Why Pakistan Does Not Progress Faster...#MirMak

Why Pakistan Does Not Progress Faster...#MirMak

In every country, every culture, children need role models. Role models in every field from medicine to sports to politics to business to engineering. Well we have role models in all fields. All without fail. But out of all of the above that i have mentioned, only one is celebrated and i.e. the field of politics. The rest is left at the mercy of obscurity and oblivion. From morning til night we are obsessed with promoting people in power and making others look irrelevant. When a child sees that the only way to succeed in a country is by joining a political party, then comes the birth of student political federations at university level. When a child is supposed to develop this own way of thinking in his late teenage years or early twenties, he or she is sucked into a political party activity where he is "Told" what is right or wrong based on the party leader's opinions rather than being "Encouraged" to think independently.
The cart is being put before the horse. No developed nation progressed in the history of the world because of its political leadership. It is rather the opposite. It is because of the people's progress that the governments collected higher taxes and spent those taxes for the betterment of people. It is the scientists of a country, teachers of a nation, businessmen of communities, inventors of ideas that take a country towards progress.Political leadership is to legislate, execute and make the matters run smoothly but the matters are run by the people of a nation. Nations progress when each person lives a life that inspires others. May it be inspiring your own children instead of masses out of your home, as long as you are inspiring someone by example then you are contributing to your country.
So much wrong has been done in the past 70 years in our society that we have gone into a reverse mode. Instead of praising the ones who are the true role models, we make them controversial. Why ? Because we can not compete them. we can not be role models ourselves so we do not want others to become role models as well. And role models are NOT exceptional people. The biggest myth in the world is that you have to be exceptionally accomplished, famous, rich and powerful for you to be considered a role model. Wrong conception. Role models start from home. My father is a role model for me with his punctuality and commitment to work because he never took a sick day off in his entire life. He is not rich, he is not famous but he is my role model. My mother is my role model because she instilled by example the concept of positivity and belief in Allah in me. By example not by her words but by her actions. A rikhshawala to me is a great role model, a carpenter in Pakistan or a mechanic could be a great role model if he is working honestly, spreading positivity, exuding patriotism and contributing to the society.
In order to change your bad habits you have to study and notice what good habits are. Until you have a comparison you can not choose right from wrong. Promise yourself today as the great youth of Pakistan that you will start to look for role models in your society other than your political leaders. Promise yourselves that you will come out of your 'Well" and jump into the "Ocean". Promise yourself that you will not be a "Kuwain Ka Maindak". You will be a "Samandar Ki Shark". Until you find a role model for yourself.BE ONE for others. Make Pakistan great by making yourself great first.

INDECISIVENESS: The Death Of Your Life You Witness Before You Die. #MirMak

 

