United We Stand, Divided We Fall

Survival of Pakistan has never been as difficult as it is today, from the very first day of its inception Pakistan is surrounded by many challenges. Our opponent thought this state will not last long but Pakistan was made in the name of Allah; as the Muslims of subcontinent demanded a separate homeland where they can spend their lives according to the principle of Islam.

It is now our duty to respect the lives of our martyrs who sacrificed their lives for their generations. Today Pakistan is facing even greater threats. It’s a do or die situation for Pakistan, it’s Now or Never. Whether we safe Pakistan or lose Pakistan. Our enemies are getting stronger day by day, minute to minute. We cannot just sit on our hands, our thinking how worse situation have become. We have to do something and we got to do now.

Pakistan has more than 60% of its population which is youth. Youth is very important for the development of any nation. As youth is always considered as “nation builders”. Youth can not only impact its role in development of economy but also upbringing of morale and practically support their nation.

Pakistan is 7^th nuclear in the world and very mighty when it comes to weapon and army but very weak when the subject of unity comes up. Our people are divided, we have build up so much social differences that we now consider us separate nation. There is a huge contradiction in our thoughts. We should always remember the quotes from our wise men who said “united we stand, divided we fall”.

Our youth has a great responsibility to check the differences and stand united. For this purpose joints session should be held where representatives from different mindset should get along for a consensus. In this worse situation it is very important to remove internal disputes. It is the time now that we should start showing some maturity over the present prices and awake from lumber sleep. We should focus on gravity of problems and think for their solutions. To counter all the problem it’s our first duty to get educated and impart civil education to secure better future. Hence youth can play its significant role in education of our citizens. Education is one of the basic problems. Education should need not to be associated with high fi schools or over educated lecturers. Instead healthy education and passion to educate is required.

As we all know that Pakistan is surrounded by multiple crises and without the active participation of youth, challenges cannot be met. It is very encouraging that majority of our youth support democracy and they want peaceful change. We should always remember that peace is the road to prosperity. The scenario become even optimistic when studies showed that majority of the youth also want to get volunteer but only 17% want to work for existing political parties. It is the dire need of the our that a positive leadership likes Quaid-e-Azam to come up and lead the youth through example like Quaid did through his ability, skills, passions and hard work. Motivations and encouragement is very important to boost youth. A major problem our youth is facing is that our youth is being discouraged, exploited and humiliated by corrupt lobby but youth should keep in mind that our journey is hopeless but we should develop optimistic thinking.

We now have to work for our youth because youth is frustrated, they do not get jobs, no healthy entertainments. Our education lack quality and skills which is necessary to survive in the world which claims the survival of the fittest. Our education even suffers from discord; there is no single education system rich get different from the poor. Our universities have become degree distributing institutes. Recent studies have shown that Pakistan is the 7^Th most corrupt nation in world which faces poverty, child labor, suicide, unemployment and many other problems. As majority of population is youth hence these problems are also faced by youth. If youth is in problem the nation is in problem and on the other hand if the young majority of our nation work hard and fight for a good life then it will also help the country to rise up from destructions of poverty, unemployment, corruption and instability. It is now our youth to represent themselves and  their country through different mediums of communications including print and electronic media. Youth can bring the invaded heritage and culture back to its original place. Governments along with youth can boost up the process of development by getting good and encouraging teachers, avoid politics in education, start campaigns for education and target 100% literacy rate, prevent brain drain, providing right men for right job, youth should be at arm’s length from bad corrupted companies. We are surrounded by crises and problems but it should be kept in mind ‘crisis breed opportunities’.

If we allocate and utilize or recourses efficiently then we can be among the first world nations too. More over we have to change our attitude and approach to be based on sensibility, responsibility, tolerance and patience.

Meerab Irshad 

Sec F