Kumsin Siyasat Ki Kahani: 1857 Se 2012 Tak
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State Aristocracy’s Pakistan – 3: Justice for Senator’s son
How a police officer’s highhandedness in torturing someone special earns him the wrath of the State Aristocracy is evident from the following news:
… Defence-A SHO found guilty of torturing senator’s son
LAHORE: Defence-A SHO Faisal Sharif has been proved guilty of torturing the son of Senator Abdul Ghani Bangash, a couple of weeks ago, in an inquiry conducted by SSP Discipline and Inquiry.
Lahore CCPO has ordered DIG Operations to suspend him from service immediately and initiate a departmental inquiry against him. The CCPO has also ordered not to give him field posting in future. The SHO had thrashed Irshad Bangash, the son of Senator Abdul Ghani Bangash, and his friend at an apartment in H-Block, Defence, in a search of his (SHO’s) ‘dancer girlfriend.’ The raiding police team headed by SHO Faisal Sharif had also damaged precious items and later got registered a fake case against them. SSP D&I
Qanoon Ki Hukoomat Ya Qanoon Saaz Ki Hukoomat
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Stray points – 2
* The world needs to be changed into a world for individual persons, not for this or that genus of this or that community or nation!
… * It is knowledge that rules; since it helps us make better and just rules!
* When religiosity dominates in a society, morality recedes. See the present-day Pakistan!
* Presently Muslims are lurching somewhere in their Middle Ages!
* All the pro-establishment elements in Pakistan are anti-America; and all the anti-America elements, even if they are not pro-establishment, somehow serve the cause of the establishment.
* Instead of doing Ideology and Politics, the Pakistani Left should open Charities!
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Pasmaandagi Ki Kitaab
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State Aristocracy’s Pakistan – 2: Maliha Makhdoom appointed as First Secretary in Ireland
In a previous post, Riyasti Ashrafiya ka Pakistan – 1, a news item was highlighted. It was published in an Urdu daily Mashriq Peshawar on October 15, 2012. It states that Barrister Hassan Sajjad, son of former president and chairman Senate, Wasim Sajjad, has been appointed Adviser to the Interior Minister, Rehman Malik, and a notification to this effect has been issued.
… This second highlight, published in The Express Tribune on November 15, 2012, states the following:
In Question-Hour session in the Senate: “two top ranking officers had been appointed by former premier Yousaf Raz Gilani in diplomatic missions abroad without fulfilling any obligatory criteria for the high-profile posts, Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar said in her written reply to the Senate.
The officials were posted abroad without passing the mandatory Central Superior Servies (CSS) examination, Khar explained. Gilani appointed Maliha Makhdoom, daughter of senior PPP Minister Makhdoon
Jadeed Riyasat Aur Ayeen Ki Baladasti Ka Usool
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What has gone wrong with the US – erstwhile champion of individual freedom!
What has gone wrong with the US – erstwhile champion of individual freedom, world-renowned political cartoonist, Patrick Chappatte explains very well in this cartoon!
… This cartoon was published in the International Herald Tribune, Pakistan print edition, November 12, 2012.
Finished reading: The Bondage and Travels of Johann Schiltberger
Few days back (on November 3), I finished reading a rare and old book. If one wants to see a glimpse of the old world, read this book.
… Actually, this April I was in Fez, Morocco, for the Special Meeting of the Mont Pelerin Society, on Freedom, Human Dignity and the Open Society. (Let me add that I am the only member of the Mont Pelerin Society from Pakistan!) There in a session on April 24, one Benedikt Koehler from London presented his paper, “The Birth of Capitalism in Islam.” It was quite enlightening, and in addition to putting a question to Mr. Koehler during the session, the same evening during the dinner I especially invited him to the table, where we some friends were sitting together, to have a detailed discussion with him. I especially appreciated his attempt to highlight the contribution of Islam to the Economic Theory.
Qadeem Riyasat Aur Ayeen Ki Baladasti Ka Usool
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What the Prime Minister of Pakistan is up to!
