Double Standards, Kashmir, UN Secretary General & our Fabulous mistakes

Double Standards, Kashmir, UN Secretary General & our Fabulous mistakes

Don't bank on false promises

either by US President or UN Secretary General 

The article was written in Feb 2020 so after a year things are same yet in feb 2021 i add a title and few lines but Kashmir is still burning & Pakistani PTI government, as expected did not do any step just to please masters. 

Double Standards, Kashmir, UN Secretary General & our Fabulous mistakes

Don't bank on false promises

either by US President or UN Secretary General

Under US pressure & misleading twists of Trump, the PTI govt failed to build the pressure on India & did a compromise like Ayub Khan did in past.

At this moment UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres is in my city Lhore, often misspelled as Lahore. Contrary to his radical ( also this word has been changed in recent times, thanks to cold war mindset, now a days it is a negative term..hahaha) background and strong EU & UN past, Mr Guterres is hiding behind human rights violations & digital ban by Indian State in occupied Kashmir. In the presence of UNSC resolutions passed in late 1940s and early 1970s, it is strange to limit criticism on India till human rights. 
As par his Biography Prior to his appointment as Secretary-General, Mr. Guterres served as United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees from June 2005 to December 2015. Before joining UNHCR, Mr. Guterres spent more than 20 years in government and public service. He served as prime minister of Portugal from 1995 to 2002. In 2000 he was President of European Council too. Mr. Guterres was elected to the Portuguese Parliament in 1976 and was active in the Socialist International, a worldwide organization of social democratic political parties. He was the group’s vice-president from 1992 to 1999. 
With such background he must be well aware with Kashmir issue. For India, Kashmir was an international issue in late 1940s and that is why its then Prime Minster had approached to UN for resolution. United Nation Resolutions in late 1940s clearly advocated the issue as international dispute and passed a resolution in favor of people living in the State of Jummo & Kashmir. In order to tackle international pressure Indian State adopted Article 370 and gave Kashmir a special status in their constitution of 1950. Thanks to cold war, the issue remain unresolved because USSR veto it in UNSC for many years. Mr Guterres well aware from cold war power politics that had restricted UN role in many regions for resolution of conflicts. But in early 1970s UNSC had passed another resolution ( 21st December 1971) that again pressurised India to resolve Kashmir. In 1972, India compelled to respond and in Shimla agreement of 1972, it had accepted Kashmir as bilateral issue between India & Pakistan. But it remain unresolved yet in Lhore resolution (1999) India again repeated its Shimla agreement position. Yet in last August India violated all international & regional agreements and had not only removed Article 370 but also divided the State of J&K unilaterally. Thanks to US pressure, there is not any potent pressure on India to cancel 5 August brutality. On contrary the pressure is to end human rights abuses and removal of digital ban. 
The situation in Kashmir is similar to Palestine where Israel did advances and US remained silent. In last July US President in a smart move told Pakistani PM in front of media that Indian PM ask me to mediate on Kashmir issue. It proved an instigation to India and everyone had witnessed it at Agust 5. Yet Guardian had warned it timely and had published a report at 23rd July 2019 Fury in India over Donald Trump's Kashmir claims But Pakistani ruling click could not juge it timely and remained busy in banking their joy on tricky comments of Trump. 

Saddam did same mistake and Modi is taking India to dead end after August 5 but if UN secretary General will remain silent on UN resolutions and Pakistan will remain banking on false promises then there will be no immense pressure on India regarding resolution of conflict at all. Mr SG should realize that he is not head of UNHCR but SG of UN. That is why like offer of Trump to mediate, India simply rejected UN Secretary General Offer. This rejection syndrome is increasing day by day and now a British MP too taste it. British MP Debbie Abrahams Visa Revoked Due To Activities Which Went Against India's National Interest: Government Sources
What are the national interests of India in the presence of UNSC resolutions of late 1940s and early 1970s? It is time to rethink for all. 

Further readings
https://www.thenews.com.pk/print/615092-if-pakistan-india-agree-un-secretary-general-offers-mediation-on-kashmir

https://dailytimes.com.pk/560389/india-rejects-mediation-offer-by-un-secretary-general-on-kashmir/

https://dunyanews.tv/en/Pakistan/533009-UN-secretary-general-reaches-Lahore

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jul/23/india-denies-asking-for-donald-trumps-mediation-in-kashmir

Is opposition to Basant, Valentine Day & Social Media, a product of same narrow mindset? (Radio Show)

Is opposition to Basant, Valentine Day & Social Media, a product of same narrow mindset?

