ARM WRESTLING IN PAKISTAN

Arm wrestling is a cultural sport of Pakistan and this sport should not be ignored, and we should not only focus on cricket or hockey .The members of federation of arm wrestling do not have any fund from the government to promote it or even play it or organize and event about it and get this trend of arm wrestling back as it was played in few decades back and has been known as sport of strong men.I think this is happening in Pakistan that we are forgetting about our rich culture and just following the western cultures and their everything and their sports too rather than promoting our own culture and sports and arm wrestling is one of them.

In arm wrestling in Pakistan PEHELWAAN get official training and learn techniques how to do it and this can not be done by any one out there this must be learned first and then can be played so the point is this a formal sport and we should promote it and play it and should show our interest in it.And it has many rules and regulations to play this can be played by two people atleast at a time and they should be having same range of their weights so they would have an approximately equal strength.,they have set the range of weights in no to be qualify with each other in arm wrestling.And the one in the federation who play this sport are none as PEHELWAAN and they have good diet they do work out and have strong body and they give their life in this sport and at the end they get nothing I think media  also  hold this responsibility .they should capture and cover this sport wheever they held and show it to the public on television that we should also see this and appreciate this not only cricket to get sponsors and promote their single particular channel .Its federation is playing a major role to support or promote it with their own money in the pocket and they want to be as famous as cricket and other sports are here in pakistan .And even people in foreign countries wants to play with us and but there is no official platform to play this sport and sponsors and everything .Government should make some interest in this sport and make some academis and hire some trainers to train the candidates and make this sport big in Pakistan and not only in Pakistan but also in all our the world and let them see that what talent we got and how much strong we are.

Recently an effort or u can say an event had been organized of arm wrestling in “minar e Pakistan “ Lahore and candidates from all over Pakistan did come and participated in this event of arm wrestling and their were professionals too ove there and also many people or I should say a crowd was gathered there to see and enjoy this sport and the guys who won has been given some reward and prizes and I saw a little push to this sport.And they encouraged the candidates and their was a chief guest too from a politicial party who were there and enjoying it and promoting this game of Pakistan and supporting them and tell them that he would give a fund to this support and they wish them, good luck and said that u people should go in Olympics and this sport should be played over there too.

Rizwan Ullah

Sec F

CNG SECTOR WILL BE WIPED OUT GRADUALLY

Unfortunately folks, the time is here. The time to say good bye and look for some other viable option as a fuel is right above us. Minister for Petroleum Dr Asim Hussain, said that the past Government’s decision and policy for CNG promotion was false and that he has set his target to phase-out the CNG sector gradually from all of Pakistan so to save the industrial and domestic sector from gas load shedding.

“Pakistan Peoples Party government has evolved a policy to diminish the CNG sector by not issuing new licenses and not renewing contracts of operational CNG stations”, Government however aims to kill the CNG sector making way for LPG in its place.OGRA has already given permission to PSO and other for setting up of LPG filling stations at its current fuel stations. PSO will be setting up 100 LPG stations.

“The people of Pakistan will have to bear the gas shortage for another couple of years, after which things would start to normalize.

As Pakistan becomes the largest consumer of CNG as a fuel with Iran, Brazil and Argentina trailing our lead, has aimed to phase-out the CNG sector gradually throughout Pakistan in coming years to save the industrial and domestic sector from gas curtailments in future.

Ahmed Huzaifa

CNG Cylinders being sold in black market

The government has burdened the public by banning the import, buying and selling of CNG tanks which instead will lead to inflation of the prices of CNG tanks and also, prices of cars.

Car sales are expected to drop by 20% owing to the government’s decision to ban import of compressed natural gas (CNG) kits and cylinders. Suzuki being the largest car manufacturer in the small car segment is the worst hit from this decision to factory fitted CNG vehicles. KASB Securities lowered Suzuki’s earnings per share by 7%.

CNG Cylinders being sold in black market

Dealers in the city have started black marketing of CNG kits and cylinders by charging Rs5,000-15,000 more from the buyers in just 24 hours of the government’s decision of imposing ban on import of CNG kits and cylinders.

Those CNG conversion centers, who were previously demanding Rs25,000 for new 50-kg capacity cylinder with kit depending on kit size, on Friday jacked up the rates to Rs33,000. The 60-kg cylinder with kit now carries a price tag of Rs42,000-45,000 as compared to Rs38,000. Some dealers at the new M.A. Jinnah Road were seen demanding Rs10,000-Rs15,000 extra for 60 kg cylinder with kit.

