Dareechah-e-Nigaarish

 ہم  کہاں  سے چلے  تھے  . . . ؟

سوہنی دھرتی کے باسی موجودہ حالات تک کیسے پہنچی؟  ہم کہاں سے چلے تھے؟ نیچے دیے گئے وڈیوز پر کلک کیجئے

یا پھر  دریچہ کے اِس سیکشن کے ذیلی سیکشن دیکھنے کے لیے اِس ویپ پیج کے دائیں طرف درج مختلف ویب صفحات پر کلک کریں

This web page will present the literary, social and socio-political history of Pakistan. The emphasis will be on presenting a People's History of Pakistan... Progressive Writers Movement and its aftermath and the rise of Leftist politics will be highlighted.

سنہ 2007 میں لیا گیا روُحی بانو کا ایک انٹرویو

سنہ 2015 میں ایک دن روُحی بانو کے ساتھ

Roohi Bano (1951-2019) was an iconic Pakistani actress who contributed heavily (with her mesmerizing acting) to the success of Urdu and Punjabi language teleplays broadcast by a fledgling Pakistan Television Corporation (PTV) during the late 1960's, the 1970's and the mid-1980's ... She was the daughter of the renowned Indian musical maestro, Ustad Allah Rakha (master Tabla player and classical musician) and the sister of Indian musician Zakir Husain.
Roohi Bano teamed up with Urdu and Punjabi playwrights like Munnoo Bhai, Ashfaq Ahmad, Bano Qudsia, Dr. Enver Sajjad and the massively popular Haseena Moeen.  Her outstanding performances in Qila Kahani, Zard Gulaab, Hairatkada, Darwaza, Kiran Kahani, etc. placed her head and shoulders above her counterparts.
The list of her memorable performances is long.... one can list her role in Munnoo Bhai's Punjabi drama serial "Jazeera", many short teleplays (25-30 min. duration) which aired on PTV in the 6pm-7pm prime time slot, her many roles in the revolutionary drama serial "Aik mohabbat sau afsaanay" written by Ashfaq Ahmad (before his strange atavistic reversal to Pakistan Military's version of Pakistani Islam) .... this included a masterful performance by Roohi Bano of a teenaged farm laborer working in an orchard who falls secretly in love with the new village school teacher.... her role in the Munnoo Bhai long teleplay (2 hour duration) "Darwaza" all the way to her memorable performances in the first two drama serials written by Haseena Moeen ("Kiran Kahani" and "Zair, Zabar, Paish").
Unfortunately for Roohi Bano, the failure of her marriage combined with political victimization by Lahore Studios producers of PTV who refused to cast her in any play after she opted to act in Haseena Moeen's television serials from Karachi Studios ... Roohi was a victim of petty professional jealousy of PTV producers which ultimately took a toll on her mental health and she slid into a long and chronic depression from the late 1980's till her death in January, 2019. Her only son Ali's murder exacerbated her mential illness.

Khawar Naeem Hashmi states that in 2005-2006, Roohi Bano's mother died mysteriously (possibly related to disputes over possession of Roohi Bano's land and property??)... Roohi's mother's body was found burned in her apartment in Karachi.

In 2005, her only son Ali (who had entered into a real estate partnership with some of his friends) was abducted by unknown assailants and murdered (Roohi says he was tortured apparently to sign over the business or rights to property owned by Roohi Bano) .... his body was dumped by the roadside where a passerby noticed it after hearing the repeated ring tones from Ali's cell phone. The Pakistani police's version is that some suspects tried to snatch his cell phone and shot him fatally when Ali tried to resist this theft... why then was his cell phone still with his dead body? The corrupt Pakistani police can't even cook up a lie properly!!

