14th of August is the most fateful day of Pakistan and our national history. On this day our forefathers infixed the signboard of “Home” on this piece of land. However the down payment for getting this home was a river of blood drained out of massacred bodies.
There raged a violent storm of death and destruction before the rise of first dawn on Pakistan. Millions got displaced, thousands got slaughtered and countless lost families. Mothers saw their crying children getting cut into pieces; unborn infants were chalked out of wriggling wombs and put on spears, and daughters were abducted before the eyes of dying fathers.
However the mortgage installments to be paid for the “home” were far from over. And when resource starved Pakistan was busy in healing the wounds of battered migrants, in October 1947, enemy occupied the State of Jammu and Kashmir and started the same dance of goddess of death.
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70,000 Muslims were massacred in Jammu
Above 70,000 Muslims were massacred in Jammu region between 20 Oct. to 9 Nov. 1947, and millions were driven out from their homes to die in freezing cold, and this very carnage was aided and abetted by the forces of Maharaja of State of Jammu and Kashmir.
The Princely State of Jammu and Kashmir, which by all standards of law, tradition, geography and history is the natural part of Pakistan, was occupied by the enemy on pretext of a piece of paper signed by a fleeing ex-sovereign.
As he had lost effective control over the state hence according to international law he had been stripped of his sovereign status. By all principles of law dealing with state sovereignty and the transactions between the sovereigns the Maharaja of State of Jammu and Kashmir was legally incompetent to enter into any kind of instrument on behalf of the state of Jammu and Kashmir.
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1971: Pakistan cut into two by the enemy
And then it came 1971 when our country was cut into two by the enemy. Admitted that many failures enlisted on our part but it was the military intervention of a blood thirsty neighbor which made the severing of East Pakistan possible. It was said that “Two Nation Theory” got drowned in Bay of Bengal but history proved the veracity of two nation theory when our severed arm appeared as a separate state and did not merge with the enemy of two nation theory.
As a proof of her omnipotent animosity toward the very existence of Pakistan 2500km2 of Siachen glacier was occupied in 1984.
With the grace of Allah Almighty, despite all odds and adversaries, Pakistan survived, evolved and got recognition as a noteworthy member in the community of nations. Pakistan played a very critical role in many geo-strategic changes of tectonic level. Pakistan developed nuclear capability despite meager resources and then further developed various delivery systems.
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Pakistan has always stood for the cause and call of Ummah
Pakistan is a country who stood for the cause and call of Ummah from day one of its inception and its brave sons have reached every corner of the world to help innocent victims. Achievements of Pakistan in development of various strategic platforms are recognized by the world. However unfortunately Pakistan has not realized the glory it deserves and what its exceptionally capable people can achieve.
Pakistan is not only the real legatee to glorious Muslim Rule of Sultans of Delhi and the Mughal Emperors of South Asia but also the sole territorial successor to great non-Hindu Indus Valley Civilization.
Due to thousands of years old wisdom inherited from territorial geography of Pakistan, and unique cultural heritage shared from Turko-Persian Central Asia, people of Pakistan are intrinsically intelligent, brave, wise, sober, and confident, and this reality is acknowledged by all civilized nations of the globe. Most of the races inhabiting Pakistan are martial races and no wonder that Pakistanis have an inbuilt tendency to act real, stand for principles, think about the unprivileged, and fight for the oppressed.
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Pakistan is still struggling
Despite all past glory and unmatched potential of its people Pakistan is still a developing country whose economy is in shambles. Pakistan is on the gray list of FATF for so many years and danger of getting black listed is looming on the heads. Green passport has become a symbol of suspicion in the globe and third last in the world’s ranking. World considers us as one of the most dangerous countries on the globe.
The performance in the education field is so pathetic that Pakistan is the world’s second country having the highest number of out-of-school children with an estimate of 22.8 million children not attending school, representing 44 per cent of the total population in age group 5-16.
The social landscape of Pakistan
In the social landscape the situation is even bleaker. Social audit and values have evaporated. Despite being Islamic republic, according to Google, Pakistan tops the list of most porn-searching countries. Due to crippled, ineffective and exploitative governance structures masses are getting disgruntled.
Patriotism and nationhood have weakened to such dangerous proportions that simple folks are becoming victim to poisons of distractive and destabilizing narratives. On intellectual scale situation is so depressing that in the final quarter of last century not a single notable artist, poet, scientist, leader, philosopher appeared in the national arena.
