Premier makes History: A 30 second "symbolic" punishment

For those who are sort of confused about what is actually happening in Pakistan and the whole issue about the PM being convicted in the contempt of the court case… The Prime Minster was ordered by the Supreme Court to write a letter to the Swiss courts, asking them to re-open and review the money laundering cases against President Zardari. The PM refused because once Zardari swore as the president, he had immunity to all those cases against him, under NRO. In 2009, the Supreme Court called the NRO unconstitutional and said that President was no longer immune. It is in the constitution of Pakistan that if a President is immune, then nothing can be charged against him even if it is the order of the court. But according to the courts, Zardari no longer has any immunity and PM has disobeyed the orders of the court (contempt of the court) by not writing a letter to the Swiss government/courts. PM Gillani agreed to fight this case with his lawyer Aitzaz Ahsan and has been appearing before the court for several months. Today, the courts found PM Gillani guilty (for unknown reasons) for his contempt of the court and is convicted in the case. As he is convicted, he cannot stand in elections for the next five years and may lose his Premiership though according to some resources he will still remain the Prime Minster for some time. Instead of a jail term, Gilani was given a 30 second "symbolic" punishment. Gilani is the longest-serving prime minister in the history of Pakistan and even though there has been a lot of criticism against him, he respected the courts and appeared in front of them, unlike previous governments (especially mushy’s) who would sack the Chief Justice if they were convicted of something (in mushy's case, re-electing himself as the President).

Maine usse yeh kaha (I said this to him)

This is one of my favorite poems, it's a satirical poem by Habib Jalib who was a revolutionary poet, politician and part of National Awami Party during Gen.Ayub Khan's regime in 1950s. Known for his blunt expression of beliefs, he spent most of his life in prisons. Jalib wrote this in response to Hafiz Jalandari (a poet, a writer and composer of Pakistan National Anthem) about his response to a conversation with President Ayub Khan during the time of Ayub Khan’s dictatorship.



me ne us se ye kaha (I said this to him)
ye jo das crore hain, (These hundred million)
jehl ka nichor hain (Are the epitome of ignorance)
inki fikr so gayi (Their conscience has gone to sleep)
har umeed ki kiran (Every ray of hope)
zulmaton me kho gai (Is lost in the darkness)
ye khabar darust hai (This news is true)
inki mot ho gai (They are the living dead)
be shaoor log hain (Completely mindless)
zindagi ka rog hain (A disease of life)
aur tere paas hai (And you hold in your hand)
inke dard ki dawa (the cure of their disease)

me ne us se ye kaha (I said this to him)
tu khuda ka noor hai (You are the light of God)
akl hai shaoor hai (Wisdom and knowledge personified)
qaum tere saath hai (The nation is with you)
tere hi wajood se (It is only through your grace)
mulk ki nijaat hai (That the nation can be saved)
tu hai mehr-e-subh-e-nau (You are the light of a new morning)
tere baad raat hai! (After you there is only night)
bolte jo chand hain (The few who speak out)
sab ye shar pasand hain! (Are all trouble makers)
inki khainch le zabaan (You should tear out their tongues)
inka ghoont de gala (You should throttle their throats)

me ne us se ye kaha (I said this to him)
me ne us se ye kaha (I said this to him)
jin ko tha zaban pe naaz (Those proud of their eloquence)
chup hain wo zaban daraaz (Their tongues are completely silent)
chain hai samaaj me (The land is calm)
bemisaal fark hai (There is an unexampled difference)
kal me aur aaj me (Between yesterday and today)
apne kharch par hain qaid (Only at their own expense)
log kaid tere raaj me (Are people in prison, under your rule)
me ne us se ye kaha (I said this to him)
me ne us se ye kaha (I said this to him)

cheen apna yar hai (China is our friend)
us pe jan nisar hai (We’d give our lives for her)
par wahan jo hai nizaam (But the system that they have)
us taraf na jaayio (Steer well clear of that)
us ko door se salaam (From far away say “salaam”)
das crore ye gadhe (These hundred million fools)
jin ka naam hai awaam (That are named the masses)
kia banain ge hukmaran (Could surely never become rulers)
tu!, tu!, tu! yaqeen hai ye gumaan (You are the truth; they’re an illusion)
apni to dua hai ye (My prayer is that)
sadr tu rahe sada (You remain our President forever)

me ne us se ye kaha (I said this to him)
me ne us se ye kaha (I said this to him)

Little things in life

Too many problems in this world right? too many problems in our lives too, no ones really satisfied, we still have something in us complaining about things that aint perfect or making us want things even more which we always wanted, our goals whatever it may be, our dreams, our worries, complains , too much (my fav word!)

