Manu Malik, a female app based cab service driver pushing time to its limits

Manu Malik, a female app based cab service driver pushing time to its limits
By Mayank Pratap Singh

I was getting ready for the office on lazy Sunday. As usual I was late and booked the Cab from mobile app and called up the driver and told the address. I Hung up, but a voice which was not so cab driver type stuck my ears. In no time the cab was at the door step and a message flashed on the app that the cab has arrived. I was getting out of my flat when my 4 year old daughter asked, where is my good bye kiss. I bowed down on knees to the greedy demand of my daughter which she gets every day when I head to my office. I got down from the flat and when I boarded my cab which was waiting at the building enterance. To my astonishment, a female was driving the cab and asked in the melodious voice, shall we start sir. I said yes, still the muggling over my thought which stopped my voice to come out my mouth. By any how the hmmm sound came out and she started the drive. I was still in dissonance to how to talk the lady driver. I usually talk to the driver whenever I drive along the way. But this time it was tough as i was not expecting a Lady driver.

"Mannu, Mannu Malik", said the lady, in her late 20's, in feeble voice when I asked her name after a ride for about 10 minutes. And then she started talking about her journey to cab driver. She told that she have been driving since 9 months and she is very happy in this job. Driving a Cab owned by her, she tells that she bought this white sedan with help of her friend. Lost her father in recent days, Mannu has taken loan in her friends name and driving the cab to make money her mother.

She tells that the cab she bought was first driven by a driver but seeing the loss in the business she decided to pull herself in business of driving, "with 16k as car EMI, driver fees of 20 k and other commercial taxes it was not feasible to hire a driver." "Also the driver were not working properly and but hit the car and she had to pay for the maintenance dearly, " complained Mannu, who hails from Nadia District in West Bengal just at the border of Bangladesh.

Mannu lives in Indirapuram with her friends hiring a flat. She tells that its not easy to be cab driver in the society and field which is male dominated. Sharing her experience with the fellow passengers she says, "Most of the clients are good some are very irritating". "I forgive the annoying passengers assuming they must have left the house fighting, else they had  bad day on work." she tells with a grinning smile floating on her face. "Usually boys are very helpful, the few girl passengers create problems and they bitch too much."

Many a girls she found on road are her friends who are driving the app based cab services. She tells that mostly ofthem are hailing from Gurugram and but quite a few she had encounter in Noida and Indirapuram. Earlier she had only old age people, girls, women and children as her clients but she is driving happily with young age customers as well. She tells, "the customers with high rating are provided to her and other women drivers like her by the company."

With growing business of the app based services and in the fields dominated by men, Mannu Malik, a female driver is slowly yet strongly pushing their limits to get their space and successfully doing their jobs. A mindset is changing where a girl is driving the time to zenith.

Ends

Lalit Modi: A roller-coaster of a life

Astute, ruthlessly ambitious, and the one who aimed for the sky, Lalit Modi's eventful stint in Indian cricket firmament, with its innumerable ups and downs, truly defines the age-old saying 'life is a roller-coaster'.

     If he is credited with changing the face of world cricket by conceiving the Indian Premier League, the former IPL commissioner also found himself at the centre of many a controversies over the past three years.

     The 49-year-old cricket administrator's life today took another turn, for the worse, as he was slapped with a life ban by the BCCI after its disciplinary committee found him guilty on eight charges of "indiscipline and misconduct".

     The exit has been as dramatic as his entry into the Indian cricket fraternity.

     It would not be an exaggeration to say that Modi's IPL consolidated BCCI's position as the financial superpower in world cricket. While the purists whined, it prompted the ICC to look for ways to bring innovations in the traditional forms

-- Tests and ODIs.

     If they were not enough, the multi-million-dollar franchise-based domestic league, which Modi executed for the first time in 2008, also helped cricket establish some sort of a foothold on the global sporting map, so dominated by football and tennis.

     But what followed was a string of controversial episodes that brought the high-flying administrator down to earth.

