thought-provoking poem

Do not stand at  my grave and weep,


i am not there, i do not sleep


I am in a  thousand winds that blow,


 I am the softly falling snow,


I am the gentle showers of rain,


I am the fields of ripening grains,


I am in the morning hush,


I am in the graceful rush,


of beautiful birds in circling flight,


I am in the star shine of the night,


I am in the flowers that bloom,


I am in a quiet Room,


I am in the birds that sing,


I am in an each lovely thing,


Do not stand at my grave bereft,


I am not there, I have not left.........




                                                         By Mary Elizabeth Frye
 

Lake Vostok

This is probably world's most enigmatic  sub glacial lake.

This lake is almost 13000 ft beneath the ice sheet on antarctic. scientists estimate that the conditions of  this secluded lake might have been unchanged for 15 million years


the decades long probe of this lake is left just fifty miles away to peep into the contents of this lake.The presence of microorganism in the depth of it's water are already discovered by the experts. piercing through the lake would provide a chance to meet the life that we had never met before.

skeptics are of the view that this drilling could contaminate the fresh water. 

 

Military Operations

             Coalition forces operation in Afghanistan

• Operation Mushtarik (battle of Marja)

•  Operation new dawn

•  Operation tor shehzada also known  Operation Black prince

•      Operation Hamkari

 DR Congo

• Amani leo    

(peace today)  aims to consolidate surveillance, protect civilians  and eradication of FDLR  rebels and other armed groups.

Israel

• Operation sea breeze. carried out in international waters around 60 miles away from it's territorial waters to seize freedom flotilla

• Adaisseh  border skirmish  border skirmish with Lebanon

India

• operation cyclone

• Operation black Tornado   (against Mumbai attacks)

• Operation blue star (Golden temple)

• operation Vi jay ( Kargil )

Iraq

• operation New dawn

• battle of palm grove 

by American Forces 

spiral island is an artificial island made of garbage by  Rishi Sowa.He is an artist, musician and environmentalist.. The material used in this island is plastic bottles carpets and bags. The first spiral  island was located in the Caribbean cost of Mexico.He started building it in 1998 but it was destroyed in 2005 on it's encounter with Hurricane Emily. Nevertheless, half  of it's material was discovered floating nearby.

Spiral island ii. 


Sowa built a new island near Cancun and opened it for tours in 2008.. The new island is about 66 ft.(20 metres ) in diameters. It took 100.000 bottles to complete this island. Some plants and mangroves  are growing on it.  It encompasses solar panels. solar-powered waterfall , house and beaches.

Nabataeans cut rock architecture.

            Petra


This place is widely known for it's  best architectural work of  Nabataeans.. .Nabateans  were ancient Arabs who settled around Jordan, Canaan and Northern part of Arabia. Petra was the  capital city  of  Nabateans. Petra  lies between  the Red sea and the dead sea and is situated on the slope of mount Hor. One of Jordanians most visited archaeological  and historical city of ancient times.


Petra is included in the list of  UNESCO world heritage sites.Petra is a Greek word means rock and this


ancient city is known for its rock cut architect and water drainage system.. excavations demonstrates that this


city witnessed floods and to contain that flood water Nabateans build dams, conduits ,cisterns. They were used to  worship  gods and goddesses along with their kings. Obudas1   had been adored after his death. Petra's monastery was built in  dedication to their king obudas1. Moreover Al Uzza, Al lat and Manat  were worshiped in Pre- Islamic time. Many craved sculpture depicts  these gods and goddesses  in Petra. ArabHor also known as mount Aron or Jabl ul Auron  is a place where HazratHarun(P.B.U.H) is buried. traditions also reveals that Mount

 


AL-HIJR  (Mada'in salih)


This  archaeological site locates  in Saudi Arabia. Formerly known as Hijr or Hegra, a well conserved site that include 111 to  131 (figures are different ) monumental tombs and water wells.This is the second  largest settlement of  Nabatean Kingdom after the Petra.The holy Quran identifies it as the settlement of tribe Thamud. Inscriptions and other evidences shows that this site might have been used as a  military base of  Nabateans.
 Jabl ul ithlib, which is located on North east of the site,  is believed to   have been dedicated to deity Dushara.
Mada'in saleh  is located on the foot Hill of a plateau  and  is about 500 kilometers away from  south east of Petra.

IslamoPhobia.

This Video speaks itself that American media is suffering from islamophobia.

Reporters are much concerned, why Obama bow down to an Islamic head of state? and consider that


this act was beyond the limit. Media look perturbed,
Why he defended islamic cause? why he was wearing islamic costume? How many time   he  had quoted The Holy Quran? . This phobia is the major reason in creating misunderstanding about Islam and Muslims.

American Media  is in severe need to get rid of this islamophobia as soon as possible

No Instinct lasts forever.

