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Oasis in Hell

noreply@blogger.com (Omar Javaid) — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 19:28:11 PST

Welcome to Al-Khair School in Kachra Kundi near Surgani Town, one of most polluted places in Pakistan, Karachi. This school is being operated under the supervision of Mr. Manazir who has dedicated 25 years of his life for poor children of Karachi. This was his second school operational since a decade. It was started from a Jhuggi, latter a small building (white one in the 3rd picture above) has was constructed in that area.

You inhale more smoke then clean air there, and while studying a student one hand is busy with warding off flies. Saw lives being transformed right in front of my eyes ... If you want to see how worthy education is, you have to go there are see the students studying.

Ahmed Deedat (1987) Commenting on Pakistan

noreply@blogger.com (Omar Javaid) — Sun, 25 Dec 2011 21:01:58 PST

Entrepreneurship, Economic Growth and Death of Society

noreply@blogger.com (Omar Javaid) — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 21:12:00 PST

by Omar Javaid

For a layman Entrepreneur is a person who does an economic activity by selling a commodity which he or she owns, produces, grows etc or any service, based on his skill, which is needed by the society. Mankind has needs such as food, shelter, clothing, transport etc to live and perform various functions. It is also clear that each one of us is not sufficiently owns all of the things we need therefore we exchange the things or skills we have with the things or skills others have. It is needless to emphasize that money is the medium of exchange. This makes entrepreneurship (assuming it as synonymous to a trader or a manufacturer) a natural phenomenon which cannot be avoided in a society. Just like we need water, food and air at individual levels, therefore a healthy society needs a market where entrepreneurs operate to make available things which they have for the ones who need them, in exchange of a consideration. Just like it doesn't make any sense to emphasis the importance of clean air, water and healthy food at individual level, similarly what sense does it make to emphasis on the importance of entrepreneurship at social level?

Earth at 7 Billion

noreply@blogger.com (Omar Javaid) — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 06:18:11 PST

Created by: Masters Degree Online

Are we about to repeat History?

noreply@blogger.com (Omar Javaid) — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 04:18:18 PDT

by Omar Javaid

Our survival as a nation is miraculous, sometime I think, just like survival of a person who suffering from a dozen terminal illnesses, whose limbs have been amputated, whose sores have become infectious beyond curable limits, with vultures hovering over his head - sometime biting chunks of meat out of his body and yet he is breathing ...

A nation where all are doing their bit to dig their own mass graves, nailing their own coffins, chopping off their own limbs, poising their own wells, burning their own property, killing their own sons, raping their own daughters, looting their own property, as a revenge because someone in their home has done something the same with them under a racial, ethnic and sectarian pretext.

When the same group morph themselves into judiciary, executive bodies, public educational institutions, revenue collection department, local and intercity transport, railway, water/gas/electricity distribution departments, etc their blood-lust, for their own blood, only gets institutionalized ...

Two Sides of the Food Crisis

noreply@blogger.com (Omar Javaid) — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 01:06:52 PDT

Created by: Public Health Degree

Wakeup Pakistan - Orya Maqbool Jan

noreply@blogger.com (Omar Javaid) — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 13:02:57 PDT

India: Girls asked to Wear Modest Cloths

noreply@blogger.com (Omar Javaid) — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 13:15:16 PDT

"Women in India are now told not venture out late at night, not to travel alone, not to wear certain type of clothes. This is what precisely Islam teaches. In maharashtra Shiv Sainiks are acting as moral police stopping valentine celebrations by force, vandalising shops that sell chocolates, Card and flowers for Valentine's day. Girls were stopped from dancing in the Bars and Anna Hazare activists in his model village stopped all liqicuor trade and Liquor shops.

Why Pakistan is in Trouble ...

noreply@blogger.com (Omar Javaid) — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 00:30:05 PDT

Moulana Tariq Jameel explain on 'Agg Kamran Khan ke Sath' that why Rains, Floods, Terrorism, Epidemics, Dengue and lot more pouring over Pakistani nation.Watch, think and act ...

As venomous as it gets!

noreply@blogger.com (Omar Javaid) — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 08:22:53 PDT

By Aisha Aijaz

You thought they were saviours, your representatives whom you elected and sent forth with hopes in your heart and responsibilities on their shoulders. You thought they were there because their prime interest was to lead the way towards betterment of the country, and make you a force against all the monstrous problems the country is facing. How naive! No doubt we are always told “jaisey awam , waisey hukmaran”, (like people like leaders). But I must say they probably are worst of us.

Sindh’s Senior minister Mr. Zulfiqar Mirza’s tone and derogatory language, gave us a shock not for the first time. There are many others out there, who hold very important positions but have given us mini heart attacks with their venomous tongues. Mr. Mirza calls the people who migrated to Pakistan from India as “bhookey nangey” and goes on to claim to be a part of people who helped them to get back to normal life. He further attacks the leader of Karachi’s biggest party as ‘badmaash’ and urges the people of Karachi to rise and get rid of them,“In kambakhtoN say Jaan ChhuraeiN”.His eyes, language and words had nothing constructive, nothing to bring hearts close, nothing to work for the better, nothing but hate! So he was bound to be summoned by the honourable President, who must have given him a hard time extracting a quick apology for his most irresponsible speech.

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Conscientious Indians take on human rights issues

noreply@blogger.com (Omar Javaid) — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 08:07:59 PDT

By Hamid Waheed

The state atrocities against poor, lower class and non Hindu Indians continue under silent Indian media but conscience Indian writers, former officials along with human rights organizations keep raising their voices whenever they can. In an article by Arundhati Roy titled “Walking with the Comrades”, published in month of March, she exposes the real face of world‘s largest democracy. How thousands of innocent citizens are being ruthlessly killed in the name of so called development.

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Have we forgotten Gaza?

noreply@blogger.com (Omar Javaid) — Sun, 17 Jul 2011 11:16:38 PDT

Chris Hedges spoke at the Revolution Books Town Hall Meeting at Ethical Culture Society on January 13, 2009 condemning Israel and USA complicity in Israel's murderous destruction and genocide of the innocent men, women and children of GAZA and the West Bank. Listen to him and read an excerpt from an article posted earlier in this blog.

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RAND's Strategy to Doctor Islam

noreply@blogger.com (Omar Javaid) — Sun, 17 Jul 2011 11:01:12 PDT

An old article but worth reviewing again, this is Critic Magazine Exclusive. Try fullscreen view if the text is too small on your screen.

Libya in Pictures: What the Mainstream Media Does Not Tell You

noreply@blogger.com (Omar Javaid) — Sat, 16 Jul 2011 04:44:49 PDT

by Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya

Friday of July 1, 2011 like many other Fridays has seen huge rallies in Tripoli's Green Square. It’s very hard to get an accurate number of the mass of people that have attended these rallies. Estimates have placed the size of the July 1st rally in Green Square at one million people. The rallies have been taking place almost weekly in Tripoli and other Libyan cities, including Sabha on July 8, 2011. Western public opinion has been misinformed. People in Europe and North America are not even aware that these mass rallies have taken place.

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Who is Responsible for Death of 20 people in Karachi on 14th July 2011?

noreply@blogger.com (Omar Javaid) — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 18:58:28 PDT

This survey on FB tells me one thing that despite ridiculing Zulfiqar Mirza for 24 hours, Media was not able to shift the perception of the public. Opinion of 13,549 is worth to note in this context. It should also be noted that FB is Pakistan is accessed by only the literate and educated people, who belong to middle class and above. Since it is an opinion therefore anyone can always disagree. Remarks of Mr. Waheed Baloch in a group 'Pakistan Media Watch' on FB are also worth noting: