Cause of death: Stupidity!

The post-mortem report issued after the extinction of mankind, will state cause of death as stupidity. Why? Because, despite being un-quantifiable, stupidity is very easily identifiable in words and deeds, and indeed it is the leading cause of termination of life.

آؤ بچو سیر کرائیں تم کو پاکستان کی۔

میں جب بھی رب کا شکر ادا کرنا چاہتا ہوں تو سب سے پہلے اس بات کا شکرگزار ہوتا ہوں کہ اس بے نیاز ذات نے مجھے پاکستان جیسے عظیم ملک میں پیدا کیا۔ پاکستان وہ خوبصورت باغ ہے جس میں پھولوں کی تعریف تب ہوتی ہے جب وہ مرجھا جائیں۔ ہم ان بیہودہ اقوام کی طرح نہیں جو مرجھائے ہوئے پھولوں کی قدر نہیں کرتیں۔ ہم تو پودا لگاتے ہی اس لئے ہیں کہ وہ مر کے دائمی حیات پائے۔

Next after the Last - Tverskaya

As I entered the room behind Asghar, and waived a general “Hi” to everyone present, I counted at least 8 heads in there. Adding the two, who brought us there it made a total count of 10 people sharing an apartment.

Forgive me for being guilty

“For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God”.

Do you think that this is just the Bible’s position towards life? No, sir this is the guiding light for social engineers and manipulators. One great sense in human beings is the sense of guilt: the most easily exploitable, the longest lasting, and the most effective one.

Next after Last - The den

The train eased into a dead-end platform of Moscow’s Kazansky Railway Station. On the way from Ryazan, we had entered the city quite some time ago. I never thought that Moscow was such a big city. Even if it was not one of the most populated cities at that time, still territorially it was huge.

Country roads take me home

Back in the days, nursery and primary school curriculum included a lot of poems, but the best of the best was:

Rain, rain go away,

Come back again some other day,

Little me wants to play.

ابھی نہیں، تو کبھی نہیں۔۔۔

TV ads influence people's linguistic trends. In countries like Pakistan, where language has least preference, when it comes to betterment, such advertisement trends, which propagate linguistic distortion are as dangerous as threats of terrorism.

United Colours of Humanity - Sri Lanka

Beheading human rights - What kind of world are we living in?

Although I am a strong opponent of drawing definitive lines along the vectors of good and bad, but sometimes you need to have some idea of the differences between right and wrong.

I have written earlier about my disappointment in the Nobel Award Committee’s incompetence, after they blessed Barrack Hussein Obama with the Nobel Peace Prize.

Coadunatio - coming closer

I did this one back in 2007. 

Success - how to measure it

Assets or liabilities - decide or suffer...

Another day and another loudly resounding terrorist attack committed in Pakistan, by religious extremists.

A group of 3 terrorists entered Police Training College in the provincial capital of Quetta at around 11:00 pm. The law enforcement agencies responded very swiftly, and some 3 hours down the line, all the terrorists were dead, but before dying they took lives of 61 people and injuring more than 100 people.

Dr Last - last time I saw him - (part 6)

“Hello. I am Dr Last. Dr Alexander Last.”

The sound of this introduction, made me feel, for the first time that I was hopelessly sick. I was so sick that the last doctor had come to see me.

Dr Last - at last - (part 5)

The train came to a halt with a jerk. I woke-up to find that it was already morning and people were up and roaming. I was on the upper berth, so I lowered my head over the edge to see through the window. We were at some station; probably already out of Uzbekistan, because the train had been running for about ten hours now.

Dr Last - Policeman - (part 4)

The sunlight pierced through the tall wooden windows with glass panes. As I opened my eyes, I felt the dryness in my mouth, and a slight headache. Probably the few shots of vodka that I consumed before sleeping had dehydrated me. My whole body refused to obey the get-up command. I raised my hand and took a look at my watch. It was already after 8 in the morning.

Climbing all the way to the top of K2 (3D)

K2 is considered to be one of the most difficult peaks to climb. Although it stands a bit lower than Mount Everest, it is ranked way higher in terms of difficulty.

Dr Last (part 3)

The new clean room was as spacious as the other one, with the only difference that it did not have the floor with the chunks of vegetables, rejected by someone’s stomach.

Yes this was not a three-star hotel. There was nothing in that room, which even slightly resembled a hotel, but at least it had a bed, and that meant long awaited rest.

