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This is a rebuttal to Mahwish
Badar’s article appearing in the Express Tribune titled “Jinnah made a mistake and I am ashamed of being Pakistani!”. Although ET publishes a disclaimer at
the end of each blog that the views expressed in the article are not newspaper’s
policy but it gets difficult to digest realizing the fact that most of the
articles have the same tendency of attacking Pakistan’s ideology and its
religious base. I wouldn’t have thought of writing this article if Miss Mahwish
had the courage to keep her twitter public to get some dose of criticism but I
am not surprised as she knew what she would face in the country where her views
are rejected by majority and she is justified to write such an article in anger
instead of supporting it logically.
She starts with the problems she
faces on airports during “hopping” countries without going into details of what
caused all this. Did Jinnah cause it or her favorite super power country US by invading
foreign lands and expecting the natives to present them flowers. For a single
person who was “allegedly” involved in 9/11 they invaded Afghanistan and later
Iraq causing the death of millions of human beings as “Collateral Damage”.
Those who were trained and treated with utmost respect by White House in 1980s
became terrorists overnight.
And then the stereotyping
continues as Mahvish goes on to blame dictatorship and later on quotes NY Times
article about WHO declaration of polio emergency in Pakistan. Not going into
details of who laid the industrial foundation of Pakistan and made institutions
like NADRA, HEC, NHA, the polio emergency was never imposed during any dictatorial
rule which makes Mahvish’s argument void. And then came the Mullah factor, the
same mullah who was supported by the west for their own interest in 1980s. I
agree with Mahvish that Pakistan needs to get rid of the Mullah culture but
that doesn’t mean giving secular forces the license to operate freely because
Jinnah never wanted a theocratic state nor a secular state. I know Mahvish
would argue about Jinnah wanting a secular state to which I would recommend her
to read the book “Secular Jinnah” written by Salena Karim which is based on
evidence, not mere assumptions.
Mahvish is very much worried
about the grave situation in Pakistan but still is ashamed of being a Pakistani;
both these sentences don’t get along very well. You cannot be worried about
something you are ashamed of. When you are worried about a country that is in
miseries, you help fix it not that you abandon it and blame the founder for the
miseries denying historical facts. The atrocities of Kashmir, Gujrat, Babri
Mosque should be enough for a sane person to realize why it was important to
have a separate homeland and how wise Jinnah’s decision was in the context.
Attack on Raza Rumi and any other
citizen of Pakistan is as much deplorable as raping of thousands of mothers and
sisters in Kashmir. The attack on polio workers in Pakistan should be condemned
as much as the unmarked graves in Kashmir and mass genocide of Muslim
communities in Assam and Gujrat. Mahvish has passed the judgment that any
Pakistani that feels proud of being a Pakistani is on the side of murderers and
that people supporting a United India like her, despite all the Indian state
terrorism for decades, are peaceful citizens.
Mahvish, 180 million Pakistanis
are ashamed of people like you who grow up in Pakistan, get a degree, fly
abroad and blame the founder instead of returning the favor. The great nations and super powers whom you mentioned in your article didn't become superpower
overnight. Their utmost dedication to their country made them great. If you still want to become a Pakistani again, you are most welcome because unlike your ideals, Pakistanis have a big heart.
Written By: Faraan Khan
Faraan tweets at @FaraanKhan (twitter.com/Faraankhan)
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