Altaf hussein once famously said partion was the biggest mistake ever, how true was he.
With the 60th anniversy of independence around the corner what have we really achived. Muslim’s wanted an independent state back in the day, but how independent are we. With the judicary all over the place, a dictator leading the country and the threat of taleban hanging over your heads no doubt the country is in turmoil.
Allama Iqbal as we all know had dreamt of a state where muslims lived in no fear. On 23rd march 1940 when Mr. Jinnah addressed the audience at minto park, he presented them with an idea of a homeland where they had the oppurnity to excel in what ever field they chose, where there was no discrimination on bases off class, race or ethnicity. Millions of people miggarated in order to enjoy the freedom, the independence that there leaders had fought for, many of them specially those trying to come over to the pakistan site of Punjab unforunately did not make it and were never able to enjoy the so called freedom.
And 60 years down the lane , I ponder if those lives were wasted. After all we live in a soceity that is controlled by an army dictator, the awam has no say, the gap between the upper and the working lower class is wider then ever. Apperantly the ceonomy is growing but it doesnt really seem to be benifiting the mazdoor. Unforunetly despite having our own home land we still live under fear, the fear of being robbed, the fear of political parties. These PARTIES who are supposed to be protecting us, look for every oppurnity to exploit the awam. Corruption prevails in the society, the principals the country was founded on have faded away with time.
I personally belive its us the people who are responsible for the mess the country is in right now. If we want to progess and take the country forward we need to unite under the banner off patriotism, rather then going about killing each other for no good reason, we need to focus on working towards empowering the generations to come, we need to educate the mazdoor by speaking his language, after all remeber people change is inevitable and now is the time we work towards it.
