I can imagine what type of
embarrassment, mostly innocent Pakistanis faces in foreign countries. There are
several factors of this image bashing, which I want to share with you.
First of all, Pakistan has never been accepted by some countries from the day of
its existence and they did try anything to destroy this country.
Second our leaders who ever they were did not lead good examples for the world
and for the people of this country and they crossed every line of morality to
keep themselves in power. History is witnessed that just after Quaid’s death;
politicians and other power centers started to fight to rule and used extra
constitutional ways to grab the power. This is also a fact that this country is
blessed with lots of mineral resources, fertile land, important water ways and
talented and cheap labor, but even after 61 years majority of our people does
not even have proper drinking water within their reach and this is because of
those corrupt leaders.
Third reason is us, it is said that Pakistanis are very hardworking and talented
people but I disagree, we are talented but not hard workers. There are several
examples in daily routine that we use illegal ways to get our things done, we do
not want to go through proper channel, infact we are at the last stages of moral
values. Pakistanis went every where in the world legally or illegally but
unfortunately many of them did not leave good impression on other nationals.
Mostly illegal immigrants die during crossing borders in UAE, Iran and Europe
belongs to my country, so what do we expect from the world to think about
ourselves?
Another reason we Pakistanis are emotional especially in religious matters and
we do not think from mind, therefore, we are a very easy prey for those who play
mind games and this emotionality leading us to extremism.
Today our enemies are using our emotionality to destroy ourselves. If we go
through the history of all the terrorists’ attacks after 9/11, mostly people who
were involved, they were either Pakistanis or belong to any Pakistani madarrsah.
We in particular and Muslims in general are killing us in the name of God.
Suicide bombers are Muslims and their victims are also Muslims. Now who is to
blame?
And last but not the least national and international media, which is going
extra mile in projecting negative image of our country. There are insurgencies
and mutinies in many countries (like India) but there media does not run the
campaign like our media is doing. There are also good things happening in our
country but the national media does not allow us to think on other side, reason?
Creating sensualities and much more.
Things are very simple, our enemies are just helping us to destroy ourselves.
Otherwise we have not left any leaf overturned to do this.