Pak Sar’zmin Shaad Baad (Blessed be the sacred land)

Editor’s Note: As the days passes by the situation of Pakistan is getting worse, people are being killed without any reason, the economy is getting worse and people fear everything due to lack of security. It poverty level increased over the past decade, which are now affecting 40 per cent of Pakistan’s population, according to independent research studies. Recent studies shows that they lives below the globally accepted poverty line of $1.25 per day. Pakistan was also ranked 113th among 120 countries regarding literacy rate, which is projected to reach 60 percent till 2015 from the existing 55 percent. But still people choose to live in Pakistan? Why is that? Read our guest writer article to get the answer.

This article doesn’t mean to draw fake lines of rising dawn.  We might be in many blues of current mess but silver linings are always there. The ones who act instead of complaining are the true heroes. Complains and complains, why people complain while living in the same place where they were born. It’s a mob rule dear lady in our country. Mob mentality has gloved our psyche; the very fabric of society suffers at the hands of complexes people. Many Psychologists say if someone speaks too much on something all the time it means deep down in his heart, he himself is guilty of that complex he has which gets expression in his talk. So our nation, our people they are unable to walk the talk with no action.
Those institutions which thrive in our country become a target of iconoclasts who themselves couldn’t achieve success so pull their legs. All this speaks of a vibrant, proud and very much alive nation. What we need is optimism; I would say ask people what they was there in a 16-years-old like Malala, she is  addressing UN, CNN, inaugurating Birmingham library and nominated in Nobel Prize. I want to ask how many girls even in developed world could boast of having a teen like Malala, who achieved phenomenal fame by sheer bravery. You will not find such things in developed countries where all are somewhat well off, they will have less volatile tempers, less hatred therefore peace.

This is one aspect, Pakistan is here to stay and survive, and we have all others could dream of, for example just like Aitizaz Hussian: sacrificed life, achieved martyrdom, he is a hero. While drawing room instinctual and as called brave ones. In people’s opinion it is a terminally sick country where to borrow form Yeats, the best lack all conviction and the worst are full of passionate intensity.
Pakistan a Muslim republic that occupies the heartland of ancient South Asian Civilization in the Indus River valley; formerly part of India; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1947. Where we have power of minerals, where we have Sindh, Punjab, Baluchistan and KPK.
Take back roads see where it leads but problem is with us that we are not that sincere with our own country and then yet again we blame for no reason. My question is what Pakistan is? It’s just a place where we are living but to make this a heaven it’s our role to play which we are not even concerned about. Pakistan is me and you Pakistan is “us” I’m sorry for this negative message guys, it’s just that on days like today we can’t stand the ignorance of some people. On way to work this to build and become loyal to our own homeland to not to complain more because the reason of complaining legit. However we can’t live with the goofs and house, and we through garbage on roads, it’s your responsibility to pick up off the road an empty packet of juice that you people decided to carelessly throw out the window without a second thought. Not only do we have to put up with the fact we eat  but we also have to deal with the fact that we doesn’t care a damn about our city or motherland that God has so graciously provided for him. If we all treated the streets of Pakistan with as much love as we do our homes and temples, we would have 5 star ratings on cleanliness rather than being known as one of the dirtiest cities in the world.

Pakistan which means the “Land of Pure” and it is not as pure as our founding father Quaid-e-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah wanted. Though, we have lost one wing of it as well. But still we want to live in such a land not because we don’t have any other option but with our perception that the things will improve one day. It is that hope which we find among common Pakistani who is ready to sacrifice for their motherland. As they know how one feel on a strange land and without independence. They have the resort of coming back from all kind of crisis. One there is a greater cause you won’t find another nation Like Pakistan when they get united for the sake of their motherland. They cope with one of the worst earthquake hit by northern part and Kashmir with their own resources, the ordinary people from Khyber to Karachi to Gawadar went to the earthquake victim in large number to help them and show their solidarity. In Swat operations in 2009 when millions had to leave were sheltered by ordinary people and given them meals and this kind of passion has rarely seen in the history of world. It is a Nation which has Malala, Aitezaz, Ch.Aslam, Dr. Salam and not to forget Shaheed Benazir and Salman Taseer, who sacrificed their lives for the sake of greater cause and making this country a better place for us. Pakistan will survive all the storms as it has one asset which none other country has. The Pakistanis passion which no one can find anywhere else.  Take a cool and calm view of things don’t let them cause stress. However bitter they may be, they are a part of life and if we take stress, may collapse instead of dealing with them. The path to justice, peace & happiness is long, winding and tiring. Let hope & resolve be your companions all the way. Such a journey may test the moral and emotional mettle to highest & finest limits, but that’s the enjoyable part of it for people of mettle.

 Keep yourself happy, solid and determined for you for this Nation’s unborn future.

Monaiza A Maixza
The guest writer is a freelancer writer in Pakistan, Domain Manager at Label, Contributing editor at Brands Magazine and Owner at B&Maixza. She writes at http://maixza.wordpress.com/ and tweets at Monaiza_Diva.

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