Voice Association of Pakistan
During the past 10 years Pakistan has been
through a roller coaster ride, and has without doubt emerged as a strong
nation. A country is not just the name given to her or to the longitudes and
latitudes that define its location, a country is made up of its people.
Pakistan is not just some piece of land that sits next to the Arabian Sea on
the world map but is an amalgamation of people who live on that piece of land,
Pakistan is not a name given to some geographic structure but is the collective
name given to the people living here.
We have a history, a history that is
tainted with the blood of thousands of innocent people who gave up their lives
so that the name “Pakistan” could be brought to existence. We are not just some
country who was given her right easily, we had to fight for what was rightfully
ours, we had to sacrifice our loved ones and a history like this is something
that you don’t see every day. Quaid-e-Azam made this history possible for all
of us and what are we doing for that man? Have you ever asked yourself this
question? Possibly, no! We are too busy scoring good in our exams so that we
can get admission in some overseas university eventually leading to a job there
so that we don’t have to turn back to a country where people shout about election
rigging and it takes them half the next government term to prove the truth.
I was young when I heard this story from my
teacher about a candle, let me tell it to you all today. There was a group of
people who got stuck in a room full of darkness, creating panic in the room.
One of them had a candle but had no way to light that candle and another one
had a match box with no idea of how to use it to give enough light so that
people could find their way out of that creepy room. It was dark and everyone
was screaming and there was no way to find the door. And so eventually, after
having enough of all the screams and panic shouts, the guy with the candle
“raises his voice” and says that he has a candle and wants suggestions on how
to light it up. The man with the match box hears this and says that he has a
match box. What happens next is inevitable, they light up the candle and that
light helps them all out of that room!
This a story might not seem very interesting to you at first read but let’s
concentrate on each and every detail of the story. What if the person with the candle
and the match box would have decided to stay quiet about the resources they had
and would have preferred screaming with the others instead? No one would have
found their way out.
The world has entered in a digital era and
we are still enclosed in that dark room that I have explained above! So, it’s
time for us to raise our voice as a nation against the injustice that is
happening in front of our eyes. If you think your voice does not count then you
are one big loser who can never make a difference to this world, no matter what
your qualification is!
Voice Association of Pakistan brings you a
platform where you can raise your voice on issues that you think are important
enough for the government to respond to. Log in to our application and put
words to your voice, it high time that you speak up about what you think so
that others can follow your lead and together we can bring a change in our
country.
We owe it to the Father of our nation, he
did not give his life for a bunch of people who are indifferent to their own
National Anthem. And as Iqbal puts, very eloquently indeed:
