PAK TEA HOUSE

SHE IS A WOMAN IMPURE

MAJOR(R)KHALID NASR — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 12:01:46 GMT

She is a Woman Impure - by Fahmida Riaz

She is a woman impure

Trapped in the cycle of blood

In the chain of years and months

Burning in the fire of lust

Seeking her pleasures

Mistress of the devil

Following his ways

Towards that elusive goal

Which has no route

That meeting of light and fire

Which is so hard to find.

Boiling blood inside her veins

Has torn her breasts,

The thorns on her way

Have severed her womb,

On her body�s shame

There is no shade of ...

SENIOR ADVISOR

MAJOR(R)KHALID NASR — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 08:37:21 GMT

IT IS OUR PLEASURE TO INTRODUCE YASMEEN ALI AS SENIOR ADVISOR ON PAK TEA HOUSE. HER ARTICLES & COMMENTS ARE MOST WELCOMED.

QUALIFICATION FOR THE CANDIDATE IN ANY ELECTION

laila — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 11:52:56 GMT

Election is election whether for the Union Councils, National and Provincial Assemblies or for the President, Prime Minister or Chief Ministers etc, the purpose is to pick out the best one amongst all the available candidates. This is the point, which needs to be discussed.

Before 2002 elections, the qualification of every elected person is not hidden from the nation. At present, it can safely be said that all are the University Degree holders in the National and ...

[color=darkblue][color=olive]Restoration of Students� Unions

laila — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 11:49:29 GMT

Before discussing the Students� Unions in Educational Institutions, I would like to ask all the Political Parties to conduct Elections through secret ballots in their own parties from the village level to that of the country. Then pick those elected persons for the nomination to the Union, Town, Tehsil, District, Provincial and National levels posts. A person who is elected person of a Political Party in a village should be a candidate for the post of a Nazim in the local Government elections.

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[color=darkblue]DEMAND OF IMPARTIAL JUDGES FROM THE UNITED N

laila — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 11:46:03 GMT

Prophet Joseph was accused of offence and imprisoned in the jail and remained there for a long period and when he was ordered to be released from imprisonment, he refused to obey his order of release only for this reason that the allegation with which he underwent so long period in the prison had not properly been investigated and he had not properly tried in the Court of that time. He demanded for the judicial trial prevalent at time and voluntarily surrendered/offered himself for judicial trial, ...

HISTORY OF PAKISTAN

MAJOR(R)KHALID NASR — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 08:50:59 GMT

Historyof Pakistan Through The Centuries

Professor Dr. Ahmad Hasan Dani

Pakistan, the Indus land, is the child of the Indus in the same way as Egypt is the gift of Nile. The Indus has provided unity, fertility, communication, direction and the entire landscape to the country. Its location marks it as a great divide as well as a link between central Asia and south Asia. But the historical movements of the people from Central Asia and South Asia have given to it a character of its ...

PAKISTAN'S IDENTITY

MAJOR(R)KHALID NASR — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 08:27:09 GMT

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�An Ancient Connection�: The Indus River, the Silk Route, the Grand Trunk Road, and the Makran Coast.

Sonia Salim

The need to conduct a research on the Pakistani identity is important because it is necessary, and it compels continuity. It is necessary because as a relatively new nation-state in this world, Pakistani�s are in a constant struggle with how they see themselves; ...

MISSION STATEMENT

MAJOR(R)KHALID NASR — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 18:23:49 GMT

TO INTRODUCE & DEVELOP NEW IDEAS FOR DISCUSSION ON THIS PLATEFORMWITH A VIEW TO FORMULATE CREATIVE & POSITIVE IDEAS FOR THE GROWTH & DEVELOPMENT OF PAKISTAN.