This game starts with the two prominent instincts Love and hatred.. The both try to overpower each other Love want hatred to combine in it. The Love persistently  strives  to  eradicate hatred. To resist love,

 hate gave rise anger.  love solicit help from wisdom. The both wisdom and love successfully  calm  down the anger but anger before  dying  completely  breeds  suspicious. suspicious suspect  the purity of love

and alienate wisdom from the love. Love got blind without wisdom.  it blindly keep on  showering  it's love on everyone and everything.   with out wisdom, he could not distinguish the right amount of it's love for everyone . it erroneously starts  loving Ego . Ego somehow restrict the functions of love . It don't show respect for wisdom neither let the love to calm down anger. The stubborn Ego caused the love to die . the demise of love left unchecked  hatred  with it's tools like,  anger,discontent, strife and ill will etc  this reign

of  lawlessness pricks the conscience and consciousness   subdue the wrong and  prevails the right. the right accumulate  sympathies and those sympathies are further  turned into love. In game of instincts non instinct remains forever rather try to  overpower each other for some time

instinct don't die keep on changing . and this game goes on..

New Zodiac Sign

Ophiuchus a  constellation  that sits between Hercules and  Scorpius equally known as serpentarious is for those who born between November 29  and December 17.  The twelve sign zodiac has been change by thirteen sign  horoscope calendar.

Bad news for the Capricorns that they are no more Capricorns because their zodiac sign has been changed into  Sagittarius. Many speculations that this new change will also effect on fortune as well.

the new horoscope calendar is read as:

Sagittarius : December 17 - January 20

Capricorn:  January 20 _  February 16

Aquarius:    February 16_ March 11 

Pisces:  March 11 _  April 18 

Aries : April 18 -    May 13

Taurus: May 13 _ June 21

Gemini:  June 21 - July 20 

Cancer:  July 20 _ august 10

Leo:  August 10 - September 16

Virgo:  September 16 ~_ October 30

Libra:  October 30 _ November 23 

Scorpio:  November 23 _  November 29

Ophiuchus:  November 29 _ December 17 

Water theft in South Asia

China's zangmu dam (underconstruction) which would be  world's highest dam had  made Indian
 government restless.India take it a tool of  water theft more than a hydro power project. this dam
 is on Brahmaputra river which is a source of water for  million people.Moreover, being lower riparian, the flow of water concerned them a lot. similarly, Lagos,Vietnam,Cambodia and Thailand
have their reservation regarding Chinese  dams on Mekong river.  Activists blamed china for changing ecology of the river but china didn't respond to their concerns.


the other country which bears strain relationship with its neighbours over the water sharing is  India.
Surma and khushiara(  river of Bangladesh) are said to be affected if India build its Tipaimukh dam over the river Barak on Mani pur state.  So much so, its Farakka barrage on Ganges river  is the most heated debate in  Bangladesh  .  this barrage was constructed to divert the Ganges water into huglii river but many in Bangladesh believe this barrage  has  cut off  the supply of water, raised salinity, effected navigation and quality of water as well. the story don't ends here, Bangladesh has also voiced its concerns over India's inter-linking river project which will divert water of Ganges into the south of India, leaving the land of Bangladesh almost barren.


pancheshwor  hydro power project is a bone of contention between India and Nepal and equal water sharing of Mahakali river has yet to be defined. India signed mahakali treaty with Nepal for water utilization. Being upper riparian Nepal's treaties with India mostly focus on how  to   control floods?and how to make hydro power projects productive for both sides.  so is the case of  Buttan.


beyond that, Pakistan on many occasions snubbed  India on its ambitions to built more dam and barrages over the rivers that are entitle to Pakistan as par Indus water  treaty. this treaty has been breached by India  many times.  for instance, her  Baglihar dam on river Chenab earned  her a name "brazen water pirate.  it's because of  this dam,
the flow of river has reduced  but india deny this saying, the slow water flow of the river is natural and have nothing to do with the dam. India's proposed fifteen dam projects  has jolted  Pakistan.  This region is witnessing the scarcity of water and can have serious repercussions IF  the demands of lower riparian are not met.

World is going green

Jernhusan, the real estate company of Sweden took initiative and introduced a way to utilize body heat.The central station of Stockholm where thousands of people pass though daily can provide energy to warm another building without relying on gas and coal. the procedure  is very simple. heat exchangers concert body heat into hot water further this heat is channeled to the heating system of nearby building.

indeed, The very recent way how the world is going green.

A Poison Tree...... by william Blake

i was angry with my friend
i told my wrath,my wrath did end.

i was angry with my foe
i told it not, my wrath did grow

And i watered it in fears,
night and morning with my tears
And i sunned it with smile
And with soft deceitful wiles
 
And it grew both day and night
Till it bore an apple bright
And my foe beheld it shine
And he knew that it was mine

and into my garden stole
when the night had veiled the pole
in the morning glad i see
my foe outstretched  beneath  the tree

Microsoft one step ahead

Microsoft's  next release would be able  to run operating system on the chips that are usually found in mobile phones. Microsoft Boss Steve Ballmer announced future version of Microsoft that  would probably called Window 8 and  would support  systems on a chip.

Although,  Microsoft already had windows phone7 version for small devices but this full version will be available for  larger devices. this SOC is likely to launch  next year.

