History is a great learning tool if it is viewed with as little “religious” or “ethnic” bias as possible. Why I say “as little”, because as human beings we cannot reduce the bias to zero, however we can bring it down to a “manageable” level.
Many in Pakistan blame Mir Jafar /Mir Sadiq etc. for the demise of the primitive governments such as Maysoor or Bengal.
The reality is that one person cannot be responsible for such huge and catastrophic events like destruction of the whole country.
Therefore we must view our history from different angles, the angle that are free from obvious Islamic or religious bias, or ethnic or anti-European bias.
This is important. Because when a so-called Muslim leader won a war with Europeans, then by deduction, the Europeans must have had the equivalents of Mir Jafars in their ranks too.
But we seldom see that a typical Muslim win over European crusaders was attributed to the one crusader general going rogue and joining Salahuddin’s army. No! In most cases, we attribute Salahuddin’s win to his superior tactics and war-fighting skills.
Thus if we want to be honest, we should use the same standards and consider the superior war-fighting skills of the European for their wins over Tipu, Siraj, or Sultans of turkey
The real reasons of win or defeat is thus intertwined with a nation’s specialists like perhaps those of a cricket team.
A good cricket team is balanced as it is built by uniting specialists such as bowlers, openers, wicket keepers, middle order batsmen, all rounders, and last but not least spinners and fielders.
For the nations such as Pakistan, it is important to realize that today and perhaps for the last 500 years, we as human beings have been living in the “AGE of SPECIALIZATION”.
Why? because the HUMAN intellect has grown to a level that someone needs lifetime of work to figure one tiny aspect of a given field.
These days we have “specialists” who mostly get “formal” training AND “on the job” internship, then they get CERTIFIED and then they are considered specialists.
If a bearded man in the mosque wants to be a “specialist” then he must show his competency before we as a society accept him to be such.
An average educated Pakistani never allows Mullahs to give opinions in many “specialized” fields such as engineering, and medicine etc. Or in other words Mullahs do not venture to offer their suggestions in building a bridge, or treating a heart patient.
Why? because WE the people would laugh at them. We the people would prefer that a civil engineering team helps us build a bridge, or a team of surgeons and cardiologists treat a heart patient.
However
We the Pak people have given up OUR control on the following important specialized fields. Instead of discrediting or laughing at Mullahs and other nutcases, we allow them to make policies. Sad isn’t it?
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System of government
— that allows country to learn from other countries and improve the governance -
System of economy
— that allows a country to constantly update their economic model to match with the modern demands. -
System of global relationship:
----- that allows a country to survive in today’s global village. -
System of education
— that allows a country to prepare the next generation that makes the country prosperous and stable.
It is us the Pakistanis who have allowed Mullahs and other mafiosos to take over the reigns in the fields listed above.
Look how we are destroying ourselves by letting NON-specialists to run these important fields.
A – System of governance.
Year in and year out, we elect our “executive branch” who have ZERO experience.
BB, ZAB, Zardari, Altaf, Imran, Qazi etc. have not run even a small city government of Cheecha watni, and yet we the Pakistani people let their BAD vision to lead our system of government of the WHOLE of Pakistan.
We never demand or may be ask Imran, Altaf, or Zardari, keh Sahib zara mehrabani farmayeen aur pehlay ja ker ek small city ki government to run kerain. Phir hum aapko chance daingay Mulk ko chalanay kay leeay.
And guess what? the result have been catastrophic for our system of government with untold atrocities and resulting military takeovers.
B – System of Economy.
Modern economy is very very complicated and it is changing at a break neck speed. And yet many of us go to economically-donkey Mullahs, and equally ignorant politicians and let them develop policies that impact our tax structure, our industry, and our exports.
C – System of Global relationships
Today no country can survive in isolation. China, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, India are clear examples that a country must be connected positively in the global structure. Otherwise the country becomes very quickly a basket case even if it has natural resources (read Iran).
And yet we allow third rate Mullahs, politikos, and petty journalists to grab our noses and move us around like little kids.
The result has been horrible for Pakistan’s global role.
D-- System of education
I wanted to discuss this as the last point, because it is the MOST important point that perhaps drives ALL other fields being discussed here.
And guess what, we the Pak people have willingly allowed bekar Mullahs to take over a large portion of our school system.
Even the school that are not run by Mullahs, are packed with mental-rubbish that is destroying our youth and turning them into anti-global, caveman Jihadis.
Our students care more about What Amreeka and Mossad is doing,
And the same students give a damn to what Pakistanis THEMSELVES are doing to their own country.
Our students are devoid of innovative thinking, they lack the deep desire to learn about the universe, and pathetically ignorant of the needs of our country so that our beautiful country could become prosperous and peaceful.
It is time that we take the reigns of these fields in OUR OWN hands, and DONOT let a 2-bit Mullah in the guise of an Alim to give any opinion.
It is time, we respect and follow the SPECIALISTS (even Christians, JEWS, HINDUS, etc. ) to guide us in the right direction aka Sirat e mustaqeem.
Then only then, our country will be back on its feet, and our people will live in peace and harmony, and we will not be walking around with a begging bowl in our hands.
Amen.
p.s. This post is derived from another thread. I felt that a separate thread will be more suitable instead of lumping all this with other threads. Thank you.