A POT PURI OF URDU POETRY

MAJOR(R)KHALID NASR — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 09:11:36 GMT

A Potpourri of Urdu Poetry

mujhase milane ke vo karataa thaa bahaane kitane

ab guzaaregaa mere saath zamaane kitane

- Seemab Akbarabadi

aarazuu hai vafaa kare ko_ii

jii na chaahe to kyaa kare ko_ii

- Daag Dehlvi

jo kuchh kaho qubuul hai taqaraar kyaa karuu.N

sharmindaa ab tumhe.n sar-e-baazaar kyaa karuu.N

[qubuul = accept; taqaraar = argument; sar-e-baazaar = in public]

- Anwar Shaoor

sunaa hai Gair kii mahafil me.n tum na jaaoge ...

Prevalent literary scene in Urdu & Punjabi

jamilzaidijamilzaidi — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 19:05:34 GMT

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Those passing through their 6th & 7th decades should remember the prevalent literary scene in Urdu & Punabi literature at the dawn of independence on August, 1947. Initially the nation was passing through the trauma of partition, dividing families on the basis of religious beliefs; ultimately resulting in geographic division & rehabilittion in alien regions & culture. Slowly & gradually literary activities caught on with the passage of time to the extent that ...

SHNI DHERTI --PAKISTAN

MAJOR(R)KHALID NASR — Tue, 25 Dec 2007 06:37:35 GMT

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MAJOR(R)KHALID NASR — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 14:20:44 GMT

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SEEKING IDENTITY------PAKISTAN

MAJOR(R)KHALID NASR — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 12:32:27 GMT

Pakistan Think Tank

Sunday, 10-07-07

Articles, Opinions and News

Pot Shots From the Enemy: Our Disordered House

Pakistan: Seeking a new identity, not democracy

Editor's Note: Our disordered house, gets pot shots from our enemies; but, may be there is some truth to that. God save our enemies for pointing to our flaws and instilling in us a desire to do better. Criticism of our enemies may hurt but it helps us to be a better nation. This Indian angst has been ...

WHAT HAPPENED TO KARACHI ?

MAJOR(R)KHALID NASR — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 12:28:32 GMT

Pakistan Think Tank

Thursday, 10-25-07

Articles, Opinions and News

Future Opinion Leaders of Pakistan

What has happened to our city, our home?

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What has happened to our city, our home?

By Fatima Bhutto

10/21/2007

Karachi is my city, my home. I was seven years old the first time I set foot on its soil. It had been until then an imaginary homeland, a figment of my dreams and thoughts. It was a home I knew through other's ...

WHO ARE WE ? OUR IDENTITY

MAJOR(R)KHALID NASR — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 12:25:14 GMT

The Question of Identity: Who are we?

Col. (R) Bakhtiar Hakeem

Who are you? What an innocent looking simple question.

If you ask this question to twenty different people around you, you will get twelve to fifteen different answers. Most will give their names, some their caste like Cheema, Bhatti, Khokar, some their clams like Mir, Mian, Afridi, some their geographical areas like Kashmiri, Amritsari, Okarwi. Some would be proud to give their sects and one odd may say Pakistani ...

UNITED STATES OF ISLAM

MAJOR(R)KHALID NASR — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 12:07:52 GMT

UNITED STATES OF ISLAM

Like individuals, nations also born and die, and disappear from the landscape. This phenomenon is also as old as the phenomenon of birth and death of individual has been. And one can say that the ping pong of birth and death of nations has been parallel to the birth and death of individuals in a way. However, if the birth and death of an individual having its own reasons, of course the birth and death of a nation also have its own. There is a sharp contrast also between ...

LANGUAGES SPOKEN IN PAKISTAN

MAJOR(R)KHALID NASR — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 10:23:57 GMT

Languages of pakistan

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BALUCHI

The home of the Baluchi language is, as the term implies, Baluchistan, but it extends considerably beyond the usually recognized limits of that province. On the east, it reaches the Indus and as far north as Dera Ghazi Khan, although the country along the banks of the Indus is inhabited mainly by those whose language is either Lahnda or Sindhi. Northwards, it extends to near Quetta, ...

