Re: History taught in Pakistan
I act in front of my son as if i do not know how to speak english. So when ever he is at a play date or some party, my three year old tries to translate everything in urdu for me and sadly people think that i am wasting my sons abilities.
it just makes me sad. May be living abroad has made me a fierce patriotic.
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Are we talking of the indian kashmir because it would seem counterproductive.
No, Pakistan Kashmir.
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Aaaw thats so cute. 
Yes the further you are from your homeland the stronger the call.
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I was looking for some information on Moenjodaro online and found an article, almost 14 years old but suited to this thread.
Is Pre-Islamic history in Pakistan ignored?
http://www.hvk.org/articles/0597/0254.html
Title : Mohenjodaro crumbling to dust
Author : Kenneth J. Cooper
Publication : The Telegraph
Date : April 17, 1997
Brick by ancient brick, the capital of one of the world’s earliest
civilisations has been slowly crumbling to dust on the saline plains
along the India River.
Two decades of preservation work have eliminated the threat that a heavy
flood would suddenly wash away the ancient ruins at Mohenjodaro, but
salt drawn from the soil continues to corrode the remnants of brick
structures erected 4,500 years ago.
So far, none of the techniques tried has halted the damage from salt
deposits left behind by a more ancient sea.
Some of the first ruins excavated since work began here in 1922 have
been reduced to heaps of buildings uncovered in later digs have begun to
crack and flake.
Still, enough of the ancient city remains to show that this was a
planned city with a grid-like design, sophisticated sewer system and
diversified economy.
“Mohenjodaro was the first planned city in the world,” said Ahmad Hasan
Zani, a Pakistani historian who has worked for decades to save the
ruins.
“We don’t have any planned city in (ancient) Egypt, Mesopotamia or
China. We don’t have another one until the Greek era. That was 2,000
years later.”
But for all of Mohenjo-daro’s significance, some Wester-ners and Indians
have questioned Pakistan’s commitment to preserving it or Harappa or
other ruins from a pre-Islamic era.
When India was partitioned at independence in 1947 to create a haven for
the subcontinent’s Muslims in Pakistan, history was partitioned as well.
In Pakistan’s standard textbooks, history begins with Islam’s arrival,
500 years after the decline of Mohenjodaro, while India’s textbooks
describe the Indus civilisation as part of a glorious past.
Pakistan’s government has put an image of Mohenjodaro on the 10-rupee
note and built an airport near the ruins to serve tourists arriving on
the national airline.
But most funding for preservation has come from outside Pakistan, and
the excavation work done since independence has been directed by
foreigners.
Last December, preservation work at the 500-acre site suspended after
funding from the government and international organisations ran out,
according to a resident archaeologist.
This month, the UN Educational, Scientific and Culture Organisation
(UNESCO) will officially wrap up a $10 million project conducted over
two decades that succeeded in protecting the Mohenjodaro ruins from
flooding.
Pakistani officials referred repeated inquiries about the government’s
role in preserving Mohenjodaro to Zani, who has advised UNESCO and
Culture Ministry.
He said the government will take over preservation work at the site and
allocate about $25,000 a year for that purpose.
Other financial support is being sought from Japan and European
countries.
Meanwhile, the ancient capital continues to deteriorate. So far,
installing water pumps in wells around the ruins and covering some
surface with mud have failed to halt the decay.
The only sure solution to the salinisation problem carrying irrigation
water to nearby fields through pipes instead of open ditches - is too
expensive for Pakistan.
“We need a better method for removing the salt. Once that is done,
conservation won’t be so difficult. So far, we are experimenting,” Zani
said.
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When History even wipes out the name of the first Pakistani Foreign Minister, because he was an Ahmadi, who does care about History? When History wipes out the name of the first Pakistani Nobel Prize Winner, who does care about History?
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See,
no one does!
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When History wipes out the name of the first Pakistani Nobel Prize Winner, who does care about History?
That dude is back in the books!!
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When History wipes out the name of the first Pakistani Nobel Prize Winner, who does care about History?
Dr. Abdus Salam was a scientist, and his work is still valid to this date. why do you want to make his collaboration with other scientists, a history?
This, in itself is highly debatable but that is another issue. History books don't tell that it is Zia who is actually responsible for the current "War on Terror" that has destroyed both Pakistan and Afghanistan.
Pakistan's post independent Political history is full of shi*. The deeper we dig, in fact even if we dont dig cuz the assisination of leaders one after another, army overtaking leading to marshal laws, banking scams, artillery dumping, media inundation, increasing debt, etc etc will make everyone "THINK", which will end up in a civil war.
but then dont you actually see PPP jialaz and Peer pagara's murshids will give a crap about you are saying or what the hell books are writing about.
Half of the Pakistani nation is drowned in these stuff that teaching them ABC will only make them "educated", but not literate.
ps. to me "war on terror" is really not war on terror, its more like American seeking its presence in that part of the world (besides China and Russia, Iran, Oman SA, etc), since its filled with oil reservoirs. and also to control the area by itself, rather than calling lalchi pakistani government all the time and filling up their bank accounts with dollars (though it seems like a long term plan).