We shall see

Posted on December 8, 2007 | 294 views
Filed Under Analysis, Opinion, Pakistan, Thinking aloud | 1 Comment

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The independent Pakistan, that’s what we love to call our country. I wonder if we are independent. To me at the moment we are mere slaves, slaves to our ruling junta. A lot has been said and written about it. This will be just another post. I know you have started thinking that way, right? Hey, don’t try to click away that early, may be you can find something thought provoking with me!

Yes, the independent Pakistan and all the sacrifices our ancestors gave and went through all the brutalities by British Raj. How can we stop thinking of those mortal immortal of 1857 who suffered on our behalf. Don’t you think we have spoiled it all and in no time? Look back at our 60 years, martial law, martial law, martial law and again martial law? I don’t know when this cascade will stop. Can anybody tell me; are we there to see martial law only? What worse can happen to us after dismemberment of Pakistan, for God sake we already suffered the loss of our east wing, please stop acting stupid, don’t you have some respect for your country? We are no more interested in losing some other vital part of our country. You might be thinking that it’s easy to say and write all this by staying on an arm chair with a computer in front. True, we are a generation of couch potatoes, right???

It was former East Pakistan in first place; Sindh later, then came the turn of Balochistan with Bugtis and Marris and now in Swat with Islamic radicals. Gush….Enough is enough!!! Will you please tell me, why it is happening? I think it has deeper roots with far reaching consequences.

Do you really think that we are on the winning course? What America achieved out of Iraq and Afghanistan with all her might, nothing but dead bodies of her soldiers. What we are gaining out of Balochistan and NWFP, again the dead bodies, it is moving no where and this war is not a conventional war, it is war of ideologies where strategy is hit and run. Moral of our defense personnel is at all time low, why? The answer is simple, they feel like fighting against their own brethren, how can they find enemy with a Muslim and holding an ID of a Pakistani? Here you might ask that what makes the other side fight with such courage, it is simple, they feel like having a stronger cause, they are thinking that their fight is a fight to uphold the right and negate the wrong. Did you see the essential difference??? It is there and it will stay there. We need to think out of box to tackle these issues but it is not that easy to achieve. The solution lies with shifting paradigm of our rulers.

Now you might ask, to what are those shifts I am talking about? Many changes are required to deal this menace. Our policy makers and masterminds must consider the situation with ground realities in their minds. We can not simply do with out seeing things in Pakistani perspective; we need to prioritize our interests over the interest of international community, that’s the magic formula.

Being a student of International Relations, I know the slogan of inter-dependence and impossibility of isolationism but inter-dependence on cost of our own national interest is not legible. Don’t you think our rulers always stay ready to run an extra mile in want of a pet from global war mongers? It is high time now for them to think that they are not pets and they don’t need pets, if they need any pet, it should come from the nation in form of support for their popular policies.

Tail piece

I am feeling tired of thinking all this at the moment and I know you are bored too. I want to dream now to relieve myself of this agony. Do you enjoy dreaming??? If so, let’s dream together. I want to dream of a bright tomorrow when everything will just be fine. I want to see Quaid’s Pakistan, a Pakistan with peace, tranquility and harmony. I want to dream of a Pakistan that Faiz wanted to see while writing the anthem of democracy and freedom (Hum Dekhain Ga). I want to get lost in the words of Quaid-e-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah who said in his historical speech to first constituent assembly of Pakistan and I quote,

“You are free; you are free to go to your temples, you are free to go to your mosques or to any other place or worship in this State of Pakistan. You may belong to any religion or caste or creed that has nothing to do with the business of the State…Now I think we should keep that in front of us as our ideal and you will find that in course of time Hindus would cease to be Hindus and Muslims would cease to be Muslims, not in the religious sense, because that is the personal faith of each individual, but in the political sense as citizens of the State…I do not wish to take up any more of your time and thank you again for the honour you have done to me. I shall always be guided by the principles of justice and fairplay without any, as is put in the political language, prejudice or ill-will, in other words, partiality or favouritism. My guiding principle will be justice and complete impartiality, and I am sure that with your support and co-operation, I can look forward to Pakistan becoming one of the greatest nations of the world.”

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