زندگی کا سوزِدروں

ایک مضبوط اور کامیاب عورت کے پیچھے بہت سارے ٹوٹے ارمان، آنسو، شک و شبہات، طعنے اور نکتہ چینی ہوتی ہے۔ دنیا والے یہ ثابت کرنے کی کوشش کرتے ہیں کہ... 

تم کمزور ہو اور تم یہ نہیں کر سکتی۔ خاندان کی عزت کا خیال کر لو۔  تمہاری شادی کیسے ہو گی۔ ہم تمہارے جہیز کے پیسے پڑھائی پر لگا رہے ہیں... نوکری کر کے کیوں ہماری عزت کا جنازہ نکالنا ہے... بھائی یا باپ مر گیا جو تم کماؤ گی۔ کوئی عورت کیسے کاروبار کر سکتی ہے... تم اکیلے سفر نہیں کر سکتی... بیرون ملک پڑھنے سے تمہارے کردار اور اقدار پر اثر پڑے گا...

اپنی مرضی سے  شادی!! اس سے شرم ناک بات کیا ہو سکتی ہے... جانتی ہو لڑکیوں کے پاس اتنا دماغ نہیں ہوتا کہ وہ رائے دے سکیں... تمہاری جرات کیسے ہوئی کوئی فیصلہ لینے کی... شادی کے بعد اپنے ارمان پورے کرنا... سسرال ہی تمہارا اصل گھر ہے...!! 

 اور سب سے بڑھ کر "لوگ کیا کہیں گے؟" 

 ایسی باتیں ایک خود مختار لڑکی کی حوصلہ شکنی نہیں کر سکتیں۔ وہ جانتی ہے کی دنیا کی جنگ کیسے لڑنی بے۔ اسے اپنی پوشیدہ صلاحیتوں پر پورا یقین ہوتا ہے۔ وہ خود کو  ہارنے نہیں دیتی۔ ایسی عورتیں ہی قوم کی تقدیر سنوارتی ہیں۔ آج عورتوں کے عالمی دن پر میرا ایسی ہر عورت کو سلام....

اقبال نے کہا تھا...

وجودِ زن سے ہے تصویرِ کائنات میں رنگ،

اسی کے ساز سے ہے زندگی کا سوزِدروں

سعدیہ خالد

ایمبیسیڈر پازیٹو پاکستان

ایک شام خورشید رضوی کے نام

20 اکتوبر بروز ہفتہ پازیٹو پاکستان اور PILAC کے باہمی اشتراک سے ڈاکٹر خورشید رضوی کے علمی اور ادبی کارناموں کے بارے میں ڈاکٹر زاہد منیر کی مرتب کردہ کتاب "ارمغان خورشید" کی تعارفی تقریب منعقد کی گئی. اس کتاب میں اردو اور عربی شاعری بھی شامل کی گئی ہے. اس پوری کتاب کی تحریر کے دوران خورشید صاحب لاعلم رہے اور یہ ان کے لئے بہترین تحفہ ثابت ہوئی.  

اس پروگرام کی کمپررنگ ڈاکٹر فرحی امین، زید حسین اور واعظہ رفیق نے کی.  

اللہ کے پاک نام سے تقریب کا باقاعدہ آغاز کیا گیا. اس موقع پر علم و ادب کی دنیا کی معروف شخصیات نے اظہار خیال کیا جس میں مجیب الرحمن شامی، ڈاکٹر صغرا صدف،  سہیل وڑائچ,  متحرمہ در نجف زیبی، فرید پراچہ، عابد اقبال کھاری،  نذیر احمد، ڈاکٹر حسین احمد پراچہ شامل ہیں. یہ تقریب منفرد اس لئے تھی کہ اس میں صرف ادبی شخصیات نے ہی نہیں بلکہ لاہور کے مختلف تعلیمی اداروں کے نوجوان طلبا اور اصلاحی تنظیموں کے محرک نوجوانوں نے بھی بھرپور شرکت کی.

 تقریب کے دوران پازیٹو پاکستان کی سوشل میڈیا ٹیم نےکامیاب Twitter ٹرینڈ #ShaamEKhursheed بھی کیا. جس کو پازیٹو پاکستان کے بانی عابد اقبال کھاری صاحب نے بہت سراہا.

تمام مقررین نے خورشید صاحب کو خراج تحسین پیش کرتے ہوئے کہا کی سر بہت شفیق استاد ہیں اور علم کا دریا ہیں. 

