By Ayoub khan
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I have nothing against the celebrations. I am a patriotic Pakistani myself, who in the past celebrated Independence Day enthusiastically like everyone else do with high spirits. I am one of you. But on the 69 birth day of Pakistan the case is different for guys like me, as we have lost whole province community of lawyers on 8th august in a suicide blast in civil hospital where more than 80 peoples martyred and more then hundred were injured in which most of them were innocent lawyers.
Quetta is a small city resemblance to a family, hundred cities like Quetta can easily adjust in the city like Karachi, and those 50 Lawyers were the whole asset of the province and yet there isn’t even a single clue about how this bloodied incident happened, why because it looks like though grantees no one cares about the martyred and injured peoples and their families. You might have got my point why I have not celebrated this 69th birth day like I do celebrate in the past.
Beside this horrific blast where our whole generation lawyers got martyred in a very inhuman way was very painful day for me and for the whole city, but more than that horrific day I am feeling helpless lost and hurt while watched everyone celebrated independence celebration with full enthusiasm as nothing is happened in the country. How would the martyred families are feeling when they watched on television such a celebrations, what would passing through their heads and hearts, would they be proud of being a Pakistani nation, isn’t they be ashamed of us, would these people will ever feel sorry for the peoples who didn’t cared about their feeling in a such a situation, would these people be called a traitor if they commit any mistake or did any horrible scene, would these people would ever being proud of us, the answers of all these questions is no never. As
Martin Luther King, Jr. said “The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.”
Our country was based on the motto of ‘Unity, Faith and Discipline’. Unity has been eradicated, as everyone is trying to overpower the other in every aspect, may it be in politics or even for roadside cleaners. Respect for us is slowly disappearing; Pakistanis are being branded ‘terrorists’, ‘cheaters’ and ‘corrupt money makers’ all over the world. But I thing Pakistani nation really don’t know what Unity word means, unity means the development of a mental climate that would help reacts in terms of oneness, irrespective of the region, language or religion of the people concerned. It means a heaven of freedom where the world has not been divided into fragments by narrow domestic wells.
It is based on feeling of oneness, common ideals of life and a common code of behavior. It implies confidence in nation’s future, deep sense of values and obligation of citizenship, mutual understanding and respect for the culture of different sections of the nation.
But In Pakistan there is nothing such like that, we called ourselves a Pakistani and a take pride on being a united nation like this, we should be ashamed of our so called unity. The Quaid-i-Azam made this country so that we Pakistanis could live a peaceful, non-violent, united life, but if we just close our eyes for one minute and think, we will notice that we have failed the Quaid in his three aims. Every day the newspaper has news about murderers, gang rapes, and conflict between our different parties.
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National integration is essential for keeping peace at national and international level. Modern age is the age of science. It has changed the whole world in a family.
Every nation is dependent on one another. Therefore, scientific achievement should be used for constructive work in order to provide peace to humanity. This feeling can develop only when we have the thought of national integration.
Ayoub khan student of political science at GCU from Baluchistan Quetta..