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11th chapter
You can divide United Kingdom
of Great Britain in to four parts, England, Scotland, Wales and Northern
Ireland. There are four
islands as well. Three of them are situated close to France and one is in
between
Ireland and England. Which
are Alderney, Guernsey, Jersey and Isle of Man. These all becomes United
Kingdom of Great Britain.
The spoken languages of
England are known as Aryans languages. Which, we call European and indo
European languages. In these
Indo-European languages, Celtic language has great importance. Celtic
language was divided into two
other languages they were geodetic and Brythonic Geodetic was divided into
three other languages, Irish
Gaelic, Manx and Scottish Gaelic. Brythonic was divided into two languages. Old
Cornish and modern welsh.
Other than these, modern English got the influence of North Germanic and West
Germanic as well. As matter
of fact English language is the essence of four Germanic dialects. Which were
four tribes they came to
Britain in 5th century and settled here and they were Saxons, jutes, Danes and
Angles.
The capitol of United Kingdom
of Great Britain is situated in England and it is called London. According to
the last census, the
population of London is 18 million. Something like fifty five years before the
birth of
Jesus the roman king Julius
Ceaser attacked London and Romans named him londonium. In 43 A.D. the first
bridge was built on river
Thames. In 61 a.d. the Queen Bondica defeated Romans with the help of icenians
tribes. In 200 a.d. the wall
was built around London and it had six gates, which were Aldgate, new gate,
bishop's gate, cripple gate,
lud gate and alder's gate. Nobody knows when Saxons got the reign of London.
London got importance when
pop Gregory I the great sent Saint Augustine from Rome in 597 a.d.
Ethelbert the king of Kent
sent mellitus as bishop of Saint Paul cathedral in 604 A. D.
During this period people
started entering in London by sea route and by road. This city had peace for
one
hundred years and they got
rid of Anglo-Saxon clashes and fights. Alfred the great died in 899 A.D. they
had
problems with Danes. When
Normans conquer London it got great significance politically, economically and
according to defence point of
view. William the conqueror announced amnesty for everyone. During the reign
of William I the foundation
stone of tower of
London was laid down.
Richard I, when he came back from
crusades he did a lot of
development in London.
When Henry I died in 1135, the Londoner crowned Stephen
in the Westminster abbey.
1136 there was fire in London and lots of houses
were burnt. The reason was that used to use a lot of wood in
construction. Some part of Saint Paul cathedral was
burnt as well. In the end of 12th century A.D. London
became the shelter place of
Danish, German, Gascony,
Flemish, northern Italian and Jews, only Jews were
tyrannized by Londoners. Many
restrictions were implemented on them. Finally they were being kicked out
from in 1210 and they were
not allowed to re-enter in London
anymore.
The first mayor of London was Henry Fitzailwin.
He was being nominated in 1192. As London
was becoming
a stable city, the whole city
got the attack of plague. In the 14th century plague spread like a fire in
whole
Europe. One third European population died of this fatal and
mortal disease. After this epidemic London
re
started increasing his
population and his economic condition in 1345. The famous or you can rather say
first
English poet Geoffrey Chaucer
was born few years before this epidemic. In 1381 the farmers of London did
strike against government.
Caxton made first printing press. After all these calamities the London's population
started increasing again. The
population of London
became triple during 1530 to 1600. During this period lots
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of social welfare
organizations were established in London.
The population of London
increased
extraordinarily in 1605.
Hundred and seventy five thousand people were inside the wall area and hundred
and
fifty thousand people were
outside the wall area and the slums of London.
The total population of London
was
two hundred and twenty five
thousand at that time.
Elizabeth I ruled from 1558 to 1603. At that time London reached at the
height of pomp and show, glory and
splendour. Nobody knows that
god didn't like some of their act. He used to give them some catastrophe and
calamity after a short span
of glory. From 1664 to 1665 this was the worst time of London. The plague
attacked London another time. Seventy five thousand
people died due to this calamity and epidemic. As
people of London were suffering of plague, on 2nd
September there was fire in royal bakery. It got the whole
London and that's why it's called great fire of London. Due to this fire
most of London
was burnt and most of
the places were converted
into ashes. The reason was again, using lots of wood in house and building
construction. There used to
be twenty to thirty houses attached each other in every street. So the fire
spread
like a forest.
The value and praise has
Giorgio Vasari in Arezzo and Italy the same
respect and prestige has got Sir
Christopher wren in England.
Sir Christopher wren was man many of many talents. He was mathematician,
astronomer, and physicist,
engineer and architect as well. The Londoner says that London city is the gift of Sir
Christopher wren. He
reconstructed pudding lane where in the royal baker's house the fire was
started, saint
Paul church, Greenwich
hospital, Kensington palace, royal hospital and Hampton court palace.
When England had war with France
at that time forty merchants of London
decided to open a bank. So like
this in 1664 the first bank
was made in London.
The photo of that guard of that bank is on fifty pound's note.
The times, first news paper
of London
started printed in 1785. On George IV got the reign of England, he
started developing London on new grounds and
plans. God was again very happy with London.
In 1829
London metropolitan police department was started. The
street lamps were used to be lighted by oil, now they
were used to be lighted with
gas. The omnibus service was started. The royal kingdom started spending
money which they looted and
were looting from their colonies. Their colonies were Canada, certain
American
states, West Indies, east India, New Zealand
and Australia.
There were many small island s which were under
their control.
The first underground
metropolitan was started in London
but some people say that first metropolitan was
started in pairs. Anyhow in London it was started in
1863 with metropolitan line. London
school board was
started in 1870. In 1890
Prince of Wales inaugurated the train which were run by electricity.
In 1914 First World War
started and which was ended in 1918. In First World War 2632 Londoners lost
their
lives.
In 1936 the Second World War
started and it ended in 1945. Thirty thousand Londoner died during air raids
and nearly fifty thousand
were injured. Lots of buildings were damages especially Westminster abbey and the
house of parliament.
In 1940 Winston Churchill became
the prime minister of England.
The first Olympic Games were held in
London in 1948. After George VI's death Elizabeth II became
the queen of England
in 1952. The London
Bridge was built in 1970.
From 1970 to until now the marvellous thing which has been constructed is
English
Channel. It was opened in
1994 for the public.
