PAKISTAN TIMES ANNUAL 1948 15TH AUGUST – QUAID’S FOREWORD AND CHUGHTAI ART

PAKISTAN TIMES ANNUAL 1948 15TH AUGUST
QUAID’S FOREWORD AND CHUGHTAI ART

Pakistan Times 1948 Cover Chughtai Art
Pakistan Times 1948 Cover Chughtai Art

A painting of the ‘Calligrapher’ on the cover and an earlier version of the etching Mujahid inside, the Pakistan Times annual of 15th August, 1948 was well represented with the Art of Abdur Rahman Chughtai. The very same day Pakistan Postal Stamp Office released the first Pakistani Postal Stamp with a design made by M.A. Rahman Chughtai. It was an international prize winner.

Pakistan Times Annual 15th August 1948
Pakistan Times Annual 15th August 1948

Quaid-e-Azam’s familiarity with Abdur Rahman Chughtai gets established with incidents here and there. The first was the attempt at flag designing for which the artist sent many designs of Pakistani flags to Delhi for inspection of the Quaid-e-Azam. Liaquat Ali Khan was conducting the selection. The many designs for the FIRST POSTAL STAMPS were selected by the Quaid-e- Azam himself, but as there were no finances to print all of them at that moment, one was actually selected for printing. It was judged as one of the four most beautiful stamps of the wold by International Postal Union Berne. Interesting the Union had a Chughtai painting hanging in their headquarters at Berne.

First Cover 1948
First Cover 1948

This Pakistan Times Annual was printed in the life time of the Quaid and he was sent a copy on priority basis. He also wrote a foreword to it. We reproduce the cover of the Annual as well as the Foreword of the Quaid here. A rare image anywhere. The new country was reacting to the presence by declaration of Chughtai as Musawwar e Mashriq and the National Artist of Pakistan. To this day he stands alone as an icon in the hall mark of Pakistani paintings.

First postal stamp 1948
First postal stamp 1948

WESTERN HEARTS ACHING TO PROVE QURAN FAKE

WESTERN HEARTS ACHING TO PROVE QURAN FAKE
THE SANA’A MOSQUE YEMEN FRAGMENTS 646 AD, 661 AD, or 671 AD

Allah’s promise that this text will remain intact

Sanai Quranic fragments 1st century
Sanai Quranic fragments 1st century

In 1972 renovation of the Great Mosque at Sana’a in Yemen, uncovered some Quranic manuscripts. Carbon dating revealed them to be of either 646 AD, 661 AD and definitely 671 AD. The Government of Germany appointed Gerd Puin on the restoration project, which was later picked up by his wife Elizabeth Puin. Elizabeth Puin made the startling remark teeming with bigotry:

Blood of Hazrat Usman on Quran
Blood of Hazrat Usman on Quran

“So many Muslims have this belief that everything between the two covers of the Qur’an is Allah’s unaltered word. They like to quote the textual work that shows that the Bible has a history and did not fall straight out of the sky, but until now the Qur’an has been out of this discussion. The only way to break through this wall is to prove that the Qur’an has a history too. The Sana’a fragments will help us accomplish this.”

The upper text is standard Quran, the lower erased text is slightly different at places. The restorer have enhanced the lower erased text to spotlight that might be the correct version of same. What a shame of analysis? Let us talk of our own life as students. We were instructed to copy texts from books and often made mistakes as students. Our teachers asked us to correct same and we used an ERASER RUBBER to erase and write anew. Meaning very simply that copied is wrong and it was erased. Or that we did not have access to the right writing. The best rejection of this is that the Upper writing is the standard text, the erased writing is not. What does it say? Simply wrong copying of not all of it, just a few notes here and there. Corrected there and then. What has the history of the Quran to do with with it?

Quran of Hazrat Usman
Quran of Hazrat Usman

A student writing an alphabet something jumbles words, make mistakes of sequences, and so on. The corrected version is over written. Are we to refer the corrected version or the ones written by mistake for some reasons. Such bigotry only the Western mind can conceive, after being humiliated about the text of their Bibles and their Torahs all the time.

