Bakhtiar Rasheed

Bakhtiar Rasheed

75 years later

'Unity, Faith and Discipline', were the Quaid e Azam's golden principles of Pakistan. Unity within our ranks, faith in the destiny of the nation through discipline and total commitment to Pakistan. The unity has been discarded, with the selfish political amateurs, devising their deceitful schemes to sit on the slippery throne of the Prime Minister. Faith is being sold for a mere dollar as corruption rockets through the roof, covering an unprecedented amount of distance while the inflation is talking with the sky. The patience required for discipline is no more as the crime rate is rising rapidly showing no signs of stopping. I was reading an article in newspaper today which talked about the continuation of the policy of power-grabbing politics throughout the history of Pakistan; It showed how since the PRODA act of Liaquat Ali Khan, politics has been nothing but hating the guts of the opposition and a childish desire to play with the hard-earned future of Pakistan, to sit on the seat of power. Has Pakistan progressed in other spheres? Unfortunately, the answer weighs heavily towards Nein...