Chowrangi

I always knew that policemen had to pay fantastic bribes to get posted to places where they could earn millions within months. Such places like the red light areas in Karachi and Lahore, for instance, require “pugrees” of at least three million, because every time a cop sees a man entering the area, he can extract a couple of thousand rupees from him before the guy can proceed further. Then there are the pimps, who are hand in glove with the police. The drug smugglers cannot flourish in the Lyari district of Karachi without active collaboration with the cops. But what I read today in The Daily Times beats everything. According to the news item “Contact Rehman Dakait to be a cop?” many people from Lyari, including gangsters have started contacting Rehman Dakait for recommendations to join the force. It is believed that the Lyari gangsters themselves will police Lyari.

This is not something I’ve made up. It’s reported in today’s Daily Times. This female doctor (Jamila) in Lahore, although married, had a lover. No doubt the two enjoyed themselves when they were together. What I don’t understand is how the affair was not noticed by her neighbours, let alone her husband. Maybe her husband was mostly out of town and she wanted a man to satisfy her, and this guy met her somewhere and she fell madly in love with him. But then, it is not normal for a man to visit a woman in her house when she’s alone. I can’t imagine the neighbours not knowing about the affair. After all, everyone knows that when a man is alone with a woman, they don’t play ludo or scrabble (unless both are mentally unstable). So this is one mystery which will never be solved: how they spent so much time in her house without anyone noticing.

Hi all…

Can you see the light falling at the brink of the bridge same time water showers start watering the green grass … and reflection of gold on the green and is lightning up the road like .. just like when a fresh mind enlightens the whole idea of imagination and leading to practicality … dreaming isn’t an art but .. transforming those dreams into living reality is an art and only an artist can do that who has true spirit to deliver no matter what … no matter hard the road is … how stormy conditions are .. how negative the feedbacks are … believe in what you think and print it out as a real object right from the celluloid of your mind … They say dream it to achieve it..

There is only one direction to go when you choose to look at porn and that is in the downward spiral. You can only stay at the same level of viewing so long before your body is no longer satisfied and needs something more harsh or graphic to be satisfied.

Over time a man needs “stronger” porn to get the same arousal. It’s very much like a drug addict needing more of a drug to get a high, and the same brain process is responsible for both addictions. The need to escalate eventually results in the man needing to view horrible things like bestiality or rape, or the same kind of porn must be consumed in larger and larger quantities.

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“KESC bekaar hogayee hai. Aao in kee gaarian jala dey tay hain.”

We usually do hear something like this when there are power outages in Karachi and other parts of the country. Angry businessmen and their employees lose out on a lot of business due to power outages and indeed, they are not at fault.

But is burning down the vehicles we essentially pay for with our utility bills and taxes really bring any benefits? Also, if we burn the KESC vehicles down, rendering them useless will delay the process of bringing power back on even more.

From conversations heard during bus rides in Karachi:

I feared being alone
Until I learned to like myself

I feared failure
Until I realized that I only fail when I don’t try .

I feared people’s opinions
Until I learned that people would have opinions about me anyway.

I feared pain
Until I learned that it’s necessary for growth.

I feared the truth
Until I saw the ugliness in lies.

I feared life
Until I experienced its beauty .

I feared death
Until I realized that it’s not an end, but the beginning .

I feared my destiny
Until I realized that I had the power to change it.

Recently, Muslims in the U.K. were outraged when it was announced that the prevalence of marriages between cousins was responsible for a large number of defective children being born in their community. While it is true that cousin marriages slightly increase chances of children being born with genetic defects, among Muslims, most people are the products of decades of cousin marriages. If a child’s great grandparents, as well as grandparents were first cousins, it significantly increases the chances of that child having more defects than one whose forebears were not first cousins. I know many families in which children are either totally deaf or totally near-sighted, and they were shocked when doctors told them that inbreeding was to blame. For this reason, cousin marriages are banned in 26 states in the U.S., while most Hindu sects do not allow marriages between cousins. This proves that even three thousand years ago, people realized that marriage among near relatives was harmful.

Have you noticed how an addiction takes away everything good in your life?

Well, let me tell you, it does until you no longer control your life, your addiction controls you. It comes to a point where you live for your addiction.

You could be the most talented and productive person but addiction will absolutely make you the opposite over time. You could be a great husband,father or brother yet if you fall into an addiction you can become the worst in all these categories. That’s one reason why its so important to stop the destructive cycle and change right now.