Changing Technology

A few years ago, we used to buy prepaid internet cards to get connected with the world through internet. The speed of those connections was ten times slower than that of modern DSL or wireless internet. I used to download themes and pictures, which took hours to download even a single picture or theme, but still we loved it.

How to Make Your Country A Better Place to Live In

There is no country better to live in than your own country. The issue to be handled is what we can do to make it better place.Myself being a citizen of this country, I will start off with a few suggestions and explain them and give my personal reviews on it.

I am Because We Are

Pakistan!

The Pak Sar Zameen! The Land of Pious!

Years back the fight started for the Independent. Everyone stood up for own identity.

I so unwillingly believe that a nation comprising of 200 million people can cry over for lack of resources, employment, and opportunities. No, we are the nation of lions, the nation of spirit, and the nation of self-believing people! We were created to cultivate distinctions. We were born to make people realize that somewhere in this “world” is a nation that truly believes in own strengths. The nation that sacrificed each and every paisa, honor, lands, businesses, lives and much more for the sake of their own Identity, their own Homeland, a place of free will for all of them!

Independence

On the night of 13th August 2013, I was sitting with my Grand Mother in her room. We were discussing some general issues about Pakistan and that how bad time Pakistan is facing now a days. While talking about the current issues I noticed that my grand maa’s eyes were full of tears and she wanted to express her feelings about these situations but she was entirely unsuccessful. 

میرا مقصد حیات : میرا پاکستان

پورے آٹھ سال بعد میں واپس پاکستان آیا تھا. اپنے ملک کے حالت دیکھ کر مجھے بہت صدمہ پہنچا. ہر ام انسان کی طرح میں نے حکمرانوں کو کوسنا شرو کر دیا. میں اسی بات پر اپنے خالہ زاد بھی سے بات کر رہا تھا جب اسکے بیٹے نے اکر زد کرنی شروع کردی کے اسے پاکستان کا جھنڈا لینا ہے. آج یکم اگست تھی. ابھی پورے ١٤ دن باقی تھے پر بچے تو پھر بچے ہوتے ہیں. جب میرے کزن نے اسکو مانا کرنے کی کوشش کی تو وہ رو پڑا اور کہنے لگا:

میں اور پاکستان

"مگر میں تم سے بہت محبّت کرتی ہوں."

"تم جھوٹ بول رہی ہو، تم سب جھوٹ بولتے ہو اور تم لوگ یہ نہیں جانتے کہ یہ جھوٹ مجھے کتنی تکلیف دیتے ہیں، تم سب کہتے ہو کہ مجھے تم سے محبّت ہے مگر محبّت کرنے والے ایسے نہیں ہوتے."

"پھر کیسے ہوتے ہیں؟"

#3 Story - I Volunteered

I Volunteered - Organized by Revolution Flame in collaboration with GURU TEES. 

This evening while I was going to mosque after Iftaari, I noticed a boy standing beside his mother near the mosque. The boy was looking at his mother at intervals. He seemed confused. After offering the prayer, as I was going out of the mosque, I saw the same boy at the threshold of mosque with his mother behind him, covering her face. 

#2 Story - I Volunteered

I Volunteered - Organized by Revolution Flame in collaboration with GURU TEES.

Peeking through the window, I used to wonder about dozens of ambitions I coveted for. The dreams that, consequently, would satisfy my own self-esteem, my own desires, my needs, my wants. One of those prestigious dreams, however, was social work.

#1 Story - I Volunteered

I Volunteered - Organized by Revolution Flame in collaboration with GURU TEES.

There's this Aaya Jii (Maid) at our university, I often talk to her in between my classes and I knew how tough life she is living. How she struggles every day and honestly works hard to support her family. Her husband is a drunk, he doesn't work and lives off of her.

After A Dream

Thee a dream in Dark 

Maverick passion dim spark

Freedom

Today, my body was a TV’d massacre.

Today, my body was a TV’d massacre that had to fit into sound-bites and word limits.

Today, my body was a TV’d massacre that had to fit into sound-bites and word limits filled enough with statistics to counter measured response.

Connecting the Differences

‘Time is always with the people who have courage to fly, not with the people who stand and watch the sky’, I believed in my favorite quote when during my class at university, received phone call from US embassy Karachi about my selection for SUSI 2013, it was the beginning of a dream converting into reality.