     Modi's decline started after the 2010 IPL bidding which saw the creation of two new teams -- Pune and Kochi. Modi revealed the ownership details of the Kochi franchise on twitter leading to the resignation of the then Minister of State for foreign affairs Shashi Tharoor.

     Modi's act allegedly breached the confidentiality agreements between the Board and the IPL franchises.

     Modi was suspended as chairman and Commissioner of the IPL in April 2010. A suspension notice and a 34-page letter stating 22 charges of impropriety were served via email to Modi.

     He claimed innocence all through, defending himself mostly on twitter and television channels but never appeared in person to face the BCCI committee.

     Modi was suspended under Rule 32(iv) of the Board's constitution on April 25, 2010, seconds after the IPL final held in Mumbai. The Board then slapped three show cause notices on him. He replied to all of them.

     The BCCI disciplinary committee, comprising Arun Jaitley and Jyotiraditya Scindia, submitted a 134-page report in July in which it had found Modi guilty on eight charges, including financial irregularities, indiscipline and "actions detrimental to the interest of the BCCI".

दुख सुख

हर दुख से अपना सुख अब छोटा लगता है
कुछ आंसू मेरे आंचल पर गिरे
जो जेठ में भी ना सूखे
सावन और भादो बन गए नैन उनके
दुख अब भी सुख से बड़ा लगता है। 

हालात हमारे

मरघट का सन्नाटा हैं यहां
जहां हम बैठे हैं अकेले
कभी यारों की किलकारी
कभी बड़ों की अट्टाहास के बीच
हम यूं ही मुस्कराते रहते थे।
सच है
जब किसी की आवाज दबाई जाती है
तो हमारा कुनबा खड़ा होता
चीखता चिल्लाता
शोर मचाता
लेकिन जब खुद पर आई
एक मरघट का सन्नाटा है यहां।

-- मयंक प्रताप सिंह

रांझना-- एक तरफा प्यार के दर्द की कहानी।

कल रांझना देखी। बनारस की गलियों में पनपते प्यार की कहानी और उस एक तरफा प्यार में तबाह होते एक नवयुवक को देखा। ये किसी भा शहर की कहानी हो सकती थी। लेकिन बनारस में जिस तरह से इसका ताना बुना गया। दिल को छू गया। अच्छा शोध करके फिल्म बनाना इसे कहते हैं।

 

बढ़िया डायलॉग। बेहतरीन लोकेशन और धनुष की बेहतरीन अदायगी। फिल्म में वो सब कुछ था जो एक मसाला फिल्म में चाहिए होता है। सभी अदाकारों ने अपने रोल के साथ न्याय किया।

 

सोनम कपूर के बारे कहना चाहूंगा कि वो अगर इसी तरह से मेहनत करती हैं तो वो भी एक बेहतर अदाकारा साबित हो सकती हैं। थिएटर से निकलते वक्त लोगों के जुबान पर सोनम कपूर के लिए एक गुस्सा ये साबित करता है कि सोनम ने अपने किरदार को बखूबी निभाया।

 

एक स्याह किरदार जो कि फिल्म में मुख्य किरदार भी था औऱ जिसके इर्द गिर्द सारी फिल्म बुनी गई थी अगर इस तरह से अपने किरदार से प्यार करता है और खलनायक को फिल्म खत्म होने के बाद दर्शक नफरत करता है तो उसने सच में अपने किरदार से न्याय किया है। 

 पोस्ट प्रोडक्शन भई इस फिल्म का अच्छा रहा। अच्छी एडिटिंग के कारण ये फिल्म कहीं से ढीली नहीं दिखाई देती है। औऱ ना ही कहीं से भागती हुई तनजर आती है। बस एक समरस गति से आगे बढ़ती रही।
सोनम और धनुष को अदाकारी के लिए बधाई औऱ हिमांशु शर्मा की पटकथा और डायलॉग और आनंद राय का निर्देशन बढ़िया था। कहीं कहीं कैमरा तो बेहतरीन रहा लेकिन ज्यादा प्रयोग ना करते हुए इस फिल्म को दर्शकों के रग को पकड़ने योग्य बनाया गया है।