SHAH ABDUL LATIF

MAJOR(R)KHALID NASR — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 09:04:19 GMT

Shah Abdul Latif, The Spiritual Poet "Shah Jo Risalo

Shah Abdul Latif, a great scholar, saint and spiritual poet, was born in Hala Haveli near the Khatiyan village of Hyderabad District, Sindh in 1689. His ancestral roots lay in Afghanistan. It is said that the Shah's father, Syed Habib Shah, had migrated from Matyaru, his ancestral home in Afghanistan to Bhainpur in Sindh, in order to gain spiritual contact with Bilawal, a local pious man.

Abdul Latif received ...

KHUSHAL KHAN KHATTAK

MAJOR(R)KHALID NASR — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 08:55:00 GMT

Khushal Khan Khattak

Khushal Khan Khattak (1613 - 1690) was a famous Pashtun (Afghan) warrior, poet and tribal chief of the Khattak tribe. He wrote in Pashtu during the reign of the Mughal (Mongol) emperors in the seventeenth century, and admonished Afghans to forsake their divisive tendencies and unite to regain the strength and glory they once possessed. A renowned fighter who became known as the "Afghan Warrior Poet", he lived in the foothills of the Hindu Kush mountains.

Khushal ...

BULLE SHAH

MAJOR(R)KHALID NASR — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 08:47:39 GMT

Bulleh Shah (1680-1758): Leading light of Punjab

By Safir Rammah

Bulleh Shah (1680-1758) and Mir Taqi Mir (1723-1810) shared the same time and space - eighteenth century Northern India - and were amongst the major poets of their respective languages. They had both lived during the time just before the proliferation of the printing press, state-sponsored educational institutions and standardized textbooks. Today, it is hard to find an educated Pakistani with any level of interest in literature ...

INVOCATION OF THE PERFECT MAN

MAJOR(R)KHALID NASR — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 08:26:44 GMT

Scholar's Corner: Understanding the Spirit of Al-Islam

INVOCATION TO THE PERFECT MAN

Editor's Note: Sometimes we come across a piece of our heritage which provides a glimpse into our glorious past. One such heirloom is this dazzling and transcendental poem of the Great Poet of the East, Allama Iqbal. I hope Maryam Mehboob, our PTT Member, would not mind if we share it with other Pakistanis and our wider global audience. This heirloom was given to her by her mother, it belonged to her ...

URDU & PAKISTAN'S IDENTITY

MAJOR(R)KHALID NASR — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 07:05:12 GMT

Urdu and Pakistani Identity and Integrity

Before the midnight birth of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan on 15th August 1947, Muslims in the Indian subcontinent did their best to preserve their separate Muslim identify through various means. No doubt, that they had the pride of governing this piece of land for more than seven consecutive centuries prior to the colonization by the British East India Company in 1801, however during that long period they totally failed to have worked out ...

BENAZIR BHUTTO & MUSHARAF----A DUA BY BB

MAJOR(R)KHALID NASR — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 06:37:05 GMT

NOORA KUSHTEE AUR KAT PUTLEE KA TAMASHA

Bhatijee Key Dua: Vokala Aur Judgjoon Key Himayat Karna, Sir Musharraf Aur Ghariboon Say Mohabat Karna

BiBi Key Dua

Meray Allah Accountability Say Bachana Mujh Ko

Aur Wazir-i-Azam Key Kursi Pay Bhethana Mujh Ko

Ho Meray Kaam Chacha Pyarey Ke Khidmat Karna

Aur Vakiloon aur Judgjoon Key Bhi Himayat Karna

Saath, Saath, Sadr-i- Musharraf Say Mohabat Karna

Chuna Lag Jayee ...

IQBAL : A BRIDGE BETWEEN EAST & WEST

MAJOR(R)KHALID NASR — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 06:32:02 GMT

Iqbal: A bridge between East and the West

By Saeed A. Durrani, School of Physics & Astronomy, University of Birmingham, England

In speaking on the above theme, one cannot do better than to start by quoting one of Iqbal�s own couplets.

