If one had to choose a number of essential things for a nation to flourish, I would put rationality in their thought process on top. It is my firm conviction that a state, without exercising this power, sits with a little credibility to improve its party or the party of the citizens.
It is also unfortunate that the assets that we have continuously compromised since we have gained independence. In addition to making them subordinate to some poorly imagined coercion that originated from foreign countries, we have also compromised them by practicing policies aimed at aggranding personal profits rather than securing collective national interests. Today we encounter as a trapped state bank for nourishment more on support, which we can get from outside than from internal efforts embedded in unity and cohesion. Such an outlay gives a cardinal sign of weakness, not strength.
To harvest the fruits of our independence, one had to visit the speech that Quaid made from the floor of the first component of the country on August 11, 1947, as many others, including the one where he approached Peshawar officials. He was clear and sincere with spelling the essentials that the newborn state should talk about.
He emphasized the center of freedom as equal citizens of the country beyond the belief of faith, caste, color or creed. He continued to emphasize the sovereignty of the legislative organ and the enormous responsibility it puts on the leaders of the leaders to defend it. He called bribery and corruption as curses and emphasized the need to eliminate them.
He approached the officials of Peshawar and admonished them not to be a victim of any pressure and make their duty as servants in the state and the people and not the government in power at a certain time.
If an objective analysis of the events of the last decades was to be done, one would know that these are the values that have been barbarically swapped by personal gains. Through an eerie process of politicization of state interests, the concept of freedom, holiness for the civilians and other services and the need to protect the sovereignty of the state all compromised by the altar to increase the personal wealth and power of the ruling elite and their Croy cohorts.
While the state has suffered about financial solvency and loss of stature among the nations committee, it is the people who have carried the heads of a number of these wrongdoing by losing their dignity and self -respect on the one hand and the prospect of their growth and progress on the other.
The main cause of all these brakes can be traced to the placement of unnecessary curbs on people’s freedom. Intellectual activity and commitment create the space needed for nations to recognize their true fate and map a course to achieve it. By breaking down people to be brought as a brainless lamb by the corrupt ruling elite, the national landscape would become barren of ideas and momentum. Stagnation will automatically adjust, which breeds nausea.
It is established that such an intellectual activity can cultivate several narratives that can be quite different from each other, but each one would carry its own weight. When the goal is clear, this diversity emerges as the essence of the intellectual thought process. We do not throw stones at those that we can vary. We do not tilt them with invective -loaded accusations. We do not give them a load sheet, threw them as traitors and force them to alienation from the societal mainstream. Like everyone else, they deserve to be there to make their contributions and help the state move forward.
Although this has been a consistent tradition over the years of our existence, we have recently witnessed a rapid escalation in the scope of these curbs, which have stepped up the prospect of our intellectual growth and the resulting national salvation. A tangible fear syndrome permeates the environment and forces people to resort to either staying locked in to wait for some improvement to put themselves in or plan to leave the country by raising money by liquidating their warm assets.
With almost four million people reported to have left over the past three years, this emigration constitutes a mass immigration, which manifests a lack of hope that a majority of citizens will be related to living here. No state can bloom in the middle of such depressing conditions.
In the process, health and rationality become the most important victims. As the world becomes more and more divided, there is a growing need to prioritize pragmatic and wise thinking to build a sustainable platform to deal with the new challenges. But the opposite seems to be the pattern in which a counter -opinion born of concern and sincerity is interpreted as negative to national interests, and the individual is exposed to the harshest treatment that does not exclude the possibility of spending time in prison using a series of vicious laws adopted with alarming frequency. Already, the institution of an independent judiciary has been dealt with a death toss and thus bury the possibility of giving justice in the country.
These conditions are not conducive to creating political stability that meets the prospect of economic growth. We have been dependent on support from international institutions and dole-outs from friendly countries. Instead of imagining steps to fall and ultimately eliminating this embarrassing dependence on external sources, this scourge increases over time. In fact, any financial support secured from any quarter is declared a great achievement and celebrated in glowing terms. Such behavior is not only depressing; It is deeply humiliating.
We have to return to the basics. Not only did we forget our basic ideals, but we have built an outrageous structure that rests on borrowed columns. In the absence of internal cohesion and unity as well as any genuine effort to tackle these issues, we are likely to continue to fall. The management method requires a comprehensive overhaul.
The purpose of a stable and self -reliant state cannot be achieved by blocking intellectual space with compulsory measures. We should explore the power of rationality to unite people in an environment of peace and security, free of the threat of violence. Equally important is the need to stop insulting them by labeling them terrorists and traitors. They are not. They practice only their right to vary.
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The author is a political and security strategist and founder of the Regional Peace Institute. He is a former special assistant to former Prime Minister Imran Khan and leader PTI’s policy-think tank. He tweets @raoofhasan
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