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Blood Balti 2007

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PANZ NEXT PROGRAMME

We are haapy to announce our next programme to acheive our goals.

1 March 23 rd Programm
Celebration day March 24, 2006 Saturday 4 pm
Venue: to be announced

Programs:

* Speech competition under 15 years Topic: Resolution of Pakistan

There will be 3 Trophies for top three speakers
* Millie songs Entertainment ( elders and children )
* Refreshment ( Tea/cold drinks & snacks )

2 Seerat Ul Nabi S.A.W. Programme April 15, 2006 Saturday
Vanue : To be Annonced

* Speeches on Seerat Ul Nabi S.A.W & Hamd O' Naat
* Food will be provided

3 14 August Programm
Celebration day August 14 ,2006 Tuesday 6 Pm
Venue : To be announced

Syed Waqar Ali
President
Pakistan Association of New Zealand

CHRISTMAS EVENING

Thank to all community members and supporters to celebrate a successful evening with Pakistani Christian community in New Zealand. I personally congratulate to all of my team and community members because as I said before, that we can’t achieve any goal without community support and team work. All families and friends who attended this Christmas evening and share their happiness with Christian community are appreciating.
I appreciate and thank to all of PANZ members, sponsors and PWCS, who provided sound system without any fee and show us their interest to make success this programmed.
Thank to all Christian Community to participate and share their happiness with us.
Thank to Mr. Shahid Azad and his team to guide us in this programme.
Thank to Atta Bhai to do hard work for this successful evening.

WAQAR ALI
President
Pakistan Association

ختنے ایڈز سے بچاتے ہیں: رپورٹ

نئی تحقیق سے معلوم ہوا ہے کہ مردوں کے لیے ختنے ایڈز سے بچاؤ کا موثر ذریعہ ہو سکتے ہیں۔ یہ تحقیق فرانس کی ایک ایجنسی نے کی جس میں جنوبی افریقہ میں تین ہزار مردوں نے حصّہ لیا۔

تحقیق کے دوران حاصل ہونے والے اعداد و شمار کے مطابق ختنوں کے ذریعے دس میں سے سات مرد ایڈز سے محفوظ رہتے ہیں۔ یہ اعداد و شمار برازیل کے شہر ریو ڈی جنیرو میں ایک کانفرنس میں پیش کیے گئے۔

اقوام متحدہ کی صحت کے بارے میں کام کرنے والی ایجنسیوں نے کہا ہے کہ ختنوں کو ایڈز سے بچاؤ کے مؤثر طریقے کے طور پر پیش کرنے سے پہلے اس ضمن میں مزید تحقیق کی ضرورت ہے۔

ریو ڈی جنیرو میں بی بی سی کے نامے نگار نے بتایا کہ اگر مزید تحقیق کے بعد بھی ایسے ہی نتائج سامنے آئے تو کنڈوم کے ساتھ ساتھ ختنوں کو بھی ایڈز سے بچاؤ کی ترکیب کے طور پر پیش کیا جا سکتا ہے۔

اس سے پہلے بھی کئی بار تحقیق کے بعد کہا جا چکا ہے کہ جن مردوں کے ختنے ہوتے ہیں ان کو ایڈز کی بیماری لگنے کا امکان کم ہوتا ہے۔

کہا جاتا ہے کہ ختنوں میں جو کھال کاٹی جاتی ہے اس پر جسم کے باقی حصے کی نسبت ایڈز آسانی سے اثر کرتی ہے۔ اس لیے ختنوں کے بعد ایڈز کا امکان کم ہو جاتا ہے۔

ختنوں کے اثرات جاننے کے لیے یوگنڈا اور کینیا میں مزید تجربات ہو رہے ہیں۔

بی بی سی کی نامہ نگار نے بتایا کہ اس تحقیق سے ختنے ایڈز کے خلاف مؤثر ثابت ہو بھی گئے تو اس عمل کو وسیع پیمانے پر متعارف کروانا مشکل ہوگا۔

انہوں نے کہا کہ ختنوں کا محفوظ طریقہ متعارف کروانا اور مختلف معاشروں میں اس کے بارے میں رویہ تبدیل کرنا آسان نہیں ہوگا۔

 

PWCS EID SHOW

        Pakistan Welfare & Cultural Society

                                  proudly presents

                                            its

                        traditional annual Mega Event

 

 

 

             Eid Show

           { featuring spectacular comedy play}

  

              ''Ishq ney kia Pagall"

                     and lots of more items

                  Free Admission

 

Time:        5pm

Date:        13th of January 2007

                 (saturday)

Vanue:      ASB Show Ground

                 Logan Campbell Centre 

                 Greenlane

 

For further info contact:

Nasir Khan     021542648

Aamir Khan    021520076 

 

   

 

 

 

 

 

 

Christmas Evening For Pakistani Christians

To acknowledge the presence and services of Pakistani Christian Community  living in New Zealand, Pakistan Association of New Zealand has arranged a Christmas Evening in their honour on 18th of December 2006.The programme will include speeches and songs as well as Pizza Dinner.Christian brothers and sisters of Pakistani origin are specially requested to attend this programme as this initiative is expected to strengthen the fraternal bonds within community..Hon Minister Ethnic Affairs Chris Carter is also expected to come to this programme. Christmas Evening will start  7pm at Mt. Albert War Memorial Hall New North Road Auckland.For further details or suggestions please contact the following

Syed Waqar Ali

President-----8277715,   Mob 021702750

Atta Qureshi

Vice President---0212070071

Quaid-i-Azam

Jinnah, Mohammed Ali (1876-1948), Indian politician and longtime leader of the Muslim League. Jinnah became the founding father of Pakistan and its first governor-general (1947-1948).

