Pashto Times

The Nights of the Generals. The Nights Of General Yahya Khan And Others. By Waseem Altaf  Brigade Major Munawar Khan testified before the Hamood-ur -Rahman Commission (The Commission) that the Commander Brigadier Hayatullah had brought some girls for entertainment in his bunker on the night of 11 & 12 December 1971 in Maqbulpur sector when enemy shells were falling on his troops. Brigadier Jahanzeb Arbab (later Lieut. General) as SMLA Multan had demanded 100,000 as bribery from a PCS officer who was chairman of Multan Municipal Committee. The PCS officer committed suicide while leaving a note behind which read that he had only earned rupees 15000 while the SMLA was asking for rupees 100,000, informed Brigadier Abbas Beg to the Commission. The same Jahanzeb Arbab as Commander 57 brigade in former East Pakistan had looted rupees 13.5 million from the National bank treasury in Siraj Ganj. The Commission concluded that Major General Khudadad Khan Adjutant General Pakistan Army had ...

They Were Here:1800 People of the Last 5291 Years. Book Review By Waseem Altaf  اویس اقبال کو فیسبک نے ایک ماہ کے لئے بین کیا ہے اس لئے میں انکی پہلی کتاب کا مداح ہونے کی وجہ سے یہ پوسٹ شئیر کر رہا ہوں They Were Here:1800 People of the Last 5291 Years آخرکار احباب کے تعاون سے چھپ گئی ہے پچھلی کتاب ایرو آف ٹائم کی قیمت 3000 روپے تھی اور وہ معاہدہ پبلشر سے جون 2021 میں ہوا تھا۔عمران خان کی نظر میں امپورٹڈ امریکی حکومت میں پٹرول ڈیزل کی وجہ سے کاغذ اور طباعت بھی مہنگی ہوئی ہے۔اس مرتبہ جلد بھی اچھی ہے اور کاغذ بھی آرٹ پیپر ہے اور کلرڈ پرنٹنگ تو میرا ٹریڈ مارک ہے۔کتاب کی قیمت 5000 روپے ہے جو رعایت کیساتھ 4500 میں دے پاؤں گا۔پاکستان کے اندر ڈیلیوری چارجز میں خود دونگا اور پاکستان سے باہر رہنے ڈلیوری چارجز الگ سے ادا کرینگے۔مزید رعایت یا مفت دینا میرے لئے ممکن نہیں ہو گا Awais Iqbal HBL 09267900659603 اس اکاؤنٹ نمبر میں رقم بھیج کر سکرین شاٹ اور ایڈریس 03205517960 پہ واٹس ایپ کر دیجئے۔اپ کو کتاب ارسال کر دی جائیگی۔فیڈ بیک ضرور دیجئے گا۔ کتاب کا ادبی وزن تو آپ متعین کرینگے مگر جسمانی وزن ب...

 The Judicial Murder of Z.A Bhutto By  Waseem Altaf  Zia-ul-Haq imposed martial law in Pakistan on July 5,1977. Prime Minister Z.A Bhutto and all his cabinet ministers were arrested and assemblies dissolved. The constitution was suspended and civil rights set aside. The validity of martial law was challenged in the Supreme Court which validated it on November 10, 1977 under the doctrine of necessity.  Bhutto was released on July 29,1977 but was again arrested on September 3,1977 on the charge of authorizing murder of Nawab Mohammad Ahmad Khan Kasuri-a political opponent. However, when Justice K.M.A. Samdani of the Lahore High Court found the evidence “contradictory and incomplete” and Bhutto was released on September 13, 1977, Zia removed Justice Samdani from his post. Three days later on the night of September 16, 1977, army commandos “climbed the walls of "Al-Murtaza" in Larkana, knocked out all the guards and arrested Bhutto. Bhutto’s trial began on October 24, 19...