�The dervish imbued with the spirit of God is neither of the East nor of the West.

My home is neither Delhi, nor Isfahan, nor yet Samarkand.� Baal-i-Jibril (Gabriel�s Wing), p.357*

One is also put in mind of Iqbal�s inscription ...

TRANSLATION OF IQBAL'S GHAZAL

MAJOR(R)KHALID NASR — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 06:05:30 GMT

Pakistan's Cultural Heritage

Ghazal (DigarguN hai jahaN taroN ki gardish tez hai Saqi)

DigarguN hai jahaN taroN ki gardish tez hai Saqi

from Muhammad Iqbal

translation by M. Shahid Alam

The world changes utterly: the stars spin faster, O Saqi.

In every heart I hear the cry of surrender, O Saqi.

God�s journeymen have lost their arts, their certainty.

Whose ...

HABIB JALAB & PAKISTAN

Admin — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 05:51:38 GMT

Habib Jalib's Poem : Pakistan Ka Matlab Kya?

Habib Jalib's Poem

Pakistan Ka Matlab Kya?

Roti, kapda aur dawa

Ghar rehne ko chhota sa

Muft mujhe talim dila

Mein bhi Musalmaan hoon wallah

Pakistan ka matlab kya

La Ilaha Illalah�

Amrika se mang na bhik

Mat kar logon ki tazhik

Rok na janhoori tehrik

Chhod na azadi ki rah

Pakistan ka matlab hai kya

La Ilaha Illalah�

Khet waderon se le lo

Milen luteron se le lo

Mulk andheron se le lo

Rahe na koi Alijah

Pakistan ...

SAB SEY PEHLAY PAKISTAN

Admin — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 18:01:09 GMT

SAB SAY PEHLAY PAKISTAN

To: Dr. Iqbal

SAB SAY PEHLAY PAKISTAN

(First and Foremost is Pakistan i.e. the National Interests)

Col Bakhtiar Hakeem, Pakistan Think Tank Distinguished Scholar and Thought Leader

Let me write back to Dr Allama Muhammad Iqbal today. He had vision, objectivity and the ability to move and motivate a whole sub-continent, He, could goad, men like Muhammad All Jinnah into leadership and be his follower, Later ...

BACKGROUND OF THE FORUM-----PAK TEA HOUSE

MAJOR(R)KHALID NASR — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 12:17:36 GMT

PAK TEA HOUSE

A FORUM FOR THE COMMON MEN SHARING IDEAS

PAK TEA HOUSE-AN INSTITUTION IN THE PAST

Pak Tea House was a small old-fashioned crowded restaurant adjacent to YMCA Building, but located alongside on the road leading towards Anarkali/Neela Gumbad which was known for literary discussions by intellectual elites (mostly professors from the English Departments of Government College & Islamia College accom[panied by their few distinguished post-graduate ...

PAK TEA HOUSE-AN INSTITUTION IN THE PAST

jamilzaidijamilzaidi — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 08:19:06 GMT

Those undertaking post-graduate studies in English Literature would remember a small old-fashioned crowded restaurant adjacent to YMCA Building, but located alongside on the roadleading towards Anarkali which was known for literary discussions by intellectual elites (mostly professors from the English Departments of Government College & Islamia College accom[panied by their few distinguished post-graduate students) when full set of tea was served for 1/4 of a Rupee easily affordable by ...

MEMBER ADVISORY BOARD

Admin — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 19:18:55 GMT

MANAGEMENT IS PLEASED TO INTRODUCE MR JAMIL ZAIDI AS A MEMBER OF ADVISORY BOARD.WE WOULD LIKE TO REQUEST MR JAMIL ZAIDI FOR ACTIVE PARTICIPATION ON THIS FORUM. MAY GOD BLESS HIM WITH GOOD HEALTH & HAPPINESS.