Jinnah was born in Karachi, a city in what is now Pakistan. (At that time, India and Pakistan were part of a British colony known as British India). Although his family, who were Muslim, came from the state of Rajkot in western India, Jinnah’s father was a prosperous merchant in Karachi. After being educated in Karachi and Bombay (now Mumbai), Jinnah studied law at Lincoln’s Inn in London, England, and was admitted to the bar in 1896. After serving briefly as a magistrate in Bombay, he practiced law in that city and soon rose to the top of the profession. He possessed strong advocacy skills and relied on his rhetorical ability to win many cases.

Jinnah’s first important contact with political affairs was in 1906, when he acted as private secretary to Dadabhai Naoroji, president of the Indian National Congress, a political organization that was working for Indian autonomy from British rule. In 1913 Jinnah joined the Muslim League, formed to protect Muslim interests against India’s Hindu majority, though at the time he still hoped for accord between the two groups. In 1916 he was elected president of the Muslim League and in 1919 became the representative of Bombay Muslims in the Imperial Legislative Council, a national legislative body with limited authority under the British colonial government. In the same year, however, the government enacted the Rowlatt Acts, which gave the Indian colonial authorities emergency powers to suppress so-called revolutionary activities. Jinnah, a staunch nationalist, resigned from the council in protest.

In 1920 the Indian National Congress launched the noncooperation movement, a mass campaign to boycott all aspects of British rule in India. Jinnah disagreed profoundly with the movement and resigned from the Congress. Jinnah advocated a moderate approach of cooperation with the British and gradual transfer of power. He continued to believe in the possibility of Hindu-Muslim unity, and worked strenuously toward that end in his second and third terms of office as president of the league. The differences between the Congress and the Muslim League were deep. Moreover, there was a serious personality clash between Jinnah and Mohandas Gandhi, the leader of the Congress. These differences emerged clearly in the Round Table Conference of 1930, where Indians and British members of parliament met to discuss India’s political future. Jinnah’s frustration at the impossibility of settlement led him to suspend his political activities for four years, during which time he practiced law in England. In 1934 he returned to India on a visit to preside over a Muslim League session and decided that he must remain permanently in India to look after Muslim interests.

The Government of India Act of 1935 transferred considerable power to Indian provincial governments, and in the general elections of 1937 the Congress won a majority in 7 of 11 provinces. The Congress refused to form coalition governments with the Muslim League as Jinnah had proposed. As a result, tensions between Hindus and Muslims grew rapidly. In Hindu-majority provinces, many Muslims felt they were unfairly treated, and at one point Jinnah demanded the appointment of a royal commission to inquire into their grievances. Most Muslims concluded that no legislative weighting or other safeguards could protect them in a united India, where the Hindus would be an overwhelming majority.

In March 1940 Jinnah presided over a Muslim League session at Lahore, where the first official demand was made for the partition of India and the creation of the state of Pakistan, in which Muslims would be a majority. During three decades of political life, Jinnah had believed in the possibility of Hindu-Muslim unity, and it was with the utmost reluctance that he came to the view that partition was essential.

Having reached this conclusion, however, Jinnah never swerved from it. His tenacity through constitutional discussions between the league, the Congress, and the British government in 1942, 1945, and 1946 made partition certain. During these years Jinnah came to be known as Quaid-i-Azam, or “Great Leader.” When Pakistan was created on August 14, 1947, he became its first governor-general, and the title of Quaid-i-Azam was officially bestowed on him by a resolution of the first constituent assembly. Jinnah died of tuberculosis in Karachi in 1948.

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Racism flares in West Auckland

Three Muslim women in West Auckland have reportedly been the target of violent racial attacks over the past 10 days, and there is a concern that many more victims are not contacting authorities.

On Saturday, the women were shot at while waiting at a bus stop.

The bullets fired from a car shattered the glass they were sitting beside - and the women believe the men only stopped firing because they ran out of bullets.

The women are now too scared to be identified, fearing a revenge attack.

But they are not alone. Women from North African countries like Sudan are also regularly subjected to abuse.

At the Ttirangi markets last weekend someone from a passing car hauled a rock the size of a fist at a teenager's face.

The common link appears to be the attackers - European teenage boys in a white car.

However, the women did not contact police until much later because they did not understand how the 111 system works, and did not know if police would consider the attacks to be serious.

Auckland police have now appointed a North African liasion officer to work closer with the Muslim community.

And while the women say while they are frightened, they still want to be in New Zealand.

"They are good people. The country's very safe and good. I like it too much," says one woman.

Their tolerance is something police can only hope will rub off on those carrying out the attacks.

Awesome Yousuf cracks Vivian Richards’s record

 

 Awesome Yousuf cracks Vivian Richards’s record

KARACHI: Run Machine Mohammad Yousuf capped his fabulous year with yet another century to break the West Indian legend Vivian Richards’s 30-year-old record of most runs in a calendar year and help Pakistan set the West Indies a daunting 444-run target on the penultimate day of the third and final Test at the National Stadium here on Thursday.

It was Yousuf’s last Test day as a batsman this year and like all of 2006 it was, using Brian Lara’s words, slightly unbelievable.

So incredible were Yousuf’s feats — most runs and centuries in a calendar year, a record six tons in five Tests and a few more that he completely overshadowed the rest of the happenings during the course of the day.

It was a day when opener Mohammad Hafeez (104) played the best Test innings and Pakistan captain Inzamam-ul-Haq ended his run draught with a fifty as the home team brought themselves in a perfect position to win the Test and the series by reducing the tourists to 39-2 at stumps.