Frost and bite and a sip to ignite

It is quite feat to drive in an open vehicle in late September in Poland and the adjacent Baltic states. But These guys did it!
Have fun seeing how they froze their asses off!

Dr Last - (part 2)

Every step I took towards that tinted-glass door was a step out of that bureaucratic hell. I was already trying to put this episode behind me, when right by the exit, a man came up to me and asked me for my passport.

Art & Friendship

Dr Last - (part 1)

Back in the days, when I used to believe in uniformity and my thoughts were filled with cliché ideas, I decided to go to the ex-Soviet states of Uzbekistan and Russia.

Rolling in Helsinki

What better way then this to get attention. The only problem is that you must learn to play with daggers and to handle the cosmic circle. Otherwise you might be getting more medical attention then public attention!

Enjoy the skills displayed by the Tuk-Tuk Travellers in Helsinki!

Joyride through Pakistan

It is always a pleasure to see people travelling through the Northern areas of Pakistan on motorcycles. And mind you I am not talking about Europeans travelling through on their 850CC BMW rides. I am talking about people riding urban bikes of 70, 100, and 125CC.

جن کے ہونٹوں پہ ہنسی پاوں میں چھالے ہوں گے۔

چند لوگ پیدا صرف اس لئے ہوتے ہیں کہ وہ خلق خدا کا انسانیت پر سے ایمان نہ اٹھنے دیں۔ ایسے ہی ایک نفیس، مخلص اور مثالی انسان سے دوستی کا مجھے بھی شرف حاصل رہا۔ وہ مختصر سا طویل عرصہ جس دوران اس دوست سے صحبت رہی، کافی تھا یہ جاننے اور سمجھنے کے لئے کہ اس دینا میں صرف مطلبی، کمینے اور بے حس لوگ ہی نہیں بستے۔

گو کہ سترہ اکتوبر کو ہمارے عزیز دوست رانا امتیاز احمد تو

Myanmar style

Very few people go to Myanmar due to certain reasons, but the Tuk-tuk Travelers did make it to this land shrouded by mystery and here is a short clip showing you Burmese |Style.. 

CMB 2 SIN

Once we will practically have the warp-drives, probably then we could travel from Bandranaike to Changi in such short time. Until then we can only watch how it might occur!

Riding through Pakistan

A journey we undertook in 2011, at a time when people were reluctant to travel to these parts. We opted to travel by motorcycle, because we needed to experience and to show that things were not nearly as bad as they were portrayed.
All along the route, we met only good hospitable people. We learned a lot about the culture of the region and definitely made some good friends.
Pakistan is a great country to visit and if you want to se paradise, go north to Gilgit-Baltistan. Enjoy the video!

Mother of all wars

Diplomats used to be people trained to play with words. They knew how to play with words like, murder, assassination, liquidation and extermination. They knew when to use which word. But lately the military industrial complex has probably started employing diplomats and copywriters, because now the military industrial complex plays with words.

Dreaming in Nepal

The Tuk-tuk Travellers did this video in 2014, while they were in Nepal. It focuses on the efforts of young people trying to earn a chance in life. The rest is in the video, so enjoy watching!

لے ان کہی دا ناں

جب آپ اندھیرے میں اپنی عینک ڈھونڈنے کی کوشش کر رہے ہوتے ہیں، تاکہ موم بتی جلا کر اپنی ذندگی کو روشن و رخشاں، نیر و تاباں کر لیں، تو سب سے پہلے آپ کے منہ سے گالی نکلتی ہے اس ریاست، اس کے اداروں اور عہدیداران، کو جو ستر برس بعد بھی بجلی کی پیداوار میں خود کفیل نہ ہو سکی۔

Only the bombs are smart...

“United States is an exceptional country. People all over the world look to us and follow our lead”; declared Hillary Clinton, while addressing the American Legion’s national convention at Cincinnati.

