Quaid’s Pakistan ?
(Shazia Dar)
How can we forget the landmark day of 23rd March 1940 because it was this very day that provided the base for a new territory for Muslims of the subcontinent. This was not mere a coincidence that 23rd March became the Resolution day. There is a long story and sacrifices that brought this day to the slave nation. Before this day, the Muslims of the subcontinent had no goal and no future in view and Muslim politics remained in the hands of the individuals with conflicting interests and inclinations.
There was no Christian culture or Sikh culture or Parsee culture in subcontinent in those days. But there was definitely a Hindu culture with which invading Muslims had clashed. As the background, content and contours of the two cultures were so different; their adherents never evolved a common society. The cultural differences were, in fact, at the root of partition. The gulf was too deep to be bridged and too wide to be crossed. The two cultures stood side by side, adamant, exigent and inexorable. In the event, cultural separatism divided the country so that each of two cultures, which could not live together in harmony, may flourish in its own dwelling-place.
Thus Hindu-Muslim conflict was not merely religious. It was the clash of two civilisations, of two peoples who had different languages, different literary roots, and different ideas of education, different philosophical sources and different concepts of art. Such a yawning cultural gulf was enough to destroy any affinity which the two people might have had and to bring to naught all efforts at unity. On Resolution Day, Quaid-i-Azam declared: “Hindus and the Muslims belong to two different religions, philosophies, social customs and literature. They neither intermarry nor interdine and, indeed, they belong to two different civilisations that are based mainly on conflicting ideas and conceptions. Their concepts on life and of life are different. It is quite clear that Hindus and Muslims derive their inspiration from different sources of history. They have different epics, different heroes and different episodes…”
The resolution which was passed at the session reads: “No constitutional plan would be workable or acceptable to the Muslims unless geographical contiguous units are demarcated into regions which should be so constituted with such territorial readjustments as may be necessary. That the areas in which the Muslims are numerically in majority as in the North-Western and Eastern zones of India should be grouped to constitute independent states in which the constituent units shall be autonomous and sovereign”.
Since 77 years, the Pakistanis celebrate this day with great zeal and allegiance to commemorate the sacrifices and struggles of subcontinent Muslims. But unfortunately, the true realisation for the Day and the partition massacre has disappeared. We celebrate this day as a ritual or festival but the true spirit for the country is dead. We all the time keep blaming this land for giving us nothing because we forgot that millions of people were butchered to get this land.
Where is Quaid’s Pakistan? The Quaid’s Pakistan is famous for corruption, extremism, target killing and many more similar traits. Government is busy somewhere else while distributing laptops and loans with interest and also dealing with Panama matters. Still we have chance to save Pakistan from these corrupt people in power, you and I make the difference, trust me. Let’s pass another resolution on this Resolution Day that we live and die for our motherland and we have that same spirit to lead our country proudly.