The West Indies’ only hope of saving the match now rests on the aging shoulders of Lara, 18 not out, as they are still 404 runs behind and need to bat out an entire day to avoid losing the series 0-2.

But it was also a day when all those details became rather insignificant.

Consistency has seldom been the hallmark of Pakistan batsmen which makes Yousuf’s run feast all the more important — 1788 runs from 11 Tests ahead of Richards record of 1710 that ‘The King’ established in 1976.

In doing that Yousuf reached a few other milestones too that included breaking his own record of eight successive tons in a year which he set in the previous innings (102) of this Test. It was his sixth ton in five successive Tests, bettering the great Don Bradman’s record of six centuries in six matches.

Yousuf took his tally in this series to 665 runs surpassing the record of most runs scored by a Pakistani batsman in a three-Test series, previously held by Zaheer Abbas who scored 583 against India in 1978. Yousuf also became only the sixth Pakistani to score centuries in each innings of a Test.

Yousuf hit 124, his ninth century this year, and together with opener Mohammad Hafeez (104) and Inzamam-ul-Haq (58 not out) guided the home team to a position from where a defeat seems highly unlikely.

The highest run chase in Test history (418) was achieved by the West Indies against Australia at St John’s, Antigua in 2002-3 but Lara’s men would be aware they are away from home and batting on a track where it is still not easy to play shots.

After the heroics of the local batsmen earlier in the day, medium pacers Umar Gul and Shahid Nazir made an already good day even better for Pakistan.

Umar made a terrific start as he got the scalp of Chris Gayle on the fourth ball of the first over, an inside edge shattering the stumps. Two overs later, Shahid reduced the West Indies to 17-2 trapping the other opener, Daren Ganga, leg before. Lara and Ramnaresh Sarwan (11) survived the final five overs of the third session in fading light to take the fight into the fifth and final day.

At the start of the day’s play, all eyes were on Yousuf. He began at 1, still requiring 46 runs to erase Richards’s record. Slowly a crowd of over 10,000 assembled at the National Stadium and cheered every run the bearded batsman scored.

The moment they had been waiting for finally came when on 44 Yousuf produced an elegant on-drive off Corey Collymore to reach the milestone and the crowd erupted in jubilation. He raised his bat in acknowledgement and received a standing ovation.

The Lahore-born batsman continued to bat with the same concentration and, like Hafeez, marched towards a century.

Hafeez got there first as he completed his second Test ton with a four off Jerome Taylor at mid-on. It came off 258 balls after a marathon 405-minute stay on the crease and the figures aptly reflected the huge effort made by the man, trying to make his bones as a regular Pakistan opener. After adding 149 runs with Yousuf, he departed on 104, allowing Inzamam to take another shot at regaining his lost form.

The Pakistan captain has been having a horrific run of form in recent outings and was in a desperate need to get some runs.

Yousuf, meanwhile, was in no such problem. He made full use of two dropped catches, one by Ganga off Sarwan at 68 and later by Taylor off his own bowling at 87, to reach his 23rd Test century off 145 balls with his 14th four. He put on 94 with Inzamam before getting bowled round the wicket by Sarwan. His 124 came off 195 balls in almost five hours.

Pakistan later lost Shoaib Malik (10) and Abdul Razzaq (10) but Inzamam scored the first fifty of this series — an unbeaten 58 from 91 balls to raise his confidence.

Pakistan are well set to win this Test after a nine-wicket triumph in Lahore and a drawn match in Multan. They might have been in a better position had a declaration from Inzamam come a bit earlier but the captain was in no mood to take any risks. He knows Lara is capable of doing anything after watching his smashing 216 in Multan and wanted to play it safe.

With cloudy weather making the days shorter here, such a defensive strategy might cost Pakistan a win but even a drawn Test would give them a 1-0 series win — something that they seem happy to achieve.

Scoreboard

Pakistan won toss

Pakistan 1st inns 304 (Imran farhat 47, Mohammad Yousuf 102)

West Indies 1st inns 260 (C H Gayle 40, D Ganga 81, D Ramdin 50; Umar Gul 4-79)

Pakistan 2nd inns (overnight 130-2)

Mohammad Hafeez c Ramdin b Taylor 104

Imran Farhat c Ramdin b Powell 20

Younis Khan lbw b Gayle 38

Mohammad Yousuf b Sarwan 124

*Inzamam-ul-Haq not out 58

Shoaib Malik b Collymore 10

Abdul Razzaq c Gayle b Sarwan 10

Extras (b13, lb21, w1) 35

Total (6 wkts dec, 123.5 overs) 399

Did not bat: †Kamran Akmal, Shahid Nazir, Umar Gul, Danish Kaneria

Fall: 1-43, 2-122, 3-271, 4-365, 5-384, 6-399

Bowling: Taylor 24-8-60-1; Collymore 22-10-52-1; Powell 24-6-70-1; Bravo 19-1-68-0; Gayle 15-2-38-1; Sarwan 17.5-0-70-2; Chanderpaul 2-0-7-0 (1w)



West Indies 2nd inns

C H Gayle b Umar Gul 2

D Ganga lbw b Shahid Nazir 2

*B C Lara not out 18

R R Sarwan not out 11

Extras (b4, lb1, nb1) 6

Total (2 wkts, 9.2 overs) 39

To bat: R S Morton, S Chanderpaul, D J Bravo, †D Ramdin, J E Taylor, D B Powell, C D Collymore

Fall: 1-2, 2-17

Bowling: Umar Gul 5-0-25-1 (1nb); Shahid Nazir 4.2-2-9-1

Series: Pakistan leads the 3-Test series 1-0

Umpires: M R Benson (England) and D J Harper (Australia). TV umpire: Riazuddin. Match referee: R S Mahanama (Sri Lanka)

Previous matches: November 11-14 1st Test Lahore, Pakistan won by 9 wickets. November 19-23 2nd Test Multan, match drawn

‘It’s only Allah who can give you strength to achieve such feats’

Man is weak and it is natural to come under pressure on such occasions,” is how Mohammad Yousuf described his feelings at the time when he resumed his Karachi Test innings on Thursday morning at 1, writes Khalid Hussain.

