True story of a 6 year old beggar.

Photo Credits: Umama Mirza

Saturday evening in summer is perhaps the best time of the week. We planned to go out and have dinner on one such day. Most of the lazy mates of ours refused to go so my friend and me decided to go out for a walk.

We strolled around the market for half an hour then sat at the benches to relax. While talking with each other we ordered burgers. Just when we were eating a boy of about 6 years came towards us.

Boy: Bhai I'm hungry, please buy me something to eat?

Me: Allah k hawalay, let us eat.

Boy: Bhai I'm hungry.

Ameer: How do we buy you food? We are students ourselves.

Happiness is ours to Find and Cherish

Written By: Amna Tariq

Sometimes for no apparent reason at all tears well up behind the eyes and all those unknown and muddled emotions find expression in a torrent of tears that fall from those troubles eyes. Without knowing why, you keep on weeping. You become withdrawn and distant, everything that was part of routine begins to appear strange and unwelcoming.

We, without realizing, base our day to day happiness and contentment on hopes and dreams, and the belief that they would soon come true. Then one day suddenly the bitter reality starts to penetrate the thin curtains of dreams, and then finally the thread-like curtains get torn and we are blinded; blinded by the ugly picture life assumes at that moment.

Beautiful Balochistan.

Ever since the eye opening visit to Balochistan I always wanted to write about the things people don't really write about. More than target killings, more than terrorism the biggest province of Pakistan is undoubtedly one of the most beautiful and amazing places ever visited. A province that has a rich history, rich traditions, people who will welcome you, places that will excite you, it has everything. In the continuation of Peaceful Pakistan Project here are the worth visiting places to visit in Balochistan.

In the first part of Balochitan we look at the places only, the food and the people will be in focus next time.

Oh wait! There are many more beautiful and undiscovered places in the province, sadly due to the security situation and the problems you can't just travel through the places on your own otherwise people would have been able to know about them.

Bolan Pass.

The Bolān Pass is a mountain pass through the Toba Kakar Range of Balochistan province in western Pakistan, 120 kilometres from the Afghanistan border.

Strategically located, traders, invaders, and nomadic tribes have also used it as a gateway to and from South Asia. The Bolān Pass is an important pass on the Baluch frontier, connecting Jacobabad and Sibi with Quetta, which has always occupied an important place in the history of British campaigns in Afghanistan.

Not worthy of writing on Prophet Muhammad (PBUH).

I have been trying to write something on Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) , It has  been more than 40 minutes and I have been unable to write anything. My hands tremble, tears roll over, my heart is filled and my mind is blocked. 

As sinful as I am, not worthy of writing anything about Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) , I will just leave with some words by (Alphonse de LaMartaine in 'Historie de la Turquie,' Paris, 1854.)

 "Never has a man set for himself, voluntarily or involuntarily, a more sublime aim, since this aim was superhuman; to subvert superstitions which had been imposed between man and his Creator, to render God unto man and man unto God; to restore the rational and sacred idea of divinity amidst the chaos of the material and disfigured gods of idolatry, then existing. Never has a man undertaken a work so far

Rise and Shine.

Written By: Mariam Saeed

Darkness just rain falling from the endless skies, 

Heart is just pain coming from deep inside.

Days are brilliant and wonderful nights,

Nothing is precious then when you are in sight.

Darkness all around blurred in my sight,

When you are miserable, nothing feels right.

I wont give up, I'm strong.

Will do my best to undo what's wrong.

Lions never fail the are proud when they rise,

Greats born, they can't be made to any size.

Waiting to see all the haters go down their knees and cry,

Not far is the day when I will rise.

Carry on your efforts and never accept the defeat,

Nearer are the moments to come, under your feet.

Feel, Search and Love.

Sometimes you don't realize things yourself, you have to be forced to realize them. Love, they say isn't something that can be categorized. Love isn't something you will be forced to fall in. It is something that comes naturally. It isn't something someone will make you realize. You have to realize it yourself. They say sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye. Then at times there are things that are in front of your eyes but your heart doesn't want to realize. Twisted much? But you can't resist it for long .. You can stay away, tell yourself, find reasons, divert yourself .. still, you fall in love. You fall in it and you enter a totally different world .. It's a world that opens so many new things, so many new excitements , thrills, even doubts, uncertainties everything but you don't care. You explore it more. You enjoy every moment. You have so many ways, to express it in different ways.. you can care, you can hesitate, you can be nervous, you can be possessive, you can be harsh, but you know you love. And when you know you love, you know you need nothing more, you know every other thing becomes secondary. You suddenly have someone there for you, someone you can talk, laugh,stare, admire all day, someone who becomes 'the most important' in your life. You suddenly begin to love everything your love, loves. You call black, white. You call wrong, right. They say Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. It changes everything upside down. You know you just won't regret anything. Once you know you have love in your life ..You just travel the road , a never ending road .. knowing, your fairy tale has begun, this is your  happily ever after and that this will end the search for 'finding neverland' ..