During all these calamities, London became
cosmopolitan city. People from all around the world started living
in London. Everyone selected separate area. For
example in Aldgate east is famous for Bengali population,
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Ealing and south hall are
famous for Sikhs inhabitants, barking, Ilford, Romford area's Pakistanis
population
is increasing. Anyway Asian
population is increasing in London
very fast. Two areas are very famous for this
Green Street and south hall
and in Brixton and Notting hill gate you will find lot of West Indian
population. In
centre of London
you will find French, Greece
and Jews a lot. From last many years Australians, new
Zealanders and South African
started coming to London
as well. The London
is very popular city all around
the world, even people from
European Union countries prefer to come to London to find jobs.
In 1540 all Indian seaport
were occupied by Portuguese. Dutch and French followed their track and came to
India. The last people who came to India for
business purpose were English. They came as merchants
especially for spices. It's
famous in indo-pak subcontinent that they came to ask for match stick and
became
the owner of the house.
English had, divide and rule
system. They applied the same law in India. The mughal kings gave them
lots of
relaxations for trade among
other merchants. The mughal kings didn't know this that one day they will be
bound to beg in front of
these goras. These goras not even took relaxations for trade but they asked
mughal
kings to increase taxes and
recoveries for other traders like French and Dutch. So that's how English had
monopoly in trade and
business in India.
The foundation stone of east India Company was laid in 1614 in
Aldgate east area of London. From there they
started their trade with India
and their main office was in
Bombay. West Indies Company was already working
successfully. In the beginning they started the business
of spices and there were some
other goods as well. With the passage of time their position was getting strong
in India. They invented and fabricated
so many excuses to get relaxations for trades and behind the curtain
they were increasing their
brigade in India.
Indian has seen Muslim rule for nearly thousand years. Hindus
helped goras to get rid of
Muslims and so they conspirated against Muslims.
Mughal king Aurangzeb Alamgir
died in 1707 and his inheritors lost Bangladesh. The nabob of Bangladesh
was siraj-ud-doula. He was
defeated by Lord Clive in the battle of Plessey in 1785. History tells us that
siraj
ud doula's nephew betrayed
him but in fact behind this conspiracy there were Indian merchants and omi
chand
was leading them. Lord Clive
not even defeated siraj ud doula but he defeated Dupleix who was nominated
governor for Bangladesh
from French government. This was first and greatest victory of goras in Indian
land.
British Empire was spreading
in India
and Hindus were helping them but they didn't know that they will get
rid of Muslim's slavery and
they will become slaves of goras. They won't be independent. Even India wasn't
native land of Hindus.
They were Aryans. The real natives of India were Dravidians, Who were
Tamil, telego,
Malayalam, Kanada and
Bengali. They were and are real Indian people.
Until 1845 goras conquer India from Bangladesh
to Sind. Punjab
was under Sikhs rule. Sikhs were defeated
by goras in 1848. Kohinoor
diamond which was stolen from irani takh-e-taos (the peacock throne) became the
part of Maharaja Ranjit
Singh's crown. When Sikhs were defeated than this world's most expensive
diamond
became the part of Westminster's royal
coronet. In the war of independence, which is called by English
historians the war of mutiny
or war of sapoys in 1857 they conquered whole India. The founder of British raj
in India was Lord Clive. He
couldn't even imagine of it that the battle of palasay's victory will played
important role in conquering
whole India. Today if you go to Berkley squire. You will see a blue plate
outside
his house, engraved his name
"lord Clive".
Soho has same importance in
London what Pigalle has in Paris, Ripaban, Saintpoli has in Hamburg and red
light area has in Amsterdam.
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Soho was plentiful of huts in
16th century. In the 16th religiously harassed people came to London from
France and settled in Soho
area. Greeks came in this area in 1677 and the last immigrants in this area
were
Italians. The most important
roads of Soho are old Compton road, which passes through Moor Street, Warder
Street, Greek street, frith
street, Deans Street, and Compton road. Further down old Compton road becomes
charring cross road.
All around Soho there are busy
bazaars and streets like regent street, Oxford Street, Shaftesbury Avenue and
charring cross road. Charring
cross road is famous for book shops. There some famous book shops which are
Waterston, Blackwell and
Dillon's. The biggest book store of Europe is on this road as well and it's
called
Foyle's. Other than that
there are many old book stores on this road. You can't find bouquiniste like
Paris. If
you are walking along the
seine river, you will find many bouquiniste along the road.
There are two famous stores
on Oxford Street, Selfridges and john Lewis partnership. Then there is
Debenhams, CandA, mad house
superstore. The very English superstore the marks and Spencer's branch
exists on this road as well.
Right at the corner of oxford and regent streets there is store called top man.
In
regents street most of the
stores are of designer clothes.
Shaftesbury Avenue in London
is famous for theatres and discotheques. There is palace theatre on this road
that is showing les miserable
from last many years. If you keep on walking on charring cross road, adjacent
to
this road there is another
road called west road. On this road there is theatre they are showing Agatha
Christie's play the mouse
trap from last forty five years. In Deans Street the greatest economist Karl
Marx
stayed. He completed some of
his book Das Kapital in this house which is in Deans Street and some of it in
British museum library's
reading room. Old Compton road was famous for French philosophers. Paul
Verlaine
and Arthur Rimbaud, these
both French poets used to stay on this road. Warder Street is famous for film
industry. Lot of film makers
offices are here. Soho is famous because of red light area but Brewer Street is
the
right place for red light
area. Why it's called red light area. When you enter in this street, if you
look upward,
you will find many sign board
written model. If this red light is blinking it means the woman is available.
If
it's not blinking, it means
no vacancy. If this street there are two and three story flats. When you enter
inside,
at certain doors its written
don't ring the bell it's not the model's flat. It's same like Lahore's red
light area
which is called Hera mandi
(diamond's market). If you go there, you will find lots of houses have the sign
board "khabardar yeh
sharifon ghar hay" (be careful this is house of respectable family). When
you enter in
Brewer Street, you will find
many signboards of model especially at night. Streets like these you will find
in
every major city of Europe but
in Italy they don't exist. It doesn't mean in Italy there aren't prostitutes.
In Italy
they wait for their customers
on the road.
At the back of Shaftesbury
Avenue there is Gerard Street, which is famous for china town. You will find
many Chinese restaurants in
this area. Chinese food shops, handicraft shops. When you will enter in this
street, you will feel that
you are in little china.
The famous theatre of Soho
are globe, Garrick, ambassadors, Apollo, Shaftesbury, queens, prince Edward,
phoenix, palace, lyric,
wyndham and saint martin. The renowned discotheques of Soho are limelight, wag,
Ronnie Scots, madam jojo,
gossips, borderline, la2 (gay club) and Astoria. The restaurants and bars of
Soho
have their own style. Maison
bertaux, bar Italia, Algerian coffee, French house, bar Solona, Govinda, Pollo
shop, left hand shop. There
are many bookshops of transvestites, queens and gays. You can find their books
and dresses, outfits over
here.