In last 1400 years scholarship of the world has tried their best to prove the faults in the writing of the Quran. The story is simple. Allah has promised that this time the sacred text will remain intact till the day of the Eternity itself. For that reason Allah compiled the Quran in such a way that it could be easily learnt by heart. That is why we have Hafiz ul Qurans who learnt it by rote for its preservation. Hazrat Umar had sensed all this and made 500 Qaris Hafiz ul Qurans and sent them to separate corners of the world, and that has let the Quran remain intact to this day and forever. A slap on the face of bigotry of this so called false scholarship of the world.

HINDU BRITISH RIOT IN LAHORE – HENRY LAWRENCE IN ACTION 1846

HINDU BRITISH RIOT IN LAHORE
HENRY LAWRENCE IN ACTION 1846

Brahman Dutt hanged to death

Lahore and cows ever there
Lahore and cows ever there

It would be like other days as on 21st April, 1846 at about 11 am. Nothing unusual was expected. A camel caravan from Ferozepur, with ammunition, was outside one of the Gates of Lahore. There were some cows blocking their way. A British sentry tried to move the cows away, but they were not budging from their stance. Instead of the butt of his gun, he used the bayonet side, and injured three cows in the process. A riot started in Lahore in 1846.

Sacred cow
Sacred cow

 

Sir Henry Lawrence was the British Government Agent at Lahore. Henry Lawrence was taken by surprise. He wanted to control the situation, realizing that a little mishandling could go wrong in a long way. He found out about the three owners and visited the house of each of the Hindus, to offer regrets for the injury sustained by the cows and promised punishment to the European sentry involved in the incident.

Imperial soldier
Imperial soldier

As Henry Lawrence along with his colleagues (Major McGregor and Lt Edwardes) were there at the house of one of the owners, brick bating started at them from Hindu houses. A crowd had followed them to their journey to the houses, and a riot and scuffle had started with their group, with the Brahmans and the Khatrees. Shops were closed in the streets. The three Brahmans involved were picked up by the police and the fear was that they would commit suicide, as they threatened same. So immediate flogging was not possible. All three were taken out of the city. In the run their leader Dutt Brahman was executed for causing head injury to Lt Edwardes, colleague of Henry Lawrence.

British soldiers
British soldiers

Sir Henry Lawrence recognized the religious fanaticism which was taking place, and the British did what the did best, over react to a situation, to prevent re-occurrence of same in any further incident. In the past few ‘kind words’ would appease the people but the circumstances were different now. The plan to annex Lahore was on the anvil. Sir Lawrence noted the zealous divide between Hindus and Mohammedans, and knew that Sikhs very strongly supported the Hindus. So the balance had to be created. And this incident led to other incident of the cow riots of Lahore, where the Hindus went on a rampage and murdered some butchers of the city. That we have already told before this.

Rare image of Lawrence and Edwardes
Rare image of Lawrence and Edwardes

LAST DAYS OF QUAID-E-AZAM – HALWA PURI, ANTIBIOTICS AND COLONEL ELAHI BAKSH

LAST DAYS OF QUAID-E-AZAM
HALWA PURI, ANTIBIOTICS AND COLONEL ELAHI BAKSH

Expediting death so that constitution would be unfinished

Everyone has heard of Colonel Elahi Baksh, the Doctor who treated Quaid-e-Azam in his last days. We knew a little more, for his youngest son studied with us in school. Colonel Elahi Baksh put the last days of our beloved leader in a book form and it is a record of its time.

Last photograph
Last photograph

One interesting thing you read the book is that in his last days, the Quaid was yearning to eat some HALWA, and late on partook both Halwa and Puri. He had asked the permission of Colonel Elahi Baksh and the doctor gave it, and found the Quaid very happy after he took the sweet meat of our region. Usually Maulvis are famous for their yearning for Halwa, and it comes as a surprise that our Quaid loved Halwa too. Of course we all take Halwa Puri at one time or the other, and there is nothing new here.