Central Chairman of All Pakistan CNG Association Ghiyas Abdullah Paracha has rejected the decision and has cried that the government must take back its illegal decision or they would move to Supreme Court, but no action has been taken. It has affected the public in two ways: firstly, no CNG fitted car they had to pay black money to get cylinders, secondly, this has resulted in increased prices of the cars.

Ahmed butt

CHILD LABOUR IN PAKISTAN: A SERIOUS ISSUE TO DEAL WITH

Allah has given man the wisdom and knowledge to think upon this world. Children are the flowers of heaven. They are the most beautiful and purest creation of Allah almighty. No doubt, they are the beauty of this world. Early in the morning when the children put on different kinds of clothes and begin to go to schools for the sake of knowledge, we feel a specific kind of joy through their innocence.

But there are also other children, those who cannot go to schools due to financial problems; they only watch others go to schools. It is due to many hindrances and difficulties; desperate conditions that they face in life. Having been forced to kill their aspirations, dreams and other wishes, they are forced to earn a living for themselves and for their families. It is also a fact that there are many children who play a key role in sustaining the financial life of their family without which, their families would not be able to survive. When a child in addition to getting education, earns his livelihood, this act of earning a livelihood is called as child Labour. The concept of child Labour got much attention during the 1990s when many countries announced a ban on the goods of the less-developed countries because of child Labour. 

Child Labour is an important and a serious issue in Pakistan, but, it is also very common in Latin America, Africa and Asia. According to some, in several Asian countries’ 1/10 manpower consists of child Labour. In Pakistan children aged 5-14 are above 40 million. Statistics  also show that 14% children age group of 5-14 years are working in Pakistan, out of which  fifty percent of these economically active children are in age group of 5 to 9 years. A large ratio of children were claimed to be working in the agriculture sector. 70% of these children are males.

According to research it was identified that most occupations and the categories of work are hazardous for the health of child of the age group. Which is given below:
1. Work inside underground mines
2. Work with power driven cutting machinery e.g. saws
3. Work with live electrical wires
4. All operation related to leather processing
5. Work with exposure to ALL toxic, explosive and carcinogenic chemicals.
6. Work with exposure to cement dust
7. Work with exposure to coal dust
8. Work on glass and metal furnaces 
9. Work in the cloth printing, dyeing and finishing sections
10. Work inside sewer pipelines, pits, storage tanks
11. Stone  crushing
12. Lifting and carrying of heavy weight especially in transport industry
13. Working at hotels and car workshops

Now we can easily imagine in the light of above mentioned facts and figures how the nation’s future namely children are deprived of pleasures of life, struggle has reduced their abilities of thinking right or differentiating between right and wrong, as well as their life-chances, to their prevention from education.

It is outcome of poverty, lack of opportunities, high rate of population growth, unemployment, uneven distribution of wealth and resources, outdated social customs.

Consider the point that if 30% of our country’s total population is leading life below the poverty-line wherein the people are deprived of basic necessities of life like clothing, shelter, food, education and medication, the children of these people will be forced to become Labourers or workers in order to survive. Another reason of child Labour in Pakistan is that our people don’t have the security of social life. There is no aid plan or allowance for children in our country. low education system is another reason for increasing child Labour; villages lack standards of education systems and as a result, child Labour is increasing in rural areas. The government has not put its laws into practice to stop child Labour in our country.

Child Labour is a serious problem which demands a urgent solutions. There is no better way to the present government in Pakistan has made elementary education compulsory. There is strict need to stop child Labour in this country. Awareness must be raised and the attention of parents should be education of their children. Child Labour Laws should be put into practice strictly. In addition, the educational system of the country-must be reshaped and restructured according to national development goals. The orphans and other deserving children must be helped financially. It is also essential to eliminate child Labour from the country, that the political, economical and social system of the country are need to be reshaped and such steps taken that make child Labour in this country a crime. So it’s the time of change and we should all get united and step up against child labour. Prevent child Labour than to make education compulsory.

Munsoor Ismail

Sec F

Wall chalking: Bad reflection of our culture

This article aims to shed light on the issue of wall chalking in Pakistan. Research has been carried out to know whether wall chalking helps in creating awareness of different things people or not. It can be gathered that 60% of the general public think that wall chalking is a way of creating awareness and the other 40% think that it’s not the tool for creating awareness. Pakistanis basically indulges in wall chalking due to lack of platforms for them to express their emotions, combined with a lack of awareness. Advertisements are done through wall chalking to avoid the expense, and the government cannot root out the problem since it itself consists of political parties largely involved in wall chalking for political purposes. There are laws against wall chalking and illegal.

