Nawaz Sharif Returned, Nawaz Sharif Deported

Today there another drama took place in my country, Pakistan. Rather the military government made a fool of us all.

A former prime minister of Pakistan, Nawaz Sharif, was supposed to return back after 7 years in exile. He twice elected as the prime minister of the country. He was supposed to land at the Islamabad International Airport. It was also speculated that he will get a really warm welcome here and a big crowd would be there at the airport to greet him.

The military government also suspected that. And to prevent all these activities from occurring, the government made preparations. Sitting and old ministers of PML-N (political party of Nawaz Sharif) were arrested by saying that they were being arrested for their own safety. The roads to the airport were blocked. Almost all entrances into Rawalpindi (the twin city of Islamabad where the airport is located) were blocked. Many people who tried to pass through the barricades were arrested. There was tear gas shelling at places.

Due to all these measures taken by the government, it was impossible for many, like me, to reach their work places as the roads were blocked. Even if some were not blocked, there was the fear that the standing-by army might intervene and unnecessarily harass the passers by. All this made me stay home too. Rather I was strictly ordered by my father not to set a foot outside the house today. And I obeyed. Watched the happenings on the TV.

And then came the time when the plane of Nawaz Sharif landed. That too was shown from a far off place as the entry of media was banned in the airport. After about 5 hours of speculations the final news came that the former prime minister has been deported to Saudi Arabia. A fully fueled air bus was standing ready on the airport which was made the final transport for Nawaz Sharif that flew him away from the country.

It was an extremely sad news. I was really hoping that he would stay in the country and work towards achieving democracy in the country. I was even willing to vote for him in the elect ions but alas he had to meet such a fate, yet again. I do not know how he felt whilst being taken back. But I for one felt a grave pain deep inside. I kept wondering what had just happened. What was the military government trying to prove? Why was it so scared of a political leader? And most of all I thought that what will be the fate of my motherland, Pakistan.

Overhead Bridge Collapsed in Karachi

Today an overhead bridge collapsed in Karachi. It was a brand new bridge and was only recently opened for traffic and was inaugurated by General Musharraf on 2 August, 2007. The construction was done by NLC.

This has happend in Karachi. An overhead bridge is also going to be constructed in Islamabad. Seeing the Karachi situation is making me wonder if we would ever be witnessing such a situation in Islamabad in future. Its a scary situation. May Allah help us all!

Dream Skating

Last night i had a dream. And in that dream i was skating. First on the regular skates and then on ice. And i was so balanced that i even amazed my own self :-D hehehe I wonder what the meaning of this dream could be. I wish i really could do all this, some day!

Home, On a Holiday

Today I am home.

Why?

Because I am on a holiday! :-D

Why?

Because my sister asked me so.

Why?

Because she is here from Norway for a short while and wanted to spend some time with her elder sister. ;-)

Why?

Ummmm I guess you have to ask HER that. I am going to go and enjoy my holiday some more ;-) hehe

Look! It's Me!

Hey! Look! It's me! Reading my "own" blog. Now isn't this funny! :-D hehehe

Me reading my own blog ;-)

Candy Floss Clouds

Today the weather is really superb. Its cloudy with slight rain. I don't know of others but i love this type of weather. I have to admit that people traveling to places are facing difficulties, but the ones indoors must be enjoying. I am sitting here in my office at my desk, waiting for the ordered lunch to arrive. Somebody had moved the blinds of a corner window a bit. I could see the 'yummy' clouds outside. They looked just like white candy floss, white little chicks and fluffy cushions. I felt like reaching out and catching hold of some.

I can see a part of this view from my seat.

Clouds: As seen from my office window

I went up to the window and took this picture to show you all. :-D

Here is another one. You can call it the bird's eye view from my office; third floor of the building.

Bird's Eye View from my Office

Somebody just pulled the blinds back on the window. I have a strong urge and undo that action. wish me luck!

*ay

Today
Do play

With clay
Your way


Note: This is the tiniest ever poem by me. Will try to write a microscopic one next time. ;-) hehehe

Gobbledegook??

Its 1:30 a.m. and I am wide awake, surfing the net while listening to newly downloaded music. The track that is being repeatedly drummed into my ears by the Media Player is More Than a Woman by Bee Gees. Cool song I would say.

It all started when I embarked on a search to locate the name of the singer of a Punjabi track 'Lak Da Hulara'. I searched for just a little when google pointed out that the singer is called Sarbjit Cheema. [hmmm I remember I once had a Cheema in my class too. Oh well this can't be him. hehe] Being a fan of this track, and finally aware of the singer's name, I set out on another errand, and that was to find and download more songs by this person.

I turned to Limewire for help which as always was a dear and threw bundles of related tracks my way. I picked and chose several songs and marked them for download. I was happy that I was going to have a 'good' collection of 'cool' bhangra songs. But no sooner that I had seen a dream, it began to collapse. I started trying out the downloaded chunks of songs. Man! they left a really bad taste in my mouth. I was forced to stop all downloads. And so I did.

But I was really in the mood to DOWNLOAD. So I looked up the phrase 'more than a woman' that I could remember listening just a few days ago in a movie. Wallah! The song was found, and I was surprised that it was by Bee Gees [I was damn sure it was a woman singing ;-) heheheee] Anyways, I succeeded in getting it transferred to my PC over the 'pathetic' dial up, in about 20 minutes. It’s been quite some time now, since I got the track, but its playing over and over. I am not getting bored of it. ;-)

And now I have added another freshly downloaded track to my 1 song playlist, making it a 2 song playlist. ;-) heheheee The song is Ragamuffin Girl by Apache Indian. That's a cool one too! Well at least I think so.

Enough of the gibberish, right? Want me to spare you? ;-) Ok I will do exactly that. But don't think I am being generous to ya all. I want to go catch some sleep too so I am actually being very very selfish >:-) heh heh heeee

Sweet Dreams, Catch ya later.

A Train Passed Over Me!!!

Can you believe it! A train passed right over me yesterday!

Hard to believe, right? ;-) Well it did pass over me, in reality, but...

...between me and the train, there was a bridge as well. ;-) hehehe

It rarely happens but it did yesterday that while i was driving home and passed under that bridge near Chaklala Scheme 1, a train passed over it. I pass under that bridge every day, but yesterday at that time it was quite thrilling. Now if only somebody could have taken a picture of that moment. ;-)

That Motivating Search

After a really long time I logged on to sitemeter.com to see the traffic details on my blog. There was this entry at the bottom of the page that caught my eye.

The rest of the entries showed that people have viewed a single page on my blog for 0.00 seconds, which means they didn't actually stay on my blog. But this entry showed that the person had actually seen 7 pages on my blog and had stayed on it for 13 whole minutes. *WOW*

I probed the entry further. I was surprised to see that someone had actually looked up my name along with the name of my company in google. And that search had redirected that person to my blog. :-D

Whatever this whole thing was, it was very refreshing for me. It motivated me to keep blogging, without fail. It made me very happy inside as well. I felt happy because it made me realise that there are people out there who want to stay in touch in some way or at least want to know what's going on in my life. The other thing that made me happy was the fact that google can actually find me. ;-)