A Brief moment of Ecstasy

Photo Credits: Umama Uzair

Written By: Maham Shahbaz

He ran out to his balcony and sat under the stars…looked at them trying to distract himself from the unpleasant conversation he just had all the unpleasant incidents of the day but sometimes the uncertainty is too much to bear. The ignorance, it gets to your bones. Sometimes you doubt if you even exist and you feel like this is just a vivid dream like the one you had last night…And maybe you think that walking away is something everyone is best at But maybe that was the best for you.

He looked out and shook his head trying to shake off the heavy thoughts. He tried thinking about a pleasant future…the only escape from the present was a happy future, at least imagining it was…

“And what is best? A relative term … relative to what?
What is happy? A relative term … relative to what?
What is tragedy? A relative term … relative to what?
What is heart breaking pain? A relative term? No.
And in relative to what? The past?
The past where you no longer live?

Life as it is.

By Ifra Javed.

Life sucks. Never trust anyone is a lesson I learnt so well, but a lesson I keep forgetting to apply. But what do I do, god has made man so vulnerable, so weak. It is so easy to be fooled, no matter how much we try there comes a time when we let our guard down and that one moment is all it takes. 

I have fallen, I arose, but even then as I stumbled through life, I knowingly got myself in quicksand and now I'm neck deep in that mess. They say there's always a way. "When there's will there's a way" but at the moment I feel completely lost. Totally forsaken. My mind is gone and I'm spinning around, and deep inside my tears ill drown. I'm losing grip, what's happening, I stray from love. This is how I feel. And it's not a lovely feeling. Sigh. .... Life as it is. 

When Darkness Consumes...

 Written By: Amna Aziz

It feels like I'm drowning, 

Within the depths of my own mind.

The light's visible high above,

But the path into this deep well it cant find.

Isn't there any way out of here?

Its all dark tunnels, no beginning no end,

I know for I've wandered in them, for decades on end.

Searching for a door, 

A door that'll help me end this end this fruitless endeavor.

By the oceanic tides of emotions I was swept away instead,

Drawing me ever deeper, into their web.

Never for a moment loosening their hold,

And letting my face feel the breeze cold,

But extinguishing the flame of my heart,

Obscuring the luster of my intellect.

Around me is spread the debris of my being,

As if the emotional volcano has finally erupted,

Throwing me into nothingness, that..

Enhances the depth of this dark ocean,

Deepen's my heart's burning pain,

And tightens the knot on my cramped brain,

Embedding me ever more in this thoughtless oblivion.

Pakistan Super League Official Logo

Pakistan Super League (PSL) has been launched officially.

Fomer ICC chief executive Haroon Loggart has been appointed as the advisor of the league, Salman Sarwar Butt managing director

Pakistan and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) are expected to jointly secure sponsors from the US for the PSL.

The league will start from the 24th of March and will go on till the 15th of April.

William Shakespeare.

William Shakespeare, often called the English national poet, is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called the "Bard of Avon"as Shakespeare was born and brought up in Stratford-upon-Avon.

Early Life.

Sometime between 1556 and 1558 William's father, John Shakespeare, married Mary Arden, the daughter of the wealthy Robert Arden of Wilmecote.

Yes or a No.

By Maham Shahbaz.

When you can't sleep nor can you stay awake

when you are hungry yet you don't eat

when you are cold and fire doesn't give you warmth

when you are happy yet it doesn't touch your heart

when you are hurt and you can't cry

when you are blue but you Still feel the sunshine

when you know but you aren't sure

doubts never seem to end...and you continue to fall

there is no pain worse than hanging between a Yes or a no ... 

'WE' and the other side of life.

There are times when we think we can never be happy. Then we see the other side and find people who are always looking for a reason to be happy, that teaches us how to be happy.

There are also times when we think we have the most troubled life. Then we see the other side and there are people who have so many troubles in one day of their life that our life seems good.

There are times when we make a small mistake think we are always hard done by. Then we see the other side and there are  people who are stripped off their right to live for something they never did.

Démonstartion K-Do Noël...

 By Ha-Meem ( To bore you here with maths)

The journey of a small particle of wheat

By Ha-Meem 

Hi, my name is John. I used to be a part of wheat grain. We were so many particles in there : Jhonny, Jim, James, Josh, Justin, Jack...

And we were stuck to tight to one onother that an outsider couldn't differentiate us.  We were the result of past years' crop. And here were to be planted again in soil. We passed too much time stuck in the dark in that gunny bag down in Ali's store.

Ali is the farmer. He plants all sorts of vegetables and fruits according to seasons : tomatoes, watermelon, melon, cucumbers, rice, wheat, corn... And when his  plant become big big big, he comes with his cousin's machine. He sorts seeds and leaves. And then he burns the rest to plant something new.