Mixed Thoughts.

The human aspect of development has always aliened man from his surrounding, his social responsibilities. More individualistic has he become amid personal development. The ethical sense of him has vanished and so the sense of social responsibilities.

Gone are the days when man was ready to initiate social change. Idealists are gradually decreasing in number. Sense of greed is taking over sense of service and volunteerism seems to many a wastage of time.

People supposed to serve people are serving their own cults and interests. Focus has shifted to accumulate more and more wealth and power. Society has largely engulfed its middle class. Every year, either poor turns to be more poor and rich more richer.

God is used to terrorize people. Curriculum is taught to spread more hatred on the base of color, creed, language and sects. Space for diversity is shrinking. Those propagating pluralism and diversity are labelled as atheists and sick-minded individuals. The society has failed to value pluralism and diversity. 

A nation afraid of its minority identity prior to independence is coaxing its citizen belonging to minority sects after becoming a majority in their independent state. Constitution of the country prohibits any Christian, Hindu, Buddhist and Sikh to hold key government posts. Those high up posts are allocated for Muslims only.

Every day papers are filled with stories of gang rapes, bodies burnt by putting acid on, killing in the name of honor. Poor Christians are put under bars in blasphemy cases, poor Hindus are discriminated in aid distribution during flood crisis. Hazaras of Baluchistan are lined up and shouted in front of their children and women. People are picked up from their homes without any search warrants. Mosques have become a place to spread hatred and preach bigotry. Religious leaders publicly ask people to kill apostates. Many states within states are functioning for establishing their own laws. Economy is reeling back. Unemployment is increasing. Universities leak the exam papers and it has become a major source of earning for academic intellectuals.

Judging Pakistan and analyzing its future is not an easy task. Any analyst, expert, activists can never understand this country and there is reason to not believe what they say or consider authentic. Pakistan is indeed a hard country; understanding of this country needs much more sensitivity and focused thinking, which seems to be impossibility in a country where inequality runs in every soul.