Sir Syed Ahmad khan was the
first Hindustani who came to England for just for visit. His son got the
scholarship to study England
in 1869, at that time he came with his son. He spent nearly one year in London.
During his stay he studied
English newspapers and magazines thoroughly. Two magazines impressed him,
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which were tattler of Sir
Richard steel and spectator of Joseph Addison. He was that much bemused of
these
magazines that he started a
magazine like this in India when he came back and it was called
tehzeeb-ul-ikhlaque
(etiquettes of manner). For this magazine highly learned people like allama
shibli
nawmani, maulana altaf
Hussein hali, maulana Mohammad Ali johar, maulana shaukat Ali and Muhammad
Hussein azad translated
essays and articles. For example, Muhammad Hussein azad translated an essay
which
was called the man who wants
to get rid of his burdens. His title was "insan kisi hal main khush nahin
rehta
(we aren't happy in any
condition).
The other renowned
personality who came to England from India was syed Amir Ali. After finishing
school
he got admission in English's
sponsor college in Calcutta. He completed his graduation from there in 1867. He
was the first Muslim of
indo-pak subcontinent who did graduation. In 1868 he got the degree of law and
history. Then he got the
scholarship and came to England for further studies. After completing education
he
joined London inner temple.
He became the president of all India Muslim league of London branch in 1908.
In 1910 he laid the
foundation stone of first mosque in London. He was the first Indian who became
law lord
and sat in Privy Council.
Syed Amir Ali's book the
spirit of Islam has been translated into many languages. Other than that he has
written a short history of
Saracens. He has written a book on law which is called mohammadan law. He died
on 30 august 1928 and he is
buried in Essex.
The efforts of these people
and inclination towards English education, the Muslims of India started
thinking
about studying and learning
English language. Maulana Muhammad Ali johar, allama iqbal, chaudary rehmat
Ali, liaquat Ali khan and
Muhammad Ali Jinnah type of people became famous among Muslims of India. All
of them went to study in
England and played important role in independence of Muslims of India. There
effort
became fruitful and on 14th
august 1947 an independent Islamic country Pakistan came into being. Pakistani
Muslim continued studying in
England after the partition. Here are some example, ghulam Muhammad,
sikandar mirza, ayub khan, yehyah
khan, zulfiquar ali Bhutto, Muhammad khan junejo, ghulam Mustafa jatoe,
Benazir Bhutto and faroque
laghari, they have completed their education in England.
In the past those people used
to go to England for higher studies, one were those who were rich and other
were those who had
scholarship for higher studies but today anyone can go if he can afford.
English people gave us
independence in 1947 but our general and politician who took their training in
England or studied there they
followed the same rules which were applied by goras during slavery. They are
not even five percent of our
total population and these five percent people have the reins of ninety-nine
people
of Pakistani's fate. In a way
we got rid of goras slavery and we had these dark colour goras slavery. Our
religious leaders who are
against English culture and white people and they criticize their liberalism
either its
woman liberalism or its
religious liberalism. Their kids go to America or England for higher studies.
Their
kids don't even know what
illegal immigrant is. Is it some kind of bird? Once someone asked the senate's
chairman wasim sajjad son's
that what your future is. He indicated that man, can you see the building of
parliament house. This is my
future. If someone sees him as senate's chairman or president of Pakistan, one
should be traumatized or
shocked.
The friendship between Adam
and allahyar khan was becoming strong. They shared their secrets each other.
Adam told him straight away
that he is illegal immigrant but allahyar khan has different story.
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Allahyar khan's parent wanted
that he should marry in Pakistan with some Pakistani girl. So like this
allahyar
khan will be connected with
Pakistani culture and civilisation. He will remember his norms and traditions.
Allahyar was beautiful,
handsome and educated person. He was able to read and write Urdu as well other
than
English. He was little bit
philanderer. He never mentioned anyone about his affair and things like these.
Out
of the blue he met with
Spanish girl. Cupid's arrow hit his heart and injured him. As everyone knows
that
Cupid is blind so he didn't
know that both of them have different religion, country, creed and clan.
They were madly in love among
each other, they forgot about everything around them. Adam tried you to
convince allahyar khan with
concrete fact but he was madly in love with that Spanish girl. Both of them
were
free. There were not under
any obligation. There was restriction on them to travel from place to another,
from
one country to another.
According to British law his parents were not allowed to stop him and Maria
Andria
de buonca's parents were not
allowed to stop her according to Spanish law. Maria came to London with great
desires to marry allahyar in
the court and allahyar did the same thing many times he has been to Segovia
just
to sort out the situation but
whenever they tried some hurdle came in their way. Whenever allahyar khan has
been to Spanish city Segovia,
Maria's mother went all the way long to Madrid to find halal (slaughter
according to Islam law) meat
for allahyar khan, This only because he was her daughters lover. As a matter of
fact Segovia was hundred
kilometre far from Madrid. In front of her daughter's love, this distance was
very
small. She knew that they
can't live without each other.
Maria wasn't like other
European girls, who make boyfriends and change them frequently, when they feel
that
they are getting old they
find someone and marry. Right from the very beginning she was looking for
someone very trustworthy and
dependable person. Maria and allahyar tried to live together but there wasn't
any solution so Maria took
the step and she decided to stay from allahyar. Allahyar tried his level best to
keep
his relationship but
allahyar's culture and religion was the greatest obstacle. Allahyar was modern
Romeo, so
he used to see all those
benches and phone boxes where they used to sit and phone, where they swore to
live
together forever. So allahyar
tried last time and went to Segovia to sort out his love affair but she refused
to
see him. He went to visit her
on all tapas bars where they used to sit and Maria used to come to these tapas
bars with her friends. So
allahyar couldn't see Maria even though she was in Segovia and he came back to
London with broken heart. I
wish if cupid would have eyes, he would have been able to see. That allahyar
khan is Muslim and
unfortunately he is British citizen and he wasn't born Muslim and in England
with his
own will and Maria is Spanish
and Christian and she wasn't born in Segovia in Christian family with her own
will.
Anyway allahyar came to
London and he tried to forget her. He wasn't happy in London so he thought he
should go to her parents and
stay with them and he did what he thought. He went to Bradford but whenever he
has been to London he came to
see Adam as well. On the other hand Adam's love story was based on
imaginations. It didn't exist
physically. Nadia behram kharal belonged to rich family and there was age
difference as well and they
were very far from each other. There was a lot of age difference. During his
four
years stay in Europe he
phoned her only on her birthdays. He had to disconnect whenever her dad came
because Nadia wasn't allowed
to speak with someone in her father's presence.