See the following report and be in the know what things are occupying the Prime Minister of Pakistan, no matter they are illegal or not, or immoral or not:
… SHO Gujar Khan transferred on PM’s complaint
RAWALPINDI: On the direction of Prime Minister Raja Pervaiz Ashraf the City Police Officer DIG Azhar Hameed Khokhar has transferred SHO of Gujar Khan Inspector Abdul Sattar Khan to Police Line. The prime minister complained that SHO Sattar exchanged hot words with his brother Raja Javed Ashraf on the public meeting held under the PPP in Gujar Khan on October 21, 2012. The SHO forbade the workers from holding firework.
Link to the report: http://www.thenews.com.pk/Todays-News-13-18692-SHO-Gujar-Khan-transferred-on-PMs-complaint
[The News International, November 8, 2012]
I would like to add that responsible and lawful citizens should demand that the Prime Minister and his brother extend apologies to the concerned police officer and he be reinstated to his posting
Aurang Zaib Alamgir Ke Akhbaar Navees
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Siege from within
When creative spirit of a nation is arrested from within, it is as vulnerable to external insinuations as is to internal machinations, and can never make any progress.
… “Pakistan
We had enemies from the very first day. With time, the list of our enemies grew longer. So much so that today we have neighbors not friendly to us and a world all hostile to us. We are alone in a wilderness created of our own. Isn’t it Greek mythology whose gods and monsters we have resurrected in ourselves? Like the one-eyed monster, we have no second eye to look inward. This on the one hand has transformed us completely into subjects perfectly suitable for psychological pursuits. Or, for instance, how can a judge of a higher court find fault with bare feet of a dancer, and ban it? Or how can his ability and capacity to
Siyasat Ke Shahzaday Aur Shahzadiyan
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Finished reading: Guide to Stoicism
Last night (November 2), I finished reading another book on Stoicism. It was first published in 1908 by Archibald Constable & Co., London. It belongs to the series, Philosophies Ancient and Modern. Since then it has been reproduced as A Little Book of Stoicism, and as Guide to Stoicism.
… Fortunately, the original first edition titled as Stoicism, is available at www.archive.org. Its author is St. George Stock, a scholar not well-known, only that he was born in 1850, and at the end of his Foreword to the book is written “St. George Stock M.A. Pemb. Coll. {Pembroke College} Oxford.”
Here is what little information I could find about him and his work:
“It is rare to encounter a published author from the relatively recent past for which almost no biographical information can be found online. I have found such a person, in the form of a
Malala Aur Pakistani Riyasat Ka Mindset
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Finished reading: Stoicism
Day before yesterday (Oct 28) I finished reading, Stoicism, by Rev. W. W. Capes. It was published in 1880, as part of a series – Chief Ancient Philosophies, by the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, London.
… This book discusses Stoicism in a historical perspective, focusing on its development via its chief philosophers, such as Seneca, Epictetus, and Marcus Aurelus Antoninus, and its relation to early Christian teachings.
The Chapters give a glimpse of the contents of the book:
I. The Thought and Character of Socrates
II. The Cynics
III. The Rise of Stoicism and its Relation to the Spirit of the Age
IV. Stoicism in the rigour of its Essential Principles
V. Stoicism tempered by Concessions to Common Sense
VI. Stoicism at Rome under the Republic
VII. The Critics and Enemies of Stoicism under the Early Empire
VIII. The Social Status of the Professional Moralists at Rome
IX. The
Qadren – Aur Jatt Da Vaer
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Karachi – not a political problem!
Is it for the Supreme Court to see what’s happening to the citizens in Balochistan and Karachi?
… Or there is none to heed? It seems so!
I think Nero was a far better person than the present federal and provincial rulers. At least, he had a knack for playing fiddle; whereas the present ruling party and its allies and the state machinery under them are interested only in making sure they remain in the government and continue robbing the citizens’ tax money.
They do not care a dime for the security of citizens’ life and property; let these cockroaches be robbed and die. Especially, in Karachi man-slaughtering has the semblance of a political game.
But the solution to this problem is not a political one; it is administrative! Until and unless it is treated as an administrative issue, there is going to be no improvement in the law and order
Taareekh Aur Nazriya-e-Saazish
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