Famous Birthdays on this Day in History----2nd May

1360 - Yongle, Emperor of China (d. 1424)
1451 - René II, Duke of Lorraine (d. 1508)
1458 - Leonor of Viseu, queen of Portugal (d. 1525)
1551 - William Camden, English historian (Brittania, Annales)
1601 - Athanasius Kircher, German Jesuit/inventor (magic lantern)
1660 - Pietro Alessandro Gaspare Scarlatti, Palermo Italy, composer (Tigrane)
1695 - Giovanni Niccolo Servandoni, Italian-born architect (d. 1766)
1702 - Friedrich Christoph Oetinger, German theologian (d. 1782)
1729 - Catherine the Great [Catherine II], Stettin, Pomerania, Kingdom of Prussia, Empress of Russia (1762-96)
1729 - Florian Johann Deller, composer
1737 - William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1805)
1740 - Elias Boudinot, lawyer/patriot, found American Biblical Society
1750 - John André, British Army officer of the American Revolutionary War (d. 1780)
1752 - Ludwig August Lebrun, composer
1754 - Vicente Martin y Soler, composer
1768 - Jean-Louis M Alibert, French dermatologist
1772 - Novalis, writer
1773 - Henrik Steffens, Norwegian philosopher (d. 1845)
1779 - John Galt, Scotland, novelist (Ayrshire Legatees, Lawrie Todd)
Empress of Russia Catherine the Great (1729) 1810 - Hans Christian Lumbye, composer
1810 - Leo XIII, 257th Roman Catholic pope (1878-1903)
1817 - Zikmund Michal Kolesovsky, composer
1821 - Abram Sanders Piatt, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1908
1828 - Désiré Charnay, French archaeologist (d. 1915)
1837 - Henry Martyn Robert, parliamentarian (Robert's Rules of Order)
1843 - Carl Michael Ziehrer, composer
1844 - Elijah McCoy, black inventor, held over 50 patents
1846 - Zygmunt Noskowski, composer
1853 - Marie Verstraete, actress (Louise-Frou Frou)
1855 - Theodore Moses Tobani, composer
1857 - Frederic Cliffe, composer
1859 - Eugene D'Harcourt, composer
1859 - Jerome Klapka Jerome, English writer (d. 1927)
1860 - D'Arcy Thompson, zoologist/classicist (On Growth & Form)
1860 - Theodor Herzl, Austria, journalist/founder (Zionist movement)
1862 - Marie F M Emmanuel, French composer/musicologist (Salamine)
1865 - Clyde Fitch, American playwright (d. 1909)
1869 - Tyrone Power Sr, London England, actor (Alexanders Ragtime Band)
1872 - G G van der Hoeven, Dutch editor-in-chief (NRC)
1879 - James F. Byrnes, American statesman, and Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (d. 1972)
1884 - Francois de Vries, Dutch economist
1885 - Hedda Hopper, American gossip columnist (d. 1966)
1886 - Gottfried Benn, writer
1887 - Edward Collins, NY, Hall of Fame baseball infielder (White Sox, A's)
1887 - Vernon Castle, English dancer (d. 1918)
1890 - E[dward] E[lmer] "Doc" Smith, US, sci-fi author (Triplanetary). Died 1965
Fighter Ace The Red Baron (Manfred von Richthofen) (1892) 1892 - Manfred Freiherr von Richthofen [The Red Baron], Breslau, German World War I fighter ace
1893 - Beppie Nooij Jr, Dutch actress (Rooie Sien) [or May 13, 1912]
1895 - Alfred Kurella, writer
1895 - Peggy Bacon, Ridgefield Ct, author/illustrator (Off With Their Heads)
1895 - Lorenz Hart, American lyricist (d. 1943)
1896 - Helen of Greece and Denmark, queen of Romania (d. 1982)