Where Adam was working at
that chicken shop there was another Pakistani. In the beginning he kept
distance
and he tried to avoid Adam as
much as he could but slowly they started knowing each other and finally they
became close friend.
Abulkalam Bajwa belonged to backward area of Lahore and after completing
matriculation he decided to
leave Pakistan because his family's financial condition wasn't very good. The
speciality of bajwa was that
that he was the first person who wasn't landlord and rich. He told him that he
came to Europe for the
betterment of his family and for his life too. Bajwa and Adam had nearly same
story.
Bajwa left Pakistan because
of his poverty and Adam left Pakistan because he was unable to find and decide
his destination.
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It was very difficult for
Adam to come to Fulham Broadway from Hounslow west. He used to mention his
problem to bajwa so he gave
him option that he can come and stay with them. He said, "Why don't you
come
and stay with us. You pay
them rent and you pay rent to us, what's the difference. Wimbledon isn't very
far
from Fulham Broadway".
So took his belongings and moved at Bajwa's house. All of them accepted him
warmheartedly. The
environment of this house was entirely different from Sufi sattar's house. Most
of the
guys were living in London on
student visa. They were studying different things. One of them was studying
accountancy; one of them was
doing F.R.C.S. (fellow of royal college of surgeon). Some of them were
studying law. Everyone was
busy in his life. This was the first time that Adam was seeing this kind of
atmosphere and milieu in
Europe. Most of them used to do cabing at night till late and in the evening
used to
attend their classes like
this they were not burden for their family and they were living on their own.
Some of
them were supporting their
family as well. None of them were from village. Two of them from Peshawar, two
of them were from Karachi and
bajwa was from Lahore and Adam was the only person who was from
Rawalpindi. Adam started
thinking about when he was in college. He started thinking when he used to sit
on
Anwar café and driver's
hotel. It seemed like yesterday. Adam used to have good time with these guys.
They used to talk about
poetry, literature and about different parts of Pakistan. They used to go to
watch films
together. Now his life was
full of hilarity and glee. He was floating in dreams.
Iran, turkey, Yunnan, Italy,
France and now he was in England's capitol London. He met everywhere with
different kind of people. In
fact they weren't different; it was him who was entirely revolutionized.
The speciality of London was
that that over here there was no system of checking documents. It was used to
be like that in other
European countries, when he has seen some police man he had to hide himself. He
used to
be baffled to see them. In
London it was different. He never felt like that, police passed many times
close to
him but he didn't care.
Adam knew that much law that
the British police won't touch him until he break the law or he will do some
crime. In other European
countries it isn't like that. Their police have permission and right to check
your
documents either they suspect
or not but in England it wasn't allowed. He knew so many people in London
who were living here as
illegal immigrants from last ten years but they never faced any awkward
situation.
Abulkalam bajwa, Amir
sharanpuri, rizwan sheikh, nadeem kazmi, Wahid shirazi, and Adam khan chughtai
were living in Wimbledon like
they were living in some alley way of Pakistan.
Adam used to tell his travel
adventures and they used to feel very strange because accept bajwa all of them
on
student visa. When he told
them that he was in final year of philosophy and he decided to come to Europe
by
illegal means. Although, it
would have been very easy for him to find student visa of England or Canada and
he could have been living
here with legal document and in respectable manners. The strangest over here
was
that that nobody asked him,
"picho kithay day o" (where you from).
Amir Sharanpuri was cleaning
his car with lot of care. He was cleaning everything. Seat covers, mats,
handles, doors and whatever he
has seen dirty. Nobody knew where he was going. The story was like that he
gave an advertisement in Jung
London's newspaper to find compatible match for him. Lots of people phoned
him. Somebody refused him
because of cast and clan, somebody refused him because of student visa and
somebody criticizes his
height and complexion. Today he was visiting some family; they were interested
to
see him. So he was going
there bardikhawa or bardikhlawa (it's a custom that the parents of girl wants
to see
groom before marriage, it's
only in arrange marriages). They didn't ask him any question so he was happy
that
his situation will be sorted
out. On the other hand his other companions were not willing to stay in London
on
permanent basis. It was only
him, Amir Sharanpuri. Rizwan sheikh wanted to go back to Karachi, nadeem
kazmi and Wahid shirazi had
the same desires.
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Nadeem shirazi was in funny
mode, "I have heard that Amir is going to see some girl".
Bajwa said, "Yar tuhanon
ki" (what is your problem).
Rizwan, "bajwa bhae, we
don't understand your Punjabi even if we do understand, we are unable to
speak".
Wahid threw some oil on the
fire, "just imagine how he will be look like this Shorty as groom"?
Amir started cursing and
abusing everyone. Adam intervened in matter and said, "Amir are you taking
someone with you or you are
going on your own".
Amir responded him, "oh
my god, I didn't realise. Why don't you come with me? Two are better than one.
I
will have some courage as
well".
Adam was reluctant to go
there. He said, "What should I do over there. If I will say something
wrong, I will
ruin everything".
Amir said in way that he was
forcing him. "It doesn't matter. I don't want to take none of these. They
will
mess up everything not
you".
Now it was nearly impossible
to say no so he said, "Okay I will go with you but when"?
Amir said contentedly and
gleefully, "this evening, it's your day off as well".
Bajwa teased him, "no
no, today there is Chelsea's football match. He has to go for work. There will
be a lot
of mess".
Amir started running behind
bajwa and he had sponge in his hand. He was running and cursing him as well.
Kazmi said in loud voice,
"you know the girl's parent will ask you to sit in tub all naked, just to
check you
either there is some leakage
or not. If they will see some bubbles. You know what I mean".
Amir tried to clarify his
situation, "I haven't anything like this that the bubbles will come out.
These things
happens in your area not in
our side"
Kazmi responded. He said,
"My dear it's not the question of area. It's a condition, when time comes,
anyone
does this".
Rizwan wanted to flare him
up, "it's the matter of taste. Anyway people haven't got that bad
taste".
Wahid re-entered in
conversation and said, "Oh! You people don't about this matter, there are
many people
who don't give a shit that
what sort of is"?
Bajwa said, "There must
have been but not that much".
Adam pulled his leg in a very
delicate style, "what's wrong with you people, this is his personal
matter.
Anyway it's an art, even fine
art. We are living in such a country where these things aren't matter of shame.
It's a democratic country.
Everyone has his own life".
After hearing this Amir was
feeling better. He addressed Adam and said, "Adam bhae, what are you
talking
about. You are convincing
these people. They won't be able to understand".
