Ancient history

Identity crisis for Pakistanis

Pakistan has no future, every man wants to run away from here!

Rana Liaquat Ali Khan, the wife of the first Prime Minister of Pakistan, Liaquat Ali Khan, is called Dynamo in Silk in Pakistan. She struggled throughout her life to nab the perpetrators of her husband Liaquat Ali Khan's murder and worked to improve the lives of Pakistani women. On 11 December 1978, he was given the highest award by the United Nations for his work in the field of human rights. She was the first Asian woman to receive this award. On this occasion, a female journalist named Afshin Zubair took a long interview with Rana and during this time asked him two important questions.

The first question was- 'Is today's Pakistan the same as Pakistan was imagined in 1947?

To this, Rana said- 'No this Pakistan was not imagined. It was desired that every person in Pakistan would follow his religion of his own free will, it would be considered as a matter between the individual and his God and politics would be kept away from religion but this was not allowed to happen at all. The mixing of religion and politics made people more dishonest.'

Second question- 'How do you see the future of Pakistan?

To this, Rana's reply was- 'Very bad. I don't see any change happening for the better. We're going down and down. I do not see any leader in Pakistan who is acceptable in all the provinces of Pakistan. Today people like us ask ourselves why Pakistan was formed but we do not ask ourselves why we have to ask this question. The purpose of creating Pakistan was to show the world how Islam can do well in modern politics by being kind to minorities! Why today everyone wants to run away from here? They are disappointed with what is happening to the people. Today's young generation neither knows about their country, nor about the leaders nor about their qualities.'

People of the world do not want to live in Pakistan

Pakistani author and journalist Tarek Fatah wrote a question on Facebook asking the opinion of the common man on it - 'If you want to live in a Muslim country, which of the following would you like to live in - Iran, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Turkey or Indonesia?' Of the 500 participants, 78 percent chose secular Turkey or a relatively liberal Indonesia. The situation in the three self-proclaimed Islamic nations Iran, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia was very bad.

decline of civil and military character

Mohanlal Bhaskar, India's spy in Pakistan, has written many examples of the decline in the character of civilian and military life in his book - Someone told the police officer husband of Yahya Khan's mistress Akleem Akhtar alias General Rani that You are not ashamed at all, your Begum is roaming around with the general, then that police officer replied- 'We have changed the way of thinking to live in the society. We think that this Begum belongs to the General Saheb, and is our mistress, who sometimes we also keep with us for a night.'

In every major city of Pakistan, brothels and call houses and on the streets, bus stands, women selling bodies are found in large numbers. Yet the prevalence of homosexual sex in this country is probably the highest in Asia. This disease of rearing cow dung started from the Pathani areas and gradually spread to Sindh, Bilochistan, even all of Pakistan. 70 percent of the soldiers are its victims. Among the Pathans, the Khan who does not have a maiden is not valued. Every Hamir Khan decorates his maiden more than the girls. Long plaited hair, mascara-edged eyes, even the loons are slaughtered. Khan should leave his wife alone but does not leave the maiden. Many, while offering Namaz, make him sit in front of their eyes so that it does not happen that someone can take him away. Due to this malfeasance, 25 percent of the people are victims of diseases like gonorrhea etc.

Bhaskar, while describing the gruesome scenes of character degradation in Pakistani jails, wrote that even the inmates of the house were subjected to unnatural sex by the sweepers. When a lesser lady came as a prisoner, then in the gate of the jail itself, the knives would go out in the guru-ghantas on the matter with whom his bed would be. Prisoners were often used as rascals, pickpockets and pimps of prostitutes. These people did not have any good character even outside the jail to oppose the dog-dragging happening in the jail, but rather were happy that let's get imprisoned easily. …… the Emperor Khan of the jail would have kept them decorated like a wife. They were called prison fairies. Wherever they passed, the fragrance of the other would start waving all around. In my life, I have never seen so much tantrums in school and college girls as it used to be in these lads. Wearing silk kurtas and salwars of colorful verdant rose, naswari or pearl colours, with plaited hair, fringed eyes and powder on the mouth, holding pheasant or quail in his hand, he walked in jail like a begmen used to match the begmen in the mercy of the Mughal kings. . Moreover, the knots of their salwars were also lattice, with pearl fringes on their ends. Mohanlal Bhaskar has written many other eye-catching details, which here keeping in mind the moral dignity of human beings, it would be right not to write, but after reading them one gets a real estimate of the moral degradation of Pakistani people's life.