Several overs and some boundaries later, he was on 48 and had reached a territory where no other batsman had set foot on since Test cricket began 129 years ago. He had scored 1711 runs, the most by a batsman in a calendar surpassing Sir Vivian Richard’s record set in 1976.

“It is only Allah who can give you the strength to achieve such feats,” he said later after having hit 124, a record ninth Test century in 2006 and breaking batting records like ninepins.

“Allah gave me the will to do it and I am thankful to him,” added Yousuf who attributes his stunning run of form to his conversion to Islam last year.

And he has a point. Before his conversion, Yousuf averaged nearly 48 in 59 Tests but it has shot up to an astonishing 91 in the last 14 Tests that he has played as a Muslim.

A man of few words, the modest Yousuf said all his batting success is for Pakistan. “I am happy because these records are great for Pakistan,” he said.

He dedicated the nine centuries he has scored this year to his family. “My parents, wife and brothers and sisters pray for me all the time and I would dedicate these centuries to them.”

Yousuf said he was pleased to have broken Richards’s record saying that he rates the West Indian legend as the greatest century-maker alongside his countryman Brian Lara. “Richards and Lara are the best when it comes to playing big knocks and I am happy to be placed in that group.”

Yousuf has erased two of the records in the ongoing Karachi Test that were previously held by Richards. The first tumbled when he scored a record eighth ton in the first innings and the other when he reached 48 on Thursday, surpassing the 1710 runs Richards scored in 1976.

Yousuf added that one of the reasons behind his batting success in the last 14 Tests may have been the technical help he has been receiving from the likes of his former teammate Mushtaq Ahmed, an accomplished Test leg-spinner, and current coach Bob Woolmer. “I started doing my practice in a different way for the series against England last year and later against India with Mushtaq helping me work on my game on a cemented slab,” said Yousuf, who has punished both pacers and spinners with complete authority during the current run-spree.

He also acknowledged the in-put of Woolmer. “The coach has helped me correct my balance and that has been one of the major factors behind an improved performance.”

Yousuf expressed that he would try his best to take this golden form into the away series against South Africa and in next spring’s World Cup in the West Indies. “I always try to give my best and leave the rest on Allah.”

He admitted that things would not be easy for him and the other Pakistani batsmen on lively South African wickets where a high bounce can make life difficult for the visitors. “All teams except the Australians struggle in matches away from home and we are no exception,” said Yousuf. “I haven’t seen many batsmen performing well in away matches because things get tough when you are not playing at home. But I believe we would manage in South Africa.”

Yousuf is not given into talking big but even he has been affected a bit by the run feast. When a reporter asked whether he would go on to break Don Bradman’s record of six centuries in successive Tests he smiled and said, “I have already done that in five Tests.”

THANKS

Assalaam O' Alaikum

 

Once again I appriciate and thank to all of my friends, sponsors and all participated teams, who shown their interest to make successful this Cricket Champions Trophy. Congratulation to the winner and runner up with this hope that next year this tournament will be more organisze and colorfull. As I said before in my message that " We can't succeed and achieve our goal without your support" and Alhumdullilah we achieved our first goal. It was good experience for PANZ. I specially thanks to our Executive Mr. Hassan, friends Mr. Yaqoob Bhatti and Mr. Billa G to provide us their best support and sponsorship as well delicious BBQ.

We apologies if there was any think left to provide our services to the guests and teams members because it was our first event and experience.

Once again thank to every one.

 

Regards

Waqar Ali

4 Major Lessons of Life

4 Major Lessons of Life Inspiration - Jim Rohn

Life is like seasons, changing all the time Good Times & Bad Times they follow each other regularly like seasons come one after another it is law of nature and we can do nothing about it we cannot change these seasons but we can change ourselves

......................................................................................................................   WINTERS When it all goes wrong Social Disappointments Economical Disappointments Career Disappointments Relationship Disappointments One has to apply the basics. Work out the problem areas by analysing critically the experiences and search agressively for the opportunities   SPRINGS Strange enough SPRING follows WINTER These are just handful of opportunities Get busy with your springs and make best use of them Invest your time, money and energies wisely. Take advise Save couple for the rainy days   SUMMERS Nourish & Protect your crop all SUMMER When it starts to slow up Do your homeworks properly. Develop a mjor skill to prevent the intruder to take away all the good. Remember; All Good Would Be Attacked, All Values Must Be Defended   FALL Reap in FALL without complaint Take full responsibility of things Set backs hurt you hard but you have to endure them Mockers will mock; let them mock to their best. Laughers will laugh; let them laugh to their best. Ignore distractions. Remain focused on your plan

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- - - Moral - - - Never give up no matter what ever happens to you Understand the law of nature "Hope, Determination & Effort when employed in order, brings Success"

Pakistani Miss Earth

First From Left Sahir Mahmood , For Miss Earth Compitition  

 

Forrgetten Heroes of Land

These are the fact about Porus

His real name was Amritatma.He was a splendid looking fellow. 6ft 03 inches tall. His arm was long and strong his skin was black and hair long jet black. He laughs like a loin and raises his chair like an elephant. In meeting he told Alexander that he will teach him to be the King.Alexender was surprised about this statement and said are in your senses he said I am.