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Adam wanted to change the
topic so he said, "anyway Amir Bhae, where and when we have to go"?
Amir's moral was little bit
higher. He said, "today at seven 'o' clock in the evening. They have
invited us for
tea. We have to go to
Walthamstow".
Adam nodded in yes and said,
"Okay, but what about outfit, any dress codes".
Amir said, "The way you
want. Anyway you have been to whole Europe. You know better than me. What
should one's wears at these
types of occasions".
Adam said, "I know but
today you should be looking good and better than me. They will see you and it's
the
matter of your future".
Amir praised him and said,
"These are the things I like in your personality. You are the first person
I have
ever met from Rawalpindi who
is intelligent otherwise most of them are phaphay (brother but means duffer)".
Adam said, "And phaphay
niray siyapay hotay hein" (and these phaphay are mostly piss taker).
Amir asked him astonishingly,
"what are niray siyapay"?
Adam responded him
laughingly, "you won't be able to understand"
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Amir Sharanpuri and Adam khan
chughtai both of them were standing outside the girl's house. Amir pressed
the bell. They were waiting
for them so the door was opened swiftly. The man who opened the door he was
aged. He invited them to come
inside. He guided them towards there drawing room. They entered and sat on
the futon. Amir was sitting
quietly and Adam was monitoring the room. There were many quranic verses were
hanged on the walls. At one
corner of the room there was aquarium and inside the aquarium multicoloured
fishes were hovering. At one
corner there were few black and white photos in were framed in wooden frames.
The drawing room was carpeted
but the carpet was tattered and damaged from many places and from some
places the floor was visible.
There was cupboard as well and which had some books and Adam was unable to
read their titles because he
was very far. In the meanwhile that aged man who opened the door for them, he
entered with a lady. Amir and
Adam stood up for their respect. Those gentleman and lady said together,
"sit
down please".
They sat again on sofa that
aged man broke the ice and said, "Who is sharanpuri among you"?
Amir said swiftly, "it's
me. I am sorry my name is Amir Sharanpuri and he is my friend Adam khan
chughtai".
He grabbed his hand and
pressed it and continued, "my brother, friend and bazurgh (elder and
respectable
person), for me he is
everything".
That aged man introduced
himself and said, "My son, my name is shamsuddin sheikh. She is my wife.
We
have two daughters, one is
married and other is still waiting for compatible match" (as he said his
wife
pinched him so he changed the
track and continued, "What I mean to say many people came but we have
given permission to our
daughter to select the person after all it's her life".
Amir and Adam said
collectively, "yes off course, it should be like that".
During the conversation they
came to know that sheikh sahib came to London to get diploma is accountancy
and decided to stay here. He
wanted to go back but the company where he was working they didn't allow him
to go back. He must be very
hard working and efficient.
While they were talking, you
can't girl but she was a lady, she must thirty or above thirty, she was wearing
shalwar qameez and she
wrapped herself with dopatta (big scarf kind of thing), she entered in drawing
room
carrying tea trolley with
biscuits and other food stuff. She said hello to everyone and then she said
Salam
lekum which was
asalam-o-alaykum. After making tea for everyone she sat in the corner quietly.
Adam thought for a while that
either he is Pakistan or in London. The girl wasn't very beautiful but wasn't
bad
at all. During this period
sheikh sahib was talking with Adam. Amir didn't say anything, he was quiet. The
girl's mother addressed her
majazi khuda (virtual god), excuse me, I think if boy and girl sit in a
separate room
and discuss if they like
because it's their life".
The girl's mother took Amir
and her daughter in a separate room so they can talk privately.
This was Adam's first
experience that he came with someone for asking the hand of someone's daughter.
He
felt that he is in some
marriage bureau. On the other side Amir was giving his interview.
The girl asked him first
question.
"What is your
name"?
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Amir: gee Amir
Sharanpuri".
Girl: my name is Leila
bint-e-shamas. What you do Amir in London"?
Amir: gee, this is my last
year in M.B.A. (masters in business administration) and you"?
Leila: I have done I.T. I
mean, I have done degree in information technology. I am working in a
firm".
Amir asked her strange
question, "what you think when someone comes to see you"?
Leila responded him humbly,
"i don't feel strange because i see new people every day. It's the part of
my life.
My parent wants me to marry
someone".
Amir said, "You can find
someone here. Why a Pakistani, who hasn't got permanent stay in England. Who is
here for studying and his
status is different than you people. The one who hasn't got any future until
yet"?
Leila said, "you are
very right, I can marry anyone but (she laughed in a very strange way, it sound
like that
that there was less happiness
and more agony in it) I can't marry to anyone. I can't marry against my parents
will".
Amir said perplexedly,
"Miss Leila you are born here".
Leila responded him calmly,
"it's true that I am British citizen, according to law nobody can force me
but our
culture and civilisation
stops us or you can say my parent's culture and civilisation stops them. Our
parents ran
away from their country due
to economic problems when their children born here they started lamenting for
their culture and
civilisation. If they love their culture and civilisation norm and traditions,
than they should
leave their country, their
norms and traditions, culture and civilisation. The people who have male kids
they
aren't ashamed of this
society, but the people who have female kids they don't like this culture and
they started
believing that European
society vulgar and obscene. Although, what I believe that there couldn't be any
man
of Asian society who hasn't
been to red light area, the same thing does a girl than they realise that they
are
Muslim. They remember their
culture and civilisation. I know neither our parents nor we are the culprit of
this
cultural schism but we are
the one who suffer a lot. We spend our whole life on the horns of dilemma. At
one
place we have to follow
Pakistani culture and on other side we have to follow British or European
culture. It's
true, our certain cultural
things are good and few things they have better than us. Like European juvenile
age
is very colourful and in
Pakistan old people live in peace and harmony, European money and Pakistani
facilities".
Amir thought that he touched
her wound. Amir was a little bit confused. He wanted to change the topic so he
said, "can i ask you a
personal question if you don't mind"?
Leila said, "why not,
you can ask me any question".
Amir just said,
"You".
Leila said swiftly like he
knew what will be the next question, "you want to know why i am not
married until
now. The reason is that that
i can't marry where i want to marry. When i completed my 'A' levels, all of us
went to Karachi. I am sorry i
haven't told you that my parents are from north Naziabad. We have two
bungalows there. One we have
rented out my uncle lives in other bungalow. So i was telling you, my parents
wanted me to marry with one
of my cousin but you will be shocked to hear that even though i was British
citizen, none of my cousin
accepted. This is like ten years old story. All my cousins had their girl
friends. My
parents came back
discontentedly. So like this i kept myself busy in my studies".
