مصری کی ڈلی

ایک یہودی کے پاس ایک مسلمان ہیرے تراشنے کا کام کرتا تھا۔ جو اپنے کام میں ہنر مند اور حد سے زیادہ ایماندار تھا۔ یہودی اس سنار کی کاریگری سے بے تحاشہ نفع کمانے کے باوجود اُسے مناسب معاوضہ ادا نہ کرتا تھا ۔ جس کی وجہ سے وہ بمشکل اپنے گھر کا خرچہ پورا کرتا تھا۔ یونہی کام کرتے کرتے اس نے عمر گزار دی۔ اس کی بیٹی جوان ہو گئی وہ اپنی قلیل آمدنی میں سے کچھ بھی جمع نہ کر سکا۔ بیٹی کی شادی کے لئے سنار کاریگر نے یہودی سے کچھ رقم بطور ادھار مانگی کروڑ پتی یہودی نے رقم دینے سے معذوری ظاہر کر دی۔ سنار اپنی قسمت کو برا بھلا کہتا ہوا گھر لوٹ آیا۔ رقم ادھار نہ ملنے پر بیوی نے سخت ناراضگی اور طعنوں کے تیر برسا کر الگ استقبال کیا۔ پریشان حال بیچارہ ساری رات سوچتا رہا اب کیا ہو گیا۔ دوسرے دن وہ دکان پر کام کے لئے نہ گیا۔ بعد میں یہودی سنار کے بلانے پر جب وہ دکان پر پہنچا تو اس کے ہاتھ میں ایک پوٹلی تھی۔ جو اس نے یہودی کے سامنے کھول کر رکھ دی۔ اس میں قیمتی ہیرا دیکھ کر یہودی سوالیہ نگاہوں سے کاریگر سنار کی طرف دیکھنے لگا۔
کاریگر بولا مالک یہ ہمارا خاندانی ہیرا ہے۔ اسے بیچنے کی اجازت نہیں آپ اسے گروی رکھ کر مجھے کچھ رقم دے دیں۔ میں آپ کو رقم لوٹا کر اپنا ہیرا واپس لے لوں گا۔ یہودی راضی ہو گیا۔
مسلمان کاریگر نے قرضے کی رقم سے بیٹی کی شادی کر دی۔ پھر دن رات کام کر کے قرض کی رقم آہستہ آہستہ ادا کرنے لگ گیا۔ قرضے کی آخری قسط ادا کرنے کے بعد مسلمان کاریگر نے اپنے ہیرے کا مطالبہ کیا ۔ یہودی نے وہ ہیرا لا کر اس کے سامنے رکھ دیا۔ ہیرا تراشنے والے کاریگر نے ہیرا لے کر پانی میں رکھ دیا۔ دیکھتے ہی دیکھتے ہیرا گھُل کر ختم ہو گیا۔ ہیرا تراشنے والے کاریگر نے کہا مالک یہ مصری کی ڈلی تھی۔ جسے میں نے اپنے فن سے ہیرے کا اس طرح سے روپ دیا تھا کہ آپ جیسا سنار بھی دھوکہ کھا گیا۔ آپ نے میری عاجزی اور درخواست پر قرضہ نہ دیا۔ جس کی وجہ سے مجھے یوں آپ سے رقم نکلوانی پڑی میں مسلمان ہوں اس لئے بھاگا نہیں آپ کی پائی پائی ادا کر کے سرخرو ہو گیا۔ افسوس کہ آپ نے میری قدر نہ کی۔ اس لئے ملازمت چھوڑ کر جا رہا ہوں۔ کاریگر یہودی کو پریشان چھوڑ کر چل دیا۔

اللہ تعالٰی کا حکم ہے کہ ضرورت مندوں کی ضروریات کو پورا کیا جائے، ایسا کرنے سے معاشرے سے برائیاں ختم ہو جاتی ہیں۔ !!!

