When Frustration Became an Entertainment

Photography
 by Hassan Khan (Xaroo)

I always forget when Jinnah was born, said one of my school fellow when i was in 8^th Grade 12 years back during a Pakistan studies class,even after so many years i happened to meet him once again while he was back from US.After a wonderful chit chat i jokingly asked him the same question, do you remember when  Jinnah was born, he was stunned confused with the same answer, i think it was 1876 or 1886. It seemed like i had asked him a wired general knowledge question ‘how Old Abraham Lincoln was when he first shot a Giant wild Turkey, aim sure an average 14 year old US citizen can answer the poor Bird’s murder by the their Sixteenth president when he was just 7 years old,though we also know the fact that 30 % of US citizens cant locate United states on a world map,but that’s not our issue, unless we remember the birth date of greatest national hero of our nation.

With the recent disturbing terror situation and the ever green political instability of our country, people’s life has shaped more like a debating forum.From a big company's executives to the common man sitting at a Dhaba (Local Cheap Hotel) are discussing the same topic of the future of the country, the conversation either concludes with out any result while some of them even get in to serious fights, the best part are rest of the other people sitting there watching them fighting, it looks like they are watching some exciting action movie of John Rambo, i still remember a scene from a Tom Hanks movie, it had a character of an Old man who is a Janitor of the central New York Air port, after cleaning one of the transit passages he sits on a bench watching the people slipping due to the wet slippery floor, he laughs all day long, Tom Hanks come to him asking ! why you always sit here and laugh, the old replies, aim a 80 year old man, i have no kids, my wife was dead 9 years ago, i have got nothing in my life to Laugh and enjoy, watching the people falling is the only entertainment i have got.

I wonder how many people at Dhaba Hotel or the public places sit all day long watching others fighting just because they have got nothing else to do, some of them are holding a file with their resumes, unemployed looking for jobs while some are the labourers waiting for the customer to catch at least a single day work to make 200 Rs (2 and a half Dollars) as at the end of the day he is to be answerable to his wife, while rest of them are not even capable enough with a decent education or any labour skills so they sit all day long having cups of tea, they all seem like a group of intellectual’s with incomplete knowledge but a lots of frustration.

The only thing they can not do is to bring their debating fights in to a synergistic conclusion.

The question is who to be blamed for the lives of  thousands of  these people, should we blame only the politicians with their corrupt background or maybe there is some other reason behind the curtains. Can we blame our military for always initiating the diplomatic policies of wars and conflicts using the name of God and Jihad for the enforced hatred bringing up the causes of  freedom of a Lands most famous ’Kashmir’ that became the sole reason of grass eating situation for our people, how could an Army General neglect the slavery of his own citizen in darkness of ignorance,poverty and Illiteracy, while he talks about the rights of the land which is not even ours, throwing our people in miseries who now doesn't even cares to know the name of Quaid and even those who are well enough to go to schools and institutes, find only the creation of Pakistan in their Pak studies textbooks with the stories of murder,crimes, evil and disinformation, then comes the objective resolution, the constitution and simply ends with mineral resources and useless Orthodox,Oh Lord what happened after words, who is Sikander Mirza, who is Ayub, who is Dr ‘Abdus Salam’the great Pakistani theoretical physicist and nobel Laureate’and most of all do we actually know what Zia ul Haq did to this country.

I can confidently claim an average Pakistani doesn't even knows the exact reasons behind his restricted controlled mind resulting in to incapability of conclusion to his hot line opinion even if he tries all day long.

It is now the time to tell the people Truth ‘Lets not hide our history no matter if it bitter or points her self to any reputable organ,Truth will always be the truth

If we will try to subjugate the History,History will subjugate us

Hassan Durrani         

Pakistan