Re: PAKISTANIS, REPORT HERE
Spanglish Girl,
good call. issue is that the nation has many strata of people - some caring, some uncaring, and some unconcerned. on that, you have mostly greedy to a few or none, sincere polity agents, the various economic circles from private organizations, to agriculture, real estate, banking, media, various businesses, technology, basic /higher education and medicine and the social fabric of the society are all disbanded in many ways and ad hoc-ism has made unfair self serving things even more unreliable.
the law enforcement agency of police, and of the defense of the country is as bad as it gets, and that is why we have the situation as is - personal petty agendas, bribery and all kinds of corruption, disparity of income and thus obnoxiously insincere and disloyal work ethics, to systems and affinity to the bribing people has all caused years of entanglement between the idealized social fairness and the ugly reality of senseless plundering and disintegration.
we have God given natural resources, but no solid processes and fair policies to curtail exploitations across all levels of earning spheres in the nation. commerce, trade and farming industry are all hinging on quotas that are ill begot and normally entail someone’s rights utter denial and actual undermining which leads to further community tussles. citizenry is as neglectful as one can imagine.
personal and moral accountability is null. coupled with this is the constant external exploitation, massive drain of young professionals, and untrue application of unfair cultural and religio-centric adaptations which further char the little bit of work some concerned and active people as citizens would want to pursue in the cause of betterment of the country. frustration and a lack of positive outlook on the part of the men, women and students, wiser choices by citizens and government are hardly ever made.
in the past 61 years, inter provincial and inter sectarian animosities have done their bad part in destroying the spirit of unity and national zeal.
the dogmatism stolen - shamelessly pasted and impression-ed upon the Pakistani nation, cultural identity, and society, have been doing their bit of poking holes in the original essence of Pakistan - a nation state of Muslims, built for the rights of a group of people who identify with Islam as its faith.
reason why our faith is so disparaged today in the world, is because we our selves have not done a far enough of a job to portray and apply real and true Islamic principles to our lives as Pakistanis.
and when that has been going on, it is as if we put on silver plate and handed over the sovereignty of the nation state to all kinds of despotic tyrants and manipulators outside of the nation state.
to complicate it all, the great role of active youth, young men and women as citizens has been numbed by the grind of double standards and ill standards for living and being members of a conscientious nation-state society and the bane of it all, illiteracy and un-education are all factors which have been contributing to the demise of whatever good will is ever infused in sustaining the better of the nation and its ethos.
AND SO THERE WE HAVE IT, DEMOCRATIC ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF PAKISTAN - been labeled as, horribly managed and mistreated by its enemies, internal and external.
if we as a nation state of Pakistan and as united and conscientious Pakistani Muslims, were to even begin to get our act together just today diligently - as a modern country grounded on its original ideals that Iqbal and Quaid and other statesmen and intellectuals based this nation state on, things would be MUCH DIFFERENT AND BETTER.
but the riding popular sentiment is: who cares. AND UNLESS, it is replaced by WE ALL DO DO CARE AND THINGS WILL BE DONE DIFFERENTLY BY US, HAVING LEARNT FROM THE INDIVIDUAL AND COLLECTIVE MISTAKES, we wont make head way at all. And the Almighty wont be able to hold us from falling either.
Best,
Dushwari
Real as life itself. I am sorry and I hope it can change in future. Insha'Allah!