Evolutionary exertion is the need of the hour

This is from 2008 Convocation at Karachi University. I love the euphoric hat act

By Talha Masud

Balochistan is under serious tumult these days. The acute problems of this province such as poor infra-structure, non investment, claims of public reforms, socio-economic restraints, lawlessness, societal differences and above all, the state of the poor standard of educational activities has evolved into the tagged reputation of the province. The expansive unrest against the Federal Government has turned the most worth-solving troubles aside. As a result, one has very limited hopes from this Province for the pursuit of a distinguished career. The Universities and the institutional functionaries are active but are not imparting the students to the level of being matched up with the scholastic grooming with the mainstream criteria than the Universities in other provincial capitals of Pakistan. The students are satisfied with the performance and the kind of education they receive in their respective majors and counter a notable breach when they get into the phase of competition. Thus everything is going free and fair apparently but lacking in quality outcome.

The Governor of Balochistan, Nawab Zulfiqaar Magsi has expressed almost identical views in his address at Balochistan University for the event of Convocation of Institute of Management Sciences today[Thursday]. He implored the students who are sincere to make a remarkable move with respect to their education that they must not rest and try to uplift the disintegrated image of the province. He further stated that the youth living in Balochistan are very much frustrated and because of this, they always are reluctant to step forward to complete their education and serving the province. He urged the students of Balochistan to show quest in making out top bureaucracy and leading roles in private organization and most importantly, serving in the same province they belong to. He expressed his trust on the students that the future generation has to show a youthful zeal and determination to take the lead on their hands.

Governor’s comments make very good sense in rooting out the situation we are enmeshed in. We may lack behind but persistent hard work of ours would really raise our bar to be able to understand our role in the society along with the career development we take as our future endeavors. As long as we remain sluggish in our self-letups, we have nothing to vision for. The strum and drang of our province, requires us to be more zealous than anyone else around. There is no one else to take the leap if we would not be ready in coming few years. We have to be more activated than ever to go on our path with the craving desire and being doubtlessly positive about the path we are going on. I have seen miraculous strengths in the students of this province. They can do wonders if they are provided to. I always put emphasis to get the utmost struggle going. Personally, I am also a very struggling boy and despite the time I wasted on capitulating over conditions, I have started my journey with a big heart and this time, it’s only about actions and outcome.

Talha no longer needs a Psychologist..

There is nothing wrong with me in general. But I seriously felt that there is something wrong with my wrack of brain. From last few days, I was acting strange as someone has hypnotized me. I was very shocked by myself. The best part of this problem of mine that I got punctual in prayers. I was thinking rubbish and I could not control myself. I never ever thought that I will be that weak one day. The reason I am content that today I am way better and whatever mess I have created in those days, I am trying my best to put it right, I hurt some people.

Interesting!

An English professor wrote the words : “A woman without her man is nothing”on the chalkboard & asked his students to punctuate it correctly.
All of the males in the class wrote :“A woman, without her man, is nothing.”
All females in class wrote :“A woman: without her, man is nothing.”
Remember Punctuation is powerful.

Let’s please Mr. Zardari

A poet wrote this poem some thirty four years ago…. How he pleased the President of that period? But he is comically right….