Is this the irony of fate that a nation consisting of 220 million heads has become so worthless on the international arena that pieces of sand have become the stumbling block of our journey? Is not this the lowest water mark in national pride that organizations that were founded by Pakistan are not paying any heed to concerns of Pakistan?
Has not our international effectiveness reached its lowest ebb that same old dance of the goddess of death is going on in Kashmir for decades and no one is listening to their cries?
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Pakistan: A blessed ecosystem
On seeing this enigmatic situation one thing becomes clear that neither the past of this soil and nor the present ecosystem is marred with any deficiency. Pakistan is a country of many rivers and just the Indus basin river system 140 million acre foot water flows annually. Pakistani is blessed with four weathers, vast fertile plains, diverse fauna and flora, beautiful mountains, and bio-friendly marshes.
The land underneath our feet has given birth to the civilization of Indus 8000 years ago and since then its supporting human societies with the result that today one-fourth of world population is living in south Asia.
After a lot of deliberation it appears that the paradox of Pakistan lies in the Cognitive body of its inhabitants. This cognitive disease has resulted in corruption and this corruption is not just limited to financial and material matters but has permeated all kinds of capitals a society holds.
This disease corrupted morals, this disease corrupted financial matters, and this disease corrupted intellect. And the name of this disease which has infiltrated in bodies, minds, organs, tissues, cells, molecules, atoms, and quarks of our bodies is uncertainty whose social name is insecurity.
We all are victims of insecurity and uncertainty. Though the whole universe including all biological life and humans are destined to fight with this demonic reality called uncertainty; however we Pakistan are special victims to this due to peculiar placement of Pakistani nation and State in a special matrix of historical, geographic, political, and social attractors (ranged variables).
Uncertainty is measured by a legendary parameter called entropy which is a concept common to physics, chemistry and statistics. Coming to the social domain of uncertainty this sense of insecurity takes implantation and grows in the cognitive womb of humans.
A spectrum of modulated behavior appears in persons who have conceived seed of insecurity in their cognitive wombs. However generally four kinds of display are exhibited by such pregnant fellows: 1. Hoarding of money, things, and tags, 2. Communicative corruption like faking, lies, and fraud etc 3. Moral corruption in the form of conduct unwarranted by social and moral codes. 4. Intellectual and creative sterility.
Remember that reproduction is a principal means of overcoming insecurity so hyper reproductive and romantic behavior is also an indication of deep stress of insecurity prevalent in the cognitive body of the subject.
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Spectrum of corrupt behaviour
Spectrum of corrupt behavior not only destroys the balance of individuals and their evolved clusters like family, society and nation but also deteriorates the structures of public administration and governance.
On an additive level various combinations of this corrupt behavior gives rise to a plethora of other social infectious diseases. Our society is unlucky that there are no hospitals, medicines and doctors available to poor fellows infected with such diseases. And damage is further increased that traditional ayurvedic procedures of treatment for such patients have been abandoned by the society due to modernity.
The fetus of insecurity in union with modulated behavior results in a further complication, and which is rarely given attention, is the appearance of guilt constructs. These creeping worms of guilt in subconscious and conscious parts of the cognitive body act like a silent killer by devouring the energy flesh of the cognitive mind.
In an overwhelming majority the energy budget consumed by these worms is either equal or more than the surplus energy budget available in the cognitive body of mind. Actually the surplus energy available in the cognitive body is the birth resource for constructs of creativity but in societies marred with cognitive insecurity this surplus energy is expended in guilt management and so societies become intellectually sterile.
Demon of cognitive insecurity
Hence the real problem with Pakistan is the social manifestation of multi-headed multi-armed demon of cognitive insecurity. This demon has been produced by a complex matrix of global, regional, domestic and historical circumstances and many reasons for its birth are rooted up to physical chemistry levels of the ecosystem.
However a major reason for the appearance of this cognitive demon is the overwhelming pressure of information onslaughts on the minds of people. Hence for realizing the real glory of Pakistan a spectrum of information as a narrative should be synthesized and administered to the nation.
Dr. Shakir Ahmad Shahid, Ph.D, PSP, is a Postdoct Fulbright Alumnus in Forensic Science and Criminology, who has served in various fields like Policing, Investigation, Intelligence and Counter-Terrorism on policy and operational levels as a Senior Police Officer and Director (counter terrorism). He can be reached at [email protected]. The views expressed in this article are the author’s own and do not necessarily reflect the editorial policy of Global Village Space.
