Say no to more provinces; please Mr. President ask us what we want.

There is a famous folktale. Once were three king friends who were also neighbor .one day they decided to hold a competition. In which judges tell whose country was best. So the day of competition came. Everyone prepared a lot. When judges visited first country they saw big buildings, big airports, big shopping malls they impressed a lot with their development. They decided to gave this king best king of them. But this was a competition, so they visited second king`s country. This was very clean, beautiful, everywhere is flowers, and there was no dirt. Judges were more impressed than previous one. But the last king’s country was left. When they visited, they saw streets are full of people. People came on streets for welcoming. They welcomed them cheerfully. They showered flower petals on them. They were so happy. No one was sad in this country. So judges announced third king was best. Because they take care of their people than two. Happiness of the people is more important.

14^th August, 2011 Pakistan celebrating her 67 yrs of independence. With the preparation of the celebration we will prepare gift for birthday person. But in Pakistan no one ever think what should we give to our beautiful country. Every year Pakistan only got the gift of problems. Last year, Pakistan suffered natural disaster flood. Due to this no one celebrates Independence Day as earlier. This year no natural disaster caught our dear country.  But many man-made disasters caught our country. These disaster made every person miserable. High inflation rate, bomb blasting, target killing, unemployment, corruption and many others. Recently another issue become a counterpart of assembly of Pakistan let to make more provinces. The parliament unable to provide basic necessities. So they take step of making more provinces.

No part and no person in country are happy with the current situation. Now our own voted parliamentarian started with Punjab to make new provinces. They sit in the centrally-conditioned rooms and sort out the solutions of poor people. They quarrel with each other every day .Then start the drama of how to make up. And this is how they running Pakistan. Now they themselves plan to make new provinces. No one feel the urge to ask Pakistani people they are agreeing to what we are going to do?

We don’t ask you Mr. President what you are collecting and how much is your wealth from taking oath to till now. We just want to request; please don’t make more provinces. We are happy in areas we are living in. Don’t create much fuss in country. We already suffered so many issues. We don’t have job, no electricity, our business is any more, even our lives are no more save. We don’t know if we go market we may back or not. We are no more uniting like at the time of independence.

There is no need to make more provinces. It only exuberate racial conflicts, territorial anger. It’s difficult to handle more provinces. We can bend to one province. Favoritism can prolong. We had bitter experience of this favoritism earlier. East Pakistan Bangladesh is one of our mistakes. So please do ask what we want. Don’t forget we vote you Mr. President. We can let you down. But we don’t want to hurt you.

Now this is crossing the limits of brutality. We are not happy with your current decision of making more provinces. Yesterday was 14^th August. Please mercy on the poor people of Pakistan we don’t have much money to send our children abroad for higher studies. Kindly solve what we suffering. Don’t create more issues for us.

We are happy for calling the nation of four provinces country. Punjab, Sindh , Baluchistan,   Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. If you want to change the condition of Pakistan with whole heartily then please eliminate feudalism, abolishes the cruelty of elite class who make salve weak masses. Eliminate brutality of society against women who make their own courts. And daily announced many woman woni, kara kari, many other become victim of these false norms. Why you don’t put on eye on these issues. Why in every regime weak people become a victim of these courts.

Why you don’t take notice of the high rate of unemployment. One and half year is left in completing this regime. Why you want that history writes ‘you never showed mercy on the people who were hardly living hand to mouth and were hoping your mercy`. Have you ever thought that how much how struggle was made for this state? And you are asking which province is taken first step in making more provinces.  

Yesterday was the Independence Day of Pakistan. Please try to realize happiness of people is more important than the buildings and other things. 

Old friend my poor sofa .

Recently I shifted to my new home. And my mother gave my old dear sofa to housekeeping maid. I saw him since I was born. Our relation (me and my sofa) was very deep . I consider it my lucky one like a lucky stone of people. My behavior was very superstitious towards him. Whenever I am tired I used to sleep on this sofa. Actually I like old traditional things than new ones. I’m very sentimental girl and I’m easily attached to things. So this is  how our love started.

When I m upset I jumped on it. I cried and after few minute I gone normal. So see how I’m deeply attached with my sofa. At the time of every  meal, my mother and my siblings always talked how to erase this dirty thing from our house. But I always raise voice and saved my sofa. When I get low marks in exams , fight with siblings and my defeat, parents scolding  every time no one with me except my dear sofa.

When my exams near I used to sit on my lucky sofa. And I passed exams. The other two parts of this sofa was earlier become the shine of my housemaid. So now you can imagine how pathetic condition of my ex-sofa was. But I believe true love don’t go on the physical appearance of lover. With the shifting of his two parts I completed my graduation. Now my myth was stronger. And my love to my sofa was more deepen.

The happiness of my graduation gone far me to my sofa.  But one day, after a long time when my mother talked about the throwing of my sofa. My suppressed feelings had been reappeared.  But this time my mother is quite serious about the decoration of the house. And she insisted to removal of the sofa. Now sofa was no more in the condition of sale. But this time, mother’s argument and her passion towards home decoration made me to change my decision. Everyone thinks this was stain that can’t be removed with anything. And the only solution of this is to put into garbage or give to housekeeping maid. So now I promised to my mom that you will give this to our housekeeping maid after my masters.

Again I saved my sofa. But this time, Alas, our accompany was very short. I am unable to save my sofa from the brutality of society. Now I entered to my new university for higher studies. Time was running so fast. In the busy life of university I forget my sofa. Now I completed my university. After few months, we shifted to our new house. And my mother gives my dear sofa to our housekeeping maid. When my sofa was gone I felt sad. And I am remembering my sweet old days with my sofa.

‘A real friend is one who walks in when in the rest of the world walks out`.

Attachment would be build with any object. Sometimes, your old furniture, old house become a strong part of your life. That you never wana lose. My feelings, attachment towards my sofa always remember me my struggle for life and his company . This presence always felt like a old friend to me, who knows everything about me. He accept me with all my faults and with me in every phase of my life.