While I was a kid, I came to know how men started life in this world. They formed communities, societies and lived together in form of tribes. Their residences were dependent on availability of necessities like water, food and crop etc. When their needs increased as compared to availability of this stuff, they started snatching and fighting among them selves. That was the dark age of humanity. They segregated them selves on basis of races, strength, skin and other factors. Then men learned that it is not possible to live with these types of battles and isolation. That thought bring them again near to each other. They restarted to live together and trade together. I am not saying they forgot racism, they forgot their own means and benefits but they don’t do it openly like their history.
Now the time is repeating itself. Its time to tell your children how we lived together when our need was daily food, bread, water and a home to live, then our needs increased day by day and we again started snatching and fighting with each other for these things. We are in the age of lights but we started living like dark ages. Being a Mohajir we know what the cost of migration is, we know how much it is difficult to restart a life at a new place but we forget it because of our own needs.
Yesterday, while rooming in my locality I was amazed to see a local tea hotel (famous as Quetta hotel) shutdown. The reason behind this is a political thought, according to which Karachi is the city of only Mohajirs (People who speaks Urdu and migrated from India after partition of 1947) and they want to expel Pathans ( people of NWFP) in the name of Talibization in Karachi. I also came to know another Pathan shop was burned out last night; he was a poor shoe maker.
What will these things do to Karachi and Pakistan? Are we trying to pose our self in Karachi as a separate nation who can rule Karachi all alone or are we doing it because our leader want it as he needs this type of politics for his career? What about Pakistan? Can we drive taxis, and other public transports? Can we, the local people, run tea stalls? Can we repair our own shoes? What about labor? Can we do construction jobs? Where are we going? Towards advancement, where our mayor is labeled as 2nd best mayor of world (I know its not so true but he deserve to be called no. 1 Pakistani mayor) or towards Afghanistan like situation? What our leader wants from us? Is he is a prophet or god? Are we are bound to do what he says? Don’t we have our own minds and sense where we are going to? To build Pakistan or to destroy it? Where are we, in dark ages or in the time of sands? Allah bless us and keep us away from these type of so called leaders.
Note: Brothers and Sisters, I am Mohajir too. I want to know why you want someone’s life in the name of cast and community? Do you want to support those leaders who neglect what ISLAM says?… Who said what happened if Qadyani and Mirzai don’t accept Mohammad (Peace Be Upon Him)?
I appeal to my Pashtun, Brawi, Baloch, Sindhi, Punjabi brothers, every nation and every Muslim, Hindu, Christian and all, please think once before doing something wrong… its not the time for racism, its the time your country. Your country needs you. Support it with your effort and right thoughts. Allah bless us all… Ameen
Thoughts of a common man.
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