Pakistan – Athletes victims of national malaise.
Sports have died in Pakistan, the glory days of “Fastest Man in Asia,” Hav.Abdul Khaliq, Hav.Mubarak Shah, hockey greats like Shahnaz Shaikh and Naseer Bunda, and Squash Kings Hashim Khan and Jehangir Khan are bygone.
Nevertheless, it is remarkable that Pakistan still keeps producing great athletes. A country, where all athletics and sports, including cricket are under the control of a mediocre, inept, and dazzlingly corrupt ruler named Zardari and his henchmen and goondas of PPP. One wonders, at how can sports flourish in a country, where berths in Olympic Squads are based on nepotism, connections, bribery and “Sifarish.” A good example of the corrupt sports system is the Chef-De-Mission, or the Executive head of the Pakistan Olympic Mission. He is a well known crooked general, who made billions during Musharraf era and whose uncouth “jatti,” wife speaks English with a Thokar Niaz Beg accent.
A Few Flickering Lights
In this darkness of the nation, there are a few flickering lights among our athletes. An athlete like Rabia Ashiq is a trail blazer. She comes from a conservative family, but, with the support of her family, especially her father, and through her dogged determination found a place for herself in the Pakistani Olympic Squad.Those Pakistanis who had watched her interview, with the most brilliant Pakistani TV commentator, Talat Hussain, may get teary-eyed with pride; and have their chest bulge a few inches at the courage and determination of Rabia. She is a determined and brave daughter of Pakistan, whom, not a single Pakistani sports organization or government personality, supported during her training. Rabia Ashiq represents the best and the brightest of Pakistani athlete. We would like to dub her as a “Pakistani Dynamo,” you have to meet her to believe what we are saying. We are not only a nuclear nation. We also have women like Rabia, whose drive and determination is like a candle, which has lit up Pakistan. And, we have bright lights like Anum Bandey, who is no less.
The Winds of Corruption, which Deprive Thousands of other Flickering Lights (our young sportmen and women), who would Make the Nation Proud
Yes, Pakistan sportsmen and women are capable of winning, a tens of Olympic Medals?
Poverty cannot be used as an excuse for lack of better facilities for Pakistani men and women athletes. Ex-PM Gilani, Raja Rental, and Zardari’s and his piglets of PPPs and their Jiyalas in the bureaucracy junkets costs millions of dollars from the public exchequer or Pakistani tax-payers blood and sweat soaked money.
The Pakistani nation has become immune to such corrupt practices. It acts like a numbed deer in the clutches of a hyena. It may not condone them. All it does is complain about them and does nothing the hold them accountable. A time is not far off, when a another Pakistan will take birth in Dubai, where all the looted wealth will serve the needs of the Zardaris, the Raja Rentals, the Khosas, the Raisanis, the Khakwanis, the Chaudhries Mukhtars, Shujaat, Fazl Elahi, and even the bald headed intellectually challenged US’s favorite named Nawaz Shariff. But before the advent of a “Dubai-based corrupted Pakistan,” occurs, a farce of an election will take place. The Waderas, the Jagirdars, the Zamindars,and the hosts of others named earlier. They WILL NEVER let Imran Khan, or the dreamers of PTI, to reform the country in peace. Already, they (PPP,PML etc) have planted their trojan horses and moles in PTI.
Pakistan’s election will bring back, the same toola or coterie of crooks through their surrogates, their equally or more depraved children, the Moosa Gilanis, the Hamza Shariffs, the Moonis Elahis, of course how can one forget Bilawal, Asifa, and Bakhtawar, the curse of Bhutto family will NEVER ever leave the country.
When it comes down to electing honest representatives, the common people vote for the persons they fear most:the Waderas, Jagirdars, evil and corrupt business tycoons, and the morbidly obese Mussollinis, who is in love with himself, Altaf Hussain of MQM.
Pakistanis will say that they fear Allah. But, in their hearts of hearts they fear the feudals, the corrupt politicians and their neural network of relatives and “garians,”the sold-out luqmanized media personalities, the relations of bureaucrats. For example, at one time, Nawaz Shariffs cousins used to live in an enclave off of Hall/Beadon Road. The whole neighborhood called Lakshmi Mansion was afraid of them and acted with great deference towards them. In the same area roamed the devils disciple named, Malik Riaz, buying property, by fair means and foul.
In Pakistan, Malik Riaz is the tip of the “iceberg of shaitan businessmen.” There are thousand of them still flourishing and looting the nation. Malik riaz was too smart for his own good. He eventually fell into the spiders web, by mistaking the CJs son to be a honey bee, instead of realizing, that the CJ would be his nemesis.
Pakistan is infested with a virus of corrupt politicians and rulers
Pakistan has been infested with virulent politicians. These political-virion have hundreds of chacha, mamma, khaloos, and their zillions of aulads (progeny), that have a stranglehold on Pakistans economy. while these parasitic political virions flourish in the body of Pakistan, they suck the life out of the poor and indigent 180 million have-nots.
