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AntiZiotics II – Episode 2

October 7, 2009 Fari 12 comments

This is a sequel to AntiZiotics II – Episode 1. Haven’t read it yet? Read it here.

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II

In no time, the former Organizing Head of Amnesty International and special services agent of MI6, Mustafa Hanif cuts off this conversation between Umer and Ali, and slams Umer back against the wall. With his cigarette lighter’s flame as close as to heating Umer’s throat and hair on chest, Mustafa cautions Umer:
“Listen to me carefully! Before I utter something, just have a glance out of the window. Go!”
“What the heck! Where is the whole public going? What’s this enormous rush about?” utters Umer in total surprise!
“Now listen to this”, adds Mustafa by switching on the radio:

“To all those who’ve just joined us here on the Brit Radio…Hello, this is Osama Khalid, the lead guitarist of the Rick Band… Yeah!! Me!! To all the Ricks out there, this is to tell you that in two and a half minutes time, the Rick Band’s gonna perform at the Marble Arch, London, marking its first reappearance in their Back From The Dead Tour! So be there, ALL the Ricks listening!”

Marble Arch, London

“Goodness me!! What the hell is this goin’ on?” says Umer.
“Now that we’ve got 135 seconds in hand, listen to what we can really do! First of all, is this really Osama Khalid?” inquires Mustafa.
“NO!! He ain’t! Osama is dead! I personally attended his funeral and all the last burial proceedings. He’s dust now! The voice of this radio guy resembles to Osama’s to a grand extent, BUT, he ain’t Osama. He’s dead. And there’s no alternate reality.” cries Umer.

Marble Arch map

“Hello! This is Ali Iftikhar, DS Member, MI6. I want absolute cell phone jammers at Marble Arch, RIGHT NOW!” cautions Ali to the LondonPD on speed dial, while Mustafa and Umer quickly embark the chopper to Marble Arch, which is well within the two and a half minutes reach.

“Dammit! In 30 seconds time, my watch will show 9:37 AM, in line with the Big Ben’s Clock!” with tearful eyes facing the sky, Umer adds, “The Most Gracious! The Most Merciful, My Lord! For any good and kind deed that I’ve done in my entire life, that got accepted at your throne, in return to that, please save these million men who’ve gathered here on the call of Satan. For You are the best of Knower, who knows whether it’s the Rick Band or Devil.”

Marble Arch, London

Approaching towards 9:37, the time begins to burn… At exactly 9:37, a thunder explosion ploughs the land inside out. Marble Arch is seen facing a fountain of fire, head to head. Suddenly the bomb disposal squad that just reached the site at Ali Iftikhar’s orders takes hold of another explosive, planted around the Marble Arch, and quickly diffuses it.

“The jammers are up! We don’t expect another explosion. But the area must be cleaned for any possible explosive planted.” briefs Mr. Platypus from LondonPD to Umer Farooq, while the authorities are taking notice of the casualties and suffering.

Out of the blue, another explosive is spotted and diffused! Umer Farooq and Mustafa Hanif, rush to the site in chaotic fashion. Mustafa speedily measures the distance from the point of first explosion (lets say point A) to the point of the first bomb diffused (lets say point B). Then he measures the distance from point B to the point of the latest bomb diffused (lets say point C). To his surprise, point B is equidistant from point A and C. As they witness the icing on the cake, point A, B and C form an equilateral triangle…!

The Plot!

“Well! You know what! We’ve got more explosives around in the nook. An equilateral triangle…Where are we heading?” inquires Umer.

“The David’s Star is on my cards! Now watch this” adds Mustafa as he starts to draw something on the paper and utters more, “The David’s Star is a six-pointed geometric star figure, {6/2} or 2{3}, the compound of two equilateral triangles. The intersection is a regular hexagon.”

“Well that’s interesting!” utters Umer.

