Where does dawat e islami ijtema in hyderabad taking place

Published: Express Tribune Mag Dec 11- Dec 17, 2011 It is in this background that I will be sharing some of my photographs of heritage, dying and dead. Why? Because we are generally unaware - and unconcerned - about our rare and important heritage. We did not raise our heads except for a few rare people. And there was no cry among the general Pakistanis. In 2008, for example, Taliban blew some really beautiful and historically very important Buddhas in Swat valley. We have even tried to forget the heritage of Pakistan focusing only on Islamic structures. In this and other things, I am sad to say, we have miserably failed. Instead, they preserved and today those very old buildings compel travellers from across the world to come and to see and to photograph. But, the question is, can we get connected to these great modern cities by just blowing away our heritage sites? If the answer was yes, then Paris, London and Delhi would already had done away with their respective heritage. We feel connected to New York and London. For being new is a sign of progress and of modernism. Here in Pakistan we just tend to destroy everything to make way for the new. World over heritage is lovingly preserved and restored. What is left is slowly dying due mainly to the negligent behaviour of our government and ignorance of our general public. And some of that I have documented in Hyderabad and in Karachi. I am suddenly reminded of a wonderful Hindu heritage present in our country. How sad is our history! But only if we knew. Their places were eventually filled by Delhi wallas, Hyderabadis and Lucknawis, people who claimed big properties in India and who now got such beautiful havelis in return (see this and other photographs). Even Parsis, followers of Zarathustra, felt insecure and left for greener pastures.

It remained largely peaceful except for some isolated incidents in Karachi and elsewhere. But something good also happened here: As against thousands of killed daily in Punjab province hardly anyone was killed or maimed here in Sindh province. Jinnah was unable to stop Hindus of Sindh from vanishing overnight. Same thing happened to Hindus, people who'd lived here since last 4,000 years or so. The peaceful Muslims in newly created India were either killed or forced to relocate. Rapes, looting and murder were the order of the day. The results were understood long before blood letting was allowed by the British but to no avail. Jinnah, wondered whether he done it right by creating a homeland for Muslims of India? He, like millions across the border, were dumbstruck by the results. Many died in Punjab bloodbath and Pakistan's founder, Mr. In 1947, British litrally ran away from British India, dividing the country into Hindu India and Muslim Pakistan, jumbling up the borders to their own likes and dislikes, putting to sword the lives of millions. Hindu banyas, as the Brahmin caste is known in Urdu and Hindi, knew little while constructing such beautiful entrances that their time in up-coming Pakistan was running short. Now named: Kashan-e-Amjad, Heerabad, Hyderbad, Sindh province, Pakistan. Sindhis, the traditional inhabitants of this province - hence the name Sindh - are also not good cooks of this culinary delight. Some say Memons (from Gujarat province of India) also cook good biryani. Even today, after 60 years of partition, no other ethnic group can cook a better biryani than Hyderabadis or Delhi wallas.

It is to these Urdu-speaking Mohajirs of India (Urdu speaking is a wide ranging term employed in Pakistan to encompass everyone from Delhi walla to Lucknow walla but not Gujratis) that the popularity of Biryani may be traced. So it is highly unlikely that this man, if he had been here before 1947, would be cooking biryani or any other meat related dish. Please also note one more thing here: Hindu Brahmins of past never ate or even touched meat or eggs.

In fact, there used to certain cooks who refused to cook biryani using chicken! They say that the best biryani is that of mutton. This man was checking for the right quality of rice, known as basmatti, for using in the cooking of a sumptuous biryani. Off course, the dish was popularized by people living in Delhi and Lucknow and who then immigrated to Pakistan on the eve of partition of British India in 1947. Originally uploaded by Ameer Hamza Via Flickr:Д«iryani is perhaps the single most popular dish in Sindh and Punjab provinces.

Where does dawat e islami ijtema in hyderabad taking place