Roohi Bano was treated for her depression in the psychiatric care center "Fountain House" in Lahore and made a terrific recovery which is evident in this interview recorded in January, 2007. She was employed by Fountain House as a Psychiatric Councilor to help other patients (since Roohi Bano had a Masters degree in Psychology from Government College, Lahore) and given a room on the premises. After her psychiatrist left Fountain House, the new management discharged her from the center because Roohi Bano could not afford the expensive medications used to treat her mental depression. She returned to her residence in Gulberg III, Lahore and lived alone, being sent meals daily by her only sister Rubina via a servant.

From 2008 onwards, Roohi Bano slid back into depression. There were thefts... her car and household furniture were stolen... In 2012 and 2013 Pakistan's electronic media (local and national cable and satellite TV channels) highlighted her poor mental health and her miserable living conditions.

In 2013-2014,  Urdu playwright Fasih Bari Khan and Director Mazhar Moin conceived of a play written specifically for Roohi Bano. The play was "Aik Aur Aurat" which was eventually broadcast from Hum TV.

The last interview with Roohi Bano was done by Sophia Mirza (one time host in Geo's Khabarnaak Talk Show) of Samaa TV in March-April, 2015.  On April 27th, 2015 Roohi Bano was attacked in her home with a knife (man tried to make her sign away rights to her home) but was lucky enough to survive. Roohi Bano passed away in January 25, 2019 while undergoing hospital treatment in Istanbul, Turkey.



ایک پاکستانی لڑکی کی جبری شادی کی کہانی

The story of a young teenaged girl from a small village near Gujranwala, Punjab province, Pakistan whose own father and her step-mother (as well as the village priest or imam or moulvi) tried to have her forcibly wed to a man who was a total stranger to her! Upon her refusal, they beat her up mercilessly, threw her in a taxi cab and took her in an unconscious state to Rawalpindi and handed her over to her in-laws ... this happened when she had not signed any marriage certificate and a marriage ceremony or nikah had not been carried out by the priest (read goon). This video clip is from the Pakistan TV cable channel " News 1" (executive producer: Seema Taher Khan) documentary series "Sach kaa Safar" (translation: The Journey of Truth) directed by TV host, investigative reporter and director Iqbal Hussein.

کائنات  سوُمرو  کی  کہانی

The story of Kainat Soomro, a 14-year old girl from a small town in Sindh province, Pakistan who, in 2007, was drugged, kidnapped and brutally gang raped for 3 days by four men, including an influential upper middle class businessman. The tribal council or Jirga decided that the family of Kainat Soomro should not register a case with the police but should instead kill the girl since she had "lost her virginity outside of marriage!!"
The family of Kainat Soomro refused and started an 8 years long judicial struggle which still continues. Kainat Soomro's case was registered and brought to trial in Sindh High Court but she lost because the judge believed the alleged rapists story that the girl had actually run away from home to marry one of the accused rapists and was not raped at all!! All of the men had initially denied any involvement in the gang rape but at the time of the trial, one of the men changed his testimony to claim that he had allegedly married the girl and that there was no rape committed. A fake marriage certificate was produced in court and Kainat rebutted that the four men had forced her at gun point to sign her name and put her thumbprint on some documents during the 3-day long gang rape and that she had signed out of fear for her life...she was only 14 years old at the time! No witnesses to the marriage were produced in court. Two photographs showing Kainat standing with one of the rapists were produced but the original negatives of those photographs were not produced as evidence.
Kainat and her family were brutally persecuted by the influential tribal council and the alleged rapists and forced to flee from their home town and take refuge in a two room apartment in Karachi, Pakistan. They were forced to leave behind their land, their store, their two automobiles and their house. After the High Court verdict against Kainat's claim of gang rape, her eldest brother was murdered, allegedly by the four men accused of her gang rape. After widespread protests in Karachi in support of Kainat Soomro, the provincial government appointed two armed guards to protect Kainat. The NGO War Against Rape (Sarah Zaman, Director) and the human rights lawyer Faisal Siddiqui continued to support Soomro and pursue her appeal to the Supreme Court. Pakistan's Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai invited Kainat to attend the Nobel Prize awarding ceremony and has allocated money from the Malala Girls Education Fund for Kainat Soomro to take up studies at a British University for her B.A. degree.

