Holding On To Hope
PKKH EXCLUSIVE| Sana Jamal
Stories and pictures of human suffering, killing and displacement of millions of people on newspapers; scenes of mass misery, towns and people submerged in water on TV screens are constantly reminding us that the worst disaster of the century is not over yet. Media is also informing that this massive flooding in Pakistan is even worse than Indian Ocean Tsunami (2004), Kashmir earthquake (2005) and Haiti earthquake (2010).
And I also conformed to this belief of media until the same media informed that how all the preparations of 14th August have been called off because of this worst disaster.
So it’s that time of the year again which is associated with celebrations all across the country, flag hoisting at every building and house, firecrackers in all the alleys, national songs being played on TV & radio and of course those same old debates that we have achieved in the last this many years!
It is 14th August, our 63rd independence day. A grand day for every Pakistani, a day to cherish with full fervor but with half of the country submerged in water, it is hard and somewhat cruel to even imagine celebrating.
Hundreds of people dead, millions displaced, waterborne diseases, affected economy, bad governance, mismanagement, disappointing leaders; there is so much to mourn over that it’s actually hard to choose anyone.
One common thing among all these issues is the factor of distress, disappointment, distrust.
Politics has been termed a dirty business, our economy faces threat of huge collapse, our society is in the depths of miseries, in short political, economic, social all corners of the country appear bleak.
We are moving ahead in this darkness aimlessly wishing that our hands may get hold of that switch which would turn on the light and eventually eat away the darkness.
And amidst this darkness, this Independence Day, 14th August 2010 appears like a symbol to me signalling the way to light.
Because on this 14th August I am being reminded of the hardships that millions of people faced during partition 1947. Partition resulted in as many as 1.5 million deaths and nearly nine million non-Muslims migrated from Pakistan and almost 7,900,000 Muslims migrated from India to Pakistan. These people fearlessly laid down their lives and millions of property in order to reach a destination of their dreams.
As Pakistanis we must remember, that the emergence of Pakistan is no ordinary event, it is one of the greatest events of the history and a victory well-earned by the brave people who dreamt of a free land and made this dream possible with their firm faith.
Though I cannot feel an inch of happiness that those people would have felt upon reaching the soil of their homeland, Pakistan but today this thought gives me a message of hopefulness that this is not the end of our lives. So what if we are still moving aimlessly in darkness, the important thing is that we are moving, and we are not dead.
We should never forget that we are the same people who fought for our rights 63 years ago to achieve a destination in which we saw the fulfillment of our dreams of living an independent life. The only difference is that we don’t see such dynamic leadership in sight that can steer us onto the right path. But that should not be made an excuse to shove the responsibility off our shoulders.
The reason I am compelled to compare the situation of partition 1947 and this flood disaster 2010 is that when I look upon at these pictures of partition and then the pictures of flood victims, I see the same grief in their faces waiting for a sign of hope but never hopeless.
And if we can achieve independence with such unflinching faith and continuous hard work then why cannot we fight to strive and save our nation from disasters and diseases in our society, economy and politics?
So now whenever we are reminded that the horrific disasters are not over yet, we must prove to the disaster that this nation has endured more terrible tragedies and has the ability to counter adversity in its face. We shall overcome this calamity too and we shall rise again as a successful nation if we hold on to – Unity, Faith and Discipline.
The fact that we broke India on this day makes it a great day!.I love reminding the dirty smelly black faced ugly Bhindians of how we ended their dreams of an akhand bharat on this day!.Even better is thecomplete silence when i argue with these ugly subhuman slumdogs kaalia’s!!
@ imran
bhai these badshakal indicks will see their final death by Pakistani hands. INSHALLAH.
These indicks will never change unless we Pakistanis stick a nuck up their GA##S for good.
These indicks will remain slave to others till their last day. Pakistan will free them of this slavery and make them human like we did for over 1000 centures.
PAKISTAN ZINDABAD
Dear Assalam-0-alaikum:-
At least we all Pakistani must know What our enemies (America,UK,Israel & India Government) are doing against us to kill & finish our civilization from world map and we are still fighting with each other.
Pakistan Flood: HAARP Used in Pakistan by American Government? – Urgent
What is HARRP ???? How it can create Earth Quakes & Floods Check the below links
———————–http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BR6O3kJTqaI&feature=related
they know they cant win a war with Nuclear armed Pakistan so they used HAARP Waves.
