Stop dividing my motherland!

Published in Unique Pakistan:
http://blog.uniquepakistan.com.pk/stop-dividing-my-motherland-by-noor-ul-ain-hanif/

Pakistan:  “The land of pure”. Its soil is fertile as the blood of our fore-fathers is fused into the mud. This land gives birth to multi-talented stars as talent and struggle is circulating in its blood. Yes, we are Pakistanis, who got independence on 14 August 1947. This year we are celebrating its 65^thbirthday. On Independence Day we usually talk about “what Pakistan has given to us? Or what we have given to Pakistan? Which is actually a good idea; we should review ourselves but this year I am not going to ask such questions. Today, I am writing this blog post to make an appeal “Stop dividing my motherland”.

People from different ethnicities took part in the war of independence. They were unconcerned with the idea of language, race or sect. Everyone was fighting for one cause that is for one country where they can practice their religion “Islam”. At the time of independence, Pakistan was a big and densely populated country consisting of two wings; Eastern wing and western wing. Generally, Eastern wing or East Pakistan is known as “Bangladesh”. A large number of people migrated from India to Pakistan in search of their homeland. Leaving their properties, wealth and inheritance of fore-fathers behind they entered Pakistan. Moreover, during migration they lost their loved ones too. They bring nothing with them but dreams of a new land in eyes, struggling, talented and hardworking blood. In spite, of all the tears of pain, they stepped in Pakistan with a hope and dream of a homeland.

After independence, Pakistan has gone through many hurdles and troubles but the fire of religion and teachings of Quaid-e-Azam has kept us together. After the death of Quaid-e-Azam, the politics of Pakistan took a new turn. Western and Eastern wings of Pakistan should work with mutual consensus but due to the political drawback Pakistan lost its Eastern wing which affects Pakistan’s economy. A bird can fly freely in an open sky if its both wings are strong and healthy but if one wing is broken or becomes weak the bird will fall down on earth. The same happened with Pakistan. In 1971, the bird Pakistan got injured and lost its Eastern wing. Losing someone is the greatest pain and the pain of losing a loved one can’t be measured same as with Pakistan. The economy of Pakistan was gradually increasing but with this incident everything was changed people lost their loved ones and property as they lost at the time of independence.

After losing the Eastern wing, Pakistan’s economy was completely down but with the passage of time Pakistan overcome it but as we all are familiar with the quote “history repeat itself” whatever happened it repeats itself. Now once again, history is repeating itself. We lost Bangladesh in 1971 and today we are living in 2012, we should think rationally but none of us wants to think by facts and logic. Today, we are living in Pakistan labeling ourselves as Muhajir, Pathan, Sindhi, Saraiki etc but not as Pakistani which is the biggest drawback of our country. At the time of partition people from all ethnicities participated in the movement, through collective efforts we have achieved Pakistan. But today we are living apart from the bond of brotherhood.

Pakistan is the country of multi-culture, multi-talent and multi-ethnicities. Let’s combine the talent and vision together, let’s gather the brains and minds from all over Pakistan, let’s start a campaign to make Pakistan strong. Dividing Pakistan into ethnicities or sects is not the solution. If we want to make Pakistan stable then we have to come out of the boundaries of province, ethnicity, race or sect.

Think for Pakistan,

Think like a Pakistani!