Most of the people agree that it is a heinous activity that destroys the beauty of the city to a great extent yet we see that the city’s walls are filled with all kinds of wall chalking. Hence, everyone would like to see this source of ugliness vanished but does not know what to do since our government is also not taking any hard action against this issue. And these are the people who think that wall chalking is not the best way of creating awareness.

Wall chalking is one activity that has rendered almost every boundary wall of streets. The outcome of wall paintings, chalking and sprayings is an overall increase in pollution. When this exercise is undertaken with some reference to artistic considerations, it reflects the creativity of the people in a certain context. When unrestrained tarnishing of built surfaces is done, it displays the inherent conflict, contradiction and confusion among the various classes in society.

In modern times, paint, particularly spray paint, and marker pens have become the most commonly used graffiti materials.. Wall Chalking may also express social and political messages.

An example of things written on walls:

“Zaroori hay zaroori hay, Mahajir sooba zaroori hay”

“Koi dekhay na dekhay shabeer tw dekhega”

“Ek se barh kar ek zaleel, amreeka aur israeel”

“Dunia ka pehla Perfume Chowk, khushboo sub k liye” etc etc etc…

Yes, you can find out these kind of chalking everywhere in Lahore.

Even the political parties find wall chalking a source of awareness for public.

 “Chalo Chalo Nishtar Park Chalo” or “Amreeka ka jo yaar hay, ghaddar hay ghaddar”. Many unethical things are often posted on walls which are not acceptable at all. We aren’t among those nations who keep on spending their money over institutes and universities or colleges, but that nation who already is literate and educated enough to write on the notebooks, but on the walls so that each and everyone get a benefit of whatever one has learnt.

Wall chalking is a tool which is often used by people for creating awareness of different thing because it’s the cheap way of advertisement.

This method is mostly used by lower class or middle class people. During the survey carried out on wall chalking people said that it is a tool for awareness but it’s the wrong tool of creating awareness. Educated people say that wall chalking must be stopped and a more educated Pakistan must be established.

TAKE A STEP FORWARD

Seerat Mughal 

Sec F

I Wish for a Pakistan!

I am a 20 year old boy, living just like many other people of my country, studying in a university and living a normal steady life. Let me just take you on a small tour to my past so that I can clearly put forward my wishes my dream and my aim and goals.

As a young teenage boy I was learning a new thing about the real world on every passing day. For me it was exciting yet confusing. I use to had so many jumbled up queries and questions in my mind that sometimes I just had to stop and try to freeze my mind for a while. However there was this one person always there for me, always ready to answer the most senseless questions that I had. This person was my Father (AGHA JEE). Every person has one role model, a person they wish to become like, in my case it was my father. As a kid I tried to adopt all his actions, listen him actively and ask him questions on any matter my mind use to come up with. This eventually resulted in a way that for me was truly beneficial. I learnt a lot of stuff from my father about the way of life and about my country Pakistan.

So, coming back to the present date. I would not call myself patriotic because what I analyze of myself is that so far I have not done a single thing that benefited my country and its people and the overall progress of my country Pakistan. However, I have a thought, a wish, a dream, a desire , what I want Pakistan to look like, what I think should be done and what should not be done. Taking it in this manner I sometimes feel proud on calling myself a small patriot with a dream to change a big nation.

What was the Pakistan our great Quaid-e-Azam wanted?

•  A Pakistan full of Peace
•  A Pakistan that reflects one and only one thing *UNITY*
•   A Pakistan with every minority right
• A Pakistan which was indestructible
• A Pakistan a place every single human being would dream to live in.

What I see Pakistan to be today?                                                           