INDECISIVENESS: The Death Of Your Life You Witness Before You Die. #MirMak

INDECISIVENESS is one thing that i think is a bigger problem than Fear, Failure, Struggles, Lessons, Phobias, Depression, Anxiety and whatever else that can come to your mind. Because indecision is something that keeps you away from learning, facing your fears, Rewards, Successes, Accomplishments, and everything that could possibly bring you enlightenment and happiness. Indecisiveness will prevent you from taking the first step. It is the mother of all evils in a human mind. Everything and i mean everything stems from this problem. It breeds fear in humans but never even lets them face the fear so the chances of overcoming your fears are zero. It never lets you become successful because people who can not take a decision can not start something, and if you can not start something than how will you ever get to your destination.
Its like deciding to go to Paris, You do your research on the web about Paris, See the beautiful pictures, learn about the places to see, Look up the restaurants and shows and events happening in Paris during your stay, learn a few phrases from Google Translation in French, Go to your travel agent, Buy a ticket, get to the airport, go through check-in and immigration, get your boarding pass and then start thinking, waiting in the boarding lounge, should you get on the plane or not. Was it a good decision to choose Paris or should you have gone to another destination. Will it turn out to be according to your expectations or not. What if this happened and what if that happened while you were in Paris... While you are thinking about all this and BEING INDECISIVE, The plane leaves. Now if you were using your faith, Islam, as an excuse, you will say..Yehi Allah Ki Marzi thi Ke Plane Chala Gaya...( This is what God Wanted). Maybe there was a MASLEHAT (Hidden Reason) in me missing the plane..Maybe..Maybe Maybe... ALL WRONG. Do not confuse your own mess ups with Allah's doings. The biggest of indecisive people i have met, and if they happened to be Muslims, they immediately bring Allah into covering up their own faults. What they dont understand is that Allah wants and likes people who make decisions. Decision to do good for others, decision to not lie, decision to pray or to fast, decision to go to Hajj, Decision to support your family with Halal earnings, decision to do everything. You will be questioned for your DEEDS in the AAKHIRAT (Judgement Day) and those deeds had to be done by taking a decision to do them. Without a decision, nothing can be done.
People become indecisive based on the fear of not being good at something they want to do. Remember one thing and remember it ALWAYS, You not being good at something is the FIRST STEP towards you becoming good at it. As long as you have passion for it, what you suck at in the beginning will become your expertise later. But your indecisiveness will prevent you from getting good at anything. From starting that business, Or getting a better job. Or marrying someone you love. Or traveling to another country. Or changing a house. Indecisiveness will not only RUIN your own life but it will ruin the lives of your children and your spouse and your loved ones because a man who can not make a decision for himself should not be made responsible for making decisions for his family.
Never fear your past for making a decision for your future. your past does not dictate your future. Never use your previous failures or your current fear to justify your indecisiveness. I want you to know that i am a living proof that Pain will make you stronger, tears will make you braver and heartbreaks will make you wiser, failures will make you sharper, loneliness will make you enlightened, rejection will make you more determined.... But nothing can make you anything, if you do not take the decisions. Dont ever be scared and give up, because brave people are also scared, cowards are not the only ones who are scared. The only difference is that Cowards get scared and give up, heroes get scared but go on. You decide, what do you want to be ? I Hope A hero....

Farewell Ceremony For Raheel Shareef Is A "Silly" Thing...Cyril Almeida #MirMak

 

Farewell Ceremony For Raheel Shareef Is A "Silly" Thing...Cyril Almeida #MirMak

Write against the national security, leak news that never existed by fabricating it, catch a flight out of Pakistan, get funded for the trip by the western interests, sit in in the west and write against Pakistan and then the world wonders if this anti-pakistan mentality exists within Pakistan in the journalistic community. Journalism is not about opinions, journalism is about reporting. Its about unearthing with honesty what regular citizens would like to become aware of. Journalism is always in the interest of the country you belong to, where you are born, where you get fed from, where you make a living, where you, your parents and your next generations live and get buried in. Journalism is never about creating divides, it is never about promoting a gulf between communities of citizens or governmental institutions.
Celebration or a farewell is nothing but a recognition of someone's services to its nation. Perhaps this west licking journalist forgot that it is not only part of his master's teaching but also a part of our religion and faith that we mourn sadness and celebrate happiness. Celebration is of all kinds starting right from our school life. We work hard, we study, we take exams we get the results and if we pass we "Celebrate" those results. We keep our first "Roza" and that day for a child is celebrated. We finish reading Quran as a child and we celebrate it with a ceremony. Our Prophet's birth we celebrate. The night when Quran descended upon earth we celebrate. We get married we celebrate. We have a child we celebrate. We elect a Prime Minister we celebrate. We win elections we celebrate as the members of the party. Life is about celebration and farewells.
But why is it that to prove your importance as a journalist in Pakistan, you have to write against Pakistan and the small happy moments of Pakistanis. Us Pakistanis deserve every moment of happiness and celebration that we can get our hands on after having suffered from terrorism for decades. Not every Pakistani has the luxury of running away to America or England like Cyril did. There are people who can not even afford to leave their villages let alone go to another country. And those people deserve national celebrations. Good and bad journalists exist in every country but them being good and bad depends on their reporting or writing skills not anti-state remarks. Trying to demoralize a nation by suggesting to strip them of small celebrations is nothing but work of a devilish mind specially when Cyril himself is sitting in a luxurious country in a luxurious environment being paid for the trip by hate spreading NGO's, where everything is celebrated including Halloween.
Cyril Almeida, You are a one story wonder boy. You were nothing prior to breaking one story and you will be nothing after even 100 such stories. Good thing that you left Pakistan because the quicker dirt is gotten riddance of, the better the environment becomes. Pakistanis will celebrate our happiness, our occasions, our triumphs, our victories, our accomplishments and soon enough we will also celebrate getting rid of journalists like you. We will call it "The Almeida Riddance Day".....

