Thank You All

When I got the first position in Media and journalism I received many encouraging comments on facebook and messages on my cell phone. Here I want to share those encouraging words which I received on my cell on 9^th September 2013 with time mentioned, in order to thank all those who are in this list and my thanks also goes to those who congratulated me in person.

1.“Mani Waja Tara First Position Murad Bat, Feeling proud of you.”  (05:43:19pm) Malik Mahammad Baloch

2. “Congratulations” (06:28:09pm) Jeeyand Kashif Sajidi

3. “Congratulations dear for your huge success.” (06:32:00pm) Rashid Faiz

4.  “Gon Dil e Johlanka tra Mubarak Bebat Pull.” (06:43:04pm) Ameen Jan Naeem

5.“Congratulations dear. I’ve heard you have gotten the 1^st Position.” (06:44:09pm) Javid Abdullah

6.“Nice, Fabulous, Fantastic, Congratulations.” (06:46:46pm) Aziz Ejaz

7. “Congratulations” (06:47:08pm) A.B Hasrat

8.  “Pull Baaz Baaz Mubarak Tara Position.” (06:49:16pm) Mujahid Baloch

9.  “Very, very Congratulations dear. Feeling very proud and the head got raised to look the sky         again.” (06:50:37pm) Adnan Akhtar

10.“Mubarak Pull Tara.” (06:51:30pm) Hussain Jan

11.“Mubarak Paty.” (06:57:52pm) Nadir Nizar

12.  “Awesome lead 73 marks, Great.” (07:03:33pm) Adnan Akhtar

13.“Waja Tara Mubarak Bat.” (07:20:01pm) Namroz Badal

14.“Congratulations dude.” (07:27:45pm) Asif Mengal

15.“Congratulations to you for your 1^st Position. We are highly proud of you and expect such more performances and achievements from you. God may shower his blessings on you. Good Luck.” Waseem Kareem

16. “Great” (07:34:12”pm) Baloch Khan

17.“Record marks, you got. Great achievement.” (07:42:56pm) Sir, Ajaz Baloch

18.“Dear brother, Baaz Baaz Mubarak Beth Tara for securing 1^st Position. Congratulations.”  (07:52:40 pm) Sir, Faheem Baloch

19.“Zakir Jan Congratulations! You get the same in every step of life.” (07:54:21pm)Shams-Ul-Haq

20.“ Tara Mubarak Be Beth Jan” (09:00:47pm) Aman Baloch

21.“Mubarak Baath Tara” (09:05:48pm) Lala Faheem Baloch

22.“Till you don’t to my room , I would not congratulate you… ok…. (09:12:31pm) Muslim Shafi

23.“Congratulations on your success dr.” (09:21:02pm) Naveed Bilal

24.“Apko Boht Boht Mubarak Ho, Allah Tumahin Kamyabian Ata Kary Aameen.” (10:11:12pm) Imran Khan

25.      “Jan Tara Mubarak Bath Position Gon Dil-e Johlanka” (11:18:05pm) Asif Arman

Thank you all for congratulating me on this occasion and thanks to all those who prayed for my success. Your words will always be remembered. Zakir Qadir

Links for facebook comments, congratulating me

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=505205552902170&set=t.100000585385438&type=3&theater

https://www.facebook.com/483985898344780/photos/t.100000585385438/621091561300879/?type=3&theater

The Indigent People of Wealthy Balochistan

BY ZAKIR QADIR SHAMS

The World Bank states in the Economic Report of 2009 that the economy of Punjab expanded by four times while Khybr-Pakhtunkha and Sindh’s economies expanded by 3.6 times but Balochistan’s economy expanded by only 2.7 times.

A region having valuable natural resources will unequivocally subsist economically prosperous.

Balochistan’s geographical sketch has been precisely inscribed by A. W. Hughes, the author of The Country of Balochistan, who said the country of the Baloch tribe has for its northern and north-eastern boundary a large portion of the kingdom of Afghanistan; its eastern frontiers being limited by the British province of Sindh, and its western by the Persian State, while the Arabian Sea washes its southern base for a distance of nearly six hundred miles.

This portion of, 80,000 square miles comprises of valuable mineral resources such as oil, gas, coal, iron-ore, gold, silver, copper, sulphur, gypsum, uranium, Magnetite, Chromite, Barite, Fluorite, Dolomite which are explored in great quantities. (Dr. Shah Mahammad Mari “Baloch Quom”).

Coal (1 million 40 thousand tons) Chromite (found in large quantities), Barite (more than 20 lakh tons), Copper (more than 15 thousand tons) Iron-ore (60 thousand tons), Magnetite (7 thousand 30 thousand tons) Marble, Aragonite (more than 9 million tons), Laterite (more than 1 million 90 thousand tons), Natural Gas (6 million 55 thousand tons), Sulpher (7 million 78 thousand tons), and some others in large stocks in the Baloch land are; stone, sandstone, etc. These wholly fabricate Balochistan rich in natural resource.

A region having such a large sum of natural resources if it is still considered economically weak, then is not that a wrong verdict? And the homeowners endure indigence, is that reasonable? They possess all these minerals, so if they were let to refine and fully utilize them in their own abode, would they remain the same as they are today?

The Baloch have never been given their veritable rights. Their natural resources are being looted and drifted to others and they have been left deprived. In the official documents it is stated that Balochistan is comparatively backward and economic development is needed to deal with significant structural problems, both political and socio-economical.

They conceive the natural wealth, the Fisheries and the Agricultural productions are not adequate to build this region’s economy.

The Sui gas which was found in 1952 in Balochistan is being supplied to every city and region of Pakistan and is aptly named the backbone of the country’s economy but the Baloch are deprived from it.

In Sandak each year approximately 14 thousand 304 tons of copper, 1.47 tons of gold and 2.76 tons of silver is dug out and the income of that is 55 million dollars.

From the district of Chagi only, 48 thousand 591 tons of marbles are drifted to Karachi every year.

The income of Fisheries, only in district of Gawadar, is 280 millions from 83500 metric tons of fish per year.

Coal was found more than 100 years ago in Balochistan and every year more than 15 thousand tons of coal is dug out from the coalmines there.

What do the Balochs obtain out of all this wealth?

Baluchistan, they say, comprises 44% of the total area of Pakistan and has just 5 per cent of the total population, but the tragic point is that among all of these chief and valuable resources, the people in this area do not possess the basic needs of life. They are indigent. They have no clean drinking water, or healthy food, or educational institutes, or health centers or electricity.

Is the natural wealth of Balochistan unable to develop it economically? Can’t this wealth airlift the Baloch from the poverty line?

There is a possibility.

From the upper divulged mineral resources, hold the biggest coastal belt aloof, if only the income from the natural Gas, the Baloch nation would be given the true right, and that should be invested on the buildup and the progression of this region, it would be booming today and the Baloch would be well-housed in richly endowed Balochistan.

Let alone the other mineral resources, if the Baloch nation was given the right to only invest the income of the natural gas for the development and progression of this region, we would have been well-housed living today in a richly endowed Balochistan.
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The delicious dates of Mekuran

The delicious dates of Mekuran

BY Zakir Qadir Shams

Mekuran covering an area of 72,944 square kilometer is a division, like a paradise of the natural resources of Balochistan comprising on districts of Gawadar, Turbat and Panjgure. According to the encyclopedia Britannica, Mekuran is bordering in east are situated Khuzdar and Lasbela districts, in south along with Arabian Sea, in west situated Iran, and in north the Siahan range.

The chief spring crops (jopag) of Makran are wheat and barley, and the autumn season crop (eraht) os Jowar (sorghum). Dates are the main production of Makran which are very famous for this unique varieties and deliciousness.

The scientific name of the Date is ‘Phoenix dactylifera’. The date palm (maach) grows about 12 to 30 feet. Its stem, strongly marked with pruned stubs of old leaf bases, terminates in a crown of graceful, shining, pinnate leaves about 5 meters(16f feet) long. Male and female flowers flourish on separate plants. Under cultivation the females are artificially pollinated process in Mekuran is called Maach Osp, a stalk of the male flower is inserted into a small incision male in the core of the top of female tree. More than thousand dates appease on a single bunch weighing 8kg (18) or more. The fruit gets ripened in the month of July. Then each date is picked individually while harvesting or the entire bunch is cut. The harvesting season in Mekuran is called “Aamen”, starts from July and ends in September. After harvesting dates get dried, in this way, it contains more than 50 percent protein, fat and other matters.