What I meant, Alexander is that you are the supreme warrior, counqurer, even liberator but you have not yet king?

The Alexander asked what a difference?

The difference between the sea and the storm.

The storm is brilliant and terrifying .godlike, it looses its bolts of power, rolling over all in its path and passing on While the sea in contrast remain profound eternal unfathomable. The tempest hurls its thunder and lightning; the ocean absorbs all unmoved o you understand my friend you are storm and I am sea

During the war Porus fought magnificent He struggled on a top his war elephant after suffering numerous wounds the toll of which was severe threat when at battle close he at last dismounted he could not remount on his own but had to be lifted so men said by the beast own trunk.

Alexander asked Porus how I should treat you when I had caught up in person He replied like a King

The fact is that Porus defeated Alexander,

But Alexander‘s chronicler feared the wrath of his king

The fact is that Alexander could not go past Bais

Because he feared his army and his army feared Porus

Three facts appear to be widely acknowledge

1)      Alexander encounters stiff resistance

2)      He swerved to his right to skit Porus kingdom and south towards the confluence of the five rivers and Multan

3)      That Porus retained his kingdom and remain its King after the battle. In fact Alexander even ceded some more territory to him

 

Fact is that Porus men must have continued to harass the invader during his journey south along the right bank of the Chenab resulting ultimate in the loss of moral Alexander troops that lead to mutiny and return to the banks of Beas that is before proceeding much further towards India In other wards even in the battle of Jhelum was stand off between Alexandra and Porus the invading army was so overwhelmed that it finally dictated Alexander to give up India invasion

As you all know the Porus was Janjua his tribes are proudly named their sons Skander on Alexander then their proud ancestor Porus

 

 

 

Official Opening of High Commission

 

WELLINGTON, Nov 23: Pakistan's High Commission to New Zealand was formally inaugurated with a pledge to strengthen bilateral ties and to facilitate Pakistani students seeking higher education.

Speaking at the inaugural ceremony on Wednesday, New Zealand’s Foreign Minister Winston Peters said that his country wanted to strengthen the ties between the two countries.

From PANZ for Vice President Mr. Attah Qureshi attended the function.

From

Naseem Soherwardy

Joint Secretary

Important Announcement Regarding Panz Champions Trophy 2006

If there will be a rainy day on 26 th of November  Sunday the match will be on the following sunday the 3rd of december 2006

Sohni,Mahiwal

Ishq Na Puchhay Zaat

Sohni, the most beautiful and Mahiwal, the cowherd, have been immortalized in the verse of Fazal Shah, who lived in the eighteenth century during the reign of Maharaja Ranjit Singh. Their story belongs to a time of Indian history when politeness was at its peak and silver and gold were found in plenty. At this time when trade was at its height, Izzat Beg, a young aristocrat of Bukhara came to India and chanced on the home of the potter, Tulla who was famed for his fine craftsmanship, and his daughter Sohni, who was equally skilful with her hands.

While looking at Tulla's beautiful creations, Izzat Beg saw Sohni at work, painting a pot. A glimpse of her startled Izzat Beg so that the most expensive bowl he was holding slipped from his hands shattering into a hundred pieces. His discomfiture caused a impulsive gale of laughter from Sohni. Another look at her, and Izzat Beg lost his heart. He started visiting the potter's house every day on the excuse of buying the fine pottery, leaving Sohni to wonder how he could carry so much of the fragile ware back to Bukhara.

As the two fell deeper and deeper in love with each other, Izzat Beg's fortunes decline for he was idling his time away, lost in love. Meanwhile, Sohni's father, Tulla, brooking no protests, forced Sohni to marry another. Though now another man's wife, Sohni had given herself to Izzat Beg and did not accept her husband. Having lost all his fortune, Izzat Beg started looking after cattle, and the aristocrat of Bukhara, now became the cowherd, Mahiwal.

Every night Sohni used to cross the river Chanab using a large baked earthenware pitcher as a float, to meet her lover, Mahiwal. One day, her sister-in-law found out about these secret meetings and determined to avenge her brother, replaced the earthenware pot with an unbaked one which would melt halfway in the river. As was her wont, that evening, Sohni picked up the pitcher and realized it was the wrong one. But she could not keep her lover waiting for her, and using that pitcher to help her stay afloat she started swimming across the river. The stars were against her, for that night, there was a fierce storm, and the pitcher dissolved midstream causing Sohni to drown. Seeing her struggle in the swirling waters, Mahiwal jumped into the river and the current swept them away, the lovers passing into legend.

