04 March 2009

Lahore, Pakistan.

The more i want to write about what's happening around me, the more it seems i've lost the ability to write. Such heavy is the air in my country. Such dark are the times.
We, who got this country as a gift from Allah, who rewarded our forefathers for their sacrifices, have failed to keep its flag up high. We've shamed it in the world in every way possible.
We begged.
We killed our own people.
We cut our own country apart.
We fed on it every single day.
We pulled eachother's legs.
We desecrated our judiciary.
We dishonoured our parliament.
We forgave people who ruined this nation.
We gave the reins of our country into the hands of the most corrupt people.
We defamed our greats, our legends, our saviours.
We shunned popular opinion.
We crushed our poor.
We fed our filthy rich.
We promoted racism, class boundaries, prejudices.
We lost all our morals.
We let go of our legacies.
We discarded our culture.
We transformed our country into sheer mockery.
We did all we could to insult it.
We let go of our forefathers.
We forgot our history.

But alas, we couldn't stop at that,
WE ATTACKED OUR GUESTS! we couldn't provide them with security...we pakistanis who took pride in calling ourselves the most hospitable nation, we deemed it more appropriate to give our governor more security than our very honourable guests from SriLanka. What a shame.

We are sorry. We apologise to the entire SriLankan nation for hurting their trust. Our policemen were martyred trying to save you, maybe that'll show the purity of intent we have.
But think about us, at this moment. We as a nation have been destroying ourselves, with help from outside.

To Mahela Jayawerdene and his men,
we really are a hospitable nation, but we are victims of terrorism. Our friends are their enemies. Whoever these culprits are, they've been making us walk the plank everyday every night. We're sorry you had to go through the trauma, we'd have given as many people as needed to save our guests the slightest bit of discomfort, but sometimes a mixture of badluck and ignorant rulers makes that impossible.
The entire pakistani nation loves you for saying that you'll be back to pakistan. Even if you never come back, saying that is enough.





"ye jo wakt hai mere shehr par,
isse izn day k safar karay,
isse hukam day k chal paray,
meray aasmaan se dur ho,
kisi maujzay ka zahoor ho"


bun to gaya tha Pakistan.
Ab uth k rahay ga pakistan.
Pakistan Zindabad.

6 comments:

Tazeen said...

Oh my... It brought tears to my eyes! Best piece of work so far!!! I'm simply speechless.

Anonymous said...

i respect your sentiments on this..
apart from this, a few years ago, there were some matches in Sri Lanka and Pakistani team with India perhaps was playing there. there were a lot of bomb blasts in Sri lanka and pakistan was the only team that kept playing there while others fled...

lost in rome said...

"kisi maujzay ka zahoor ho"

i guess this what we should pin our hopes on..

m.h.a said...

@taz
thanx yar i'm really really flattered and now i'm speechless

@mubi
i know i know, but the situation in pakistan is much worse, considering all the other crappy stuff happening too yar...you know how there're so many known and unknown forces messing around with our country...this was just one incident, and the threat of tamil tigers was nothing compared to the unknown criminals here.

@rome
yes, maybe thats whats left now, we need help

hamza said...

good one haks...!!!

Traunt said...

Wonderful peice of writing! Home REMAINS home no matter how dessicrated, dessolate or dangerous it becomes!