Hundreds of varieties of dates have been discovered in Mekuran. The prominent researcher and author Dr. Hameed Baloch in his book, Mekuran Uhd-e- Kadeem se Uhe-e-Jadeed tak”, writes the names of following varieties of date discovered in Mekuran:

1)Aapdandan                2) Bygamjngi                        3) Halaynee

4) Chapshuk                  5) Nazani                             6) Kounz niad

7) Muzatee                    8) Zard-e- Kallagi                9) Arrisht

10) Barr-i-shakari          11) Dandari                          12) Sabzo

13) Rabia                       14) Dandari-gon                  15) Gurbgo

16) Shingish-Kand         17) Hargi                              18) Sherhri

19) Siah-dop                  20) Miri-e-zard                    21) Panidi

22) Miri-e-surk               23) Jowan-aabo shams       24) Goari

25) Pono                        26) Bindak                           27) Pash-pag

28) Irdiki                        29) Shakari                          30) Kalut

31) Reko                         32) Napagi                          33) Khalas

34) Shapago                   35) Ichko                             36) Pard

37) Zarabad                   38) Siah Gwnak                   39) Shoren app-dandan

40) Haleni-gon               41) Dishtari                          42) Rogini

43) Rogini Bulidia          44) Shuksh                           45) Nazan dazi

46) Jowana Jamkki        47) Aap-rogin                      48) Chepshuk kulonti

49) Jonzo                       50) Masudi                          51) Rago

52) Anguro                     53) Nasua                            54) Wash kung

55) Gonzal                     56) Bor                                 57) Keleri

58) Umbi                        59) Kungo                            60) Jalagi Mulki

61) Jalagi Kohi               62) Jalagi Rustai                  63) Husseni

64) Charpan                   65) Makili                             66) Jawana Siakasz

67) Sadrami                   68) Sharai                            69) Kalesuk

70) Kaler                        71) Kiksi                               72) Boal

73) Kaspaso                   74) Mathab Taza                 75) Kanaro

76) Pesh-nah                 77) wash-nah                       78) Pull

79) Challo                      80) Dos-nah                         81) Posto

82) Gog-nah                   83) Kala dizzaki                   84) Ari

85) Sunt Gurag              86) Kuroch                           87) Barni

88) Baz Khudabun         89) Sohr-dana                      90) Musali

91) Sibil                          92) Passamo                        93) Kalag dir

94) Kulonti                     95) Wakhshi                        96) Wash Kulont

97) Wash Kuiont           98) Asami                             99) Puppo

100) Shunsh                   101) Pachki                         102) Zard-e-rais

103) Kahraba                 104) Suhr                             105) Lango

106) Hush kich               107) Javn Sure

The tragedy is that no plant existing for dates processing in Mekuran and transportation is much troublesome within and out of the region, despite these excellent quality flavor and color. The exporters are not motivated to create domestic or overseas markets about these dates.

Another most appalling tragedy about dates growing is that these are getting devalued economically because as the Palm trees are affected by a worm called Dabas Bug. The dates growing is main industry of Mekuran and it once gives production in year but pest feeds the leaves as a dubes of Palm tree which is scientifically known as ommatissus lybicus. This affects the date plant to photosynthesis and multiplies to sever infestation along the whole tree, which gets hollow and then falls down. 

The high quality dates of Mekuran must be given due value. Processing plants and markets must be established in Turbat and Panjur. The buyers and sellers should be inter-connected and export of dates to abroad requisite, too.

published in the  bolanvoice

Munir Badini: The Author with 90 Novels

By Zakir Qadir

Like other forms of fine arts – such as music, dance, painting, sculpture – literature  is meant to give aesthetic pleasure rather than just serve a utilitarian purpose. It consists of great books notable for literary form or expression.

In the realms of poetry, drama and fiction, the greatest works are selected on aesthetic excellence or the beauty of expression which entitle books to be considered as literature.

