Are We Losers????

An angry Bengali posted following Youtube video as a video comment to one of my videos on Youtube, in addition to naked abuses to Pakistanis especially Punjabis. I can understand Bengalis' anger against Punjabis. We didn't do anything with Bengalis to deserve love. But this video is just too devastating.

I would have been ferociously angry, had someone else given these comments about my country. But this video is making me cry, you know why? The comments given about Pakistan have been made by a daughter of this country. She looks like a young budding talent of my country who has no pride for being a Pakistani, who has utmost contempt for the people and for the country itself. Sixty two years of existence and a mind boggling graph of material development, but we could not produce a proud youth! Do we still care to ask ourselves, why? I don't think. Because I'm sure, in response to this small piece, there will be at least a dozen comments denying all this and claiming that the girl in this video is an exception and we have a progeny full of national pride!

My worry would not end here though. Presence of even one kid like this, concerns me a lot. I can't blame the curriculum. As a student of history and avid reader of history curricula taught in Pakistan, I know that authors of our curricula decided to distort the history to the fullest, in a bid to induce certain kind of "nationalism" among our generations. The practice dates back to the earliest years of country's existence. This nationalism coupled with a disproportionate emphasis on "Nazria-e-Pakistan" (Ideology of Pakistan) has produced all of us. The decadence in our intellectual competencies as well as our sense of responsibility towards and pride about our country, during all these decades is too obvious to miss.

One thing seems clear, the curriculum with all that ado about our self righteous ideology parade and false sense of induced nationalism, both have proven fruitless. Distortion never helps, especially when it is done with as sacred a thing as history. Just look at the product of this curriculum. A progeny that is shy of calling itself a Pakistani, who thinks Pakistanis are losers, who thinks Urdu as a non-cool language and who thinks this language and this dress can't win them a status.

Do we still see where we've been wrong? Are we willing to see the evil within? Are we committed to overcome it? Its in our own hands. Why don't we take things in our own hands now? Why to put it in politicians' hands to teach our kids a faith in themselves and a pride in their nationhood? Let's not take it against English - the language of power. But let's not make it first language of our children. Let's not forget who we are. And let's tell our kids honestly, who we are! And let's remind them that Pakistanis are definitely not losers!