Pakistan is facing financial crisis, identity crisis and much more. They turn a blind eye or again blame India for the uprising, unrest and killing in Baluchistan and the attacks in Pakistan by Afghans. They also claim there’s no protest in POK and the Kashmiris are happy with Pakistan, even when the leader of POK was seen weeping on video saying no adequate funds are allotted for health care and other projects. The local people are agitated want to join Indian Kashmir.
During the mid-eighties visit to UAE, I came across
a Pakistani cab driver, who on realizing we are Indians started chatting with
us. In the course of the conversation he said, Pakistan is very unpredictable, when we go to sleep in the
night, we are not sure if the same government is in power the next morning,
given the history of coups and Martial law in Pakistan since independence in
August 1947. This says it all.
Another educated small-time businessman complained,
in our country over 50% of the people are illiterate and uneducated. And many
of those educated are from Madrassas. So their thinking and knowledge is
limited to religious texts. They are ignorant to the happenings in the outside
world or know of what is told to them through our local media as very few can read or understand English. They are not aware of the progress and
development made in other countries, including the neighbouring countries like India.
Hence they fall prey to media propaganda and fake
news. They easily believe, Pakistan was created by Jinnah for Muslims so that
they don’t get subjugated by the Hindus. And that Pakistan is the leader of the
Muslim world and that they are superior, more intelligent and stronger as compared
to the Hindus, Christians, Jews and others. And Pakistan army and the ISI is
number one in the world. And that Pakistan is a rich and a powerful country and
the world is jealous about them and try to push it down. My Pakistani friend said - we love to call ourselves number one, but we are not so in any field except creating trouble and misguiding people.
Some ignorant Pakistanis even go to the extent to
say that America, Russia, China, India and other developed countries have
progressed and developed by stealing Islamic secrets and technology from the
Muslim world. When asked if other countries could steal and develop, why can’t
Pakistan do so? They have no answer. From this you can understand the standard
of education and what is put into the innocent minds of young boys and girls. Their general knowledge and IQ level is poor which is exposed in what they say.
Their school books tell the children, India is
their enemy where Khafirs live. They are dirty, dishonest and untrustworthy people.
And they have occupied Kashmir which rightfully belongs to Pakistan. And they
are also told, India is a weak and poor country with poverty all over the
place. But they don’t tell the people the present situation in Pakistan. Their
leaders going round with a begging bowl. They are on the grey list of FATF. No
country including their friends and allies; and even Islamic countries have
refused to lend them money. They are on the verge of default and nearing a bad situation
like in Sri Lanka.
They believe Pakistan won all the wars with India. The
fact is otherwise. In 1948, Pakistan army in the guise of tribal’s attacked
independent Kashmir with an intention of snatching it. The Maharaja of Kashmir asked
help from India, signed the accession documents and merged his state with India.
The Indian forces landed and repulsed the attack and drove back the Pakistani
forces till the present LOC, and a cease fire was declared. The other side of
the LOC is POK, Pakistan occupied Kashmir which India still claims. For the last seventy five years they have been claiming Kashmir, but nobody is able to convincing say how Kashmir belongs to Pakistan when Pakistan did not exist before 1947. Their argument is it's a Muslim majority state. But when told that Bangladesh being a Muslim majority province, separated from them. They have no answer except to say, it was a conspiracy by India.
In 1965, Pakistan politicians and media claimed a
glorious victory over India. Pakistanis were told with graphic videos how the
brave Pakistan army butchered the Indian army and forced them to flee from
Lahore. But they never told them, how did the Indian army, cross the border and
reach the outskirts of Lahore in the first place. Indian forces had reached
Burki with the Indian tricolour flying at their police station, and later the forces retreated. Pakistan lost a large number of men, tanks and aircraft,
mostly Patton tanks and Sabre jets provided by the Americans, their close ally
then. The Americans were surprised how the Indian forces could do so much damage with old Gnats and world war II type of tanks against the modern Sabre jets and Patton tanks. The Indian military strategy was much superior to the Pakistan's ill-conceived plan to attack India with modern planes and tanks. It was a big blow to the Pakistani war planners and the Bangladesh war broke their morale.
In 1971, as everyone is aware of the background of
the Bangladesh Liberation war, 93,000 Pakistani soldiers surrendered and laid
down arms in the presence of the much smaller Indian army. Pakistan was split, East Pakistan
became Bangladesh. Now they have progressed and gone much ahead of Pakistan in
GDP, exports and other fields. Many sane Pakistanis now say, they did the right thing by separating from Pakistan. And Pakistan has gone down in every field. Maharashtra, an
Indian state, whose GDP is more than the GDP of Pakistan! Pakistan can't believe it. Educated Pakistanis are shocked by this fact, and now realize the strength and economy of India.
