انٹرویو سنٹر کے باہر ایک غریب باپ اپنے بیٹے کی ٹائی سیدھی کر رہا تھا، کبھی اس کے بال ٹھیک کرتا، کبھی قمیض کے بٹن بند کرتا اور ہر بار اس کی آنکھوں میں ایک ہی دعا جھلکتی تھی: میرا بیٹا کامیاب ہو جائے۔
حکمرانوں کو کیا خبر کہ اس ایک انٹرویو کے پیچھے کتنے برسوں کی بھوک، کتنی راتوں کی بے چینی، کتنے اپنے خوابوں کی قربانی چھپی ہوتی ہے۔ اس باپ نے اپنے پیٹ پر پتھر رکھ کر، اپنی خواہشوں کو مار کر، اپنے لختِ جگر کو پڑھایا ہے۔ اس کے ہاتھوں کی لکیروں میں مزدوری کی تھکن ہے، مگر دل میں صرف ایک امید ہے کہ شاید آج اس کی محنت رنگ لے آئے۔
اللہ ایسے والدین کی قربانیوں کو قبول فرمائے اور ہر محنت کرنے والے باپ کے بیٹے کو کامیابی عطا کرے۔ آمین۔
She was not born Muslim.
She was not born Pakistani.
She chose both. And gave everything to both.
Begum Ra'ana Liaquat Ali Khan. Born Irene Ruth Margaret Pant. 1905. Almora, India. Raised in a Christian Brahmin family. Educated at the University of Lucknow. Double MSc in Economics. Professor of Economics in Delhi.
In 1932 she converted to Islam and married Liaquat Ali Khan. Her family was uncomfortable. She was resolute.
She became Economic Adviser to Jinnah's Pakistan Movement Committee. Mobilised her own students to boycott the Simon Commission. Travelled to London in 1937 to bring Jinnah back to India. Historians say that mission changed the course of the movement.
1942. Jinnah told her to train Pakistan's women.
She organised the first Muslim women's volunteer medical corps in Delhi.
1947. Pakistan was born. Ra'ana drove trucks to refugee camps and distributed food with her own hands. Florence Nightingale of the camps. Founder of the Women's National Guard. Brigadier. Founder of the Women's Naval Reserve. Founder of All Pakistan Women's Association.
1951. Her husband was shot dead on a public stage in Rawalpindi.
She never stopped.
First Muslim woman delegate to the United Nations 1952. First Pakistani female ambassador 1954. First female Governor of a Pakistani province 1973. Fought Zia's discriminatory laws against women in her seventies.
UN Human Rights Award 1978.
Died 1990. Beside her husband. Near the Quaid.
She chose Pakistan before Pakistan existed.
Pakistan chose to call her its mother.
Mader-e-Pakistan.
Begum Ra'ana Liaquat Ali Khan.
Pakistan Zindabad. 🇵🇰
Locals need to make up their minds. Either you openly support the state’s operations against terrorists, including allowing the army to come into your area or you don’t. But if you don’t, you can’t complain that the state failed to protect or rescue your people.
“If you don't wash your ass… you cannot be the master race.”
@mehdirhasan and political commentator @WajahatAli call out the hypocrisy of white supremacists and their personal hygiene.
Lesson from the Soviet Union for Pakistan:
Nukes may deter war, but they don’t stop nations from falling apart.
Pakistan must not place blind faith in its nuclear arsenal while neglecting situation in Baluchistan & KPK. Fix the issue before it's too late.
#TTP#BLA
According to unconfirmed information, the Russian Su-35 was shot down while trying to shoot down a Ukrainian F-16 with an R-37/77 air-to-air missile.
The F-16 was reportedly pretending to drop glide-bombs, while in reality, it, covered by 2 additional F-16s, was trying to ambush the Russian aircraft.
The interception attempt by the F-16 reportedly failed, but a Patriot system deployed around 60 km from the frontline as a backup launched an interceptor at around the same time, shooting down the Su-35 as it was in the small window of engagement within range of the Patriot system.
میر شفیق الرحمن مینگل کے گھر پر دہشتگردوں کا حملہ ۔۔ اس وقت میر شفیق الرحمن مینگل کے مختلف ساتھی شہید ہوچکے ہیں جبکہ وہ خود بھی اس وقت دہشتگردوں سے لڑ رہے ہیں ۔
The U.S. government's conduct as World Cup host follows its familiar foreign policy: bending rules, bullying rivals, creating obstacles, and cheating. This is their MAGA playbook. Iran rejects such games. We stand firmly for our rights.