Caesar’s Senate: – Thou Fashion Industry

“Cry Havoc! And Let Slip the Dogs of War”
This immortal phrase of Julius Caesar has maintained its shine for over centuries and why not, for the phrase concisely withholds a volcano of human emotions. Joy, Fury, vexation, Belligerence and what not Julius Caesar in this phrase incisively poured his heart out for what he had and what he was just about to achieve.
About a month ago this phrase came to life in a country with little affection for either Caesar or Shakespeare as Model turns Singer Ayyan Ali was arrested at Benazir Bhutto International Airport Islamabad and many in this land of fortunes “Cried Havoc and did Slip Their Dogs of War. ” In an infantry with little arsenal TOUNGE is a substitute for swords, horses, elephants and yes “Dogs”, so all of us jubilantly let lose our tongues on that bloody immoral, unpatriotic  yet Hot offender.
Also Read: ‘Money laundering’ model Ayyan Ali lands in Adiala prison
The moral baton of the society our super sanctimonious media, which was then not busy lecturing us about the foreign policy dimensions vis-a-vis middle east downloaded all the flashy bollywood item songs like “Kiun Paisa Paisa Karti Hai” and “Baby Doll Mein Sone Di” from maybe mp3skull or sound cloud (for it’s absolutely legal to use music without copyrights to grill immoral models) and made exhilarating packages about the model to grab as much eye balls as possible. Tough Ayyan’s walk in a baseball cap and hoodie with “Baby Doll Mein Sone Di” in the background was enough to stick millions to the Television Sets yet a 5 minute item in the news hour was not enough to slake the lust of the masses. So then arrived the Sherlock Holmes styled “investigative journalism” which divulged it all. From “Fresh” juice the prison authorities had bestowed upon this Cleopatra to ounces she had gained in prison all was exceptionally sniffed and dug out by either our print or electronic media reporters but they were just not good enough to roll the heads and so came in the “ANCHORS” or actually the anchor persons the most sparkling rubies of our media. No matter whether the talk show’s theme was terrorism, education reforms or national security in about three to four minutes some thick mustache bobby would grin and say “Sir Zara Ayyyyaaaannnn ki baat kar lein” and good bye subject matter. Beginning by the disclosure that money belonged to Asif Ali Zardari, Lyari Gang War or some ex-minister the fantabulous commentary went on to educate us how Ayyan Ali wooed wealthy goons to pay for her lips and nose job. In between Zardari and the Nose Job some Maulana would tell us about how immorality is destined to meet destruction, some socio-economic growth advisor would conclude that unemployment is due to Ayyan and MMS fame Meera would tell us how she knew it all along that Models are involved in money laundering (By the way what became of poor Atiq-ur-Rehmans KOTHI.)
In the course of this captivating coverage and expert commentary “CHASKA” was at it’s maximum. With dailies printing headlines as “Hussan Ki Devi Ki Naaz Bardarian” and “Ayyan’s Walk of Shame” the expert commentators on the Television babbled “Ayyan Phir Sirf ____ Ki Tu Ladli Nahin Na”, “Ayyan Ki Chall Ke Peche ____ Ki Chal Hai ” “Ayyan Ka Husn Phir Aur Kis Din Kaam Aye Ga” and when on her latest hearing the model girl wore a burqa at the district courts a prophetic T.V channel ran “Allah Meri Tauba ” in the background and told us as of how 2 days in jail have brought this unethical creature to “Sirat-e-Mustaqeem.”

llegal hunting of migratory birds in Pakistan

Birds are one of the most beautiful and complex creatures of nature, found all around the world in tropical, sub-zero warm areas. These birds migrate from one country to another as it is par of their natural instinct to do so.
In this way,thousand of birds from different kinds which include flamingos, ducks, geese and swans  migrate to Pakistan from Europe and South-Asian regions such as Siberia, where the cold water compels these birds to migrate to warmer region.
During their journey, the birds make stopovers at lakes and water basins at Nowshera, Tanda Dam in Kohat, Swat, Chitral, Punjab and at Haleji, Keenjaar and Lungsee lakes in Sindh.
The average rate of visiting birds each year ranges from 7 lac to 12 lacs. However nowadays, this rate is gradually declining every year. The reason for this is that each year, thousands of birds are being hunted as by the local people, especially people in northern areas of Pakistan, where the winter season is also celebrated as a hunting season where each person on a toll would hunt more than 30 birds a day.
In the early days, before 1970 there was no specific rule or law for protection of migrating birds. After the Ramsar convention in Iran and Bonn convention in Germany, different laws were enacted to protect these migrating birds and were put to practice.
In foreign countries, where other rules are being followed strictly, these countries also follow this rule and birds also happen to pass through these countries but aren’t being hunted on such a large scale at all.
In total, there are seven identified flyways in the world for these birds, being from Northern Europe to Scandinavian countries, central Europe to Mediterranean sea, western Siberia to the Red sea, Green Route from Siberia to Pakistan, Ganga flyway from eastern Siberia to India, Manchuria to Korea and Chakotata to California.
When these birds arrive in other countries, people come gather from all over the country to see these birds and enjoy the beauty of nature with these birds. On the other hand when these birds enter Pakistan, they are hunted down as prize and killed for fun, these people having no conscience of how precious these creature actually are.
The Pakistani government has failed to give protection to these birds, even though there is a bag limit set, but the locals don’t follow this rule and hunt up to 30 birds a day. Such kind of savagery and brutality towards these flying creatures on one hand, and the passive action and silence of the government is an offense towards WWF and other animal protection organizations, who actually saw a bright side with the new KPK government after they took strict action against the timber mafia. These organizations were lead to believe that the government will also take strict action against these prize hunters, however they were disappointed in seeing this situation. It is high time for the government of Pakistan and related authorities to take serious steps in enforcing this law all over the country.
The government needs to educate people and build in them a sense of duty towards protecting the lives of these birds, by organizing seminars, setting up of billboards to create a sense of awareness and try different measures to instill in the people knowledge of this situation .

MOTION VIDEO Event - 24th March 2015