ﺣﻀﺮﺕ ﺍﺑﻮ ﺑﮑﺮ ﺻﺪﯾﻖ ﺭﺿﯽ ﺍﻟﻠﮧ ﻋﻨﮧ

ﺣﻀﺮﺕ ﺍﺑﻮ ﺑﮑﺮ ﺻﺪﯾﻖ ﺭﺿﯽ ﺍﻟﻠﮧ ﻋﻨﮧ
ﮐﺎ ﻣﻌﻤﻮﻝ ﺗﮭﺎ ﮐﮧ ﺁﭖ ﻓﺠﺮ ﮐﯽ ﻧﻤﺎﺯ
ﮐﮯ ﺑﻌﺪ ﺻﺤﺮﺍ ﮐﯽ ﻃﺮﻑ ﻧﮑﻞ ﺟﺎﺗﮯ،
ﻭﮨﺎﮞ ﭼﻨﺪ ﺳﺎﻋﺘﯿﮟ ﮔﺰﺍﺭﺗﮯ ﺍﻭﺭ ﻭﺍﭘﺲ
ﻣﺪﯾﻨﮧ ﺁﺟﺎﺗﮯ- ﺣﻀﺮﺕ ﻋﻤﺮ ﺭﺿﯽ ﺍﻟﻠﮧ
ﻋﻨﮧ ﮐﻮ ﺑﮍﺍ ﺗﻌﺠﺐ ﮨﻮﺍ ﮐﮧ ﺍﺑﻮﺑﮑﺮ ﺻﺒﺢ
ﮨﯽ ﺻﺒﺢ ﺻﺤﺮﺍ ﻣﯿﮟ ﮐﯿﺎ ﻟﯿﻨﮯ ﺟﺎﺗﮯ
ﮨﮟ-
ﺍﯾﮏ ﺩﻥ ﻓﺠﺮ ﮐﯽ ﻧﻤﺎﺯ ﮐﮯ ﺑﻌﺪ
ﺍﻧﮩﻮﮞ
ﻧﮯ ﭼﮭﭗ ﮐﺮ ﺍﺑﻮﺑﮑﺮ ﺭﺿﯽ ﺍﻟﻠﮧ
ﻋﻨﮧ
ﮐﺎ ﺗﻌﺎﻗﺐ ﮐﯿﺎ،
ﺍﺑﻮﺑﮑﺮ ﺭﺿﯽ ﺍﻟﻠﮧ ﻋﻨﮧ ﻣﻌﻤﻮﻝ ﮐﮯ
ﻣﻄﺎﺑﻖ ﻣﺪﯾﻨﮧ ﺳﮯ ﻧﮑﻠﮯ ﺍﻭﺭ ﺻﺤﺮﺍ
ﻣﯿﮟ ﺍﯾﮏ ﭘﺮﺍﻧﮯ ﺧﯿﻤﮯ ﮐﮯ ﺍﻧﺪﺭ ﮔﺌﮯ،
ﻋﻤﺮ ﺭﺿﯽ ﺍﻟﻠﮧ ﻋﻨﮧ ﺍﯾﮏ ﭼﭩﺎﻥ ﮐﯽ
ﺍﻭﭦ ﻣﯿﮟ ﭼﭙﮑﮯ ﺳﮯ ﺍﻧﮩﯿﮟ ﺩﯾﮑﮭﻨﮯ
ﻟﮕﮯ۔
ﺍﺑﻮﺑﮑﺮ ﺭﺿﯽ ﺍﻟﻠﮧ ﻋﻨﮧ ﺗﮭﻮﮌﯼ ﺩﯾﺮ ﺑﻌﺪ
ﺧﯿﻤﮯ ﺳﮯ ﺑﺎﮨﺮ ﺁﺋﮯ ﺍﻭﺭ ﻣﺪﯾﻨﮧ ﺭﻭﺍﻧﮧ
ﮨﻮﮔﺌﮯ، ﻋﻤﺮ ﺭﺿﯽ ﺍﻟﻠﮧ ﻋﻨﮧ ﭼﭩﺎﻥ ﮐﯽ