when am alone, my loneliness prompts me to think about all those things that I fail to admire throughout the day, all those wonderful things, that I always observed, liked, loved, pretty beautiful things!

so here are a few stuff/things/feelings/emotions/moments that i love which makes me realize the beauty of life

you know when its all dark in a room and u have just a few rays of sunlight trying to peek through ur curtains/door/window/chimney/whatever, you can actually see the dust particles moving haphazardly something like we studied in physics Brownian motion but not actually that, its something more interesting and beautiful cause those dust particles seem like specks of gold falling from somewhere dancing in the air looking so calm and peaceful.

the smell of the damp mud when it rains takes me all the way back to the streets of Lahore, where I can then visualize samosas and jalebis ( sweet) being fried at one corner and their aroma making me crave for them at that very moment.

when its all quiet in the room , I can hear every single tick of the clock and start counting the seconds with it until I get bored or lost count and actually check the time myslef.

I actually/weirdly lol like to stare at the darkness when I close my eyes

our power of imagination! we can actually imagine anything, anytime, anywhere, things which are practically impossible or unrealistic, the best thing is that our imagination has no boundaries or limits, its just depends solely on us, how we wanna use our this power, how creative can we be,
cause as one of my friend said, 'we have God and the power of imagination!’

the smile on a face of a poor child is priceless, it makes u feel that no problem is a big problem, if he can smile then why not me?

its awesome when the whole family is gathered in the lounge watching Pakistan play cricket, all of us praying really hard, as if paki’s win is the most important thing in our lives , the room is full of unity, faith, patriotism (sounds like Quaid's words) and the feeling of togetherness.

a baby’s laughter <3
this is so abso-freaking-lutely adorable



I love how my mom oils my hair with all that extra massage which makes me feel nice and lazy or when she pats on my head continuously with my head on her lap moving my bangs here n there , a precious moment as those hands have some kinda magic in them which could make me forget all my worries and bring an unusual kind of peace and satisfaction to my heart even on my worst days.

I deeply adore it when dad kisses on my forehead , it gives me so much of strength, brings back all my energy and keeps my head high to face all the troubles in life.

how every night me and my sister can talk for hours about our lives and never get bored, how she understands my silence and how I get to know what shes thinking from her eyes, sister love <3

the hug from two of my best friends, one’s hug is skinny (I can feel her bones!), sincerely loyal lol, full of love, making me feel I have got someone truly beautiful in my life
and the other one’s hug is fun, jolly, bringing a sense of euphoria to me, making me feel that I have her to solve all my problems in life, I rely on her


and its funny how much stamina I have and how much energy I can waste fighting with my little brother, my baby (well act not he's as tall as me lol) on a piece of chocolate for literally hours, sometimes me hiding it or some times he doing nasty things like licking it so that I don’t eat lol but at the end we both share it though I still try to get the larger piece :P

cause well someone cool truly said, ‘ we cannot buy happiness, but we can buy chocolate (act ice cream lol) which is pretty much the same thing’.

a small note for everyone,
smile and enjoy the small moments of your life :)

We fight their battles, then they deceive us..

I now seem to avoid the whole concept of humanity and ignore a conversation based on world issues, it upsets me, I feel broken, hurt and feel that the world is filled with melancholy, yes that’s me, the negative me lol.


Dude, I mean I cant see people being beaten up or like starving to death or merely dying from a minor curable disease, forget about donations, awareness, fb statuses or tweets persuading people to help, the first and the foremost thing, that feeling, that urge, that commitment to help people, that jazba (passion), being humane, feeling the pain of a child who once lived in his house , atleast had roti (bread) and dal (lentils) and could go to school and dreamt of becoming a teacher or a doctor, now doesn’t have a place to cover his head with one kurta n pajama, haven’t eaten anything since few days , only surviving on dirty water which is available in plenty giving him a stomach ache which is unbearable, the symptoms of cholera and well school? that is out of question for at least an year or two cause his government is the undoubtedly the best!


This is the reason why his family voted for those ministers, so that they come to a point where survival seems a very unlikely option, where these ministers spend the foreign aid on their luxurious lives, buying gigantic houses in Dubai and UK and travelling in the most magnificent cars one could ever imagine, not to mention *bullet proof* lol and their children studying in Oxford and Harvard and they dining at the most expensive restaurants and their wives with Gucci and Louis Vuitton and omg those versaces and authentic designer prada glasses, totally in!


