Awais Ali

17/09/2026

"رات کے دوسرے کنارے پر
جانے کیا بات ہے کہ شام ڈھلے
خوف_ نادیدہ کے اشارے پر
جھلملاتے ہوئے چراغ کی لَو
مجھ سے کہتی ہے، افتخار عارف!

رات کے دوسرے کنارے پر
”ایک رات اور انتظار میں ہے”
کوئی چُپکے سے دل میں کہتا ہے
رات پہ اپنا بس چلے نہ چلے
خواب تو اپنے اختیار میں ہے!"

11/08/2026

12/04/2026

In China, there is a well known story about a large, twisted tree that carpenters ignore because its wood is useless for building. Precisely because it is “useless,” the tree is never cut down and is able to live out its full.

In Daoist thought, being “useful” in a rigid, conventional sense often makes a person a target for exploitation, control, or burnout.

By contrast, those who are unconventional, overlooked, or who do not fit society’s narrow standards can preserve their freedom and longevity.

11/04/2026

ایران، امریکہ اسرائیل مابین مذاکرات پاکستان کی ثالثی میں منعقد ہو رہے. اس حوالے سے مجھ ناچیز کی تجویز ہے پاکستان ہر فریق سے دس دس ارب ڈالر بیعانہ بطور زر ضمانت پکڑ لے. پھر جو فریق معاہدہ کی خلاف ورزی کرے اس کا بیعانہ نپ لیا جاوے. اور ہر تین فریقین کی رقم پاکستانی ریاستی سرکاری بینک میں اگلے دس سال پڑی رہے ۔ تاکہ کبھی کوئی فریق جارحیت یا خلاف ورزی کی کوشش نا کرے ۔ اس طرح بین الاقوامی امن کی تادیر ضمانت دی جا سکتی ہے.

نیز معاہدہ ہونے کے بعد ہر فریق سے دس ارب ڈالر بطور قرض بھی مانگی جا سکتی ہے. اتنے سستے میں امن، صرف پاکستان ہی دے سکتا ہے.

ماہر معاشیات و جوڑ توڑ!، منقول شریف!!

10/04/2026

“اسلام آباد “ ہو گر عالمِ مشرق کا جنیوا۔۔۔

02/04/2026

‏77 سال نازک موڑ پر رہنے کا یہ فائدہ ہوا کہ دنیا نازک موڑ پر پہنچی تو پاکستان پہلے ہی وہاں موجود تھا

Via Ahmad Lak

04/03/2026

Give a man what he needs and he will want comfort. Provide him with comforts - he will strive for luxury. Shower him with luxury - he will begin to sigh in exquisiteness. Let him get the exquisite - he will crave follies. Give him whatever he wants - he will complain that he was deceived, and that he did not get what he wanted.

Ernest Hemingway

24/02/2026

When you’re 5 years old, a year is 20% of your life. And when you’re 50 years old, a year is 2% of your life. This is an explanation given why time speeds up as you age. It's called Janet's law. It states you’ve experienced roughly half of your perceived by life by 20 years old. Or to put it another way: A summer holiday for a 5 year old feels as long as the 10 years from 40 to 50 years old.

But Janet's law can be broken with high agency.

You have agency over the speed time. You're not a passive victim. A better explanation of why time speeds up as you age is because you have fewer new experiences as an adult, so your brain deletes the memories. If you take agency over your life, do new things and create memory dividends, time slows down.

If you live your life on autopilot, you may die at 80, but feel like you died at 20 years old.

If you take agency over your life, you may die at 80, but feel like you died at 200 years old.

23/02/2026

In a leadership exercise the other day, we were assigned to shortlist items of a survival kit with certain constraints on a sinking ship. After extensive brainstorming and consultation, we presented our idea before the instructor. Everything said and done, he asked if the leader had pondered on the notion of saving the ship itself. On our protest that this was not assigned, he commented, "What good can you do as a leader, if you fail to consider the possibilities beyond obvious!"