we are going to buy costly technology, we should keep in mind the task America is heading we want to put it on our own shoulders, are we enough capable to handle this technology? the very America have no trust over our performance did she trust to give the drone Technology?
President Asif Ali Zardari has asked the United States to provide drone technology and other necessary equipment to help Pakistan fight terrorists more effectively and rejected the notion of American personnel joining the anti-terror fight on the Pakistani soil.
JAB APNA KAA'FLA AZZM-O-HIMMAT SAY NIKKLAY GA JIDHAR SAY CHAA'HYN GAY, RASTTA WAHEEEN SAY NIKLY YGAA
'Ajj aakhaan Waris Shah nu, kithon kabraan wichon bol, Te ajj kitaab-e ishq da koi aglaa varkaa phol. Ik roi si dhee Punjab di, tuun likh likh maare vain, Ajj lakhaan dheeyaan rondiyaan, tainun Waris Shah nu kahn
Uthh dardmandaan dia dardia - uthh takk apna Punjab Ajj beile lashaan bichhiyaan te lahu di bhari Chenab
Kise ne panjaan paaniyaan vich ditti zahar ralaa te unhaan paniyaan dharati nuun dittaa pani laa Is zarkhez zameen de luun luun phuttia zahr gitth gitth charhiyaan laalian fuut fuut charhiaa kahr veh vallissi hwa pher, van van vaggi jaa.
Ohne har ik vans di vanjhali ditti naag banaa pehlaa dang madaariyaan, mantar gaye guwaach, Dooje dang di lagg gayii, jane khane nu laag laagaan kiile lok munh, bus phir dang hi dang, palo pali Punjab de.
Neele pae gaye ang galeyon tutte geet phir, takaleon tutti tand, trinjanon tuttiyaan saheliyaan, charakhrre ghuukar band sane seij de beriyaan, luddan dittiyaan rohr, sane daliyaan peengh aj, piplaan ditti tor.
Jitthe vajdi si phuuk pyaar di, ve oh vanjhali gayi guwaach, Raanjhe de sab veer aaj, bhul gaye uhadi jaach.
Dharti te lahoo varsiyaa, kabraan paiyaan choaon, preet diyaan shaahzaadiaan, Ajj vichch mazaaraan roan aaj sabbhe Qaido ban gaye, Husn ishq de chor aaj kitthon liaaiye labbh ke Waris Shah ik hor...
Ajj aakhaan Waris Shah nu, kithon kabraan wichon bol, Te ajj kitaab-e ishq daa, koi aglaa varkaa phol... (Amrita Pritam)
'I call out to Waris Shah today To speak out from the grave And open another leaf From the book of love When once a daughter of Punjab had wept You wrote a million dirges; Today a million daughters are weeping And they are looking to you, Waris Shah, for solace...' (Muse India) 'I call upon Waris Shah today: speak from your grave And add a new page to your book of love Once, one daughter of Punjab wept, and you wrote your long saga; Today, thousands weep, calling to you Waris Shah: Arise, o friend of the afflicted; arise and see the state of Punjab, Corpses strewn on fields, and the Chenab flowing with much blood. Someone filled the five rivers with poison, And this same water now irrigates our soil. Where was lost the flute, where the songs of love sounded? And all Ranjha’s brothers forgotten to play the flute. Blood has rained on the soil, graves are oozing with blood, The princesses of love cry their hearts out in the graveyards. Today all the Kaidos have become the thieves of love and beauty, Where can we find another one like Waris Shah? Waris Shah! I say to you, speak from your grave And add a new page to your book of love.' (Translated by Darshan Singh Maini, Studies in Punjabi Poetry
over 10 million people were uprooted from their homeland and travelled on foot, bullock carts and trains to their new home, the newly-created country called Pakistan, the land of the pure
~ Muslim refugees travelling towards their newly-created homeland of Pakistan; note the new flag of the fledgling country
train to Pakistan
[All images courtesy TIME magazine by photographer Margaret Bourke-White,
published in 1947]
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