Pakistan as I see it…

Pakistan is the land to which I belong.

I have been watching its ups and downs since my childhood. I have always found a paradoxical nature of happenings in Pakistan.

What is paradox? It is a statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth (definition from Wikipedia).

The way through which one can easily understand the concept of Paradox is when a person put his forehead in front of God Almighty (i.e. in Sajdah). The highest part of the body is on the ground, at its lowest position, but at the same time he is on the higher level of his belief and more nearer to the Almighty.

I believe that this word can give the answers of different questions that are raised in our minds everyday concerning our country’s situation. In my opinion all the crises, which have been prevailing in the country since its birth, have proved to be a paradox for several reasons.

Viewing Pakistan’s history, every crisis reaches its peak and then suddenly goes down when there is no hope to get rid of that chaos which creates with the crisis. Every crisis makes us more patient and more deliberate in our certain moves that can be taken in future for our land’s interest.

Surprisingly each time crisis ended up with such a solution which was acceptable to everyone regardless of the first and the last option. This acceptability to the masses is called ‘Consensus’. The paradoxical happenings in Pakistan somehow every time reached to some kind of Consensus and then get solved.
This contradictory nature of crises or happenings in Pakistan makes it different in the eyes of the world which can be negative at the very moment but later on positive dimension emerges.

Watching the country’s situation can make us very worried but the above described nature of those crises can give us strength. The hopelessness in the country, the frustration and confusion have occupied a larger space in our minds specially the mass of my age group.

Today they view Pakistan deteriorating and many have started considering Pakistan from where chaos emerges which effects the neighboring countries and the other parts of the world too.

I firmly believe that Pakistan would become the centre of gravity of the global consensus. Today world has accepted the importance of Pakistan whether they like it or not. Surprisingly some unfortunate events including 9/11 and it’s after effects then War on Terror and becoming a victim of adverse terrorism have made Pakistan more prominent than ever before.

Although Pakistan has been declared one of the most unsafe, corrupted and poor countries of the world, it has always been a land of concern for the West, Africa, Gulf and rest of the world. The concern could be political, economic, agricultural, educational and so on. Pakistan most of the times is used as a bridge connecting different political thoughts among the nations of the world.

The diverse nature of its people always represents the Muslim world in fact I would say that Pakistan owns the Muslim World. Every important issue of the Muslim world is being advocated at the international level by Pakistan irrespective of its own interest most of the times.

Internationally, no matter what the system exists, bi-polar, uni-polar or multi-polar, no block can avoid Pakistan. Pakistan’s location, its natural resources, strong Armed Forces with Nuclear capability, its relations with other Asian countries especially China, its relations with Arab and African world makes it significant for the ruling nations of the world.

Pakistan as I see it is like a diamond that creates due to the extreme pressure of the soil over it. Once it gets out of that soil, it shines and becomes valuable for all.

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