Re: Pir Pagara passes away
Inna lillahi wa inna ilaehi rajiun … It was a sad news.
No doubt Pir-Pagara was a good person surrounded by many corrupts and incompetent politicians. His father fought British and died fighting, hanged by British (not like others who became paid servants of British for allotment of lands and privileges). Hurs fought British for over 100 years, actually throughout Sindh was under British occupation, and never negotiated or surrendered. Just to make Hurs stop fighting, British took him hostage and moved him to UK where he stayed as hostage until early 1951 when Pakistan got him back (few years after independence). It was his men (Hurs) who are over million strong armed men fought Indian forces in 1965 and not only defended Sindh but occupied large tracks of Indian land. His men helped Pakistan fight off Indians in 1971 war too.
Anyhow, as the slogan ‘King is dead, long live the King’ … so can be said about Pir-Pagara … that is, ‘Pir-Pagara (Syed Mardan Shah) is dead, long live Pir-Pagara (Syed Sadruddin Shah … as I expect him to be next Pir-Pagara)’.
Here is your post 75
http://www.paklinks.com/gs/pakistan-affairs/535182-no-gas-for-lahore-industries-4.html
Saleem:
Those who like to keep their slaves under control, exploit them, and make them serve as obedient servants do not feed well, educate, or provide their slaves good living, else slaves would take food, education, and good living as granted and could even revolt against their masters if they sense exploited. People in rural Sindh are mentally slaves who are made by their feudal masters to serve them with votes in election, labour at houses, or field workers (‘haris’) in fields, and that happens regardless of their feudal masters throw bones to them or not. So what you expect for rural Sindh other than poverty, deprivation, shame, humiliation, and hunger?
The day rural sindh would come out of the shackle of feudal lords and start electing people from amongst them irrespective of colour, cast, sect or religion, just on basis of their hard work and ability to serve, poor of Sindh would get all what they deserve.
Was he different from what your wisdom mentioned above for the feudal lords like Pagara? Is it not the truth he had tons of slaves working on his thousands of acres lands and on properties? What is t hat? The height of hypocricy ya phir magar mach ke aansoo.