In Kargil, the misadventure proved very costly for
Pakistan with loss of lives, equipment and weapons. The Pakistanis occupied
Indian bunkers vacated by Indian forces in winter as per the agreement signed
by both countries. They never expected India to respond in such an aggressive manner. The Pakistan forces had to flee to save their lives following the Indian assault
and pounding by the artillery guns and from air by the fighter planes. With
heavy casualties, Pakistan refused to even take the bodies of the dead soldiers
claiming they were not their army men. Every one knew the truth. Pakistan was labeled the aggressor and accused
of breaking an international agreement signed a few months earlier. General
Musharaf started this adventure and Nawaz Sharif had to go to US to request President Clinton
to intervene and bring about a cease fire. They were clearly told to return to their side of the LOC. Pakistan has realized they can never win a conventional war with India, hence the plan to bleed India through terrorist attacks.
Pakistanis, if they don’t believe in what the
Indians are saying, they should read the reports, books and videos of their own
retired Generals, where they clearly state – Pakistan started all the four wars
and Pakistan lost all the wars losing men, material, credibility and the morale,
thereby straining the weak economy further. Pakistan has over the years has
been surviving on foreign aid and loans. And at present, the crisis is the
result of all this misadventures, corruption and mismanagement of the economy by the successive governments.
Apart from the financial crisis, Pakistan faces a major
identity crisis. Sometimes they claim, they have come from Arabs, who don’t care
about them. Sometimes claim to have come from Turks, who recently started a
campaign, Pakistanis get out of Turkey. And some claim, from Afghans and
Central Asia. They don’t know their history, tradition and culture or don’t
wish to believe it. They don’t like to claim they are from Indian subcontinent
and they were converted to Islam, sharing a common culture and tradition with
India. The day they accept this fact, Pakistan will be on the right path.
They like to believe that Pakistan leaders like
Imran Khan are respected and consulted by other countries on world affairs.
They are not aware that their own leaders are responsible for the financial
mess. Some knowledgeable and educated Pakistanis openly state, Pakistan is
going to be a banana republic with civil war. They have borrowed from all
friendly countries. Now no country including Islamic countries, are willing to
lend money. They have knowingly fallen into China’s lap and a debt trap who are
extracting the benefits with financial and other pressure on Pakistan.
Pakistan in deep trouble and isolated, the
politicians and media still declare, Pakistan will take Kashmir and teach Delhi
a lesson. Some female and male anchors make such foolish statements day in and
day out to appease the Pakistan public. They blame India for the financial mess,
attacks and uneasy situation in Pakistan. Nobody has the guts to accept that
everything happening is of their own making. Some believe in trade with India
to improve their failing economy, while some are of the opinion, it’s better to
starve than start trade with India till the Kashmir issue is not solved. Many
Pakistanis in their heart feel Kashmir is a lost cause and nobody in the world
is willing to support them.
They turn a blind eye or again blame India for the
uprising, unrest and killing in Baluchistan and the attacks in Pakistan by
Afghans. They also claim there’s no protest in POK and the Kashmiris are happy with Pakistan, even when the leader
of POK was seen weeping on video saying no adequate funds are allotted for
health care and other projects. The local people are agitated want to join
Indian Kashmir.
The favorite line in Pakistan is, India is
responsible for all the ills and attacks in Pakistan. It is either orchestrated
or sponsored by India. How come their self-proclaimed number one agency in the world, ISI is
not able to prevent it? Pakistan politicians must open their eyes and accept
their mistakes, stop the blame game if they wish to progress and become a
stable country. Pakistan is on a denial mode. If they don't upgrade their old software, the country will soon crash!
This is the brief story of Android and how it
became the best deal ever by Google almost 17 years ago. Before Android became
a division of Google, it was just a startup with a different vision created by
a team of people including Andy Rubin, an ex-employee of Apple. Reportedly
Android is named after Andy, because it sounds like his name and also coworkers
at Apple called him so, because of his love for robots. And today it’s in every
ones vocabulary.
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Natalia Skoroletina is a friend from Greece. I am
sharing the unedited text and photographs of a place in Greece which is an
important part of Greek mythology and close to the hearts of Greek people. Here
she tells the story of the historical place and why it’s so special for Greek
people. I am sure the readers will enjoy reading this story and the beautiful
photographs of those places. This will give the readers around the world an
insight to Greek history and mythology.
