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Free WIFIs but No Benches to Sit

7/1/2017

Free WIFIs but no benches to sit in Islamabad:

(Naqash Munir, Islamabad: 2017)

Recently Capital Development Authority (CDA) Member Administration Yasir Pirzada said that Free WIFIs, and facilitation desks at entry and exit points of Islamabad would be established to facilitate the visitors from the other cities.

Installation of public WIFIs and facilitations desks for the general public is a good step. However in the city of Islamabad, public benches and trash bins are almost none at the most needed parts of the city. Generally public parks are located in the far sites and are normally accessed through some sort of transport. It is not necessary that a person will take a sit in a public park only.

A person who prefers to walk generally needs to take a break at some point of his/her walk and use a trash bin supposedly.

Cities become beautiful and better when the general public is facilitated with the most basic needs and requirements. Having provided public benches, trash bins and better shade to the people will empower societal responsibilities of the general public and promote social etiquette as well.

Therefore, to facilitate the visitors and locals is to first provide sitting benches, trash bins and better shade where people can make use of the WIFIs too with more comfort.

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Edhi leaves for rest 1928-2016

10/7/2016

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Abdul Sattar Edhi is nothing short of a phenomenon, an institution and a living legend. He is a world-renowned social worker who devoted his entire life to the service of mankind. His ambulances are here and there, and his clinics and homes are everywhere to help millions of people. Edhi was born in 1928 at Bantwa, Gujrat in pre-partition India. His story is truly inspiring. At the age of eleven his mother paralyzed. He spent his days and nights to nurse and provide full-fledged services to his mother — cleaning, bathing, changing clothes and feeding and hence he was too busy to complete his education in the school. But the very first experience of hardship and self-sacrificing service turned out to be his tutor to make him an “Angel Hero”.

He started his career as a street hawker, selling pencils and matchboxes in Karachi. Then in 1951, he opened a tiny dispensary in Karachi’s poor neighborhood of Mithadar where his priority was to give maximum help to the poor and the needy. He worked steadily and then due to his devotion, determination for philanthropy proceeded to launch a nationwide organization. Now he is the chief of a titanic organization that consists of ambulances, clinics, maternity homes, lunatic asylums, homes for the physically and mentally handicapped, blood banks, orphanages, adoption centers, mortuaries, shelters for runaway children and battered women, schools, nursing courses, soup kitchens and a cancer hospital. The entire set-up is now being smoothly run by some 7000 volunteers and a small paid staff of teachers, doctors and nurses.

In 1966 he married Bilquis, a nurse by profession in one of his dispensary. Both have had little education but strong will and altruism enabled them to run an international organization. So without an iota of doubt, Abdus Sattar Edhi is now an international social worker. He was the first individual to deliver personally medicines, food and clothing to refugees in Bosnia, Ethiopia and Afghanistan. He and the drivers of his ambulances have saved numerous lives in floods, train wrecks, civil conflicts and traffic accidents. After the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center, he donated $100,000 to Pakistanis in New York who had lost their jobs in the subsequent economic crisis.

Edhi foundation deals with emergency relief in natural disastrous such as fire, epidemics, floods and earthquake. The focus is on long-term rehabilitation of the poor in case of hunger and poverty. The foundation has an educational scheme, which deals with reading, teaching, training, pharmacy and paramedical training to the most ignored section of the society. It provides transportation facility in emergency to more than one million persons annually. On the national scale there are 250 Edhi Centers. The organization saved 20,000 abandoned babies; trained 40,000 qualified nurses and 50,000 orphans are housed in Edhi Homes. One million babies have been delivered in Edhi maternity centers. The organization has 3500 workers and thousands of volunteers have been generating its own resources from donations of people without any help of the Government. Edhi doctrine is a collective welfare program based on self-help to ameliorate and develop present institutions in Pakistan. It is really amazing that the lion’s share of the Edhi Foundation’s $10-million budget comes from private donations from individual Pakistanis inside and outside the country. The Edhi foundation refuses to take any help from the Government thereby maintaining its independence. In the 1980’s, when Pakistan’s then-President Zia-ul-Haq sent him a check for 500,000 rupees, Edhi sent it back. When the Italian government offered him a million-dollar donation, he didn’t entertain it saying “Governments set conditions that I cannot accept,” and declined to give any details.