تقریب کے اختتام پر خورشید صاحب نے کہا کہ اس ملک کو اچھے اساتذہ کی ضرورت ہے اور نوجوان نسل کے ساتھ اچھے تعلقات کی ضرورت ہیں.  

"ڈاکٹر خورشید ایک شخضیت کا ہی نہیں بلکہ علم و ادب کا ایک ادارہ ہے اور ہر چھوٹا بڑا ان سے فیض یاب ہوتا ہے."

سعدیہ خالد 

میڈیا ہیڈ لاہور، پازیٹو پاکستان

Growth and Self Improvement is Key to Success

Are you someone who likes to grow? Do you constantly seek to improve yourself and become better? Are you the one, who wants self-appreciation from everyone? If yes, then you need to think about your development, self-actualization, and self-improvement. Basically, there are four aspects to development: physical, social, emotional and cognitive development. Physical development is limited to a certain age but social, emotional and cognitive development goes on till death. Common aspects of self-improvement include goal setting, motivation, changing habits, improving awareness, identifying one’s values and beliefs, and self-actualization.

Some steps are given to move on the journey towards self-improvement and success:

1. The first step, starts with self-realization what you really want & how; and then defining your life goals, preferences; how will you achieve it. Refine goals if needed. Analyze strengths and weakness, knowing about fears, overcoming it, admit the mistakes.
2. Believe in yourself. You've got to believe in the possibilities. You've got to believe that tomorrow can be better than today.
3. If you adopt a change, you need efforts as changes cannot come overnight.
4. Determine and get feedback. Receiving feedback about what to improve upon helps individuals’ performance on tasks, and enhances goal achievements, what needs improvement and what doesn't.
5. Be your own coach. Self-coaching or checking in with yourself on a daily basis has been linked to increases in self-improvement and ask a lot of questions.
6. Consider outside help. If you find that self-coaching is not helping and you need some outside support, life-coaching has been associated with positive change.
7. Exercise your willpower to change direction. Don’t put your efforts on wrong directions.
8. Ask for wisdom. Wisdom comes from book reading and knowledge
9. Books are concentrated sources of wisdom. Ask for wisdom that creates answers. Ask for wisdom to deal with the challenges for today and tomorrow. Don't wish it was easier; wish you were better
10. Fight for what is right and tell the world.
11. Create an inspirational room. Give time to yourself. Your environment sets the mood and tone for you. If you are living in an inspirational environment, you are going to be inspired every day. Get out of your comfort zone
12. Start waking up early and give time to exercise.
13. Try to stick with good habits and positive people.
14. Commit to your own personal growth, try to read articles on daily basis, start your morning with motivational quotes.A
15. Add kindness and humbleness in your personality. Be helping towards and try to learn from friends.
16. Find a mentor or coach in your related field.

Conclusion:

Strong determination and consistency

to the purpose pay itself!

Sadia Khalid
(The writer is PhD scholar & Cyber Research Cell Head, Positive Pakistan.) 

Endless Pain that turns into ultimate reward hereafter

                                                        Contributed by: Sadia Khalid

Defense Day is celebrated each year on 6^th September in the memory of the sacrifices rendered by the Pakistani Armed forces in 1965 war against India.

Defense Day is also a day to renew our pledge that we are a strong, proud nation, and that we would not be terrified by any foreign nation, no matter how strong it is. It embodies the fighting spirit, bravery and tactical acumen of the great nation of Pakistan. 

During 1965 war, were times when our ancestors hada wake up with the sounds of chaos and war and now are the times, our young generation wake up in peace and stability, this peace and stability is all a token from the martyrs who lost their lives saving ours.

Today is defense day, many of us will be busy in their offices, work tasks or celebrating with friends/families without realizing the pain, aching and discomfort for families of martyrs.

I am writing this article with a heavy heart after interviewing a Ghazi (Injured Soldier) from an intelligence agency whose car hit a landmine during operations in tribal areas at night time. He was badly injured with severe backbone injured which has taken him to bed from last one year. He has gone through several operations with some rods and screws to fix the injury. After inquiring more about the incident, he said, he was happy and contended by what happened as it is part of destiny. He felt pride that he has done something better and worthy for his country. It is easy to write and talk about the defense day and the military-related operations.  But, it is very difficult to go through the pain by getting critically injured in wars and coming back home all alone. Have we ever thought that being humans, we all have the same emotions and feelings? The ghazis also have heart and they also want friends and all the right to live normally.