"Surgical Strike" On Indian Currency Notes. #MirMak

"Surgical Strike" On Indian Currency Notes. #MirMak

Few weeks ago, the second day after the Indian PM announced that Rs 500 and 1000 notes are deemed useless on the night of November 8th, i had written an article immediately based on my foresight of economy that India will face a monetary crisis. Well ladies and gentlemen, i did not think that it would happen this quickly but it has. Modi and his ad hoc policies stem from a mindset which only thinks in an irrational manner, an authoritative and a imposing manner where it leaves me thinking about Hitler and his policies of ruling over millions with "I am always right mentality"....

Deeming 86% of the cash notes in circulation useless overnight is nothing but a policy of irrationality. Women in India have been affected the most because the cornerstone of India's cash economy are women. And to top it all, only 32% of Indian women have an account at the bank because of either illiteracy or mistrust in financial institutions, so they earn in small bills and keep their savings in cash at home. Out of a 501 million workforce and women being the backbone of cash economy for small transactions, it is nothing but a paralyzing moment for them to travel hundreds of miles to the banks that are refusing to entertain them. To add insult to the injury, the winter wedding season of India is here as well which thrives on cash and smaller transactions but the Modi economic surgical strike has surgically dissected the poor people from their daily activities.

Modi's decision of wiping out 23 billion notes of Rs 500 and Rs 1000, yes 23 billion of them, reminds me of a similar move by another dictator where in 2009, in North Korea. Within weeks it wiped out the private sector investment of its capital, had the food prices shoot up by 30 folds, and then came the widespread hunger. India seems to have everything on track to face such a crisis. Same thing had happened in 1987 in Burma where the denomination of their currency Kyat was changed and exactly the same crisis took place which they have not been able to recover from even 3 decades later. It had wiped out the entire private sector savings into oblivion. Poverty rose to an unprecedented level. Food prices were not affordable even for the middle class and widespread riots broke out.

In a country of 1.3 billion people and just 400 million bank accounts with many being multiple accounts of the same family and in many cases several accounts of the same business entity, in a country where the value of transactions of Rs 500 and Rs 1000 equals to 12% of the GDP, the actual economic growth has to slow down starting immediately to say the least. On the worst side, i see this crisis to continue and gain pace where a common Indian will not even be able to afford even basic food items. This should never happen to any nation, animosity aside, enmity separated from emotions, the common people of any country should not suffer because of the decisions of their maniacal leader, and maniacal Modi has proven to be, surgically and otherwise.

"Pakistan's Economy Is Going To Collapse In The Next 10 Years." Sindh Education Minister. #MirMak

"Pakistan's Economy Is Going To Collapse In The Next 10 Years." Sindh Education Minister. #MirMak

