This post is dedicated to all those who empathize and sympathise with the people who have lost their homes,their lives, family or friends in the massive earthquake that took place in the subcontinent this morning.
I encourage the people in Pakistan to do what we can to help them by collecting clothes and other such items to send over.
For people living in Karachi, i know Eidhee centre will be dispatching some team up to Isb very soon so do go over and donate whatever you can.
As P.Mushrraf said, "it's a test for the nation"-
lets pass this test with flying colours shall we?
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i like the post....i hope everyone's fine and everyone helps out.
just a few minuts ago i found out a friend's parents died in that building shown
we are so used to seeing images of mass destruction and chaos on tv that we take a moment to react to it happening in our own place and perhaps even to people we may know. Allah Mian sab ko khairiat se rakhay.
with all due respect, that's a really condescending perspective to take, especially since you have NO idea why it happened, what God intends, and since it didn't even happen to you.
hope every one is fine !
psnob, im quite sure that when kay said "we start thinking WE are invincible" she was talking about humanilty at large rather than one particular people or city.
i went there
i saw it with my own eyes
i heard stories
i saw dead bodies with my own eyes
people with amputated hands and legs
it was scary
God dam scary
plus offcourse jammie said the wise words
idealist- i pray for ure friend to give her strenghth to see her through this tough time-
jammie- very true. it is hell scary when it hits this close to home and your sitting there receiving calls from family members from those cities praying they are unharmed and thinking about people in the villages...the families of ure servants cooks and drivers who they may never see again.
psnob- im afraid i dont understand exactly what you find condescending- it did not happen to ME yes it happened to my people-
does an earthquake need to hit MY home for me to feel any remorse for what happened in Isb? or for anyone for that matter.
BBCD has done all the explaining so i dont think i need to say anything beyond that.
and please..its not just this earthquake. have a look around whats going on in the world. natural disasters are hitting everyone. the states, guatemala- you name it. clearly God is sending us a message and teaching ALL of us a lesson. not just one nation ...not just one race...not just one city....EVERYONE.
tm- i can only imagine how that must feel. scary may be an understatement.
please allow me to paste the following links that are meant to generate funds for the quake-affected people/areas. thanks
http://helppakistan.blogspot.com/
http://karachi.metblogs.com/archives/2005/10/campaign_for_co.phtml
all i had to say , we spoke of in our conversation.just wanted to leave a comment.
praying for those affected by this earthquake, hoping everyone will contribute towards relief funds, and please people...pray for forgiveness, we've obviously pissed God off!
all i had to say , we spoke of in our conversation.just wanted to leave a comment.
praying for those affected by this earthquake, hoping everyone will contribute towards relief funds, and please people...pray for forgiveness, we've obviously pissed God off!
Insha Allah..
High time Pakistan sees some of this upclose and personal!
conman-
excuse me? i dont think i understand what you mean by that.
you almost make it sound like Pakistan deserved it and im hoping its my misconception.
I liked the message. Allah reham karey, Amen.
No, I ain't really saying Pakistan deserved it. Nor am i a hater of Pakistan.
... I love what Islam preaches and those that follow it with sensibility.
Don\'t get me wrong this has nothing to do with the post or the commenbt i am gonna write. Just telling you where I'm comin from.
I am sure Pakistan has as normal people as there are across the fence. People, who don't hate Indians, who don't really shout out Hindustan Kaafir Desh Hai. But yeah, like we pay the price for what our politicians do (read: Fuck up), likewise, there are prices for the people of pakistan to pay.
I've been around... watching people. Big and small families. Talking to them... feeling (or trying to) what they do.
Till today, if I see a chicken being cut, I can't eat it. I see kids, four, or five, or maximum six or ten maybe, jumping around... clapping their hands, when they slowly, very slowly, cut a cow's neck off.
As if blood meant nothing to them.
Screw this too. People everywhere are different.
All I am saying is... there are lotsa things Pakistan's to pay for. For the killings in Kashmir, for Kargil...
I don't really wanna pinpoint. Allah's gotta be watching.
I'm sorry.
http://qatardiary.blogspot.com/2005/07/were-staunchly-religious-humanity-our.html
read this to know where I'm comin from...
ure answer awaits you in ure blog conman.
cheers
Hmm... read ur reply.
Listen... first of all... I don't believe cows are our mothers and I absolutely adore eating beef.
I wasn't meaning only cows... I meant children rejoicing and clapping at the sight of blood overflowing... could be even of a goat's... I don't care.
And about children chanting Hindustan kaafir desh hai... was in India itself. A madarsa in the Hauz Rani area, New Delhi, India.
Yes, I know why the West will never want there to be peace between India and Pak.
yes, I understand it is highly unlikely that the two countries can ever be one...
But who ever thought that the Britishers would one day leave India and India would be free?
I understand it might take a long long time, if at all it happens... maybe even a century... but it CAN happen, slowly, but surely.
The generations in India and Pak are changing... slowly.
I am not the wall that divides, I am a crack in that wall.
And in no religion does it or can it say you have to cut cows out in the open, in public, during Ramadan.