 Mahatma Gandhi. Indian Leader And Founder Of India.  At a high school in Rajkot, Gujrat, a terminal report rated him as "good at English, fair in Arithmetic and weak in Geography; conduct very good, bad handwriting." Later, his attempts at establishing a law practice in Bombay failed, because he was too shy to speak up in court.   After witnessing racism, prejudice and injustice against Indians in South Africa, Mahatma Gandhi began to question his place in society and his people's standing in the British Empire. It was also in South Africa that he developed the idea of Satyagraha (insistence on truth) and Ahinsa (non-violence). Finally, it was there that he took a lifetime view that "Indianness" transcended religion and caste. In 1915, he came back to India for good, and in 1920, he took up leadership of Congress. One of the Gandhi Ji’s major strategies, first in South Africa and then in India, was uniting Muslims and Hindus to work together in opposition to Br...

Rustam-e-Hind Gama Pehalwan . Biography Of Gama Pahalwan. Urdu رستم ہند Who Was The Great Gama Pehlawan Aka Rustam E Hind? گاما پہلوان Ghulam Mohammad( 1878-1960) a.k.a Gama pehalwan was born in Amritsar to a Kashmiri Butt family. He remained undefeated in a wrestling career spanning over 52 years and is regarded as one of the greatest wrestlers of the world. Pakistan’s first lady Kulsoom Nawaz Sharif is his granddaughter. Gama was initially trained by the Maharaja of Datia when at the age of 10 he won a strongman competition held in Jodhpur. At 17, Gama who was just 5’ 7” tall had a bout with 7 feet tall Raheem Bukhsh Sultani Wala from Gujaranwala, who at that time was the Indian wrestling champion. The match continued for hours and finally ended in a draw. But that proved a turning point in Gama’s life and by 1910 he had defeated all prominent Indian wrestlers.  The same year he went to England and challenged that he could throw any three wrestlers in thirty minutes of any weight...

 Abdus Salam.  ByToday,29th January is the 96th birthday of Dr. Abdus Salam Waseem Altaf One was the son of a head clerk in the education department; the other, daughter of a small contractor, orphaned at 7, both from the Indo-Pak subcontinent won the Nobel Prize in 1979- Abdus Salam and Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu (a.k.a Mother Teresa). Prof Dr. Abdus Salam was from the Ahmaddiya community which was declared ‘non-Muslim’ in 1974 through a constitutional amendment. Dr. Salam, the first Pakistani to receive a Nobel Prize, preferred to remain a Pakistani national all his life, whereas a scholar of his stature could have honored any country of the world by adopting its citizenship. He remained the citizen of a state which ensured that he be dishonored posthumously.  In November 1996 when the great scientist was buried at Rabwah (renamed Chenab Nagar through a Punjab Assembly resolution passed in 1998) his tombstone read ‘Abdus Salam the First Muslim Nobel Laureate’. Needless to sa...

 From Bell-boy to Billionaire. Motivational Story Of  Rai Bahadur Mohan Singh Oberoi Eighty eight kilometers south of Islamabad near Chakwal is a small town called Bhaun. It was here in 1898 that the father of Indian hospitality industry was born. Rai Bahadur Mohan Singh Oberoi was orphaned when he was six months old. Although his widowed mother had meager resources, she encouraged her son to study in the village school and later in Rawalpindi. He however, could not continue his education after intermediate due to lack of finances.  Oberoi began his career as a bell-boy at Cecil hotel Shimla when after two years, in 1922, he was offered a job as a clerk at rupees 50 per month. The diligence, enthusiasm and intelligence displayed by Mr. Oberoi impressed the manager of the hotel. A quick learner, Mr. Oberoi did not restrict his efforts to fulfilling the job description of a desk clerk but sought and shouldered additional responsibilities. A few years later, when Mr. Clarke ...

 Netaji. Subash Chandar Boss, Leader Of Azad Hind Movement. By Waseem Altaf  One of the most prominent leaders of Indian freedom struggle Subhash Chandra Bose was born in 1897 in Cuttak, Orissa. A brilliant student, he topped the matriculation exam and obtained a first class in graduation with Philosophy as a major subject. He stood fourth in the Indian Civil Services Exam held in England in 1920. He could have progressed as a bureaucrat but deeply disturbed by the Jallianwala bagh incident, he left civil service apprenticeship and came back to India in 1921. A mesmerizing speaker, he was the Congress president in 1938/39 and could have capitalized on his position in the party. However, foremost of his considerations was Indian independence. Hence, seeing an opportunity in the Second World War he established Azad Hind Fauj in 1943 to oust the British out of India. While in India and influenced by Deshbandhu Chittaranjan Das and Mahatama Gandhi, he joined the Indian National Co...

