JALSA EID-MILLAD-UN NABI

 

Eid Milad 2005

 

in urdu

 

'source country' for manpower

Malaysia declares Pakistan as 'source country' for manpower

 

 Malaysia has formally declared Pakistan as 'source country' for acquiring skilled and others manpower. The Federal Secretary, Labour & Manpower, Major Asif Hayat (Retd) told Business Recorder here on Wednesday that the decision in this regard was taken during the Malaysian Prime Minister's visit to Pakistan last month. He said that a Malaysian working delegation will be visiting Pakistan in April to finalise the modalities for manpower export to Malaysia as a follow-up of the declaration of Pakistan as 'source country'.

He said that general workers are required in different sectors in Malaysia. The professional people like doctors, engineers are already going there. "The main hurdle in sending general workers was non-declaration of Pakistan as 'source country by Malaysia' in the past," he added.

Asif hoped that concrete outcome would be achieved when the working group would be visiting to finalise methodology.

When asked about estimated export of manpower to Malaysia, he said that it is too early to predict anything at this stage. "The Government would only finalise the modalities in this regard. It would be private sector of Malaysia to import manpower as per their demand, he added.

On manpower export to Middle East, in view of booming construction activities, he said that these activities are mainly concentrated in Dubai, and the manpower export is more or less same, compared to past.

KSE

: The chairman and chief executive of New York Stock Exchange, Hon Thain was reported to have remarked that achievement of $40 billion market capitalization by Karachi Stock Exchange (KSE) was a significant value for an emerging capital market.
A press release issued by the KSE on Thursday, stated that the comment from the NYSE chairman came in response to information conveyed by the KSE MD, Moin M. Fudda, who attended the Annual International Exchange Globalization & Clearing Forum held at New York earlier this week.
"Mr Thain complimented KSE for outstanding performance and particularly surpassing the turnover of 1 billion shares, which he believed, was by far the highest turnover for Stock Exchange in a developing market", the pres release said.
Delegates from 32 countries attended the conference, including those from UK, Europe, Asia, Africa, Middle East and USA. MD KSE was quoted to have said that due to economic and capital market reforms including corporate governance carried out during last five years, the KSE had achieved the status of best performing market of the world.

PIA

 Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) has decided to expand its air service to China, facilitating the growing number of passengers on Islamabad-Urumqi route. The flight operation on this route will start within next couple of months. There will be one or two flights in a week and the passengers will be offered competitive fare. According to the PIA's sources in Beijing, the airline is now in a process of setting up its office in Urumqi in Xinjiang Province and making other necessary arrangements.
An agreement has been signed to expand air services between the two countries. It enabled the Civil Aviation of China (CAAC) and the PIA to increase their operation on Karachi-Islamabad, Beijing, Urumqi and Shanghai routes.
Under the agreement, the PIA is entitled to increase the maximum passenger and cargo flights to China to 14 per week from the present four per week, the approved limit.
The PIA has also been allowed to operate to Los Angeles in the West Coast of United States through China, in addition to already available route for Japan. The operation on this route is delayed, owing to non-availability of aircraft, the sources said.
The two sides have almost concluded the arrangements for facilitating their airline passengers to travel between the two countries under a code-sharing system as well.
It will be the first-ever deal of its nature in the PIA's history. By code sharing with Chinese airline, China's entire airspace would be opened for Pakistan. With one ticket or boarding card, Pakistani citizens would be able to visit several cities in China.
Similarly, the passengers of China Southern Airline will be able to travel through PIA to any of its destination in Pakistan, by using the same document.
The sources said, they are trying to implement this arrangement as soon as possible, after getting "Safety-audit" clearance from the relevant international Agency.

Techfest 2005’

 UET team wins first prize in ‘Techfest 2005’ 

 The University of Engineering and Technology (UET) Lahore won the first prize in the three-day Asian Open Software Competition ‘Techfest 2005’ held at the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay,

According to a press statement, over 200 teams from around the world participated in the competition. Renowned academia and industry giants, including IBM, judged the contest.

The UET software ‘IRTIQA’ simulates the aging effect on facial images. It can display a human face in various stages of life such as adolescence, middle-aged and old aged.

The software can be used by the police to identify missing children or by cosmetic surgeons to reconstruct faces. Hammad Sharif, Muhammad Usman Sheikh, Usman Nasir and Hafiz Atif Khan, four 2001-session students of the UET’s Computer Science and Engineering Department, comprised the winning team. Department chairman Prof Dr Shaiq A Haq supervised the team

Establish a Pak-NZ youth award

Establish a Pak-NZ youth award

A Pakistani-NZ youth award recognizes excellence amongst Pakistani-NZ youth in a specific field (i.e. Academic, religious, creative, commitment to Pakistan or the local Pakistani-NZ community). It would include not only a public recognition of the winner, but also a cash prize.