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Amir was very frightened and
nervous. He asked her, "what about British born Pakistani guys"?
Leila said, "my parents
believe that the guys who are British born, they drink alcohol and they keep
their
relationships with white
girls as well after marriage".
Amir said courageously,
"people do drink alcohol in Pakistan as well. What's the problem"?
Leila said, "These
things you explain to my parents. By the way Amir sahib why you want to marry
with me"?
(This phrase she said in an
exclamatory way).
Adam was a little bit
mortified. He said, "The things".
Leila didn't allow him to
complete his sentence and said, "I know what you want. You want have,
leave to
enter stamp on your
passport".
Amir wanted to elucidate and
clarify his situation so he said, "it's not like that, you might have
heard about
Karachi's political
problems".
Leila, "but i have that
the things are getting better".
Amir was agreed what she was
saying so he said, "Its true things are getting better but where i live
the
situation is still
critical".
Leila asked, "Where you
live".
Amir responded, "I live
in Kharadar".
Leila said, "You live in
the heart of Karachi".
Amir said enquiringly,
"have you seen Karachi"?
Leila said, "I adore
Karachi, i love that city whatever it has".
Leila took a little pause and
continued her conversation in ironical and satirical way, "you must love
Karachi
but the problem is that you
don't want to live there".
Amir was confused and
baffled. He didn't what he should say. He controlled himself and said,
"It's not the
truth, my parent wants me to
marry where they want but i want to live my life the way i want. So i want to
marry here. When they will
come to know that i am married they will stop bothering me and although they
will be exasperated and
annoyed but at last they will forgive".
Leila said sardonically and
ironically, "If your sister does the same thing what you will think of
it"?
Amir said, "I don't
mind. Everyone has his own life and he is allowed to live the way he wants to
live".
Leila said, "These are
all bookish things. The real world is different".
Amir convincingly said,
"I am very broad minded about these matters".
Leila wanted to check Amir's
broad and open mindedness so she said, "if you see your sister doing
French
kissing right in the middle
of the street with some boy, will you be able to tolerate it although you must
have
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seen many boys and girls
doing in the streets. You must have done many times. You can do it because you
are
a man"
Amir's condition was very bad
like somebody has sucked the whole blood from his body. He didn't realise that
he will face this situation.
When Leila saw that Amir isn't saying anything she continued the conversation,
"Anyway you are lucky my
parent didn't check your height and they haven't taken the test of your Urdu
and
English. The people who came
before you, they have checked their teeth as well. As they know that i am
getting old and so now they
are little bit lenient. Now they say that i can find some guy on my own. Now
everything depends upon me,
anyway if my parents like you than i won't mind marrying you. It's like
television, chair and other
household things which you need, for me same is the case for having husband.
Okay Allah hafiz; if i said
something wrong please forgive me. It's my habit now because on every Sunday
my parents invite someone. I
never said something like but today i couldn't stop myself. I have said what i
wanted to".
When Amir was leaving the
room it's was nearly impossible to for him to leave the room. When he left the
room, is head was down face
was weird. As he entered in drawing he said, "Lets' go Adam".
Shamsuddin sheikh said, okay
my son we will phone you whatever we will decide, anyway everything
depends upon our daughter.
She is the one who will decide. You are okay for us but (he was looking at
Amir's
height)".
He didn't complete his
sentence; Amir took the permission and came home. Adam asked him many times but
he didn't say anything.
It has been two years that
Adam was living in London. Police never checked or controlled him. Nobody asked
him either he is legal or
illegal in London.
Whenever he had day off he
has been to some historical or tourist place to see. He had great desires to
see
things in Turkey, Yunnan and
Italy but he never told anybody but here in London he saw all those places what
he wanted to see. He has been
to National Gallery, Tate Gallery, Buckingham Palace, London Bridge,
Hayward Gallery, Saint Paul
church, Westminster Abbey, parliament house, Tower of London, Madam
Tassaud Museum, British
museum, Big Ben and Victoria and Albert Museum.
Adam had a chance to see
Charles dickens house where he stayed from 1837 to 1839. He wrote three famous
novels in this house, Oliver
Twist, Pickwick Paper and Nicolas Nickelby. Other than that he has seen the
houses of John Keats, Karl
Marx, Mohan Chand Gandhi, D. H. Lawrence, Shelley, Leigh Hunt and William
Makepeace Thackeray.
When Adam came to know about
Crystal Palace he got shocked. In 1851 a fair was inaugurated in Hyde Park.
The most beautiful thing in
that fair was crystal palace. In 1851 from May to October six million people
have
visited this palace. There
was fire in this palace in 1936 so this palace was converted in to ashes. Now
you can
see this monument only in
photos.
Other than this royal
festival hall was built in 1951. As London was famous for historical building
on the
other hand new things were
constructed as well like telecom tower which is 180 metre high and it was
inaugurated on 1964. Lloyd
palace is a modern building this was designed by famous architect Richard
Robert. It was opened for
public in 1984. The Canada tower is the tallest building of London and it
height is
250 metre. The charring
cross's building is new as well and it has been constructed across the Thames
River.
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As the Muslim's population
was increasing in London so they needed mosques as well. Two mosques are very
famous, one is Jammea Masjid
Brick Lane (central mosques brick lane) and other is in Regent Park.
Brick lane's mosque's
building was built in 1743 but it was Jews synagogue and it was converted into
mosque
in twentieth century. At the
entrance gate of this mosque is still written in Latin, "Ombra
Sumus". Lots of
Bengalis live in this area.
The biggest mosque of London
is called Jammea Masjid London or Regent Park mosque. This mosque is in
between trees. This mosque
was built under the supervision of Sir Frederic Gibbard in 1978. One thousand
and eight hundred people can
offer their namaz (prayer) in this mosque.
While they were working bajwa
told Adam that today we will go to Equinox discotheque after finishing work.
Kazmi, sheikh, shirazi and
sharanpuri will be there. There friend has came from Pakistan so they want to
enjoy this evening. He is the
son of some M.N.A. (member of national assembly). They have specially invited
you because you are good
dancer and tomorrow you are free as well.
Adam said, "It all right
but how we will come back".
Bajwa said, "You needn't
to worry about it. They have cars. They will give us lift definitely".