ﺍﻭﭦ ﺳﮯ ﻧﮑﻠﮯ ﺍﻭﺭ ﺧﯿﻤﮯ ﻣﯿﮟ ﺩﺍﺧﻞ ﮨﻮﺋﮯ،،
ﮐﯿﺎ ﺩﯾﮑﮭﺘﮯ ﮨﯿﮟ ﮐﮧ ﺍﯾﮏ ﻧﺎﺑﯿﻨﺎ
ﮐﻤﺰﻭﺭ
ﻋﻮﺭﺕ ﺍﻭﺭ ﭼﮭﻮﭨﮯﭼﮭﻮﭨﮯ ﺑﭽﮯ
ﺑﯿﭩﮭﮯ ﮨﯿﮟ، ﺁﭖ ﻧﮯ ﺍﺱ ﻋﻮﺭﺕ ﺳﮯ
ﺩﺭﯾﺎﻓﺖ ﮐﯿﺎ: "ﯾﮧ ﮐﻮﻥ ﮨﮯ ﺟﻮ ﺗﻤﮩﺎﺭﮮ ﭘﺎﺱ ﺁﺗﺎ ﮨﮯ؟
" ﺍﺱ ﻧﮯ
ﺟﻮﺍﺏ ﺩﯾﺎ: "ﻣﯿﮟ ﺍﺳﮯ ﻧﮩﯿﮟ ﺟﺎﻧﺘﯽ،
ﮐﻮﺋﯽ ﻣﺴﻠﻤﺎﻥ ﮨﮯ، ﺍﯾﮏ ﻋﺮﺻﮯ ﺳﮯ
ﮨﺮ ﺻﺒﺢ ﮨﻤﺎﺭﮮ ﭘﺎﺱ ﺁﺗﺎ ﮨﮯ- ﭘﻮﭼﮭﺎ: "
ﺗﻤﮩﺎﺭﮮ ﭘﺎﺱ ﺁﮐﺮ ﮐﯿﺎ ﮐﺮﺗﺎ ﮨﮯ؟
ﻭﮦ ﺑﻮﻟﯽ: " ﮔﮭﺮ ﻣﯿﮟ ﺟﮭﺎﮌﻭ ﺩﯾﺘﺎ ﮨﮯ،
ﺁﭨﺎ ﮔﻮﻧﺪﮬﺘﺎ ﮨﮯ، ﮨﻤﺎﺭﯼ ﺑﮑﺮﯼ ﮐﺎ ﺩﻭﺩﮪ
ﺩﻭﮨﺘﺎ ﮨﮯ ﺍﻭﺭ ﭼﻼ ﺟﺎﺗﺎ ﮨﮯ-"
ﺍﺱ ﮐﯽ ﺑﺎﺕ ﺳﻦ ﮐﺮ ﻋﻤﺮ ﺭﺿﯽ ﺍﻟﻠﮧ
ﻋﻨﮧ ﯾﮧ ﮐﮩﺘﮯ ﮨﻮﺋﮯ ﺧﯿﻤﮯ ﺳﮯ ﺑﺎﮨﺮ
ﺁﮔﺌﮯ:
" ﺍﺑﻮﺑﮑﺮ! ﺁﭖ ﻧﮯ ﺍﭘﻨﮯ ﺑﻌﺪ ﮐﮯ ﺧﻠﻔﺎﺀ
ﮐﻮ ﺑﮍﯼ ﻣﺸﮑﻞ ﻣﯿﮟ ﮈﺍﻝ ﺩﯾﺎ، ﺁﭖ ﻧﮯ
ﺍﭘﻨﮯ ﺑﻌﺪ ﮐﮯ ﺧﻠﻔﺎﺀ ﮐﻮ ﺑﮍﯼ ﻣﺸﮑﻞ