(Radio Show) 

In past Western & US supported Gen Zia had used religion card yet he was not criticized because he was selected crusader against Reds. Similarly in recent times Modi is another selected who is using religion card not only in disputed Kashmir but by controversial CAA in India too. Modi has stopped  Internet facilities in Kashmir since 6 months but Asia internet collation type bodies did not respond on it. Interestingly even FATF like bodies have no problem with BJP offshore fundings. Interestingly Imran Khan government has introduced new rules for controlling social media  that reminds many things. In Pakistan Basant is banned , Valentine Day is not allowed and now control on social media on cards. What is this mindset? Lok Lhar program has discussed it at 14 Feb 2020 show with guests Sajjad Mansori, Iqbal Haider Butt, Shahzad Ahmad and Dr Imdad Hussain.

Hindu & Muslim fundamentalists protest against valentine day

Listen complete recording of the Punjabi radio program Lok Lhar broadcasted at Mast FM103 at Feb 14, 2020 from Lhore studios 

https://voca.ro/bjR76wcH2v8

Bytes For All

5 lak People in Karachi have cancer due to Gutka, said cancer specialist Dr Shahrayar (listen radio show)

5 lak People in Karachi have cancer due to Gutka, said cancer specialist Dr Shahrayar.

Every women should do Mammogram test

Time for Karachi to respond

 (listen radio show)

Listen what Dr Sharyar  said about his life, schooling, medical college days, Lhore, profession,  his commitment to fight against various forms of Cancer, including Throat, Brest , lungs cancer, etc and about its cures and precautions. He revealed that in Karachi alone there are 5 lak cancer patients and its cause is bad habit of using Gutka. He accepted that there is a huge mafia behind business  of Gutka. That is why Karachi based parties including ruling PTI and MQM are silent on it. On the one hand these parties often found complaining but they did not demonstrate against Gutka. Dr also talk about Mammogram  test and said that government should instal machines in all public hospitals and make this test essential for all women especially young girls. 

Note: Lok Lhar punjabi radio show was recorded at 7 Feb 2020 , Guests were Dr Sharyar, Canser specialist and Hasan Yasar, an ex banker 

A video clip of the program 

Doctor and patient relationship changed when we started calling patient, client. This comes from #US. Dr Shahryar talking in #LokLhar show.
Interestingly, so-called without regulations, privatization and free market mantras were introduced to by #Americans in Ayub and Zia dictatorships and it had ruined whole society.

https://www.facebook.com/aamirr/videos/10157356554169032/

Another Clip of the program

Gutka is killing people of #Karachi with #Cancer but so-called protectors of #UrbanSindh are busy in petty politics because there is huge business. Five lak cancer patients in Karachi and #Gutka kill people far faster then cigarette. Said Dr Shahryar in #LokLhar show

https://www.facebook.com/aamirr/videos/10157358497094032/

کراچی وچ 5 لکھ افراد گٹکے پاروں کینسر دا شکار نیں۔ڈاکٹر شہریار،

کراچی دے مامے چپ کیوں جے؟

ایس توں کون ڈکدا ہے انہاں نوں؟

Listen complete program at the link below

https://voca.ro/4wxXGZKlsiE

Bacha Khan;s controversial interview to Indian journalist 1980.. Sharing at his120th birthday

Bacha Khan;s controversial interview to Indian journalist in 1980

Sharing at his120th birthday 

It was published in India Today at 31 March 1980, interviewed by an Indian (Hyderabadi) Journalist Haroon Saddique at Jalalabad where Bacha Khan was in self exile. As he praised presence of Russian Army in Afghanistan and criticised Hafeezullah Ameen so this interview was taken after 27 December 1979 (death of Ameen) and published in 31March next year. At that time Marshalla of Zia was in full swing in Pakistan and PPP & left leaders & workers were either in jails or compelled to go abroad yet Bacha was in contact with Zia who had just murdered Z A Bhutto few months back and running Islamic fundamentalist agenda. In Pakistan he was a traitor and Russian cum Indian agent but Zia had given passport to him yet Russians did not allow him to visit Moscow for treatment. In retrospective this interview is interesting and if you have read Untold Story , a book by NAP Sindh president in 1970s, Azizullah Advocate, Benazir Bhutto first book Foreign policy perspective, Jumma Khan book along with biography of Mir Ghous Baksh Bazinjo and few interviews published in AwamiJumhori Forum, you can understand what were the anxieties in post 16 December 1971 Pakistan and what stands numerous power players had taken during and after Bhutto period.

Note: I have inserted some questions in red in the text. one should try to get complete interview too.


Link of the Interview

Everything in Afghanistan is done in the name of religion: Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan

The legend still lives, but it is rapidly fading, and so is the man. The frail and wasted body, however, still holds traces of the fierce independence that gave Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan, 91, the title of the "Frontier Gandhi.

https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/neighbours/story/19800331-everything-in-afghanistan-is-done-in-the-name-of-religion-khan-abdul-ghaffar-khan-806546-2014-01-31

Haroon Siddiqui

January 31, 2014

ISSUE DATE: March 31, 1980

UPDATED: November 19, 2014 13:14 IST

Abdul Gaffar Khan: Favouring the Russian presence

The legend still lives, but it is rapidly fading, and so is the man. The frail and wasted body, however, still holds traces of the fierce independence that gave Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan, 91, the title of the "Frontier Gandhi." Confined to his bungalow across the unpaved, dusty bus depot at Jalalabad in Afghanistan, 65 kilometres from the Khyber Pass, Ghaffer Khan struggles bravely with a serious blood pressure problem. He is awaiting permission to fly to India to be treated by Dr Balu Sankaran, director general of Health Services, his doctor since 1964.