Additional Material from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
wikiwand.com/en/Kainat_Soomro
Kainat Soomro (born May 2nd, 1993 in Mehar, Sindh province, Pakistan) is a young woman struggling to obtain justice for her gang rape at the age of 14. In 2007, Soomro claimed that she stopped at a local store to buy a toy for her niece while walking home from school. She was allegedly drugged, kidnapped, and subsequently gang-raped by four men, among them a father and son; she escaped three days after being taken captive.
The local council of elders (Jirga) decided that Kainat Soomro was a female of bad (black) character or “Kaari” and should be honor killed (“Kaaro Kaari”). When her father refused to carry out their verdict, he was threatened. Fearing the subsequent backlash of this tribal ruling after being subject to several attacks, however, Soomro's family fled to Karachi.
Defiant of traditional norms, Soomro took her alleged perpetrators to court where the judge ultimately ruled that they were innocent, stating that "There is no corroborative evidence available on record. The sole testimony of the alleged rape survivor is not sufficient."Kainat worked with the group WAR, War Against Rape, to try to bring her attackers to justice.
During her captivity, Kainat was supposedly married to Ahsan Thebo, one of the alleged rapists, a ceremonial tactic that is apparently often used in Pakistan to avoid the harsh penalty for rape: death. The cleric who performed the marriage claimed that she looked eighteen and that she did not appear to have been forced into the marriage. The judge upheld the marriage according to Islamic law, which still takes precedence over Pakistani law, even though she was 14 years old at the time and below the age of consent according to Pakistani law. She did remember signing some unknown documents and that her thumbprints were taken at gunpoint. Pakistani law did not recognize marital rape as legitimate at the time of the trial.

آفتاب گُل سے ایک انٹرویو

Aftab Gul, 73 years old in 2019, is a Lahore-based Test Cricketer who played as an Opening Batsman for the Pakistan Cricket Team in its tour of England in the early 1970s, a lawyer, political rights activist and outspoken political analyst . . . an independent minded analyst of the political scenario in Pakistan . . .

 کشمیر کو ہتھیانے پر بھارتی سیاست دان کا ریاست سے اختلاف

Palaniappan Chidambaram is a 73 year old Indian politician and former attorney who currently serves as Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha and formerly served as the Union Minister of Finance of India. He has openly condemned Indian Prime Minister Modi's unilateral revocation of article 370 of the Indian Constitution which made it possible for Indian government to annex the disputed territory of Jammun and Kashmire in 2019..

دن نیوز کے محمود صادق کا عمران خان کو 13 فی صد شرح ِ سوُد کم کرنے کا مشورہ

Ways to Save Pakistan’s Failing Economy 20th May 2019 Mehmood Sadiq DIN News Channel: On 20th May 2019, Mehmood Sadiq, Chairman, DIN News TV channel in Pakistan suggested ways to save the failing Pakistan economy : these measures included lowering the Inter-Bank Loan Interest Rate, increasing the value of the Pak Rupee against the US dollar from 1 US dollar = 152 Pak Rupees to 1 US dollar = 130 Pak Rupee, banning imports of luxury items from abroad which wastes Pakistan's foreign exchange reserves etc.

سنہ 2016 سے لاہور میں شروع کی گئی پنک رکشہ سکیم

Pink Rickshaw Scheme Lahore: Ms. Zar Aslam has launched a Pink Rickshaw Scheme for training women to drive a Rickshaw to earn a livelihood. This program has been going on since 2015 in Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan. It is going from strength to strength.   Pakistani women residing in Lahore may telephone Ms. Zar Aslam at 321-413-2818 , the Creator/Convener of the Pink Rickshaw Scheme for Women to enroll in this effort to empower Pakistani women. It has been running since 2015.   For Pakistani women residing outside Pakistan, the contact number is 011 92 321 413 2818