Adam and bajwa were knackered
due to working hard in the shop but when they saw loads of people in queue
outside the discotheque
equinox they forget everything and Adam starts moving in queue. At the ticket
counter there was very
beautiful girl who was fully made up. There were millions of lights here which
were
sparkling and shining. It
must have been mid night. Everything was visible like a day light because it
was
flood of lights. They bought
tickets hurriedly and entered inside. They went to cloakroom and stood in the
queue once again. At their
turn they have given their jackets and she took one pound each and given them
token. They kept their tokens
at safe place and entered in the main hall which was dancing floor. There were
loads of colourful lights
which were blinking and flashing with music. The whole equinox was banging with
strident and piercing sound
of techno music. Adam was wearing black T-shirt and black jeans. As he heard
techno music he was out of
his senses, he forgot everything and started dancing. It as they were standing
in
the corner, they heard the
voice of sharanpuri. They did hear what he was saying than he came closer to
them.
He guided them where they
dancing. Their sweaters and jackets were in the middle placed on the floor.
They
were dancing around this heap
of jackets and sweaters. Some of them were carrying bear and some of them
were carrying coca cola. Adam
bought himself bottle of water giving them company. The discotheque was
jam pack. Boys and girls were
dancing on techno music frantically. It seemed like that that they don't care
about this world. This is all
because of techno music. Nadeem kazmi came closer to Adam and he said loudly,
"if you want to find a
girl in discotheque, go to women's toilette because they can't piss in standing
position.
You will find many outside
the toilette waiting for their turn".
Adam started laughing and he
thought what kind of person he is. He is very innovative and he has versatile
ideas. All of a sudden the
deejay played run D.M.C. and Jason Navin's song "It's like that and that's
the way it
is, check this out". The
whole Equinox was waiting for this song. Everyone started showing his talent.
Someone was waving, someone
was doing knee spin, someone was doing head spin and someone was doing
back spin. Adam wasn't very
good but he was better than many. He started doing break dance and came in the
middle of the dancing floor.
He did many steps but when he performed back spin everyone appreciated and
clapped for him. While he was
dancing a Jamaican came in the middle of the dancing floor. He was very slim
and smart. He started his
performance. He was very good dancer, Adam had to leave so he left the floor.
That
Jamaican boy shocked
everyone. Finally he did wind mill which is very difficult. Everyone
appreciated and
praised him. Adam clapped for
him as well.
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Adam had been to Ministry of
Sound (its Europe biggest discotheque apart Ibiza's discotheque on Spanish
Island) once with Allahyar
Khan. He had good time there and today he was having good time with his
friends.
Everyone said we get drunk
with bear and get drunk with water.
Four 'o' clock in the morning
they left equinox and they were dying of hunger. There is mc. Donald few steps
far from discotheque. Either
its hot weather or cold especially on Friday and Saturday night this part of
London is always busy on
weekends and mostly at night. Where there is equinox there is another
discotheque
called hippodrome and
Piccadilly Circus's underground station is here as well and on the other side
of the road
is Leicester square tube
station so because of these two main stop this area is always busy.
They ate swiftly in McDonald
and took their way to home. Everyone appreciated Adam's dance. They heard
about him that he is good
dancer but they didn't know that he that much good. All of them were little bit
tipsy
and they were making so much
noise and they were thinking that nobody can hear them. As they switched off
their cars outside the house
they banged their cars door one after another. One of them opened the main door's
lock and all of them entered
inside the house. It was nearly dawn and they were able to see things. It was
quiet
and calm in this part of
Wimbledon area so it was very easy to hear their noise very far. Next to them
there
was some Pakistani who was living
with his wife and kids and he very annoyed with them. He used to have
argues with them about making
noise today when they came he woke up and switched on the light and then he
switched off again.
Adam requested to keep quiet
but nobody wanted to listen what he was saying. All of them were drunk and
tipsy. There next door
neighbour banged the wall once but they didn't pay attention finally they went
to their
rooms and slept there.
The bell was ringing. Adam
thought that he is dreaming, he woke up and move the window's curtain it was
enough light outside. He
thought there must be someone to see them. He went to the main door and opened
the door. Three policemen
showed their id card and entered inside the house. Adam didn't have time to ask
them for search warrant. They
scattered everywhere. They started removing quilts and blankets to wake them
up. They thought their
neighbour complained so that's why they were here. The truth wasn't this. In
fact some
Asian guy beat up some police
man and they found this address on his id. They were searching him. They
asked everyone for documents.
Four of them were on student visa and bajwa had political asylum. Adam was
the only person who hadn't
has documents. On suspicious bases they took him and during investigation they
found that Adam is illegal
immigrant. They kept him in a detention cell which was near to Heathrow
airport.
Adam wasn't ready for this
catastrophe. He never thought of it that he this will happen with him in
England.
He phoned bajwa from
detention cell. He was very exasperated and infuriated and said that why he
hasn't told
them that he hasn't got
documents. We thought you must be on political asylum.
In detention cell they
offered him to apply for political asylum but Adam refused their proposal even
though
they were providing him free
legal advisor or lawyer. His friend forced him requested him that don't miss
the
chance but he didn't listen
to anyone. At last Bajwa made his baggage ready and brought everything in
detention cell. This was his
last rendezvous. Adam had some saving. He thought he will start some small
business in Pakistan or if it
will be possible, he will marry with Lolita.
Two retired soldiers
accompanied Adam up to aeroplane. Adam thought they will leave him in aeroplane
and
go back but living illegally
in England was a crime so it was their duty to accompany him up the border of
Pakistan. They have given
Adam's passport to pilot and sat next to Adam in the aeroplane. Both of them
were
very nice with Adam. One of
them said, "You would have marry with some Pakistani girl or you would
have
applied for political asylum
so like that you would have chance to stay in England. You know how difficult
it
is to get British visa. There
is always a long queue outside the embassy".
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Adam said, "How do you
know that"?
So he responded, "One of
my cousin he gave expensive gifts to get job in British High Commission in
Pakistan. He comes every year
on holidays and he tells us different kind of stories".
Adam got shocked after
hearing these retired soldiers stories.
Eight 'o' clock in the
morning the aeroplane arrived in Rawalpindi and Islamabad's area. Adam had a
glance
from windows there were small
houses and Islamabad was like a patch of land with many small boxes.
Aeroplane's speed was
lessoning slowly and it was coming closer to runway. It has been five years or
more
since he left Pakistan and
this was his first experience air travel. Before he travelled by road and after
turkey
he used the illegal way to
enter in Yunnan, Italy, France and England. Adam was thinking about his fate
and
luck that where he had the
chance or deportation, he wasn't deported from those countries and from England
he never even thought of it
but they deported him. He was very happy that he coming home. He will step on
his mother land. He won't be
afraid of police. Nobody will humiliate him. He will laugh and breathe in his
own country. Nobody will say
"documenti, papier s'il vous plait" (show me your documents). Over
here
nobody will say either you
are legal or illegal. The aeroplane stopped with a jerk and his imagination got
interrupted. Aeroplane was at
the corner of the Rawalpindi-Islamabad airport and an escalator was attached
with the doors of aeroplane.
