Friday, 26 June 2015

Muzaffarabad (Pakistan) : In search of roots

IN SEARCH OF ROOTS : In October 2014, as I embarked on a journey across Pakistan, leading me across Punjab (Pakistan), Khyber and Pakistan Administered Kashmir, I was manifested by a single desire to carry back the soil from Muzaffarabad, my fathers town that is now in Pakistan's Kashmir. Having reached there successfully, I suddenly did not have any desire left to explore the valley and neither to carry back the soil. READ MY JOURNEY AND SEE PICTURES IN ARTICLE BELOW.http://amardeepphotography.com/_MG_5182s/

Wednesday, 24 June 2015

Distorting history: Pleas seeking restoration of Khalsa names in doldrums

A 1917 plaque carrying the name of a high school. PHOTO: ABID NAWAZ/EXPRESS
LAHORE: Two applications to restore the names of a school and a road that had been renamed in the wake of the partition to their original form have been languishing since March, The Express Tribune has learnt. 
Bahadur Bhagat Singh Khalsa High School, which was constructed in 1917 near Mohini Road, and the Guru Nanak Bazaar were rechristened as Islamia High School and Pir Makki Road following partition. An unsuccessful attempt had also been made to rename Mohini Road after Riaz Shahid, a councillor in the Musharraf era. Scores of other places in the area named after prominent Sikhs including Kucha Beant Singh and Mohalla Gurdit Singh have managed to withstand the test of time and retain their original names.
Bhagat Singh Memorial Foundation Pakistan chairman Imtiaz Rasheed Qureshi filed the applications to the DCO and the Evacuee Trust Property Board (ETPB) chairman on this account. He said the school had been named after Bhagat Singh to acknowledge his meritorious contribution in the struggle for independence. Qureshi said Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah had eulogised Singh in a speech at the Central Assembly in New Delhi on September 4, 1929. He said Major Raja Aziz Bhatti Shaheed Nishan-i-Haider had also eulogised Singh in an essay.
Qureshi said Pir Makki Road had been originally named after Baba Guru Nanak, the first of the Sikh Gurus. He said signs bearing the name of Nanak still existed and could be seen on the road. Qureshi said renaming the school and the road amounted to distorting history and obscuring facts. He exhorted the authorities to restore the original names of the school to give credit where it was due and enable Sikhs to see themselves as equal citizens in the nation.
The DCO had sent an urgent circular to the Education EDO on March 5 “to take action as per law/rules, under intimation of this office,” following the submission of the application. The EDO had forwarded the instructions to the Secondary Education DEO as most urgent on March 21 directing him to personally look into the matter and take necessary action. The official sent a direction to Muhammad Nawaz Anwar, the school’s principal.
Anwar informed the official on June 9 in his reply that the school had been known as the Islamia High School Mohini Road since partition. He said this name was also inscribed in an inauguration slab installed in the wall of the veranda.
Advocate Shabnam Nagi told The Express Tribune that scores of schools across the nation had been established by the community and named after distinguished Sikhs. She said the names of most of these schools had been Islamised. Nagi said the nation’s history was being purged of Sikh references. She said the community was not in a position to remedy this due to a myriad of reasons. “A Muslim can strive for their rights but we cannot,” Nagi observed.
Published in The Express Tribune, June 15th, 2015.

Thursday, 18 June 2015

Two Bollywood giants from Chakwal PAKISTAN

Two Bollywood giants from Chakwal
Madan Mohan (1924-1975) was one of the greatest music directors of the sub-continent while Raja Mehdi Ali Khan created some of the most romantic poetry for Bollywood.
90- minute drive from where I am right now i.e. Islamabad is the city of Chakwal. Two giants of Indian film music who together gave us some of the finest melodies belonged to district Chakwal; Madan Mohan and the lyricist Raja Mehdi Ali Khan (1928-1966). Madan Ji’s grandfather Hakim Yograj was a very famous Hakeem of Bhaun (a small town near Chakwal).Raja Saab on the other hand belonged to Haranpur (a small town near Chakwal).
An ex second lieutenant in the Indian army with no formal education of music, a body-builder with superb sense of dressing and a connoisseur of good food entered into the film world and enthralled everybody with his out of this world compositions.
Naushad Saab, once in a light mood offered everything he had ever composed for just one single composition by Madan Ji; "Hum hain matah-e-koocha-o-bazar ki terha’n" a ghazal from the film “Dastak”.
Raja Mehdi Ali Khan(1928-1996)and his wife Tahira, in spite of communal riots in 1947, decided to stay in India rather than migrating to the newly formed Pakistan. Raja Saab worked with both established and new music composers. Madhosh (1950) was Madan Mohan's film with Raja Saab which formed an immortal team. His song Lag ja gale from the film "Woh Kaun Thi" remains one of the top ten all time favorites in film history.
Waseem Altaf

Wednesday, 17 June 2015

UNICEF

veryone calls me Oscar because I play football like a star.” Ibrahim, 5, from Sierra Leone, dreams of becoming an international footballer. He has been nicknamed “Oscar” by his friends who admire his football skills.Thanks to Unicef Sierra Leone for sharing.

Tuesday, 16 June 2015

Old Kashmir

                                                               1980s...Amira Kadal...