Since Ayub Khan's dictatorship (Oct 1958) he was under custody yet in 1982 Amnesty International had declared him prisoner of consciousness and in 1964 Ayub had allowed '' the traitor'' to go to London for treatment. 

 Recently, Ghaffar Khan gave a wide-ranging interview to India Today in Jalalabad. The interview was conducted by Haroon Siddiqui, an Indian journalist who works for the Toronto Star in Canada. Excerpts:

Q. There's concern among your admirers, and others as well, about your health and whether or not you're receiving proper medical attention?
A. The Taraki government had said it would send me to Russia. But they said the Russians wanted me to first get a Pakistani passport. I applied at the Pakistani embassy in Kabul and also wrote a letter to General Zia. He responded by saying he was planning to go to Russia himself and said: "Why don't you come along with me?" But I said I would go later and by myself. 

So Bacha himself accepted the contact with Zia, the dictator.

Q. Did you get your passport?
A. The Pakistanis said the Russians won't give me a visa. Months went by. Then it was winter (of 1978). Later, I got an invitation from India to go there for treatment. But General Zia responded to that by saying: "Don't go to India." And he asked me to come to Pakistan instead. I said I don't want to be treated in Pakistan.

Why Russians were interested to send him to India? Interestingly at the time of partition Nehru wanted to join US block but US wanted to develop inroads in Pakistan and it was recorded by Kanji Dwarkadas, a member of Congress Working Committee who had published letters of Nehru. So by B T Ranadive revolution of Feb 1948, Russians had developed a pressure on Indian establishment to negotiate with Russian Balock and it worked and till 1952 revolutionary B T R was lost all power even within his party and India was adjusted in USSR block. As Chomsky said in his book deterring democracies that cold war was a plan war so both conflicting powers were on same page yet their acts were different. The other important thing was the time, winter of 1978. Zia was trying to hang Bhutto (murdered by court in April 4, 1979) yet Bacha was just busy in his game. It was the time when like Imran Khan, mr Wali Khan was interested in accountability of Bhutto before elections by Zia, the dictator. 

Q. Then what happened?
A. There was a proposal that I go to Czechoslovakia. A minister of the Taraki government said I could go wherever I wanted. I said I would prefer to go to Russia and I asked the Pakistani Government again for a passport. They didn't want to give it at first. But then they did.

So State of Pakistan under Gen Zia had given passport to a traitor... you can judge both, establishment & revolutionary well. If some Dutana or Bhugtti or Jatoi or khan abdul Qyum Khan did it we knew it often happened in power game but Bacha, the frontier gandhi was doing that. 

Q. Why didn't you get to go to the Soviet Union then?
A. Because they didn't want me to come there. An Afghan cabinet minister told me that the Russians had said: "We don't want to treat him because he's an old man. If he were to die on our soil, the Pakhtoons would get angry and say, 'Russia has killed our leader.'" That's why the Russians weren't giving me a visa.

lame excuses by Russians 

Q. What was your reaction to this?
A. I said to them that the Pakhtoons won't get angry even if I died in Russia because everyone has to die sometime somewhere. But the Pakhtoons do get angry when their khidmatgaar (servant) does not get proper medical attention.

By this time (September 1979), Taraki was overthrown and killed by Amin. I told his government I wanted to go to India and I requested the Indian consul here in Jalalabad to ask the Indian ambassador in Kabul to arrange for my trip.

So he re enforced his connections with India via Jallabad consulate.

Then a doctor (Dr Sankaran) from India came here to see me in December 1979. So did the Indian ambassador. They said they would send doctors and a machine for my treatment here. That was because the government of Amin had decided that I can't be taken out of the country and must be treated here.

Q. Who told you this?
A. When Amin was overthrown and killed (in December), my Afghan doctor told me about it. And the Indian consul here confirmed it.

Q. What do you think of the Soviet military presence in Afghanistan?
A. The new government says that Amin was, in reality, not a communist at all but an American agent; that he was planning something with the Americans. The Russians say that when there's peace in Afghanistan, they'll go. I think they will. In the meantime, Pakistan is becoming an agent of the US and Britain.