At the foot of Mount Parnas, between two grand
rocks of the Fedriads lies the center of the Earth. Why is that so? And because
Greek mythology says so, and we have no reason to doubt its postulates: once
upon a time, from two opposite ends of the universe, Zeus let two eagles so
that they could find the navel of peace, and they met in the Delphi. Why is
Noah's pigeons accepted de facto, but there are objections about the Eagles of
Zeus?
Tradition has it that here in Delphi, in gray -
even for the Olympic gods - there was a sanctuary of Gaia, the Earth goddess,
guarded by her son, the terrible dragon Python. Apollo killed Python, turned to
dolphins' sleep and brought the lost Cretan vessel to the Gulf of Corinth, six
miles from Parnas. Sailors, amazed by the role played in their rescue of the
dolphins, vowed to serve the Temple of Apollo and rename the site in Delphi
after their rescuers. (According to another version, the name Delphi comes from
the Indo-European "delphis", which means "womb",
"belly"). Let's not resemble George the Victorious, who killed Python
Apollo, who returned to the ashes of the Dragon, but rather remember Homerov's
lines: "And where at first out of the raging sea I sailed together with a
fast-winged ship in the image of a dolphin, there I want that I wish they would
worship me, Apollo the Delphic." The Greeks worshipped: from the 6th
century BC, the Pythian Games were held in Delphi, the second most significant
after the Olympic, sports and artistic competitions, which ended in the 4th
century AD by Emperor Theodosius I, b an eagle with a pagan.
The last person to address the Delphic Oracle as a
professional in 362 AD was Julian the Reignant - the last linguistic emperor
who wished to revive the ancient Greek religion. Before being silent forever,
Piphia gave the following sad answer to the emperor's envoy: "Tell your
king that the walls are destroyed, Apollo has no temple anymore, no oracle, the
Castilian source said. The key that could tell so much has dried up.
The authority of the Delphic Oracle was undeniable,
especially during the unprecedented blossom of the Sanctuary—from the 6th to
the 4th centuries BC. p.m. The glory of Piphia, a priestess of Apollo, adorned
by chewing the laurel leaves of a woman, reached the most remote corners of the
Ancient World, and it was her, according to the tradition who was credited with
the most successful prophecies in world history: the Devkalion Flood, the
Expeditions of Art Gonautov, the Trojan War.
But Pifia had to go through some unpleasant
moments. So, in 356 BC p.m. the bandit Philomilus, head of the Fokeycev,
occupied the Delphi, looted the treasures and killed many priests of Apollo. To
justify his atrocities, Filomil as it is in our times, decided to present them
as fateful, and himself as an involuntary tool of rock. To do this, he needed
the assistance of Piphia, who, although frowning by chewing the Lavra, refused
to cooperate with the robber. Then Philomel forcibly drove her onto the
simulator, from where, under threat of fake copies, Piphia exhaustedly
exclaimed: "You are free to do whatever you think.
He forcibly forced Piphia to give him a profitable
prophecy and Alexander the Great. It did not end well for neither Philomel nor
Alexander.
The successes of Pithia turned Delphi into the
richest city of the Greek world: this is evidenced by 20 marble treasures,
where precious offerings were stored, magnificent statues, which were told to
us in his books by the first guide to Greece Pavsanius, a geologist raf of the
2nd century AD. After the Battle of Marathon, their treasure was built in the
Delphs of Athens, as well as the richest island of Sifnos at that time: thanks
to them, spared by time, we can draw an idea of the rest for ourselves.
It must be said that Apollo wisely warned all those
entering with the advice cut out at the entrance of the temple: "Know your
self." Those who did not listen to him continued to go on to Piphia. Some
claim that this civil phrase was given to Apollo by the sage Chilon, others
that Piphia uttered it in response to Chilon's rhetorical question: "What
is best for mankind?" Anyway, over
the past millennia, few people of the human kind have taken advantage of this
invaluable advice.
In fact, it was not Piphia herself who was the one
who was the prophecy, but the God Apollo: it was just she, sitting on a high
gym above a crevice, from where the suffocating vapors came out, muttering
phrases that Apollo's priests were about to decipher. In short a
well-established factory bringing in considerable profits. At first Piphia
prophesied only once a year, on Apollo's birthday, then those who wanted to
"know them", it turned out so much that the prophecies began to be
given on the seventh day of each month, when Apollo was absent in the kingdom
of Hyperborean, leaving St. the deputy in the Delphi of the cheerful brother
Dionysus, and soon almost daily, without holidays and weekends. Pifia's
customers first bathed in the Castalia Key (where Pifia washed her hair), paid
for the entrance and stood in line in front of the closed curtain - the
"confession room", from where soon the indistinguishable groans of
Pifia flew. The work of the Delphic Oracle was described in detail by Plutarch,
who himself served as a priest of Apollo: it was from him that we know that
when Piphia predicted against her will (and that is, the will of Apollo), she
was soon dying.
