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Crescent Nation’s Adversity Times

As sad as it might sound, the artsyHANDS team itself did not have any post ready for Independence Day. But lo and behold! Farrukh Zafar of FarrukhUNPLUGGED.com came up to save the day!

(photo source: Ilyas Ansari)

Crescent Nation’s Adversity Times

With the timers on the bomb, we’ll synchronize our watches,
Till every terrorist’s drooling plan, in our fist scotches

Five ants are seen stuck under, the famous American dime,
Pakhtun, Punjabi, Sindhi, Gilgiti, Balochi – each ant a paradigm

If all five united, we can turn the dime with time,
Till instead of blasts we get to hear the nation’s blissful chime.

- Farrukh Zafar (@fariZafar)

The message is simple. The more we feel increasing loads on our backs, the stronger as a consequence, our backs become. Embrace the pain and live up to the ask, Pakistanis. There’s a good time coming, InshaAllah.

NOTE: Please spread the love by sharing this post on Facebook/Twitter! Happy Independence! ;)

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A Missed Call

Short films… well, tend to be short. But they make up for their shortness by being more what one might call: punchy. Featured below is a short film by Saad Altaf and Usman Ahmed (concept by Saad Altaf) which presents, to the viewer, the effect of telecommunication advances in the country. Sure, what you’re about to watch in the film isn’t something you get to see daily, but the premise here is metaphorical. And quite moving!

‘Missed Call’ – a must watch!

If you liked it, it would be awesome if you could leave a comment and share the post! Thanks! :D

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Now We Can Finally Buy an iPhone Without Selling A Kidney

iPhone 4Apple just announced the latest iteration of their smartphone: the iPhone 4. And it is, as expected, much superior to the iPhone 3G and 3GS. Steve Jobs is on stage talking about it as this is being typed. Now of course, he has already announced the all-new design, the microSIM only format (not available in Pakistan), the new so-called “retina display”, a faster processor, a better battery, a gyroscope for better motion-sensing, a much better camera, inclusion of the iBook Store and iAd advertisement system and blah blah blippity blah blah that you can read about here or here or here.

It’s going to cost well over 900$ in Pakistan. So what is there to rejoice about?

You’ll have to read on ahead for that!

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The Stuff Dreams Are Made Of

I had a weird dream yesterday. I started in a forest where a fat merchant was having a yard sale. From the clothes, I knew the dream took place in medieval times. As I was looking through the items for sale I came across a small cat cage. In the cage, there was a dirty grey angel with a missing wing. The angel was about my size, but it was stuffed in the cat cage like in cartoons.

For some reason, I needed the one winged angel, so I used the oldest trick in the book. I said to the merchant, “Look over there”. While he was busy looking over there, I picked up the cage, jumped on my horse and rode away.

Read on ahead. It gets weirder!

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Taalib-e-Ilm ki Awaz: Chemistry Paper – HSSC-I 2010

Chemistry HSSC-II am a student of HSSC-I (Session 2010) and I was one of the many students who gave the rather unbalanced paper of Chemistry on the 30th of April, 2010. Most, if not all, students were strongly against the paper stating how the paper was “totally L” or “totally P” (for male and female gender respectively) due to the following reasons:

  • Too many numericals in Section B (which were very time-consuming)
  • Too many questions from Chapter 8: Chemical Equilibrium (5 short questions totaling 20 marks in Sec B, 1 long question totaling 13 in Sec C)
  • Questions were said to be "dodgy" (which they honestly were!)

Read on ahead.

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The Beggars of Murree

child beggars pakistanMurree is a beggars paradise. Most of them have a more hands on approach to begging than the common brand of ’de de na’ people. These people are trained professionals and have evolved various new techniques.

A dangerously retarded baba and cheap bubblegums, after the jump.

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You Are The Hope Of Tomorrow!

Pakistan Flag Independence Day Zindabad

This poem I wrote is dedicated especially for all those who think they can change the fate of Pakistan! That’s you!!

Read on ahead, the poem that has been described as “Sounds like Iqbal all over again!” by Waisybabu.

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“Pity The Nation” by Khalil Gibran

Khalil Gibran Pity the NationThis a poem by Khalil Gibran, a Lebanese America poet/writer. From it’s title, you may already have deduced what it is: a poem indicating the characteristics of a pitiful nation…

What made me publish this poem on artsyHANDS is how, coincidentally, we as a nation can relate to the qualities mentioned by Gibran.

They say good poetry is timeless. Khalil wrote this early in the 1900s (published in 1933 in The Garden of the Prophet) and it almost seems like it was written today for Pakistan’s current situation!

My uncle, Saad Altaf, specially asked for this to be published on artsy.

Read on ahead why Saad so specially asked for this to be published!

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Of Forwarded Texts And BS Rumors

ISPR Pakistan SMS rumors

Getting lots of text messages about blasts and warnings, are we? Yeah, those texts that state that terrorists will use you and me for their next bomb blast. These text messages are total bullshit. Case-in-point, a message I received from a friend:

ISPR Pakistan iz warning dun answer calls fRm unKnoWn numbers or cAll bck… bomb ko kisi numbr se attach kia ja raha hai… plz c0nvEy diS msg FASSTT!!!

It seems like it was written by three different persons before finally reaching me. Observe the changes in spellings as they go from zero-to-fail in under five seconds.

ISPR Pakistan would never warn you through text messages. You’re just not that important.

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Modernism vs. Extremism – The End Result (Published in Us Magazine)

pakistan islamic university islamabad bomb blastBlasts, blasts and some more blasts. Shehzad Roy was right: Pakistan waakaee ek naazuk morr say guzarr rahaa hai. We’re at the point where nobody knows where the next bomb will explode. Everyone is the target.

Terrorists attacks were previously limited to Government offices but now, the terrorists (be they the Taliban, America or RAW) are targeting students – the Talib-e-Ilm.

I don’t remember Prophet Muhammad (S.A.W.) or Allah stating or even so much as hinting to harm innocent students!

What kind of dumb idiots are exploding these bombs!?

I won’t be giving reasons as to what the terrorists are doing wrong. Instead, I’ll tell you something else: the end result… Which is something rather interesting.

Read on ahead.

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