•        Unstable
•        Unsafe
•       Under developed country

Few days back due to transport unavailability, I had to walk back home from a friend’s house. Those 15mins of walk were the main motivating factor to me for writing this article. In those 15mins I saw a society of so much hatred, jealousy, anger and greed that it cannot be expressed in words. Everyone just wanted to get the maximum comfort in everything regardless of the harm and hinders they were causing to other people. As I started my walk the very first thing I noticed was the wild traffic. Traffic sense was something the traffic was unaware of. Nobody was willing to give a chance to other vehicles on the road and everyone just wanted to fill the space they find on the entire road. 3 lanes are created keeping in view different styles of transport and the speed of the vehicles, but what I experienced showed that 3 lanes and a little rough space at the end of the road was created only because people could show their extra ordinary skills of getting wild to the maximum of their capacity. Anyhow I continued walking towards my destination, and the next thing I noticed was that a big black pole with red, yellow and green rings was standing right beside the road. To my sadness however it was exhausted and was sleeping, ignoring it immediately I looked right underneath it. A man with sky blue uniform was standing with a clear confused expression. This police officer was alone vs. approximately 50 cars. I stopped to look at the conclusion of what was going on. The police officer was trying to control the uncontrollable traffic and was clearly failing in his attempts. At this moment I had a mix feeling, I was sad because of the illiteracy the traffic was showing, I was angry because I was thinking if I was driving one of the cars stuck over there, I would have been doing the same thing. With these mixed feelings still in my mind and heart, I decided to leave it up to the police officer to handle and I continued my journey. on the foot path I was walking on, I saw broken pieces of glass, I saw litter and the most unusual thing I saw was a drug addict sleeping in the middle of the foot path care free about his life, and the whole world. I crossed everything thinking that in what way I could have helped that man. Anyhow before reaching my house there were millions of small issues that I saw and noticed and thought of. I saw fights, animal abuse, discrimination at every level; richer proving his ownership on poor, public transport loaded with people to such an extent that I guess even air could not pass easily from it. people were throwing things out from the window, small poor children were bare foot, naked sitting at the road sides,  traffic signals were not working, child labor was at its peak, there was in short mess and mess and mess everywhere. I entered my house and I all I could see was cleanliness, all I could hear was silence, all I could smell was fragrance. What was all this? Why was my own personal house so beautiful? Why was everything so messy outside my house?

These were the questions that struck my mind like an atom bomb. A unexplainable but a very strong urge grew in me. I needed the answers to these questions immediately. Through my research and my experience the answers I could come up with were very simple. In fact to all the questions I had one answer. Look highlighting issues of Pakistan just to present a negative image of it is very easy, but I am highlighting the issues of Pakistan so that we can work together on it and IN SHA ALLAH remove them from this country. The answer I generated is very simple:

FOLLOW THE TEACHINGS OF HOLY QURAN!

HOLY QURAN is a book without a single mistake. It is a book in which you can find even the solution to the smallest issue. It was told 1400 years ago that there is a Moon, a Sun, Planets, Stars, and about earth, about the shape of Earth. It was told that the most pure water present on this earth is ABB-E-ZAM ZAM. And in recent times through study the western scientist have authenticated all these facts. The thing I want to explain over here is, that we are blessed that we have a country named on Islam, a country made for Muslims majorly. Why are we not following the teachings of our religion about society, about rights of others, and about the way to live this mortal life? The people of the west are prosperous, intelligent and extensively developed just because they are following exactly the same things our religion ask us to do.

Patience is the first thing to be developed. Have u ever thought that if you stop at a signal, maintain your lane, and give way to others, and in this process you loose 2 minutes of your life, what is going to happen? Nothing!! Right? Islam teaches us to provide ease to others.

What will happen if we pack the litter in a shopping bag and throw it in a just bin? Just a little effort!! Right?

If we mute the sound system while crossing a mosque, if we stop the car for some pedestrians to cross, if we just take out 3minutes to offer SALAT, if we start taking action against child and animal abuse, if we start getting knowledge and start spreading awareness, if we simply start caring about our country, city, society just as we care about our houses we live in. what will happen? Just a Little more effort!! Right?

I, Faizan Ahmed Khan wish for a Pakistan! Do you?

Think For Pakistan!

Think For Yourself!

Think For Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah!

Faizan Ahmed Khan

Sec F

Metro Bus Service relief or waste of resources?

Metro Bus Service was a unique public welfare project in Pakistan and would be a gift to the people of Lahore. 11 park and ride stations would be set up along the Metro Bus Service route for commuters. Security must be provided at these parking stations. Two bus lanes have been allocated for operation of the buses in the middle of the road. For better safety and uninterrupted flow of traffic, fences have also been installed on both sides of the track.
Twenty seven bus stations are being built on the curb side of the MBS lane and in order to avert congested traffic, one of the world’s longest metro bus fly-over is being constructed for MBS, which is almost 8.6 kilometers long.

The first fleet of 45 buses was expected to arrive from China soon for the 27-kilometre-long Metro Bus System (MBS). LDA sources said that the buses had been manufactured by Volvo China and were expected to arrive in Karachi within the next few weeks. They would be dispatched to Lahore after customs clearance. 

The MBS project is expected to serve around 18,000 people every hour by providing them with a mass transit facility. The Metro Bus System is being constructed over Ferozepur Road from Gajju Matta to Shahdra via Lytton Road, MAO College, Lower Mall, Data Darbar, Niazi Chowk and Shahdrah. 
Chief Minister is also trying to finish this work as soon as possible because right now traffic of the city is disturbed due to construction work in the city

Syed Furqan Hussain

Sec F