This kind of a prize provides much needed encouragement, appreciation and self-confidence to Pakistani-NZ youth, many of whom, like other ethnic minorities, often suffer from a lack of self-esteem and self-respect.

It would also be a way for youth to not only strive towards excellence in their fields of interest, but also to contribute to their local Pakistani community or even a worthy project in Pakistan.

Here's how you can arrange this award in your community:

1.Discuss the idea with like-minded Pakistanis in your community. Gage what their reaction is to it. Also, if they agree (most probably will support the idea) find out from them what subjects awards should be given for (i.e. Academic achievement, commitment to activism in the Pakistani community, etc.). Also discuss what criteria need to be met before a youth is awarded the prize, as well as how to get the cash together for the award.

Get these people to become your core group to work on this project.

2. Delegate the work between group members. There is plenty to be done. Businesses need to be contacted to sponsor the award; a list of qualifications need to be prepared; a panel of judges needs to be brought together to judge the nominations for the awards, etc. There should be at least three judges for this award and to select runners up.

3.Choose businesses to sponsor the award. These should be honest, fair and have a commitment and track record of serving the local Pakistani community. Meet with the heads of these businesses. Explain that in exchange for their monetary contribution to the award, they will receive their names on the plaque that will be given to the winner and runners up of the award. They will also develop a good reputation within the community for supporting local Pakistani-NZ youth.

4.Advertise the award in the Pakistani-NZ community. Get flyers printed with the following information:
a. the name of the award and who it's given to
b. how many runner-up prizes are also available
c. who can be nominated for the award (i.e. Up to what age, school level, grade point average, level of participation in the Pakistani-NZ community)
d. who the sponsoring organizations are
e. what entrants in the contest have to do (i.e. Does the person nominating somebody for the award have to write a letter explaining why they chose this individual? Does the person seeking the award have to write a letter of intent, etc.)
e. the deadline to submit nominations and entries
f. the date the winners will be announced

This should also be published in local newspapers, announced on radio shows and the flyers should be distributed among family, friends, acquaintances and Pakistani businesses in the city.

5.Gather a panel of judges to make the decision of who is most deserving of the award, as well as who the top five runners up are. Judges should be people known in the local Pakistani community for their activism and dedication, who are educated, well read, committed to Pakistan and fair. None of them should be related to any of the nominees for the prize to ensure that there is no bias in the process of selecting a winner. Make sure that the judges stick to the deadline that has been agreed to to decide the winner and runners up.

6.When the judges have made the decision, get plaques made with the names of the winner and runners up, along with the names of the sponsoring organizations, the date the awards will be presented on and the title of the award (i.e. "outstanding Pakistani-NZ youth of 2005 in the Greater Auckland  area: winner (or runner up)").

7.Organize a dinner and invite all of those who were nominated for the award, their families, and everyone from the local Pakistani-NZ  community. This will keep the suspense of who won until the last moment and become a happy community affair. The winner should present a short speech and one person from the community should discuss the need for encouraging and recognizing the talents of Pakistani- NZ youth.

8.Thank the businesses who sponsored the award, the judges, and all who submitted nominations with a verbal thanks at the ceremony and a written thank you note afterwards. Encourage those who didn't win to try for next year's award.

9.Alert your local media about the award and its winner and runners up. This is a great story that newspapers in your community are likely to be interested in, especially if they try to cover ethnic communities. In addition, if these Pakistani-NZ  youth get press attention, they are likely to get another confidence and self-esteem boost.

10. Encourage Pakistani_NZ  friends in other parts of the NZ  to establish a similar award in their city to benefit the young people there.

 

where is pakistan

Shanti Niwas Ethnic Food 

and Multi-cultural Festival

 3 April 2005

People from many different cultures will gather to celebrate the Shati Niwas Charitable Trust's annual Ethnic Food and Multi-cultural Festival event on Sunday, April 3rd at the Aotea Square between 11am - 4pm.

The Free event will showcase a wide variety of food, dances, songs, musical items, and classical dance from groups from India, Sri Lanka, Philippines, China, Spain, Thailand, South Africa, Japan, Nepal, Pacific Islands and New Zealand, plus items from members of the Shanti Niwas Charitable Trust.

There's always a good selection of ethnic food stalls, with

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Origin of Name

Origin of Name

The name was coined by Cambridge student and Muslim nationalist Choudhary Rahmat Ali. He devised the word and first published it on January 28, 1933 in the pamphlet Now or Never He saw it as an acronym formed from the names of the "homelands" of Muslims in South Asia. (P for Punjab, A for the Afghan areas of the region, K for Kashmir, S for Sindh and tan for Baluchistan, thus forming 'Pakstan.' An 'i' was later added to the English rendition of the name to ease pronunciation, producing Pakistan.) The word also captured in the Persian language the concepts of "Pak" meaning "Pure" and "stan" for "land" or "home" (as in the names of Central Asian countries in the region; Afghanistan, Turkmenistan, etc), thus giving it the meaning     Land of the Pure.