The brave ghazi further told me that they are habitual of tough training and our tolerance level is far better than any average person. He said, pain is quite normal and he is not in the depressive mood.Still, pain is a pain, sometimes it is hard to tolerate it. When people around you are busy with other things and you need to spend the whole time onthe bed.  So, it is high time to pay tribute to these unknown soldiers of intelligence agencies with different names and different identities. They even don’t know when, where and how they get death or injury. Sometimes, they covered in flags, coffins and occasionally died in an unknown land where their bodies don’t claim by forces.Still, they are doing their duty silently just for the love of the country.

Most of the times, news of causalities for soldiers from intelligence agencies are hidden from the public. Let’s vow to ourselves, that this defense day, we will honor the sacrifices made by these unsung heroes whose slogan is,” if death strikes before I prove my blood, I swear I will kill death. 

                                                          “Pakistan Zindabad”

Local Manchester - Pakistan's Future Utopia

Courtesy: Noman Ilalhi

Pakistan is an only ideological state existing dominantly on the map of the world.  As we all know that Pakistan has four provinces. Each province is unique in its land structure, weather, culture, language and traditions. So, if we particularly talk about Punjab which is known because of its five rivers. The name of Punjab is given by Mughals in 17^th Century and eventually become really essential hub for agricultural and industrial activities due to its fertile land and larger proportion of population.

The most happening province of Pakistan is loaded with cities full of hustle and bustle and Faisalabad is definitely one of them. Faisalabad is known as Local Manchester and third most populous city of Pakistan. Each city had shadows in historical time and Lyallpur was old name given on name of Lieutenant-Governor of Punjab, Sir James Broad wood Lyall, for his endless services in the colonization of the lower Chenab Valley.

This name was kept intact even after the partition of sub-continent until 1979. In 1979, the Government of Pakistan changed the name of the city from Lyallpur to Faisalabad in the honor of King Faisal of Saudi Arabia, who made several financial contributions to Pakistan.

Basically, Pakistan is an agricultural country but city like Faisalabad proved to be the major industrial hub. The total cost of GDP in 2016 was $18 billion and it is increasing every year.

The economy of Faisalabad has an expanded in different industries like textile industry, manufacturing industry, foundry, engineering, chemical, ghee, pharmaceuticals, and construction material.

As an third most populated urban city, the economy of Faisalabad has relatively prospered. Faisalabad is hailed as the industrial belt of Pakistan and is home to the largest agricultural university in Pakistan and as well of Asia. The literacy rate of Faisalabad is approximately 60 %, with a split of 69% for males and 46% of females.

The China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) provides many opportunities for the business community of Faisalabad which can easily achieve further economic boost in introducing innovative ways in utilizing industrial and agricultural related activities. The economy is also enhanced by Faisalabad’s historic and cultural importance. Being the Textile Industrial city of Pakistan, one of the largest development budgets in the country with jam-packed 5 billion USD exports from textile made-ups.

It is also the most advanced in terms of infrastructure, having extensive and relatively well developed road links to all major cities in Punjab and KPK and Sindh through M-3, M-4, a rail link and an international airport. The city doesn’t only offer only business opportunities for industrialists in next ten years but also can provide numerous opportunities to food industry. With international food chains opening their doors in Faisalabad, the city now also offers a wide variety of cuisines and a luxurious fine-dining experience.  

Courtesy: Noman Illahi

With the growing industry and agriculture, another industry which will flourish in coming years is housing schemes.  The central location of the city in the heart of Punjab on the eastern direction of CPEC along with its 4500 acres industrial estate located on the main M-3 motorway provides the ideal conditions for the setting up of housing societies for employees in providing effective human resource, which will not only boost economic growth but also help to provide employment to a large number of people.

Revolution and change comes with people. Oh yes, the people of Faisalabad’s are the most fearless and loyal in whole country and they made their language rich and exotic with spice of humor. The city has all the courage, guts and potentials to be transformed into a modern and model city.
So, the people of Faisalabad, it is time to take charge with positive energy and wake up as no super hero like captain planet or superman will come to change the destiny magically.  Now, it is high time to get involved with  business community in its development, progress and prosperity could make Faisalabad a much better, well-planned, dynamic and economically vibrant metropolitan area than Lahore.

Sadia Khalid
(The writer is PhD scholar and Head Cyber Research Cell, Positive Pakistan.)