pioneerpec: It was good to note your views on Pakistan. It simply reflects how many people like you carry so much wrong notions about Pakistan. This is because of the hyped information about this country projected through the powerful media which plays on the gullible minds of the common man. You have given me the opportunity to take the cap of my pen. I will make an "effort" to correct some of the many misconceptions about this country people carry in their minds.
True there are Indians who like Pakistan. I like many Indians also. My neigbours are all Indians and we live in an atmosphere of friendship, cooperation and understanding. My best friend in Doha is an Indian. The issue of hatred develops when politics and politicians get involved. They simply mess up things. Only yesterday the current PM of India has used the Hindu card to create divisions in a "secular" country, just to get some votes and win elections.
You talk about so many social problems in Pakistan such as poverty and illiteracy. But these social problems are prevalent in India as well and also in many "developed" countries. As I see it, the banishment of poverty is merely a subject of speech for politicians when they address political gatherings in your country as well as mine. In Pakistan, I do not know of any political leader who has risen from the ground root level. Yet they talk openly about poverty and its pangs. Poverty is centuries old phenomenon. It has existed in the past. It will continue to do so in the future. Let this subject be the talk of politicians.
When you talk of female education in Pakistan, you are simply in the dark as to what is taking place. Almost all girls throughout the country go to school. Possibly, you may have based your thinking on some very small groups which believe that educating females in un-Islamic. Those groups form a minuscule fraction of the population and they too are now changing their views.
You talk of a foreign forces in our country. There are no foreign troops in Pakistan. If by the term "foreign troops" you mean the "terrorists", then they have been taken care of. Yes, Pakistan went through a very difficult phase when terrorists attacked at some place almost twice a week for several years. These attackers chose to hit places known as "soft targets" such as mosques, churches and schools where they could cause maximum loss of human lives. But that ended when the Pakistan army came out and took these terrorists head on after an attack on the Army Public School in Peshawar. In the ensuing battle with an unseen, hidden enemy, the regular troops of the Army suffered over 3000 casualties, more than what takes place in an actual war. The terrorist were killed, their infrastructure destroyed or they ran way to another country. Through the years, the actions of terrorist resulted in loss of 70,000 innocent lives in the country.
As for drug abuse, there is no place in Pakistan where opium gets cultivated. All drugs flowing into Pakistan are smuggled in from Afghanistan. But that happens with other countries as well.
Pakistan is not what you see in Doha. It is a country that has achieved tremendous growth and progress since its independence. It has top-ranking hospitals and educational centres. It builds its own battle tanks, fighter aircraft and missiles. Not to add that it is a nuclear power. The only major tragedy with the country has been that it never got any "genuine" leader. All those who came into power, simply looted the country and built up their bank accounts in overseas countries.
While India does boast of constructing the world's largest statue costing millions of dollars and knocking out a satellite in space, but right at the footstep of that statue there are hundred thousands of people who do not have a toilet in their home. Was the construction of the statue more important than the missing toilets in Indian homes?
There are major problems on both sides of the border. They may vary in nature, but they exist in reality.
pioneerpec: It was good to note your views on Pakistan. It simply reflects how many people like you carry so much wrong notions about Pakistan. This is because of the hyped information about this country projected through the powerful media which plays on the gullible minds of the common man. You have given me the opportunity to take the cap of my pen. I will make an "effort" to correct some of the many misconceptions about this country people carry in their minds.
True there are Indians who like Pakistan. I like many Indians also. My neigbours are all Indians and we live in an atmosphere of friendship, cooperation and understanding. My best friend in Doha is an Indian. The issue of hatred develops when politics and politicians get involved. They simply mess up things. Only yesterday the current PM of India has used the Hindu card to create divisions in a "secular" country, just to get some votes and win elections.
You talk about so many social problems in Pakistan such as poverty and illiteracy. But these social problems are prevalent in India as well and also in many "developed" countries. As I see it, the banishment of poverty is merely a subject of speech for politicians when they address political gatherings in your country as well as mine. In Pakistan, I do not know of any political leader who has risen from the ground root level. Yet they talk openly about poverty and its pangs. Poverty is centuries old phenomenon. It has existed in the past. It will continue to do so in the future. Let this subject be the talk of politicians.
When you talk of female education in Pakistan, you are simply in the dark as to what is taking place. Almost all girls throughout the country go to school. Possibly, you may have based your thinking on some very small groups which believe that educating females in un-Islamic. Those groups form a minuscule fraction of the population and they too are now changing their views.
You talk of a foreign forces in our country. There are no foreign troops in Pakistan. If by the term "foreign troops" you mean the "terrorists", then they have been taken care of. Yes, Pakistan went through a very difficult phase when terrorists attacked at some place almost twice a week for several years. These attackers chose to hit places known as "soft targets" such as mosques, churches and schools where they could cause maximum loss of human lives. But that ended when the Pakistan army came out and took these terrorists head on after an attack on the Army Public School in Peshawar. In the ensuing battle with an unseen, hidden enemy, the regular troops of the Army suffered over 3000 casualties, more than what takes place in an actual war. The terrorist were killed, their infrastructure destroyed or they ran way to another country. Through the years, the actions of terrorist resulted in loss of 70,000 innocent lives in the country.
As for drug abuse, there is no place in Pakistan where opium gets cultivated. All drugs flowing into Pakistan are smuggled in from Afghanistan. But that happens with other countries as well.
Pakistan is not what you see in Doha. It is a country that has achieved tremendous growth and progress since its independence. It has top-ranking hospitals and educational centres. It builds its own battle tanks, fighter aircraft and missiles. Not to add that it is a nuclear power. The only major tragedy with the country has been that it never got any "genuine" leader. All those who came into power, simply looted the country and built up their bank accounts in overseas countries.
While India does boast of constructing the world's largest statue costing millions of dollars and knocking out a satellite in space, but right at the footstep of that statue there are hundred thousands of people who do not have a toilet in their home. Was the construction of the statue more important than the missing toilets in Indian homes?
There are major problems on both sides of the border. They may vary in nature, but they exist in reality.