Golden Eggs of Mushlak

A glance at the title gives a shaky image that this post is about some old fairy tale that we use to listen as a bedtime story.But it is not like that ....then what are the golden eggs and what the heaven on earth Mushlak is??Let me introduce you with a place called Mushlak about 40 km in the west of Quetta city ,a barren land with small populated villages scattered around....sky as clear as crystal...land as barren as a desert.I often visit this place as my job routine,indeed a tough to time spend at such place but after all "nokar ki te nakhara ki"(job is a job, you can't say no)......ok now you are not confused about Mushlak ......but Golden Eggs are still a mystery ........If i am not wrong we used to read the story of Golden Goose ....actually the goose in that story was not itself golden buit it used to lay golden eggs.......so the eggs i saw in Mushlak were actually not golden eggs  but the had same impact on the native people as they were actually golden eggs.You don't believe me that about 3 to 4 days before the Eid ul Azha ( a muslim festival), people from mushlak came to us to sell desi eggs so that they could have some money for the Eid festival.Whenever we buy their eggs the happiness and smile at their faces always remind me the story of golden goose as it was one of their major sources of income.Its not always the gold or money that matters but mostly it is the time and space which make ordinary things more valuable than gold and money.So if you want to have an omlet of golden eggs in you breakfast ,you are welcom to join me in Quetta lodges.

ONLY THING THEY DIDN'T DO IS TAP THE NOSE OF THE FIGHTER! 

 A British Royal Air Force Typhoon pilot flies up to the back door of a C-130 (Hercules) for a photo opportunity. 

 He radios, "How much closer do you want me?"

 They radio, "How much closer can you get?" 

Pilot Radios,........."Close enough?"

You have to be a tad mad to be a fighter pilot in today's world but, even crazier to be a photographer looking down those air intakes!

Saudi Arabia? Or Afghanistan ??

 

NO !!!

 

THIS ONE IS IN VIENNA

AUSTRIA

Vienna, Austria, 1916.. the king with his wife -
which, as the queen was - was entirely covered...
Primitive? Extremist? Oppressed? Backward?
It was ok for the King 

today they would be called backward? 

because women have changed? 

Men have changed?

 Times have changed?

 What has changed?

Attitude Infinity: Story of a Living Conscience "Asghar Khan"

Attitude Infinity: Story of a Living Conscience "Asghar Khan": In 1941, Asghar Khan was twenty years old and had barely completed a year of service in the air force. It was the time of martial law i...

Story of a Living Conscience "Asghar Khan"

In 1941, Asghar Khan was twenty years old and had barely completed a year of service in the air force. It was the time of martial law in Sindh, imposed to control the Hur freedom movement led by the Pagaras and their followers who had been fighting the British rulers since 1843.

Col Richardson, the martial law administrator at the time, was hot on the trail of the then-Pir Pagara Syed Sibghatullah Shah and had just received information that a caravan, of which Pagara was a part, had been located some 15-20 miles from Sanghar. Four air force planes were sent to strike the caravan and kill Pagara. The young pilot leading the mission was Asghar Khan.

Some hours later, the planes returned to Hyderabad where an eager Richardson stood waiting on the airfield.

“Richardson asked what happened and I told him we did not strike the caravan because women and children were also part of it,” an 81-year-old Asghar Khan said at his residence on Sunday. “I told him it was not my job to strike women and children and so we returned without doing anything.”

Richardson asked Asghar Khan why he didn’t obey his command. “Because it was illegal,” he replied.

“I was twenty years old with one year of service but my conscience told me something. Who don’t those in command now also hear the voice of their conscience?” Asghar Khan asked.

Of course, an inquiry was held against Asghar Khan and the other pilots, though nothing came of it. Sixteen years later, he went on to become the youngest and first native Commander-in-Chief of the Pakistan Air Force.