1897 - J. Fred Coots, American songwriter (d. 1985)
1898 - Jef [Josephus C F] Last, Dutch poet/politician (The Spark)
1900 - Helen Morgan, singer/actress (Applause, Frankie & Johnny)
1901 - Bob Wyatt, cricketer (England batsman 1927-37)
1901 - Lev N Lunts, Russia, writer (Outside the Law, City of Truth)
1901 - Robert Elliott Storey Wyatt, cricketer
1901 - Willi Bredel, writer
1902 - Brian Aherne, Worcestershire England, actor (Juarez)
1902 - Erin O'Brien-Moore, LA CA, actress (Peyton Place, Our Little Girl)
1903 - Benjamin Spock, CT, pediatrician (Common Sense Book of Baby Care)
1903 - Oivin Fjeldstad, composer
1904 - Georgi Dimitrov, composer
1906 - Aileen Riggin, Newport RI, springboard diver (Olympic-gold-1920, 24)
1906 - Maurice Thiriet, composer
1906 - Philippe Halsman, American photographer (d. 1979)
1907 - Pinky Lee, children's show host (Pinky Lee Show)
1908 - William Bakewell, LA California, actor (Stage manager-Pinky Lee Show)
1910 - Laurie Nash, cricketer (Tasmanian fast-bowler, 2 Tests for Australia)
1910 - Alexander Bonnyman, U.S. Marine (d. 1943)
1911 - Lillian Rambach, teacher violinist
1912 - Axel Springer, German newspaper magnate
1912 - Marten Toonder, writer/cartoonist (Mr Bommel)
1913 - Nigel Patrick, London Engld, actor/director (Sapphire, Prize of Gold)
1914 - Dennis Dyer, cricketer (opened batting for South Africa v England 1947)
1915 - Jan Hanus, composer
1915 - Van Alexander, NYC, orchestra leader (Gordon MacRae Show)
1915 - Doris Fisher, American songwriter (d. 2003)
1915 - Peggy Mount, English actress (d. 2001)
1917 - Albert Castelyns, Belgian water polo player and bobsledder
1918 - Frederick Archibauld Warner, diplomat
1919 - Than Wyenn, NYC, actor (Pete Kelly's Blues)
1920 - Jacob Gilboa, composer
1920 - Jean-Marie Auberson, Swiss conductor (d. 2004)
1920 - Otto Buchsbaum, Austrian writer and ecological activist (d. 2000)
1921 - Satyajit Ray, Calcutta India, director (Goddess, Adversary)
1922 - Abraham Rosenthal, editor (NY Times)
1923 - Christina Spierenburg, Dutch singer
1924 - Aafje Heynis, Dutch singer
1924 - Theodore Bikel, Austrian/US folk singer/actor (Russians Are Coming)
1924 - Jamal Abro, Sindhi writer (d. 2004)
1925 - David Ironside, cricketer (S Afr swing bowler in 3 Tests v NZ 1953-54)
1925 - Roscoe Lee Browne, Woodbury NJ, actor (McCoy, Saunders-Soap)
1925 - Svatopluk Havelka, composer
1925 - John Neville, English theatre and film actor
1926 - Gérard D. Lévesque, Quebec politician (d. 1993)
1927 - Ray Barrett, Australian actor
1929 - Edward Levy Irving, composer
1929 - Luc Ferrari, composer
1929 - Sydney Gedye, cricketer (opening batsman in four Tests for NZ 1964)
1929 - Link Wray, American guitarist (d. 2005)
1930 - Marco Pannella, Italian politician and activist
1931 - Phil Bruns, American actor and writer (Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman), (d. 2012)
1932 - Bruce Glover, Chicago Ill, actor (Diamonds are Forever)
1932 - Kees de Galan, Dutch economist
1932 - Malcolm Leyland Lipkin, composer
1932 - Maury Allen, American sportswriter
1933 - Bunk Gardner, rocker (Mothers Of Invention)