Pakistan had signed CETO SENTO in 1954 and his own brother was Chief Minister West Pakistan (in office from Oct 1955 till August 1957)

Q. It was first reported that you had endorsed the Soviet military presence here, Then it was said that you had done nothing of the kind.
A. The Russians have done a favour to the Afghans by getting rid of the cruel and treacherous Amin. I'm greateful to them for having rid the Afghans of that murderer.

There's too much American and British propaganda against the Russian presence here. But I can tell you that the day Amin was overthrown, people celebrated and said: "Today is Id."

Celebrating Russian military intervention in Afghanistan. 

Q. Now most ordinary Afghans seem worried about what they say is a direct threat to their religion. And they're not buying Karmals repeated assurances of religious freedom under his Marxist rule.
A. You see, everything in Afghanistan is done in the name of religion. But all this is political religion, not the religion of Islam and Allah and (the Prophet) Mohammed. Our Afghan brethren, unfortunately, are illiterate. Communism, for example, has nothing to do with religion; it has to do with the stomach. The Russians know this, of course. But even their call to the Afghans on the recent events has been in the name of religion.

Use of religion as card was common among all either left or right or nationalists or establishments.

Q. What about the problem of Pakhtoonisation?

A. There's no problem.

Q. You mean the idea of Greater Pakhtoonistan is dead? Or do you mean that the concept does exist but that it's not causing any problems?
A. The idea never helped us. In fact, it was never a reality. Successive Afghan governments just exploited it for their own political ends. 

An eye opening confession by the torch bearer of Pukhtoon cause yet his followers and others are still using it.

It was only towards the end of his regime that Daoud Khan had stopped talking about it. And Taraki in the early part of his regime also didn't mention it. So when I met him, I thanked him for not raising the issue. But later, even he raised the issue because he wanted to continue the problem for Pakistan. Our people suffered greatly because of all this.

Q. Are you settled here in Jalalabad permanently ? Or would you some day go back to Pakistan?
A. My people have, by and large, given up my idea of Adum Tashaddud (non violence). However, even if I leave siyasat (politics), siyasat won't leave me. But today's siyasat is not siyasat. It is badmashi. It has become so in Pakistan and in India.

It was a time when after imposition of emergency Congress had lost elections and Janta Party alliance was in power. So in old age he was hopeless. Badmashi was part of politics since 1920s but he mentioned India and Pakistan but did not include Afghanistan. 

Gandhiji's concept of siyasat was to never seek personal glory and honour but to serve the people. I always tried to serve my people and God. Khuda-ee-khidmatgaar (servant of God), that's what I tried to be. But today, it's all different.

I'll live here. I'm now (for all intents and purposes) an Afghan. I'm not even permitting my son, Khan Abdul Wali Khan, political leader of Pakistan's North West Frontier Province, to visit me because he'll insist that I go with him to Pakistan. But I don't want to go.

Q. What do you think of Indira Gandhi?
A. I was very close to Jawaharlal. So I consider her to be my daughter.

Manto: An usual legacy. Listen discussion at 65th death anniversary (Lok Lhar Show)

Manto: An usual legacy. 

Listen discussion at 65th death anniversary

 (Lok Lhar Show)  

Why Manto is relevant till today? He died in young age of 43 and his literary life was 23 years yet still after 65 years his impact is expanding. What is the magic, he had? He was among the rare bread of independent writers in South Asia and the world. Let us listen the discussion about him by three representative current writers of Urdu,English & Punjabi i-e Asim Butt, Dr Saeed ur Rahman & Nain Sukh. the discussion I did with these writers about Sadat Hassan Manto may encourage you to know more about Manto. In below we will share an autobiographical writing of Manto about himself in his own unusual way. it was published in Lhore's famous literary magazine Fanoon, few months before his death in September, October 1954 issue. Manto was born at May 11, 1912 in Punjabi city Ludhana, studied in Amritsar and lived in Lhore. He died at January 18, 1955.
The program is recorded in weekly Lok Lhar radio show at MastFM103, Jan 17, 2020 Lhore Studios.


Three video clips of the program

Clip 1
https://www.facebook.com/aamirr/videos/10157293316334032/?t=3

Clip 2
https://www.facebook.com/aamirr/videos/10157293280094032/?t=8

Clip 3
https://www.facebook.com/aamirr/videos/10157293128424032/?t=7


Listen complete recording of the show by clicking the link below
https://voca.ro/l8CfnSIGJz3

To read all writings of Manto click the link below
http://www.sajjanlahore.org/corners/manto/indexmantocorner.php


Read what Manto had written about himself, in his own unusual style.

