Category: History
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Ikram Hyder Naqshbandi Naatia Kalam in Different Languages
میرے دادا کے والد سید اکرام حیدر (1854 – 1942) کی غالباً 1920 کی دہائی کا لکھا ہوا نبی کریم صل اللہ علیہ وسلم کی شان میں کلام، مختلف زبانوں میں بسم اللہ الرحمن الرحیم بزبان عربی للہ الحمد علی راسنا ار سلت نبی من نبی اقبل احکام شرقی غربی کان امی لقد ا…
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Doctrine of Necessity Molvi Tamizuddin Khan Case Judgment by Justic Munir Federal Court PLD 1955
[pdf to word auto converted document. Needs editing proof reading] P L D 1955 FEDERAL COURT 240 (Appellate Jurisdiction)Present : Muhammad Munir, C. J., A. S. M. Akram, A. R. Cornelius, Muhammad Sharif and S. A. Rahman, JJ (1) FEDERATION OF PAKISTAN,(2) MUHAMMAD ALI,(3) CHAUDHRI MUHAMMAD ALI,(4) MAJOR GENERAL ISKANDER MIRZA,(5)M. A. H. ISPAHANI,(6) DR.…
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Fun of Aurengzeb’s Piety and Inferiority Complex
“اورنگ زیب نے کوئی نماز اور کوئی بھائی نہیں چھوڑا” یوسفی صاحب مزاح نگار تھے، کوئی تاریخ دان نہیں تھے- ان کے اِس “مزاح” کو پڑھے لکھے عقلمند اپنی “تاریخ دانی” کی معراج سمجھتے ہیں اور اپنی غلامانہ زہنیت اور احساس کمتری کا شکار ہونے کا اظہار کرتے ہیں! اُس زمانے میں دنیا کے کسی…
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Sociology of Mail Delivery in villages
انٹرنیٹ سے پہلے خطوط کے زمانے کی طرز معاشرت شہروں میں کیا تھی (امریکہ سے میرے خطوط) ؟ نیچے گاؤں کی طرز معاشرت کا بہت بہترین نقشہ ہے ============ گاؤں کے خط، خیریت، بری خبر، ڈاکیہ، معاشرت از محمود زیدی دوستو، اپنے گاؤں میں دینو چاچا کے نام سے مشہور دین محمد صاحب آج اسی…
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Story of Mankind and the little bird on a mountain 100 miles high and wide
Last night I woke up at around 4am with this quote ringing in my ears. I read this book long ago, during my school days in 1970s. The book made a great impression on me then. About the immensity of time, it’s great expanse, our insignificance, and with all of our pomp and glory, our…
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Generation Inspired by Khairis and Aligarh: Ahsan Hyder and his German and French Teacher Abdul Sattar Khairi
Abdus Sattar Kheiri was my father’s teacher at Aligarh during 1934-35. Khairi along with his brother in 1917 had proposed the idea of Muslim state in British India. Attached is the recommendation that A. Sattar Kheiri wrote for my father Ahsan Hyder in 1939. During its transcription, I discovered several interesting links. My father had…
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MQM and Political engineering. Timeline
MQM served Establishment interests since 1980s through (1) sustained Karachi violence: bhatta, parchi, street crimes, gang wars, target killings,… (2) creating political instability by becoming part of political engineering at the federal level (3) creating conditions for flight of Karachi’s capital to upcountry, (4) encouraging flight of intelligentia and brain drain from Karachi, (5) making…
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War on terror cost Pakistan $123 billion: DGMO
War on terror cost Pakistan $123 billion: DGMO goog_924736457 APR 4TH, 2018 https://fp.brecorder.com/2018/04/20180404357430/ In a first ever public appearance, Director General Military Operations (DGMO) Major General Sahir Shamshad Mirza said on Tuesday that Pakistan turned the tide against terrorism at a monumental human and socio-economic cost of over $123 billion and over 76,000 casualties. Speaking at a…
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Partition, Broken Families, Migration Ethos: Bharat ko Janey Waley by Fatima Khatoon
Farewell picture of my grandfather Abdul Ghani Hyder’s return in June 1951 with the extended family. Research for names of those in Pic and labeling them with numbers was done by Khurshid Alim Zaidi, a very painstaking task. My recitation of the poem Poem written by Phuppi Fatima Khatoon on the decision of Daday Abdul…
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Ism e Tareekh and Qata e Wafat: How Birth and Death Years were remembered in History
Ism-e- tareekh ( اسم تاریخ) was the name computed from the year of birth. There are numbers assigned to each letter of the alphabet. Sum of the numbers assigned to each letter of birth year name evaluate to the birth year. See the computations of names of my father, uncles and phuppo by Syed Ikram…
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Rise and Fall of Dictators and Kings: Delusions of Grandeur by Neocolonialism Forces
Last Shah of Iran How the kings are installed and propped by the great powers; Just finished seeing this BBC documentary about the shah of Iran whose pompousness we grew up with. I remember waiting for hours on the Chaklala road to airport in 1967 to catch a glimpse of the motorcade. But, I was…
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Why Leaders Fail to Recognize their Own Incompetence: Bureaucracy and IK
Why People Fail to Recognize Their Own Incompetence. Incompetence of the “competent authorities” of pakistani government bureaucrats. And belief of PTIans in competence of IK. Dunning Kruger-Effect: Why Unintelligent People Don’t Learn? Many people claim to be experts at something they are simply not good at. Despite this, they can claim to be exceptionally good…
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Imran Khan’s Tabdeeli- Change Management and BPR