MAINE US SE YEH KAHA, MAINAY US SE YEH KAHA

YEH JO DUS CRORE HAIN

JEHL KA NICHOR HAIN

IN KI FIKR SO GAI

HAR UMEED KI KIRAN ZULMATUN MAIN KHO GAI

YEH KHABAR DURUST HAY, YEH KHABAR DURUST HAY

IN KI MOOT HOGAI

BE SHAOOR LOG HAIN

ZINDAGI KA ROG HAIN

AUR TERAY PAS HAY IN K DARD KI DAWA

MAINAY US SE YEH KAHA, MAINAY US SE YEH KAHA

TU KHUDA KA NOOR HAY, AQL HAY SHAOOR HAY

QOOM TERAY SAATH HAY

TERAY HI WAJOOD SE MULK KI NIJAAT HAY

TU HAY MEHR E SUBHE NAU

TERAY BAAD RAAT HAY

BOLTAY JO CHAND HAIN, SAB HI SHAR PASAND HAIN

IN KI KHECH DE ZABAN IN KA GHONT DE GALA

MAINAY US SE YEH KAHA, MAINAY US SE YEH KAHA

JIN KO THA  ZABAN PE NAAZ CHUP HAIN WHO ZABAN DARAZ

CHAIN HAY SAMAJ MAIN, BE MISAAL FARQ HAY

KAL MAIN AUR AAJ MAIN

APNE KHARCH PER HAIN QAID LOOG TERAY RAAJ MAIN

MAINAY US SE YEH KAHA, MAINAY US SE YEH KAHA

ADMI HAY WHO BARA DAR PE RAHAY PARA

JO PANAH MANG LE US KI BAKSH DE KHATA

MAINAY US SE YEH KAHA MAINAY US SE YEH KAHA

CHEEN APNA YAAR HAY, US PE JAAN NISAAR HAY

PER WAHAN HAY JO NIZAAM US TARAF NA JAYIOO

US KO DUR SE SALAM DUS CRORE YEH GHADHAY

JIN KA NAAM HAY AWAM

KIYA BANENGAY HUKMARAN

TU YAQEEN HAY YEH GUMAN

KYA BANENGAY HUKMARAN

APNI TO DUA HAY YEH SADR TU RAHE SADA

MAINAY US SE YEH KAHA, MAINAY US SE KAHA

YEH JO DUS CRORE HAIN

JEHL KA NICHOR HAIN

IN KI FIKR SOGAI

HAR UMEED KI KIRAN ZULMATUN MAIN KHO GAI

YEH KHABAR DURUST HAY, YEH KHABAR DURUST HAY

IN KI MOOT HOGAI

BE SHAOOR LOG HAIN

ZINDAGI KA ROG HAIN

AUR TERAY PAS HAY IN K DARD KI DAWA

MAINAY US SE YEH KAHA……………………

My insanity

From last many days, I am not happy. The life is going the same way as it was but few changes have startled me. I never believed on people the way I did in the recent times. I think people don’t like selfless devotion to them in any relation. They are habitual of fakism and they only understand it and give it decent names of socializing. My friend once said that being Mr. Available for your loved ones or friends only harm your image. People feel irritated when we advance them with open heart and unlimited affection. They ignore you, and as a result make you feel very de-graded. This is the second time I am experiencing it in my life, more directly this time. They get messed out of true feelings and being exertive about them. This is world my friend we are living in. Today I am very ill and a very old story a person told me about himself is revised in my mind. He loved a girl madly in his student life. The Girl went on to become a Doctor and that person was still strugling. She refused him badly and told him that he should smell his socks before approaching to her. This has badly broken the concerned person. Fate is always to happen. The guy after going through a long time of restiveness and sheer pain of being rejected took it very positive. Then there was a day when he has such a decent place in the society and the same doctor came and re-called him their old love. The person while being sad, said that the time I needed you, you set me away because I was unlike an established person and now when many girls are ready to marry my status, myself because now I no longer am a street walker, and I know they all are in fake attraction which is more of my reputation and status in the society, how come I accept the fakest of them by making you my better-half? Offcourse the girl married another person but left many questions in my mind. I don’t trust you my sweet world.

I love the youthful gusto of ‘Laal’ Band

I always love the youth which is leaning towards a positive change in the society. This is an open secret that the weakest youth is what we witness these days. The youth is stressed out from the havoc and they are running away from their surroundings. This made them a very different generation which has no endeavor for the making of their dislodged peaceful society. In these chaotic circumstances, a musical band is emerged and has infused great energy towards the generation. In the market of love-tales, they genuinely are to portray the real state of the disintegrated society as a whole. The young graduates of Oxford University and LUMS have launched a mighty Album. The songs are made on revolutionary poems. All of the songs are extremely motivational and the suppressors of the dissents, mainly the dictators are shown their reality. I hope a difference will be felt among those who really believe in a youthful change. A change which we always dream and utter underlips against the usurpers.