“Yeah! Now keep watching…

The origin of the David’s Star is that it is simply 2 of the 3 letters in the name David: in its Hebrew spelling, David is transliterated as ‘D-W-D’. In Biblical Hebrew, the letter ‘D’ (Dalet) was written in a form much like a triangle, similar to the Greek letter “Delta” (Δ). The symbol has been a simple family crest formed by flipping and juxtaposing the two most prominent letters in the name. The letter “W” in this case, references the compositing operation of the two Deltas.

And this concludes, that three more explosives are yet to be spotted, that form the vertices of the other equilateral triangle…”

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Continued in AntiZiotics II – Episode 3 – Coming Soon!

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AntiZiotics II

September 11, 2009 Fari 22 comments

This story is a sequel to AntiZiotics!. Haven’t read the prequel yet? Read it here.

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II

Two years have passed since the historical demise of the Rick Band, but things have never got normal again. Three ultra-curious men in hoods are looking close at the wax statues of the late Rick Band members, here at the Madame Tussauds Museum in London. Looking at them, no one can really say much what they’re actually trying to do. The three are equipped with unusual stuff like micro digital cameras, measuring tapes and of course, a pair of eagle eyes on their faces. In one of these men’s hands, is held the TIME magazine’s latest publication, which is getting unprecedented worldwide attention for one of the articles that it holds within…Here’s a brief view of what this article says:

The Rickshaw Vs the DAVID’S STAR: The After Ef‘FACTS’ Unveiled!

September 15

– 4 days from the death of the Rick Band: A top level Jewish Technology Professor at M.I.T., Arqam Gadit, confesses that ‘the movement’ is a terrorist movement with inhumane motives.

September 23

– 12 days from the death of the Rick Band: The UN Representative of Palestine, Amna Ali, is kidnapped, just after two hours and 13 minutes, from the time she reveals the testament of the latest US Aid to Israel, in the UN Security Council. The testament states how the funded money is to be used to buy the new SS-18 Satan missile technology, in order to infiltrate the Gaza Strip.

October 6

– 25 days from the death of the Rick Band: Lev Leviv’s airplane wanders on the border of Iran for 19 minutes, after not being allowed to enter the Islamic Republic of Iran.

The list goes on and on, but the two most recent developments have turned every one head over heels:

7 days ago, on September 4, ’09, this is what Chester Bennington and Mike Shinoda messaged their fans on the Official Charity Campaign website of Linkin Park, MusicForRelief.org:

“The Rick Band will be back…”

The next day, the JIDF [Jewish Internet Defense Force] website got hacked and the only message the hackers left was “The Rick Band will be back…”

Is this time, the Auto Rickshaw is going to collide with the David’s Star?

YOU decide.

-Adil Bawany,

Associate Writer,

TIME Magazine.”

Ever since the revolution in the human race, triggered by the anti-sentiments invoked by the Rick Band, ‘the movement’ has really changed gears in the struggle for its dream, the Greater Israel. In a mere two years time, almost 87% of the Palestinian territory, 63% area of Lebanon and 53% area of Jordan has been illegitimately invaded by Israel, on the basis of gun. Seeker of the restoration of the Solomon Empire, the Zio-Jewish nation, that has been destined to live in exile on Earth by God, is now all set to bother any country, any entity, any time it wants. With a robust ‘Patriot’ missile defense system deployed around ‘the illegal occupied territory’, the Star has got each and every major Arab city ready on target. The World now has two genders to classify into, the Ricks, and the ‘Zio-Illuminati’. This, in fact… is the New World Order. Despite the Ricks being in majority, the Zio’s are in vast control of planet Earth.

Suddenly, the wax statue of the late drummer of the Rick Band, Hassan Ahmed, is seen burning in fire. Thousands of visitors gather around the statue, and get to witness the most unusual findings of their lives. This is what a several thousand people get to witness on the back of the burning statue’s neck engraved:

The David’s Star

9/11

8:46:40

The chaos is extraordinarily propagating… The authorities are trying to push the people back and evacuate the area for investigation purposes, but the mob is now havoc and mayhem! The emblem of the Zio’s, the David’s star’s engraving on the back of the statue’s neck, is raising millions of questions on the curious minds at unrest, while the authorities are totally perplexed at where the three men in hoods have gone…

As minutes spare, the two wax statues of the Rick Band’s vocalist and guitarist, Farrukh Zafar and Osama Khalid respectively, explode! The greatest wax statue museum of the world is now flaming in fire, all across its breadth and width. Madame Tussauds London – now a yesterday’s jam. Hitler, Mandela, Napoleon, Lincoln, Diana, The Rock, Tom Cruise, Pelé, Beckham – You name it – all burning..!