IK got elected on the slogan of “tabdeeli” (change). He doesn’t know ABC of change management or how BPR (Businesses Process Reengineering) achieves substantial and visible “tabdeeli”. BPR is about reducing the complexity of Inter departmental processes by eliminating 60-80% steps and increasing efficiency by up to 80%, and resulting in substantial reduction of corruption…
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History of PKR Pakistani Rupee
چمڑی جاۓ پر دمڑی نہ جاۓ دمڑی نہ جائے چاہے چمڑی جائے۔ دمڑی کی بڑھیا ٹکہ سرمنڈائی۔ دمڑی کی بلبل ٹکا ہشکا ئی۔[1] دمڑی کے تین تین۔ دمڑی کی آمدنی نہیں گھڑی بھر کی فرصت نہیں۔ دمڑی کی ہانڈی گئی کتوں کی ذات پہچانی گئی۔ اونٹ دمڑی کا اور دمڑی بھی پاس نہیں۔ دمڑی کی…
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How many taxpayers are in pakistan
فائلر ہوں، چور نہیں ہوں: ہر پاکستانی GST,WHT دیتا ہے، صرف FBR فائلرز 1% ہیں مگر 13 کروڑ فون، بجلی پر ٹیکس دینے والے بھی فائلرز ہیں! It is a blatant lie that there are only 1% tax filers who are supporting the taxes of the whole country. Government has files of taxpayers who are…
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Which is the “competent authority” for investigating a crime such as abduction in Pakistan
“Which is the “competent authority” for investigating a crime such as abduction in Pakistan? “Competent Authorities” for Investigation & Enforcement suffer from conflicts of jurisdiction, duplication, redundancies, multiple chains of commands, and mismatch of authority with responsibility. There is lack of transparency, and accountability. There is a perennial tension between Enforcement vs Investigation induced by…
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70 years of Failure of Dominant Narratives
اگر آپ ملک کی ترقی چاہتے ہیں تو اس 70 سالہ ناکام بیانیہ کی اندھا دھند تقلید چھوڑ دیں، جس کے چند بڑے نکات یہ ہیں:1. پاکستان کی زبوں حالی کی بنیاد مالی کرپشن ہے- جی نہیں، پاکستان کی زبوں حالی کی بنیاد مالی نہیں آئینی کرپشن ہے جو کہ اداروں کو تباہ و برباد…
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Complex web of Investigative Agencies investigating the other Investigative Agencies
بادشاہ کا گھوڑا اور انوسٹیگیشن کی نگرانی کے نگران:بادشاہ سلامت نے شاہی اصطبل کے لیے مہنگا ترین گھوڑا خریدا۔ کچھ دن بعد بادشاہ نے وزیر کے ہمراہ اپنے پسندیدہ گھوڑے کو دیکھنے کے لیے اصطبل کا دورہ کیا اور وزیر کو کہا کہ گھوڑا کمزور ہو رہا ہے ۔ وزیر نے معاملے کی تحقیقات کی…
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Oil Price Hike Mafias in Pakistan
Incompetence of the competent authority: Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority, OGRA The relationship between OGRA and Ministry of Energy, Petroleum Division. There is a conflict of responsibilities and authorities which allows these mafias to fester.
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Constitutional Corruption vs Financial Corruption
Corruption is breaking of law to gain some financial benefits. Law is under the constitution, so constitution is at a higher pedestal than law. Constitutional violations have a greater negative impact than the financial corruption because constitutional violations destroy the institutions and their relationships, thereby leaving scars that may take decades to heal. The impact…
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Why there are Crime Mafias in Pakistan- Multiple Investigation Agencies with Overlapping Functions
کرپشن اور کرائم انوسٹیگیشن: بڑھتا گیا درد جوں جوں دوا کیHow many investigation agencies are there in Pakistan? Which other investigation agencies exist that are not mentioned in the attached lists? I think there are investigating units also in FBR, EOBI, SBCA, SBP etc? I read somewhere many years ago that there are 40+ agencies!How…
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How Mafias Come into Existence in Pakistan: There is no single authority to be held accountable
Mafias are created when different government agencies start playing ping-pong with their responsibility. They are all the time fighting turf wars often with the connivance of the vested interests, who then cling together to form cartels that start playing one government department against the other, one ministry against the other. جہاں جہاں مافیا ہے…
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Aviation Fiasco: Incompetence of CAA, PIA and Aviation Ministry
CAA has recently certified that all the licenses issued by CAA are genuine and are not fake. Please note the count of fake licenses was 262 in the report flashed by the aviation minister in the assembly which was followed by the Prime Minister speaking about that the fake licenses while trying to implicate previous…
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Learning and Life is My Autobiography
Writing poetry, blogs, essay, or reflections is greatly cathartic. Things that greatly troubled me, once I got them out of my system through my writing, they stopped bothering me. Once expressed, they stop festering. This is how I forgot many of my longings. My long blog posts are my learning and my efforts in my…
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When Ayub Khan Accused Fatima Jinnah Of Being An Indian And American Agent
Source: Time Magazine datelined Christmas Day 1964. It sheds interesting light on how far back this game of the security establishment conjuring up images of US-India collusion go. Ayub Khan actually accused Fatima Jinnah of being pro-Indian and pro-American. Oldest trick in the security establishment’s book. -YLH “They call her the Mother of the Nation,” sniffed Pakistan’s…