منٹو (خاکہ)۔ منٹو دے  آپدے قلم نال۔

منٹو کے متعلق اب تک بہت کچھ لکھا اور کہا جا چکا ہے۔ اس کے حق میں کم اور خلاف زیادہ۔ یہ تحریریں اگر پیشِ نظر رکھی جائیں تو کوئی صاحبِ عقل منٹو کے متعلق کوئی صحیح رائے قائم نہیں کر سکتا۔ میں یہ مضمون لکھنے بیٹھا ہوں اور سمجھتا ہوں کہ منٹو کے متعلق اپنے خیالات کا اظہار کرنا بڑا کٹھن کام ہے۔ لیکن ایک لحاظ سے آسان بھی ہے اس لیے کہ منٹو سے مجھے قربت کا شرف حاصل رہا ہے اور سچ پوچھئے تو منٹو کا میں ہمزاد ہوں۔

اب تک اس شخص کے بارے میں جو کچھ لکھا گیا ہے مجھے اس پر کوئی اعتراض نہیں۔ لیکن میں اتنا سمجھتا ہوں کہ جو کچھ ان مضامین میں پیش کیا گیا ہے حقیقت سے بالاتر ہے۔ بعض اسے شیطان کہتے ہیں، بعض گنجا فرشتہ۔ ذرا ٹھہرےئے میں دیکھ لوں کہیں وہ کم بخت یہیں سن تو نہیں رہا۔ نہیں نہیں ٹھیک ہے۔ مجھے یاد آگیا کہ یہ وقت ہے جب وہ پیا کرتا ہے۔ اس کو شام کے چھ بجے کے بعد کڑوا شربت پینے کی عادت ہے۔

ہم اکٹھے ہی پیدا ہوئے اور خیال ہے کہ اکٹھے ہی مریں گے لیکن یہ بھی ہو سکتا ہے کہ سعادت حسن مر جائے اور منٹو نہ مرے اور ہمیشہ مجھے یہ اندیشہ بہت دُکھ دیتا ہے۔ اس لیے کہ میں نے اس کے ساتھ اپنی دوستی نباہنے میں کوئی کسر اُٹھا نہیں رکھی۔ اگر وہ زندہ رہا اور میں مر گیا تو ایسا ہو گا کہ انڈے کا خول تو سلامت ہے اور اس کے اندر کی زردی اور سفیدی غائب ہو گئی۔

اب میں زیادہ تمہید میں جانا نہیں چاہتا۔ آپ سے صاف کہے دیتا ہوں کہ منٹو ایسا ون ٹو آدمی میں نے اپنی زندگی میں کبھی نہیں دیکھا، جسے اگر جمع کیا جائے تو وہ تین بن جائے۔ مثلث کے بارے میں اس کی معلومات کافی ہیں لیکن میں جانتا ہوں کہ ابھی اس کی تثلیث نہیں ہوئی۔ یہ اشارے ایسے ہیں جو صرف بافہم سامعین ہی سمجھ سکتے ہیں۔

یوں تو منٹو کو میں اس کی پیدائش ہی سے جانتا ہوں۔ ہم دونوں اکٹھے ایک ہی وقت 11مئی سنہ 1912ء کو پیدا ہوئے لیکن اس نے ہمیشہ یہ کوشش کی کہ وہ خود کو کچھوا بنائے رکھے، جو ایک دفعہ اپنا سر اور گردن اندر چھپا لے تو آپ لاکھ ڈھونڈتے رہیں تو اس کا سراغ نہ ملے۔ لیکن میں بھی آخر اس کا ہمزاد ہوں میں نے اس کی ہر جنبش کا مطالعہ کر ہی لیا۔

لیجیے اب میں آپ کو بتاتا ہوں کہ یہ خرذات افسانہ نگار کیسے بنا؟ تنقید نگار بڑے لمبے چوڑے مضامین لکھتے ہیں۔ اپنی ہمہ دانی کا ثبوت دیتے ہیں۔ شوپن ہار، فرائڈ، ہیگل، نٹ شے، مارکس کے حوالے دیتے ہیں مگر حقیقت سے کوسوں دور رہتے ہیں۔

منٹو کی افسانہ نگاری دو متضاد عناصر کے تصادم کا باعث ہے۔ اس کے والد خدا انہیں بخشے بڑے سخت گیر تھے اور اس کی والدہ بے حد نرم دل۔ ان دو پاٹوں کے اندر پِس کر یہ دانۂ گندم کس شکل میں باہر نکلا ہو گا، اس کا اندازہ آپ کر سکتے ہیں۔

اب میں اس کی سکول کی زندگی کی طرف آتا ہوں۔ بہت ذہین لڑکا تھا اور بے حد شریر۔ اس زمانے میں اس کا قد زیادہ سے زیادہ ساڑھے تین فٹ ہو گا۔ وہ اپنے باپ کا آخری بچہ تھا۔ اس کو اپنے ماں باپ کی محبت تو میسر تھی لیکن اس کے تین بڑے بھائی جو عمر میں اس سے بہت بڑے تھے اور ولایت میں تعلیم پا رہے تھے ان سے اس کوکبھی ملاقات کا موقع ہی نہیں ملا تھا، اس لیے کہ وہ سوتیلے تھے۔ وہ چاہتا تھا کہ وہ اس سے ملیں، اس سے بڑے بھائیوں ایسا سلوک کریں۔ یہ سلوک اسے اس وقت نصیب ہوا جب دنیائے ادب اسے بہت بڑا افسانہ نگار تسلیم کر چکی تھی۔

