{"id":88639,"date":"2019-05-12T15:34:02","date_gmt":"2019-05-12T22:34:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=88639"},"modified":"2019-05-12T15:34:02","modified_gmt":"2019-05-12T22:34:02","slug":"pakistan-just-wait-and-see","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/05\/12\/pakistan-just-wait-and-see\/","title":{"rendered":"PAKISTAN-JUST WAIT AND SEE"},"content":{"rendered":"

ALI SUKHANVER<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n

Some people might be of opinion that the present\ngovernment of Pakistan has yet not succeeded in coming up to the expectations\nof the people but facts and figures say that things would get better in the\ndays to come. The Imran Khan government is neither inefficient nor incompetent;\nthe actual problem seems the promised time-frame. People were expecting that\neverything shall come to the normal; there would be a lot of job-opportunities,\nceaseless foreign investment, end of energy-crisis, reduction in the prices of\nfuel and electricity, a better law and order situation and so many other things\n; just in twinkling of an eye. People were right in all their expectations,\ntheir dreams and desires were not unnatural in any way but things take time. We\ncan never upgrade any social system by pushing an imaginary button. Up-gradation,\nreformation, renovation are the terms pointing towards the process of\noverhauling; certainly a long and time-taking process. In Pakistan, things are\nnot as disappointing and depressing as portrayed by some of our media-men and\nsocial media activists. The situation could soon reach a better destination if\nwe don\u2019t let disappointment and depression hurdle our way. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Certainly the responsibility of keeping the flame of\nhope alive goes onto the shoulders of all those who are blessed with the power\nof using words in written and spoken form. Such people include teachers,\nreligious scholars, writers, speakers, and journalists belonging to the print\nand electronic media. The social media activists can also play a very vibrant\nrole in this context.  Spreading of\ndepression and disappointment along with spreading of disinformation among the\npeople is now-a-days being used as one of the most fatal weapons all over the\nworld. Everywhere the hostile forces have their own specific targets and to hit\nthese targets they adopt all fair and foul means; most frequently used of all\nsuch means is the media. Recent exploitation of a statement by Pakistan\u2019s Chief\nof the Army Staff Gen. Qamar Javed Bajwa is the worst example of spreading\ndisinformation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Chief of Army Staff Gen. Qamar Javed Bajwa, a\nfew days back, went to Peshawar and there he had a meeting at Corps Auditorium\nwith students from various universities of KPK. He said talking about the\nnegative role played by the PTM, A few individuals playing in foreign hands\nare by design exploiting sentiments of the people who have actually suffered at\nthe hands of terrorism and now need care. He further said that both government\nand the security forces are working to address genuine issues of the tribals\nregardless of where they come from. One of the participants was a Sikh student from\nFATA who requested that he should be allowed to put a picture of Ranjit Singh\nin Qila Balahisar as Sikhs have ruled Peshawar during his time. Just to honour\nthe Sikh minority, the Chief of the Army Staff acceded to that request. The students\npresent at the moment sincerely appreciated the good-will gesture of the Army\nChief and promised that they all would provide all possible moral support to\nthe Pakistan Armed Forces. They also expressed their determination that they\nwould never be swayed by detractors of any type. One of the students present\nthere said, We promise to be the contributors and not by standers to bright\nfuture of Pakistan.\u201d Certainly it was a heart-winning speech of the Army Chief\nbut at the same time it pinched and pained a lot of groups hostile to Pakistan.\nOn Face Book and in various Watsapp groups, these hostile forces started\nlevying baseless allegations on the Army Chief. It was blamed that the Army\nChief is promoting Punjabi culture in KPK as Ranjit Singh was a Punjabi. It was\nalso blamed that by giving importance to a non-Muslim character of the regional\nhistory, the Army Chief is trying to protect and promote secularism in the\ncountry. The fact of the matter is that by allowing the placement of a picture\nof Ranjit Singh in Qila Balahisar the Army Chief meant nothing but wanted to\ntell the world that all minorities enjoy equal rights in Pakistan. His was a\nmassage to the world that Pakistan is a safe land for the minorities where\ntheir desires and wishes are valued and honoured at every level. His objective\nwas neither to promote any regional culture nor to project secularism. Pakistan\nArmy is a uniting force for the whole nation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is no discrimination on the basis of any\ncaste, creed or language in the Army as its soldiers and officers represent\ndifferent linguistic and religious backgrounds. The only priority of all\nsoldiers and of all officers of Pakistan Army is Pakistan; the Land of the\nPure. The propaganda move against the Army Chief is just a childish reaction of\nthose who didn\u2019t like Army Chief\u2019s remarks on the anti-state activities of the\nPTM. Whatever said the Army Chief with particular reference to the anti-state\nactivities of the PTM is in fact the voice of all Pakistanis including the\nPashtuns; such activities, if allowed to flourish, would simply push the\ncountry towards a hell of disintegration and degeneration. Such activities of\nthe PTM type organizations would give birth to political\ninstability, social anarchy and economic chaos which in no way could be\naffordable at this crucial juncture of our history. The nation will have to be\nvigilant in this regard. As far as the countries worried about Pakistan are\nconcerned; the only suggestion for them is; just wait and see please.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

ALI SUKHANVER Some people might be of opinion that the present government of Pakistan has yet not succeeded in coming up to the expectations of the people but facts and figures say that things would get better in the days to come. The Imran Khan government is neither inefficient nor incompetent; the actual problem seems […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ali-sukhanver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88639\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}