ﻣﯿﮟ ﮈﺍﻝ ﺩﯾﺎ-

اٹامک بم

دنیا کا سب سے خوفناک بم "اٹامک بم" کہلاتا ہے اٹامک بم وہ بم ہے جس کے گرتے ہی شہروں کے شہر اور ملکوں کے ملک چند سیکنڈز میں تباہ و برباد ہوجاتے ہیں اور انسان، چرند پرند ہر چیز کوئلہ بن جاتی یے۔
دنیا میں پہلی بار امریکہ نے چاپان کے دو شہروں ہیروں شیماں اور ناگا ساکی پر اٹامک بم گرایا تھا واضح رہے جو امریکہ نے اٹامک بم گرایا تھا وہ سب سے کم مقدار کا انتہائی چھوٹا اٹامک بم تھا لیکن پھر بھی اُس کے گرتے ہی چند سیکنڈ میں ہی دونوں شہر تباہ برباد ہوگئے تھے اور لاکھوں لوگ کوئلہ بن گئے۔ 
آپ اندازہ لگائیں کہ اگر ایک چھوٹے اٹامک بم سے اتنی بڑی تباہی ہو سکتی ہے تو بڑی مقدار کے بڑے اٹامک بم سے کتنی تباہی ہو گی شائد اس کا کوئی اندازہ نہ کرسکے واضح رہے دنیا میں اعلانیہ 6 اٹامک پاور والے ملک ہے جس میں مسلم دنیا سے صرف پاکستان اٹامک پاور میں شامل ہے اور اس وقت پاکستان دنیا کی تیسری بڑی اٹامک پاور والا ملک ہے اور خطے میں ازلی دشمن بھارت بھی اٹامک پاور ہے آج تک دنیا میں کبھی بھی دو اٹامک پاور میں اٹامک جنگ نہیں ہوئی۔
فرض کریں اگر اب انڈیا اور پاکستان میں جنگ ہوتی ہے تو یہ پہلے ہونے والی جنگوں سے مختلف ہوگئی اور یہ ہو کر رہے گا اور اگر اس جنگ میں اٹامک بم چلتا ہے جو کہ ظاہر بات ہے چلے گا تو اس کا کیا رزلٹ ہوگا ظاہر سی بات ہے تباہی اور بربادی واضح رہے کہ پاکستان کا کل سائز انڈیا کی ٹوٹل ایک صوبہ سے بھی چھوٹا ہے اور انڈیا کی کل 32 صوبے ہیں اس میں کوئی شک نہیں کہ انڈیا بہت بڑا ملک ہے بلکہ پورا ایک براعظم ہے اور اسی وجہ سے انڈین ہندو اس خوش فہمی میں مبتلا ہیں کہ اگر ہم پہلے پاکستان پر اٹمامک بم گراتے ہے تو پاکستان تو دو تین اٹامک بموں سے ہی تباہ برباد ہوجائے گا اور اگر جواب میں پاکستان بھی ہم پر دو تین اٹامک بم گراتا ہے تو ہمارے تو صرف 4 یا5صوبے ہی تباہ ہو برباد ہوں گے۔
یہ صرف ہندوؤں کی غلط فہمی ہے اگر زمیں ختم بھی ہوگئی تو سمندر اور فضا کبھی کوئی ختم نہیں کرسکتا واضح رہے پاکستان کی اٹامک ابدوزے جو سمندر کی گہرائیوں میں اٹمامک بموں سے لیس ہے اور ایسی ابدوزے ہیں جو کسی ریڈار پر نہیں آتی کیوکہ وہ سمندر کے انتہائی گہرائیوں میں چلتی ہیں اور ہر ابدوز میں 6 سے 7 اٹامک لیس ہیں اور پاکستان 36سیکنڈ میں سمندر میں سے انڈیا پر 70 اٹامک بم گرا سکتا ہے جس سے انڈیا تو انڈیا رہا انڈیا کے آس پاس کے ملک بھی صفہ اے ہستی سے مٹ جائے گا۔ اور رہی بات فضہ سے تو پاکستان ائیر فورس 90سیکنڈ میں ہوا سے انڈیا پر 150 اٹامک بم گرا سکتی ہیں جس سے ڈھونڈنے سے بھی پتہ نہیں چلے گا کہ انڈیا تھا کدھر۔۔؟؟
واضح رہے امریکہ نے چاپان پر ہوا سے ہی اٹمامک بم گرائے تھے مختصرن ہندوستان کے بُت پرستوں یہ بات نوٹ کرلو اور یہ بات ہندوستان والے بھی خوب جانتے ہیں کہ اگر پاکستان نہ رہا تو رہے گا ہندوستان بھی نہیں اور نہ ہی پھر اسرائیل رہے گا اور یہ بات بھی نوٹ کرلو کہ اگر خدانخواستہ پاکستان ختم بھی ہوگیا تو صرف ایک اسلامی ریاست ہی ختم ہوگی باقی 56اسلامی ریاستیں باقی رہے گیں لیکن اگر ہندوستان ختم ہوگیا تو دنیا پر ہندؤوں کا اور نہ ہی ہندوؤں کی ریاست کا نام ونشان بھی نہیں رہے گا۔۔ انشااللہ

How To Add a Dislike button To Your Facebook status

This is a basic tutorial on how to add a
"didlike" button or a custom button to
your status
First go to the application status magic
(you can just search it in the search bar at
the top of the screen)
Second go back to your home page and
click in the update status box
Third click on status magic at the bottom
of the box
Forth customize what you want the button
to say or leave it the way it is (for the
dislike button)
Fifth update your status

How To Find An Email Address By Facebook ID

Every Facebook user has an email address in the form of Facebook_ID@facebook.com. When you email that address from any email client, the message normally routes to the user's Facebook message inbox. However, if you know a friend or business contact's Facebook ID and want to locate her non-Facebook email address, you can use the ID to visit the associated profile. The contact information only appears if it is public or the user has made it viewable by you.
 Step 1

Log in to Facebook and click inside the address bar in your Web browser.
Step 2

Delete all characters that appear to the right of the forward slash following "facebook.com."

Step 3

Type the Facebook ID of the user whose email address you want to find and press "Enter" on your keyboard. This navigates your browser to the user's Facebook profile.
Step 4

Click "About" in the user's profile to view all of the available information about that user.
Step 5

Scroll down the page until you see the "Contact Info" section. If an "Email" field appears there, all of the user's email addresses visible to you are adjacent to it.

Protect USB virus from Entering Your PC

Hi friends,
You can make ur normal pen drive to virus protected pendrive. for that u want 1 pc which having windows vista 0r 7 os installed. Follow the below steps……..
1) Connect ur pen drive to pc which having widows vista or windows 7 operating system. (The user must having Administrator rights)

2) Open ‘My Computer’ & right click on pendrive icon then select ‘Format’ option. Before formatting you must take a back up of all of your data
because it deletes whole data from ur pen drive.

