As said by Musharraf that it was an un-natural alliance .. so this was the clinical death of the coalition of PPP and PML-N, which lasted just for a week after the resignation of Musharraf. It is useless to say now that the only binding force of this alliance was its hatred against Musharraf. These two parties belong to the two different schools of thought. These are the parties with a history of extreme hatred against each other, who filed loads of cases against each other in the last decade. Thinking that they will work together, is equal to living in a fool's paradise.

I am now thinking about the group of people (particularly media persons) who used to propagate continuously after the elections of 18th February that President House is the center of conspiracies against this coalition. Where are those people now ? Those people, along-with their stupid thoughts, should dive in a pond of dirty water. Some of those people were AAJ TV anchors i.e. Talat Hussain, Nusrat Javed and Mushtaq Minhas alognwith their buddies at ARY i.e. Kashif Abbasi and Aasma Sherazi, plus GEO TV Anchor/Analyst i.e. Hamid Mir and the most stupid analyst of all times i.e. Ansar Abbasi.

God knows who was making the conspiracy ? Whether it was Musharraf who was making the conspiracy against the coalition, or there were PPP, PML-N and Media who were making the conspiracy against Pervez Musharraf ?

       shehr-e-muhabbat, hijr ka mosam, ehd-e-wafa aur main

shehr-e-muhabbat, hijr ka mosam, ehd-e-wafa aur main

tu to is basti se khush khush chala gaya, aur main ?

tu jo na ho to jaisay sab ko chup lag jaati hai

aapas mein kia baatein kertay raat, dia aur main

sair-e-chaman aadat thi pehlay ab majboori hai

tayri talash mein chal peRtay hein baad-e-saba aur main

jis ko dekho tayri hawa mein paagal phirta hai

werna ham-mashrab to nahi thay khalq-e-khuda aur main

aik to wo ham-raaz mera hai, phir tayra maddaah

bas tayra hi zikr kya kertay hein zia aur main

aik zamaanay baad faraz ye sher kahay main ne

ek muddat se milay nahi hein yaar mera aur main

                                                                  - Ahmad Faraz -

            surkh ho jaati hai jab sehn-e-chaman ki miTTi

aye watan tujh se naya ehd-e-wafa kertay hein

maal kia cheez hai, ham jaan fida kertay hein

surkh ho jaati hai jab sehn-e-chaman ki miTTi

usi mosam mein naye phool khila kertay hein

aye nigehbaan-e-watan tayra nigehbaaN ho khuda

sheher k log teray haq mein dua kertay hein

                                                                    - Nasir Kazmi -

                                                              (nishaat-e-khwaab,

                                                                kulliyaat-e-Nasir)

it has become a general behavior of our nation to praise the foreign things .. and these 'foreign-things' may include educational system, clean roads, justice, discipline, life-styles, culture, movies, music, fashion, celebrities and so on. If the question remains only to the extent of praising the foreign-things, it could be swallowed somehow. But the irony is that people start degrading those national things which are in-fact our national prides. By the way, i am also a fan of foreign-things, but to a limited extent. I like clean roads of the developed world, their system of education, standard of justice and discipline. Of-course, there is no surprising element in it .. everyone likes good things . But when it comes to life-style, culture, movies, music, fashion and celebrities sort of things; while staying neutral my brain starts thinking in a patriotic way.

i was talking with a friend of mine the other day. The topic was 'music'. When the discussion reached to the folk music of Pakistan, he started laughing. He degraded Pakistani folk music and was of the opinion that our folk music is a cheap or shoddy sort of thing. He said that our folk music stands nowhere internationally, and he feels embarrassment when he compares our folk music with the songs of Britney Spears or Back Street Boys or with Indian songs.

Well .. i had no words to convince him. There was a difference of 180 degrees between his and mine ways of thinking. Or may be there was no 'way of thought' at all on his part. I think people like him have some inferiority complex; i dont know why ? Degrading national things is a general trend now. It is actually a state of mind. These people are so impressed with the foreign world that they start hating their own land. They think that by listening english/indian music, or by watching the movies of Tom Cruise, they've become modern. They ignore to take interest in their own national prides. Consequently they are left with zero knowledge about the rich culture and history of their own soil. They are ignorant, in true sense of words. Westernized/maghrib-zadah !

Personally i like the folk music of my country very much .. whether it belongs to Balochistan, N.W.F.P, Sindh, Punjab or Kashmir. All are best. While listening the beats of locally invented musical instruments, you can't control the un-intentional left-to-right movement of your head and upward-to-downward movement of your foot ..