| "If your time to you Is worth savin' Then you better | | | | Yeh hum Nahi a multi star production featuring the |
| start swimmin' Or you'll sink like a stone For the times | | | | vocal talents of Haroon, Ali Haider, Ali Zafar, Shufqat, |
| they are a-changin' "-Bob Dylan, 1963 | | | | Strings, Shuja Haider and Hadiqa Kiani. The song is not |
| | | | | only thought provoking but very focused in delivering its |
| Last Saturday 20th September a small sms | | | | message. This is a step towards a musical movement. |
| shattered me; my mother had another severe heart | | | | Shahzad Roy's Qismat apne haath mein is another |
| attack. Can not focus anymore on my paper as still | | | | protest song which was earlier banned. Adeel Salman |
| thinking what's happening to my ailing mother. She is | | | | another rock star from Pakistan is sending the same |
| dying and everyday doctors prescribing news tests | | | | message in his song Nazuk Khawab. One of the |
| and medicines. I wish I could fly back and could do | | | | reasons of our success against India were the patriot |
| something for her. | | | | songs of Noor Jehan which rose the Morales of every |
| | | | | soul in Pakistan. |
| Working seven years with the radio changed my life | | | | |
| as got so much love whom I never saw or met. Being | | | | Music and history have a lot of things common. Both |
| a celebrity has its own pleasure getting so much fan | | | | are recorded, have a number of controversial periods |
| mail and prayers. My program coordinator or I should | | | | and have the power to enrage us or pacify us. |
| say my mentor Asghar Sahib having paan in his mouth | | | | According to Adeel of Anesthezia Band, history and |
| always call me an invisible celebrity, people only hear | | | | music are interpretive endeavors and therefore mean |
| my voice and I can feel happiness and smiles. I never | | | | different things to different people. We have seen |
| called myself a Radio Jockey but an Emotional Jockey | | | | how music, literature, poetry has played an important |
| as I have the power to make my listeners laugh, cry | | | | role in history, perhaps the most fortuitous crossing of |
| and sing with me. This bond of love is so strong as if I | | | | musical and historical paths occurred in the United |
| am a part of every family with whom I am connected. | | | | States during the turbulent counterculture era of the |
| I share their sadness and happiness. | | | | 1960's. Once Beatles were asked that why they had |
| | | | | not recorded any anti-war songs, John Lennon |
| I am looking for HOPE even though Mr Obama not | | | | responded, "All our songs are anti-war." His statement |
| only talks about Hope but also Change. But so much | | | | suggested that through their messages of peace, love |
| has happened that I am lost and feeling alone. It's really | | | | and understanding, the Beatles are taking a stand |
| hard to think as what will happen next after Islamabad | | | | against war in more general terms, which is much |
| tragedy. It's a mental trauma watching the same place | | | | more appealing to mainstream culture. |
| burning where you spent time. I was at Marriott, | | | | |
| Islamabad for a week to attend some meetings. Still | | | | Protest music has deep roots in response to specific |
| memories flash back having informal conversations | | | | historical events or circumstances and generally |
| with the barber at the hair saloon, chef, front desk | | | | written for or about the common man. During great |
| officer and the security guards. They all had their | | | | depression, displaced musicians wandered from town |
| personal stories sharing their worries but always had a | | | | to town hitching rides on railcars. These revolutionary |
| hope that good time will come in their lives. These | | | | musicians catalogued the suffering, the injustice, and |
| thoughts bring tears in my eyes because death was | | | | the maltreatment of the less fortunate members in |
| not their destiny. She wanted to be a doctor but will | | | | society and translated them into music. Mahatma |
| the dream of this kindergarten school girl be fulfilled as | | | | Gandhi's words are so true even today that you must |
| her father is not coming home this evening. I should | | | | be the change you wish to see in the world. We saw |
| stop putting birthdays to remember on my planner | | | | change gurus Bob Dylan, Phil Ochs Judy Collins, |
| because every day marks an event in history with so | | | | Beatels, Joan Baez, Allama Iqbal, Noor Jehan, Ahmad |
| many death anniversaries. | | | | Faraz, Faiz Ahmad Faiz, Ijaz ul Hassan and many |
| | | | | more during Vietnam war, Civil Rights movement and |
| My mother is 61 years old, still so beautiful after so | | | | Indo Pak movement. |
| many wrinkles, diseases all because of wrong | | | | |
| diagnoses. I know these wrinkles are not because of | | | | Life moves on so as music but lets fight the war |
| her age but we her children have given her so much | | | | against terrorism through music. We need more people |
| pain and sorrow. But one great thing about mothers | | | | like Waseem Mahmood, Junoon, Adeel Salman and |
| are that they forget and forgive. | | | | Shahzad Roy. This is a small step towards a bigger |
| | | | | revolution. There is a space between the life and |
| During my radio show I was reviewing a suspense | | | | death of my mother with only a ventilator in-between. |
| thriller movie. It was a must watch movie as so many | | | | Can't see her dying but still have the hope that she will |
| things happening simultaneously. But the same thing is | | | | be on her feet. Farrukh Khan Pitafi following Allama |
| happening in Pakistan since 2007 removal of judges, | | | | Iqbal's Shikva writes a letter to God and said "please |
| Red Mosque issue, Warfare in tribal areas, State of | | | | give me a chance to believe in you again". Asghar |
| emergency, Benazir Bhutto's assassination, Resignation | | | | Sahib called me that I have to fill this weekend show |
| of Pervaiz Musharraf, Selection of Zardari as | | | | for another radio jockey. Im trying to sustain my hope |
| President, US attacks on Pakistani soil, and uncountable | | | | and still believe that I can bring smile on my listeners |
| innocent deaths due to terrorism within Pakistan. This | | | | face. Every artist in Pakistan has an untapped potential |
| movie is a box office hit as so many views and | | | | to create ripples through his painting, music, |
| reviews from international actors. All these events are | | | | documentary, poetry and songs. Let's hold each other |
| historic as changing the way people think about the | | | | rather pushing to a limit that we loose all our hope and |
| place they are living. The last song of my show was | | | | faith. |