By Maida Khan
Last night, I saw these pictures of father and a boy in Syria. We can’t even imagine what’s going on with them and how they are bearing this terrific and terrible situation right now. I had same feelings for innocent people of Paris like I have for them. People across the globe applied filter of tri-color French flag on display pictures of Facebook to show that we stand with France in this hour of great grief. I wonder why Facebook has not introduced any such filter to show that we stand with Syrians as well. They were/are as humans as people of France were/are. Unfortunately, there is no one to raise voice for those who don’t possess power, not even internationally recognized so called Human Rights Organizations.
Pakistan also faced and is still facing terrorist attacks. But, no one in this world can dare to attack us directly. Why? Just because of Late Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto and Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan. Also we cannot deny the contribution from Late Zia-ul-Haq and Nawaz Sharif’s side for supporting this project during their regimes. Dr. AQ Khan made us atomic power and by the grace of Allah our country is equipped with latest weapon to fight against those who dare to look at us with an evil eye. But, my heart sinks when I think about the respect we gave in return to our national hero. Our media celebrated Youm-e-Takbeer this year. Drama artists and several showbiz personalities were invited in morning shows to talk about Youm-e-Takbeer but, the one who was key reason for making it happen was not invited by any media channel. Not even his single interview was on-aired that day. International media consider Dr. AQ Khan as an evil personality because he gave his nation great strength and protection by making it seventh nuclear power of the world. For us, he is hero and he will remain super duper hero. Our condition is different than Syrian people just because of him.
On behalf of this nation, I would pay humble and deepest gratitude to proud of this nation “Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan”. We love you Sir! We the Pakistani nation is proud of you and we are definitely not the reflection of those silly and business minded people who forgot you for their interest.
These wars, attacks and killings are going to lead us nowhere. With every Christian, Hindu, Sikh, Jew, Pagan, Atheist or Muslim: HUMANITY dies. My best friend from South Africa who had studied with me for four years said to me once: “You Muslims are not that bad. We always see your bad representation on media. Before coming to Pakistan I had this image in my mind that there would be poverty, bomb blasts and violence against women everywhere in Pakistan. But, I am very happy to see the other side after coming here. Pakistanis are very warm and affectionate people and as far as few jerks are concerned, they are present in every society.” The reason for giving this example is that people don’t hate each other. In fact, nations don’t hate each other. They are willing to live with each other in a peaceful way by accepting the differences and tolerating each other. All this poison lies at the end of some other sources. Nations love and respect humanity but we do have complete jerks that are leading and representing us.
About Author:
Author is an aspiring journalist. She is multi-talented and very much committed to her work. She started her career in journalism as reporter from PTV News Islamabad. She did not confine herself to journalism field only. She is great writer, director, producer and photographer. She is “jack of all trades”.