1935 - Faisal II, King of Iraq (1939-58)/son of Ghasi I
1935 - Hussain ibn Talal, King of Jordan (1952- )
1935 - Link Wray, rocker (Link Wray & His Ray Men)
1935 - Lance LeGault, American actor, (d. 2012)
1935 - Luis Suárez Miramontes, Spanish footballer and manager
1936 - Michael Rabin, NYC, violinist (In Memorium)
1936 - Quinn Redeker, Woodstock Ill, actor (Dan Raven, Young & Restless)
1937 - Gisela Elsner, writer
1937 - Lorenzo Music, Bkln NY, writer/actor/voice (Carlton-Rhoda, Garfield)
1938 - Constantine Bereng Seeiso, king Moshushoe II of Lesotho
1938 - Chief Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho (d. 1996)
1939 - Sumio Iijima, Japanese physicist
1940 - Bryan Davis, cricketer (bro of Charlie WI batsman v Australia 1965)
1940 - Sari van Heemskerck Pillis-Duvekot, Dutch MP (VVD)
1941 - Jules Wijdenbosch, premier Suriname
1941 - Clay Carroll, American baseball player
1942 - Jacques Rogge, Belgian International Olympic Committee president
1944 - F Innerhofer, writer
1944 - John Verity, rocker (Argent)
1945 - Bianca Perez Morena de Macias Jagger, Nicaragua, model and socialite
1945 - Bob Henrit, English pop drummer (Kinks-Waterloo Sunset)
1945 - Goldy McJohn, rocker (Steppenwolf)
1945 - Randy Cain, US soul singer (4 Gents/Delfonics)
1945 - Robert Henrit, England, rocker (Argent)
1945 - Sarah Weddington, American attorney
1945 - Judge Dread, English musician (d. 1998)
1946 - Lesley Gore, Tenafly NJ, singer (It's My Party)
1946 - David Suchet, English actor
1947 - Bill Lowery, (Rep-R-CA, 1981- )
1948 - Larry Gatlin, Seminole Tx, country singer (Gatlin Bros-Broken Lady)
1949 - Joey Phillips, percussionist (Atlantic Star-Touch a 4 Leaf Clover)
1950 - Lou Gramm, Rochester NY, rocker (Foreigner-Want to Know What Love Is)
1950 - Duncan Gay, Australian politician
1952 - Christine Baranski, Buffalo NY, actress (Maryann-Cybill, Birdcage)
1952 - Mari Natsuki, Japanese singer, dancer and actress
1953 - "Keith" Jamaal Wilkes, NBA forward (Golden State-Rookie of Yr 1975)
1954 - Bulelani T Ngcuka, South African attorney/leader (UDF)
1954 - Roberta Pedon, American glamour model (d. 1982)
1955 - Ian Callen, cricketer (one Test Australia v India 1978, six wickets)
1955 - Jay Osmond, rocker (Osmond Brothers)
1955 - Joe Callis, rocker
1956 - David Rhodes, English guitarist
1957 - Domonic L Pudwill Gorie, Lake Charles LA, USN/astronaut (sk: STS-91)
1958 - Kim Jones, Sonoma California, 5k runner
1959 - Alan Best, Canadian animation director and producer
1960 - Ravi Ratnayeke, cricketer (Sri Lankan pace bowler & opening batsman)
1961 - Doctor Robert, [Bruce R Howard], rocker (Blow Monkeys-Wicked Ways)
1961 - Peter Doohan, Australia, tennis star
1961 - Phil Vickery, English celebrity chef
1962 - Elizabeth Berridge, Westchester NY, actress (Amadeus, Funhouse)
1962 - Nancy Harvey, Swift Current Sask, LPGA golfer (1995 Youngstown-11th)
1962 - Stephen Daldry, English film director
1962 - Ray Traylor, American professional wrestler (d. 2004)
1962 - Jimmy White, English snooker player
1963 - Brian Tochi, LA California, actor (Dr Alan Poe-St Elsewhere, Renegades)
1963 - Jos van Eck, Dutch soccer player (Sparta)
