Yesterday, an informative and very insightful visit was paid by the Chief’s Law College students and its faculty members aimed at reviving the main lynchpin of Pakistan’s enriched history. Since the first human landed on earth, it has been clear that history is a basic monument for a nation’s past because it provides a guide to future plans and strategies. The Nazriya Pakistan Trust was first established in 1992 by the late Chief Minister of Punjab, Ghulam Haider Wynne. Since its inception, they have been promoting the ideological basis of Pakistan which was once preached by Quaid-e-Azam and his colleagues, including the most renowned, generally called ‘Shayar-e-Mashriq’, Alama Muhammad Iqbal, and others as well. The idea was truly appreciated due to its purpose, which created a fervor among students along with faculty members.
When students visited the museum which contained the past portrait and picture gallery of the first Governor-General of Pakistan, *Quaid-e-Azam*, they gained much knowledge from the picture gallery. After that, a long session was arranged by the prestigious organization in which the retired Chief Justice of Lahore High Court, *Mia Nazeer Akhtar*, shared his views and guided students in serving the land of Pakistan.
As we all know that history itself is a subject, but this is not the case when it comes to history as a monument of societal past. History is the soul of every nation because it has historical facts and figures which serve the nation’s identity in the relative world. Much of the nation’s historical record has gone missing, which is why they are sometimes perplexed about where to fit the identity. It is some kind of boon from Allah that nations always strive to restore it and then preach the upcoming generations about the roots of their country. Once a sagacious man asked, ‘There is nothing but history, and history itself is a pure dilemma of what was in the past at a particular peripheral area’.
Furthermore, the thing which was strongly highlighted *was* the ‘Ideology of Pakistan’. As ideology means a plan or program for solving political and cultural issues that is based on philosophy and thoughts. Ideology in simple sense is a true path on which a nation sets its beliefs, values, and goals to constitute a good society. Ideology of Pakistan is significantly based on a slogan (There is no god but God; and Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah). This slogan eventually led to a great awakening among the oppressed Muslims to have a different homeland from Hindus where they would be free from all the repression of brutality.
When Muslims of the subcontinent altogether decided that they were not capable of being under the influence of British and Hindus, they started an agitation which subsequently shaped the map of modern Pakistan that we have today, which is sovereign and independent from external threat.
When the session on ideology ended, the next one was sharing reviews on contemporary history, politics, judiciary and true guide for youth in serving the homeland of Pakistan. In which the aforementioned Chief Justice asked the youth of the college to study hard and pay great attention to advocating human rights, justice and defending Pakistan’s homeland at the cost of enemies elsewhere in the world. He told the students that Pakistan was particularly established to safeguard the religion Islam because the massive sacrifices were not just given in achieving separate space for Muslims where they could live but to uphold the sanctity of Islam in the modern world. He also denounced the elements which are brainwashing the youth from the aim. He called them a great menace to sovereignty, greater than external animosity, because they, being in the state of Pakistan, are causing great damage. He called the students the future of Pakistan and supporters of the ideology and goals of Pakistan in gaining sustainability across all the operational departments of economic security.
In addition, he reminded the students of the last address of Quaid-e-Azam at Islamia College Peshawar on *12 April 1948*, where he spoke to the students, calling them future builders of Pakistan and advising them to develop discipline, character, and a solid academic background. He urged the students to show their moral obligation in defending the country’s boundary, just as the students showed up in the 1965 war against India.
Afterward, the Principal of the College, *Raghib Chaudhry*, addressed the boys and girls and called them assets of Pakistan’s future. He illustrated the tale of partition to the students, showing how their ancestors gained emancipation from the foreigners and majority Hindus. With acknowledgement and humbleness, the Principal once again insisted that the students adopt the three pillars of human code of conduct: unity, faith and discipline, because these are the most imperative facets for human conscience, consciousness, spirit and emboldening ,in pursuing the aim of life. These three elements not only help one person achieve success but also pave the way for problem-solving at any point in life, which solves half the problem there because of stringent ethical character along with different ideas which come from experience when he indulges in any unity or bond regarding public importance.
In the end, the special documentary played by the organization, which had been produced to revive the whole story of Pakistan’s history. The documentary was filled with horror scenes of widespread bloodshed of martyrs on streets, railway stations and other places where human reach sometimes seems improbable. So the whole event pointed towards the prospect that youth of Pakistan are still able to orchestrate the past with jubilation and are hustling to oust the rivals’ agendas. Moreover, it is obliged on every citizen of Pakistan to understand the basic and core foundational aspects of Pakistan’s ideology and corporate its outlines as an essential broach in contemporary and social life. |