Top Ten 'Three Ways To Pakistan'

A few days ago, I had a random discussion with a bunch of students in university. I told them about my blog and my research on "Three Ways of How To" in national context. They agreed to answer my questions. I wanted to share the experience. Following are responses of the respondents.

Three jokes a Pakistani will forward happily

• Jokes about Pashtuns and Sardars
• Jokes about Politicians
• Jokes about Teachers

Three ways to earn a name (good or bad)

• Talk for/against the clerics
• Talk for/against establishment
• Talk against politicians

Three ways to die a natural death

• Eat healthy
• Drink healthy
• Avoid going to public places like Markets, Schools, Universities and Hospitals etc

Three reasons you can expect love

• Belong to Middle East
• Shoot a bunch of kids and blame somebody for buying you the gun

and recently discovered

• "Be a Pakistani" 

Three ways you can tell the truth

• Whisper it to yourself
• Tell it to someone who does't understand the language
• Tell it to a tree

Three ways to use freedom of speech

• Say what they want to hear
• Never speak against them
• Don't speak a lot.

Three ways to get away with a murder

• Call the dead a sinner
• Blame the neighbors
• Fly to Thailand

Three ways to die a hero and leave a legend

• Kill the person you are paid to guard
• Claim something or blame someone
• Fly with a crate of mangoes in the luggage.

Three ways to call an Afghan in Pakistan

• Respectable brothers just like our owns, living abroad? No. Muhajir
• Harmless people facing phobias by other communities they live with, just like us? No. Mushtaba Afrad
• A larger community that is expected to apologize and compensate  for something offensive that a minority among them is known to be standing for? No. Kala ba zay.

Three ways to survive after messing up with the flow

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(They said they'll think of a way)

They promised to meet me on the same spot the next day but no one showed up. I suspect they lie.

Celebrating Everyone

Imagine all the roses

And the flowers and the trees.

Now color them all one,

Any color may it be.

Imagine all the fruits

But give them taste the same.

And if the Earth was all a desert

Or one ocean, or one plain.

Imagine nights without the moon,

And no sun to bring a day.

Or all stars if shone like sun

And all life a melting day.

One flavor and one scent

And one weather uniform.

If the differences do end

Will this world have any Charm?

Diversity

-By Kayenat Hameed Khan

One of my classmates was giving a presentation on William Wordsworth on 3rd of May last year(2016). She referred to  "The Daffodils" as an example of what Wordsworth called "spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings". And meanwhile, I thought what if all the flowers were daffodils or what if all the plants looked alike and had one color, and i wanted to puke. And that's when it struck me. 

At that moment, i was still in trauma of an incident taken in our department. When a group of students with some policemen 'visited' us because the students were playing some sport past the class timings, in the department lawn. The visitors could not cause any trouble but that led me to a very sad realization. Being students, being students of they same university, we were alienated by many groups and they were equally alien to us. And i felt like if we don't celebrate our differences, we will continue to mourn them. If we don't love, we will hate. If we don't accept each other, we will resist each other. If we don't let live, we will kill.

I am not that much of an artist but i have a point to prove. Somebody once argued that God wants us to live in one particular way and that ideal would be the entire Human society believing in one truth, dressing in one particular way, speaking one honorable language etc etc. And since it's a lot to be real, It will be in heaven.

I don't know about heaven. But regarding this world, I am sure God loved differences and so He created them Himself. If God wanted all of us to think alike, dress alike, be alike and live in one same way, He could have just created clones and given us same brain rather than giving each one of us such a different one. God created diversity and Nature supports it. So if I try to hate, resist and/or eliminate everything that is not me or for me, than i am going against nature. And thus, i decided to post it finally.

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