See the difference? a huge difference between that boy stuck in the floods struggling to bear the pain which is newly developed disease is bringing praying to God with a hope that everything would be normal again and these people, these ‘hideous’ people, so shameful that they now r not even slightly ashamed or embarrassed of stealing from someone’s plate, a poor, destitute child, stealing his survival, I cant imagine that such people can exist, but sadly and unfortunately they do! such heartless, brutal, insensitive, inhuman, barbaric people, they r not even worth of being called humans.


Do u know what had happened to all the tents and goods u sent for 2005 earthquake victims if u sent it through some government organization? they would have been lying in some general’s garden with their kinds playing hide n seeks in it, wow, and that is true!


People have lost trust on the government, this time very few people living abroad have sent donations for flood relief, n I don’t blame them for that, who would want those donations to be used in such a corrupt way instead of reaching to our innocent brothers and sisters.


People now prefer to either go help out themselves or donate through a trustable non governmental foundation such as Edhi or Imran Khan foundation (yes I trust imran khan and hats off to him for not being like those other elected people sitting their enjoying life to the fullest) , Unicef and ofcourse red cross and red crescent.


And I truly love the way how we can just donate via a text msg/sms, indeed there are people who bring that passion in me to do something and youngsters donating, volunteering, raising funds, I have the hope in our youth, and they are the answer to all those monstrous people sitting in our awesome president house discussing about how should we now please our dear beloved America,

uhh God bless such people!

my fairy tale: dated till i find my prince

when I first met you I never knew you would be so important to me, you were magic, there was something so strong , it was like wind, I couldn’t see it but could feel it, it was like a fairy tale, beautiful…

alarm rings, snooze, rings again after 5 mins, uhh not again, it was just a dream, blahh

everyone dreams of a perfect life, something they like always wished for , and there are these girls who dream that there will this prince charming so handsome, totally magical and their dream will come true something like taylor swift’s ‘today was a fairy tale’

but today it isn’t the same, such girls are sadly regarded silly, foolish and called ‘typical girls’ and who spent their lives waiting for the ‘Mr Right’, well this is their fault cause they are being unrealistic , this worlds more about practical things then just feelings and for more info refer to Gerald butlers, ‘the ugly truth’ lol , and well at the same time it isn’t their fault too cause well they have grown up watching Cinderella and sleeping beauty and all these Disney fairy tales which affect a child’s brain and make them believe these things exist.

I think right now this is a period of confusion, everything is being confused with true love whether its liking, lust or mere infatuation
what is true love? wow it seems an easy question

well according to the holy bible,

‘Love is best seen as devotion and action, not an emotion. Love is not exclusively based on how we feel. Certainly our emotions are involved, but they cannot be our only criteria for love. True devotion will always lead to action—true love.’

and this is my favorite one :
Love is always patient and kind. It is never jealous. Love is never boastful or conceited. It is never rude or selfish. It does not take offense and is not resentful".
-A walk to remember

but I dono It still doesn’t really sound very realistic to me cause I have not seen something like this happening nowadays
maybe in movies, books and u know we actually like that cause it makes us see something which we don’t get to see in reality that’s why titanic was a super hit, there are a few different cases too and when we get to hear about them or see them we go like aww,how cute <3

but nowadays no one is so crazy like shah jehan, the mughal emperor that he would make a monument like taj mahal in the memory of his beloved wife or be like noah of the notebook and wait for years for his true love

now love is more about relationships and precisely physical attraction between opposite sex, the involvement of practical thinking and materialism in love is one of the main reasons for unsuccessful relationships and marriages,
and every other feeling is misunderstood as love, oh he’s nice, I love him, oh she’s hot, I love her, oh we think alike, I love him blah blah

But we girls still like to dream on and fantasize for that perfect one with whom we can connect emotionally and go like aww, he’s just perfect *tears* lol
so to all my ladies, dream on maybe that someone special, is there at your door, the bell rings, that hollow feeling in stomach, you open the door

mom: who is this
you: uhh eww the laundry man!

Mr wise and Mr foolish!

Its 3 am n m hungry, like the whole day I don’t eat anything ( well I did have some fruits though) , my way of losing weight, go through tough vigorous exercises to burn those nasty calories that just pile up in my body n then I find a box of dark double chocolate chip cookies, u know the big ones, ahh yumm, i get the hold of that transparent box, those cookies clearly visible, they look beautiful lol n m hungry, very hungry, but no what about all my efforts, but but its irresistible , I opened the box, no no I wont look good in that dress that I got if I gain weight, hmm so what I can lose it later and then I take one cookie out, fine I ll have just one and here it goes, yum, the chocolate just melts into my mouth, umm I can have another one , I feel so good, and by the time I realized just one last cookie was left, blah whats the point of leaving one cookie let me have that too

and now moment of realization, all my efforts gone, all the pain that I took to get rid of those fats, I feel guilty, I feel bad, I want to cry, NOO!

have you ever wondered who is man’s worst enemy? umm the man himself.

yes the man, that early morning hunger of mine was more like feeding my feelings rather than feeding my body well which is something known as an ’emotional eating’. I might not be as hungry as I think, its just that those cookies made me feel more hungry, my emotions took control over me and I was just tempted to have them.

