Post by Areff on Oct 4, 2011 17:32:00 GMT
Hero’s Words – Nation’s Voice
Submitted by Aurangzeb on September 29, 2011 – 11:52 pm
by Aisha Aijaz
Our beloved Shahid Afridi has hit a big six representing 99% of Pakistani population. (I am generously sparing 1% of Wannabes, Pro US, liberal elites). In a talk show with Hamid Mir, Afridi came on front foot and hit a massive free style shot. On the social media the video of the program cut to size featuring Afridis talk spread like fire. And the response of the people, the likes and the hailing comments broke all records.
Shahid Afridi is neither a diplomat nor a politician. He is a common man like us. So there were no twists, no hypocrisy or sugar-coated selective-reply policy in his talk. Therefore, it was bound to touch the hearts of millions of Pakistanis who think in exactly the same way. He talked in the simplest available words, in his down-to-earth style and mentioned the (well-known to the world) use and dispose off policy and badmashi of the United States of America. He like millions of Pakistanis strongly negated the idea that we would die if America stops giving us their debilitating aid which is making us more and more crippled each day.
Is it Allah who is feeding us or America? He asks. Regretfully we have faith in dollars more than in Allah and the Kalima. If we do not recognise our enemy at this worst stage, when would we?
He also condemned the politicians talking all the time about provincialism and ethnic and linguistic divisions.If we are thrown into Iraq or Afghanistan like war situation, what benefit are these useless divisions and provincialism going to give us?
Just wondering after listening to the voice of the nation through the words of a hero, and seeing the appreciation he is getting on social media, if our leaders were to say the same words with such honesty and without hypocrisy, this nation would stand behind them as rock. Only when there is complete alignment of thoughts and ideas between a leader and a people, nations rise and become an unbeatable force.
You are with us or against us; and wed bomb you to Stone Age was the start of the story ten years ago. We opted to be with them as the threat was too big for us to handle. For these ten years, we have been killed, bombed and threatened. Our soldiers and policemen have lost their lives fighting someone elses war. Thousands of innocent civilians including women and children have died in terror attacks in Pakistan. Our hands are coated with blood of civilian deaths in Afghanistan, for which we supplied our bases to the US. Our truck and our drivers supply them all they require to sustain themselves in a war which only serves their interests and nobody elses. We are in a worse state than we were ten years ago. Our days are too unpredictable as a bomb blast might await us in a shopping centre, restaurant, school bus, or even a funeral. Our nights are full of terror as to what tomorrow holds for us. Whatever we had, is all slowly and painfully lost; no trade, no cricket, no investment, no tourism. And to make matters worse, we are dying of divisions, provincialism, disasters and epidemics. We are in Stone Age because of our wrong policies, spineless leadership, working as a paid ally for someone elses interest, and also because of betraying our interests and our brethren, the innocent civilians on either side of the border which we digested (as defined by the masters) as collateral damage.
With them or against them, Pakistan is struggling for survival each day. But do we know what the difference between the two situations is? We would have at least died with honour if we secured our interests and protected our people and by putting our full faith in God took a bold stance a decade ago.
If God is giving us another chance to disconnect ourselves with this criminal War of Terror we should avail it to the full or we might regret a missed opportunity. We should raise our hands and announce, For ten years we have given our most precious men to you, fed you, helped you sustain at the cost of thousands of innocent lives. Our children have grown in fear, breathing the gunpowder and waking up to deafening bomb blasts. And, all we have received are threats, mistrust and do more demands? We must opt out now.
All of us are answerable in the court of Allah for how and what we contribute to this world. But, people bearing the crowns of leadership are all the more accountable and I intend to remind them about Caliph Umer Radi Allahu anhuwho was scared to be standing in front of Allah being questioned about a dog dying a preventable death under his rule. How can they answer about loss of thousands of innocent human lives and working only to secure their seats and this so called chaar din ki khudaee. Did they know its mortal? You and I are mortal? This world is mortal? Think!
Aisha Aijaz is a medical doctor, specialising in Acute Medicine. She writes about Pakistan politics & current affairs and likes to read Urdu poetry.