اچھا اب اُس کی افسانہ نگاری کے متعلق سُنیے۔ وہ اوّل درجے کا فراڈ ہے۔ پہلا افسانہ اس نے بعنوان ’’تماشہ‘‘ لکھا جو جلیا نوالہ باغ کے خونیں حادثے سے متعلق تھا، یہ اُس نے اپنے نام سے نہ چھپوایا۔ یہی وجہ ہے کہ وہ پولیس کی دست برد سے بچ گیا۔

اس کے بعد اُس کے متلوّن مزاج میں ایک لہر پیدا ہوئی کہ وہ مزید تعلیم حاصل 

کرے۔ یہاں اس کا ذکر دلچسپی سے خالی نہیں ہو گا کہ اس نے انٹرنس کا امتحان دوبار فیل ہو کر پاس کیا، وہ بھی تھرڈ ڈویژن میں اور آپ کو یہ سن کر بھی حیرت ہو گی کہ وہ اُردو کے پرچے میں ناکام رہا۔

اب لوگ کہتے ہیں کہ وہ اردو کا بہت بڑا ادیب ہے اور میں یہ سن کر ہنستا ہوں اس لیے کہ اردو اب بھی اسے نہیں آتی۔ وہ لفظوں کے پیچھے یوں بھاگتا ہے جیسے کوئی جال والا شکاری تتلیوں کے پیچھے۔ وہ اس کے ہاتھ نہیں آتیں۔ یہی وجہ ہے کہ اس کی تحریروں میں خوبصورت الفاظ کی کمی ہے۔ وہ لٹھ مار ہے لیکن جتنے لٹھ اس کی گردن پر پڑے ہیں، اس نے بڑی خوشی سے برداشت کیے ہیں۔

 اس کی لٹھ بازی عام محاورے کے مطابق جاٹوں کی لٹھ بازی نہیں ہے، وہ بنوٹ اور پھکیت ہے۔ وہ ایک ایسا انسان ہے جو صاف اور سیدھی سڑک پر نہیں چلتا، بلکہ تنے ہوئے رسّے پر چلتا ہے۔ لوگ سمجھتے ہیں کہ اب گِرا۔ لیکن وہ کم بخت آج تک کبھی نہیں گرا۔ شاید گر جائے، اوندھے منہ۔ کہ پھر نہ اُٹھے، لیکن میں جانتا ہوں کہ مرتے وقت وہ لوگوں سے کہے گا کہ میں اسی لیے گرا تھا کہ گر اوٹ کی مایوسی ختم ہو جائے۔

میں اس سے پیشتر کہہ چکا ہوں کہ منٹو اوّل درجے کا فراڈ ہے۔ اس کا مزید ثبوت 

یہ ہے کہ وہ اکثر کہا کرتا ہے کہ وہ افسانہ نہیں سوچتا خود افسانہ اسے سوچتا ہے۔ یہ بھی ایک فراڈ ہے حالانکہ میں جانتا ہوں کہ جب اسے افسانہ لکھنا ہوتا ہے تو اس کی وہی حالت ہوتی ہے جب کسی مرغی کو انڈا دینا ہوتا ہے۔ لیکن وہ یہ انڈا چھپ کر نہیں دیتا۔ سب کے سامنے دیتا ہے۔ اس کے دوست یار بیٹھے ہوئے ہیں، اس کی تین بچیاں شور مچا رہی ہوتی ہیں اور وہ اپنی مخصوص کرسی پر اکڑوں بیٹھا انڈے دیے جاتا ہے، جو بعد میں چُوں چُوں کرتے افسانے بن جاتے ہیں۔ اس کی بیوی اس سے بہت نالاں ہے۔ وہ اس سے اکثر کہا کرتی ہے کہ تم افسانہ نگاری چھوڑ دو۔ کوئی دُکان کھول لو لیکن منٹو کے دماغ میں جو دکان کھلی ہے اس میں منیاری کے سامان سے کہیں زیادہ سامان موجود ہے۔ اس لیے وہ اکثر سوچا کرتا ہے اگر میں نے کبھی کوئی سٹور کھول لیا تو ایسا نہ ہو کہ وہ کولڈسٹوریج یعنی سردخانہ بن جائے۔ جہاں اس کے تمام خیالات اور افکار منجمد ہو جائیں۔

میں یہ مضمون لکھ رہا ہوں اور مجھے ڈر ہے کہ منٹو مجھ سے خفا ہو جائے گا۔ اس کی ہر چیز برداشت کی جاسکتی ہے مگر خفگی برداشت نہیں کی جا سکتی۔ خفگی کے عالم میں وہ بالکل شیطان بن جاتا ہے لیکن صرف چند منٹوں کے لیے اور وہ چند منٹ، االلہ کی پناہ۔