The man with a great cause highly recognized by the world in general and Pakistan in particular was given Nishan-e-Imtiaz by the Government of Pakistan in 1989. He was recognized the world over as in 1986 he was awarded with the prestigious Magasay award by Philippines, Balzan Peace Award in 2000 by the Italian Government and a Peace Prize from U.S.S.R for the services in the Armenian earthquake disaster in 1988.

This article was last updated on Wednesday, Jan 06, 2010
on http://storyofpakistan.com/abdul-sattar-edhi

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Pakistan Sufi singer Amjad Sabri shot dead in Karachi

22/6/2016

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Pakistan Sufi singer Amjad Sabri shot dead in Karachi

One of Pakistan's most famous singers, Amjad Sabri, has been shot dead in the southern city of Karachi.
Two gunmen fired on his car in the busy Liaqatabad area, police said. Sabri died on his way to hospital. It is not yet clear who was behind the killing.

Sabri was a leading exponent of Sufi devotional music, known as Qawwali.

Sufism, a tolerant, mystical practice of Islam, has millions of followers in Pakistan - but in recent years has come under attack from Sunni extremists.

In the past, attacks on targets linked to Sufi Islam have been blamed on the Taliban who view Sufism as heretical. But no such attacks have taken place during the last couple of years, the BBC's M Ilyas Khan in Islamabad reports.

Sabri, who was among the sub-continent's top Qawwali singers, was hit by five bullets, police said. Another person, thought to be a relative, was wounded in the shooting and is said to be in a critical condition.
"It was a targeted killing and an act of terrorism," said senior police officer Muqaddas Haider, AFP news agency reports.

Pakistanis in shock again - M Ilyas Khan, BBC News, IslamabadThere have been the usual calls to identify and arrest the killers, but also voices of despair over the continued failure to end militancy in Pakistan.
Karachi has been under a military operation for more than three years, but the gunmen have shown they can still hit their targets at will.

Amjad Sabri came from a family which traces its musical links to the 17th Century court of India's Mughal empire. The family adheres to the Sabiriyah branch of Sufi Islam, hence the name Sabri. It migrated to Pakistan when India was divided in 1947, and has been based since then in Karachi.

The band led by Amjad's father, Ghulam Farid Sabri, dominated the Qawwali scene in India and Pakistan during the 1970s and 80s. Amjad himself was considered a great performer who produced both traditional and commercial music and also sang for movie soundtracks in India and Pakistan.

It is not yet clear who killed him, but he apparently presented a soft target with a wider shock value.

A blasphemy case was filed against Amjad Sabri last year after he mentioned members of the Prophet Muhammad's family in a song.
However, there is still no confirmation the shooting is related to that incident.

Pakistan's Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif condemned the attack and said the singer would be immensely missed.

BBC News,
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-36597498http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-36597498

http://official.naqashkhan.com

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Keanu Reeves said it all again

21/6/2016

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“I cannot be part of a world where men dress their wives as prostitutes by showing everything that should be cherished. Where there is no concept of honor and dignity, and one can only rely on those when they say “I promise” .

Where women do not want children, and men don’t want a family.
Where the suckers believe themselves to be successful behind the wheel of their fathers` cars, and a father who has a little bit of power is trying to prove to you that you’re a nobody.

Where people falsely declare that they believe in God with a shot of alcohol in their hand, and the lack of any understanding of their religion.
Where the concept of jealousy is considered shameful, and modesty is a disadvantage.

Where people forgot about love, but are simply looking for the best partner.

Where people repair every rustle of their car, not sparing any money or time, and themselves, they look so poor that only an expensive car can hide it.

Where the boys waste their parents money in nightclubs, aping under the primitive sounds, and girls fall in love with them for this.

Where men and women are no longer identifiable and where all this together is called freedom of choice, but for those who choose a different path-get branded as retarded despots.

I choose my path, but it’s a pity that I did not find similar understanding in the people among whom I wished to find it most of all … “
~ Keanu Reeves