History can be re-described but can’t be rewritten. but Whats happening in Pakistan?
Why do Pakistani columnists make up history? – The Express Tribune
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Everything goes in Pakistan.
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Columnist everywhere do this.
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They say its alarming that a country with population of around 200 million, got 5-10 historians and then most of them are fiction writers. There is something wrong with Pakistan 
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There is apparently no such thing as scholarly discipline, belief in objectivity, quest for attaining high standard professionalism and appreciation for knowledge and accuracy. All that has basically created a severe lack of intellectual climate in the country and media is a perfect representation of that. As the writer ends his article with a simple fact that journalists make up history "simply because they know they can do it — that they can get away with anything in Pakistan". Of course major part of this reason is the hopelessly low level of literacy rate and generally the academia is a static, under developed, under-resourced field in Pakistan. People in Pakistan geuinely lack knowledge, even the supposedly educated ones.
Journalists try to fool the people by acting like historians, but how can historians write history? Is there a structured, organised and easy access of primary sources available which is vital for writing objective history? Is there such a tradition of carrying thorough research, employing exhausted analysis, providing proper referencing in Pakistani historical discourse? History is a subject is tragically neglected in Pakistan and the country is on the verge of personifying the expression which goes something a nation without history, is a nation without past, and whoever wishes to construct the must consult the past.
We are suffering from the disease of zor e khitabat. From political speeches to religious sermons to journalism, the power of your words are not judged by the content, but by the story telling style of the khatib or the narrator. This happens when audience is jahil or at least considered jahil by the originator/creator of that column/speech/sermon. This is our tragedy that our people are jahil. You tell them that Neil Armstrong converted to Islam because he heard Azaan when landed on the moon, and our people are not only going to believe, but forward that as an authentic information.
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because history is written by winners, and pakistani columnists must be some serious winners.
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winners or whiners? 
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Agree with Jolie. But i would add that it has a lot more to do with the habits of the people rather than literacy. There are a lot of books and other body of work on history, but unfortunately our people do not like to read for themselves. They want a paki pakaai kheer. And media is the best cook so to say.
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It's probably just my observation, but I think Pakistanis in general are more into fiction than non fiction. They love their sensationalist anecdotal accounts and stories, novels, melancholic and love sick poetry. They genuinely have a fascination with romanticism or in the words of my cousin- ashiqi mashooqi.
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Hindus never seriously recorded history, mostly it was recorded orally in the form of ballads. In fact, Hindi poetry still has atishyokti alankar, exaggeration decoration as embellishment of the poetry. to support a myth it must be supported by another myth of grander size so that collectively it can develop into mythology :)
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Hindus never seriously recorded history, mostly it was recorded orally in the form of ballads. In fact, Hindi poetry still has atishyokti alankar, exaggeration decoration as embellishment of the poetry. to support a myth it must be supported by another myth of grander size so that collectively it can develop into mythology :)
But currently India got more history writers than Pakistan and even Indian text books on history seems to cover wider aspects than in Pakistan. Though, there are chances of of bias, as is the case with Pakistan.