Why PANZ web site is down???????

Dear Imtiaz,

 

Could you please check and confim us Why the PANZ web site is down....????????

 

www.panz.org was a great source of information and provide quick reference for Pak Community for number of their problems.

 

In the last two years we put too much efforts to make such a informative site for the community. Is any one responsible for this web? 

 

Could you please look into this issue and take urgent action to provide that facility back to cummunity.

 

Regards,

 

 

Khurram Zaidi

 

رانجھا

رانجھا

مینڈا

گناہ وی توں ، مینڈا ثواب وی توں

مینڈا

幕娩邈 وی توں ، مینڈا نشر وی توں

مینڈی

卍万碼 وی توں ، مینڈی 寞万碼 وی توں

مینڈا

کم وی توں ، مینڈا جہژم وی توں

مینڈا

ٹھیک وی توں ، مینڈا 漠邈碼磨 توں

مینڈا

باہر توں ، مینڈا اندر توں

مینڈی

مسجد توں ، مینڈا مندر توں

مینڈے

دماغ وچ وسدا خیال وی توں

مینڈے

دل وچ نچدا قلندر توں

مینڈی

سستی’ توں مینڈی چستی’ توں

مینڈا

غوث وی توں مینڈا چشتی’ توں

مینڈا

دل وی توں ، مینڈا دماغ وی توں

اناں

دوہاں وچ ھوندی کشتی’ توں

میں

، مینڈی اے کہ تینڈی اے

اے

انت 碼卍碼謎 نوں کہندی اے

میں

ہاں 魔碼謎 توں ، میں ہاں 魔碼謎 توں

بلاجی

Postmartem is here--Aslam-Walakum

Sohnio

Man hoon postmartem aur mera kaam hay cheer phaar of facts.English main likhna mushkal.Is liay urdu chalay gee chahay bura lagay.Main city scan naheen laiken such baat karoon gaa, 2 numbri nahin.Kisi pay tanqeed bhee bhalay kay liay ho go aur tareef bhee.Chaaqoo churee bhee paas rahay gee aur phool bhee.Is liay koee mujhay na charay.

To sohnay logo sub ko salam.Sub pay Allah kee Rehmat.Pakistan kaa naam ooncha rakho.

 

Achee baat Radio Tarana pay hum sub aik ho ker dabao dalain.Yeh ganday log hain.Inhain batana paray gaa kay yeh ganday log hain.

 

a copy of radio programme

Radio Tarana
Attn: Robert Khan


This is with refrence to the talk show of Radio Tarana dated 22nd march  and presented by Permjeet about rape case in Pakistan.

This is not first time the compare Permjeet present the programme uniliterly. First of all this case is still in court and under process. She present this case in totally wrong way by giving wrong figure like "it happened with 80% women in pakistan". She dont know she is sitting in New Zealand and she have to prove in court , how and where she got these figures...if not how she can present a wrong figure to the listeners and matter of discrimination.

In this regard, Pakistan Welfare and Cultural Society, lunch a formal complaint through layer to Newzealand broadcast Athorty. They replied as they need a copy of that programme as a evidence, as according to the "New Zealand Broadcast Laws" Radio Tarana is bound to give a copy of requested programme.

So, Pakistan Welfare and Cultural Society, demand a copy of that programme for further legel action until unless Radio Tarana give proper explaination. Early response would highly be appreciated.

Munawar Khan
Exective
Pakistan Welfare and Cultural Society

Propaganda Against Pakistan

This not first time Perm Jeet of Radio Tarana do bad propaganda against Pakistan, as she did last night in her program, what action PANZ is taking ,? Where are those media watch people,? who clime to be Pakistani Govt representatives of Media watch, in NZ , said Executive Pakistan social welfare and culture society. Munawar Khan, Mr Khan said , doing functions and celebrating the events are not only things for PANZ to do , they have got to watch Pakistani interests to, they should ask Radio Tarana for explanation , where did Permjeet get this information that 80% of Pakistani women get raped by men , Mr Khan added that Perm Jeet is not fair with her job, she always go against Pakistan , when some body wants to talk in favour of Pakistan she cuts off the line

(Tauqir Khan, Dr Qurashi, Haider Lonne, Qazi A Aziz and two more are Media Watch representatives of Pakistan Govt)

Im concerned about PANZ representatives

Dear Billa Ji,

 

Asalaam-0alaikum

 

Would you please pass my message to the PANZ committee and executive to introduce themselves individually in details so we all know who they are and representing Pakistani living in New Zealand.

 

My poetry collections have been published in Pakistan and are arriving tomorrow including cds and floppy disc. However, if anybody who is interested can get a copy of it.  The poetries contains 900 pages including the english section translated into urdu.

