Ayaz Khan

موجودہ صورت حال میں ہم سب کے خد شات اور تحفظات یکساں ہیں۔ پوری دنیا اس وقت صحت کے بد ترین بحران  سے دو چار ہے۔ اس صورت حال میں نہ صرف ہماراملک بلکہ تمام ممالک جو اس وقت اس دلدل میں پھنسے ہوئے ہیں سب اسی جہد  میں مصروف ہیں کہ اس تگاوروباء کو کس طرح قابوکیاجائے۔ اس وباء کے پھیلنے کے ساتھ ساتھ کچھ مزید محورگفتگو عنوان سامنے آئے ہیں جن سے آپ شاید واقف بھی ہونگے۔ اس تحریر کا مقصد انہی محور گفتگو  عنوانات کو زیر بحث لا کر چند غلظ فہمیوں کو دور کرنا ہے۔ یاد رہے کہ کوئی  بھی وباء محض وباء کی صورت میں نہیں ابھرتی بلکہ اپنے ساتھ سازشی تھیوریز کی بھی دھول اوڑاتی ہوئی دھند کو برپا کر دیتی ہے۔ عالمی سطح پر اس کی مثال ووہان لیب سازشی تھیوری کی شکل میں سامنے آتی ہے۔ خیر یہ موضوع ایک اور کالم کا وقت سرف کرے گا۔ میں یہاں ملک میں پھیلے  ایک من گھڑت تھیوری کا ذکر کرونگا۔ وبا کے پھیلنے کے ساتھ جس تھیوری نے جنم لیا ہے وہ کورونا جیسے مہلک مرض سے بھی زیادہ جان لیوا دکھائی دیتی ہے۔ یہ تھیوری چند لوگوں کے ذہنوں میں کچھ یوں جڑ پکڑ چکی ہے کہ وہ اس بات پر بالکل یقین نہیں...

Part 2 The month of August, 2006, had already cast a dark shadow over the city and the shadow gradually engulfed the entire province. The day turned to be the launching pad for upcoming prolonged political, social and economic chaos which my city had never deemed coming its way. Next day, the usual garbage-burning miasma had changed with the smell of burning tyres. The smoke rising from burnt shops and tyres took over the pleasant view of the sky. Painted dark now, the sky depicted a picture foretelling about arrival of mourning days. Immature to understand politics and its ins and outs, I remained anxiously concerned about my football practice that was disrupted owing to prevailing chaotic situation in the city.   “What skies haven fallen that I cannot even visit the adjacent football ground for practice,” I cursed everyone, who had done whatever to disrupt my football practicing. Most importantly target of my castigation had been my paternal uncle, who often scold...

Micro artist Badar is busy in crafting a boat “This is the mausoleum of Quaid-e-Azam,” the micro artist Badar shows his art work. The mausoleum is curved masterly over coloured-pencil graphite. After a meticulous focus, one can hardly see the curves on the tiniest mausoleum. “Before having this box, I often mishandled the small wooden boats. Now they are safe since I have gotten this box,” says Badar while taking his tiny art work out of the carefully managed box. Badar needs only a razor for making the smallest things out of graphite and wood. But the efforts are arduous. “Working on Minar-e-Pakistan needed two times more efforts and time than I consumed on making mausoleum. I took six hours to curve out the Minar on graphite,” Badar recalls. Minar-e-Pakistan which is curved on graphite with razor measuring 4.4 cm on scale The micro artist is a resident of Gaddani town, a tehsil of Hub city which is the industrial city of Balochistan. Zigzagging into narrow, conge...

Part 1 writer, right, and his maternal cousin, left. The picture was made before liver surgery of the writer  It’s zealous for Pakistani students to answer the question what their aim in life is. Predictable are the answers for the teacher though. On a high pitch, students, with a passion instilled in them, reply they would be doctors, engineers, businesswomen or men, bankers and soldiers. To one’s astonishment, underweight and lanky students often opt for the answer to become soldiers in future! Teacher, in return, showers blessings upon students with a winsome smile thinking that the students have chosen the right path.   But why did my answer to the same question throw me at loggerheads with my mathematics teacher when I was in grade 7? My answer was at odds with my health conditions too, perhaps! Startled upon my answer, first unfamiliar with the word ‘Chelsea FC’ and then guessing the answer was something about soccer (football), teacher castigated me for being ...

The entire political attitude has morphed into an administrative mode. The municipal corporations of cities have been turning the ugliest shape of the cities into a pleasant and eye-catching towns constructed with ‘sweat and blood’ of local governments. The suddenly-out-of-the-lamp Genie (jinn) of development indicates approaching of Local Government elections in Balochistan. 2020 might witness the local government elections in the province after a delay of a year. Local governments in Balochistan marked their completion in January 2019 and the province fall under the obligation of holding local government elections within 120 days while following the article 140-A of the constitution vis-à-vis   section 219 (4) of Elections Act 2017. However, the province could not hold elections as per the provision of the laws. Election Commission of Pakistan asked Balochistan Government to hold elections within 120 days after completion of local governments. Despite holding elections, on Febr...