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A NEW CONCEPT OF RULE BY PEOPLE – YES, NO GOVERNMENT AT ALL

A NEW CONCEPT OF RULE BY PEOPLE
YES, NO GOVERNMENT AT ALL

OBVIOUSLY BETTER THAN THIS ANARCHY RIGHT NOW

Barter trade
Barter trade

The hype of rule by people is a mumbo jumbo which can be stopped and the next logical step is actual rule of the people. Yes, No Government at all. Everybody doing things on their own. Trading by barter or by precious materials, or even by labour itself. A return to basics in life. There will be more equality, more emancipation here, than anywhere else. Let the Army be an entity in itself, defending the borders against foreign invasions, living in their own areas, free from the fret of democratic rule gone berserk.

Short Solutions
Short Solutions

If disagreement prevails, people will take care of it themselves. Let them do it by reconciliation or let them fight it to the logical end. Instead of involving the Police force, with its countless corruption possibilities and the Courts with rapacious appetites for disorder and delay, things will be solved in minutes or hours or days. Perhaps even the ritual of manly duels will come alive again. Sword fighting on the Mall road, or a Six Gun shoot out at noon to better the fastest gunfighter of the traditional Cowboy Western world.

Planting in our lawns
Planting in our lawns

The walls of our house will get higher. We will be planting vegetables in our lawns. Raising poultry for ourselves and sacrificing animals whenever we can find them. We will become so healthy that we will be able to dispense with many medicines and health will return to us. Pure food will be ours to take instead of the adulterated food, which includes donkey meat fed to us.

Donkey meat no longer
Donkey meat no longer

Horses and Carriages would make a come back in a big way. No pollution, global warming will even go away. Need for Speed will be gone. Everything done well, diligently. Time to know the neighbours. Make friends. Drink healthy drinks. An Ideal life would be back. Hard work will take the place of cut throat competition. Good will shops will be restored. Reputations will come back for honesty.

Tongas be back
Tongas be back

Nothing will be perfect. But is our life today perfect under the total harassment of our governments, who think of us as insects to squashed under their feet. Yes, Ideas are good for options to come to our minds.

THE ZEAL OF MISSIONARY JOHN LIVINGSTON NEVIUS – ATTEMPTING TO CONVERT CHINA INTO CHRISTIANITY

THE ZEAL OF MISSIONARY JOHN LIVINGSTON NEVIUS
ATTEMPTING TO CONVERT CHINA INTO CHRISTIANITY

A Misdsionary touring China
A Misdsionary touring China

CHAIRMAN MAO TSE TUNG COMMUNISM WON IN END

John Livingston Nevius
John Livingston Nevius

It is really creditable that missionaries swept the world to convert them to Christianity. Civilizations which had no concept of this religion were exposed to these ideas through use of their own cultural initiatives. I do not know how many John Livingston Nevius converted to Christianity in China, but certainly he tried in very telling circumstances. Their best method was to work with the poorest and most deprived classes of any society and treating them so well, that they would think of these missionaries as angels (or gods) from heaven itself.

Impressing the Chinese
Impressing the Chinese

In 40 years of his various stays in China, Dr Nevius started Sunday Services, Bible classes and whatever he could. Conversions there were not many! On 4th March, 1878, a boy who had studied in their school for ten years, converted to Christianity at age of 26 years. His name was Liu Mao-Lin, and it was considered a great achievement by the Nevius couple, both husband and wife. Others may have followed this conversion. By about 1889 Dr Nevius had gone back and even toured the United States. The Monastery culture of the Chinese was too strong for the Christian missionaries.

Converting poor Chinese boys
Converting poor Chinese boys

The English had also introduced opium into China and whole of China went into slumber of laziness. It was then the long March of Chairman Mao Tse Tung and his revolutionary policies which swept China and made it the power it is as today. One of the oldest civilizations of the world regaining their glory in the newer world by strategies which have dazzled the opposition in the world. In fact it was often said that the Quran itself was the guideline Chairman Mao was working on and people hoped that China would weave some connection to Islam itself. The friendship of China and Pakistan is one such venue for the future.

ART REVOLUTION IN IRAN – BILLBOARDS IN TEHRAN HIGHLIGHT ART MASTERPIECES

ART REVOLUTION IN IRAN
BILLBOARDS IN TEHRAN HIGHLIGHT ART MASTERPIECES

BRINGING SHAME TO OUR OFFICIALS FOR ART NEGLECT

Art everywhere
Art everywhere

The Art anarchy in the Muslim World today ha become phenomenal. Promoted by Caliphs, Sultans and Emperors and later by Presidents and Prim Ministers, today the Islamic World of Art is playing less and less emphasis on the Arts. Surrounded by jesters painting doomsday scenarios all the time, no room is left for building up the sensitive citizen. That is why the bold step by the Mayor of Tehran in replacing most of the billboards in the capital city with works of Art from all over the world is a phenomenal development in itself. And that not only to promote Persian traditional and modern art but to give air to all the outstanding artists is really commendable. I salute the Mayor of Tehran for this venture!

