What can be said about Pakistan today ... to indicate its greatness?

Peace All

I want to use this opportunity to call all contributors to praise and explore reasons to be proud of Pakistan … I want to see how we can build on what we have - but we need to have a good idea of what we have … so get thinking …

I like the culture and food and the fact that we have preserved our history where we can …

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And Veena Malik hosting religious shows.

A land of sufis, lovers of the Prophet saw and Iqbal.
Apart from that it’s better to divert ones gaze! :slight_smile:

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Fail … Moved to India and not so great … :nook:

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I think there are other things … but this is a great start

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I think the things to demonstrate its greatness are:

  1. Its a cradle of some of the worlds ancient civilizations (like Indus Valley and Gandhara)

  2. The resilience of the people in the wake of continuous invasions through out its history

  3. The plularity and welcoming nature of the people who have been accomodating people of different ethnicities through out its history

  4. the strength of its culture as it absorbed all invading armies into its cultural mix

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Everything about Lahore! :smiley:

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We are hell of a Dheet set of people…

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Our women. Rock solid holding on to values.

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OK, but
This thread demands more specific detail.

No, that won’t count … That is like presenting a weakness as a strength. Please think another.

I’m thinking … But I don’t get it …

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I think greatness of Pakistan lies in the fact that inspite of all difficulties we faced (be it scarcity of resources, unfriendly neighbors who prophesied that the nation will not live longer for more than a couple of years, etc), we stood against all the odd times. No doubt we suffered, lost half of our country (that is another independent country BTW), but still we survived and there is still a hope and positivity to survive for longer and longer InshaAllah.

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for some reason, I thought you asked for “what we are proud of”

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Not our men? Glad you got it right.

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Our speedy adoption procedure, courtesy Amir Liaqat.

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That was for you to say :snooty:

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Ok this one I really do mean: our dramas.

We do them well, in fact better than others. Unlike Amreekan and Indian dramas, we don’t get so attached to ours that we let them drag on with episodes in the 100s, at least now we don’t. Nor are we attached to our characters to the point that we can’t kill them off and need to have them come back from a freak accident where the car tumbles of the cliff and the hero is pronounced dead but returns to society with a totally different reconstructed face in episode 350. I like how we generally portray emotions with a subtlety that carries more depth.

Language. We have many. But the national language, Urdu, is graceful. It has a nice cadence.

Our sense of hospitality.

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16 posts and no mention of our nukes. The people who built them were smart, they did what needed to be done. Pakistan doesn’t have to worry about India bullying us no more. Those nukes are the reason our neighbor to the East is considering peace as an option.

That said. We have them now, we survived. Now we need to use our brains to fix other problems facing Pakistan. We know we can do it, we have the smarts. It’s just that we don’t want to fix those problems as bad as we wanted the nukes. That has to change, or else Pakistan is doomed.

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No, now we just need to worry about crazy hair brained maulvis who want to steal the nukes and then set up their world domination by sham-sharia.

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it’s name: Islamic Republic of Pakistan where Islam is nowhere to be found in the areas of wealth distribution, justice system and law N order situations.

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Strong foundation, thanks to Misbah?