“Each and every term here is important. Remember the name of the magazine held in one of the suspicious men in hoods? “T-I-M-E”!! So watch out for how ‘time’ might play a role in this cameo! The engraving on the statue’s neck shows it were the Zio’s, not to forget that the TIME magazine also belongs to the same man-eater Z movement.

Today is the 11th of September 2009, 8 years ago, this very same date, the Zio-Illuminati changed the world with a serially planned collapse on the World Trade Center, followed by another.” This is all that the two elite detective squad members of MI6, Umer Farooq and Ali Iftikhar Qazi have jot down to paper.

In the wink of an eye, Umer Farooq gets the timeline of the 9.11.01 attacks to study. Here’s the major timeline:

8:46:40 AM: Flight 11 crashes at roughly 490 mph into the north face of the North Tower (1 WTC) of the World Trade Center, between floors 93 and 99.

9:03 AM: Flight 175 crashes at about 590 mph into the south face of the South Tower (2 WTC) of the World Trade Center, banked between floors 78 and 85.

9:37:46 AM: Flight 77 crashes into the western side of the Pentagon and starts a violent fire.

“Dammit! That’s exactly what matches the happenings here:

8:46:40 AM: The time that was engraved on the Rick Band’s guitarist’s burning statue’s neck!

9:03 AM: The time which the digital clock of the museum is showing, after halting as a result of the great explosion caused by the bombs planted in the tummies of the statues, of the rest of the two Rick Rockers.

So 9:37:46 AM it is! We’re just 3 damn minutes away! What’s next? Lord! Mercy!”, are the words of Umer.

Is this another 9/11 to change the world unkind? 8 years the span, from Twin Towers to Madame Tussauds, the next 3 minutes shall tell, as the glories unwind…

Continued in episode II – AntiZiotics II – Coming Soon…!

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AntiZiotics!

March 6, 2009 Fari 23 comments

AntiZiotics!

I just hailed an auto-rickshaw out of my house and I’m running out wild on my way dressed punk with my acoustic guitar sitting at the corner of the seat…Goodness me, I’m late! My shirt unbuttoned, my shoe-laces untied, my face longing for some cold cream and some mad water draining through my hair…At once I take out my head from the side of the rickshaw, with one hand holding the rod of the rickshaw, and the other hand busy in putting some gel onto the hair and dress ‘em up! That’s it, the natural hair dryer, gets me off to a perfect hairstyle! My cell’s constantly barking to pick the call, but I’m not! Just one text I send, “Be ready! I’m almost there.” and I turn my cell off…My friends are anxiously waiting for me in the concert arena and seems like I’m kind of late… “THE NAMELESS BAND” is about to perform live in a concert for the first time and God damn! Their reckless vocalist is still on his way! – This is the “Farrukh Zafar”, my two band members Osama Khalid [lead guitarist] and Hasan Ahmed [drummer] have always come to know! But…Here I come….!!!

All of a sudden, the concert hall takes notice of the sound of a rickshaw! The crowd is absolutely silent and confused after hearing a rickshaw sound on the mic… My two band mates know it’s no one but me! In no time, they see the rickshaw standing on the stage that came from behind the backdrop! And to our surprise, it brings a huge electrifying wave of excitement into the crowd! Osama can’t wait to cash on this moment and he starts playing the guitar in-line with the roaring crowd and the sound of the rickshaw! All this triggers our drummer to drum, and with this we all witness the coolest tune we’d ever imagine- The crunching sound of electric guitar, acoustic guitar and drums, smoothly blended with the rickshaw’s jingle!

