Independence Day

Sixty years after that midnight in August 1947, one literally wonders what has been gained by seeking independence.

We had more rights, when we were slaves of the British crown and though we may have been poor, we all had access to justice. Sometimes, it seems that we became independent to pursue graft, corruption, malgoverance; enslave others, and simply exhibt a Midas touch in reverse. Everything our politicans have said has turned to ashes in their mouths and every promise they made, was broken even before it was heard by the people.

Back in 1947, before we were free, the government was not representive of us, but it did give us more law and order and security than the government, which is our own. Our rulers were alien to us, but they served and protected us better than our own native rulers. As a defeated and slaved people, we had the freedom of justice and expression and now as a free people, we have no justice and no freedom of expression.

Why and for what reason do we really celebrate Independence Day and do we really have a reason to celebrate it, when the graph of our past deeds, over 60 years, make a strong advocacy agaisnt the idea that we are a free people.

To us, Jinnah is just another picture on another wall and we cannot even truly read about him in the history, because we are illiterate. Even if we were literate enough to read our history, which is more fiction than reality, we would be in fact be reading a bedtime story full of fables and happy endings. Our history has been changed so many times that it has, itself, become confused as to what it really was once.

Independence Day. What independence and for whom?