"Bye By-Elections" Yeh Election Tha 13

noon, Ju-noon, QAnoon or AFTERnoon I don't know if there's anything in this country which doesn't have a " noon, " From our PM Saab to Dakhla Saab to the General Saab to Khan Saab to Janab e BlueArea champ Sikandar Saab  and the ASP ISB Rizwan Saab, everyone has a noon That's another question that it's after-noon, or before noon, but whatever the case is, it seems having a noon, is essential in this country... From Election and Commission to Intekhaabaat to Intekhaabi Nishaan to Polling to Nataayej to Dhaandhli again everything has noon, That's wonderful, isn't it??? ;)

So let's admit that noon, is the most used letter of urdu alphabets in our national politics the only words Army or Military doesn't have a " noon, " in it... And I think that's the reason Army has decided not to interfere (openly) in the political process anymore ;) however still there are some political forces, those who see Army's role in the political process...

During the By-Election campaign we witnessed some fiery hot speeches from Khan Saab and Maulana Saab... Khan Saab's campaign was very well planned as usual.. Right one day before the By-Elections he released the white paper... I heard its a 2000+ paged document, if he would have named it "White Book" instead of white paper there were chances of being best bookseller of the year... The launch presser of the "White Book" by Khan Saab was also very impressive and the timing was amazing... And the after party of the launch on Geo News with Hamid Mir was also really very well executed... However nothing could make any difference and we saw some major upsets especially in Peshawar and Khan Saab's hometown Mianwaali...

I'm really depressed because I won't be able to go to Teen Talwaar with my friends to spend some quality time with some quality people... I won't be able to have a dharna picnic this time right after the election results because Khan Saab won't be able to put rigging allegations on MQM because in the By-Elections MQM hasn't beaten them, in fact ANP took charge of PTI this time so my quality dharna scene is screwed completely just because of ANP's interference...

Or may be Khan Saab would come up with some new idea like the armymen deployed in the polling booths were MQM's workers or they were actually putting thappas on the ballot papers or he would probably say that all the MQM workers went to Peshawar to cast their votes against his party and my dharna scene in KHI gets ON... I wish!!!

Jo bhi tha this election fever was amazing and the major part was played by Khan Saab and company... What an entertaining team they are!!!

All is well what ends well.. I would like to thanks all the cast and crew of Election 13 because "yeh election tha 13"..

"Long Live India" by - A Green Indian

(From my Independence Day to Our Freedom)


The distance between 14th & 15th August is just ONE second but this only moment makes huge differences.. You know just because 14 comes before 15 and that's difference which privileged Pakistan to be older than the neighbor.. These two countries came into being in late forties and within 25 years of this divide a third country suddenly, accidently or politically popped out.. Since my school days my geography & history are weak and as much as I know myself I'm neither an analyst nor an expert so I'll not get into the details.. I'll just write a few lines from a common citizen's point of view..

So to begin with: when I look at both India and Pakistan, I have no clue which one I should own and which one I shouldn't.. It feels like I have two mothers, one who gave me birth and the other one who raised and brought me up.. I'm a born Indian, my parents migrated to Pakistan when I was 3 and I'm all grown up in Pakistan so I feel like calling myself "A Green Indian".. I know millions like me live across the borders.. The word "border" reminds me some glimpses of those moments when I along with my parents & elder brother was crossing the Wahga Border.. There are just a few blur images I could hardly recall, my parents carrying some hand bags and I guess one suitcase walking or almost running from Wahga to Lahore.. That patch which we crossed on feet I could never forget.. I still remember I was crying and screaming in fact begging my father to pick me up because I was unable to walk anymore and my poor father couldn't pick me up because he was carrying all the luggage, I was holding my dad's trouser and he was just dragging me somehow.. I guess there was some time limit or something, we had to enter Lahore within some given time frame or I don't know.. Just imagine all this from a 3 years old point of view.. And trust me I'm not talking about 1947 or any post division era, this happened to us sometimes in early 80s..

So from 3 to my 30s I'm still trying to figure that if we are neighbors then why this much hatred between two members of ONE family those who used to live together a few decades back... The other thing which I cannot understand is that if this much of hatred is there between the two nations then why all Indian movies go house full in Pakistan and why without Rahat Fateh Ali Khan and Atif Aslam any bollywood movie seems incomplete??? I think I should conclude it this way that love between the people live across borders is natural and hatred is engineered and its totally artificial..

Now the question is who will engineer this attitude between the nations??? And why??? The answer is quite simple and straight, the one who's the biggest beneficiary of having an enemy on the other side.. "Military"??? Yes of course, who else!!!

Okay so now the point is, are both the armies getting benefited for having enemies across the borders??? You decide yourself, I'm just sharing some facts with you..

Strategically for Pakistan Army or Military Establishment this is truly not advisable to have more enemies than the capacity of handling them at least at this point in time.. Pakistan is going through serious security challenges, from Balochistan to Karachi and from Western Borders to Kashmir.. War on terror has almost sucked our nation, at this moment at least Pakistan Army with 617,000 active & 513,000 reserve and 304,000 active paramilitary troops can't be benefited by having India as an addition to their enemy's list, on the other hand if we just have a look of Indian Army & Paramilitary active and reserve troops and analyze their border situation I think maintaining Pakistan as their enemy benefits Indian Army the most..

Indian Army is one of the largest armies in the world, with 1,129,900 active troops and 960,000 reserve troops.. 1,300,586 Active Paramilitary Troops & 987,821 is the count of the reserved paramilitary troops.. Geographical position of India is kind of an ideal.. At one side they have got Nepal which is in very good terms with India, Sri Lanka is there which is again not an evil for India, Bangladesh seems really under influenced by the Indians, India is not going through any war on terror nor any of the Nato aircraft flying over them or from their soil to touch Afghanistan.. So they are just left with Pakistan the only country which is not in good terms with them or involved in some alleged insurgency in India or Indian Held Kashmir..


The strange thing is that whenever any of the Pakistani govt starts serious efforts for the betterment of the relationship between the two, suddenly something goes wrong and the peace process goes into the gutter.. Doesn't it show the seriousness of the biggest beneficiary of the whole situation???

Don't believe what I wrote but just give it a thought..


This is just a brief comparison from a common Pakistani's perspective or a Green Indian because I know before 1947 we were all Indians the only difference I see this partition could make is defined two colors of Indians One is Green and the other one is Indian Saffron..

Happy Independence Day from Green Indians to Saffron Indians!!
"Long Live India"

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