This is the same thing they did in Haiti first they Created a massive Earth Quake by using HARRP, kill millions of people for their Selfish Last and them they send their soldiers for the Welfare and Aid work in Haiti. American Government a Big cheater, they murdered pakistani by creating flood in pakistan Northern Area till Sindh. They are the American
All started suddenly and thousands died, millions displaced, hundreds of villages vanished in the matter of just 4 days!!…strangely there were no weather warnings, no alarms.. these are the worst floods in the history of Pakistan BUT no one from Global MET offices could even trace what is going on in this region?
We have investigated this matter and concluded that HAARP has recently been used in NW area of Pakistan .. the choice of starting point was perfect.. all the flood is going in downstream i.e. Khyber (Hills) to Karachi (Sea)… it is designed to submerge entire Pakistan and bring up the worst crises and chaos ever happened.. they know they cant win a war with Nuclear armed Pakistan – it would be a mutual destruction, so they have other ways to do it!.
Check the link below:- check the link below:
http://www.daily.pk/is-the-cia-playing-the-haarp-in-pakistan-19785/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+dailypk+(Pakistan+Daily)
What is HARRP ???? How it can create Earth Quakes & Floods Check the below links
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BR6O3kJTqaI&feature=related
http://www.pakalertpress.com/2010/08/06/pakistan-flood-photos-haarp-fingerprints-found-allover/
Following up on and keeping pace with HARP technology is a ponderous and monumental task. Most analysts feel that there is more to the bizarre freak weather anomaly causing such devastation across Russia, China & Pakistan/Kashmir. Almost every year there are strange and focused disastrous weather anomalies causing untold destruction and damage and all have been “anomalies” and freak weather conditions.
1) We have seen Hurricanes
2) We have seen Earthquakes target Pakistani Azad Kashmir
3) We have seen Landslides
4) We have seen Tsunamis target Indonesia
5) We are now seeing another phase of floods targeting Pakistan
The question is then why Pakistan Army is not responding or Russia or in that case China!!!! Although I believe HAARP has something o do with it but I cannot understand the attitulde of those Gov.
Google “CHEMTRAILS” to know much more.Or “Doomsday weapons”.
America had announced that whatever knowledge they had gathered on their expeditions to Moon and Mars,they will not disclose this to the world for 25 years.What does that mean?
It is just like Internet that when Pentagon developed another system much superior to that,they released Internet to the world.
Thus the knowledge lag which is developing between US and Thirld World countries is expanding and is not static.
No doubt,there are people who call this as Conspiracy Theories.
And no doubt Allah is Greatest but at the same time He has asked us to be prepared.
To make ourselves deserving as per Allama Iqbal’s verse BATA TERI RAZA KIYA HAI,,we have to make eforts to reach for Allah’s Ma’arfa by truely understanding and following the real message of Quran which can simply be said as MA WARA AZ ZUHOOR WHICH ONLY DEEDAE BEENA CAN SEE.In other words,
Just look at the Ayah in Quran,which says ” THEY ARE SEEING BUT NOT SEEING, THEY ARE LISTENING BUT NOT LISTEING”. Our condition has become like that.
Let us make Quran Fahmi as our motto not just read it as Parrot.
@ Anonymous
Salaam Bhai jan. I have left an extensive reply for you under the article, “Zardari Administration Secretly Working To Establish Ties With Israel”.
Thank you. I wish you well. Khuda Hafiz.
Regards & Duwa
Ali Alamzeb
I thought, you were going to say that we have filled this country with injustice, cruelty, killings , all kinds of sins and Allah’s disobedience to call for his wrath!! Alas, we, as always, instead of asking for Allah’s forgiveness and learning the lesson, throw everything into a new ‘conspiracy theory’. By God, once we repent and abandon all the open and hidden sins, this same country will start giving all the blessings of Allah. No internal and external force would be able to dare think badly about this country!!! Maybe these are the signs for us to ponder..but then again…we never learn the lesson!!!
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HAD PAKISTAN BEEN RUN BY GOOD PEOPLE OR THE COMMUNISTS THEN THERE WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN SO MUCH SUFFERINGS WHILE AS THERE ARE MANY MANY AGENTS OF USA IN PAKSTAN WHO GET SUCH A STRATEGY FROM USA WHICH MAKES FLOODS AMPLIFY ITS DESTRUCTION ABILITY AND THAT TOO WHEN PAKISTAN IS RULED BY THE AGENTS OF USA THEMSELVES
NOT TO TALK OF THE FACT OF INDIA AMPLIFYING THE FLOODS IN PAKISTAN
“Kahdo Vo Qadir Hay”: Al-Quran
Sunnat Tarika to make touba, under the cicumstances, according to Prophet Mohammad (pb) , please read full article:
http://express.com.pk/epaper/PoPupwindow.aspx?newsID=1101030971&Issue=NP_LHE&Date=20100818