How much have I wasted...

how many weekends have I wasted,
waiting for you in the mist of hatered,
but baby you were gone,
though I thought u're the one....

there was evil , in your eyes , all the time , when I thought u were mine
and i was lost in love , didnt noice the signs...
I bought thm as truth all of ur lies...

how many days have I counted,
on my calender just to get connected,
but baby I was wrong,
someone kept you busy all nights long.

they were lies , all your words,
which came from you , when I thought you were mine,
and I showered you with care , closed my eyes to the signs..

I bought them as truth all your cries...

Frere Hall

Frere Hall is one of the buildings Built in the time of the British rule. the . It was built in honour of Sir Henry Bartle Edward Frere (1815–1884), who was known for promoting economic development in Karachi. This beautiful hall was desgined by Lt. Col St. Clair Wilson  in a Venetian Gothic style with yellowish Karachi limestone and red and grey sandstones from Jungshahipreserved in 1863 and it was inauguration was done by Samuel Mansfied in 1965.

Frere Hall was used as a town hall and served as a residence for many busts, amonst which one of them was King Henry VII. Later this place turned into an art gallery and library but due to security concerns, as Frere Hall is right opposite to the US Conslate, it is now off limits for the general public.

Supernatural- Drama series

Sam and Dean

Supernatural was a tv serial deputed in september 2005 on WB, and is not a part of CW. The show features Jensen Ackles (as Dean Winchester) and Jared Pedalki (as Sam Winchester). Dean and Sam (both brothers) hunt demons and paranormal creatures and live on stolen credit cards and fake id's.

Supernatural was an instant hit, the pilot alone was viewed by 5.9 million people, and after the first four episodes WB was forced to take up supernatural as a full series (which includes 22 episodes).

Uptil now Supernatural has had 5 complete seasons with season 6 currently on. Over the years the viewers have witnessed this show grow. From following a demon who killed the brother's mother and Sam's girlfriend, Jessica, to being possessed, from letting the hell's gate open to letting lucifer out of his den, from being Micheal and Lucifer's vessel, and from establishing relations with angels and demons till sending Lucifer and Micheal in their pithole and losing souls.

This is an amazing show with it's fan following all around the globe. Rumor has it that season seven will be the final season but the fans of this show may not let it die.

Reilly the amazing !!!

Just while randomly surfing blogs i came across a weird heart touching blog.. The first line really caught my attention and so i read further. By the time I was done reading I was highly confused. Just to let everyone know what I felt I've coppied the whole blog post below and I'm sure all of you will feel the same:


Saturday, July 24, 2010



I am still here


Do you know I am now 3 years old? It was my birthday a few days ago (on the 19th) and although we didn't do anything exciting I did get lots of packets of my favorite treats. You would think on ones birthday that you would be allowed to eat as many as you want - but NOOOOOO Dad said it wouldn't be good for me.


As for the Mom, she is doing okay - not great but she is hanging in there. We are still waiting for when she can have the skin graft and it seems like every week the doctors say "next week". Sadly, she has been in a lot of pain and it hurts even for her to pat and cuddle me. That is okay though because I much prefer to cuddle with my Dad anyway.

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Confused no? so was I, late when i looked around I found out that Reilly is a cow's pot colored dog.






see what I mean?  Anyhow, I was already curious and eager to find out what happened to Reilly's mom, and  found out that his mom had a surgery a few weeks back because she was suffering from malnutrition. His dad turned out to be the master who is writing the blog and Reilly sounds like a playful dog.


I can so relate myself to this blog as I myself took an initiative of writing a book for my cat after he fell really ill and to be frank we thought he wont make it.


Anyhow, amazing work, making a pet blog and i hope more people will take such initiatives as it enables pet owners to share information and seek help for their pets.

Letters sent by Hazrat Ali to Malik Ashter (Governor of Eqypt) dictating how to govern a state

Hazrat Ali (RAA) advised Malik Ashtar to do everything in a proper way. He told him that whenever you promise a product, deliver on it. The questions and feedback of the people would help to decide what the consumer really want and thus follow a consumer-oriented approach rather than a selfish product-oriented approach.

With the consumer-oriented approach and feedback it will be more beneficial for the State and his reputation and goodwill will be maintained. Hazrat Ali (RAA) also advised against leasing lands permanently to anyone that would lead to monopoly of raw materials that those lands may hold and be a cause of pain for the common man. He also advised not to deceive the common man

He was advised to avoid greedy and covetous persons who would teach him to exploit the community and how to oppress people to get their wealth and also asked to control markets and imports and exports, to curb evils of profiteering, hoarding, black-marketing which would lead to sudden increase in prices.

To be fair, impartial and just in the dealings with all, individually and collectively. Hoarding should be avoided because Holy Prophet had explicitly prohibited such practices. And that trade should go on between the buyers and sellers according to correct measures and weights and on such reasonable terms that neither the consumers nor the suppliers should have to face losses.

Ali (RAA) said that the prosperity of the whole set-up depends upon the traders and industrialists. They act as a medium between the consumers and the suppliers. They collect the requirements of the society and exert to provide goods.

There may be local businessmen carrying on their trade in certain places or those who send their merchandise from one place to another, those who import and export goods, those industrialists and manufacturers as well as industrial labour or men engaged in the handicrafts; they all deserve sympathy, protection and good treatment.

Most of these traders carry and convey these goods from across deserts, seas and over open lands and mountains, their consignments are brought from distant lands, often from places which are not easy to approach and where usually people do not care or do not dare to go. These businessmen are usually peace-loving people, not given to mischievous disturbances and seditious fomentation. Ali (RAA) that Malik Ashtar must look after their interest and protect them whether they are trading in his cities or towns or whether they are travelling over the countries carrying goods from place to place.