The passenger started getting off from the aeroplane. All the passenger went to
the immigration counter to
get their passports stamped and after this they were going to the baggage belt
to
get their bag but these two
soldiers left Adam in federal investigation agency's custody and said good bye
to
Adam and left him.
They brought him a small
room. The F.I.A.'s workers were walking to and fro. Someone was ogling at him
some of them were asking,
"who he is"? The answer was, "he is from Bartania" (England
or Britain). They
have deported him. Someone
said, "Than he must have a lot of money". One of them said,
"They apply
political asylum there and
disgrace their country". One of them said, "They live voluptuous life
there. The
alcohol is easily available
there that's why when they come back from there they are very healthy and
strong".
Adam was sitting there and
listening everyone, what they were saying. A guy came and said, "The big
officer
wants to see you". Adam
was bewildered and panicky that what happened to him. He was at his homeland
from last two hours and he
was still in the airport. Adam followed that gentleman and he took him in a
cabin.
As he stepped in the cabin,
he saw a man was sitting in the cabin without uniform. He was sitting on a
chair
and his head was towards the
pile of files. He indicated Adam with his hand to sit down. He guy who brought
him here, the big officer
ordered him to get some soft drink or tea with biscuits. Then he addressed
Adam,
"my son you have
committed crime. If you go in details, your case will be more complicated. So
do what i am
telling you. He typed some
numbers on calculator's screen and showed to Adam and said, "You have to
give
nazrana (baksheesh) and you
will be free from here without any problem". Adam glanced at it, twenty
thousand rupees. He said,
"Pounds will be fine". That gentleman said, "Yes off course, why
not. You go to
wash room. I will send
someone with you. You give him two hundred and fifty pound". Adam looked around,
he saw the cameras and he
understood everything. That big officer pressed a button which was underneath
his
table. Adam went with that
gentleman who came with bell's voice. He accompanied him up to wash room.
Adam gave him two hundred and
fifty pound. That gentleman said, "Give me fifty pound as well".
Adam gave him fifty pound too
than both of them came to big officer. That gentleman winked his eye, which
was the sign of okay. The big
officer offered Adam him to sit down. The tea was being served. Adam took tea
swiftly and hastily and he
wanted to say khuda hafiz but big officer gave him his visiting card and said,
"my
son if you have any problem,
just ring on my mobile number and listen if someone ask you about me just tell
them he is my uncle. He was
just saying hello, hi. I hope you won't say anything stupid".
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Adam was very shrewd and
sagacious now. He did what that big officer said. That gentleman came with him
and he told everyone that he
is A.B.C.'s relative. Everyone has given him way. As he came out, carrying his
trolley. It was outlandish
and weird scene. There were many men with big moustaches and they were wearing
starched shalwar qameez.
There were women, kids girls were waving to people who were coming out from
airport. Everyone was
shouting for his relative. At one corner there were private taxi driver were
shouting.
"Hat oay hat ay mayra
ay" (stay away he is mine)
Naye oay naye ay mayra
ay" (no no he is mine)
"Ao gee bao gee kithay
janran ay" (Sir, where you want to go?)
One of them tried his levels
best, "hello come my car".
Adam was so confused because
they detain him. He forgot to change money.
After seeing certain things
Adam felt very strange and bizarre that people were walking at the airport like
it
was a picnic spot. Same is
the case with hospitals in Pakistan.
Adam saw a taxi driver, he
seemed like a gentleman. It doesn't mean that other taxi driver weren't
gentlemen
the reason he selected him
because he wasn't shouting a lot. Adam was going towards him, suddenly a boy
came in front of him. He was
shuffling some plastic cards. He said, "Excuse me do you want to phone
somewhere". Adam just
wanted to get rid of him so he said, "no i don't need to. I am coming from
Lahore".
He sorted out like this the
situation.
He put his baggage on taxi's
roof and sat next to driver. He started breathing at a fast pace. He was
breathing
in free air of a free
country. Over here nobody will ask him, "pind kayrah ay". What is the
name of you village
or "picho kithay day
o" where you from? He was sick of all these phrases.
Taxi left the airports
environs and vicinity. The light poles, eclectic wires and the scenarios around
him were
wacky and uncanny. He started
thinking that when he left Pakistan this place as it is the way it was before.
There was no change in it. He
didn't like the traffic system. It was unorganized and undisciplined. Nobody
was following his lane. All
cars were giving horn each other to get way. On the other hand in Europe if
someone gives you horn, it
means you break some traffic rule or you made some mistake and he gave you
horn as a curse or
indication. Sometime if someone gets marry, all the cars with couple they
klaxon. If
someone is switching on and
off the head lights of his car, it means there is some kind of checking or
there is
some speed control camera so
he should control his speed limit.
Adam thought many times his
taxi driver will hit some car but it didn't happen. There taxi was very near to
Punj Sarki patrol pump
(pentagonal road's petrol pump). The taxi driver followed Adam's instruction s
and
turned his car in alley way
and he stopped the car in front of his house. There was creep sound of breaks
and
finally he was at home.
Adam didn't have Pakistani
currency so he gave ten pound to taxi driver and him said, "bao gee give
me
hundred pounds". Adam
started thinking, what kind of person he is, to earn hundred pound i have to
stand on
foot for ten hours for one
week, which means sixty hour and then i get hundred pound. Above all i have to
hear boss's taunts as well.
This gentleman how calmly said; give me hundred pounds like they are hundred
rupees. Adam forced him to
get ten pound and took his bag from taxi's roof. The taxi driver was very
annoyed
he was mumbling something,
might be cursing him. He starts the taxi and went away.
Chapter 18: Soho 2
SANYEEN INTERNET
In must be afternoon. There
was no one in the street. Adam pressed the bell of his house. There was no
respond. He placed him
suitcase in front of his house and sat there. He thought many times that go to
kharal
sahib's house than he thought
he should go to najma begum's house but it wasn't nice. He started thinking
while he sitting on his
suitcase that he has been all around the Europe and he again there where he has
started
his voyage. All the houses in
the street were reconstructed except their house. He and daowd left home
together and daowd nearly
achieved his goal but Adam didn't find his destiny. He was very tired of this
long
travel so while he was
thinking, he slept on suitcase.
Chapter 18: Soho 2
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