Act of God

. Science   made much  progress in every field. Exploration of the universe is being accelerated. .weather predictions
and earth quack warnings are issued from time to time to prevent any upcoming damage.however last years catastrophes shows the  futility of these developments in preventing the act of God.


Haiti' was shacked with the severe earth quack which claimed almost 300,000 lives.The capital Port Au prince was raised to the ground affecting one third population of the state.

 Chile experienced tsunami in February which damaged port Talcahuano and washed away some towns along the coast.  china  also suffered huge casualties  as 7.1 magnitude  earth quack claimed 400 lives in Yushu county region injuring 10,000 .
the volcanic eruption in Iceland and those of mount Merapi in Indonesia effected many lives as well.
 the Massive flood in Pakistan shattered already crumbling economy of Pakistan.One fifth of the country was submerged under the water leaving devastated homes and destroyed crops.Estimates shows around 20 million people were affected and round about 2,000 people lost their lives.

Rampant wildfire in Russia in August due to draught and high temperature and 56,000 people were died.
Israel met with the same fate when fire broke out in November and reduced it's 7,000 acre area into ashes.

 man hasn't been able to cope with these natural disasters so far.

Blasphemy law in pakistan

This Law was promulgated by Zia ul haq in 1980s. this law strictly prohibits any defaming of religious personages and defiling or defacing sacred places. For instance,

Article 295 prohibits damaging or defiling sacred places.

Article 295-A forbid inciting or outraging religious feelings.

Article 295-b forbids defiling the Holy Quran.

Article 295-c forbids defaming Muhammad Peace be Upon Him.

punishment for Defaming Muhammad (p.b.u.h)can be a death with or without fine.



article 298-a forbids  the use of any derogatory remarks and representations of Holy Muslim personages.

298 b and 292c prohibit Ahmidyas from calling themselves Muslims.


One faction of the country especially human right activist and some politicians are of the view that this law need to be amended as it's being utilised to kill innocent people. To support their point they give reference of many people who were held on the charge of blasphemy  but later court found them innocent.  thus these people had to endure this ordeal for several years without any crime.



there are numerous cases which shows how this law is being use to target the minority and the opponents.For instance,Punjab police arrested four student and a labourer on January 2009 for blasphemy but after few days inquiry committee dismissed the charges saying these are baseless. In some cases alleged people were put to death but later proved that they were innocent. they are not non Muslims alone, in many cases Muslims were caught up on blasphemy . owing to this mishandling of blasphemy law some amendments were proposed but religious parties demonstrated against it. so that the fate of this bill still hangs in balance.



No one is repealing this law parliamentarian want amendments to immune it from any witch hunting.

The supporter of this law (religious parties ) giving tough time to the government on this issue.

this tussle between religious parties and the supporters of the law can spark riots on large scale as it's easy to provoke so called  Muslims in the name of Islam.


As we have seen in the case of Governor Punjab who has been killed by his own guard and he had confessed his crime pleading that , Governor once attributed this law to a black law which injured his feelings and he shot him dead. interesting to note that no one brought any allegation under any article of the constitution in any court against the Governor Not even by the mullah's who are well versed in religious matter. . the question arises here why individuals take law in their hand and kill others on their own discretion.whereas Laws are there,judges are there,and the state is Muslim????/

"Mortality" bye Francis beaumont on The tombs in Westminster Abbey

Mortality, behold and fear

What a change of flesh is here!

Think how many royal bones

Sleep within these heaps of stones

Here, they lie had realms and lands,

who now want strength to stir their hands.

where from their pulpits seal'd with dust


they preach,  "In greatness is no trust"

Here's  an acre sown indeed

with the richest royallest seeds

Here the bones of birth have cried,

"Though gods they were, as men they died"


Here are sands, ignoble things,

Dropt  from the ruin'd sides of kings.

Here's a world of pomp and state

Buried in dust, once dead by fate

History repeats itself

the throughout history of Pakistan's politics is an acute specimen of the proverb "history repeats itself".

Nearly all Generals strictly adhered to their policy of arm twisting and usurping the power from the politicians.

The first president of Pakistan Iskandar mirza filled the post of defense minister with Ayoub khan who was commander in chief of army  by then.The unfortunate president got his due when Ayoub khan ousted him and seized the power.

It is said that General gul hassan and Air martial  raheem played a major role in installing Zulifiqar ali butto's governemt as against the incumbent martial law administrate General Yahya Khan.but The both were retired forcibly. Afterwards Zulifqar bhutto bypassed Senior Generals and appointed General Zia ul haq as the Head of the pak army.General Zia  took the power,dismissed democratic government and later Bhutto was hanged.

Prime Minister Nawaz shareef bypassed the seniour General and appointed General pervaiz musharaf.

instead supporting the nawaz's  regime he toppled the government and the premier was sent in  exile.

General Musharaf appointed General parvaiz kiyani as chief of Army staff.  Meanwhile General Musharaf is no longer Pakistan's president and General Kiyani is given extension by the incumbent Government. Let's keep our fingers crossed and see what happens next ...