On August 11, 1947, Pakistan’s founding father Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah famously declared:
“You are free, you are free to go to your temples; you are free to go to your mosques or any other place of worship in the state of Pakistan. You may belong to any religion or caste or creed – that has nothing to do with the business of the state.”
Nearly 69 years have passed and Pakistan, our beloved country no longer bleeds green. The country now bleeds red. A country that came into being with the thought of preserving its own values, religion, culture and beliefs along with its national heritage by its ancestors who sacrificed their bones instead of bricks, blood instead of water and flesh instead of mud.
Now can we really ask ourselves are we free?
May be on paper or verbally we can say yes but what about the heavy taxes submitted by us as if we are trading black money, what about those mothers who send their kids to schools with the hope of their return but they never return, what about those wives who send their husbands on duty with the hope of seeing them again but they are martyred.
ARE WE REALLY FREE WITH THE FEELING OF INSECURITY? ARE WE?
------Nigar Fatima Arif
(PAKAIMS) Lahore
Mmarif90@hotmail.com
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ReplyDeleteYup, state has nothing to do with it. But what we have done, we have modified it into Islamic Republic of Pakistan. That is where the story begins, we treat non-Muslims as 2nd class citizens (intentionally or unintentionally, bcz being Muslims give us a sense of superiority). Our competitors manipulate us into sectarian fudes. Instead of following spirit we are blindly following words. All in all, we have conspiried against ourselves.
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