3) In Format window select file system tab & change it to ‘NTFS’ then click on ‘Start’ to start formatting.

4) After formatting done close the format window & open ur pendrive.

5) create one folder in pen drive & rename it to ‘secured’.

6) Back to ‘My Computer’ & again right click on pendrive & now select ‘Properties’ tab.

7) In properties window select security tab then click on edit & tick on ‘Deny’ for ‘Write’ permission then press ok to apply the settings.

8) Open pen drive again, right click on ‘Secured’ folder select ‘Properties’ then ‘Security’ tab.
again click on ‘Edit’ tab & set ‘Allow’ permission to ‘Full Control’ then click ok to apply settings.

9) Open ‘Secured’ folder, create one folder into that & rename it to ‘Secured.exe’.

10) Right click on ‘Secured.exe’ folder select ‘Properties’ & make it hidden by selecting ‘Hidden’ attribute then select ‘security’ tab click on ‘Edit’ & set ‘Deny’ permission to ‘Full Control’ .

10) Press ‘Ok’ to apply the settings.

Now ur pen drive is virus protected. but u can’t copy files into that directly. u need to copy all of ur files to the secured folder & I recommand that copy ur software setup files to the zip folder so, virus can’t access software’s exe files.

List of Prominent Qadiani Perosnalities in Pakistan

 1    Mubasir Ullah DIG lahore
 2   Ahmed Raza Tahir CCPO Lahore
 3   Salman Bashir Secretery Foreign Affairs
 4    Noman Bahir Cheif of the Navel Staff
 5    Ch. Eitizaz Ahsan EX president supereem court Bar
 6   Aasima Jahangir Ex president supereem court Bar
 7    Mubasir Luqman TV Anchor
 8    Rana Mubashir TV Anchor
 9    Najam Sethi Journalist
10   Aslam Khattak National Awami Party
 11  Aftab Ahmed Sherpao (Nephew of Aslam Khattak) PPP
 12   Naheed Khan PPP personal secratary of BeZazeer Bhutto
 13   Sheri Rehman PPP
 14    Mian Manzoor Ahmed Watto Ex Foreign Minister
 15    GM Syed Gea Sindh (Presented resuolation in Sindh Assembly
 16    Mubashir Zafar GM (HR) OGDC
 17    Raiz Mohmmad Khan Ex Secretry foreign affairs and spokes man
 18   Khurshid Mahmood Qasuri Ex foreign Minister
 19   Ahmed Raza Qasuri Lodge FIR against Bhutto
 20   Ahmed Kamal Former Pakistan

Ajmal Kasab hanged in secrecy, buried at Pune's Yerwada Jail

Mumbai: Mohammed Ajmal Amir Kasab, 25, the only terrorist caught alive during the 26/11 attacks on Mumbai, was hanged at Pune's Yerwada Jail at 7:30 this morning. It was a swift and secret execution, just two weeks after President Pranab Mukherjee rejected his mercy petition. Union Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde, who said it was all in a day's work, told NDTV that not one of his Cabinet colleagues knew that Kasab would be hanged today and would have learnt of it from TV.

A few hours after he was hanged, Kasab's body was buried at the Pune jail. Pakistan's interior minister Rehman Malik  told NDTV that no request had been made by Kasab's family for repatriation  of his body. "As and when such a request is made, we will approach India accordingly," he said. A Pakistani human rights activist, Ansar Burney, has now offered to claim the terrorist's body, "on humanitarian grounds."

Soon after Kasab was hanged, Mr Shinde said India had informed the Pakistan government yesterday about Kasab's hanging, but, he said, Islamabad had refused to acknowledge the letter that was both couriered and faxed through its high commission in Delhi. Foreign Minister Salman Khurshid said it was faxed after India tried repeatedly and unsuccessfully, to give it to Pakistan by hand.

Pakistan has refuted this saying it has "received and acknowledged" India's note. India's foreign ministry  sources say Islamabad did, however, accept its request for enhanced security for Indian diplomats in Pakistan.

Sources said the government also sent word about Kasab's execution by a special letter to an address in Pakistan that the terrorist had given as that of his family. Kasab, who was informed on November 12 that he would be hanged, had reportedly requested that his mother be informed about it. He had no other last wish and left no will.

The President rejected Ajmal Kasab's mercy petition on November 5, Mr Shinde said. Paperwork between Delhi and Mumbai done, Kasab was moved from his bullet-proof, secure cell in Mumbai's Arthur Road jail to Pune on Monday. The Yerwada jail is one of two in Maharashtra equipped to handle execution by hanging.