And thats exactly and only what I am talking about.
There is a way to do things... and that way knows no religion. It's plain humanity.
I will let you know the next time I m visiting Qatar. Lets settle this. Besides, cows are not the only things we enjoy cutting.
It is a lame idea that an earth quake was a punishment,we suffer everyday of our lives,out of cowardice,poverty and a hundred things,they are greater sufferances then a measly earth quake.How is it that when people die from some big disaster they get counted,but from things that we have gotten used to it doesn't register.Isnt our normal way of life not enough of a punishment?
And frankly if god can't come up with more subtle ways of influencing our lives,then he is a demented f***** .
Such stupid ideas are re-enforced for the poetic satisfaction they bring.The mind has to find ways to come to terms with it so it finds a nice explanation for it,albeit a very stupid one.Why can't life suck without god punisihng me?
*sigh*
kAy dont bother!
*dittos with Khizzy*
all i ask is why do such ppl (read "dr evil") who have immensely profound (read "bullshit") things to say never keep their profiles available for all to see or write stuff for all to read?
why must they hide behind their lil anonymity and spread their crap this way?
still, ladies- he deserves a proper reply...which is due on my part. but just ONE reply. i aint gonna debate with some sorry non God fearing person and waste my time. but since he bothered commenting i shall bother replying wherther he reads it or not.
not now...my computer has conked out on me and laptops dont favour me.
untill then, happy iftaar everyone.
sigh. ditto with khizzy and bbcd. some things dont warrant a reply and if people *still* dont get that right now these posts and blogs could do with some POSITIVE energy on the part of humanity, then i really do think that as a world we are doomed. get a life people, there are bigger things to worry about right now. start collecting donating, flapping your arms for something anything. sitting there and being cynical is the bloody easiest thing you can do.
i was watching ajj tv and there is something that fakhreAlam pointed out...people who bought kaffans for 150 rs/= yesterday..some shopkeepers(asper the high sale) ACTUALLY raised the price to 250!!
yaar yeh conman aur dr evil ki kya bak bak hai. what shit man. bas typing karney key liyey bakwas pey bakwas. its not even making me angry, its just too bloody funny keh some people actually think like that and have "arguments" to defend their theories.
awwh, ghussa na karna please conman or dr. evil, i'll seriously get scared! HAW!
acha aur please merey blog par aa kar kachra na karna.
i can only dish it out. ;)
despite popular vote and convenince on my part i sit here on a friggin laptop ready to give that reply that could not wait till my computer got fixed.
let me adress mr conman first who apparently has a problem with people (read Pakistani's) being staunchly patriotic because he feels that we "creep in on the borders slyly" and inflict pain on Indis because we want to take over their country. conman, step back and take a look at our countries...do the math and tell me whose stronger? do a lil further math and tell me who is more vulnerable andthus who is more at risk and THUS who is on the offensive and WHO is on the defensive-
lets end this right here- there are far bigger things happening than Politics right now and as jammie said we need to channel our energies in the correct places.
dr evil...eik to ure pseudonym is starting to speak for itself.
yes...i agree with you...ure life sucks coz you make it suck...nope..no punishment from God there. God only guids you...you screw up alll on your own. i dont know where you come from..are you Muslim non Muslim ? atheiest? and frankly i dont give a damn. i'll just tell you something from a Muslim's point of view. This is the Holy month of ramazan...a month Allah has called the month of PEACE...the month He forgives our sins...the month when the doors to heaven are wide open. for something NON human inflicted like NATURAL DISASTER to occur in this month is not "chance" based. its God telling us something expressing his anger...ANY Muslim can vouch for that.the fact that SUCH a HUGE tragedy has occurred wiping off 80.000 ppl JUST in Pakistan is a LITTLE different from ure everyday worries and accidents which YES are a part of life BUT like you said they are a PART OF LIFE. we had no control over this disaster so rather than being cocky and trying to sound ultra cool about ure detachment twds things people like you who dont really give a damn should be of whatever little use you already are and go sit in a corner VERY quiety and let ppl who actually have something to offer get on with their lives and actually HELP someone ...make that difference YOU obviously never could.
after this you may vent rant rave murder my blog with a hundered of ure sorry posts i WILL delete them not because i cannot stand a difference of opinion but because i do not think you are of ANY use to society on any level and there is no room for you or youre baseless opinions here.
and now something more worhtwhile...Karachi ppl, PAF needs volunteers from 8:30am till 10pm helping then to unload/package various items...
see if you can make it.
details on
www.karachi-metblogs.com
whoaaaaaaaaaa!
lol...!
May Allah protect the people in Pakistan, India and anywhere that suffered this terrible tragedy.
*dittos with Khizzy*
whoaaaaaaaaaa!
lol...!
You got me all wrong... Yes... you're right no point arguing about this.
But I wasn't arguing. Was just giving my point of view...
Anyway... good luck.
And tacky: I won't touch the link of your blog with a barged pole... so don't assume that I'll have the time to first go to it and then actually comment on whatever you write...
