drought

I have never seen such a severe drought in my life. I feel as if this is the only drought I have witnessed. Here in Delhi, till now, the rainfall has been just ten percent what it used to be.

four questions

The first two of these questions have been troubling me from a long time now, and the last two came up recently as a result of a news:

1. By any means, by any chance, can there be any trace of reality outside the Internet also?

2. There is a big wall clock four feet above the monitor of my computer. If I move the mouse cursor to the tip of the minute arm of the clock and press the left button of the mouse, will time stop?

3. In their mission of implementation of the teachings of the ancient, holy Quran, Shariya, and Hadith and of accelerating the Islamisation of the world, Talibans, in the holy land of Pakistan, are now recruiting small kids to turn them into terrorists and to use them as suicide bombers. Don't they know that child labor and child abuse are prohibited these days?

4. How did you feel when you killed a human being for the first time?

silent love

It will be a mistake if I show the state of my heart to someone;
to keep loving someone silently is not wrong I hope.

--Sameer (Dil Ka Kya Kasoor)

injustice

Riyadh – Saudi Arab

Abdul Aziz Aal Al-Sheikh, Grand Mufti of the Kingdom, said that girls as young as 10 years old can be married. In a speech, the Grand Mufti said Islamic Shariah law allows the practice of pre-teen girls getting married, and that critics of the practice were doing the girls an injustice, Al-Hayat Arabic newspaper said.

“We hear often in the media about the marriage of minors. We must know that Shariah law is not unjust for women,” Aal-Al-Sheikh was quoted as saying.

“If it is said that a woman below 15 cannot be married, that is wrong. If a girl exceeds 10 or 12 then she is eligible for marriage, and whoever thinks she is too young, then he or she is wrong and has done her an injustice.”

The Grand Mufti’s comment came in the wake of several well-publicized cases of young girls being married to men sometimes old enough to be their grandfathers.

Norman Wexler

You know [what] four dollars buys today? [They] Don't even buy three dollars.
--Saturday Night Fever

in short

Is all the pain of life worth suffering for a moment of its beauty, for a glimpse of its wonder?

Five billion dollars to promote terrorism

Pakistan continues to blackmail the world with its nuclear arsenal. International donors, including USA, Japan, and EU, have pledged $5 billion to Pakistan. Now for some more time, Pakistan will not have to worry about money for its basic and main programs of breeding, teaching, and training criminals and terrorists; implementing Sharia; and continuing Jihad throughout the world.