Art of Maryam Shakeel

"There are two ways of interpreting a glass half-filled with water. You can either call it half-full or half-empty. Even though referring to it as half-full may give you hope, I do not intend to excite the readers by projecting fake optimism while so much is going terribly wrong in Pakistan. I still believe that despite all the unpleasant happenings, not all is lost yet."

 Artist: Maryam Shakeel

(Student from Rawalpindi)

Pakistan - A Photograph

“Pakistan not only means freedom and independence but the Muslim Ideology which has to be preserved, which has come to us as a precious gift and treasure and which, we hope other will share with us.” ― Muhammad Ali Jinnah

(Photograph by: Anum Khan (Karachi

Art of Raazea Zainab

"You don’t need complexity to prove your love for your country - only making this flag I can feel my patriotism for my country rush through my blood."

Artist: Raazea Zainab

(Mirpur)

Because, This Is What Matters

Sometimes peoples do care about those things, which do matters for them, and more than anything else. That is called our peak of priorities and shows our importance for such things. Some people have priorities with Education, some have with Relations and some have with their business and professions and that's all matters for them. There are some unusual things too that do matters but they doesn't have any solid meaning or role in their life but they had set them as first priorities for their selves and they keep surviving for that their whole life.

Adventure Story of Adventure Academy

A group of 25 enthusiasts flocked up at the Jinnah stadium in the evening of June 27. To initiate their mission, they set foot on the base camp of the 2nd highest peak in Pakistan, 9th highest in the world. The group's diversity is not only of their age, sex, and race but of geography as well. More than a few came from as far as Sukkur and Karachi. In the light of foreign tourists not allowed in the area, these adventurers showed solidarity by participating in outdoor trainings at the majestic Fairy Meadows; having their say, that such incidents will not shun their morale.

Let Us Rise

Photography of Jawad Afridi

I am not new to this land of a glorious past; for the wind narrates the achievements of the days, gone. And certainly, I am not new to smell the aura of dignity and valour that once was the legacy of my forefathers; for my heart still beats, on the name of this beauteous land.

Pakistan in Spain

Overseas Nationals, for any country, are truly the ambassadors of the home country. They represent their home country by every means. There are currently 6.3 million Pakistanis living abroad (3% of the population), out of which 45000 Pakistanis are residing in Spain, which represents one of the highest population in any European country outside the United Kingdom, In Spain more than 60% Pakistanis are settled in Barcelona located in Catalonia state, that is why it is widely known as “Pakcelona” in local community.

To Whom It May Concern

I did not ask to be a Pakistani, I just got lucky.

Last month I had to go to Quetta from Lahore and happened to travel through a train. I saw nearby small kids coupled with some Youngsters waving hands for the passengers on the way and some passengers (mostly kids but some aged too) waving back as a goodwill gesture, an unexplainable yet amusing do to me. Train from Lahore passes through cores of Punjab all the way off Sindh and then Enters Baluchistan.

It Isn’t About Fireworks

He stood in the corner all alone

To make his presence invisible for all

I belong to a Free Land

I’m on a visit to my motherland these days. My motherland is Pakistan. I have been living in a non-Muslim European country for years. My childhood was spent in the UAE and a little in Pakistan.

Taking Pakistan to a New Level

The story relates to a very special girl mountaineer – Saana Nazir (IIUI) who lost her memory time ago during her 6^th semester and couldn’t appear for her finals. Having an amazing support by her family, friends and colleagues standing by her side, she was back on the road. A colleague offered her to take part in climbing competitions and that is where the journey began.

Change Is Within Us

“I wish to be a Prime Minister of this country to change it.”

I’m sure many of us think, say or hear this sentence. This is no doubt a good thought but can it bring change? Why do we need to be a Prime Minister to bring the change? Why do we require any post or status to serve our country?

Maira Pyara Pakistan | Photography Competition

Designed by: Khalid Saeed Butt

A.V.I.R.A is holding a photography competition. 

All the contestants are requested to start sending their entries. The last date for submission is the 13th August 2013.

Azaadi Edition is Coming Soon

Credits: Khalid Saeed Butt

A.V.I.R.A 'Azaadi Edition' is exactly what A.V.I.R.A means; Awareness, Vision Inspiration, Responsibility and Action. The Azaadi Edition focuses mainly on the positive aspects prevailing in our society as now days whatever channel we switch to gives us nothing but the figures of death rates, the number of blasts, and the prevailing terrorism in our society. The country is undergoing a multi dimensional crisis; unemployment, poverty, terrorism, massacre, discrimination, serious moral and ethical issues to be dealt with.