Note: This text was addressed by the author more than a year ago to the Arg (president), Sapedar (prime minister), and parliament of Afghanistan. He said: "We must learn the nation-building from the "dalkhor” (eater of food from lentil) Pakistanis!" There are many bright minds in Afghanistan, but no one listens to them, because apparently, someone comes and goes under the leadership of this country, not to serve his homeland, but to carry out his plans...
Author: Aziz Rafei
The issue of the fate of our nation and the so-called “yaum ul-badtar” ("worse day-to-day") of our life is not a mystery, but a painful socio-political truth in our country. If we could define our national interests and identity for ourselves, like the rest of the world, or at least like the Pakistanis, we would overcome this problem and turn this day-to-day situation into “al yavmo bi al-tarh” ("planned day").
There are more than 48 ethnic groups, more than 40 languages, seven religions with dozens of sects (Islamic and non-Islamic) in “dalkhor” Pakistan. Pakistan's constitution recognizes and equates all.
Did you know that the founder of Pakistan is an Ismaili Shiite (Jinnah), the first president of Pakistan Iskandar Mirza is a Jafari Hanko-Kashmiri Shiite of Hazara descent (Afghan origin)? Pakistan's spiritual ideals are Iqbal Lahori, a Persian-speaking Iranian immigrant, and Ali Hojaviri, a Ghaznavid afghan. Ali Hajawiri is better known in the Indian subcontinent and Pakistan knows him as Dada Ganjbakhsh (through asnaashariya tariqat of Sufism).
Did you know that although the founders of Pakistan are Sindhi and Punjabi, their national language of Pakistan is not Sindhi and Punjabi and their national anthem is Persian? Pakistan's first military marshals were Afghans living and migrating (jaghori Hazara and Ghazni and Kabul Shia Qizilbash) Marshal Asghar Khan, Marshal Musa Khan, Marshal Azad Beg, Marshal Ayub Khan, Marshal Yahya Khan, and others.
The second and third presidents of Pakistan are Hazara and Pashtun afghans (General Ayub Khan and General Yahya Khan). The greatest thinker in the development and formation of the leading political parties in Pakistan is a Shiite (Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto). First woman prime minister from minority-religious in Asian history from Pakistan (Benazir Bhutto). Just a few years ago, the prime minister of Pakistan and the president of Pakistan were from religious-ethnic minorities (Asif Ali Zardari - asnaashari Shiite and Ghulam Ishaq Khan - Hanko).
Punjabis are considered the dominant ethnic group in Pakistan, but the leader of the same ethnic minority is legally sent to prison from the post of prime minister and even takes his daughter to prison with him.
The trust among the nation is so high that the nuclear father of this nation is determined from the region of the free tribes (also the most extremist region). They believe that everyone is Pakistani and that Pakistan is their polytheistic home where everyone is brother and equal. They have both responsibility and competence. These historical experiences are called nationalism, trans-ethnic, trans-linguistic, trans-religious, trans-national, and trans-selfish!
We have always looked at the year Pakistan was founded (1948), never discussing the history and civilization of Taksala and Gandahara with its 7200 years of civilization. Sometimes we claim that Pakistan is part of our territory and sometimes we write that Mahmoud and Ahmad have conquered Pakistan and made them Muslims. But have we ever wondered that the secret of the Pakistani victory in buying and hiring our leaders (our so-called leaders)?
Have we ever wondered if we have a tolerance for the equal and political participation of others? Do our politicians know politics (thinking)? Do we have defined national interests? Have we created an acceptable identity for all of us?
I do not agree with anyone in this article, but one must say that most of our politicians, even those who have reached the highest levels of academia and authority, have formed ethnic, linguistic, and religious parties (or teams). Their titles are Professor, Doctor, Engineer, Pohand, Mawlavi, Sheikh al-Hadith, Ayatollah, Akhand, Hazrat, Khajeh, Sayyid, Pir, Da'i, Sardar, Arbab, Khan, Bais and…, but "drowned" in the mud of dogma and ignorance.
These "drowned" elders in the mud have raised socio-human vulnerabilities to such an extent that even the common people have been forced to wrap themselves in ethnic, religious, linguistic, and regional loopholes. In this ruin, anyone who thinks of the nation abstracting, accused, and repressed. Someone horns when a parliament member (graduated) says: I did not vote for Mohammad Amin Farhang, because his father had written a book against my father!
In this city of dislike, even the most civilized thinkers, since they became stateman and came to power, have no longer thought civil. This is what non-national politics means, unfortunately. The only way we can is to write:
O tumult!
* Probably, this term was original "Al-Yawm al-Tarh", meaning "a plan for every day". But our skepticism has turned it into a "worse day" (God knows best).
