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Story of a Failed NationAre our local differences failing us at national level?

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Story of a Failed NationWhenever there is an issue containing an attack on our country's sovereignty, integrity orfreedom, it looks as if we are programmed to say these two words Pakistan Zindabad which

translates into Long Live Pakistan. We start to wield these two words almost immediately asif this would save us and our country, Pakistan.

It does beg a question to each and every one of us, that though we passionately andvehemently blurt out Pakistan Zindabad even for a cricket match but what else do we do to

make our country live long, apart from only saying it. Do not get me wrong on this, I am not foronce in a position to question Allah but I am here precisely to speak the truth and for that I am

not here to please any one. We are a failed nation. We have let our forefathers down whofought for this independence. We have let our Holy Prophet PBUH down, even when he was

the best example to emulate. We have seriously let down our Allah in whom we only seem tobelieve when in the Masjid for Namaz or in the month of Ramadan while fasting. In fact, and Ido hate to say it, the state of our believes are so downright appalling that we don't even

remember Him when we are in trouble but that is a topic for some other day. In short, it can'tbe more true than this when I say that we have let ourselves down.

It was a dream of some visionary leaders of that time who wanted to see a separate countryfor the Muslims of subcontinent. It was a romance that can only be felt if we could realise how

that dream was one day fulfilled by those people who couldn't live to see it as an independent

state. It was such a beautiful blessing and gift of Allah that if we had remained sincere, honestand righteous in our deeds, this country would had been the richest and the wealthiest

country in the world. Some might argue the fact that wealth and money are not everything andunsurprisingly, they are right. There are moral, culture, traditions, religion that define a nationrather than the wealth they have and if you let those some say more, then they would tell

you that we a proud and rich country of morals, religion and culture. But I would like to pose aquestion in front of these proud people that in which part of the earth is it considered to be

moral if you rob an old pensioner of his belongings? In which religion is it taught that to killanyone, even though he/she is wrong, is fair and correct? In which tradition and culture do we

find that driving like total maniac and not following any traffic law makes a country look

richer in the same tradition and culture that those people are boasting about?

I happen to visit Karachi during my 2-week long vacation. The stay was amazing, met my

family, relatives and friends after such a long time, so it was indeed heartwarming. However, I

can't speak in the same breath for the way I found the country to be in. There is a trendgrowing among the people to point all the mistakes, follies and problems in the direction ofIslamabad. It isn't entirely wrong if I have to be honest, but as I said, it isn't an entirely correct

approach at the same time.

The trouble is we have found an easy way out to put and shift all the blame towards the

capital, hence not a single creature in Pakistan is ready to accept his/her own shortcomings,

let alone working on it. If we take the example of countries like Japan, USA or Germany, thesecountries have become powerful and wealthy states because the general public has taken their

social responsibility very seriously, whereas in Pakistan it is completely the opposite. I might


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still get people coming up and discussing about how clean the city of Karachi use to be in '70sand '80s but they themselves have been responsible for the mess that has been created in the

city and hence, throughout the country.

It won't be fair also to put all the blame on the general public, considering the fact that the

public in question is illiterate and uneducated, as statistics prove that less than 50% of thepeople are literate. This makes it easy for political parties like we have in our country to first

divide the nation on the grounds of ethnicity and then use these same brainwashed people

against other ethnicity. These political stakeholders have not for once used their popularity tostreamline the human resources for the progress, development and growth of Pakistan. But

then I argue over the fact that its again our failure that we have created and lead such corrupt

and abysmal so-called 'leaders' to power and allow them to control us.

The political parties have actually used their popularity to instigate riots in the city and all

over the country, depicting us to the outer world as an illiterate, intolerant and extreme-minded society, who if given the chance can set their own houses on fire. The image that sets

out to the world outside Pakistan is not very pleasant, because since the small sample ofPakistanis that resides outside Pakistan are law-abiding, tolerant Muslims, the population that

resides inside the country just ruins the image of each and every thing associated withPakistan.

This is where I think the religious parties and groups of Pakistan should wade through the

problem and instill tolerance and peace among the masses. But sadly enough, even on thisfront we have failed massively as these religious parties have never seem to make an effort to

create a tolerant and a peaceful society which would invite people of other countries. Looks as

if I am asking for a lot because the thing is that we can't tolerate each other, let alone havingany one else in our country to be tolerated by us.

What we are experiencing is a complete collapse of social and moral structure which held the

foundation of our country. Furthermore, we are too jumbled up in our world and remain

obstinate towards our country. Six decades ago, a nation wanted a country; six decades laterthe country needs a nation.

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