Is the Nature retaliating? (Should we bother about it?)

About an year ago I saw a movie called “The Happening” .It was based on the theme that the way Humans are damaging it, Nature has started reacting .In the movie this reaction came through plants. After watching the movie I felt it was entertaining but now I feel actually it was alarming!
Why?
Please consider the following facts!

I checked Brief History of the most commonly known diseases which have an epidemic element and the list included

HIV Aids more than twenty-five million people around the world have died of AIDS-related diseases. In 2008, 2.7 million people were newly infected with HIV, and 2 million men, women and children lost their lives. 33.4 million people around the world are now living with HIV. according to http://www.avert.org/

Swine Flue Recent World wide total: 1,562,049 cases, 16,665 deaths according to www.flucount.org

Bird Flue There have been 252 human deaths globally from the H5N1 strain and 399 confirmed cases of infection since 2003, according to WHO data.


What these three diseases have in common is that their origins are associated with what Humans have traditionally lived with or consumed for their survival!

HIV Aids virus originated in populations of wild chimpanzees in West-Central Africa

Swine Flue is related to regular exposure to pigs

Bird Flue related virus is often traced to locations where humans, chickens and pigs live in close proximity.

As per my understanding animals of chimpanzee family are consumed in Africa whereas Pig(Pork meat) is majorly consumed in America and Europe.Chicken meat is consumed throughout the world.Now when these animals are becoming the source of such epidemics than it can be considered a change in Nature’s behaviour just like about 20 years ago in order to stop Mosquitos from spreading Malaria,It was suggested to keep the neighbourhood clean but now those Mosquitos are spreading "Dengue" for which they live on clean water(like swimming pools,Water tanks or water stored in plant pots).
I would always want to know more about the changes in Nature’s behaviour but like some other people at times I feel that instead of observing the changes in Nature’s Behaviour we should be analysing the Human behaviour which has changed over period of time due to uneven distribution of wealth.We should be more concerned about the large numbr of deaths coming by Famine, Terrorism and Wars rather than the ones through animal spread viruses!




Does it suit the thirld world’s citizens to think about Nature and Pollution when we are stuck in lot more basic issues like providing basic education,clean water and effective administrative systems?

Or

We should be concerned about Nature and its related elements because they also have an influence on Human Beahviour and over a period of time those civilizations have progressed which closely observe Nature and the Environment which they are living in!
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Would Pakistan be the next Karbala?

Paranoia is called the person who is mentally ill and is obsessed by some unknown fear/hallucination in a way that this state of mind restricts him from performing functions of a normal person. As this definition simply declares a person insane so I carefully evaluated if We the Pakistanis are suffering from this disease or are the threats real? My conclusion is that we are actually insane but not because of feeling threatened by some fear or unreal threat but because we are not doing anything even when we can sense the threats are bigger than what this country has ever come across.



According to new USA plan AfPak, American troops will be increased to about 100,000 men and I suspect that this high number of US marines is not for Afghanistan (where US is suspected to establish few permanent bases) but actually to

1: Denuclearize Pakistan(under the notion of "Failed State"which can sell Nuclear Arsenal to rogue elements for overcoming economic problems)

2: Join NWFP with Afghanistan(Tribals of both sides would live together under the rule of War Lords who would be kept USA friendly by providing Food and other necessities along with freedom for Narcotics trade.This would allow American bases at strategic areas in Afghanistan especially at our western borders.

3: Establish independent Baluchistan while keeping Military and trading bases (trade will be shared with China in order to avoid clash with the giant)

4: Handover Punjab to India as it will not survive once India blocks the rivers which root from India (Rivers which come from Sind are propagated to be having water which can suffice needs of Sind only)

5: The new Pakistan would consist of Some parts of Punjab and some parts of Sind(Karachi might be leased out to pro American Gulf based investors)

For this purpose “great game” has already started!




At least 889 persons were killed and 2,072 others injured in 61 suicide attacks in Pakistan so far this year, as the total number of suicide bombings in the country since 2002 rose to 140.The suicide bombings in 2008 surpassed the last year's figures of 56, including the one in which former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, whose first death anniversary would be observed on December 27, was killed in Rawalpindi. (Source http://www.nowpublic.com)

In April, The News, a newspaper in Lahore, Pakistan, published figures provided by Pakistani officials indicating that 687 civilians have been killed along with 14 AL Qaeda leaders in some 60 drone strikes since January 2008 - just over 50 civilians killed for every AL Qaeda leader.