افسانہ لکھنے کے معاملے میں وہ نخرے ضرور بگھارتا ہے لیکن میں جانتا ہوں، اس لیے۔ کہ اس کا ہمزاد ہوں۔ کہ وہ فراڈ کر رہا ہے۔ اس نے ایک دفعہ خود لکھا تھا کہ اس کی جیب میں بے شمار افسانے پڑے ہوتے ہیں۔ حقیقت اس کے برعکس ہے۔ جب اسے افسانہ لکھنا ہوگا تو وہ رات کو سوچے گا۔ اس کی سمجھ میں کچھ نہیں آئے گا۔ صبح پانچ بجے اُٹھے گا اور اخباروں سے کسی افسانے کا رس چوسنے کا خیال کرے گا۔ لیکن اسے ناکامی ہو گی۔ پھر وہ غسل خانے میں جائے گا۔ وہاں وہ اپنے شوریدہ سر کو ٹھنڈا کرنے کی کوشش کرے گا کہ وہ سوچنے کے قابل ہو سکے لیکن ناکام رہے گا۔ پھر جھنجھلا کر اپنی بیوی سے خواہ مخواہ کا جھگڑا شروع کر دے گا۔ یہاں سے بھی ناکامی ہو گی تو باہر پان لینے کے لیے چلا جائے گا۔ پان اس کی ٹیبل پر پڑا رہے گا لیکن افسانے کا موضوع اس کی سمجھ میں پھر بھی نہیں آئے گا۔ آخر وہ انتقامی طور پر قلم یا پنسل ہاتھ میں لے گا اور 786 لکھ کر جو پہلا فقرہ اس کے ذہن میں آئے گا، اس سے افسانے کا آغاز کر دے گا۔

بابو گوپی ناتھ، ٹوبہ ٹیک سنگھ، ہتک، ممی، موذیل، یہ سب افسانے اس نے اسی فراڈ طریقے سے لکھے ہیں۔

یہ عجیب بات ہے کہ لوگ اسے بڑا غیر مذہبی اور فحش انسان سمجھتے ہیں اور میرا بھی خیال ہے کہ وہ کسی حد تک اس درجہ میں آتا ہے۔ اس لیے کہ اکثر اوقات وہ بڑے گہرے موضوعات پر قلم اُٹھاتا ہے اور ایسے الفاظ اپنی تحریر میں استعمال کرتا ہے، جن پر اعتراض کی گنجائش بھی ہو سکتی ہے لیکن میں جانتا ہوں کہ جب بھی اس نے کوئی مضمون لکھا، پہلے صفحے کی پیشانی پر 786 ضرور لکھا جس کا مطلب ہے بسم االلہ۔ اور یہ شخص جو اکثر خدا سے منکر نظر آتا ہے کاغذ پر مومن بن جاتا ہے۔ یہ وہ کاغذی منٹو ہے، جسے آپ کاغذی باداموں کی طرح صرف انگلیوں ہی میں توڑ سکتے ہیں، ورنہ وہ لوہے کے ہتھوڑے سے بھی ٹوٹنے والا آدمی نہیں۔

اب میں منٹو کی شخصیت کی طرف آتا ہوں۔ جو چند القاب ہیں بیان کیے دیتا ہوں۔ وہ چور ہے۔ جھوٹا ہے۔ دغا باز ہے اور مجمع گیر ہے۔

اس نے اکثر اپنی بیوی کی غفلت سے فائدہ اُٹھاتے ہوئے کئی کئی سو روپے اُڑائے ہیں۔ ادھر آٹھ سو لا کے دیے اور چور آنکھ سے دیکھتا رہا کہ اس نے کہاں رکھے ہیں اور دوسرے دن اس میں سے ایک سبزہ غائب کر دیا اور اس بے چاری کو جب اپنے اس نقصان کی خبر ہوئی تو اس نے نوکروں کو ڈانٹنا ڈپٹنا شروع کر دیا۔

یوں تو منٹو کے متعلق مشہور ہے کہ وہ راست گو ہے لیکن میں اس سے اتفاق کرنے کے لیے تیار نہیں۔ وہ اوّل درجے کا جھوٹا ہے۔ شروع شروع اس کا جھوٹ اس کے گھر چل جاتا تھا، اس لیے کہ اس میں منٹوؔ کا ایک خاص ٹچ ہوتا تھا لیکن بعد میں اس کی بیوی کو معلوم ہو گیا کہ اب تک مجھ سے خاص معاملے کے مطابق جو کچھ کہا جاتا تھا، جھوٹ تھا۔