Great works of poetry in Balochi have been produced in the past century. On the other hand, Balochi literature has remained devoid of great works in fiction and drama. In recent years, however, some Baloch writers have emerged with prodigious works of fiction with equal aesthetic excellence and beauty of expression. One of them is Munir Ahmed Badini, a fiction writer who has enriched the Balochi literature with ninety novels to his name.

Mr. Badini is a notable writer and has been awarded  “President’s Award for Pride of Performance” for his services to the Balochi literature. He has also been awarded with two national awards from Academy of Letters and also the regional “Mast Tawakli Award” and “Syed Dad Award”.

Munir Ahmed Badini (b 1953) is in his 60s and belongs to Bolanzai clan of the Badini tribe of Rakhshani Balochs from the district of Nushki.

He started writing from an early age. During his college years, he translated Joseph Stalin’s book “Marxism And The National And Colonial Question” into Balochi language but couldn’t publish it. Hewrites fiction in Rakhshani Balochi dialect. The theme of his writing is Baloch society. Compared to other contemporary writers of Balochi, he inscribes fiction with a new taste and is widely read  by the Baloch youth.

Because of the aesthetic pleasure in his writing, his novels have also been translated into English, Urdu and Persian languages.

Mr. Badini says novel has gained much importance in the 21st century; in some parts of the world it has gotten a status after religion. “A Tale of Two Cities” by Charles Dickens has sold 200 million copies and “War and Peace” of Leo Tolstoy’s approximate sales only in Russia were 36.0 million copies. Mr. Badini believes that a writer does not write for awards or commercial purposes but he writes for ideal readers. Although his books are available in the market for sale, he often distributes them freely among the youth.

Badini is inspired by “Sartre’s Idea of Freedom”. Consequently, his novels and short stories run around freedom. He believes that most essential element in a human is emotion and he expresses his feelings without any fear, saying, “If one wants to enjoy life, he must be fearless”.

Badini says the one who does not think can’t be his friend. He says it is the thought that differentiates a human from an animal.

“For years, I was trying to convert my thoughts into an art form. Now I have succeeded in my ambition by penning ninety novels” says Badini.

Balochi literature has long waited for a novel like War and Peace and that wait ends with the publication of Munir Ahmed Badini’s latest novel “Bahisht o Dozah”, a historical novel of love and philosophy with aesthetic pleasure. Bahisht o Dozah, or “Heaven and the Hell” in English, is his magnum opus and consists of more than 12 hundred pages, beautifully covered with a high-quality printing.

The author of ninety Balochi language novels is soon going to publish his first English language novel.

Badini is a great inspiration for the Baloch youth, especially for those who have love for literature and want to develop a career in writing. Some of his books are named below:

• Rekani Talah Halke ["A Village In The Dunes"] Published by Balochi Academy Quetta, Balochistan. 1993
• Bel Ke Mah Bekapeet ["Let The Moon Vanish"] Published by Balochi Academy Quetta, Balochistan. 1994
• Agah-en Chamani Wahb ["The Dream Of Open Eyes"] Published by Balochi Academy Quetta, Balochistan. 1996.
• Shal-e Gullen Bazaar ["The Flowery Bazaar Of Shal"] Published by New College Publications Quetta, 2008.
• Tahariani Posag ["The Children Of Darkness"] New College Publications, 2009.
• Eh Zind Tara Brazit ["He Is Worth It"] New College Publications, 2009.
• Karnani Kahren Dohk ["The Sorrows Of Centuries"] Published by Baloch Academy Quetta, Balochistan, 2009.
• Mani Dairee-e Latain Pan ["A Few Pages Of My Diary"] New College Publication 2009.
• Hazaren Pasaani Shap ["A Night of Thousand Twists"] A collection short stories. New College Publications 2010.
• Espaten Haspa Sanj Bekan ["Sadle The White Horse"] New Collage Publications 2010.
• Esh Tai Zameen Tai Azmaan ["This is Your Land, This is Your Sky"] New College Publications 2010.
• Esh Gon Saraan Labe ["Playing with the Lives"] New College Publications 2010.
• Hazaren Karnani Wadaar ["Waiting of a Thousand Years"] New College Publications 2010.
• Bekan k Tao Bebu ["Be and do it"]
• Jemari ay Rokapt ["The sunset of Jemari"]

Published in The Baloch Hal on June 24, 2013

 http://thebalochhal.com/2013/06/25/munir-badini-the-author-with-90-novels/

In Memoriam of Zubaida Hussain

By: Zakir Qadir

“Zubaida Ki Death Hogai Hai” (Zubaida has passed away).

