"Happy Independence Day according to Islamic Calendar" is one of the tweets circulating on social media tonight, three out of every 5 twitter/ FB users are putting this line on, so according to this Pakistan came in to being on the August 14, 1947 which was 27th of Ramzan of that Islamic year..
I have been listening to this "fact" for years in fact from my childhood, I think from mid 80s to be very specific.. Those were the days when the State TV was everything and I would say our parents, uncles, aunties, daadis, naanis and elders from the mohallas used to be our "social media" (source of knowledge).. Being a middle class kid I have never had any such sources to research about the facts of this sort but now, this is 2013, the era of social media, the age of free and independent media, the age of computers, smart phones, tabs and iPads, means we have got everything & if we want to dig out something to get to the facts we can.. Very easily.. Right??? So my question is, how many of us know exactly the background of this "independence day according to Islamic calendar"??? By writing all this here I don't want to create any controversy but the point I would like to make out of all this is "being a nation are we really serious"about finding out the facts, about knowing what's right and what wrong, about getting into details to find the right way and about educating our generations???? I know getting a real affirmative answer would be a task for me, why because action speaks louder than words.. What a nation we are, what a nation...
We are one proud nation who has got atomic power but do we have enough number of schools to educate our kids?? Do bombs built nations??? We are one great nation who has got a Doctorate degree in google-ogy but I don't think we have read just one book completely "the Holy Quran", reciting the Arabic version doesn't serve the purpose understanding of the real teachings is important & for that matter we have to understand what's all written there... What kind of people we are... We know nothing about ourselves but we are always ready to point a fingers on others...
The ironic part is the kind of political leadership this poor nation has got... They talk about hitting the Drones but have no clue how to save half of the drowning KPK, the other one claims to knockout terrorism, extortion, land grabbing and kidnapping for ransom from the biggest city of the country but failed to save an innocent family in a drowning car... Really unfortunate!!! What kind of place we live in, what kind of people we deal with... Sad!
Popular thoughts are good to be discussed in the talk shows but ground realities are entirely different.. The aunty party or the anti party both should now separate the popular thoughts and the ground realities.. They should keep the popular thoughts apart for TV talk shows only and own the people who voted for them or not and should be on ground equally in all areas in any such disastrous situation when nation needs them the most..
In my opinion this Anti Drone thought by the Aunty party is not suitable for the drowning nation.. The aunty party and their anti party both Should sit and join hands for the welfare of the people of pakistan......
"Drone maarnay ke liye zindagi parii hai yaar.."
(The disclaimer is the same) ;)
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