You look at the world of 1939. Britain was the only superpower in the world at that time. The king's sun did not really set. When it was sunset in Bermuda, the sun would rise in New Zealand. When Calcutta was in darkness, South Africa. The lights of Fiji's islands dimmed and the sun rose in Gibraltar, so there was only one power in the world at that time, the only country that ruled the sun and that was Britain.
The reign of the king was over and every country had its own sunrise. Even today in England the sun does not rise for half a year and people come from house to office and from office to office in the afternoon. They also swallow up powers like Britain. Now look at another fact.
Pakistan was two, one was till 1971 and the other was born in 1972. We were the largest Islamic country in the world in terms of population till 1971. We were also one of the fastest growing countries in the world at that time. The biggest canal system was in Pakistan. Pakistan Railways was one of the best railways in the world. Our WAPDA was given a loan by the World Bank without any state guarantee. There was an international bid for Mangla Dam and three major companies of the world formed a consortium. The whole batch of engineering students from Harvard University came to Mangla to research our water projects. Our PIA trained airlines around the world. The Arab countries taught their students. Used to send to Pakistan.
Our universities and colleges also had quotas for foreign students and separate hostels for them. Pakistan was also one of the major tourist destinations in the world. We also trained Second and Third World soldiers and Korea, Malaysia. "Thailand and Eastern European countries used to copy our economic plans. Our exports were more than imports and our debts were non-existent, so we used to turn a blind eye to India and the United Nations and the European Union." I also used to talk in groups.
The situation was different inside Pakistan too. Bengalis were more educated, intelligent, polite and humble than us. They kept their feet off the ground while flying. They were more in Parliament and also in bureaucracy and business. About 60% of our foreign exchange came from East Pakistan. Our police and bureaucracy trainers were Bengali and most of our training centers were in present day Bangladesh, so 1971 Pakistan was a strong, developing and leading Islamic world. The wind was Pakistan but then because of us Punjabi warriors 60% of Pakistan became separated from us and it took away our leadership, development and strength.
That Pakistan got smaller in 1971 but we also had 25 years of credibility. We spent the next 25 years on that credibility. During that time, we also had the opportunity to help through the Afghan war and complete our nuclear program. But why on Pakistan? That the Punjabi elite had taken over and we Punjabis lack the ability to create and run institutions, so we destroyed every institution for the next 25 years.
Be it the second largest steel mill in the world, be it an institution like PIA, be it WAPDA which used to be the sovereign guarantee of the country, be it railways, be it the largest canal system in the world, be it a dam or be it an educational institution. The establishment of the establishment was strengthened by the martial law of 1977 and the Afghan war, and in the name of a new political leadership, less emphasis was placed on bringing 'illiterate' and illiterate and corrupt people into politics.
On the other hand, factions of lawyers started supporting business men, political parties and religious organizations and thus bullying, rigging and buying and selling started in the country. During all this confusion and speculation, two new power centers were also born. The first force was religious organizations and the second was the media. It also jumped into the fray and the deficit was met. During this whole game, two basic institutions were killed. The first institution was the bureaucracy. It was completely destroyed.
If you look at all the government agencies from the health department to the tax collection today, you will not see a single agency working. You put your hand on your heart and answer whether any child of any member of parliament and bureaucracy is studying in a government school. "Are these people drinking tap water? Are they being treated in a government hospital? Are they fighting their case through a public prosecutor? Can they sleep in their government house at night without a rifle-carrying guard?" Are they taking official medicine? no Please! Doesn't this mean that our entire system of government and state has collapsed? Despite being an agricultural country, we are not able to grow the wheat we need.
We have no control over sugar, petrol and medicine and we are not able to implement the SOPs of Corona. The conditions include the deportation of the French ambassador, as if we have become a country in which diplomatic decisions are being made through sit-ins. "You go to court today." There are a lot of judges and the number of judges is very low. Visit hospitals. From the road to the operating theater, patients are the only patients. Educational institutions have become printing presses for degrees. Pakistan ranks second in the world in hepatitis C. The population suffers from high blood pressure.
We are fourth in the world in sugar and fifth in the world in TB. Only two countries in the world have polio and we are the second country. Religious hatred is reaching its peak in the country. "People are killed in the courts and judges and lawyers lie on the ground to save their lives and then the state does not even dare to call the killer a killer." The whole economy is indebted to China. Today China, Saudi Arabia and the United States should withdraw. If we are blacklisted by the FATF today, we will default tomorrow, but Pakistan in 1971 was completely different. He drank water and his children also went to government schools.
These facts are frightening but even more frightening than these facts is the fact that we are not ready to accept these facts. We are not ready to accept these facts. The world has changed and it will go far beyond us. "We are not ready to accept that all our problems are our own creation. We have not left a single friend in the world. From Russia to America, we are stuck with everyone." They are fighting inside and outside. We can't raise an elephant at the zoo, but we want to fly the flag over Delhi's Red Fort.
We are not even ready to accept that we have become irrelevant in the world. Today, for the first time in history, Saudi Arabia invited the Indian Army Chief on an official visit and the US and OIC accepted India's position on Kashmir. They are not ready to believe that Bangladesh has gone ahead of us and we are not ready to believe that our conflicts are eating us like cancer. 'Open your eyes for God's sake', come out of Punjabism and conflicts and End the wars because these are the two things that blew away the sun of a power like Britain. Where are we, the radishes of the field? Where are the warriors? So wake up and open your eyes.
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