 Basics of Quantum Mechanics. About Basic Quantum Physics.  By Waseem Altaf  We as humans experience the world of big objects, at a large scale, at the macro-level, in dimensions where laws of classical mechanics operate- for example I can either be at Qazafi stadium or Fortress stadium Lahore but not at both at one time. And if I hit a ball with a bat, it will follow one particular path but not several. And after the ball is hit it will not influence another ball in a parallel playground.  But will the same happen if we are dealing with particles at the sub-atomic level? The answer is no! Laws which govern the behavior of sub-atomic particles fall in the realm of Quantum Mechanics. And since our brains are not evolved to imagine reality at such a microscopic level, things begin to appear extremely weird. Imagine that you are a sub-atomic particle. In this case, you can be at Qazafi stadium and Fortress stadium at the same time. And if you have hit a ball with a bat,...

 Bacha Khan By  Waseem Altaf   The Pashtun freedom fighter and Congress leader Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan aka Bacha Khan was a close associate of Mahatma Gandhi who together suffered the most severe repression of Indian independence movement. Bacha Khan strongly opposed Muslim League’s demand for partition of India. However, when Congress leadership accepted the partition plan, he felt very disillusioned and told the Congress "you have thrown us to the wolves."  The oppression of the British, the repression of the mullahs, and a primitive culture of violence and vendetta prompted Bacha Khan to serve and uplift his fellow men and women by means of education. At 20 years of age, Bacha Khan opened his first school in Utmanzai. It was an instant success and he was soon invited into a larger circle of progressively minded reformers. A champion of women rights, between 1915 and 1918 he visited 500 villages in all part of the settled districts of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa. It wa...

 Genuine & Fake  Comparison Of Genuine and Fake People, Ideas, Fields and Subjects. What Is Genuine And What Is Fake? Sunny Leone is genuine, Veena Malik is fake! Allopathy is genuine, homeopathy is fake! Astronomy is genuine, Astrology is fake! Scientific reasoning is genuine, ad-hoc reasoning is fake! National interest is genuine, Ummah is fake!  A researcher is genuine, a rhetorician is fake!  Pervez Hoodbhoy is genuine, Orya Maqbool is fake! Saad Rafiq is genuine,Chaudhary Nisar is fake! A scientist is genuine, an evangelist is fake!  Ayisha Irfan is genuine, Ayesha Sana is fake! Amir Khan is genuine Amir Liaqat is fake! Justice  Dorab Patel was genuine, Judge Iftekhar Chaudhary was fake!  Dr. Abdus Salam was genuine, Dr.Abdul Qadeer was fake. Noor Jehan was genuine, Tarannum Naz was fake. R.D Burman was genuine, Bappi Lahiri was fake.  Sahir Ludhianvi was genuine, Sahir Lodhi is fake. Imran Hashmi is genuine, Imran Khan is fake! By Waseem...

 Some Questions on Iqbal  Sir Mohammad Iqbal is Pakistan’s national poet. Here are some questions which I would request my friends to answer: -Who sponsored Iqbal’s higher studies abroad? -Despite being a beneficiary of Western education, why was Iqbal so critical of Western values? -Why was Iqbal against women education? -What was Iqbal’s regular profession? At one time, as he was taking care of three wives, what was his source of income? -Was Iqbal in receipt of pensions and stipends from Nawabs?  -What were the services of Iqbal for which in 1923 he was granted the title “Sir” by King George V? -Did he ever convert to Ahmadiyat? -The ideal of many Islamists, did he ever perform Haj?  -Did Iqbal kill a prostitute of Lahore’s red light area? - How much of Iqbal’s poetry is original? -Was Iqbal also a philosopher?  - Was Iqbal a supporter of democracy or he opposed it?  -Why did Iqbal meet Mussolini and why did he defend the fascist leader?  -Did Iqbal...