The Magic Castilian Key can be seen from afar and
today, access to it is for some reason forbidden: allegedly, because of the
danger of falling stones from the rocks in this place. Maybe his waters are
actually prophetic, and someone just doesn’t want people’s eyes to be “opened”?
But even those who are skeptical of ancient Greek
fairy tales and, more so, of the magic described in them, cannot help but feel
the power and greatness of Delphic nature. Here and only here could reside the
formidable, beautiful God of music, science and arts, the golden-haired doctor
Fab Apollo!
The sanctuary sits 700 meters above sea level among
a majestic landscape hidden by the mist of centuries-old trees, in perfect
harmony with the universe, literally between heaven and earth. Who were the
ancient architects who published masterpiece after masterpiece, revealing one
mystery of the universe after another?
Many years ago, as an active advertising and
communication professional engaged with my clients promos; a friend of mine,
running an art and creative design Institute requested me to lecture the
students once a week on the practicalities of advertising and communication,
and the role of creative designing. He informed, the students, apart from creative
designing will learn about advertising and communication, and will help them in
later years when they star their careers.
In one such lecture, I briefed the students about
the finer points of advertising and communication. And the role it plays in
promoting and markets ideas, products and services. To test their creative
abilities, I asked them to sell the Taj Mahal. Further, asked the students, if
they had any questions or doubts. All were fine with it. Presuming they had
understood me, I was happy the young boys and girls understood what I actually
meant.
The boys and girls were all trying to think of
ideas. But one boy appeared a bit fidgety and confused, after a while, the boy hesitatingly
got up and asked innocently, excuse me sir, but how can we sell the the Taj
Mahal and who will buy it!
The whole class, the boys and girls burst into laughter.
He was bewildered. After the commotion calmed, I clarified, sell means promote
in advertising lingo. Again he replied innocently, I was all along wondering,
how the hell, can we sell the Taj Mahal!
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This is a story of a young Polish woman with a
dream to explore places. She worked in a corporate in Warsaw for nearly a
decade. She was happy but not satisfied with life. She had a dream to travel to
faraway lands. She listened to her inner call. She quit her job and made a
decision; she bought a one-way ticket to fly away to a distant land. Her true
calling was travelling and exploring new places in distant lands.
Aneela Nike Post has picked Monika Karlinska, a
young, smart enterprising woman who for the last 3 years has been travelling solo and
writing a blog – Geozakrecona.pl devoted to travel both close to home and
distant places. And later she started posting YouTube videos too. And the
response has been good. It shows her true spirit to fulfill her dreams. She is living her dream and happy its come true.
She is a young Polish woman who started out on a
journey around the world. She has been travelling for the last two years. She’s
travelled to Qatar, India and Thailand. She got stuck in Thailand for nearly
two years. And then she is moved on and again on the move. She travelled to
Cambodia and Malaysia and hopes to cover more countries in a quest for discovering
and exploring new places, understanding the local traditions and enjoying the
local life and food.
Her story is quite interesting. After working in a
financial corporation in Warsaw for almost ten years, she was bitten by the
travel bug. She bought a one-way ticket to her dream destination – India. She
planned a travel itinery for every month to travel to many different cities and
countries including USA and Canada. She has already achieved some part of it. With every trip she is learning, observing, richer with new experiences and understanding of the new place.
The pandemic was a spoiler to her plans. And she
also became an English teacher in a small mountainous town. But her quest for
travel hasn’t stopped. She loves to explore new places - cities and towns
enjoying the local flavor, culture and tradition. Above all she likes to get
stuck in distant places if she is enamored by the local attractions. Presently
she’s stuck in Malaysia for the last two months. And she is loving it there and
enjoying it too.
Her blog geozakrecona.pl covers her travels,
adventure, personal experiences and interaction with the people of the places
she has visited. This confidence helped her to plan videos and post them on YouTube. Her recently started YouTube channel is getting a favorable
response from viewers. She has already posted a number of videos and has been well received. Find below some of her selected and interesting videos.
Regulatory filing reveals Elon Musk bought over 9%
in Twitter as of March 14. Filing says Musk has offered unsolicited bid to take
over Twitter for $54.2/share, values social media company at $43bn.
A successful Twitter acquisition will see Elon
Musk, who is world’s richest man with a net worth of over $260bn, adding a
social media vertical to his expansive business empire. His other leading
entities include the flagship Tesla, which has a mcap of over $1trillion,
SpaceX which aims to make space flights more affordable, infra and tunnel firm
The Boring Co and Neuralink which is attempting to link brains to computers.
