Keeping Friends

When she was eleven years old, Anita went to her mother to complain.

“I can’t manage to have friends. They all stay away from me because I’m so jealous.”

Her mother was taking care of newly-born chickens, and Anita held up one of them, which immediately tried to escape.

The more the girl squeezed it in her hands, the more the chicken struggled.

Her mother said: “try holding it gently.”

Anita obeyed her. She opened her hands and the chicken stopped struggling.

She began to stroke it and the chicken cuddled up between her fingers.

“Human beings are like that too,” said her mother. “If you want to hold onto them by any means, they escape. But if you are kind to them, they will remain for ever by your side.”

Paulo Coelho

Welcome to Payaam Team Blog

Bismillah Ar-Rahman Ar-Raheem.

Pakistan is passing through defining moments. Indication of this is clear to anyone with even a passing knowledge of life in Pakistan.

The extent of the decline runs the span of human activity. There are problems in health, education, agriculture, and industry. Poverty is general and growing. Insecurity is widespread. People do not feel secure - in the streets or in
their homes. Some parts of the country seem to be in the initial stages of a civil war.

Our purpose, on the platform of Payaam Trust, is not to cast blame and point fingers. We accept as obvious that all people who live in this land want the best for it and for themselves.

We want to analyze and change what has brought us to the brink. And then to identify a way out!

We are not in the business of labeling people as liberals, conservatives, fundamentalists, or extremists. We welcome anyone in whose heart there still smolders even an ember of the fire that burned in the hearts of Allama Iqbal, Mohammad Ali Jinnah and their colleagues.

It was not ordained that Pakistan be a 'failed state'. Come, let’s make a difference. ALLAH ho Akbar!

PAYAAM - Song

Basit Subhani - Chairman PAYAAM TRUST performing at the Open Air Theater at a painting competition organized for the students from different schools from the twin cities .. The students included special children from special schools !

Aug 2009