The Pakistani Spectator

Part 1: The Introduction
I am an outsider
A view from inside
I will kill
Myself
And my own
Two angels
All that existed
For me and them
To return
To perfection;
As the sun rises tomorrow!
Part 2: THE GOLDEN BRIDGE
As life walks past,
Upon this golden bridge,
Symbols of our past
In distance, of unity and strength
From promise of slogans
Of “roti, kapra and makan”
To dazzling boards enshrined
Of our [...]

Just a while before i was watching fondly an interview of Famous event manager Zareen Khalid (famous for her shadi and mehndi managements ) .almost speechless i was imagining how much extra money these UPPER CLASSIAs have for their TASTE and standard maintenance .at the same time glimpse of those news headings of suicides due [...]

These minorities are the people that are striving hard to maintain their base line ,which if breached would take them to the below poverty line where majority are satisfactorily managing their issues ,as norms ,nature ,comfort ,necessity, desire has been over come and ego and self respect has been sacrificed ,due to their extremes of dependencies or whatever

In their misery, offer they diversity
Into human soul and its mechanics
We don’t hear or see them
And yet in existence, they offer
Beauty and pain, we walk past
Carefree and not observant
Like unknown hands, they perform
Old functions of humanity, we take
For granted, for leisure and reflection
What will we get we ask,
Ask you the wrong questions
Ask us, how we [...]

Where Pakistan test fires long range surface-to-surface Hataf-6 Shaheen-2 ballistic missile successfully, and India prepares for it’s own retaliatory test fire, people of both countries wonder about as to how to arrange food and medicine for their children today.
Put a hand on your chest and tell me, if your kids are hungry for three days [...]

After taking the vote of confidence from the newly elected assembly, Prime Minister Makhdoom Yousuf Raza Gillani announced many nice tasks, though his 100-day plan lacks the modus operandi.
The most striking announcement was the National Employment Scheme. That’s the need of hour, but one dreads the future of this scheme, as several schemes like these [...]

Objectively, what really a man who earns hardly three meals a day for his family prefers for from the new government?
Is it the reinstatement of Judiciary?
Is it the end to the terrorism?
Is it the removal of President Musharraf?
Is it the reduction in price hike and availability of food and medicine at affordable prices?
What do you [...]

If you ask me then after casting my vote on 18th February, I thought that now the things will become rosy and hopeful in a jiffy and the change would be swift and drastic, and the mandate would blossom in split time.
More than one month has passed. President Musharraf is still there on the throne [...]

Well, I am all for the restoration and reinstatement of the deposed judges and I am a very ardent supporter of the free judiciary, but I would like to divert the attention of the newly elected and oath-ed members that the fire of stomach doesn’t get satiated with the judiciary, rather it needs roti and [...]