What is more of study is a simple question: Why were Antibiotics not given to the Quaid? Yes, antibiotics were discovered in World War II and Pencillin was in rage. It was in use in Delhi in 1946 (stored in refrigerators and sold in thermos to be used as injections). In Lahore too we dreaded Pencillin injections. The syringe used to be so big, and boiled in boiling water, and then piercing our skin, to bring tears in our eyes. But it was there, and it did cure infections. And tuberclosis was an easily treated infection even at that time if antibiotics had been put to use. The best doctors were treating the Quaid, including a specialist American doctor. Why were they hesitant to recommend treatment of antibiotics for the Quaid? Here we sense a conspiracy we knew all along. The death of Quaid was being expedited so that the Constitution he was writing, would not be passed in the Assembly. Begum Shahnawaz in her book has clearly pointed out that there existed besides the bed stand of the Quaid, a manuscript copy of the Constitution. THEN SOMEONE DISAPPEARED IT AN IT WAS NOT FOUND. People suspect that some foreign lobbies were responsible for stealing his draft of the future Pakistan.

Unfortunately no one recovers our past. For no one cares about the future. The present suits everybody, as exploitation of Pakistan by malignant Pakistanis go on and on. When will it stop?

Funeral of Quaid e Azam
Funeral of Quaid e Azam

A RUTHLESS WAR OF INDIA PAKISTAN 1965 – A MEANINGLESS TASHKENT DECLARATION

A RUTHLESS WAR OF INDIA PAKISTAN 1965
A MEANINGLESS TASHKENT DECLARATION

The World pitted against Pakistan

THE FAMOUS TASHKENT DECLARATION READY TO BE READ NOW
THE FAMOUS TASHKENT DECLARATION READY TO BE READ NOW

Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto made political hay. The foreign minister of Pakistan, who used to call Field Marshal Ayub Khan, ‘Daddy’, saw an opportunity to cash in. Aided by the foreign lobbies, he started the tirade of the secret of the ‘Tashkent Declaration’. In every interview, in every speech, he used to speak about the betrayal at Tashkent and how he would eventually reveal it. HE NEVER DID. But he gained momentum with innuendos thrown to gullible masses of people. The most benevolent ruler of Pakistan after Quaid-e-Azam was called a ‘kuta’ by the masses. Kuta of course means a dog, and that honourable man felt remorse, and offered his resignation. The honourable way out taught to him by his code of life.

Shastri died of happiness
Shastri died of happiness

Negotiations under the gun of the super powers, overwhelmed Lal Bahadur Shastri, and he actually died of happiness there. President Ayub of course came back to be subject of a shameful tirade against him by his own Foreign Minister. It is often said that he was carried away by the remarks of Indira Gandhi, Prime Minister of India, ‘Why Bhutto Sahib, only Prime Minister of Pakistan, why not India itself?’ It choked Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto in the ambition of the possible by sacrifice of ideals. The funny part is that we had seen both President Ayub Khan as well as Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto at our own house, and knew much better.

Ayub and Shastri secret talks
Ayub and Shastri secret talks

For those who have not seen the Tashkent declaration, we present here a view of same. Enjoy it! Find the secrets in it. And see the photographs of behind the scenes talk between two leaders of their masses. Ambassador S.K. Dehlavi met me in Bonn at dinner and we talked of the Tashkent declaration. He told me how he was present at the meeting between American President John Kennedy and the President Ayub Khan, and how Kennedy had promised not to supply arms to India. And very precisely Kennedy did the same, and Ayub Khan, the honourable could not believe, that Kennedy would relegate on his own promise. Qudratullah Shahab wrote about the same, and puppets of foreign lobbies are trying to disgrace Qudratullah Shahab even today.

Will the War of 2014 bring in something like a ‘BEIJING AGREEMENT’, where China will intercede, or will it be a totally bloody thing, wiping civilization from this part of the world. With the erasure of India and Pakistan, one thing is sure. Muslims do exist in quite a number at other parts of the world, it is the poor Hindus who will suffer most. The Butcher of Gujarat in his attempt to wipe out Muslims, may in the end wipe out his own civilization in one stroke. That is the Law of Mukufat of the Quran, we all know so well.

THE INVASION OF LAHORE 1965 – THE INVASION OF LAHORE 2014?

THE INVASION OF LAHORE 1965
THE INVASION OF LAHORE 2014?