My First Poem

(With certain changes)

By: Talha Masud

Don’t say that you left me my ‘dove’

Don’t think that I am out of the way

Living without you is just pushing the wheel of life

As there is not will, and no way

I knew that you would go from my life

As I never took care of my precious things

The happiest span of time is no longer there

It came like a flash and flew with the wings

I still remember your first word, your first message and your first gaze

From ‘Dove’ it all started and carried on with a rapid pace

I often wept when I couldn’t bear the pain that also reflected on my face

I am loving to weep for you as your coming back is like gleams of rays

I derived my life with you, people may laugh on my insanity

I know that being in a true love is as like protecting one’s virginity

I never wished to put you in any serious calamity or self-pity

My heart will prefer to stop it’s function knowing my love’s inviolability

You teased me, I was a jealous person, I must admit

Though I always denied my this trait

But do you take it a bad of a habit

When I was envious that others may spoil my fate

I miss your lazy voice when you were sleepy enough to talk

I miss your breaths which made me a crazy lover to balk

But my nights are cursing me when they stopped expecting your emergence

And my days, stressed out, apathetic and my feet heavy enough to stalk

What to say my love as it is so hard for me to survive

I have given you my entire world yet all my life

I know you care for me but you don’t pose

I may be a burden of you for more to be alive

I want to live, I want to die, and I can not make my mind

One thing is for sure that if I live it would be a dead living

I never felt that I would ever be able to create some poetry

The pain of a dead life is hard for me to get skipping

I only pray for you to be happy, victorious and a girl with high stance

I, from some corner of the world with tears in my eyes would smile for you

That special day, I would never be selfish to think that you had been my lost love

But my cheers would speak my feelings that I only wished to make you, a YOU

I know you will have someone in your life

And I may never be informed by a mail or a letter

Now I only hope and never open my eyes to break my dream

That if that ’someone’ is me, then it would be a lot better……………………………

Dancing in the cliquey world

The reason of our so-called prosperity.

By Talha Masud

“Sir when there is no proof of embezzlement, why are those false paragraphs on my Audit report”? Inquired my father; from Mr. Ahmed Khan Lashari, the audit officer. It was August, 2002.”Sir jee! Sirf duaaun se kaam nahi chalta, aap 80,000 arrange karlen sab saaf kardengay”, Wryly smiling on my father’s question and I watched him with a strange eye though the matter was not that strange for him.

Soon after my Intermediate, I without in the knowledge of my elders appeared for a post in a paramilitary organization. Despite being on the top slot on the merit list, a referral of a Senator from sindh took my place and the Chairman declared his helplessness in a very defensive way. I only could afford a grin on my face in response.

This occurrence is what almost all of our youth goes through in the hot pursuit of their Careers or professional studies. Referral of influential persons or having some good amount in kitty to compete the meritorious individuals and ending up on a step above than them is a pattern, well pronounced. It is not considered a pity thing to pay huge sums of money as per the nature and reach of the employment for almost all of the non-commissioned or departmental exams to fill in the vacant posts from the masses. Sometimes the jobs are advertised just to fill the files’ stomach and the pre-selection is taken after the list goes through the Chief Minister’s table or if the Governor has to annex a letter from his behalf to somebody’s interest. On the lower levels, the telephone calls from high officials would work a great deal and if again someone is unable to approach any biggie, than as a last resort, has to pay a fixed amount for a job to make sure that the selection is made transparent in terms of corruption.

In the Public Service Commission, it is a very upright method until the written examinations and without being sarcastic helps the actual merit to propel upfront. On the interviews, the coin of the candidate with good referees sparks doubtlessly with some meritorious students who get selected just because they have cleared the exams with flying colors and are compelled to be baptized as the fittest. This encourages me at least but not those who also deserve to be there in the makings for sure. CSS examinations can be trusted to an extent to be corruption free because of the fool-proof selection procedure.

This world of competition requires the fittest for sure to stay survived. In private organizations, the fittest survives without a second thought. The asking time not only requires a person to be skilled, but mentally strong and smart enough to tackle with the fluctuations of the work. The moment you get slackened, many others are ready to take your position. This proficiency can be achieved provided a person loves his work and knows to value it. Still in the induction process, there is much X factor which can be bulls-eye in your interest. But again in my last workplace, if I weren’t the known guy of the Human Resource Development Manager, my quick promotion would not be possible.

In Pakistan, one has to bear in mind that in any path of his/her life, he/she would be seriously mistreated. What message I want to get interpreted here that there is always a seat of merit for all of you. Yes, for all of you. If the searching of our scruples about our destination is cleared in our minds, then a ritual failure should never distress us. Corruption has a limit too. Though the “Sifarishis” have very good chances to make that but still they can never meet the standard of a deserving candidate. And being very positive, they (organization) want you to serve them if you are competent and once you make your own place, then you are there to develop and progress in rather quick successions. It is only the matter of believing in you amidst the setbacks and strenuous struggle.