 

W'salaam

Dr. Wasim S. Ketan

 

Second Class Status

Woman leads US Muslims to prayer The congregation was evenly split between men and women A professor in the US is thought to have become one of the first Muslim women to lead mixed Friday prayers. More than 100 men and women attended the service and sermon given by Amina Wadud, professor of Islamic studies at Virginia Commonwealth University. The location was moved to an Anglican Church building in New York after mosques refused to host the event. The service has been criticised by a number of Muslim leaders, who say it goes against Islamic doctrine. It's not proper for [men] to look at the woman whose body is in front of them Sayed Tantawi sheik of Cairo's Al-Azhar mosque "The issue of gender equality is a very important one in Islam, and Muslims have unfortunately used highly restrictive interpretations of history to move backward," Ms Wadud said before the service started. "With this prayer service we are moving forward. This single act is symbolic of the possibilities within Islam." Those who attended were said to be evenly divided between men and women. Most women wore the traditional Muslim headscarf and robes. Some 15 protesters gathered outside the Synod House of the Cathedral of St John the Divine, where the prayers took place. One carried a placard calling for Allah's curse to be upon one of the event's organisers. "She is tarnishing the whole Islamic faith. If this was an Islamic state, this woman would be hanged," one man, Nussrah, told the Associated Press. The BBC Middle East correspondent says the controversy has meant Ms Wadud is getting prominent coverage on Arabic television networks. 'Second class' The service was organised by a group of activists, journalists and scholars who hoped to encourage discussion about the centuries-old tradition of separating men and women during congregational prayer, and reserving the role of prayer leader, or imam, for men. Mosques reportedly refused to host Amina Wadud "We are taking actions that no-one else would have dared to think about before," she told The New York Times. "Nobody cared that we didn't have a place in the faith." However, the sheik of Cairo's Al-Azhar mosque, one of the world's top Islamic institutions, said Islam did not allow for women to preach to men. "When she leads men in prayer... it's not proper for them to look at the woman whose body is in front of them," Sayed Tantawi wrote in a column for the Egyptian newspaper Al-Ahram. In New York, Aisha al-Adawiya, head of Women in Islam, said she feared a "backlash". The prayer service was moved after it was rejected by three mosques and an art gallery venue received a bomb threat, the AP reported.

Panz

Hello PANZ & all

before i say anything i just want to know Did PANZ  have copyright for that move to play in capital cinema?

 

2 why letting us so late?

3 how many Pakistani  have computer access to know PANZ doing some thing?

4 what other method  have been use to inform people?

 

now come back to the point are we ready for bigday out (14 Aug )

23 March 1940

Muslim rule was established across northern India between the 7th and the 14th centuries. The Muslim Moghul Empire ruled most of India from Delhi from the early 16th century until its power was broken by the British in the 19th century. This left a disempowered and discontented Muslim minority, afraid of being swamped by the Hindu majority over whom they had previously ruled. Muslims were about 23% of the population of British India, and were the majority of the population in Baluchistan, Bengal, Kashmir, North-West Frontier Province, Punjab and the Sindh region of the Bombay Presidency.

In the late 19th century an Indian nationalist movement developed, with the Indian National Congress being founded in 1885. Although the Congress made genuine efforts to enlist the Muslim community in its struggle for Indian independence, it was inevitably a Hindu-dominated organisation, and Muslims knew that an independent united India would inevitably be ruled by Hindus. Although some Muslims were active in the Congress, the majority of Muslim leaders did not trust the Hindu majority.

A turning point came in 1900 when the British administration in the largest Indian state, the United Provinces (now Uttar Pradesh), acceded to Hindu demands and made Hindi, written in the Devanagari script, the official language, in place of Persian, which had been the court language under the Mughal Emperors. This seemed to confirm Muslim fears that Hindu majority would seek to suppress Muslim culture and religion in an independent India. A British official, Sir Percival Griffiths, wrote of "the Muslim belief that their interest must be regarded as completely separate from those of the Hindus, and that no fusion of the two communities was possible."

During this period the unofficial leader of the Indian Muslim community was Sir Sayed Ahmed, head of the Aligarh movement (a cultural organisation based in the Muslim University at Aligarh), but following his death in 1898 a more militant leadership emerged, under the slogan "Islam is in danger." In October 1906 35 leading members of the Indian Muslim community gathered at Simla under the leadership of Sultan Mohammed Shah (the third Aga Khan), to present an address to the Viceroy, Lord Minto. They demanded proportionate representation of Muslims in all government jobs and the appointment of Muslim judges to the High Courts and members in Viceroy's Council.