I sometimes feel that I have these two people inside, one which is telling or rather forcing me to do things that I like or enjoy or I personally want but aint good for me and this other wise person who knows whats good for me and knows the aftermath of everything that I do.
well this could also be a kind of battle between my heart (feelings) and mind , am not sure but I like to imagine it more like two people, a fool who is emotional and just cares about the feelings n temporary happiness and the present and a wise who is practical and knows what would actually benefit me in the near future (more like a forward thinker lol).

well I think , the foolish one rules the wise one in me! my feelings control me, I do what if feel/want and i say what I feel/want and this has many after affects but I simply don’t care/realize .

umm the cons are many, u always tend to regret about things in future, u feel guilty and u r responsible for what goes wrong with you, you don’t have the advantage of blaming something/someone else about the wrong thing in ur life which makes u feel worse.
but I personally feel that there are a few pros too, the people who tend to think from their heart are mostly honest cuz I mean that’s the way they feel, the wiser sides of you lets you decide what to say when n to whom and how and blah blah so u carefully work out things n maybe feel good but you might not be honest or truthful from inside, sometimes u r just being diplomatic and practical n the world loves you but is that the true side of you? is that exactly what you feel? though u might be applauded for that, u r just doing what that particular situation requires from you , what the people require from you. (lol why am i making it sound evil when its actually good?)

lol well m trying to favor the foolish side you see haha
but in reality those who listen to their wiser side are more successful

but here the argument is who is mainly responsible for all the wrong things that happen to us
we blame our life, our destiny , the people around etc etc but the source of wrong is within us, I aint saying that everything happens because of us but most of the times it comes from us, those feelings, temptations, our heart shouldnt rule us.

Can we for once try to think about ourselves, the things that we do wrong, I mean everyone likes to imagine themselves as perfect or good or whatsoever but everyone has short comings , we need to listen to the wiser person inside us more often (this goes on for me as well but am trying noh)

lol its funny, I, myself am the worst enemy of me mwahahaha ;)

i remember me...

Last night I was clearing my cupboard filled with books, a million pages, greeting cards from old friends and more books.

I couldn’t help checking each and every single thing in case I threw away something important.
As I did that I had that feeling of nostalgia, old memories, and then I realized whom I was missing the most, I was missing myself the most, my old self lol, someone whom I had forgotten for a long period of time.

my love for my books, how I had kept each and every book carefully , they still smell of my hard work.
my notes, how I had scribbled all the lecture notes and would get so upset if I lost any
my teachers remarks, how proud I used to be of myself when I had a good or an A on each of my lesson
my six student council badges! (lol am such a show off!)
haha complete nerd I was, I miss myself

then my inconsistent art of diary writing, I had written many, but would soon leave them incomplete, they record some moments of my life from childhood till now
and they are a true replica of my mental growth, from childhood to teenage to now
each page has a story to tell, sometimes complaining, crying on small things to excitement and joy
lol how interested I used to be in my diary, I used to design the pages, make them look so vibrant and bright defining me,and not just filled with those boring writings

my art book! I heart it, I once used to draw and paint and mould things, whenever I open it, it brings an immense joy and pleasure to me cause colours make me happy (above is a drawing from my Grade 8 art book)
I remember once I wanted to be an artist or a designer and have my very own gallery displaying my talent but then this whole idea was forgotten for sometime and i even forgot that I had such a talent.

my motto was to make crap look expensive, to make old and boring things look beautiful again, I remember I never used to write on my rough book until I turned it into something so interesting that would make me write on it, I used to cover it with magazine papers, foams, newspapers, wrapping papers and god know what just to make it look exactly something on which I would want to write
and each book had Benazir Bhutto’s picture on the first page saying ‘this is my goal’!

this is how I used to motivate myself, telling myself to work harder and achieve that goal

lol all those exam papers still remind me of those sleepless nights spent studying hard and that goal of mine cause I dreamt big, something which isn’t easy to achieve
haha just saw my ICT mock paper , 99/100 lol, big time nerd

ahh these were some things which were my life, my happiness and the road to my success but maybe for sometime I lost my way but hopefully I will get back on that same road again and begin my journey towards my own dreams…