1963 - Kenton Leonard, CFL cornerback (Calgary Stampeders)
1964 - Kelly Michael Gibson, New Orleans LA, PGA golfer (1995 Bob Hope-7th)
1966 - Belinda Stronach, Canadian politician
1967 - Kerryn McCann, Australian marathoner (Olympics-96)
1968 - Reggie Slack, CFL quarterback (Saskatchewan Roughriders)
1968 - Will Furrer, WLAF quarterback (Amsterdam Admirals)
1968 - Midorikawa Hikaru, Japanese voice actor
1968 - Jeff Agoos, American soccer player
1968 - Ziana Zain, Malaysian singer and actress
1969 - Brian Lara, cricketer (WI left-hand bat Smashed world records in 1994)
1969 - Glen Young, NFL linebacker (San Diego Chargers)
1970 - Vania Thomas, Miss US Virgin Islands Universe (1997)
1971 - Greg Bishop, NFL guard (NY Giants)
1972 - Erik Maes, Dutch soccer player (MVV)
1972 - Jennifer Miriam, Oklahoma City OK, playmate (March, 1997)
1972 - Jill Savery, Fort Lauderdale Fl, synchronized swimmer (Olympics-gold-96)
1972 - Peter Ogilvie, Vancouver BC, 100m sprinter (Olympics-96)
Actor & Professional Wrestler The Rock (Dwayne Johnson) (1972) 1972 - Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, American professional wrestler and actor
1972 - Paul Adcock, English footballer
1973 - Rich Yurkiewicz, NFL/WLAF linebacker (Atlanta Falcons, Amst Admirals)
1973 - Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, German film director and screenwriter
1974 - Miles Joseph, West Springfield Mass, soccer forward (Olympics-gold-96)
1974 - Garðar Thór Cortes, Icelandic tenor
1974 - Andy Johnson, Welsh footballer
1975 - Mark Johnson, Dayton Ohio, baseball pitcher (Olympics-bronze-96)
1975 - Murray William Burdan, Wellington NZ, swimmer (Olympics-96)
1976 - Ailleen Damiles, Miss Universe-Philippines/Miss Photogenic (1996)
1976 - Nancy Feber, Antwerp Belgium, tennis star
1977 - Amy D'Entremont, Stoneham Mass, figure skater (1995 NE Jr champ)
1977 - Jenna Von Oy, actress (Seven-Blossom)
1977 - Fredrik Malm, Swedish politician
1977 - Luke Hudson, American baseball player
1978 - Steve Bays, Canadian musician
1979 - Jason Chimera, Canadian ice hockey player
1979 - Roman Lyashenko, Russian ice hockey player (d. 2003)
1980 - Tim Borowski, German footballer
1980 - Miloš Glogovac, Serbian footballer
1980 - Pierre-Luc Gagnon, Canadian skateboarder
1980 - Zat Knight, English footballer
1980 - Troy Murphy, American basketball player
1980 - Brad Richards, Canadian ice hockey player
1981 - Matt Murray, English footballer
1981 - Chris Kirkland, English footballer
1982 - Lorie, French singer
1983 - Christa Rigozzi, Swiss model
1984 - Saulius Mikoliūnas, Lithuanian footballer
1984 - Thabo Sefolosha, American basketball player
1985 - Kyle Busch, American race car driver
Recording Artist & Fashion Designer Lily Allen (1985) 1985 - Lily Allen, English singer and songwriter
1985 - Sarah Hughes, American figure skater
1985 - David Nugent, English footballer
1985 - Jarrod Saltalamacchia, American baseball player
1986 - James Kirk, Canadian actor
1987 - Nana Kitade, Japanese singer
1988 - Lara Liang, Taiwanese-American Singer
1990 - Kay Panabaker, American actor
1995 - Kelsey Lewis, American actress
2000 - Angel Sy, Filipina child actor

