Ghairat hai bari cheez jahan e tugg o dau major
Pehnaati hai Darvaish ko taaj e sar e Daara
[Armaghan e Hijaz]
(On this world of until and toil Honour is of nice worth
Bestows upon the Dervish the crown of Darius!)
On twenty sixth February 1948, the primary US Ambassador offered himself earlier than the Quaid-e-Azam. Throughout the presentation ceremony, the American ambassador gave a speech, providing monetary assist and help to Pakistan. At the moment, Pakistan was a really younger state struggling to face on its toes. It was pushed underneath the burden of a whole bunch of hundreds of refugees, confronted with an empty treasury, and a mountain of challenges. It was in determined want of monetary assist.
Nonetheless, that is how this man of integrity, the Father of the Nation, replied to the liberal and beneficiant supply made by the US Ambassador:
“I thank Your Excellency on your pleasant assurances of sympathy in coping with our many issues. I additionally deeply recognize your confidence that our traditions and our previous will assist us to meet the hopes and beliefs of our individuals. In return I can guarantee Your Excellency that after having emerged from an eclipse which lasted over a century and a half, the individuals of Pakistan want nothing which isn’t their very own, nothing greater than the goodwill and friendship of all of the free nations of the world. We in Pakistan are decided that having gained our long-lost freedom we’ll work to the utmost restrict of our capability not solely to construct up a powerful and pleased State of our personal however to contribute within the fullest potential measure to worldwide peace and prosperity.”
This gesture of the Quaid, whereby he explicitly refused to simply accept monetary support even in such determined instances, was meant to ship a powerful message to our future generations, to set an instance of nationwide integrity and to maintain our collective ego. We had been an honourable nation with an amazing sense of self. We couldn’t alternate our ghairat for US support. We couldn’t alternate one set of masters for an additional.
But, after the Quaid, our leaders deflected from this splendid of self-sustenance and never solely willingly accepted but additionally exulted on this support. This has continued till now when we’ve got reached a degree the place we look like collectively contaminated by an immune system dysfunction – a diseased nation, depending on others. This dependency has grown into an dependancy of the worst type, which seems to have incapacitated our nation. This support is inflicting us to self-destruct on the within. Our collective ego has been shattered to items, and our integrity gone with the wind! Burnt away by this poison of international support which we allowed to be injected inside our veins.
Self-respect is the one factor that retains nations alive, and nations who thus beg for international sustenance can’t be choosers or architects of their very own destiny. The very fact is, the parable that we merely can’t survive with out international support was really shattered in 1998, following the nuclear assaults carried out by Pakistan, when the US imposed financial sanctions on Pakistan. Did we not handle to outlive these sanctions, which had been solely lifted when one other dictator offered the nation into American slavery as soon as once more?
I can’t go into the small print of what and the way. I’m not an economist, or an analyst, however an idealist who needs to see her nation standing by itself two toes, to be self-reliant and self-sustaining. I’m a patriot who needs her nation to rid itself of the US support, and of self-proclaimed “masters” who, as a substitute of placing their very own home so as, have the audacity to demand that we “do extra,” ignoring our sacrifices and the truth that we’re cleansing up their mess.
It’s time we sincerely heeded the recommendation given to us by Iqbal:
Aye Tayer e lahooti, us rizq say maut achi
Jis rizq say ati ho parwaaz major kotaahi!
[Bal E Jibreel]
(O Hen, who flies to the Throne of God, It’s essential to maintain this fact in sight,
To endure loss of life is nobler far Than bread that clogs your upward flight.)
