In his article Kamran Shafi (a retired army officer and a freelance columnist [email protected]) states that artefacts and old manuscripts are stolen from museums and libraries and sold overseas. I find that shocking. Does anyone know if that is true? It is terrible if true. Don’t people realise the long term damage that is done to Pakistan because of such stupidity?
Rolling along, mindlessly.
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Well well, fancy words these, what? While there is no doubt that it is only due to the spirit of sacrifice of the common people of the country which has kept it sputtering along all these years, are we really a nation which has pride in its institutions? What pride in our institutions when the Supreme Court, the highest court in the land, was attacked by the goons of a sitting government? Are we a nation which has pride in our culture when our museums have been stripped of artifacts and treasures which are then sold for a pittance in antique markets abroad? Do we have any sense of history at all when valuable manuscripts and rare books have been stolen from the pitifully few libraries we do have and which are sold to book dealers in London for mere pennies? What “pride” are we talking about? In any case don’t we have enough monuments in this country, even quite asininely celebrating our ‘bum’?