Why Pakistani People Have Lost a Sense of Nationality

Identity may be specify as a distinctive characteristic of an individual or a fateicular group of individuals. For ones survival in this founding it is very crucial to maintain his individuation. If we expand the criterion of personal identity element to interior(a) level it is of utmost importance because it is landed estates identity which distinguishes its mickle from the rest of the world. The importance of depicted object Identity can be give away analyzed by the fact that it is the base of all the policies, i. e. domestic and outside(prenominal) policy and hence the cordial. economicalal cultural and ethical knowledge of whatsoever country partly depends upon its field of study identity.In other words actions of a nation be determined by its identity. As out-of-the-way(prenominal) as Pakistans identity is concerned, it may be divided into three phase angles, i. e. pre- segmentation, lay partition and present day. The term identity crisis is used to denot e a particular fleck where by an individual, group of individuals or a nation faces conflicts regarding its identity. These conflicts occur when ones ideological basis and prevailing draw contradict in such(prenominal) a way that the prevailing deal dominate the ideological basis. . With reference to Pakistan the history of identity crisis keep up its root in the late Mughal dynasty.The comfort-loving attitude of the mark outrs, bloodsheds for the throne, abandoned faith, mismanagement of domestic economic and political matters, absence of updated foreign developments and other moral, ethical and social weaknesses were the study forces which contri furthered in the identity crisis of the Muslims of South Asia. In pre partition era where by Muslims of south Asia ware lost their regime and British rule thin out the span of their social , cultural and political life. Actually they lost their rule just because of the lost identity.After a half deoxycytidine monophosphate of s ubmissive life they began to find the lost identity and they succeeded. The mho phase of identity crisis began very after the pedigree of Pakistan. The Shia/Sunni crisis at the epoch of partition was the first of all. But luckily at that beat, the crisis was pragmatically resolved by Quaid-e-Azam, so it was buried in a hatchet at that time nevertheless later on it burst up from different grounds. The second fountain of identity crisis in the chronology is the crisis of eastern United States and West Pakistan. At the time of inception, Pakistan inherited East and West Pakistan with one and four provinces respectively.Population of East Pakistan alone was more than that of the total population of the four provinces of West Pakistan. The seeds of identity crisis were sown with the speech controversy, where by Urdu was declared as the matter language of Pakistan while Urdu was the influencing language only in West Pakistan. This language controversy and some other strategies wh ich lead to the deprived feelings among the natives of East Pakistan and the crowning(prenominal) consequence was an identity crisis in the multifariousness of separation of East Pakistan in 1971.Not only the separation of East Pakistan exactly, a variety of identity crisis cases stood in the post partition era. The list contains delayed constitutional development, perilous political conditions ( out-of-pocket to personal likes and dislikes and lust of power), Social injustice and negative material body of Pakistan on planetary screen. Constitution is the base of all new innate(p) state just in case of Pakistan this base couldnt be established even after about a decade of the inception of Pakistan. So when there was no base for people, the process of identity development started very late.Latterly the termination of 1956s and 1962s constitutions fulfilled the rest part of delayed identity development. All these factors further participated in corruption, national disharmony , rigid attitudes, misconceptions about the religion (partly the role played by mullas), filmdom practices on unnecessary customs and a list of moral dilemmas. The identity crisis after the partition threw Pakistan in an ignominious status both at domestic and at international knowledge domain. Domestically we couldnt achieve the social status which weve dreamt during the Pakistan movement.Economically we stood at the back end of the global economic stage. And above all we were entitled as a terrorist state due to some mismanaged and scattered groups. blush some of them really didnt have the basic knowledge of their ideological agenda. In present day Pakistan, the situation is more hazardous than that of one discussed in the previous phase. Todays identity crisis is giant in nature aiming to nip our ideology form the bud. Now with changing global environment and with the changing role of Pakistan at international level, the nature of identity crisis has become more complex.The pr esent day crisis may be classified as political, social apparitional and economic identity crisis. The social and religious crisis exercise in collaboration. On the religious part, the extremist group has developed misconceptions about the religion. On the other handwriting the society is facing the cultural war through different media. In such a situation the nation, preferably the youth has contradictions with religious implications which is qualification them unaware of their ideological basis. In the second step the attractive mephistophelean (the weapon of cultural war) is becoming dominant.So the nations ideological basis is being deployed by the prevailing circumstances, creating identity crisis. In this case we cant blame the young mind (as hes not getting the proper guideline and he has not been apt in such a way that he can find the root the purpose of his existence, secondly the so called knowledge of religion he gets is not authentic). The second type of present day identity crisis in Pakistan is political in nature. In fact our political system has ceaselessly been ruled by reigns in hands of few influencing groups.No such political platforms were built for the coming generations, to ensure their federation in national or international affairs. It is very necessary to train the youth for the participation in national affairs because they are the people who have to hang in the country in the future. Unluckily our youth didnt get any such training at any stage of our 59 long time history. The ultimate result was that, the administrators belonged to a specific group, making others so rag that others even dont care to have a guess at the mismanagement.This imbalance in the political infrastructure restricted the better youth to participate in the national policies and ultimately the process of policy making enjoyed the influence of un-educated and narrow minded policy makers, who couldnt cook the identity goals of the nation till yet. At i nternational political arena we are still facing the vicious circle of terrorism. Even our government ensured Pakistans contribution in the war against terrorism, but being an Islamic state we become the suspect of any international terrorist act.Here the policy of state is ambiguous, which aims to satisfy the western world but the integration of Muslim world is not to be seen any where. In my opinion we dont know that where we are standing rightly now, where we have to go and where we are going? On the part of economy, no doubt our economy grew with in last half decade but only at macro level. The poor is still standing on the place where he was a decade ago. Increasing Unemployment, inflation, and poverty etc are not only contributing in social imbalances but because of these factors, a park man is not able to find the basis of his identity.The identity of a nation is its image, and our image today is a tree whose roots have been cut. This situation is actually showing our lost identity. We have become much concerned about our outer look but we have forgotten the basis on which we have to develop our midland self. If this process keeps on going with the same velocity, the time is not far when the existence of our identity will vanish. It is very crucial to have a breach of the peace against identity crisis. In this regard the most of import step is identity education.The identity education should be provided at educational institutions as well as in temporarily organized seminars (seminars should be accessible for general public). Identity education will not work till we present a difference between different cultures. Media censorship should also be there in order to lessen the manageable damages of cultural war. Media should also spread the knowledge of values among the common men. And last but not least we all should play our part to improve our religious image at international level. In this partnership we can spread the true essence of our religio n which is peace.