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It’s our national duty to make Pakistan a country where peace, love and respect for one another reigns.”
As we’re approaching 14th August, my psyche is loaded with irregular portions of those sessions with my mother, oral history from the lens of an adolescent who saw Pakistan being shaped and got an opportunity to contribute. Through her recollections, we were familiar with an upset that changed the lives of millions; a transformation, the substance of which is currently being questioned.
“He was a weak, frail man. But when he spoke, his voice was like a lion’s. He stressed each word. Strong determined voice. As a child, I stuck close to the radio, waiting to hear his voice; hanging on to each word. My elder sisters were part of the Women’s Guard and although I was young, I would tag along.Thousands of us, one cause. I don’t even remember any of us asking each other if they were a Punjabi, a Pathan, a Balochi or a Sindhi or any ethnicity for that matter. We had one leader, and we trusted him. I would have literally given my life for him as would have all the young people of the ime.”
On 11th august, 1947, Quaid-e-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah gave a speech that in this country there will be no separation in light of religious grounds.
“We are starting in the days where there is no discrimination, no distinction between one community and another, no discrimination between one caste and another. We are starting with this fundamental principle, that we are all citizens, and equal citizens, of one State You are free; you are free to go to your temples, you are free to go to your mosques or to any other place of worship in this State of Pakistan. You may belong to any religion or caste or creed – that has nothing to do with the business of the State.”
But, today’s Pakistan is not same as Quaid said it would be,
It began from the Objectives Resolution that called for making religion a business of the state. In the long run, it turned out to be a piece of the constitution. The determination was contradicted by all individuals fitting in with the minority in the gathering at the time; notwithstanding, no notice was paid to their worries.
Amidst Zia-ul-Haq's military law period, this determination was reinforced considerably and the minority groups discovered themselves being victimised on an institutional level. This break of human rights proceeded and today, it has taken the state of a horrifying beast, killing individuals and delighting on slaughter. In today's Pakistan, each minority part is an optional national – this is not what Jinnah needed for his cherished nation.
People of Pakistan now can’t even stand with the person who does not belong to our race. This is very cruel.
Now what shall we do? If you work together in the spirit that each one of you, no matter to what community, color, creed, caste you belong to, is first, second and last a citizen of this state with equal rights, there will no end to your progress. In course of time all these angularities of the majority and minority communities, Muslims and Hindus, will vanish because as far as the Muslims are concerned there are Pathans, Punjabis, Shias and Sunnis. Similarly among Hindus there are Brahmins, Vashnavs, Khattis, Bangalees and Madrasis and so on. This division had been the biggest hindrance in achieving independence.
As indicated by my older folks, before Zia's execution of the military law, Jagjit Singh, a specialist by calling, was the main Sikh living in their town around then. He had a genial association with every one of the occupants of the town and was never alluded to as an individual from the minority. At the point when his mother passed away, the whole town appeared for the burial service, which occurred at River Indus close to Attock, similar to the Sikh custom of submerging the dead into the ocean. Later, he moved to Mardan where his relatives were living. Since his demise, his child, Sundhar, visits the town on Eid in recognition of his dad.
One would effectively watch that not just have we disregarded our organiser's words and standards, we have additionally relinquished our conventions. We, as individuals, were never narrow minded. We used to live agreeably with individuals fitting in with different religions.
There is a Hadees of Hazrat Muhammad (S.A.W.W),
“An Arab is not superior to a non-Arab, a white is not superior to a black and vice versa the only superior being is the one who is good in the eye of ALLAH”
If we somehow happened to look at Jinnah's vision of Pakistan for its minorities to our current condition, we would comprehend that we have, obviously, neglected to make Pakistan a sheltered spot for our minority siblings where they should be dealt with as equal residents of the state.
Our originator's fantasy – no separation on religious grounds – stays just a fantasy and nothing more.
Our government should give fundamental rights according to Jinnah’s words. “The right to go to temples or mosques or other places of worship freely.”
The slogans are not all obsolete. Specially “Hum Pakistan banayein ge” (we will make Pakistan).
It is time again to re-fabricate parts of Pakistan that are harmed. Perhaps this Independence Day we can all get the wheels of change to begin moving – with solidarity, confidence and control we can perform anything.
“It’s our national duty to make Pakistan a country where peace, love and respect for one another reigns.”
Pakistan Zindabad!
The blogger - a student of Business Administration at the Kinnaird College for Women, Lahore - is extremely passioante about reading and photography.
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