I am writing these lines with utmost sense of shock and sorrow over the murder of great calligraphist and artist Gul Jee. He was murdered in Karachi along with his wife and maid today.
Something definetly has went wrong with our Pakistan. Not a single day passes when we don’t hear any tragedy from there. The Jihalat and goon culture is eating up our society fundamentals like rust. Why need to kill an innocent artist? A country where we already have dearth of intelligent people and very few people who have acclaim across the globe. And those few too we start killing! Now we got only few other people left with international repute, do we have to wait and see how they reach to their end or we are going to start a ‘War on Jihalat’. I am speechless and just can mourn the deceased. How would we know, how to fix it. When everything from top to bottom is in state of shambles.
When I hear US administration saying that Pakistan is turning into world’s most dangerous country, it outrages me but when I look at the circumstances I get scared. We are dying as a society day by day.
Here are a few other news that made headlines today.
- Train accident, 50 people died
- Suicide bomber struck against army’s soccer players, blowing away the whole team.
Oh and yes, don’t forget to say ‘Eid Mubarik’ to each other.
Praying for the best,
-BA
December 20, 2007
Gul Jee
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A great loss to the nation and end of an era in calligraphy….When nation destiny is given in the hands of third rated people who cares to mourn..
Comment by quddoos — December 20, 2007 @ 4:07 am
I agree with your thoughts, it is really sad to hear these good people going. I have never heard of any such news about the corrupt and notorious people, they are thriving but i don’t know how, is it the survival of the fittest ?
Comment by Abbasi — December 20, 2007 @ 6:15 am
Gul Jee, A very humble man.A great artist.A man who was our pride,a man who was our precious asset.We have lost him.I have no appropriate words to express my grief about that great tragedy.Who is involved behind all this,why can’t we behave like a nation. why ?
Comment by Mateen Malik — December 21, 2007 @ 6:31 pm
By YOUSUF CHOWDHRY:
Dear BA
Thanks for your posts and blog. Nations rise and fall; our misfortune though is that we never rose. For us it has been a consistent down slide (perhaps the only thing we have ever done consistently). There is no way to reverse the trend. We have to hit the rock bottom. Which may be precipitated by the country breaking up into two or three parts. I remember 1970-71 quite clearly, no one could believe that East P’stan would become B’desh, but it did. So for now we know that NWFP and B’stan are showing signs of defiance and we console ourselves that all will be ok; but it wont.
I was a great fan of Gulgee; and learning about his murder was quite a shock. A silent scream escaped my soul. Every now and then we “fantasize” about visiting “The Land of the Pure” and then we hear things like this and try to reorganize our fantasy!
Regards
Yousuf
Comment by bkhan — December 23, 2007 @ 4:23 am