Pakistanis should ask the question would our beloved Prophet Muhammad (salallaho alayhay wa alay he sallam) approve the casteism which exists in Pakistani Society. If the answer is “NO,” then why do we carry on tradition of casteism from a mushriq society? Our Mullas are pretty silent on this issue.
Pakistanis vote for their caste. In Pakistani, casteism is just as bad as in India, when it comes to voting in election.
Pakistani Caste System
The caste system is generally considered out dated and archaic. There is no historic precedence with which to create a hierarchy, rather most castes are judged and ranked in society by the prestige attached to the jobs with which the caste entails.
- Sayed: Peers (Monk)
- Jat: Landowners; they add with their first name the name of “Chaudry”, “Shima”,
- Shaikhs: Tradesmen, they add with their first name the name of “Malik.”
- Kashmiri: Of origin of Kashmir, they form a caste in Punjab, make various traders
- Arian: Farmers or Vegetable growers. Also claiming descent from Mohammad bin Qasim, whose troops had been recruited in Arabia/Persian Crescent. They are originated mainly in Persia and became with time landowners. One finds this caste only in Punjab. They add with their first name the name of “Chaudry”, “Mian”, “Mair”, sometimes “Khan.”
- Teli: Business caste, traditionally oil makers, provided edible oil to society.
- Rajput: Traditionally landowners.
- Kakezai – A well educated ethnic group mostly settled in cities, linked to business.
- Qazi: The oral tradition said that they would go down from the Afghan soldiers. They would have since the beginning exerted the function of monk. Currently it is a caste land great landowners; it is very largely represented in the administration and the bureaucracy. They add with their first name the name of “Qureshi”.
- Pathan: Descendants of pathans from Afghanistan, KPH, and FATA, they form a caste in Punjab, they are various trades as civils servant, tradesmen…
- Gujar: Herdsmen, and often landowners.
The Lower Castes:
- Tarhan: Carpenters.
- Qamyar: Potters.
- Lowar: Will forge.
- Kassaï: Butchers.
- Mirassi: Travelling musicians, troubadours.
- Mautchi: Shoe-makers.
- Tobi: Launderers.
- Darzi: Dressmakers.
- Jalaye: Tisserands.
- Lahari: Dyers.
- Mashqi: Water carriers.
- Teli: Oil makers
- Balwalai: Messengers.
- Naï: Hairdressers; they are also able to make small operations, they circumscise the new born ones and are cooks during the festivals and the marriages…
- Fakir: The professional beggars and peers
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KARACHI: Pakistan’s England-born swimmer Anum Bandey on Saturday bettered her own national record when she clocked 5:34.64 in the opening heat of the 400m Individual Medley event of women’s swimming at London 2012 Olympic Games.
Aiming to deliver her best, the 15-year-old Anum lived up to expectations. Although her more preferred event is the 200m breaststroke, Anum was given the opportunity to show her worth at London 2012 in the 400m IM on wild card.
At last year’s World Championships in Shanghai, Anum had broken Olympian Kiran Khan’s 400m IM national record by clocking 5:37.11.
In London, Anum had entered the fray as the swimmer with the lowest timing among the 36 competitors who took part in the 400m IM heats. The timings of her other rivals was less than five minutes, much better than Anum’s.
“She has done a wonderful job by breaking her own national record,” Pakistan Swimming Federation (PSF) secretary Major Majid Wasim told ‘The News’ after Anum’s showing at the Aquatic Centre nestled in the Olympic Park.
“I think she is the only Pakistani swimmer in Olympic history, who has performed so well,” he said.
“Neither Rubab Raza, Kiran Khan or Adil Baig have done so well in Olympics,” added Majid, who had come under criticism for sending Anum Bandey to the World Championship in China last year.
“The way Anum has performed in London, I can confidently say that she will win a gold medal in the South Asian Game, a feat that has never been achieved by any of our female swimmers,” Majid stressed.
The London-based Anum had undergone training in South Africa before her dream London assignment.
The other Pakistani swimmer at London 2012, Israr Hussain, will compete in the 100m freestyle heats to be held on July 31.
Israr’s personal best in the same event is 57.69 seconds which he had inked at the World Championship in China. But there are fears that the Rawalpindi swimmer will not be able to deliver his best because he is not fully fit. The 26-year old Israr hurt his left foot when he had slipped in the swimming pool in Peshawar during the National Championship, a few days before flying for London.
Athlete Liaquat Ali will compete in the 100m preliminaries on August 4. It is one of the best events in the Olympics and all eyes are on the World and Olympic champion Usain Bolt who will defend his title. The Jamaican had stunned the world by clocking 9.69 seconds at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. But the sturdy man came up with an even better performance when he clocked 9.58 at the World Championship in Berlin on August 16, 2009.
Rabia Ashiq, another Pakistani athlete, will compete in the 800m event on August 8. Rabia, who belongs to Lahore, bettered her personal best timing in the 800m by clocking 2.18 at the Asian Championship in Kobe (Japan) last year.
The country’s experienced shooter Khurram Inam will compete in the skeet competitions on Monday (tomorrow) at 9:42pm PST. This is Khurram’s third Olympic appearance as he has already featured at Sydney 2000 and Athens 2004.
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