Early years

The third Aga Khan

When these demands were accepted, an All-India Mohammedan Educational Conference was held in Dhaka in December. Nawab Salimullah, chairman of the reception committee and convener of the political meeting proposed the creation of the All-India Muslim League (AIML). A 56-member provisional committee was chosen from among prominent Muslim leaders, including some who were members of the Congress. Mohsin-ul-Mulk and Viqar-ul-Mulk were jointly made the secretaries, but after the death of Mohsin-ul-Mulk in 1907, Viqar-ul-Mulk was in full control of the League. The name All-India Muslim League was proposed by Sir Mian Mohammad Shafi.

Three thousand delegates attended the meeting of the Conference, chaired by Viqar al-Mulq. At that meeting, Nawab Salim Ullah Khan proposed that the League become a political party devoted to promoting the interests of Muslims in India. The idea of a Muslim political party was not new, but Sayed Ahmed's advice to stand aloof from separatist ideas had previously persuaded Indian Muslims to avoid political mobilisation.

Among those Muslims in the Congress who did not initially join the AIML was Muhammed Ali Jinnah, a prominent Bombay lawyer. This was because the first article of the League's platform was "To promote among the Mussalmans of India, feelings of loyalty to the British Government," and Jinnah was an Indian nationalist. He did not join the League until 1913, when it changed its platform to one of Indian independence as a reaction against the British decision to create a united state of Bengal, which the League regarded as a betrayal of the Bengal Muslims. At this stage Jinnah believed in Muslim-Hindu co-operation to achieve an independent, united India, although he argued that Muslims should be guaranteed one-third of the seats in any Indian Parliament.

The headquarters of the new organisation was established at Lucknow, and the Aga Khan was elected as the League's first president. The principles of the League were espoused in the "Green Book," which included the organisation's constitution, written by Maulana Muhammad Ali Jouhar. Its goals at this stage did not include establishing an independent Muslim state, but rather concentrated on protecting Muslim liberties and rights, promoting understanding between the Muslim community and other Indians, educating the Muslim and Indian community at large on the actions of the government, and discouraging violence.

The League's moderate stance toward Britain and its disdain for violence alienated some Muslim radicals, who were infuriated by what they saw as the duplicity of British rule in India. The Partition of Bengal, which had been resisted by Congress, had been supported by the Muslim League, which saw the move as allowing for separate representation of Muslims and Hindus in Bengal. In the face of Congress agitation, the British rescinded the move in 1911, which aggravated the League.

With a few years the League had become the sole representative body of Indian Muslims. Jinnah became its president in 1916, and negotiated the Lucknow Pact with Congress, in which Congress conceded the principle of separate electorates and weighted representation for the Muslim community. But Jinnah broke with Congress in 1919 when the Congress leader, Mohandas Gandhi, launched a "non-co-operation" campaign against the British, which Jinnah disapproved of. Jinnah also became convinced that Congress would renounce its support for separate electorates for Muslims, which indeed it did in 1928. Jinnah had little liking for either the Hindu asceticism of Gandhi or the secular socialism of the other Congress leader, Jawaharlal Nehru.

The search for a solution

Sir Dr. Muhammad Iqbal (Popularly known as Allama Iqbal)

Jinnah became disillusioned with politics after the failure of his attempt to for a Hindu-Muslim alliance, and he spent most of the 1920s in Britain. The leadership of the League was taken over by Sir Muhammad Iqbal, who in 1930 first put forward the demand for a separate Muslim state in India, to be known as Pakistan (the "land of the pure"). The "two-nation theory," the belief that Hindus and Muslims were two different nations who could not live in one country, gained popularity among Muslims, particularly as Hindu nationalism became more strident. The two-state solution was rejected by the Congress leaders, who favoured a united, secular democratic India. Iqbal's policy of uniting the North-West Frontier Province, Baluchistan, and Sindh into a new state of Pakistan, united the many factions of the League.

In 1927 the British proposed a constitution for India as recommended by the Simon Commission, but they failed to reconcile all parties. The British then turned the matter over to the League and the Congress, and in 1928, an All-Parties Congress was convened in Delhi. The attempt failed, but two more conferences were held. At the Bombay conference in May, it was agreed that a small committee should work on the constitution. The respected Congress leader Motilal Nehru (father of Jawaharlal) headed the committee, which included two Muslims, Syed Ali Imam and Shoaib Quereshi.

The League, however, rejected the proposal that the committee returned, called the "Nehru Report," arguing that it gave too little representation (one quarter) to Muslims - the League had demanded at least one-third representation in the legislature. Jinnah reported a "parting of the ways" after reading the report, and relations between the Congress and the League began to sour.

The election of Ramsay MacDonald's Labour government in 1929 fuelled new hopes for progress towards self-government in India. Gandhi traveled to London, claiming to represent all Indians, and criticising the League as sectarian and divisive. Round-table talks were held, but these achieved little, since Gandhi and the League were unable reach a compromise. The fall of the Labour government in 1931 ended this period of optimism.