My mobile blinked with a message from a classmate-friend, Zahir Zaheer.

I could not believe it and really thought it to be something like a joke we usually made in the class. When I logo in the Facebook a picture of her with a caption of praying words appeared on the homepage shared by Hafeez Sherani. Now I had to believe it. Believe that she is no more -Today I was realizing what a classmate is - definitely a family member. I was memorizing everything she did or spoke in class, her participation in class activates, her jokes she usually said about guys and her position in the previous examinations and her awaiting result------but she was no more to wait for her final result as we are waiting. Who will search the result for the roll no----------?

When I read the comments of classmates, her friends and her family members under her picture in facebook, I really cried, cried once, cried twice, cried again and again. She was not to die so early. She had to come up with new ideas and to support and lead the women of her community. She was a hard working and a devoted girl. Those of us, who knew her, would surely testify her love for humanity. We studied for two years in the same class but for a single moment she didn’t let us know that she belonged to another sect.

“Jab b atay ho paisy ki Baath karty ho” (whenever you come, ask for money)

This was Zubaida Hussain whose these words made us laugh for days she told our class representative, when he was collecting money for the class party. This humorous personality was known to me from April 2011. We studied Journalism together but my interaction with her were just, getting the copies of notes and handouts, the teachers provided us but my observations about my classmates were not so finite.

Zubaida was a girl with a humorous temper making others laugh. One day the class was silent after the teacher left, a clean-shaven boy was seated in a chair in the first row, Zubaida called him from behind,

“O Baji, excuse me”.

 As she called her baji the silence of the class broke into laughs.

Zubaida had love for humanity and spoke against the injustice against women which led her to research on the violence against women. Her final year research study was entitled “Domestic violence and the role of Media” in which she dug out the violence against women such as honor killing, dowry related violence and sexual harassment. For the elimination of these evils she suggested in her report that, “we and our media must know the reality and put steps forward towards a positive change.”

In our class, among the girls she was called Zubi, one of our teachers called her Khanam and some boys called her Aapa but she never minded this; once a friend told her,

“We call you Aapa, don’t you mind this?”

First she replied with the two letter word “No”. Then she said.

“Why should I mind? You are like brothers to me”.

This sister always tried to make others laugh and now left us cried, she is not among us but we must remember our sister in our prayers. May her soul rest in peace. (Aameen)

Group Discussion on Child Labour ...

By SPARC..Society for the protection of the rights of children

Presenting my point of view in the discussion

National Manager of SPARC Ms.Gul Naz Chairing the discussion

BELIEVING IN HUMANITY

BELIEVING IN HUMANITY

“You have only taken the pictures of Patan kids not Balochs. As a Baloch you must bring out issues about the children of your own nation.”

“When I took those pictures of the kids I didn’t thing they belong to who and which nation. What I thought was, they are victims of poverty, and they need care and education.”

On August 31, 2011 I posted some pictures with captions, Huh! How Unlucky We Are!. The next or two days later I met a friend, after greetings I got little feedback from the captions. He told me, in a single sentence, that he liked them. But from the visible expressions of his face I got there was something more in his heart to say.  And He commented, “You have taken only the picture of Patan kids not Balochs. As a Baloch you must bring out issues about the children of your own nation.”

His words made me think for a while and than I spoke up. “When I took those pictures of the kids I didn’t thing they belong to who and which nation. What I thought was the need care, they need education.”  

We worship one God, live under one sky and walk on same earth that belongs to Him. He has blessed each of us with the same things then why we have divided us into pieces. We are from one Adam, Let’s be one again as we were before and finish all the hatred and share love so that it should not die. Let’s educate people to be nice and good and finish disunity. Let’s believe in humanity.