Submitted by Aurangzeb on September 29, 2011 – 11:52 pm
by Aisha Aijaz
Our beloved Shahid Afridi has hit a big six representing 99% of Pakistani population. (I am generously sparing 1% of Wannabes, Pro US, liberal elites). In a talk show with Hamid Mir, Afridi came on front foot and hit a massive free style shot. On the social media the video of the program cut to size featuring Afridis talk spread like fire. And the response of the people, the likes and the hailing comments broke all records.
Shahid Afridi is neither a diplomat nor a politician. He is a common man like us. So there were no twists, no hypocrisy or sugar-coated selective-reply policy in his talk. Therefore, it was bound to touch the hearts of millions of Pakistanis who think in exactly the same way. He talked in the simplest available words, in his down-to-earth style and mentioned the (well-known to the world) use and dispose off policy and badmashi of the United States of America. He like millions of Pakistanis strongly negated the idea that we would die if America stops giving us their debilitating aid which is making us more and more crippled each day.
Is it Allah who is feeding us or America? He asks. Regretfully we have faith in dollars more than in Allah and the Kalima. If we do not recognise our enemy at this worst stage, when would we?
He also condemned the politicians talking all the time about provincialism and ethnic and linguistic divisions.If we are thrown into Iraq or Afghanistan like war situation, what benefit are these useless divisions and provincialism going to give us?
Just wondering after listening to the voice of the nation through the words of a hero, and seeing the appreciation he is getting on social media, if our leaders were to say the same words with such honesty and without hypocrisy, this nation would stand behind them as rock. Only when there is complete alignment of thoughts and ideas between a leader and a people, nations rise and become an unbeatable force.
You are with us or against us; and wed bomb you to Stone Age was the start of the story ten years ago. We opted to be with them as the threat was too big for us to handle. For these ten years, we have been killed, bombed and threatened. Our soldiers and policemen have lost their lives fighting someone elses war. Thousands of innocent civilians including women and children have died in terror attacks in Pakistan. Our hands are coated with blood of civilian deaths in Afghanistan, for which we supplied our bases to the US. Our truck and our drivers supply them all they require to sustain themselves in a war which only serves their interests and nobody elses. We are in a worse state than we were ten years ago. Our days are too unpredictable as a bomb blast might await us in a shopping centre, restaurant, school bus, or even a funeral. Our nights are full of terror as to what tomorrow holds for us. Whatever we had, is all slowly and painfully lost; no trade, no cricket, no investment, no tourism. And to make matters worse, we are dying of divisions, provincialism, disasters and epidemics. We are in Stone Age because of our wrong policies, spineless leadership, working as a paid ally for someone elses interest, and also because of betraying our interests and our brethren, the innocent civilians on either side of the border which we digested (as defined by the masters) as collateral damage.
With them or against them, Pakistan is struggling for survival each day. But do we know what the difference between the two situations is? We would have at least died with honour if we secured our interests and protected our people and by putting our full faith in God took a bold stance a decade ago.
If God is giving us another chance to disconnect ourselves with this criminal War of Terror we should avail it to the full or we might regret a missed opportunity. We should raise our hands and announce, For ten years we have given our most precious men to you, fed you, helped you sustain at the cost of thousands of innocent lives. Our children have grown in fear, breathing the gunpowder and waking up to deafening bomb blasts. And, all we have received are threats, mistrust and do more demands? We must opt out now.
All of us are answerable in the court of Allah for how and what we contribute to this world. But, people bearing the crowns of leadership are all the more accountable and I intend to remind them about Caliph Umer Radi Allahu anhuwho was scared to be standing in front of Allah being questioned about a dog dying a preventable death under his rule. How can they answer about loss of thousands of innocent human lives and working only to secure their seats and this so called chaar din ki khudaee. Did they know its mortal? You and I are mortal? This world is mortal? Think!
Aisha Aijaz is a medical doctor, specialising in Acute Medicine. She writes about Pakistan politics & current affairs and likes to read Urdu poetry.