Well, today I was thinking that I would shut down this blog for good because I was unable to write for a long time. Call it a mind-block or whatever, ideas refused to come inside my mind. But thanks to some nationalist folks, I am back on track!
Well this is what happened. As you all must be knowing, Facebook has become a medium to voice your opinion (no matter how obscene or stupid it is, people would still click "Like" to any dumb stuff). Be it through status updates or using the notes section. (I prefer the status updates, people who write "notes" on facebook go Nuts! They dont stop! You dont trust me...hmmm...then check this out :
http://www.facebook.com/#/notes/pervez-musharraf/answering-your-top-3-questions/203110039338
Well this is what happened. As you all must be knowing, Facebook has become a medium to voice your opinion (no matter how obscene or stupid it is, people would still click "Like" to any dumb stuff). Be it through status updates or using the notes section. (I prefer the status updates, people who write "notes" on facebook go Nuts! They dont stop! You dont trust me...hmmm...then check this out :
http://www.facebook.com/#/notes/pervez-musharraf/answering-your-top-3-questions/203110039338
(This guy will never stop)
So, today late in the afternoon, I saw a friend who is die-hard fan of Zardari posting out status updates about CJ being biased, "Urdu Media" trying to divide the country and that Zardari has been targeted because he is a Sindhi. And I was like "WT.....?"
There on, my mind started to work. I started to think that for so many days Balochis and Sindhis have been crying on media that they have been neglected and people from other nations have brought misery for them. Some Baloch leaders ask for a seperate state while the Sindhis are making "topi days" and some of them are saying that if Courts and Media dont stop targetting Zardari, then history of 1971 would repeat itself.
I was like "hmmmm....i know this is all wrong, but I have to prove it".
So I did this little research :-
List of The Presidents of Pakistan
Iskander Mirza : Born in Bengal
Ayub Khan : Born in NWFP (Non Pushto speaking Pushtoon)... See More
Yahya Khan : Pathan (Born in Chakwal)
Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto : Sindhi
Fazal Ilahi Chaudary : Punjabi (was just a figurehead after the implementation of 73 constitution)
General Zia : Born in Jalandhar, British India (Okay, you can call him a Punjabi)
Ghulam Ishaq Khan : Pathan
Farooq Leghari : Baloch (born in Punjab)
Rafiq Tarar : Punjabi
Pervez Musharraf : Born in India (Delhi)
Asif Ali Zardari : Sindhi Balochi
So my stats say:
Sindhis had 2 Presidents
NWFP had 3 Presidents
Baloch had 1 President
Punjabis had 3
Bengalis had 1
List of the Prime Ministers of Pakistan
Liaqat Ali Khan : Punjabi
Khawaja Nazimuddin : Bengali
Mohd Ali Bogra : Bengali
Chaudary Muhammad Ali : Punjabi
Hussain Shaheed Suhrwardy : Bengali
Ibrahim Ismaeil Chundrigar : Urdu Speaking
Feroz Khan Noon : Punjabi
Nurul Amin : Bengali
Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto : Sindhi
Muhammad Khan Junejo : Sindhi
Benazir Bhutto : Sindhi
Ghulam Mustafa Jatoi : Sindhi
Nawaz Sharif : Punjabi
Zafrullah Khan Jamali : Balochi
Chaudary Shujaat Hussain : Punjabi
Shaukat Aziz : Karachi (I guess Urdu speaking)
Yousuf Raza Gillani : Punjabi
Sindh and Urdu Speaking were 5
Punjabis had 5
NWFP had none
Balochis had 1
Bengalis had 3
My study concluded that in total, Punjabis had 8 leaders who reached the highest offices, Sindhis & Urdu Speaking 7, Pashtoons 3, Baloch 2, and Bengalis 4!
So, it proved one thing that almost everyone got a good shot at the highest offices. Look at the Bengalis they had four leaders on the top, still they left us because Mr. Bhutto did not want a Bengali leading him.
"Hey Bengali brothers, come back to us we will sandwich India...hahahaha...what do you guys say?"
"Hmm....dint even hear a single word...anyways enjoy and Happy Independence from Us!"
Well, the crux of the story is that Nationalism is a good thing if it remains in its limits i.e. we just start calling ourselves Pakistanis. That's all we need to do.Period.
If it goes out of bounds, then you will hear opinions like those of my Sindhi friend and Baloch seperatist leaders and in a worse case scenario incidents like "The creation of Bangladesh" would take place.
So, I think I am very good at giving advice for free. So, the solution I see to stop seperatist feelings is that we all should stop saying that "I am Sindhi/Punjabi/Pathani/Balochi/Khochi/Naughty". Find the common ground which unites us (I suggest Islam can be a common ground as we all are muslims - No, I am not a Moulvi..dont believe I am one cause I have a beard!) and stay united!
Well, I know some will find the material I have typed offensive. Sorry dudes, but this is what reality is. It bites.