सरबजीत

पाकिस्तान के लाहौर की सबसे मजबूत और सबसे सुरक्षित कहे जानी वाली कोटलखपत जेल में 26 तारीख की शाम चार बजे के आस पास वहां घुसपैठ औऱ जासूसी के आरोपों में बंद सरबजीत सिंह पर उसके ही साथी कैदी ने हमला कर दिया। बताया जा रहा है कि जब शाम को दिनभर की बंदी के बाद कैदियों को टहलाई के लिए निकाला जाता है तभी ये हमला सरबजीत पर आमिर नाम के कैदी ने कर दिया। पहले तो सरबजीत को जेल के ही अस्पताल में इलाज के लिए ले जाया गया लेकिन मामला बिगड़ते देख लाहौर के जिला अस्पताल में ले जाया गया। डॉक्टरों के हाथ पांव फूल गए। चोट इतनी ज्यादा थी कि हालात बेकाबू हो गए थे। फिर जब केस बिगड़ता देखा तो लाहौर के ही जिन्ना अस्पताल के आईसीयू में भर्ती कराया गया है।  हालत नाजूक बनी हुई है तीन डॉक्टरों की टीम लगातार सरबजीत पर निगाह बनाए हुए हैं। पूरे जिन्ना अस्पताल को छावनी में तब्दील कर दिया गया है। और यहां तक कि जब सरबजीत को पहली बार होश आया था करीब रात के 10 बजे तब उसके वकील को उससे मिलने नहीं दिया गया। लेकिन अचानक देर रात उसकी हालत बिगड़ी औऱ रात करीब 12 बजे का बाद से ही वो कोमा में हैं।
हमला क्या हुआ पूरे पाकिस्तान में सियापा पसर गया। आनन फानन में जेल के दो अधिकारियों को सस्पेंड कर दिया। अंतर्राष्ट्रीय दबाव बनना लाजिमी था। लेकिन सवाल ये कि इनते हाइ प्रोफाइल कैदी पर हमला हुआ कैसे। हाइ सिक्योरिटी जो में एक कत्ल का दोषी कैसे पहुंच गया और उसने कैसे सरबजीत पर हमला कर दिया आब जांच का विषय हो गया है। लेकिन विशेषज्ञ इसमें राजनैतिक साजिश से इनकार नहीं कर रहे हैं। ये भारत सिर्फ भारतीय ही नहीं बल्कि पाकिस्तानी लोग भी कह रहे हैं। कल जब मेरी बात सरबजीत के वकील अवैस शेख से हुई तो उन्होंने एक सनसनीखेज खुलासा किया। उन्होंने बताया कि जब अफजल गुरू की फांसी के बाद वो सरबजीत से मिलने गए थे तब उनके साथ एक सीआईडी की अफसर भी गया था। उस वक्त सरबजीत ने शिकायत की थी एक शख्स जेल में उसे मारने की धमकी दे रहा था। आरोप लग रहे हैं जेल प्रशासन पर कि उसने बिलकुल भी सुरक्षा की व्यवस्था नहीं की थी। वो भी तब जब सरबजीत ने लगातार अपनी सुरक्षा को लेकर सवाल उठाए और पाकिस्तान हुक्मरानों को शिकायत भी दर्ज कराई थी।
पाकिस्तान के बारे एक बात साफ देता चलूं कि पाकिस्तान की राजनीति पूरी तरह के भारतीय केंद्रित है। वो भारत के दम पर सत्ता हासिल करते हैं। चाहे वो भुट्टो रहे हों या मुशर्रफ जैसे तानाशाह। सारा दारोमदार चुनाव जीतने का एंटी भारत कारनामों पर ही होता है। इस साल पाकिस्तान में आम चुनाव होने हैं। पहली बार कहने को ये चुनाव साफ सुथरा करने की कोशिश जारी है। लेकि नसवाल ये है कि आखिर कब तक पाकिस्तान की राजनीति एंटी भारत बनी रहेगी।