In the 1935 Government of India Act, the British for the first time proposed to hand over substantial power to elected Indian provincial legislatures, with elections to be held in 1937. Jinnah returned to India and resumed leadership of the League, which now saw the real threat of Hindu majority rule over the Muslim minority. After the elections the League took office in Bengal and Punjab, but the Congress won office in most of the other Indian states, and refused to share power with the League in states with large Muslim minorities. In 1940 the League formally adopted the creation of Pakistan as its objective.

Campaign for Pakistan

At a League conference in Lahore in 1940, Jinnah said: "Hindus and the Muslims belong to two different religions, philosophies, social customs and literature... It is quite clear that Hindus and Muslims derive their inspiration from different sources of history. They have different epics, different heroes and different episodes... To yoke together two such nations under a single state, one as a numerical minority and the other as a majority, must lead to growing discontent and final destruction of any fabric that may be so built up for the government of such a state."

At Lahore the League formally recommitted itself to creating an independent Muslim state including Sindh, Punjab, the North West Frontier Province and Bengal, that would be "wholly autonomous and sovereign." The resolution guaranteed protection for non-Muslim religions. The principles of the Lahore Resolution formed the foundation for Pakistan's first constitution. Talks between Jinnah and Gandhi in 1944 in Bombay failed to achieve agreement. These was the last attempt to reach a single-state solution.

In the 1940s Jinnah emerged as the recognised leader of the Indian Muslims and was popularly known as "Qaid-e-Azam" (Great leader). In the Constituent Assembly elections of 1946, the League won 425 out of 496 seats reserved for Muslims on a policy of Pakistan, and an implied threat of secession if this was not granted. Gandhi and Nehru, who with the election of a Labour government in Britain in 1945 saw independence within reach, were adamantly opposed to dividing India. They knew that the Hindu masses, who saw Mother India as a holy and indivisible entity, could never agree to such a thing.

By 1946 the British had neither the will, nor the financial or military power, to hold India any longer, and Jinnah knew that independence was imminent. He made it clear that he would plunge India into chaos if India was not partitioned to create a Muslim state, and the British could not resist this threat. Political deadlock ensued in the Constituent Assembly, and Britain's Prime Minister, Clement Attlee, sent a special mission to India to mediate the situation.

When these talks broke down, Attlee sent Earl Mountbatten, India's last Viceroy, to negotiate the partition of India and immediate British withdrawal. Mountbatten told Gandhi and Nehru that if they did not accept partition there would be civil war, and they were reluctantly compelled to agree. Civil war did in fact break out in Punjab and other areas of mixed population.

The Muslim League survived as a minor party in India after partition, but later splintered into several groups, the most important of which is the Indian Union Muslim League.

Building a Pakistani icon

Building a Pakistani icon



An article by the Associated Press of Pakistan which was published in major English dailies last week listed a host of shortcomings of the capital city, chief of which was that it did not have a notable landmark. Hailing London for its tube system, Venice for its canals and gondolas, New York City for its Statue of Liberty and Kuala Lumpur for its Petronas Twin Towers, the article pointed out the lack of any such well-known and recognized landmark for Islamabad.

A landmark is a thing with historic, social, cultural, architectural or aesthetic significance to a city or a nation. It is a thing which people identify a city or nation.

Based on this definition, major cities in Pakistan, including the federal capital, do have landmarks. Lahore has the Minar-i-Pakistan, Karachi has the Quaid-i-Azam's mausoleum, and Islamabad the Faisal Mosque. It is a different thing altogether that these landmarks are hardly recognized beyond Pakistan's borders.

The K-2 is one landmark which has put Pakistan on the map of world fame, but this natural landmark, like its competitor, Mount Everest in Nepal, is not the ordinary traveller's cup of tea. No doubt K-2 provided the inspiration and the setting for the Hollywood movie, Vertical Limit, but the latter did not become a blockbuster like The Entrapment, which featured Malaysia's Petronas Twin Towers.

Most of the famous man-made landmarks in the world are old ones that have been there for decades, if not centuries. However, two modern landmarks that have only been completed within the last decade but which have shot their Muslim states to instant fame are the Petronas Twin Towers of Malaysia and the Burj Al Arab (The Arabian Tower) of Dubai, one of the seven kingdoms of the United Arab Emirates. A closer look at how the idea of these two landmarks were conceived may give us an insight into how to go about building a similar kind of landmark that would make the world associate Pakistan with.

The masterminds behind the Petronas Twin Towers - named after Malaysia's oil company which has its headquarters in one of the towers - were a Malaysian business tycoon T. Ananda Krishnan and former prime minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad. The charismatic politician wanted a building on a site in the heart of the capital that would be identifiably Malaysian, that was of world class standard, and which Malaysians could be proud off.

When the Petronas project, developed as part of the Kuala Lumpur City Centre (KLCC) project, was on the drawing board in 1991, the twin towers were supposed to be distinctive and unique but there was no plan to upstage the then tallest building in the world, the Sears Tower in Chicago.