There are only two moments in the lives of us three that can be termed as “real important moments”- Moments that literally changed our lives 360 degree. One is THIS, and I keep the slot for the second moment vacant for the future…Nobody knew, not even me, how this peculiar vehicle, rickshaw would change our lives altogether! The spur-of-the-moment idea of blending the Rickshaw’s sound with the contemporary rock beats has now made us famous allover the nation. Two things that the people have done for us: They made us famous in no time, and they have started associating a rickshaw with our band and in other words, given a name to our band, “The Rick Band”! In this way, “THE NAMELESS BAND” gets a new name and is now a unique entity! This is what RADIO PAKISTAN has been screaming all night while playing our new number in their charts, “The Rick Band is the inventor of a new rock music genre, The Rick Rock!”

I really can’t believe my fate. Neither me, nor Osama and Hasan, have ever received so many e-mails, phone calls and texts in a few hours! Hasan has got tired of attending calls and reading all the texts and replying to his fans, but then, there’s one call that’s extremely important! It’s the DEADENSTEINTM RECORDS, who wants us to record our first studio album with them! This just sounds remarkably rocking!!

Our debut album, The Rick Revelations, recorded at the DEADENSTEINTM RECORDS, with more than 10 different Rick tunes, comes out with a bang! More than twenty thousand copies sold on Day 1! After doing almost a dozen of concerts and shows, we finally decide to shoot our first music video. Our video features plenty of rickshaws parked at a highway and The Rick Band hops along the roofs of the rickshaws from one rickshaw to another with their moves. Our video also features some unusual rickshaw realignments such as a wheelie with our rickshaw running on two wheels, 360 degree turns etc…As accustomed, innovation always had to pay off, and so it did! As our hit video is being played on the channels, we decide to film our second music video… Tonight we three fly away to the holy lands of Palestine for our new video shoot…Our new number is another try of inventing something new by amalgamating folk music with our Rick rock…Ever since I wrote the lyrics of this song, I kept the Aqsa mosque and the Gaza strip in my mind… And so, we are finally making it to the land of the prophets…

Its 7 AM here Palestine Local Time and we’re sitting by the window pane, while Hasan is busy eyeing for suitable places for the shoot, through the binoculars…His binoculars have been moving left or right for the last 10 minutes and he never got to stop at a sight until this…”Oh boy! You stopped up at some sight finally. Is that a mystic sight?” asks Osama in curiosity. “No” is the answer from Hasan. He’s still submerged into the depth of the sight and still hasn’t got anything to tell us. He steps back and hands over the binoculars to me, and after watching the sight for a few moments, I wordlessly pass it over to Osama. No body’s moving, neither our tongues. Because we just saw some troops snatching away little children from their mothers and shooting them dead. It’s no doubt the vindictive Israeli soldiers, snatching and killing the children of innocently veiled Muslim mothers.

Three hours have passed and we have hardly spoken to each other. We are sitting in a state of down-in-the-dumps, with our backs as erect as an arrow, and the scene of those pitiless killings playing at the back of our minds. At once, we decide to visit those bereaved mothers and other people in grief, residing in the heart of Gaza. Our local guides, Mohammad Zohaib and Irtaza Rasheed, along with our manager, Arifa Batool, take us to the tormented souls, right after sunset, since the Israeli troops go back to their barracks as evening approaches. We meet several women who have lost a man in one or the other way, at the hands of Israel. To name some; Salma Hanif, who just lost her son today in the morning; Mehwish Kanwal, who lost her husband in the latest war; Tasmiyah Iqbal, who has devoted her life to look after her father whose legs had to be detached from his body as a result of the intense bruising caused by an Israeli Panzerschreck rocket. We then meet Palestine’s representative in the UN, Amna Ali. Every single face has the same helpless story of grief. This is it! We can’t take it more and we pack up our baggage as well as our ambitions to shoot the 2nd music video. And the second slot for the two real important moments of our life, that was kept vacant for the future, just got filled. This is the second time that our lives are abruptly changing. Time is changing. The course of our fate is changing. And we are not going back to Karachi, but announcing our European Tour. Better say, our mission to Europe. There was no single country that could refuse to issue a visa to a rock band that was standing 4th on the MTV Modern Rock Charts. We remained awake for two consecutive nights, with me writing the lyrics for 5 Anti-Zionist tracks and Osama and Hasan preparing the tunes.