Art Galore in Iran
Art Galore in Iran

What more I can say? I wish we learn something from this for our own harassed citizens and the governmental role in making us zombies galore of all times.

Tehrans Art billboards
Tehrans Art billboards
Persian Art billboard
Persian Art billboard

ACTIVATED BALOCHISTAN GAMES ON AGAIN – INCIDENTS AND MEDIA TO CLOUD TRUTH

ACTIVATED BALOCHISTAN GAMES ON AGAIN
INCIDENTS AND MEDIA TO CLOUD TRUTH

A new game changer Chinese Secret Service MSS

Ancient Chinese badge
Ancient Chinese badge

Every day we hear of many Secret Services. Most common names we hear are CIA, MI 5, BENZONAURO, KGB (now FSS ), RAW, NATOs and countless others. Have we ever heard of Chinese Secret Service? Never ever mentioned but it is there, isn’t it. We see Chinese efficiency when they bring down an American Spy plane which landed from the sky? Forced to land in China, they released the crew, but not the plane. A Chinese Jet fighter I think lost his life by doing the same. Yes, we hear of the success stories.

Close relations established recently to make Gwadar a center of the Chinese corridor has sent jitters all over the world. Certainly newer and newer incidents will be reported and the hackneyed social media will spin their hearts out, not necessarily the truth in any way. Get this straight, the Chinese Secret Service is there, very much here, and now much more active. Put this as two and two makes four. Safety of such high investment requires looking into foolish Don Quixotes chasing the Windmill of Balochistan.

Chinese_Department_of_National_Security
Chinese_Department_of_National_Security

So more you hear, take it with a pinch of salt. Balochistan is Pakistan and no heaven on Earth can shake it away from us. This easy package of Visas, Scholarships, donations, support, no longer enough to diffuse the emotions of patriotic Balochs. Their future is about to be changed forever.

In China known as “Zhongnanhai Baobiao” ,which means “The Bodyguards from Red Palace”, they are referred as MSS, MINISTRY OF STATE SECURITY. Joining hand with our agencies, nothing can defeat these sons of soil; not all the conspiracies in the world. Incidents have been activated, so are our own guys. Beware the rage of patriots against paid agents of the world, posing as human rights activists. The face of the enemy will be rubbed in their own crap soon.

TRIBUTES TO QUAID E AZAM 1940 – ON HIS 65TH BIRTHDAY

TRIBUTES TO QUAID E AZAM 1940

Barakat Ali's tribute
Barakat Ali’s tribute

ON HIS 65TH BIRTHDAY

Hyat Khan's tribute
Hyat Khan’s tribute

Three Lahori’s pay their respects

Zafar Khan's tribute
Zafar Khan’s tribute

We came across a small booklet printed rarely in small numbers with tributes of various leaders to Quaid e Azam on his 65th birthday. We do not know how common or uncommon the same is in archives. So we decided to share three views of persons from Lahore on the personality of the Quaid e Azam. There are many more. We will see what we can add. Till then enjoy these gems from our history.

THE SURVIVAL OF PAKISTAN IS NOT AT STAKE – CRISIS AFTER CRISIS HAS QUESTIONED OUR SANITY

THE SURVIVAL OF PAKISTAN IS NOT AT STAKE
CRISIS AFTER CRISIS HAS QUESTIONED OUR SANITY

The distress of the citizens of Pakistan

Feeding the poor
Feeding the poor

Can you imagine what every Pakistani feels? Forget about those whose father and forefathers were nurtured by foreign lobbies. Forget those who lick the boots of foreign lobbies. Think of those from whom the Pakistani Idea never went out of favour. It is difficult for them to even survive. To nurture their families, to pay their utility bills, or indulge in even financially free games. You have gradually deprived a large segment of the society everything. And now you want to take even God way from them.