The process thereafter was kept top secret, with even the most senior officials informed only on a need to know basis. "These are sensitive matters...we managed to keep it secret," Mr Khurshid said.

Mr Shinde was more specific. He said his department kept the execution plan under wraps since it did not want to encounter pressure from international NGOs or "someone moving Supreme Court. "It is my nature that I maintain secrecy on such things. I am trained to be a policeman," Mr Shinde, adding that none of his cabinet colleagues or UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi knew about the execution happening today. "They would have got to know from television when channels started reporting this morning," he said.

An hour after Kasab was hanged today, Maharashtra Home Minister RR Patil made an official announcement saying, "I sincerely believe this is a tribute to all innocent people and the officers who lost their lives in the Mumbai attacks.

The execution comes one day before the Winter Session of Parliament begins and five days before the fourth anniversary of a day that will haunt Mumbai for many days. Mr Shinde says not too much should be read into those details. Mr Khurshid said India's message to the world was that "India stands by the rule of law."

166 people were killed over three days of terror, when 10 men from Pakistan sailed into Mumbai in November 2008. They split into pairs and spent 72 hours targeting the city's landmarks. A hospital was attacked; so was a Jewish centre. Kasab was the only terrorist who was caught alive.

While it has been established that Kasab belonged to Pakistan, Islamabad has continued to deny that there was any state involvement in the massive terror attack planned and executed by the deadly terror group Lashkar-e-Taiba.

The abiding image of Kasab - captured by a photographer at Mumbai's Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus station - is of him in T-shirt and cargo pants, strapped with ammunition and holding a deadly Kalashnikov rifle. On 26/11, his partner Ismail and he attacked the station first, killing 52 people and wounding more than 100.

They then escaped, hijacked a police vehicle after fatally shooting three senior policemen - Hemant Karkare, Ashok Kamte and Vijay Salaskar - and drove for a distance before being brought to halt at Girgaum Chowpatty by a flat tyre. Ismail, who was driving was killed in gunfire. Kasab, who was wounded, got out of the car and pretended to be dead. An unarmed Assistant police inspector Tukaram Ombale approached him and when Kasab suddenly pulled his gun on him, grappled with the terrorist, holding on to his rifle, and ensured that he was captured alive by other cops, before succumbing to his injuries.

Since his arrest in 2008, Kasab was kept in a high-security bulletproof cell in Mumbai's Arthur Road jail. He had moved the Supreme Court on February 14 this year against the High Court verdict of October 10 last year, which upheld a lower court order sentencing the terrorist to death. The lower court had pronounced its judgement on May 6, 2010, 18 months after he was captured.

Kasab's mercy petition was filed first with the Maharashtra Home Ministry, which rejected it in September, and forwarded it to the Union Home Ministry. Then, in October, the Home Ministry recommended that President Pranab Mukherjee reject his plea.

In his plea before the Supreme Court Kasab had said that he had not been given a fair trial. But the Supreme Court had rejected that contention and Justice CK Prasad had observed, "I am more than certain that the planning and conspiracy to commit the crime were hatched in Pakistan, the perpetrators of crime were Pakistani trained at different centres in that country, and the devastation which took place at various places in the city of Mumbai, were executed by the appellant in furtherance thereof.

There had been an overwhelming demand among people in India since 2008 that Kasab be executed for his role in the Mumbai attacks. Also, as Kasab's trial continued, the cost of keeping him alive had been a huge burden on the state exchequer.

While the Government has spent over Rs. 5 crore on his high security cell at Mumbai's Arthur Road jail, his security, entrusted to the Indo Tibetan Border Police (ITBP), has cost the state several crores.

Dr. Lonnie Smith: But Beautiful

Dr. Lonnie Smith-organist, composer, bandleader and now principal of Pilgrimage Records-is the Cheshire cat of jazz. He's been part of the scene for so long that, even though he's there, he sometimes disappears from view; when you do get a glimpse, the last thing you see and the first thing you remember is his warm and wise Buddha smile. Dr. Lonnie Smith smiles like he knows that he knows something that most people don't even know that they don't know.

Born in Buffalo, New York, Dr. Smith's house and family life were full of music, including and especially singing. He sang and played some trumpet in school, and as his maturation continued, he began hanging out at a local music store. In the late 1950s, the store's owner, Art Kubera, gave him the opportunity to learn how to play a Hammond organ. "Even though I didn't know how, I was able to play right from the beginning," Dr. Smith reflects. "I learned how to work the stops and that was it. It's a passion for me, so everything else came naturally." Dr. Smith still refers to Art Kubera as "my angel."