Here is a lyric of Carole-king “Believe in Humanity”; you might be interested in it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4JoE-Nm85M 

The Land of Pious becomes the Land of Terrorists

The Land of Pious becomes the Land of Terrorists

By Zakir Qadir Shams

         WHEN I was browsing the pages of a newspaper on internet, a sentence on the front page magnetized my studiousness that I commenced to peruse, “Somalia ky bad Pakistan dunya main dehshat gardon ka sab se bara maskan ban gaya.” It packed my senses because it was in all the opposite of the meaning of Pakistan, the land of pure people and the sentence meant Pakistan becomes the second biggest home to the terrorists in the world, (according to a study published by a British global risks advisory firm).  

        Pakistan becomes the second among 16 countries at extreme risk from terrorism replacing Afghanistan. Consequently the unofficial and unauthorized use of violence and intimidation in the country, more than 2,000 people have been killed since 2007 in a wave of deadly attack by militants, say the security experts.

        Pakistan became the country second most at risk, while Afghanistan slipped from second place to fourth which has been constantly uttering with the neighboring  country India that Pakistan is the epicenter of terrorism from where the all evils of terrorism are emanating.

        The entire world recognizes Pakistan in the front line of terrorism. The American Chairman Joint Chief of Staff Admiral Mike Mullen says, “Pak-Afghan border in the world is the most dangerous place. This is the epicenter of terrorist networks and the most who live here are Pakistanis who are attempting to get a hold on the atomic weapons of the country”.

       He will definitely be accurate if we conjecture it from the October 2009 attack on the General Headquarters (GHQ) which was debated in the columns of newspapers long.

       “I am not revealing anything new, the Taliban leaders have been given shelters in Pakistan”, says the head of the Foreign Affairs of France, Bernhaid  Koushner.

       The international intellectuals have openly declared that Pakistan is indeed a failed state.

      The country’s Federal Interior Minster Rehman Malik says in amendment, “there is no external hand involved in creating terrorism in Pakistan”. In addition he points out; it is the local people who are involved in these crimes.

    

Huh! How Unlucky We Are!

Huh! How Unlucky We Are!

We want to go to school.

We want to serve our nation.

I need books to read………

I want to be educated too!

Would that we were students and go to school daily……..

Will a day come that I would be happier………

When will we see the inside of a school…….?

There are millions of such children who lack care.

They are victims of poverty.

Their innocent eyes speak thousands of words.

Who bothers to bestow thoughts upon these???????

A Dead Body Worship

A Dead Body Worship

By: Zakir Qadir shams

       It was very scandalizing to gawk all the News Channels broadcasting quietus news of a MQM leader, Dr Imran Farooq, who was stabbed to death in front of his apartment on September 16, in the UK capital city, London.

      His dead body was brought after more than one and an half month. A day before of landing the flight PK-788, which contained the dead body, to Karachi, the security was made high-powered. Five thousand Rangers and Police men were to guard the integral area, including two hundred more vigorous lads from the associates of MQM were circumambulating with passes to make the security stronger. Two helicopters were to guard the area in the air. Nobody was allowed to carry arms even though with license. All the emporiums, shops and markets were to remain closed.   

       On November 6, the corpse reached Karachi from London; all the security sponsors started their functions. Thousands of mourners attended the funeral procession and said his funeral prayers behind Maulana Asad Thanvi. The law enforcement agencies were high alert and heavy deployment was seen across the city. While passing through each zone, the officers form that sections monitored the body, tell the burial chamber.

      It was so indifferent for to watch this occasion on the tube but I kept watching because it strained my mind to devise torrents of startling thoughts. And my inside consequently précised these all occurrences, just in one phrase which was “A dead body worship”.

       I was dragged to the world of the indigent where they lack utmost care. They are lying on the passages and footpaths. Millions of homeless victims of the recent flood are rolling their twenty-four hours in peneplains. The jobless young cohort is wondering helplessly on the streets of the country. Hundreds of innocent people are being blown up in bomb blasts and too many others are coming to be the victims of gang wars and target killings, who do not get a proper burial, but nobody rather cares for them.

       Where goes the heavy deployment that time when the country’s peace is lost? Why the law enforcement agencies get mislaid when the time of high alertness comes? These can be some of the inappropriately answered questions for the rulers of this country but the fact is that there is no peace at any corner in here. The possessions and life of the common man are not protected. They are putting up with deep-rooted complexities and agonizing setbacks.