Impact of Terrorism has been multiplied through alarming economic indicators.It does not take an Einstein to figure out Economic condition of a country which is unable to provide energy to the manufacturing sector since the last two years(Electricity Load shedding reaches to about 14-16 hours a day in Summers and in Winters about 6-8 hours)

As a nation we are condemning Taliban but I recon that once execution of American plan becomes obvious than It will be the religious group which will become the last shield of our defense line and it would also lead that portion of our solders who would refuse to surrender while pay role driven leadership would. For some odd reason I feel that beginning of the end would be in 2012!.

The situation would be very similar to what happened in Karbala!

Few would be against many

Access to water would be denied in order to dictate terms and conditions

Right would be against the Might

Death would be obvious still some would embrace it in principal!

Divorce after age of 55! (Is it surprising?)

Recently I met someone who had accompanied me during Hajj. I was traveling with my mother and he with his wife. We were sharing the room at Haram Madina so I witnessed the passionate affection which he had for his wife. There was nothing surprising about it as two people who are growing together for about thirty years must have shared a lot. Must have shared lot of moments of joy and sorrows. They must have planned together about their children and raised them etc etc so I was surprised to know about their Divorce when I again met him after about two years. Their marriage lasted for about thirty years.

I think that it’s the seventh or eight incident in which I have come to know about mature age divorce. Getting separated at a late age is difficult to understand as after living for so many years together life partners are supposed to have

Better communication

Better understanding

Empathy

A bit of trust

Everything else which time brings to get the strangers closer!

But how does this happen? Where do all of the above mentioned things go when two people decide to separate their ways.
Following are the few possible explanations

1: One of the partners starts following his self discovery and that is when he realizes that the other person doesn’t understand him. The one following the self discovery becomes reactive towards other person’s ignorance of hi emotions without realizing that he himself took so many years to discover what was always in him.

2: One of the partners starts missing the appeal which the other partner had at a younger age but which can be found in someone else now.

3: There is age difference between the two which gets prominent at the later age and that is when younger partner looses interest in continuing with the relationship.

4: God didn’t bless the couple with any children (especially son) so the husband decides for another marriage at an age when he foresees financial and physical dependence coming.




Practically any of the above mentioned factors can be a reason but the painful part is that usually in our society women are financially dependent upon men so in case of a divorce there are serious question marks on a women’s survival especially when judicial system practically can not force the husband to pay maintenance allowance. In such cases usually Fathers are either not alive or are too old to support and the brothers are more concerned about raising their children.

What is the solution?
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My thoughts after listening to the Blasts!

I was at youtube to download few more songs by Greenday just when I heard it, I stopped for an instance realizing what had happened and denying it to myself like we usually do initially when we come across a big problem or an accident but few minutes later I heard it again and this time sound of explosion felt a bit too real. My mother went out of the house just to take a look around .Servants were excitedly stating what everyone could guess. Shopkeepers near my house closed their shops and rushed as their houses were closer to the area where the sound had come from. Within five minutes I got a call from Islamabad. My sister told me that T.V is running a slide about sound of explosion near Moon market (five minutes away from my house).She was concerned about my safety. In the next two hours I received several calls from family members, Relatives and students. They all had called to show their concern about my safety as I live very close to the area where two Bomb blasts had occurred.




At night before going to sleep I realized that throughout this time when I was getting these calls, I kept myself occupied with the Net. I felt nothing about this incident not even when I realized that I was planning to buy a fruit cake of Shezan bakery from there in the evening when I was leaving for Academy. This indifference apparently had nothing to do with bravery or courage but this indifference was there because Blasts are something that this whole nation is getting used to. If it is happening in Peshawer than why wouldn’t it eventually come around .In this particular case I could sit back and relax because I was watching the Rescue teams providing medical and fire extinguishing services but I manage to sit back and relax even when I suspect that these blasts are not the end but a beginning !

Most of us never feel like coming out of the comfort of our houses in times when we need to show political awareness and awakening at the streets. We feel that it’s not worth it, Raising the Voice is of no use, this country can be saved by a bloody revolution only! Some of us might think that the way things are going, eventually Nation would wakeup? How would this nation wake up when we are just waiting for things to happen on their own? I hope that I am not exaggerating but half the nation is waiting for a leader who would eventually make everything alright and till than we will continue to be dishonest as much as the snatched or gained authority allows. ? For how long we will keep on telling it to ourselves that it would all be over once the Military operation is over? For how long we will continue to scold others without realizing that we are no different! For how long we would continue to offend God. How would this Economic, Socio political mismanagement will not display its outcome? Why would the results be any different when efforts are the same!