Trademarks of Pakistan

[muqawwee123]

Re: Trademarks of Pakistan

@Jolie

Western Imperialism had played a significant role in making Egyptians realise the value of their pre Islamic archeologists site. It’s always been centre of their intellectual, religious and cultural fascination with the Middle East. Besides, despite being pre-Islamic, a lot of Islamic and history of all Abrahamic faiths is still linked with those pyramids. I don’t think British imperialists were as drawn and in loved with Moenjodaro or Texila the way they were with Pyramids and River Nile, though they certainly appreciated Mughal architecture.

Coming back to your original point, I don’t think Pakistan has such problem with highlighting non-Muslim heritage, for example, I don’t recall anyone opposing glorification of Moenjodaro in Sindh Festival on religious grounds. But PPP despite spending close to a billion, did not help make the general public more knowledgeable about the actual history of Moenjodaro.

As Ali mentioned people were astonished to know about Buddhist remains at Taxila, same is the case with other pre-Islamic archeological sites of Pakistan. Our syllabus give less weightage to Moen jo Daro as compared to weightage given in India. There is definitely a problem in promoting pre-Islamic history of Pakistani areas as our leadership always carried a fragile concept of Islam with them. As far as political parties like PPP are concerned, they don’t have cultural ideogies, they are there just to exploit cultural ideologies.

If Pakistan doesn’t have problem in promoting pre-Muslim heritage then we would have known more about Hindu teeraths scattered in Thar and Balochistan. Many people still don’t know about the importance of Katas temple of Pakistan in Hinduism.