Cold Start War doctrine and motivation

Punjab Regiment Officers
Punjab Regiment Officers

The history of Lahore had seen many wars. We recalled an attack on Lahore in 1059 by the combined Hindu strength of Rajas. The Ghaznavid Army was here but Sultan Masood was not in town. The People of Lahore stood their ground and although many fell in the siege of Lahore, Lahore survived and it this victory that is still remembered by the extant mazar of the Shaheeds in Lahore, called Ganj Shaheedan. The 1965 war was similar in many ways., A surprise attack was launched on Lahore, and the war revolved around the KANGRI PULL, or the BRIDGE OF THE PROSTITUTE. This is the same bridge where Ranjit Singh on returning from victory from Amritsar met Moran, the femme fatale of his life. In radio broadcasts of that time the name of the ‘Kanjri pull’ came again and again. It was people like Major Aziz Bhatti who held the enemies at bay, and destroyed the General Chaudry’s proud assertion of drinking at Lahore Gymkhana. The plan ruined finally.

Allah o Akbar!
Allah o Akbar!

This time the plan is in motion again. The butcher of Gujarat, if elected, plans to take over the country and for that Lahore is a must for their design. This time it is said that the war will be fought NOT ON KANJRI PULL but on the METRO BUS TRACK, where the enemy tanks will run to quell Lahore. The dream is that Lahore will wake up one day to be an enslaved city . I am sure that the Army who blew up the ‘Kanjri pull’ once, will have to blow up the Metro bus track too, for the safety of Lahore. Yes, it is all possible, and just read between the lines in any news broadcast, and you will see that the think tank donkeys of the world are braying about the demise of Pakistan.

Records records!
Records records!

Just what saves Pakistan all the time? Ask anyone on the street and they say the same thing. We are protected by Allah. It is only due to Allah that Pakistan is still in existence. It is a belief which does not go away. It is futile to say that we have stopped following Allah. People believe that Allah will never desert us. And that belief gives us one UNCONDITIONAL EDGE OVER ADVERSARY. MOTIVATION. And that motivation makes us know fully that a death for the sake of the country does not go unrewarded. We call that SHAHADAT and that is part of JEHAD of life. Jehad the most beautiful expression of need to help all others in need. A jehad which brought Muhammed bin Qasim here, and a Jehad which will drive General Raheel Shareef to become the hero of all times. Captain Shabbir Syed will be truly proud of him. And yes I did buck Shabbir when he won all the races for Munster House at Saint Anthony’s High School Lahore.

Lame excuses sour grapes...
Lame excuses sour grapes…

A GHAZNAVID EVIL EYE IN LAHORE – PROTECTING COINS OF SULTAN IBRAHEEM GHAZNAVI

A GHAZNAVID EVIL EYE IN LAHORE
PROTECTING COINS OF SULTAN IBRAHEEM GHAZNAVI

Turkish talisman in Lahore

Evil Eye of Lahore
Evil Eye of Lahore

There are channels on TV and you see some of them carrying archaeological news all the time. A couple of bricks are discovered and it makes national news. A host of people sifting through the dirt, working at theories, old maps, old books and coming up with vague conclusions. It is like a lust for old times. Here in Lahore, something is discovered, it is covered up quickly, lest someone finds out and puts the owner to host of pains. It reminds me of accidents in Lahore, before Pervaiz Elahi started the 1122 emergency service. An accident in Lahore meant sure death, because no one was willing to take the risk of police badgering them. Somebody helps and that somebody got it for questioning him as the original suspect. Really Pervaiz Elahi deserves heaven for just this venture. I hope someone comes up with clauses in the business chat room called a National Assembly in Pakistan, to devise ways to protect heritage here. A totally disregarded field in Pakistan. The whole system of provision of water for the Shalimar Gardens was destroyed for some needless road. Our bureaucracy is like this that it is very possible that one day someone gets the idea that the Badshahi Mosque is of too old a design and get a new one built made by some Japanese architect, of course with a Japanese garden and cactus trees. Nobody better in India too, where they do the same things. The Bagh of Roshan Ara was being planned to be replaced by a Japanese Garden. The Mughal Gardens of Pakistan Memorial were removed for a Japanese Garden. Yes, people here are ruthless towards heritage. The Hindus plan to demolish 5000 mosques in India, regardless of historical content. And yes, the Taj Mahal is a Mandir of old times, and should be made a Mandir again. Just Google and check what we are saying and you will find it a correct assessment of the futility of heritage here in the region.