       Attributed to the kissing prices of the daily commodities, more than half our population sleeps without a piece of staff of life in their bellies. Facilities of education and better health have not been provided to them. To put it succinctly, in the country the living lacks all the fundamental needs of life but we saw how a deceased was worshiped.  

        Now that must be obvious, it is not the time to apotheosize deceased but it is to save alive.

Arms will change the Heaven into a Hell

By: Zakir Qadir Shams

By the time the human mind got sharper and sharper with the efforts of inventing new invention and discovering discoveries. The wholesome efforts bestowed man felicity in life as he originated computer and television to become au fait with the four corners of the earth sitting inside the air-conditioned room. He invented airplane via that millions of miles are traveled in minutes which human would not be capable to step on for years. Meanwhile, some other inventions glommed the comforts as the weapons of destruction, in fact, were invented to comfort, defend and stabilize peace around man, but all got in vain.

Photo: Wp

The world countries have need of more stabilization as they get the threats from the pace of clashes between them. They are importing more and more arms for defense purposes and are spending more budgets on their militaries.  

It is estimated that yearly, over 1.5 trillion dollars are spent on military expenditures world wide. In 2009, the combined military expenditure was 1.5 trillion dollars and in 2008 an amount of 1.464 trillion dollars was spent.

Attributed to the demands for more weapons, the arm industry is producing an overwhelming quantity of weapons day by day. The countries like The United States, Russia, United Kingdom, China, Germany, Italy, France, and some other European countries manufacturing and selling arms to get economic stability - or to promote peace in the world?

The combined arms sales of the top 100 largest arms producing companies amounted to an estimated 315 billion dollars in 2006.

United States sold 166.278 billion dollars worth of arms. Russia (73.965 billion), France (35.175 billion), United Kingdom (29.379 billion), Germany (19.742 billion), China (13.652 billion), Italy (12.531 billion) and some other European countries sold 43.752 billion dollars worth of arms to different countries from 2002 to 2009.(Stockholm International Peace Research Institute)

Between 2000 and 2009, South Africa has sold weapons to 58 countries. She sold R1.883 billion worth of sensitive weapon equipments to India, R1.419 billion to United Arab Emirates and R1.21 to Algeria. Colombia received R1.085 billion worth of equipments while Nigeria got R84 billion worth of weapon equipments. (The Ceasefire Campaign)     

According to a report of NSOI (Nuclear Smuggling Outreach Institute), fourteen countries in the world are involved in nuclear smuggling, including America, Australia, Belgium, China, Germany, Japan, Malaysia, Holland, Russia, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland, and South Korea.

The former American president Jorge W Bush, addressing in Defense National University on 11^th February 2004, said, “European and American companies are spreading arms around the world which are mostly linked up with the underworld. Nuclear underworld comprises of 158 companies and 78 of them have been cognized so far, 24 in America, 3 in China, 8 in France, 17 in UK, 6 in Russia, 5 in Japan, 3 in Holland, 7 in Belgium, 3 in Spain and 2 are in Sweden.”

International Action on Small Arms, estimated in 2003 that over 639 million small arms were in circulation, and over 1,135 companies based in more than 98 different countries manufacture small arms from those many fall into the hands of rebel forces and terrorists.

The militant groups are easily getting control of the arms and it is a big threat for the peace in world. Arms are getting into the wrong hands through weak controls on firearm ownership and weapons management.

Major general Yusuf Hussein Osman, who served as the Chief of Staff of Somalia's Military in 2009, in an exclusive interview with Africa News said “The Somali soldiers are not being paid their $100 monthly wage a long period; consequently they offered to sell their guns and ammunition, they get money from rebels and then hand to their arms.”

While international attention is focused on the need to control weapons of mass destruction to stabilize the peace of the world and the arms trade continues.

The U.S. politician, Richard Perle says, “Arms control so easily becomes an incantation rather than policy.” (March 1987)

His assumption has today come true. The countries that talk the words of peace and arms control are today the top traders of highly dangerous weapons and supplying them to the countries they call rouge countries and the homes of the 9/11 hijackers.   

The United Nations Security Council desires to enforce peace in the world but the top five countries profiting from the arms trade are the five permanent members of it, the USA, UK, France, Russia, and China. Together, they are responsible for eighty eight per cent of reported conventional arms exports.