Waqt-e-Furqat

     WAQT-E-FURQAT



Yeh waqt-e-furqat kitna kathin hai meri jaaN

Hoga mushkil maanaa tha, magar itnaa mushkil

Socha bhi naa thaa



Woh chaNchal si khilkhilahat

Woh tumhari maNd maNd si muskaan

Woh tumharay badan say aatay bahaar kay jhoNkay

Woh tumhaari saadgi maiN daanaai kay imkaan



Woh tumhaaraa meri baahoN maiN duniya ko bhool jaanaa

Woh behtay ashkoN maiN laraztay laboN ka muskuraanaa



Woh tumhaari pal pal ko shiddat say jeenay ki chaah

Woh tumhaari nazar maiN phool say komal khwaaboN ki raah



Woh tumhaari dabdabaai aaNkhoN maiN unkahayay swaal

Woh tumhaaray ghanay dasht say gasuoN ka jmaal



Woh tumhaaray hoNthoN ka tilsmee khumaar

Woh tumhaaraa mujh par beloss aitbaar



Bahut yaad aataa hai yeh sub meri jaaN

Aur yaad aataa hai bahut tumhaaraa woh-

"SUNO NA"
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Punjabi Mushaira

Punjabi Mushaira

Date: 2^nd of December 2006

Time : 7 Pm

Place : Pheonics Community Centre , 22 Richmond Rd Hamilton

For further information Please contact

Brjinder Saghar Ph 2774313

Mr. PK Madan Ph; 07 8381113

Punjabi mushaira

A Punjabi language evening which includes poetry and singing,is being organised on 2nd December,2006 at Phoneix community hall,22,Richmond Street,Hamilton at 7 p.m.All are cordially invited.For phone enquires plz contact brijinder"Sagar" at 2774373(Auckland number)

Women’s Protection BilL WHAT IS THIS ?

A MESSAGE TO COMMUNITY

First of all I appreciate and thank all of our supporters and elected cabinet members of PANZ who belong to Pasban Panel. We also thank all those new members as well who have shown their interest and registered themselves as an Association's member. Community member belonging to any religion, cast or creed or group are welcome because we are all Pakistani and proud Kiwis and must be united on one plat farm under one flage. We will do our utmost to move in forward direction and bring results that are beneficial to community as a whole.

 

Now it is our duty to serve our community  with our best and without differences. A community can't succeed and can never be strong and respectable without unity, faith and discipline. Without you & your support we can't achieve our goal.

 

No matter what relations we had in the past but from now we are looking towards our future and values and we must be unitedin the broader interest of Pakiwis community living in New Zealand. We are starting with this faith that we are all proud New Zealanders of Pakistani origin. We will never give a chance to anyone to laugh at our deficiencies or to point a finger towards us in a bid to break our unity and understanding.

 

I pray to Almighty Allah that He may guide us and enable us to discharge our responsibilities in a wise and statesmen manner.

Regards

Waqar Ali

 

Best wishes to PANZ new leadreship

We congratulate the new leadership of Pakistan Association of New Zealand for winning the recent PANZ election. We express best wishes and good luck to all of them. Pakistan Welfare and Cultural Society New Zealand wishes and hope that under this new leadership of PANZ, the Society and Association of Pakistani community in New Zealand will come closer to each other with better mutual understanding and show more commitment and dedication towards achieving their goals, which are common, that is helping Pakistani community in New Zealand and presenting a better look of Pakistan to New Zealand.    

Love Vs Marriege

Love is holding hands in the street.
Marriage is holding arguments in the street.

Love is dinner for 2 in your favorite restaurant.
Marriage is a take home packet.

Love is cuddling on a sofa.
Marriage is one of them sleeping on a sofa.

Love is talking about having children.

Marriage is talking about getting away from children.

Love is going to bed early.
Marriage is going to sleep early.

Love is a romantic drive.
Marriage is arrive on tops curvy tarmac .

Love is losing your appetite.
Marriage is losing your figure.

Love is sweet nothing in the ear.
Marriage is sweet nothing in the bank.

Tv has no place in love.
Marriage is a fight for remote control.

Love is 1 drink and 2 straws.
Marriage is "Don't you think you've had enough!".

Conclusion: "Love is blind, Marriage is an eye opener!"

Women Are Like !!!!!!!!!!!

...the stock market
They're irrational and can bankrupt you if you're not careful.

...computers
They take too long to warm up and a better model always comes along once you've already got one.

...Saran Wrap
Useful but clingy.

...horses
Fun to pet and ride but a pain to feed and clean up after.

...parking meters
If you don't feed them with enough money you face serious consequences.

...fax machines
Useful for one very specific purpose but otherwise just high-maintenance paperweights.

...political campaign contributors
If you let them talk about themselves long enough you wind up in bed with them.

...refrigerators
They're always cold and never seem to have a beer when you need one.

...blue jeans
They look good for a while but eventually they fade and have to be replaced.

...country western songs
They're annoying, they all sound alike, but if you really listen to them you'll get depressed and drink a lot.

Diplomatic kiss

General Musharaf, Vajpayee, Aishwarya Rai & Margaret Thatcher, are sitting in a train. The train suddenly goes through a tunnel and it gets completely dark. Suddenly there is a kissing sound and then a slap! The train comes out of the tunnel. Both women and Gen Musharraf are sitting there looking perplexed. Vajpayee is bent over holding his face, which is red from an apparent slap. All of them remain diplomatic and nobody says anything.

Thatcher is thinking:

"These Indians are all crazy after Aishwarya. Vajpayee must have tried to kiss her in the tunnel. Very proper that she slapped him."

Aishwarya is thinking:

"Vajpayee must have moved to kiss me, and kissed Margaret instead and got slapped."

Vajpayee is thinking:

"Damn it, Musharraf must have tried to kiss Aishwarya, she must have thought it was me and slapped my face. "

Musharraf is thinking:

"If this train goes through another tunnel, I could make another kissing sound and slap Vajpayee again.!!!!!!!!"