منٹو جھوٹ بقدرِ کفایت بولتا ہے لیکن اس کے گھر والے، مصیبت ہے کہ اب یہ سمجھنے لگے ہیں کہ اس کی ہر بات جھوٹی ہے۔ اس تل کی طرح جو کسی عورت نے اپنے گال پر سرمے سے بنا رکھا ہو۔

وہ اَن پڑھ ہے۔ اس لحاظ سے کہ اس نے کبھی مارکس کا مطالعہ نہیں کیا۔ فرائڈ کی کوئی کتاب آج تک اس کی نظر سے نہیں گذری۔ ہیگل کا وہ صرف نام ہی جانتا ہے۔ ہیولک ایلس کو وہ صرف نام سے جانتا ہے لیکن مزے کی بات یہ ہے کہ لوگ۔ میرا مطلب ہے تنقید نگار، یہ کہتے ہیں کہ وہ ان تمام مفکروں سے متاثر ہے۔ جہاں تک میں جانتا ہوں، منٹو کسی دوسرے شخص کے خیال سے متاثر ہوتا ہی نہیں۔ وہ سمجھتا ہے کہ سمجھانے والے سب چغد ہیں۔ دنیا کو سمجھانا نہیں چاہیے اس کو خود سمجھنا چاہیے۔

خود کو سمجھا سمجھا کر وہ ایک ایسی سمجھ بن گیا ہے جو عقل و فہم سے بالاتر ہے۔ بعض اوقات ایسی اوٹ پٹانگ باتیں کرتا ہے کہ مجھے ہنسی آتی ہے۔ میں آپ کو پورے وثوق کے ساتھ کہہ سکتا ہوں کہ منٹو، جس پر فحش نگاری کے سلسلے میں کئی مقدمے چل چکے ہیں، بہت طہارت پسند ہے لیکن میں یہ بھی کہے بغیر نہیں رہ 

سکتا کہ وہ ایک ایسا پاانداز ہے جو خود کو جھاڑتا پھٹکتا رہتا ہے۔

یہ منٹو کی اپنے بارے لکھی  وہ نایاب تحریر ہے جو انھوں نے اپنی موت سے   چند 

ماہ قبل لکھی تھی اور اسے  لاہور کے مشہور رسالہ نقوش نے ستمبر اکتوبر 1954 کے شمارے میں چھاپا تھا۔

Issues of Students, Youth Power & Student Politics. What is missing in it? Listen

Issues of Students, Youth Power & Student Politics. 

What is missing in it? Listen

What students think about themselves, their teachers, their studies and also about country, student issues and student politics is the important but more important thing is to listen it from youth themselves. Lok Lhar is inviting students and in this regard we did another program, thanks to Dr Imdad of School of Public Policy FCC university at Jan 09, 2020. In this program three students Ms Surteel, Mr Sher Ali and Mr Sanwal Zubair shared their views not only about society and education but also about student power too. just listen them and try to understand what is missing in student debate. 

Surteel is talking and other participants are Sheer Ali and Sawan Zubair. Program was recorded last Friday in weekly Lok Lhar Punjabi show at MastFM103. Watch the clip, 

https://www.facebook.com/aamirr/videos/10157288836844032/

Listen the complete show at the link below.

https://voca.ro/cNSf6VTTnGr

Let Us meet Muhammad Akram, A Punjabi who lived in KSA (Common Talk)

Let Us meet Muhammad Akram

 A Punjabi who lived in KSA

(Common Talk)

Muhammad Akram is from a village near Dinna, district Jehlum and spent his life in Saudi Arabia too. his small rather common talk may interest you to understand ground realities.
Name of his village is bagaan, later became Kalwant pur. He was born around 1947 in Junjua Rajput family. His village is at 7 miles from Dinna. He studied in a govt primary school inside Rohtas fort that was at two miles distance from his village. it shows that getting education was very difficult at that time. He said, ''In 6th i joined Islamia high school Jehlum where my uncle (mother's brother) was teacher'', i studied till class 10th''. He did his matriculation in 1963 and later on came to Lhore. His both uncles were in Jamat e Islami. Along with various jobs he completed his studies privately. His story will tell you state of governance, situation of jobs, association with a religious ideological group etc during late 1960s till mid 1970s. This common talk will give you an idea what was ground situation and its effects on youth before 1980s. At early 1970s, it was a time when due to policies of Bhutto government there was an opening in middle east especially in Saudi Arab. It altogether changed the State & society. He went to KSA in late 1970s and lived there for almost three decades. He admitted that things for immigrants are changing since last decade. It was a common practice  that you got Aqama (work Permit) for a particular job but you were free to change nature of job but now it is not possible. How immigrants faced difficulties in other countries and back home is still an unheard story. But you may understand it by listening M Akram story well. How it effected families is also a story which needs little attention. After spending prime time abroad he admitted that what you can do in your own country is much better and productive.

Link of the Program

https://voca.ro/kppgfSOAnOY