That is when we discovered an ancient EVIL EYE of Turkish origin sitting over some coins of Sultan Ibraheem Ghaznavi (obviously 30 feet down the earth level of Lahore), we were really amazed at the protection afforded by the Talisman. A thousand years it had kept the small trove of coins safe and sound. Amazing! I do not believe in any Talisman but it is proving interesting. A lot of Good luck is being generated, so what the hell! Relax and enjoy the irrationality of it all. And pray for an EVIL EYE to safeguard Pakistan too!

Modern evil eye of Turkey
Modern evil eye of Turkey

WHY RUSSIA FELL? HOW RUSSIA SPRUNG AGAIN?

WHY RUSSIA FELL?
HOW RUSSIA SPRUNG AGAIN?

Secrets we do not know

Soil degradation
Soil degradation

A comment has been posted on the bigotry of Aurangzeb Alamgeer that the decline of the Mughal Empire was due to him. Now let us step aside from this cliche and talk about other civilizations. Thousands of civilizations sprang up in the world, power without end, and then they tumbled into oblivion. Why? In Turkey you have a recorded civilization that is 12000 years old. Gone into dust. The Pharaohs, where are they? The Romans might is still remembered and yet Rome today is like a small drop in the ocean. The British Empire, where the SUN never sank, is no more. Like a puppy dog, they try to cling to power, by being the Yes men of the American empire. The empire of Pakistan is like a smoke, ready to be blown by a dust storm. A Desert storm swept Iraq away. We are not custodians of information to know, what happened. For us the Quran is the test of life. The Quran asks us to study the rise and fall of civilizations and understand the dynamism of success and failure.

Collapse
Collapse

 

Allah promises us that Allah will never let tyranny last for a long time. Allah tells us the dynamics of destruction starts at the very first step of violation of human rights. It may take some time, but the end is surely there, and those who doubt Allah, are outside the domain of faith and Islam itself. A worthy book written by the late G.A. Pervaiz talks of the reasons for the ‘Decline of the Muslim civilization’. It is worthy to be read at any time.

Putin ended hypocrisy
Putin ended hypocrisy

Commodore Tariq Majeed wrote some years back a book entitled ‘The Global game for a new world order’. It is again worthy to be read, and for us simple minded people, boggles the imagination as to what is happening behind the scenes of the world. Tariq Majeed takes the view that Russia fell from within as the people in charge like Raisa and Mikhail Gorbachev were Jews themselves, and trained to dismantle the Empire. Even our Vice Chancellor of Punjab University has recently written a worthy book on such a kind of subject, and the poor fellow is on the radar screen of the enemies. The best part is that WE DO NOT CARRY PREJUDICE AGAINST ANYBODY IN THE WORLD. LIVE AND LET LIVE IS OUR FORMULA OF LIFE. BUT PEOPLE SHOULD LET US LIVE TOO. OR WE HAVE RIGHT TO RETALIATE. OUR DEFENSE IS OUR WAY OF LIFE. We know a lot of Jews personally and we find them, highly educated, highly cultured, full of art and music and there values are so much like ours. But the extremists are those, who do not in any way follow their own prophet Moses. In fact Moses is at times doubted by the very Jewish circles as having not even existed in reality. Researches from Harvard University tells us that all the time. But we are defenders of al the Prophets ourselves. For us Abraham, Moses and Jesus Christ are as sacred to us as their own followers. I really find the Jewish people so sweet, and yet their extremists priests are making mockery of their way of life.

Tariq Majeed thesis
Tariq Majeed thesis

It is in this perspective that we give full credit to Vladimar Putin for putting Russia back on the world map. Well done. Putin! You love your country, and even people like us, can appreciate a patriotic guy any time. And for that the charade of so called democracy has to be removed, for this democracy does not in any way represent the emotions, feelings, desires and needs of the people. Military has brought more stability to the country, than these so called democratic people.