میں اور بچہ جمورا

ہمارے بچپن میں زرائع تفریح کی تعداد بہت محدود تھی۔ ریڈیو ٹی وی کچھ گھروں میں اگر تھے بھی تو گھر کے بڑوں کا ان پر کڑا کنٹرول ہوا کرتا تھا، کہ کہیں ان بے جان آلات کی بھینٹ چڑھ کے بچے بیراہ روی کا شکار نہ ہو جایئں۔

Planet of the apes لنگورستان

ہمارے بچپن میں ٹی وی پر ایک انگریزی سیریز چلتی تھی، جس کا نام تھا پلینٹ آف دی ایپس ۔ کہانی کچھ اس طرح تھی کہ تین انسان، خلائی سفر کے دوران، فنی خرابی کی وجہ سے ایک ہزار سال مستقبل میں منتقل ہو جاتے ہیں۔ اس دور میں زمین پر انسانوں کی نہیں بندروں کی حکومت ہوتی ہے۔ 

Tehran

تنگ نظری کا نظریہ

wajahat-masood-
sajid-ali-

چند روز قبل، وجاہت مسعود صاحب نے دو قومی نظرئیے کی صحت پہ چند سوالات اٹھائے ۔ میں تمام سوالات کی بات نہیں کروں گا، مگر ایک سوال نہائت توجہ طلب تھا۔ ہندوستان میں صرف ہندو اور مسلم دو قومیں کیوں تھیں؟ ہندوستاں میں بسنے والے مسیحی، پارسی اور سکھ قوم کا درجہ کیوں نہیں رکھتے تھے؟
۲۷ ستمبر کو ڈاکٹر ساجد علی نے اپنی تحریر میں اس سوال پہ اعتراض اٹھاتے ہوئے معقف اختیار کیا ہے کہ صرف ہندو اور مسلمان قوم کا درجہ اس لئے حاصل کر سکے کیونکہ کچھ علاقہ جات میں ان مزہبی گروہوں کی اکثریت تھی، جبکہ

قربانی کا گوشت اور ’از خود‘

ھمارے ہاں اگر کوئی لڑکی دوپٹہ سر پہ لینے کی بجائے گلے میں ڈال کے گھر سے نکلے تو محلے کے تمام بزرگ اور جوان، بغیر کسی کے کہے ’از خود‘ اس بات کا نوٹس لیتے ہیں کہ فلاں صاحب کی بیٹی بیراہروی کا شکار ہے۔ مزے کی بات یہ ہے کہ لڑکی کے ماں باپ کو شائد اپنی بیٹی کے دوپٹہ اوڑھنے کے انداز پہ کوئی اعتراض نہ ہو، مگر ان خود مقررہ اصلاح کاروں کو ضرور ہو گا۔

اب ان اخلاقیات کے پہریداروں سے کوئی پوچھے، کہ بھیئا یہ

Smoking kills???

The gods of science!

When you watch a game of football, you always cheer for one of the two teams. Why? Because, you are either with team A or team B. In very very rare cases people watch football. In nearly all the cases football is subsided by team belongings.

Same goes for everything in life. You are either with one idea or the other. You are either with one party or the other. Family life is not much different as well. Your father or mother love all their children, but they always love one sibling more than the other. Their apparent love for all of their offsprings, is a self-deception, crafted under social effects and pressures. The objectivity of parental love vanishes like infatuation, the moment their favorite child, enters a conflict with the less appreciated child. Understanding the fact of unequal, parental love, suddenly makes unquestioned parental love a dogma. What is a dogma? Well, dogma is something that we never question, despite all its shortcomings. The word dogma is normally reserved for religious beliefs.

Poor! I'm not.

Human history is full of myths and legends. I mean there are myths about Hercules, and about Aphrodite. Then there are myths about Columbus discovering the new world. There are myths about flying thrones in Mahabharata, and myths about Rome being a democracy.

Then there are more recent myths about the Americans toppling governments for the good of depressed people. There are myths about terrorists fighting against terror. Myths go as far as Osama Bin Laden being a soldier of God. There are myths about aliens kidnapping people trying to boil perfect DNA in a lab.

Master of the universe...

Sitting in a cafe, having coffee, I have a lot on my mind. There are things that I can decide right now, and there are things that I want resolved right now. Strange isn't it! Things I can tackle are not the things that I want tackled right now. Probably it is human nature that our desires do not comply with our possibilities.

ابھی نہیں، تو کبھی نہیں۔۔۔

Human trafficking - part 1

Achtung! Fascism is on the rise!

Farkhanda, an Afghan national, was just 27, an educated young woman, a teacher, and most interestingly a Hafiza. Why interestingly? Because the people, who killed her initially claimed that she had burnt the pages of the Quran. But, what she had done was that she stood up against a mullah, who was selling belief, and ripping-off poor uneducated, distressed, superstitious women.