Dr Allama Iqbal cannot be contained. So you created meaningless organizations to confuse the world even further. A journalist continues to rave meaninglessly that we have to outgrow Dr Allama Iqbal to move forward. But who was Dr Allama Iqbal? Merely a voice of our Islamic Ideals. Allah who taught us egalitarianism and Dr Allama Iqbal who even in simple language tells us to think of the poor. And how many rich people of ours think of the poor in their twenty four hours period? To mock them as they buzz the streets in their Land Cruisers, shop at exclusive arcades, get their faces pruned regularly at parlours, or dine in artificial surroundings? The difference between rich and poor is now at bursting point of multiple revolutions. But revolutions are sprung by FORCE. Latoan kay bhoot batoan say nahin mantay.

Unity, Faith and Discipline. Just watch the traffic anywhere. Like a fully mad person, lunatic under any account, is trying to outpace everyone else in a race, which leads nowhere but death and hospital,. Why hurry to go there? There is madness to it? The fringe of unreality. Unbelievable. But then it comes to my mind? The whole race was never perfected. Few people were, and they were leaders. And those leaders set the pace for learning. Where are our leaders? Morons of the worst kind, who are criminals mostly. What concern do they have for the people of their country, les of the world. And Allah is bearing all this with patience. To teach us something! If we learn we are the saviours of tomorrow, of mankind itself. If we don’t, hell awaits us here as well as in the next world.

Thirsty bird
Thirsty bird

Tactics work differently at different places. The whole world is a powder keg that which we do not care will flash into nothingness. But we are not doomsday scenario prediction makers. We are the NATION BUILDERS. We love to see children playing wonderful games, not adults at money making tactics. We love to feed the hungry. Even the animals. It is so satisfying to put water in a bowl and see a hungry bird drink it. The bird is praying for us, for our sanity. To help a deprived family, meet their needs for the day. These are the satisfactions no money can ever buy. It makes us closer to Allah. It gives us happiness today and tomorrow. To do for others, we are doing for our nation. Allah blesses us plenty!

WOULD YOU ALLOW YOUR SON TO INTERMINGLE – WITH A NAKED HOMOSEXUAL IN DELHI CROSSING ALL LEVELS OF DECENCY

WOULD YOU ALLOW YOUR SON TO INTERMINGLE,
WITH A NAKED HOMOSEXUAL IN DELHI CROSSING ALL LEVELS OF DECENCY

Reason for our throw back
Reason for our throw back

The story of Said Sarmad Kashani the Armenian Jew

Naive low IQ people
Naive low IQ people

We have little knowledge about Sarmad Kashani. Suffice that he was a merchant from Armenia and he travelled to Hindustan, and came to the city of Lahore. Writers write about him having a place near the Badshahi Mosque Lahore, not realizing that there was no Badshahi mosque at that time. From there he once travelled to Thatta and fell in love with a Hindu boy Abhai Chand. In his passion for the boy, he started roaming around naked (flashing in modern terms). In today’s America he would be charged for sexual harassment, and sent to a long term jail spell. Here he started growing his hair, to give himself a wild look. In a contemporary miniature we find a bullish over grown barbarian. But the real thing is that he ridiculed religion. He made fun of all religions here, including mocking our sacred KALMA. I was surprised to hear from someone that he was the second high profile freemason to come to India. Abu Fazl was the first one. Their aim was to destroy faith here and they came in garb of being saints. Only a LOW IQ region like ours could accept such a depraved man as a Saint. His diwan is full of homoerotic verses (it is said that there are 321 Persian rubaiyyats) in praise of his lover boy. Obviously there could not be one alone. A trail of homosexuality was behind him.

Sarmad eyeing Dara Shikoh
Sarmad eyeing Dara Shikoh

But the danger was much greater. His attempt was to seduce Dara Shikoh himself and the Royal Court felt the threat of this happening. Today besides low IQ depraved people, so called civilized highly educated people try to seek meaning in this meaningless PERSON. He personified Satan and that was his mission. It is to the credit of Emperor Aurangzeb that he sent the case of Sarmad LONDAY BAZ to the Courts and had him tried. The foolish people think of him as a Shaheed, which he was not. It is people like these who come and mock our WAY OF LIFE and we end up making these ZEROS our HEROS. In his own words, he said that he doubted Allah’s existence, and yet we are happy to send him to heaven ourselves. Enough of this mockery, let us call a spade a spade. Here a perverted person, spreading his perversion in our region. Thanks Allah that men of intelligence were there at that time, and showed him his place in history. I am told that a secret society nurtures his grave to this day. Certainly a Shaheed for them!