Story has it that one day in 1994 when construction was already well under way, a question was casually put to the architect by Dr Mahathir: How many more metres would it take for the Petronas Twin Towers to get the tallest building in the world tag? It was back to the drawing boards and after some frantic mathematical recalculations, it was deemed possible.

Upon completion in 1997 at the cost of $1.2 billion, the Petronas Twin Towers quickly became a Malaysian cultural icon, symbolizing Malaysia's soaring economic success and ability. Images of the Petronas Twin Towers began popping up in the most unlikely places like a Made-in-Japan jigsaw puzzle and the back of a London bus. The hit movie, The Entrapment, starring Sean Connery and Catherine Zeta-Jones, in which the distinctly unique Petronas provided the setting, had also helped to make this Malaysian building world famous.

Petronas became a landmark not only because it was the tallest building in the world (it held this title for about seven years before it was upstaged in 2003 by the Taipei 101 building in the capital of Taiwan), but more so because of its unique architectural features. It is a striking combination of glass and steel with floor plans based on an eight-pointed star, a geometric principle typified in Islamic architecture.

The design's piece de resistance is the 58 metre-long double decker skybridge at the 41st and 42nd floor. The bridge was not only meant to serve the functional purpose of facilitating human traffic between the two towers, it also symbolized the gateway to Malaysia's Vision 2020.

The Burj Al Arab hotel in Dubai, with its unique billowing sail-shaped structure is symbolic of the kingdom's desire to be a leader in tourism and financial development. With its oil and gas reserves running out, Dubai embarked on a flamboyant and ultra modern multi-million-dollar project to establish itself as a leading tourist/vacation destination and offshore financial centre.

The crown prince of Dubai had wanted not just a hotel but a signature building; one that would announce "Welcome to Dubai". He wanted a dramatic statement with imagery that would immediately conjure up images of the city, in much the same way the Opera House does for Sydney and the Eiffel Tower does for Paris.

Within six years from the initial presentation of the design, the building was completed and fully fitted for operation by the beginning of 2000. Burj Al Arab become a landmark because it is the tallest, largest and most luxurious hotel in the world, possessing a strikingly modern architectural design, an extravagantly opulent interior design where everything that glitters is really gold, and most significant of all, a sophisticated multiple state-of-the-art technology in management that has earned the Burj Al Arab the status of the first seven-star hotel in the world.

After the Burj Al Arab, Dubai has come up with another iconic development, namely, The Palm, the largest man-made island in the world which is shaped like a palm tree. This luxurious resort has been described as the eighth wonder of the world and is said to be visible from the moon.

Based on Malaysia and Dubai's experience, the major ingredients for building an international famed landmark are a charismatic leadership, an inspirational economic vision, loads of money, and ability. Do we have this winning combination to deliver a landmark in Islamabad that would become a Pakistani icon? After all, if parliamentary as well as sheikhdom Muslim states like Malaysia and Dubai can do it, why not Pakistan? Provided we can get rid of the terrorism tag first.

May Peace Be With You

Farhan Azam”s father has passed away in Pakistan , condolences can be offer on mobile 0213433025

 

KALAM ; Dr Wasim Ketan

 

Cup of Coffee

When things in your life seem almost too much to handle, when 24 hours in a day are not enough, remember the mayonnaise jar...and the coffee...
A professor {not a Liberal} stood before his philosophy class and had some items in front of him. When the class began, wordlessly, he picked up a very large and empty mayonnaise jar and proceeded to fill it with golf balls. He then asked the students if the jar was full. They agreed that it was.
So the professor then picked up a box of pebbles and poured them into the jar. He shook the jar lightly. The pebbles rolled into the open areas between the golf balls. He then asked the students again if the jar was full. They agreed it was. The professor next picked up a box of sand and poured it into the jar. Of course, the sand filled up everything else. He asked once more if the jar was full. The students responded with an unanimous "yes."
The professor then produced two cups of coffee from under the table and poured the entire contents into the jar, effectively filling the empty space between the sand. The students laughed. "Now," said the professor, as the laughter subsided, "I want you to recognize that this jar represents your life. The golf balls are the important things-===your God, family, your children, your health, your friends, and your favourite passions-things that if everything else was lost and only they remained, your life would still be full. The pebbles are the other things that matter like your job, your house, and your car. The sand is everything else-the small stuff.
"If you put the sand into the jar first," he continued, "there is no room for the pebbles or the golf balls. The same goes for life. If you spend all your time and energy on the small stuff, you will never have room for the things that are important to you. Pay attention to the things that are critical to your happiness. Play with your children.
Take time to get medical checkups. Take your partner out to dinner. Play another 18. There will always be time to clean the house and fix the disposal." Take care of the golf balls first, the things that really matter. Set your priorities. The rest is just sand." One of the students raised her hand and inquired what the coffee represented. The professor smiled. "I'm glad you asked. It just goes to show you that no matter how full your life may seem, there's always room for a couple of cups of coffee with a friend."