Oh and KAy: You need to be a lil more broadminded. When you go to my blog and read it... don't just pick one part up and try and slam it... also keep into consideration the rest of the blog/post and try looking at the larger picture.
lets observe silence until another post is generated.
*the end*
conman: i'm afraid there IS no bigger picture in your blog and your posts; your initial comment on this post said it all. Please, get yourself a checkup.
While we try and mend things with those across the border, people like you always creep through the sheets with their passive bullshit, Pakistan has always caused India pain? HAHAH.
*applauds kAy for trying to reason with you*
No one deserved anything, i don't agree that this quake was specifically sent to us 'pakistanis' because of Musharraf's government or anything of that nature. If that was the case half the planet would be rubble by now.
On the other hand, i would agree with kAy that there is something ominously wrong about it all, especially if you look at the last couple of years and the increasing damage caused by natural disasters...
maybe the shit really has hit the fan...
ps: lovely blog.
What is it? My face that makes people attack me? Chill out people, I was just giving my point of view...
Isn't that what blogs are all about?
nope conman- its WHAT you say and HOW you say it- you started off ALL wrong..." high time Pakistan saw this up close and personal" -
you expect to express THAT "opinion" and get away with it easily on a blog that belongs to a PAKISTANI who has PAKISTANI readers who are all devastated by the recent tragedy?? LISTEN to yourself for crying out loud.
yes blogs are about discussing different opinions but since when has being crude and insensitive become a part of constructive criticism?
and you call this an attack on you? this is nothing- why do you think i have refrained from commenting on the post of yours in which you quoted me? have you read the responses?? commenting on blogs does NOT mean insulting eachother to get your point across-trust me if anyone has a valid point he'll get it across without having to resort to using the kind of tones people have used to comment on ure blog.
another thing..since you brought blogs up.. blogs are WORDS. i dont know you and you dont know me from hell- we are for eachother at the face value of what we write and that is how we judge eachother. so when we write we have to be EXTRA careful because the person reading is not gonng be wondering about you but about what you write.
but ill grant u this much- write however you want on your blog- thats YOUR turf buddy- but when commenting on someone elses turf...watch how you word it.
and as for me picking p a lil chunk of aLlllll that you wrote and "slamming" it in my blog...conman.. that was perhaps the only line that irked me as much as "high time pakistan saw this upclose and personal" larger picture or no larger picture.
this shall be my last comment on this post-there are bigger better things to do these days, hence my absence from the virtual world since the past 48 hours and also perhaps till the next 72 or so.
cheers all-
do continue praying for the victims of the earthquake.
and i'd like to end the discussion by stating the fact that uncle conman you did comment on my blog that i've very conveniently disposed. so you actually HAD the time to go to it AND comment as well.
mana kia tha suna naee oopar sey jhoot. haw haye.
Kay, there seems to have been a lot of discussion on this post....no time to read it all...only to say, the caption is great....
My condolences to all Pakistani people...I have travelled the road from Islamabad to Muzzafarrabad...and my heart is crying...
How about an upbeat snap of Pakistanis coming together as a community filled with spirit and passion.
there were some rather hilarious conversations going on here simultaneously.
bbcd *pats Kay on the back*
Khizzy *dittos with bbcd for a change*
Great caption. You work has perfection.
with regards
FM
I do hope that you and your dear ones are well and not affected by the quake. Whatever we do to help the affected, on this side of the border or the other, is not enough.
This is my first time here... I stumbled from Conman's and found a very sensitive post and a profound strain of thinking that runs through all your images and writing. 45 mins very well spent indeed. Thank you. :-)
OH wow. you said a very powerful thing through your pictures.
apreciated :o)
Whoa, I never thought this post would generate this kinda response..... anyway, i am glad this one ended without a bloodbath.... anyway, would love to see a post about the relief efforts.... hopefully it'll be there in the future :)
Peace be with you!
oh my sainted aunt! i salute you kay for putting up with all this doo...lol and i thought my truckload of buttheads gaily anonymousing away on my blog was annoying...ufff...
whoa!
waiting for you to post an encouraging image of how the lovely people of this lovely country have come together to help each other.
p.s. good luck with the "war of the blogs"
firstly...wooow! :O:O
secondly... kay come back..!
Wish all of you in Pakistan are able to tide over this tragedy.
Your blog is very different and it rocks.
Regards
great work! i wouldnt have known or understood anything about the country next door, even though i have a fascination for it, if it hadnt been for your blog. seriously, i dont think anyone would know what kind of an image people in india have about pakistan. i wasnt ready to believe anything easily, because i just wasnt convinced about people being mean and evil without any reason. your blog just gives me an eye into the country and the people. i mean to say, although i didnt accept those things about pakistan, i didnt have anything else to rely on, and the only other glimpses i caught of it, was either in junoon videos or strings' videos, but one google search turned things around, and the entire day i have been scanning through your blog!!
loved every bit of your blog! and i have been inspired to make one of my own! i think im really bad would love if could get a bit of technical assistant,
your neighbour,
divya, from bombay
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