AERATED WATER COMES TO LAHORE – NABI BAKSH DEHLAVI FACTORY 1851

AERATED WATER COMES TO LAHORE
NABI BAKSH DEHLAVI FACTORY 1851

Lemonade good for digestion

Lahori Aerated bottle
Lahori Aerated bottle

Every day we see advertisements on our media. Girls and boys frolicking over a bottle of Pepsi and Coca Cola. But they were not always there. An obscure advertisement in the newspaper Kohinoor Lahore of 1851 tells us that Nabi Baksh of Calcutta, had come from Delhi with an aerated bottle factory and ready to sell lemonade in Lahore. Very simple news. Who could have imagined the end results? The funny thing is that the factory was of Muslim origin and the Hindu population refused to partake this aerate water of the Muslims., Can you believe that?

Star Aerated Bottle
Star Aerated Bottle

The earliest aerated water in Lahore as we remember was the one sold by beverage shop in the bazaar of Hira Mandi. It is sold to this day. Not only was it good for digestion, it was also used to mix with locally made alcoholic drinks. Drinks and prostitution went hand in hand. To those who regularly visited Karachi, Pakola could be found there. A long time back Coca Cola found its way into Lahore. The bottle was for 5 annas each. Then Seven-up came to Lahore and was much loved by the city guys. Digestion made easy with them, for all these drinks brought burps to the drinker easily. In fact Lahoris were very suspicious at that time that a few drops of alcohol had been introduced in every bottle of Coke. That was common sense then. Nobody denied that.

Coca Cola Pakistan
Coca Cola Pakistan
Coca Cola Ads
Coca Cola Ads

But where aerated water was concerned, there was need for Iced bottles too! When did ice come to Lahore? It is reputed that Ranjit Singh used to get carts laden with ice all the way from Kashmeer. The icepits were situated in a large ground near Training College Lahore. The method of freezing some ice was to lay kiaris on which a layer of rustic straw was spread. Then pans of burnt clay were placed, all leading to some freezing of ice during the night. This ice collected used to be sold. Then in 1870s a regular machine factory was installed to make artificial ice but also at the same place. Then the same was shifted to the ground opposite the Commercial Buildings in Lahore. Regular market for same particularly in summer. Today traditional barf khanas are at many places in the city but one of the oldest was opposite Mochi Gate Lahore. Ice cream also started with these barf khanas and one of the oldest was SNOW FLAKE in Lahore. All in all, the history of Lahore is worthy of being recorded for the future.

Oldest type of Ads
Oldest type of Ads

THE BACKGROUND OF GENERAL POST OFFICE LAHORE – WHEN, WHO AND WHAT? UNANSWERED QUESTIONS

THE BACKGROUND OF GENERAL POST OFFICE LAHORE
WHEN, WHO AND WHAT? UNANSWERED QUESTIONS

The Architect M. Starmer Hack of London and Bombay

GPO
GPO

It is usually heard in circles that the GPO Lahore was designed by Sir Ganga Ram and completed in 1887. Fine, but is that all to it? If we look at the History of Lahore by Judge Latif, he has this to say about the GPO Lahore, that is in 1892:

Starmer Hack Architect
Starmer Hack Architect

“The General Post Office is in Anarkali near the Museum. It was built in 1849, but considerable additions have been made to it since. There are three branch Post Offices.”

It may be kept in mind that he is not talking of the present GPO at all. Old views exist of the Post Office. Then we have a design published in the magazine ARCHITECTURAL in 1902 and it is worthy of note too. It says design for the new entrance to the GPO Lahore by none other than by Mr M. Starmer Hack of London and Bombay. It has intricate designs in it. Was this merely a design idea that never came into being? Or was the design modified with time. We do not know. But it is worthy of being researched. It is fashionable to attribute everything in Lahore to Sir Ganga Ram and Bhai Ram Singh. Is that really so, or we are merely paying lip service to a Hindu and a Sikh person, to discredit all others who contributed to Lahore, too. It is not for us to judge. Find out!

GPO Lahore 1900s
GPO Lahore 1900s

The writer of NUQOOSH LAHORE has more to say. He says the Post Office existed near the Lahore Museum (a barrack sort of building) along with the bungalow of the Post Master General. And straight way tells us that the present GPO was constructed in 1912. It was constructed under the guidance of Director Telegraph himself. No mention of who designed it? Although we see a 1902 design by M. Starmer Hack which looks very much like the present GPO. We get more clarification from the Lahore Gazetteer itself, which tells us in 1916, that the building was completed in 1904 and occupied by the Post Office the same year. This shows us that the 1902 design by M. Starmer Hack was there and modified into the new building. The case rests on is own merit.

Another old view
Another old view

Our problem is that we are not research oriented nation. Whatever is fed to us, we gulp it down, uncensored, un-moved by other conflicting claims. As said before, research is required before we make claims about anything at all.