India. . .

I was born in Pakistan and have lived here, which means you are going to read alot in course books about Independence movement and then about the wars we had with India. Sadly, in these books, they do not tell you the truth. I see every thing as fake except the Independence movement and our Quaid. I will never accept that partition movement was bad or creation of Pakistan was a bad thing to happen. I don’t want to go in all that now so let’s stick to what I wanted to say.

I grew up with a bad image of India, there was only minor exchange of fire between armies of Pakistan and India during my “growing up” except Kargil in 1999, which was a bit more, frankly speaking it did excite me, used to curse them for it and the propaganda they were doing, was extremely happy when an Indian fighter was shot down by Pakistan & then what I remember is that Nawaz went to USA, met with Clinton and Nawaz calls the Army back. I was quite angry at Nawaz doing that, I thought he did bad by calling back the Army.

I had same thoughts about India for next few years until I stumbled upon an Indian in MSN Chatroom, our first conversations were not so pleasent, both of us were to blame though not just me alone. But then after a few days or perhaps weeks we were friends, I had to think a little better of India now because of the friend! Little after that, I came across the real version of Kargil and the wars before with India, which left me shocked & ofcourse it improved India’s image in my eyes. A few points about India were clarified by my friend from India and now I am friends with about 5 Indians!!! & the hatred part for India is no more there, I still have a few concerns about India’s behaviour towards Pakistan but they are nothing too much to worry about.

It’s really amazing and funny when I look at past and remember my hatred for India. I have become so tolerant just because of a friend from India or say friends. Happy about it. Both countries should go ahead with peace and stop their “stubbornness”. This time is not for conflicts but to live with peace and defend together against a wicked giant, America. I don’t see it happening any soon though.

So majority of the friends I know from India live in Mumbai. I heard alot about Mumbai, watched a program about Mumbai on National Geographic yesterday & believe me, I am impressed. They are doing a really good job out there. It’s a very populous city, they told about the trains, how they were being maintained & told new projects in Mumbai. Like they were building a sort of highway around Mumbai in the sea! and a little between Mumbai to divert traffic in those directions so the people are relieved of traffic jams and the trains relieved of congestion. They showed the newly populated area which is called New Mumbai, it was good too. Also showed the new train system which is going to take place in Mumbai sometime, it’s not a train actually but like hanging bus, hehe, but I liked the idea. The compartment was very well designed, it looked little but when they showed it from inside it was quite huge. Onc compartment can hold 100+ ppl. The good thing about all these projects is that their designers and chief engineers are Indians! Come here to Pakistan and you will sight a foreign company completing most of the huge projects. Oh & the most interesting part there was the “Dabbe Wala Service”. It was just amazing. It’s a lunch box service or catering service in Mumbai, where this service provides lunch boxes to thousands of people. The amazing part here is that in all this process, even a single piece of paper is not used and the ones who deliver lunch boxes are illiterate, they deliver according to the signs made on the lunch boxes and a delivery guy was saying that he has been delivering the boxes since past 27 years and not a single box has gone missing or was delivered to wrong person. If they deliver wrong its going to cause a problem because a vegetarian will not eat non-veg and so on. Now the most amazing part is that Forbes Magazine rated this catering service a rating which they gave to billionare companies like General Motors & Motorola!!!
Must have heard about the bomb blasts recently in Mumbai which killed around 180 people and injured hundreds. Whoever did those blasts is not a human to me let alone muslim. If they were “Jihadis”, then they better rule themselves out of Islam and muslimhood because they just not killed 180 people but damaged 180 families and caused trouble for billions of people. Have you seen Mumbai trains in rush hours? If not then look at them, do you really think doing a blast there is human? You are not just going to kill people but jam whole network of transport, which is going to create problem for a hell lot of people. If someone calls himself a muslim and does such an act then he should be ashamed. Our Prophet Muhammad (PBUH&HF) asked us to remove thorns and stones from the public way so that people are not troubled with it and guess what you are doing, placing giant thorns and stones all over for lacs of people whose life is going with the trains.

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