The path of Mulla and the army

From its birth in August 1947 with bloodshed to the present day, the history of Pakistan has been full of turmoil, war and civil strife. Sometimes there have been occasions of happiness by filtering in between. However, his ending has been more sad. One such rare occasion came after the elections in February 2008 when the whole country was like lightning. Late Benazir Bhutto's People's Party and former Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's Muslim League together destroyed Pakistan's mullah-military establishment, but does this decision make any sense? Trapping the will of the people of Pakistan, the path has always been made for the Mullah and the army. In every election in 60 years of history, Pakistanis have rejected those who refer to Islam as their politics. …… Pakistanis voted to keep their country away from an Islamic future. The horrific defeat of pro-Taliban Islamist parties and the success of secular Central South and Central Left parties, even in the hardline Pakhtun belt adjoining Afghanistan, is a clear message to the mullahs, the military and the rest of the world:Pakistanis, like most Muslims, are the medieval times of Islamic terrorists. Don't want to live under the government. The question is, is anyone listening?

Return to real roots is the only way

Historian Akbar S. Ahmed wrote- 'There were three ideal men in the mind of the common Indian Muslim- Mahmud Ghaznavi, Aurangzeb and Muhammad Ali Jinnah.' Though this is a thing of the past, today the heroes of Indian Muslims have changed. We have Captain Hameed and Dr. A.P.J. There are many names like Abdul Kalam but unfortunately the Muslims of Pakistan can take only one name from their old or new heroes - Muhammad Ali Jinnah! He does not have any other name that is known to a citizen of any country outside Pakistan, nor Allama Iqbal, nor Liaquat Ali Khan, nor Rehmat Ali Chaudhry, nor Dr. Abdul Qadir Khan, who stole the atomic bomb formula. Whereas each country has two-four-five or ten-twenty and hundred-two hundred names to count internationally, which are also known in other countries of the world.

This is the reason why Pakistanis are facing identity crisis all over the world today. What is his national identity? Is it only Jinnah? Even though Jinnah is worshiped in Pakistan today, but when an educated and reflective Pakistani-youth stands on the international stage, Ghaznavi, Gauri and Jinnah are no longer its heroes. He has to find his real heroes within his own country. When his eyes turn to military rulers like General Ayub Khan, General Yahya Khan, General Zia-ul Haq and General Musharraf, his head bows in shame.

When the reflective youth of Pakistan explores Pakistan's cultural background, diverting attention from Pakistan's political heritage, it finds thousands of years old Vedas composed on the banks of the Indus-Saraswati that is today part of Pakistan. Peeking inside their country, one sees Panini and Chanakya, an intellectual teaching Pakistani in Taxila. He sees the glorious cities of Harappa and Mohenjodaro in the ruins of the Indus Civilization. He has to accept that these are in fact his cultural roots. How long and how can he run away from them?

Today some intellectuals of Pakistan are considering Panini as their part and their worship has started. Taxila is becoming a pride for them. They say that the Vedas are the heritage of Pakistan. Even if the majority of Pakistanis agree with their (intellectual Pakistanis') words, they may disagree, but today these things are happening in Pakistan. Because no society can survive for a long time by being cut off from its origin. Sindh (Pakistan) leader G. M. Syed Geelani once on coming to Delhi expressed his wish that I could not read Devanagari, so I wanted the literature of Meera and Kabir in Urdu script.

So should we hope that one day Pakistan will really recognize its roots and turn to them? It is a different matter that we will not be in this world to see that day.