Sardar Jokes

Two Sardarjis (pilots) try to land an airplane in the
states.They start descending and as they touch
the ground the pilot screamed "the runway is ending...".
The second pilot swiftly gets the plane back up in the air...
They make a big turn and start descending again. The moment they
touch the ground, the pilot scream again "Get the plane up, the
runaway is ending...". The second pilot swiftly gets the plane back
up in the air... They make a big turn and start descending again... This
goes on again and again... During their fourth descent the pilot
says:"Look at those stupid Americans, they build this huge & expensive
airport but with such a short runaway..", ""I know"
answers the second pilot, "But look how wide they made it....



A Sardarji finds himself in dire trouble. His business
has gone bust and he's in serious financial trouble. He's so desperate
that he decides to ask Bhagwan for help.
He goes into the temple and begins to pray... "Oh
Bhagwan,please help me, I've lost my business and if I don't get some money,
I'm going to lose my house as well, please let me win the lotto". Lotto
night comes and somebody else wins it. The Sardarji goes back to the
temple...
"Bhagwan, please let me win the lotto, I've lost my
business, my house and I'm going to lose my car as well". Lotto night
comes and the Sardarji still has no luck!! Back to the temple...
"My Bhagwan, why have you forsaken me? I've lost my
business, my house, my car and my wife and children are starving... I don't
often ask you for help and I have always been a good servant to you. Why
won't you just let me win the lotto this one time so I can get my life back
Suddenly there is a blinding flash of light as the sky parts open and the
Sardarji is confronted by the voice of Lord:
"SARDARJI, BUY THE DAMN TICKET FIRST".



Two Sardarjis were in conversation on the beach :
Sardarji 1 :Praaji , Ise 'beach' kyo kaheete hai ?
Sardarji 2 : Tumhe nahi pata ?
Sardarji 1 : Nahi pata.
Sardarji 2 : Woh to Aasmaan aur Zameen ke beech mein
hai esliye eesai beach kahete hai .



Three sardarji's were fast approaching long distance
leaving train, two of them got into the train and third one remain on
the platform, suddenly he started crying, people around
when asked him the reason for crying, he mention that two of my
friends got into the train leaving me on the platform.
Everybody advised him to take it easy & look for the next train.
suddenly sardarji started laughing loudly, when people
ask him with surprise he mention that actually I was suppose to go in
that train, my other two friends had come to see me off.



A sardar walked up to the front desk of the library and
said,"I borrowed a book last week, but it was the
most boring I've ever read. There was no story
whatsoever, and there were far too many characters!"
The librarian replied, "Oh, you must be the person who
took our phone book."



Three men were applying for the same job as a detective.
One was a Sardarji, one was Jewish, and one was Italian.
The chief decided to ask each applicant just one question and base
his decision upon that answer. When the Jewish man arrived
for his interview, the chief asked him, "Who killed Jesus
Christ?".
The Jewish man answered without hesitation "The Romans
killed him."
The chief thanked him and he left. When the Italian man
arrived for his interview, the chief asked the same
question.He replied "Jesus was killed by the Jews." Again, the chief
thanked the man. Finally the Sardarji arrived for his interview, he was
asked the same question. He thought for a long time, before saying,
"Could I have some time to think about it?" The chief
said,"OK, but get back to me tomorrow." When the Sardarji
arrived home, his wife asked "How was the interview ?".
Pat came the reply, "Great, I got the job, and I'm already investigating
a murder.




One day sardarji was sitting in his office on the
thirteenth floor of a building when a man came running
in to his office and shouted "Santa singh your daughter
Preeto just died in an accident" Sardarji was in panic.
Not knowing what to do he jumped from his office window while
coming down when he was near the tenth floor he remembered he
didn't have a daughter named preeto.
When he was near the fifth floor he remembered he was not
married.When he was about to hit the ground he remembered
he was not Santa Singh.





Jugnu Singh: I was born in the Punjab.
Harpal Singh: Oh really, which part?
Jugnu Singh: All of me, silly.




Jugnu Singh with two red ears went to his doctor.

The doctor asked him what had happened to his ears and he answered, "I was ironing a shirt and the phone rang but instead of picking up the phone I accidentally picked up the iron and stuck it to my ear."

"Oh Dear!" the doctor exclaimed in disbelief. "But...what happened to your other ear?"

"That fellow called back."




One fine day a girl proposed to a sardar and the sardar denied her saying that - "in our family we marry only with our relatives :
my grandfather married my grandmother,
my mom married my dad,
my brother married my bhabhi,
my sister married my jijajee,
my uncle married my aunt
so please excuse me, I can't marry you, we are not related."




BEPPO SINGH'S MOTHER DIED.
Beppo Singh: (crying) the doctor called, my mother is dead.
Friend: condolence, my friend.
After 2 minutes Beppo Singh cries even louder
Friend: what now?
Beppo Singh: my sister just called, her mother died too!




Jasmeet Kaur watched her husband Santa Singh searching
high and low, all over the living room. She asked him:
"What are you so frantically searching?"
Santa: "Hidden cameras!"
Jasmeet: "And what makes you think there are hidden
cameras here?"
Santa: "Or else, every few minutes, how is that guy on
television saying 'You are watching the Star World channel'?
"How can he know what I am watching?"



Sardar enters kitchen and opens the sugarbox. Sees inside and closes it. Wife observes the whole episode.Again he comes and does the same stuff. Wife askes Why are you doing this? Sardar replies: Doc told to check sugar level regularly



A friend asks sardar how was ur exam?
Sardar: It was ok but i couldnt answer past tense of THINK.
I thought, thought & finally i wrote 'THUNK'.

Sardar: Doctor help me, mein jab baat karta huun to muje sirf awaaz sunai deti hai, aadmi nahi dikhta.
Dr: Aaisa kab hota hai?
Sardar: Phone karte waqt.