Good News For Pakistani

New Zealand Govt has appointed its Ambassador to Pakistan, as Mr Mc Craig Master present his documents to President Of Pakistan today along with other 8 countries , Said care taker of White Sawn Rd Masjid Jamshaid ul Hussan

This means soon there would be an ambassador of Pakistan in NZ , which will make bilateral relation good and would be easy on Australian Embassy which deal with Pakistani Peoples documents and it may shed Some burden from Tauqir Khan , who is providing this services FREE to Pakistani community from last 20 years

Allways Have Somthing On Your Back

Two guys drink in this bar every night. They stay in the corner

on their own. No one else will talk to them as one has a big hump

on his back and the other has a wooden leg. The guy with the hump

on his back leaves early one night and takes a short cut through

the graveyard.

Half way through his journey a ghost jumps out from behind a

headstone and yells,

"What do you have on your back?"

"A hump." the startled man replies.

"Gimme it" says the ghost and grabs the hump off the man's back

and flies off into the night.

The guy, now standing bolt upright for the first time in 30 odd

years, heads back to the bar. He then proceeds to join all the

other regulars for drinks.

After a while he goes over to his old mate with the wooden leg,

who by now is sitting with his mouth wide open in amazement.

"Where the is your hump?" he asks.

The now hump-less guy tells him his tale of good fortune about

taking the short cut through the graveyard.

With that, the wooden leg guy hops up as fast as he can and

hops at full speed to the graveyard where he is met by the same

ghost.

"What do you have on your back?" yells the ghost.

"Nothing" said hoppy.

"Well here's a hump for you" said the ghost placing it nicely on

hoppy's back before flying off into the night.

AHH CH ASHRAF

A well known figure of Pakistani community has departed from us, he was friend of every one and one of very dear to me , in this material world , where we see love is a line on water, he was the one who gave his one kidney to his wife, once in conversation with me he said he is descendant of KAAWAn WALI SARCAR , I told him what you have done you are more then KAAWAn WALI SARCAR to me,

Last time in Aug before going to Pakistan in telephone conversation he told that he is too bored here and this is not the place for him to live , when I asked it would be too hot in Pakistan , he should delay his visit too Pakistan he reply “doesn’t matter hot or cold it is my country and I love it” he offered me to come to Pakistan and come to him in Gujarat , I promised him that I will visit himm if go Pakistan , he was Ch Ashraf

It is sad day for all of and specially for his sons Ch Nadeem Ashraf and Ch waseem Ashraf , but one thing contented me he was earth of Pakistan gone in to earth of Pakistan

   

2.353 million visitor

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Immigration Eased Further In January

New Zealand net immigration gains slowed further in January, according to official data.

Statistics New Zealand reported a seasonally adjusted net gain of 510 people in the month compared with a net gain of 530 in December.

It was the smallest monthly net gain since May 2001, when there was a net loss of 270, the government agency said.

On an actual, unadjusted basis, arrivals exceeded departures by 1,700 compared with a gain of 4,000 a year earlier.

For the year ended January 31 there was a net gain in permanent and long-term migration of 12,800, down 62 percent on the net inflow of 33,000 in the previous year.

Net annual migration gains have been falling since the peak of 42,500 in the year to May 2003, because of tighter immigration rules, fewer foreign students studying in New Zealand, and more New Zealanders moving overseas.

The net gain in permanent and long-term arrivals has fallen in each of the past 18 months, the agency said.

The number of short-term visitors to New Zealand rose 2 percent to 249,900 in January on the same month a year earlier, the government agency said.

Seasonally adjusted visitor arrivals for the month were down 3 percent from December, which had risen 3 percent on the previous month.

There were a total of 2.353 million visitor arrivals for the year ended January, up 10 percent on the previous year.

The average length of stay was 24 days against 22 days in December, but unchanged from the same month a year ago.

Blood Balti 2005

Last Friday 10:30 Phone bell ring , it is Mr Bhatti on other side of the line from Australia , after hello hay , Mr Bhatti said do you know next month is Blood Balti month , I said yes I know, and Sohni Dharti is looking for sponsor to organise Blood Balti party , without any hesitation Mr Bhatti offered his services, I thanked for his kind response and said that without his presences Blood Baliti would not be smooth as it was last time , Mr Bhatti said it doesn’t matter I am there or not my best wishes would be with Sohni Dharti and it would be honour for me if Sohni Dharti accept my sponsor for this Blood Baliti 2005

Saturday and Sunday Sohni Dharti team sit and discuses the aspect of Blood Balti , give BillaG go-ahead signal to co ordinate Blood Balti Party, Raja Naeem will provide the place and Haji Mumtaz would be the in charge of whole operation