Here we go on starting our tour. We start from Germany, the homeland of Hitler. Just 10 minutes to go in to perform, there comes a phone call from Farhan Ul Haque, the General Manager of the DEADENSTEINTM RECORDS…

“CANCEL YOUR EUROPEAN TOUR RIGHT NOW! STOP ALL THIS FUSS. OR IF YOU DON’T… THEN THIS IS THE END OF YOUR CONTRACT WITH THE DEADENSTEINTM RECORDS.”

At this moment, we come to know that even the DEADENSTEINTM RECORDS are secret supporters of the illegal state of Israel. Even though, all our song notes, lyrics and recordings for the second album are with the DEADENSTEINTM RECORDS, and our royalty for the sale of our first album completely lies with this contract, we didn’t take time to refuse. And the next minute, we were singing out loud against the Zionists, in the very heart of Berlin.

As we move across Europe, millions of people, who already had so much hatred for the Zionists, join hands to turn our Euro tour into a Global Anti-Zionist Movement.

After spreading the fire all through the forests, we are flying to the United States of America. On reaching NY, we announce our final concert-cum-protest, which is expected to be the biggest public gathering in World History.

Our Ticket Master, Ali Qasmi reports almost 9 million tickets have been sold so far, and plenty of dignitaries have confirmed their presence, through personal phone calls; Yisroel Dovid Weiss [ Spokesman for Neturei Karta International, an anti-Zionist grouping of Haredi Jews ], Skillet [ An American Christian Rock Band], Taha Rafiq [ Head of the International Muslim Rights Organization ], Mustafa Hanif [ Organizing Head, Amnesty International ] and Hina Aman [ Spokesperson and Legal Advisor to Mahmud Ahmedinijad, President of Iran ] to name few.

Here comes the day which we have been waiting for…Every sun beam that falls on this planet today, has got to give hope to the unlimited grief-stricken people, crushed by the barbaric policies of the Zionists. As I fold the blinds and look down through the window, I see Times Square absolutely packed to capacity by a gigantic swarm of people that does not seem to have an end, as far as the scope of the human eye is concerned. All of a sudden, room no. 13-A, 13th floor, Hotel Monte Carlo, Times Square, NY, is knocked by a person… Hasan goes to check who’s on the door. He finds a waiter with “Tabish Ahmed” written on his name plate, and a food tray in his hands. “Who is it, Hasan?” asks Osama. “Did you call for breakfast?” asks Hasan in reply. As Osama replies back in positive, Hasan tells him that it’s the waiter with breakfast. As he let’s the waiter in, the waiter uncovers three pistols, that were hiding under the tray cover and pleads us to pick one each, as the killing wing of the Zionists might attack us anytime. We are absolutely speechless, though we’ve got security to accompany us from outside our room and onwards. As soon as we three step forward to pick the arms, there comes a stream of bullets, piercing through our skulls. The same window through which we saw the makings of the greatest protest in World History, we came to see the snipers who were formerly hiding in the opposite building. Maybe this was a move to bring all three of us close together around one tray containing pistols, so that the snipers get a perfect view to snipe us through the big window. As we three take the last breathes of our lives, we have absolutely no regrets, because nature chose us in making just another prediction of Nostradamus come true;

“Three bizarre music people,

Make stronger, who were feeble,

Zion faces cries,

Jewish nation dies”

The Rick Band might not have won a Grammy Award, or a Nobel Prize, but we were indeed, the propellers to time. We die proud as we always remembered these words of Abraham Lincoln which my mum used to tell us, “With great power, comes great responsibility.” Who are we? We are…The Rick Band.

I dedicate this story to Ash.

»FARRUKH UNPLUGGED!

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