Vladimir Putin Russia's hero
Vladimir Putin Russia’s hero

WICKED GAMES ‘BASTARDS’ PLAY – CANNOT UNDO THE SPIRIT OF PAKISTAN

WICKED GAMES ‘BASTARDS’ PLAY

CANNOT UNDO THE SPIRIT OF PAKISTAN

Progressive Islam is in our blood

Waking call
Waking call

When Angel Gabriel (positive force not understood by present state of knowledge) delivered the Quran to our Prophet Muhammed (May the peace and blessings of Allah be upon him), it was for all humankind. Allah had given the first essential of life that is FREEDOM OF CHOICE to humans, that Allah has not given to any other being. Allah even gave Man the right to rebel against Allah himself. What beauty of Allah’s personality, that we find expressed in the 99 names Allah has revealed to us. The ultimate and infinite POWER, willing to accept dissent, so that all those who follow will follow (Salat) with their free will. Al-hamd-o-llilah!

Pakistan Forever!
Pakistan Forever!

The people of Pakistan believed in Allah, and when Dr Allama Iqbal brought the renaissance, they knew what it meant. A return to the pristine qualities of Islam, by negating a thousand years of the nonsense preached by Mullahs in the name of Islam. Pakistanis rallied to the call of the Quaid-e-Azam to bring the rule of Allah down to Earth and to enlighten their lives, by erasing exploitation of man by man.

By hiring a few thousand people in Pakistan, luring them with the traditional ‘wine and women’ as well as haughtiness of power (rats wanting to feel like lions), the wicked game of foreign lobbies is to undo our dream, by instilling in us, to erase the spirit of Pakistan. People who do not know the name of their father, how can they know what loyalty and heritage is! Such cheapness, such vulgarity is as repulsive as what we feel when a lizard enters our room. Natural aversion.

Rising Crescent
Rising Crescent

These eunuchs we see strutting with big guns in bid to be men are shameless creatures, swinging like barbarians, in trying to undo civilizations. Love of our Prophet is in our veins, and who can take it out from the people of Pakistan. NO ONE AT ALL!

The resilience of Pakistan and of Pakistanis, you may have imagined, but you have not seen under stress. Each opposition makes us stronger. The Rulers are trying to starve us, but that is why we have the month of Ramazan, to test our endurance of lack of food by fasting itself. We have become the most rowdy in the traffic jungle of Pakistan, but when we bow down in front of Allah in a mosque, our line is exemplary straight. And when war is thrusted upon us as in 1965, our unity is beyond its definition itself.

Unity, Faith and Discipline may be testing us, but at the back of our minds, they are still there.

ASSASSINATION OF NAWAB BHIKARI KHAN – FLOGGED TO DEATH BY SLIPPERS OF HAREM’S LADIES

ASSASSINATION OF NAWAB BHIKARI KHAN
FLOGGED TO DEATH BY SLIPPERS OF HAREM’S LADIES

THE MOST BIZARRE REVENGE IN HISTORY

Mir Mannu Governor Lahore
Mir Mannu Governor Lahore

Nawab Muin ul Mulk (Mir Mannu) represented the last vestiges of the Mughal Empire. Then he came face to face with Ahmad Shah Abdalli and acquited himself so well, that even Ahmad Shah Abdalli acknowledging his valour, restored him as the Governor of Lahore. Under these circumtances, he became a threat to the rule of many. Nawab Bhikari Khan, who lived in Lahore and was responsible for the building of the Golden Mosque in it, was also affected by his rule. Mir Mannu was killed in Lahore. The presumed accidental death of Mir Mannu was taken as an assassination, and revenge was planned on Bhikari Khan, who was held responsible for same.

Bhikari Khans Bazaar
Bhikari Khans Bazaar

Mughlaini Begum, wife of Mir Mannu, put the infant son of Mir Mannu on the throne, and to take the revenge on Bhikari Khan, invited him to her havelli. Nawab Bhikari Khan thought of possibility of seduction and was excited by the prospects, but luring the Nawab in her havelli, Mughlaini Begum ordered the ladies (including some eunuchs) to kill the Nawab by beating him red and blue with their slippers. The most bizarre death took place, when the ladies killed the Nawab, by beating him to death. The revenge of Mughlaini Begum was completed by her strategy.

Three powers vied for the rule of Lahore. The Abdallis, the Sikhs and the Mughals. The city fell to the tyranny of the three Sikh Sirdars, and leading further to the rule of the dacoit from Gujranawalla, Ranjit Singh. Adina Beg Khan could have saved the day, but busy in his intrigues, he lost a chance to change history of the Punjab. But that is really another story.

Golden Mosque Lahore
Golden Mosque Lahore