Dr. Smith began honing his playing in Buffalo clubs, where he was soon spotted by guitarist George Benson, who recruited him into his group, and by booking agent Jimmy Boyd, who found work for Benson and Smith in New York City and Harlem. John Hammond saw some of these shows and then signed them both to Columbia Records, which released Finger-Lickin' Good, Dr. Smith's debut, in 1966.

He was soon recruited by alto saxophonist Lou Donaldson, and his contributions to the million-selling Alligator Boogaloo (Blue Note, 1967) and Everything I Play is Funky (Blue Note, 1970) put Dr. Smith on the musical map to stay. Blue Note subsequently signed Dr. Smith, for whom he released his own titles Think! (1968), and Turning Point (1969), which opens with a joyous romp through the R&B workhorse "See Saw," by Don Covay and guitarist Steve Cropper, plus other soulful jazz (if not soul-jazz) classics along the way.

In subsequent decades, Dr. Smith has recorded a wide variety of projects for several different labels, including Foxy Lady: A Tribute to Hendrix (Musicmasters, 1994), in a trio with guitarist John Abercrombie and drummer Marvin "Smitty" Smith, and Boogaloo to Beck: A Tribute (Scufflin' Records, 2003), his homage to the folk/hip-hop pastiche master featuring saxophonist David "Fathead" Newman. A long-term stay on Palmetto Records produced his funk workouts Too Damn Hot (2004), Jungle Soul (2006) and Rise Up! (2009).

In 2010, Dr. Smith formed a new trio with guitarist Jonathan Kreisberg and drummer Jamire Williams to record Spiral (Palmetto, 2010). Dr. Smith sounds revitalized by their influx, most notably in a high-energy take on Jimmy Smith's "Mellow Mood" and a swarming, stinging buzz through Harold Mabern's "Beehive." Both tunes were reprised on 2012's The Healer, joined by Dr. Smith's own luscious "Backtrack" and soul-searching "Pilgrimage" (on which he plays and sings), plus a languid stroll across Billy Strayhorn's "Chelsea Bridge."

Comprised of live sets recorded at the Jazz Standard in New York City and at a town plaza in Hungary at the end of the trio's 2011 tour of Europe, The Healer also heralds the debut of Dr. Smith's own label, Pilgrimage Records. "If you told me back in 1966 when I recorded my first LP that I would be starting my own record label in the year 2012, I would've said, 'That's what you think!'" Dr. Smith wrote in The Healer's notes.

Dr. Smith is a member of the Buffalo Music and Jazz Organ Fellowship Halls of Fame and will bring his trio back to New York's Jazz Standard in January 2013.

All About Jazz: You have an incredible back catalog but let's start with your new record first; in fact, let's start with the band on The Healer: How did this trio come together?

Dr. Lonnie Smith: Jonathan Kreisberg first worked with me years ago. I needed a guitarist. I heard this young man and he was quite a guitarist. He worked so fine, so well, with me. When his name came up again, the fellow handling me mentioned that Jonathan used to work with me and I quickly remembered him. We called him and it lined up perfect.

Then we heard about Jamire Williams. I listened to him and it was another perfect fit. When we got together and played, it even sounded better than what I heard in my head. It was just what I needed. It worked for me.

We enjoy each other. We enjoy playing with each other, and they're quite great musicians. They do a really wonderful job, and they add beautiful music to what I'm playing, so it's great.

AAJ: Is there a specific reason why the trio has been such a successful/popular format for organ players?

DLS: It's a great marriage. What I love about the guitar/organ trio is that, when you have a horn, it sounds fat. It sounds large-big-with a saxophone. And when they're playing, you're accompanying the horn player, but when you're playing, they're just basically standing there.

But the guitarist is there to support you just like the drummer supports you and does not stop just because I start playing. It creates great rhythms, and I love rhythm. I love great rhythm. Guitar adds a really nice tone to the organ; they kind of blend beautifully together.

In the earlier days, I used a lot of horns. I love horns also. But an organ trio leaves you more expression room: If you're soloing and you have a lot of horn players, you give the trumpet player, you give the saxophonist, you give the guitarist all something to play, and then when it's time for you to play, you don't even want to play because it's gone on for so long, you know? It gets too long. Of course, some people are just longwinded. You sometimes say, "Hey, wait a minute-I would like to get to another song tonight."

