On December 25th we celebrated
the birth anniversary of Quaide Azam, the only leader we had seen in 62 years
history of Pakistan. The interesting and the most shocking claim at that day in
almost all the talk shows was that our young generation has lost the vision of
Quaid's motto. In this perspective, I consider it necessary to present the real
reason behind it Before we came to this world, Pakistan had already been branded
as one of the developing countries. Our industries could not flourish well
during these 62 years. Our economy remained unstable and even those who had seen
Quaid e Azam took nine years to make the first constitution. Also, we were
surely not responsible for losing Bangladesh but those who had seen Quaid, who
were well aware of Quiad's motto better than us. I request respectfully all
those who blame the young generation that please that it would be unfair if you
claim that.
If majority of youngsters have lost sight of Quaid's vision, it is the elders
who could not show the importance of Quaid's vision as it should have been. It
is the lack of programs on the tv channels who are setting an agenda for the
youth by showing Indian programs on almost all the weekends.
I believe, the more cautious
the society is about an issue, the more aware the child would be about it. We
talk about unity but we are not joining political mainstream. We talk about
discipline but we never stay clam if a calamity has occured. We support faith
but we have not paid heed to judiciary decision against NRO and still we think
we can produce leaders like Quaid-e--Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah.
NO DOUBT , our youngsters see tv stars as their role models but not the figures
like Sir Syed Ahmed Khan and Allama Iqbal because out of 365 days, only one day
is given to pay tribute to them in tv programs whereas in my opinion, the
tribute to film stars is paid almost every weekend through the coverage our tv
channels give in the form of their movies and performance in awards' ceremony.
So I believe that we need to recall the attitudes of all the existing
institutions of the society before carelessly blaming youth for everything. Also
one should not mix up the Pakistani youth with the sons of feudalists because
history tells that a son of a farmer can never join in in the House rather
Parliament is the home of 150 influential feudal families who have been ruling
Pakistani politics since 1947.
Talal Raza
BS(Hons)
Institute of Communication Studies,
University of Punjab