Sunday, 14 June 2015

Heera Mandi Lahor

MORAN TAWIFE OR MORAN SARKAR
Moran Tawife jiss da andaz qatilana see or banao singhar Kashmiri si Akhir kuj tay hay si jo akheer Maoran Sarkar ban gai or Mahraja Ranjit singh aiss day aggay chup rehnda see or Darbar wich aiss da bina ijazat aan jaan day well wishers nay bohat bura manaya see. Akheer kuj ta hay see Punjabi sarkar nay aiss day naam da sika jari keta jiss tay aiss de foto we see . Faqeer Aziaz u Din ji nay khia se Agay Mughal Raj wich we aina Tawaifan nay ujaran wich koi kasar nai chhadi mainu dar aay Mahraja da aay shoq aiss day Raj nu Ghun de tarha kha na jaway or hia we ainj hi . Mahraja dian Ran Rallian Same Mughals de tarha ho gian or aoss da natija bohat bura niklya Sharab da nasha asheesh da nasaha or mehngay kushta jaat nay sikh Raj dian Buyadan khokhalian kar dittian . Heera singh Dogra de duty lagi Dehan singh day kehnay tay 500 Tawifan Lahore lia kay wassian gian or aouna da kharcha sarkar day zimmay pa gia or Shahi mouhallay da naam pay gia Heera mandi jinnay wassai aoss da naam ajj we lia janda aay Heera Singh de mandi fair holi holi ho gai Heera Mandi . Sab tao ziada nuqsan aiss kam nay sikh Raj nu ditta aoss tao elawa bohat gallan san jinna nu likhan lagian sharam aoundi aay ji
— at Lahore Fort.

Friday, 12 June 2015

दुनिया का सबसे महंगा हाईस्कूल

इंस्टीट्यूट ऑफ ले रोजे, स्विटजरलैंडएजुकेशन डेस्क. स्विट्जरलैंड में एक इंटरनेशनल बोर्डिंग हाईस्कूल है, जिसकी सालाना फीस पर बहुत कम लोग यकीन करेंगे। इंस्टीट्यूट ऑफ ले रोजे के नाम से मशहूर इस संस्थान में एक छात्र का सालाना खर्च करीब 1 करोड़ 35 लाख रुपए से ज्यादा है। हालांकि, इसमें एकेडमिक फीस से लेकर बोर्डिंग, लॉजिंग के अन्य खर्च भी शामिल हैं।
स्कूल की स्थापना 1880 में पॉल एमिली कार्नल ने की थी। स्कूल में मात्र पांच छात्रों पर एक टीचर का रेश्यो है। सभी छात्र बोर्डिंग हाउस में रहते हैं, जो स्कूल कैंपस के भीतर बनाया गया है। पाठ्यक्रम अंग्रेजी और फ्रेंच में है। यहां छात्रों को खेलों की भी सुविधा दी जाती है, लेकिन यह लिमिटेड है। फर्स्ट टर्म में घुड़सवारी और बैडमिंटन, सेकंड टर्म में स्कीइंग और स्नोबोर्डिंग जबकि तीसरे टर्म में टेनिस और डांस।
यह दुनिया के सबसे पुराने बोर्डिंग स्कूल्स में भी शामिल है। यहां कई रॉयल और चर्चित परिवारों के बच्चे पढ़ाई कर चुके हैं। इस स्कूल में छात्रों की संख्या 400 है। इसका एक दूसरा कैंपस भी है, जो स्की रिजॉर्ट विलेज जीस्टैड में बनाया गया है। ठंड के दौरान स्कूली छात्रों को यहां शिफ्ट कर दिया जाता है। यह खूबसूरत स्कूल पहाड़ों के बीच बनाया गया है।

Tuesday, 2 June 2015

Floyd Mayweather Proposal to His Ex After She Dumped him for Nelly
Its no longer news the level of Mayweather’s obsession with his ex fiancee,Shantel Jackson…
He would buy her countless diamonds,Birkin ,Hermes bags when ever she tried to leave…  She finally left him for Nelly and as a revenge stunt, he posted hospital results of an alleged abortion she had found out she was pregnant for him.
He also seized every single thing he ever gave her,down to her shoes and hair pins..
Now,TMZ has uncovered a marriage proposal over text message . It was sent by Floyd toShantel Jackson back in April ’14,while she moved on to Nelly …
Jackson put the proposal on display in new legal papers filed in her nuclear war with her ex-fiancee … which shows how Floyd tried to convince Shantel into getting engaged for a 2nd time.
This is what I offer to you. Let’s get married move in together you can go back in forth to L.A and stay at the condo.”
“I promise I will get you in 3 A list movies this year and I’m willing to go to counseling to make us work and you can get the stuff you want and I’m willing to change but I need you to have a better attitude.
Shantel says she shot down the offer (shocker) … and included several text messages dating back to April 2013 to show why Mayweather wasn’t exactly her knight in shining armor.
Among the highlights …
— “I had your phone traced. I hired a detective. Your not slick.”
— “I got nasty videos too that I can put on Instagram and twitter”
— “I took you from rags to riches now you back to rags bitch. that’s why your out selling shit going on petty ass auditions fronting to people like your doing big sh*t.”
Shantel also says Floyd got upset over a photo of her with rapper Nelly from April ’14 … with Floyd texting her the picture and saying, “Just tell me this didn’t mean anything.”
In the legal docs she also claims, “[Floyd] threatened that if I didn’t take down the photo of me and Nelly, he would post ‘naked photos’ of me on social media.”
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Monday, 1 June 2015

It doesn't matter what religion you follow

It doesn't matter what religion you follow, what colour you are, we are all human. If you don't see God in all, then you don't see God at all. This piece was made by the very talented Vik Kainth