Mats Gustafsson: Share The Moment

Reedman Mats Gustafsson resides at the center of a hurricane of activity: relentlessly touring, curating festivals and begetting record labels. He boasts one of most distinctive sounds in free jazz, combining the extremes of scalp prickling howls with adventurous exploration of minimalist tone and timbre. Although he's come a long way since his early days in a punk rock band in Sweden's Lapland, that anarchic energy is never far away, revealed in collaborations with luminaries from both the Old and New Worlds, such as reedmen Peter Brötzmann, Ken Vandermark and Joe McPhee, and guitarists Thurston Moore, Jim O'Rourke and Yoshihide Otomo.

One of the most enduring vehicles for his artistry is The Thing, a trio with Norwegians Ingebrigt Haker Flaten (bass) and Paal Nilssen-Love (drums), first established in 2000 during a series of concerts and a recording in Stockholm. The trio melds the German, British and American traditions of free music into a searing inferno which can miraculously birth songs from the annals of punk, rock or jazz. Originally, its repertoire comprised the music of legendary trumpeter Don Cherry, who spent many of his years living in the Swedish capital, and after which one of his compositions the threesome is named. In 2012, the trio released two very different albums which, between them, encapsulate the band's breadth of expression and provide an illuminating entree to the reedman's world.

Chapter Index

    The Cherry Thing
    Metal!
    Turning Points
    A Personalized Sound
    Influences
    On The Road


The Cherry Thing

All About Jazz: The Cherry Thing (Smalltown Superjazz, 2012) is a collaboration with vocalist Neneh Cherry, which garnered some rave reviews. It's a neat connection for a band named after a Don Cherry composition to join with Cherry's stepdaughter; how did that come about?

Mats Gustafsson: It was basically because me and Neneh had a mutual friend in Stockholm, where Neneh has had her base for many years. This guy, called Conny Lindstrom, who I ran the Crazy Wisdom label with, he has also been running a couple of clubs in Stockholm presenting creative music from whatever field. Amazing concept. He's never been interested in genre. So he's been presenting extreme Japanese noise as well as Norwegian singer/songwriting, and free improvised music in all forms. He's been a very old friend of Neneh's and is also a record collector. So I hooked up with him very early when I moved down from Lapland to Stockholm and he was working in the record shop. We connected immediately as he was commenting that I was buying Peter Brötzmann records.

It's always been a dream to get me and Neneh together in a project. It's been on the agenda a couple of times with different projects, but it never happened. Neneh got sick one time, [when] we had a recording scheduled. So we had the opportunity to meet in London, and that was after Neneh's husband and producer Cameron heard us live and was somehow impressed by something, I guess. So he set up, with Conny, this opportunity to meet in the studio in London. And we recorded three pieces without any arrangements or anything. We just did it, and it was the same feeling we had when we first played as The Thing in the studio back in 2000. We came together and everything just worked. So we said, "OK, fuck it, we need to do this again." We needed to make a record and then when it was done, we said we needed to make a serious tour with this. It's just one of those things; it needed some time for me and Neneh to find the right situation to work within. The Thing was my main group and so it was very natural.

AAJ: How did you choose the songs on the album?

MG: It's a very democratic group and we always take all the decisions together. We had some discussions, emails back and forth, sending out some stupid suggestions, some serious ones. And then, in the studio, we tried a bunch, and basically the ones we tried are the ones on the record. There are eight songs on the record, and another five that didn't fit that the label will put out as singles-or maybe as a separate LP. It's a really interesting process, bringing in favorite music, whether it comes from the free jazz tradition like the Don Cherry or Ornette [Coleman] piece, or whether it comes from garage rock or The Stooges or the Bristol scene Neneh has been associated with; it doesn't matter. It's what we do with the material. Also, six of the songs on this record are other people's pieces, but it was not intended to look like a cover record. They were just the songs we wanted to try. The next step for this Cherry Thing is to bring in more original compositions for the next album.

AAJ: Did Neneh write the lyrics to Don Cherry's "Golden Heart" and your piece, "Sudden Moment"?

MG: I wrote the lyrics as well. I did some attempts before, but in a way that was an interesting process. I write a lot, I write about music, but to write lyrics to songs like that is a different kind of process [laughs], but I found it very interesting as a challenge, and so I will try again and see if I can make any more sense. Neneh wrote the lyrics to "Golden Heart," and the rest are all songs that actually have lyrics.

AAJ: Ornette Coleman's "What Reason Could I Give" is one of the strongest pieces, and a great set closer. It comes from Science Fiction (CBS, 1972) , a very underrated album.

MG: I think it is a master album, one of his best. I think it is fantastic, but it's somehow overlooked, I think. If you talk about Ornette, there are usually other albums that people talk about first. But it's one of my favorite albums and it's also the album that Neneh puts first. I think she grew up with it, more or less.