Re: First beard, then schools and now this..
sure...but not long enough, the growth was amazing in early days, akistan actually regressed after the 60s and only in parts fo Nawaz tenure and Now is it back gainging some momentum.
read up on stats and see year by year metrics and see for yourself.
Sure I agree with you.. but blaming everything on the premier aint quite right.. they are zillion of variables that control the growth.. The premier has a say on a lot of things but can't do much either... Things are improving now is not because of mushy boy.. huge amount of US aid is coming every year.. Mushy can't even manage that well... plus, expatriat population has growth expotentially over years.. they pump in $$ every year to the Pakistani economy.. Kashmir conflict is lying low and there haven't been any wars with Bharat for over 36 years.. all these factors are fuelling the economy.. not mushy alone.. as I said earlier, there are zillion of factors involved.. Zia and Nawaz did their best to boost the economy and help people.. Zia was busy saving our borders and Nawaz did not get time.. Was fired by Ghulam Ishaq once and Mushy toppled him another time..
People who were in non muslim majority areas supported teh struggle for Pakistan at great personal danger to themselves and many of them.your theory is bogus and baseless.
Lets not forget the atrocities commited by the people here...in Punjab as well. the massacres were not one sided.
Those days the wave in the sub-continent was anti-Hindu or anti-Muslim.. muslims in India obviously supported the anti-Hindu sentiments.. no big deal.. Most of the mayhem and murder happened in Indian Punjab.. Many muslim villages in Eastern Punjab were completely wiped off.. Trains coming from Eastern Punjab would be full of body parts, limbs and what not.. there wasn't much violence against Hindus and Sikhs in the western part.. many muslims helped their Sikh and Hindu neighbors migrate to India safely... not many killings took place in the western part in my knowledge.
as far as someone migrating to a new country and trying to be one of them...every person who migrated came with that intention. I guess many did not realize that the idiots in this new counry thought they were punjabi, balochi, pathan and sindhi first and Pakistani second.
Everyoen is free to celebrate their identity and their roots whether they are from a region that is part of Pakistan now or not. but they have to be Pakistani first. sadly I see too many idiots who dont think that way.
Sub-continent has been around for more than 5000 years.. that muslims migrating to the new-born country did not know the pride the natives had in their Aryan/cenrtal Asian heritage and origins is not Punjabis/Pathans/Kashmiris/Balochis' fault.
the shahi mohalla was doing brisk business in Zia's era, so much for his islamization. wah ji wah kya mard e momin tha.. aik mohalla bulldoze nahen kara saka...shabaash aisay islami nizaam ki
Janaab ai dasso, aap kis nizaam ki baat kar rahe ho? He tried his best to limit these activities.. He made Hudood Ordinance so that women don't turn toward Kothas and stuff.. he was far-sighted... He imposed martial law when he deemed necessary. HE was Allah's banda and did what he thought was right. He could not bull-dozed Heer mandi and snatch the livelihood of 100s of pros/female entertainers.. could he have done it?
and who do they learn languages from? their teachers and their parents, where are the teachers and parents from, where did they grow up. And please.. urdu needs to be spoken in proper urdu style, karachi and lahori accents to urdu are like kaloo and redneck accents are to english.
there can eb argument whether the propr urdu accent i lukhnawai, dehelvi or whatver, but surely that peen peen peen or the baaan baan baan that passes for karach or lahore urdu..is not the proper accent.
What is proper Urdu Style? Lucknowi I guess.. janaab, anything related to Hindu-culture or Bharati would not be acceptable to general awaam of Pakistan. As I said even though Urdu might have been born in India, it stands a better chance of survival if its mixed with Punjabi or loses its identity.. in democracy, majority always rules. I am always okay with any Pakistani city touch to Urdu..
surprisingly we are not to extend the same courtesy to Musharraf that he was busy with 9/11 aftrermath. although he has delivered more in 8 years than Zia did in 11. and that..is a fact.
Initial years were very tough for Zia because of the Afghanistan war. One of my relatives who served in the Army told Zia had grand plans for Pakistan.. during his time he worked towards making roads, providing electricity to all villages in Punjab and what not.. but his attention and money was diverted somewhere else due to the situation at that time.. Sir, I assure you he would have a lot more for Pakistan than he actually did.. Economy did not do badly during his tenure.. Zia made sure one thing that our armed forces get what they want to defend our land and he delivered.. One thing I fail to understand why many people are so angry with Zia on the forum? everyone bad-mouths him once in a while despite unko guzrey huwey aik zamana ho gaya, par log unkey kabr se bhi nafrat kartey hain.
