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Location, Relief and Rehab Report Of Muzafargardh by Soban

September 29th, 2010

This is complete Details of the condition of effected Area of Muzaffargardh, Shehr Sultan and Union Council Binda Ishaq, Contacts and Affected areas with their Grid references on Google Maps. Previously people and organizations have been taking food and goods to main city of Muzaffargardh and close vicinity. In fact there is no flooded area within 50 Km of radius of Muzaffargardh city. The flooded area is in fact on SOUTHWEST of Muzaffargardh.  This document will help any individual or organization going to Muzafargardh for help so that they can reach real affected people. More then 70000 people there are starving under open sky. Union Council Binda Ishaq Every Union Council consists of several Villages called MAUZA. Binda Ishaq has following Nine(9) Mauzas » Read more: Location, Relief and Rehab Report Of Muzafargardh by Soban

PYR- Flood Relief Campaign PHASE 2

August 25th, 2010

Pakistan Youth Renaissance Lahore Chapter has successfully completed the phase II of the flood relief. It is all because of the trust that donor showed on the team. By the grace of ALLAH, and the generosity of the people who donated for this noble cause PYR have been able to do this. As I said before in my Phase I blog post I am not sharing the pictures and this detail for the publicity, fame or for the purpose of show-off, the main reason behind this is an attempt to be accountable to all those who want to know that where all the fund was utilized that we got as donations, and another reason behind this is the to make other people be motivated and come forward to help Pakistan and all those who have been hit by the waves. » Read more: PYR- Flood Relief Campaign PHASE 2

PYR- Flood Relief Campaign PHASE 1

August 9th, 2010

Being a member of Pakistan Youth Renaissance, I joined hand with the team PYR at this time when a collective effort is required to provide what the people in flood-affected areas are waiting for. It is just a try, attempt, and believes in an Urdu saying, which says that oceans are made of small drops. This post is not to show off the effort team made so far. It is just to make sure the people who have doubts about the accountability of the trust they had on us. » Read more: PYR- Flood Relief Campaign PHASE 1

Joanna– A Friend of Pakistan

March 4th, 2010
Friends of Pakistan was an idea or something to get support or I should better say AID was the main reason behind this. Till now I am not able to understand what good have we achieved from these so called friends of Pakistan. The eye of whole world towards our land is covered with the glasses which only show negative aspects of this land. I just want to know that is there any nation which is 100% perfect, I know the answer will be no but the one who will answer it will ask me what this question has to do with a failed state like Pakistan. First I do not think and I will never accept that Pakistan is a failed state because the time we are going through may be like a dark tunnel but an almost visionless person like me can see the light at the end of this tunnel and with the passage of every single day, this end, which is full of light, is coming nearer and nearer.
Last year, and I mean 2009 have been a great year of my life, I completed my graduation, I got some fame(still it was not much) in my college, became an integral part of the commerce club that we made in university, and one of the biggest reason was to start this blog MY LAND PAKISTAN, I still remember the time when I started it and the story behind this fact has been kept aside and will put it here one the first HAPPY BIRTHDAY of this blog (its coming soon so don’t worry).
Another reason which I want to share is the fact that I became active on social media after this blog came into being. It was the time when people were shifting to twitter from face book, but I was active on facebook after I have some good experience of twitter. While I was doing my internship in a bank last year, I became an active blogger due to the support I got from the people there. It was the time when I came across to many pictures of with green background on twitter and same thing I noticed on face book too. I was not able to understand what this was about, I greened my picture myself and put it on fb, I greened it just to celebrate Independence Day but I was not able to change it for months.
This green background became a reason for me to meet many people, if I start to make I list than I don’t think I will be able to complete this blog pot tonight. Latter on I came to know about this go green campaign and since than this freelance warrior is a part of go green brigade. One complain, I have with the man who green so many pictures for the people, never greened my picture. Yeah its true that still I myself green my picture, not only mine picture of Rai Suffian AKA Lala (my younger brother), and the pic of Baba Jani was greened by me and the fact is alive that I am not good with photoshop.
Last month Joanna Vroom came to Pakistan, it was her first trip to Pakistan ever. And she was here just to meet us, we the people from green brigade. One of my friend says that its really impressive to see a lady visiting this country in this age and during those days when the situation of law and order is really unpredictable. I got, chance to meet her when PYR arranged a dinner for her, unfortunately I missed the dinner due to my shift but I managed to reach there to meet all the people gathered there under the banner of PYR.
It was last Saturday (it was the birthday of the greatest Man in this History of this universe, Prophet MUHAMMAD S.A.W) due to a holiday it was decided to have a full day with Joanna and the journey started with the breakfast at Royal Park, for me this journey started quite early as I reached the point where we were supposed to meet before any one else I did my break fast at that time by having oranges from a fruit vender. Parking my bike and, than getting it back is a different story but for those who love to make fun of my silly habits I submitted Xerox of my CNIC at the parking stand as I lost the parking token.
The break fast was really good and the thing which really matter is that the person for whom this Royal
breakfast was arranged actually enjoyed it. The next destination was Fountain House, and we were here to distribute Daig that we were giving in the celebrations of Eid Milad UN Nabi. .
Trip to Shahi Qila (Lahore Fort) was the title of this whole trip so from Fountain house this team, by the way there were people like Farhan bhai, Ali Awais, Soban Akram, Syed Hassan Tallal, Amna Usmani and Imran Bokhari ( I hope I am not missing any name other than mine in this list) in this team to take Joanna to Lahore fort. I was supposed to reach there on my bike so as always I lost the way some how reached there and till now those who were already there were waiting for me. We could not t stay there for long as it was getting really hot due to a real golden sunshine.
I had to leave for the office as I was having a shift, but rest of the team marched to the house of Farhan Bhai, and I rally want to apologies to Farhan Bhai for leaving like that when I was expected to be there with the whole group, and I hope he can understand my problem. There was a Tweet-up arranged by Rohan David Emanuel and Iftikhar Hussein, I missed that one too due to my shift but from the glimpse of the pictures I saw of that event I can see that every one had a great time there and believe me I really feel bad for missing it.
During this whole time I got chance to chat with Joanna for a while and what I could figure out is that she was really happy being here and she really found us as she was expecting and in answer to one of my question she said:

Its not strange to be in a strange place where no one is stranger actually, this journey form UK to Karachi and than Lahore and than back is might be tiring but the excitement of meeting new people and havi
ng great time give me energy.

By the time I am writing this post, Joanna is back in UK and I hope that she had a safe journey and must be doing really well. I just want to say that it was really nice to have you here and as I promised that I will see you there (and figures are crossed for it) I will definitely complete my promise. I started this post with some criticism on friends of Democratic republic of Pakistan, and reason behind doing that is the behavior of those FOP. To me people like Joanna are the real friends of Pakistan who actually took, risk to be here just to meet us and to prove that, this is not as harmful place as it has been projected by the whole world. And I must say on behalf of Pakistan (I think I am authorized to do so being a common man of this land), that Pakistan is proud to have friends like you Joanna…