Sardarji zebra crossing ke black & white patte par bar bar idhar-udhar chalte thay, woh kya soch rahe honge....
think......... >>>>>>> >>>>>>>
"SALA YE PIANO BAJTA KYO NAHI"


Sardar on cycle hit lady accidently, lady says," break nahi mar sakta tha kya?
Sardar replies: "break ka kya hai, poori cycle to mar di..."


Angry Sardar-Oye mein is duniya ko mita dunga - mita dunga mita dunga.
Another sardar standing besides said mein tujhe rubber nahi dunga. Twisted Evil



What is the full form of singh: S-sardar I-insaan N-nahi G-gadha H-hai.



one day sardar ji bought cool shorts from a mall....n went into deep thinking.........how to show them off?..he asked his wife to iron them up so he will wear them 2 morrow for work........
n next morning he left for work....he remebered to show the shorts off.......he took off the dhoti to show the shorts off........some people fainted......other cried...he came home confussed n asked his wife:preeto mein kya loki meino waikh kar behosh hogay...etnay khusorat shorts they meray............pretoo"sardar ji woh to app istri stand par hi bhool gaye thay"



Smile a lot, it costs nothing .........

chemistry of love!

SYMBOL : ILU

ATOMIC NUMBER : 2

ATOMIC WEIGHT : Varies from Couple To couple

POSITION ON PERIODIC TABLE : Close To The Heart

OCCURANCE : Occurs In highly Reactive State , CoLLeGe CoMpOuNDs ,CiNeMa HaLLs, PaRks and BusS stOps!

METHOD OF PREPERATION :

a) : by the action of beauty upon heart. An Exothermic reaction resulting in the higher rate of blood circulation and Faster heart beat!

b) : by the combination of two complex compounds..commonly known as a Boy and a Girl!
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CATALYST USED : Friends,Cousins,Movies,Restaurants and a highly active imagination!

REDUCING AGENTS : Parents,Teachers,Neighbours and Society!

GIRL + PARENTS ---> EXPLOSION + LOSS OF SALINE WATER FROM TEAR GLANDS

BOY + REDUCING AGENT ---> REBELLIONS

PANZ CHAMPION TROPHY 2006

PANZ Champion Trophy Cricket Tournament ( super six) will be held on Sunday 26 November 2006, 8am at Lynfield Collage Ground Lynfield. All teams must be registered before 5pm November 20th 2006. Each team must have 6 players.

Please contact followoing members to register.

 

Waqar Ali (President Panz) 021-702 750 / 09-827 7715

Atta Qureshi (VP Panz) 021-207 0071

Aamir Nawaz (Finance secretary) 021-113 4049

Naseem Soharwardy ( Joint Secretary) 021-265 4076

 

Regards

Syed Waqar Ali (President PANZ)

 

 

 

 

Super Six

Get your gear ready , slip in to your cricket kit or even if you don't have kit come along team up for PANZ super six tournament 2006

Date is Sunday 26 Nov all you need 6 peoples to form your team, for further information contect VP PANZ Atta ur Rahman 0275809269

Driving Styles...

 


One hand on steering wheel, one hand out of window. - Sydney

One hand on steering wheel, one hand on horn - Japan

One hand on steering wheel, one hand on newspaper, foot
solidly on accelerator.- Boston

Both hands on steering wheel, eyes shut, both feet on brake,
shaking in terror - New York

Both hands in air, gesturing, both feet on accelerator,
head turned to talk to someone in back seat - Italy

One hand on horn, one hand greeting, one ear on cell phone,
one ear listening to loud music, foot on accelerator, eyes on female
pedestrians, conversation with someone in next car - Welcome to
Pakistan!

First Muslim in US Congress

Daily Dawn reported on 09.11.06

First Muslim elected to US Congress
By Abdus Sattar Ghazali
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov 8: Keith Ellison, a Democratic candidate from Minnesota, on Tuesday became the first Muslim to be elected to the United States Congress. With results from 99 per cent precincts announced, Mr Ellison got 135,519 or 56 per cent of the votes while his rival, Republican Party Jewish candidate Alan Fine received only 51,896 or 21 per cent.

Voters responded to Mr Ellison’s liberal message calling for peace, withdrawal of US troops from Iraq and universal health care. In a victory message to his voters, he said he was privileged, with their support, of going to Washington to fight and deliver for the people and communities.

The American Muslim Task Force called the election a huge victory for both Muslim Americans and America. It said: “This victory has eradicated two stereotypes: one against Muslims, that they cannot work and succeed in democratic setup and the other against the US, that it is not a tolerant society.”

Mr Ellison, 43, a defence lawyer and Minnesota State Assembly member since 2003, embraced Islam when he was studying at college. His campaign had generated excitement in the seven-million-strong American Muslim community. He visited Florida and California -– with large concentration of Muslim population -– to garner support for his campaign.

The Council on American-Islamic Relations collected about $400,000 in a fundraiser for Mr Ellison.

American Muslim Voice Executive Director Samina Faheem Sundas said the attacks of Sept 11, 2001, had both heightened prejudice against Muslims and spurred them to be more politically active in hope of countering that prejudice.

"There are millions of Muslims in this country. It shouldn't have taken this long to elect one to Congress," she added.

The Newsweek reported recently that America's Muslims were nearly invisible when it came to holding office. Currently, the highest-ranking Muslim public official is Larry Shaw, a North Carolina state senator. In 2004, Ferial Masry, a Saudi-born woman, lost her bid for Congress in California. Also from California, Syed Rifat Mahmood made an unsuccessful bid for Congress in 2002 on a Republican ticket.

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