I have traveled a lot in my life. Seen and met many officials of different countries, not just the first world but as remote as Mongolia and as far away as Nigeria, but never in my life have i met Ministers who bad mouth their own country and their economy like the ones who do it in Pakistan. Critical point of view with solutions is welcomed anywhere but to predict doomsday and qayamat is nothing but an act of ignorance, specially when economic predictions are coming from a Minister Of Education.
Sindh Education Minister, Jam Mehtab Hussain Dahar, according to the newspaper Express Tribune, which in my view loves to promote anti-pakistan agenda as an official franchise of the Pakistan hating New York Times, has said that "Pakistan's economy will collapse in the next 10 years". An education minister is supposed to be "Educated" and as any citizen may have a right to his opinion but as a minister there comes responsibility of statements which is much higher than a regular citizen. A minister saying something as compared to a regular citizen saying something are completely two different things. Firstly because a minister gets media coverage and a normal citizen does not. A minister should know what he is talking about because he is ruling over millions of lives who look up to him. And finally a minister is supposed to back up his statement with facts and figures intertwined with logic and research.
An education minister making economic predictions and on top of that not giving the reason is like a health minister talking about transportation industry's demise without any knowledge of it. Shame on these people who live in Pakistan, make money in Pakistan, rule over millions of lives in Pakistan, have protocol of tens of security guards in Pakistan, get paid from the taxes of Pakistanis and spread panic amongst the people of Pakistan.
Specially at a time when we have just barely won over the terrorists, at a time when our economy is being praised by every financial think tank in the world including S&P raising our economic sovereign ratings, CPEC in full bloom, bilateral trade ties strengthening, strong currency, lowest interest rates in 40 years, all rime high stock market, GDP growth predictions of World Bank for Pakistan to be at 5.2%. Global Competitiveness and ease of doing business becoming better. Auto industry in full bloom with hundreds of millions of dollars in new investment. Cement industry expanding at its full capacity for higher production. One of the highest savings rate in Asia. One Belt One Road OBOR making Pakistan part of its multi trillion dollar economy. Everything getting better and better EXCEPT one thing, and that is the JAHAALAT of our political leaders who do not know their ass from their tale yet they love to make statements that hurt Pakistan.
Shame On You Minister. Shame On You. Your political career will collapse in the next 10 years not Pakistani economy. Insha Allah. Ameen.

Hackers Stole Hillary Clinton's Votes And Gave It To Trump....#MirMak

Hackers Stole Hillary Clinton's Votes And Gave It To Trump....#MirMak


This is big news. Huge news being reported by CNN. The report says that certain numbers of votes were stolen from Clinton by the hackers which resulted in Trump gaining the electoral votes at the last moment. 3 States including Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania are being questioned and these were the 3 states which took all the electoral votes from Clinton. It is also being reported that Clinton will contest the election result after this new and baffling finding.
There goes American democracy. The important thing to see will be that if these hackers were paid by Trump to do so or they did it on their own. Whatever the case maybe, i think it will be an interesting development to watch.

You Are A Star And Stars ONLY Shine In Darkness....#MirMak

There was not a month of my life where i did not have difficulties to cope with. Never throughout my adult life have i not had excitement to handle and deal with. Yes EXCITEMENT. That is what i call it. Any time a situation arises, i call it excitement because it gets me excited to deal with it. People pray for excitement in their lives and i have been looking forward to the opposite. I have lived a life which is nothing short of a fictional novel. I did not choose it that way, but it happened. Did i crawl in a corner, cry, complained, gave up...NO. Why ? Am i stronger or better than others ? Absolutely NO. Then how do i still smile 24/7 and in addition, try to inspire and motivate others ? Let me reveal the secret. And its simple. I have given the control of my life to ALLAH.. I used to think in my 20's that i am in control of my life. Then it dawned upon me that the only thing i control is my effort and even that with a positive and thankful attitude towards Allah. You see Allah chooses your struggles and you choose your plan of action. That is how simple my approach is towards all the difficulties i face. 

And during these difficulties, yes i have been worried, Yes i have been, depressed, yes I have had negative thoughts, yes the future looked bleak to me at times BUT...... all of this was temporary. All these thoughts were for just a few seconds. Except the depression i went through for 18 months. The most difficult period of my life..but even that period passed as all periods do. I have learned that the most important thing is POSITIVITY.. because it is ordered by Allah SWT that one should remain hopeful in his mercy. It is HE who has declared that MAAYOOSI is Haram. It is he who often says in Quran that Insaan Bohut Naa Shukra Hai... Well, the first thing i decided to do was never to be NAA SHUKRA. That immediately takes me out of the list of people who Allah is complaining about. Secondly, i never get MAAYOOS. This takes me out of the list of people Allah is unhappy about. Thirdly, i always remain POSITIVE. This puts me in the category of people who are always expecting his mercy and you get what you expect...

Your future will always be as bright as your faith. If your faith is dull so will be your future. Most successful people in this world started with nothing in their pockets but a lot of faith in their Hearts. Always remember that you can do the same. Have faith. Strengthen your BELIEF in Allah. Become POSITIVE. Be THANKFUL. Put in the BEST EFFORT. Expect the GREATEST RESULT. Never let the DARKNESS of Life SCARE YOU... because if your eyes are set on the STARS... its easier to see them in the darkness.