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You don’t get ulcers from what you eat. You get them from what’s eating you.

~Vicki Baum

Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.

~Vicki Baum

The stupid way in which Ahmad Shahzad got out must have dampened the spirits and morale of the Pakistani team, very badly.

Mr. Ahmad Shahzad, You don’t deserve to be in a Test team if you don’t know, where your leg stump is.

So out of the 7 batsmen, one has gone down with a zero and foolishly also taking away one of the reviews..!

So actually it is two down, if later on a wrong umpiring decision goes against Pakistan, when there are no reviews left.

Muhammad Hafeez deserves to be lashed in the public NOT for getting out on zero but for being selfish (in a team game) in wasting the precious review..!

Muhammad Hafeez took the review of his LBW decision contrary to the advice of Ahmad Shahzad, on the assumption that the ball may have been missing the leg stump.

How right he was the ball, by all means was missing the leg stump…!

Pakistan has again gone defensive (as they did in Sri Lanka) with 6+1 batsmen and ONLY 4 bowlers in the 11 members team.

Firstly, this proves that you Pakistan is playing for a draw and as Imran Khan once said, the best recipe for a defeat is to play for a draw; secondly, if Pakistan has planned for a victory over the Aussies, then on an average, all our 4 bowlers, will have to take 5 wickets in both the innings, or 2.5 wickets per innings.

Let us relax and wish all the best to the Pakistani cricketers in Dubai Test match series vs the Aussies.

“No one has ever become poor by giving.”

— Anne Frank

“A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.”

—Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
Theoretical Physicist, Philosopher, Nobel Prize Winner

New development model for Pakistan – An email of July 2009 to the UN SG

(Sorry to say that this more than five years old email message fell on the deaf ears, as if, it was written to a wall)

H’able Mr. Ban Ki-moon

Secretary – General

United Nations Organisation

New York.

Dear Sir,

Your statement ( at the Major Economies Forum. L’ Aquila, Italy, on 9 July 2009. ) that we stand at a historical crossroads. Business as usual is no longer viable, has motivated me for this writing. I am convinced that the secret of future world peace, lies to a very large extent, in the total re-building of Pakistan, on the same model on which Japan was re-built after WW II.

However, this help of Pakistan will require a very well planned & concerted long term commitment of the entire world, including all the neighboring countries.

One thing is for sure; Pakistan will never improve, develop & change with the current world policy of helping it through loans & aid plans. Mainly, because this model of help is riddled with corruption, inefficiency & the vested interests of the donor countries/agencies, wherein, up to 90% of the loan amount is wasted & the poor people are forced to pay back the loans with added interest, without getting any benefit. This breeds abject poverty to the extent that increasingly people here are committing suicides on daily basis, (although suicide is strictly prohibited in ISLAM) to get relief from their economic woes. This poverty phenomenon is being easily & increasingly exploited by the terrorist organisations. (Kindly note that these words said more than 5 years ago have proved 100% correct and Pakistan is even worse off in the year 2014 despite getting more loans to pay off the old loans).

We can easily understand how gradually & steadily this area is being pushed towards extremism by the poverty, which to a large extent, is the result of the current aid/development model through loans.

Under the circumstances UNO under your dynamic leadership, is the most competent & relevant organization to develop a ten year re-building model for Pakistan, which must broadly include the following strategy.

Immediate writing off of the entire foreign & domestic loan of Pakistan.

Allowing 100% duty free imports of Pakistani goods in all the countries.

Revamping of entire Pakistani educational system on modern lines.

Providing of world class health care system.

Development of world class transportation infrastructure.

Focus for development on small & medium size industry.

Development of agriculture, livestock & dairy sectors on world standards.

Settlement of Kashmir, water, Siachin & all other issues between Pakistan & India.

Building of Maximum possible dams on the river system.

Development & exploration (as per world standards) of natural resources.

Development of wind energy to the maximum potential of the country.

Development of a modern Social Welfare set up.

It is hoped that the UNO will truly live up to the message of your above quoted statement & lead the world in attacking the menace of terrorism, directly at its roots i.e. abject poverty. Moreover, the above plan may not even cost more than two years war expenditure of NATO in Afghanistan.

Best Regards,

Syed Nayyar Uddin Ahmad