Ali (RAA) advised to not develop the trait of over exaggeration, to do no fraud or deception and not use ambiguous meaning in between the lines when making a promise (advertisements/promotions/treaties/contracts). Not to use works in the promotion that may be possibly translated into more than one way or as may have various interpretations and many explanations, but that they should be clear, precise and to the point.

And when once a treaty has been finally concluded, not try to take advantage of any ambiguous word or phrase in it and if any such term has been made which turns out to be against the person post-signing the contract, then that term should be adhered to and not go back on the promise.
These principles are still applicable today but rarely seen! 

Marketing Myopia

Marketing myopia is a term used in marketing as well as the title of an important marketing paper written by Theodore Levitt. This paper was first published in 1960 in the Harvard Business Review; a journal of which he was an editor.

Some commentators have suggested that its publication marked the beginning of the modern marketing movement. Its theme is that the vision of most organizations is too constricted by a narrow understanding of what business they are in. It exhorted CEOs to re-examine their corporate vision; and redefine their markets in terms of wider perspectives. It was successful in its impact because it was, as with all of Levitt's work, essentially practical and pragmatic.

According to the author, Theodore Levitt, the failure of companies starts from the top – the executives. In two major examples given by the author, he emphasizes how the (major) industries suffered drastically because they failed to see what the customers actually needed; had it been the opposite, they would have avoided the impending cataclysm. Then the author compares them to companies that are more versatile and how their management, which is customer-oriented, did to keep a growth industry growing, even when the obvious opportunities had exhausted. An error of analysis occurs due to constriction of views when readers think that it is unfair to compete versatile product industry with a service industry. The author exerts that the pride ‘growth’ industries take in the fact that their product has no parable substitute and future of intention to switch when substitute does come across prove destructive. There are conditions that lead a company deluded to ride a growth escalation into descent. The belief that growth is guaranteed by the ever-increasing buying power of the consumer is mistaken and that is what leads to a decline – absence of problem lead to an absence of thinking. Lack of research according to consumers growing need rather than their buying power is what is needed. The charter of success if not measured by applying present value method of investment evaluation, employee relations and in working with developing countries, a company asks for trouble when innovation occurs from outside the industry and finally, the wishful thinking that there is no competitive substitute for the major product. Multimillion-dollar businesses have transferred to competitors due to this delusion. The industry is blinded by its constricted views on its products and zero attention to customers’ basic needs and preferences. Major industries have grown by fits and starts, always saved by innovations from outside – making the company’s product obsolete and to the company’s horror, not by their own research. To make a company successful, customer-oriented strategies need to be adhered to and mass-production is one of the enemies of success along with the already afore mentioned. Theodore states that selling focuses on needs of seller whereas marketing on the needs of buyer. Most important point for a company to consider is that the product offered for sale is determined not by the seller but by the buyer, in a way that product becomes a consequence of the marketing endeavor. The cost of a company realizing the primary worth of its customers over the secondary worth of its product is millions of dollars, as it fails to research customer wants and only researches their preferences between products it already offers. Companies, which innovate according to customers’ needs, are not focusing on creating something technologically sophisticated but satisfying a powerful customer need. Another looming danger is not the firm’s less attention towards research and development but quite vice versa, when this happens, marketing becomes an enduring act that must be carried out once the essentials of research and product creation is complete. The customers are thought to be objects who will take whatever is offered, in fact, they are unpredictable, shortsighted and stubborn who need to be taken care of. If the customer-satisfying process is made primary then the industry develops backwards: first worrying about physical delivery of customer satisfaction, then to creating products achieving customer satisfaction and then the finding of raw materials necessary for making its products. During research and development, the executive scientists fail to see the actual problem of the company – the customers – not because they deny the existence of this problem, but during the course of operation of the organization, the management has been conditioned to look in the opposite direction. No organization attains greatness without a vigorous leader and the chief executive is responsible to create such an environment – to set the company’s style, direction and goals. If a chief executive believes any road will take him to greatness, then he might as well resign because if an organization does not know that, they do not need to highlight the fact with a ceremonial figurehead… everyone will eventually know.

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Drug Trafficing in Pakistan

Afghanistan is the world’s largest producer of illegal opium, which places our country Pakistan in a very helpless position in terms of drug trafficking as well as drug abuse. Illegal drug production, distribution and abuse effect not only our social development but also our political and economical development.

Cultivation of opium in Pakistan declined during 2000. Government of Pakistan with the help of International Programs tried their best to stop opium cultivation. In 2001, however, the cultivation of opium increased due to the ban of cultivation of opium by the Taliban in Afghanistan and for the very first time in the history, opium cultivation started in the province of Balochistan. Since Afghanistan is a landlocked country, the export of opium is very difficult which is why, ports of Pakistan such as Gwadar and Pasni are used to export opium.

Even though Pakistan produces almost 1% of opium when compared to Afghanistan, Authorities feel great risk that the production of opium in Pakistan might increase unless strict measures are taken against the farmers who produce opium.

The area’s in which opium cultivation is still found in Pakistan are in the province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Fata (Federally Administered Tribal Area) and the reason is due to lack of security and governmental control in such areas.

Drug cultivation and refining in Afghanistan has a major impact on Pakistan.

Information regarding the drug trafficking routes is not accessible but the assumption is that these drugs are being exported to Western Europe and other destination through:

       I.      The

Western Route

via Iran

    II.      The Southern route through Pakistan

 III.      The Northern Route through the Central Asian States

Pakistan’s geographical location provides a very fine route for drug trafficking. After drugs cross the Afghanistan-Baluchistan border, they are moved further into Pakistan and also to the coastal cities for international export. Another trafficking route is from Afghanistan into the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. These drugs are mostly used within Pakistan and very small amount are smuggled into other countries.