Hamid,Toronto replied on Saturday, February 7, 2009 04:50 AM
Pakistani nation is a brilliant and genius nation on the earth. Nobody denies that reality. For example, in Norwegian and Canadian Govts called us “the most productive people on the earth”. The question is that why we cannot shine as a Pakistani nation. In my opinion, the mother of all crimes is POVERTY. Poor person does not have any religion or moral values. Besides the poverty there are quite few other things we need to work on them.
Please see the list below in priority order:
1) Poverty
2) Education
3) Lack of religion knowledge
4) Democracy
The questions are:
Who will be responsible to fix these issues?
Govt or common Pakistani Citizens?
On poverty and education side, you cannot say that GOVT is responsible to fix these issues. We all have to work together to accomplish these goals. How ?
I believe overseas Pakistani can play a significant role to work with GOVT or non GOVT organization to reduce the poverty and to increase the national literacy rate. I will discuss above mentioned four point one by one:
For Education:
Overseas Pakistani can work with following personality or organizations:
i) Shezad Roy ( Singer)
ii) Imran Khan
iii) Jawaad Ahmed ( Singer)
iv) Agaa Khan Foundation
I can dig some more organization.
For Poverty:
Overseas Pakistan can work with following organizations:
i) KhushKhali Bank ( Micro Bank)
ii) Agaa Khan Foundation
iii) Abdul Sattar Edhi
iv) Imran Khan ( 2 Rs Rooti Campaign )
In my opinion, Imran Khan will be more successful in social sector than Politics.
We can make a partnership with KhushKhali Bank. If Bangladesh Garmin Bank can win a noble prize then what is wrong with us. By the way Garmin Bank Chairman was trained and taught in Pakistan.
Note: Please please do not involve religion here.
Lack of religion Knowledge:
As parents it is our moral duty to watch our children to make sure they are not involved in any fanatic things ( Taliban) on the name of religion. GOVT CANNOT do anything on this issue. We have to defeat these corrupt and non-sense Mullahs.
Please make sure as a responsible citizen you are NOT feeding poison in your kids innocent minds.
I would like to mention one example here. After the Wah Factory suicide blast, police arrested one potential suicide bomber who changed his mind at the last moment. During the interrogation he said,
“ Baith-ul-Mehsood told them that after the blast a dozen Hoors will come down from sky to pick up your head in Heaven” ( Nozbella ).
Your kids are your responsibility and to make them good human being, good Muslims and useful citizens are our moral duty. Nothing to do with GOVT / GOVT policies.
Democracy:
As a nation you cannot progress without democracy. One man rule is not good for any country. There is no doubt that General Ayoub Khan and General Musharif did very well on economic side but to be honest we don’t need this progress.
For example, some Musharif ‘s mistakes are not justifiable or irreversible like
i) Lal Masjid
ii) Nov 3 Judges issue
iii) Restriction on Media
In democracy, no one can take these bad decisions. ONLY dictator can make these mistakes.
Now the question is who is responsible to protect the democracy in the country. There are ONLY three parties:
i) Army
ii) Politician
iii) Public ( Awaam ) .
Why Public?
Do not re-elect bad politician. We have to build the institutions not personalities. Musharif, Bhutto, Nawaz and etc will come and go but institutions or country will stay forever. We have to avoid Personality worship. It should be ONLY and ONLY ONE Slogan: Jeeaa Pakistan. |
