident that without guidance to children about the inside story of film making and film presenting is so important for their whole life and for the entire social setup. Effects of film, drama and ads are 100% fake. Films and TV programs will get more and more aggressive in misguiding the children in the near and far future. So the responsibility of teachers and parents will tremendously increased in the subject of guidance to children. Films and TV are only for amusement to get relaxed for continuing the real active responsibilities of life, which are always hard and demanding hard work and right decisions. Behind the screen of films, dramas and advertisements the realities are horrible that cannot be mentioned in this article. In American program “Opra”, a young model was narrating the agonies, mishaps and assaults against herself. She had been forced for all that. She deserted the modeling profession forever and adopted normal neat civil life. She was explaining to audience that for whole of her life she will never forgive herself for joining the modeling profession.

A few years back a lady compere of PTV did an unexpected favour to our youngsters. She was explaining in Urdu “Youngsters! Do not be much impressed by the getup of men and women of the drama. It takes us about three and half hours of makeup before presenting an actor in front of camera”. Ordinarily without makeup, you would not like to waste a look for most of the screen faces, especially from attraction point of view.

Inventor of TV was asked “What do you like best about TV?” The inventor replied “The switch that turns it off”.

Some special guidelines:
1. Nakedness is directly proportional to crimes. Societies of modest women in modest dress have rare crimes.

2. Nakedness on screen provides incentive for males for sexual promiscuity which ultimately breaks homes and stands as principal cause of incurable diseases.

3. Science and technology took birth and flourished in a social setup where women were moderately dressed.

4. ‘Hijab’ era gave birth to scientific research and technology solely for service to humanity.

5. In era of nakedness and free sex, scientific research created weapons for extinction of mankind.

Written by: Geodetic Engineer M. Ashraf

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