Art And Literature

Source: The News
Monday, August 17, 2009
By: Zafar Alam Sarwar
The 63rd Independence Day was celebrated as usual but not with the same great zeal and fervour as witnessed in the country in 1947-48 and the following years.
The city elders explained to the young generation the circumstances in which independent and sovereign Pakistan was achieved. They recounted [...]

   
By: Ali Jafar Bukhari
                                    
                                 “Fair seed time had my soul and I grew up;                                                       Fostered alike by beauty and by fear”
                            Wordsworth in his above famous lines has depicted Nature in its true sense as a teacher which allures with beauty and forbids from crossing the limits by fear. This fear is actually a [...]

     By: Ali Jafar Bukhari
                                       When water is contaminated; its taste, colour and smell is changed. A drop is the unit of ocean. Today, Pakistan is facing a serious problem of contamination. There is an alarming trust deficit and uncertainty among masses. Today Pakistan is a dire victim of terrorism, political instability, inter and intra provincial [...]

 
By: Ali Jafar Bukhari 
       Ideology is for a country what faith is for a religion. If faith is contaminated with doubts, religion finds its bases shaken and same is the case with a country when its people start doubting their ideology. There has been a threatening conspiracy being hatched against Pakistan since its evolution in [...]

   By: Ali Jafar Bukhari      
                                            Man, the crown of creation, is the centre of this universe. God created him to rule the world. It was his incessant struggle to explore the hidden treasures of this universe which lifted him from merely a social animal to the crowned king. He has measured the stars and distilled valuable [...]

                 
 By; Ali Jafar Bukhari
                                     Pakistan “ the land of pure” is the cherished dream of our great Quaid which ,unfortunately, after its sixty five years of its evolution, is fading far away. It was a fascinating dream of the Muslims of Indo-Pakistan subcontinent to live in a peaceful and protective boundary shield of a true [...]

By : Ali Jafar Bukhari
Pakistan is an immense blessing, bestowed upon us  by Almighty Allah but unfortunately, even after 60 years of independence, we lack national character.  Our false ego, the feudalistic mindset, is the dominating trade of our whole nation.  We prefer our fallacious self respect over patriotism.  This egoistic attitude is the demon [...]