Mehrgarh...The Lost Civilization

Re: # 3 Well said there is a saying of Holy Prophet peace be upon him that religious extremsim is to be avoided, but now we haev extremsits of all sorts who profess religion and also those who do,nt profess religion.
It is curse of our times.

Iran takes pride in Persepolis. Even at the height of Islamic revolution in the 1980s people protested when mullahs tried to destroy Persepolis.

If Pakistan can see culture and religion in different lights, and not try to find all answers to its problems in some religious text, it can only do good to it.

Re: # 1 The people haev the right to decide about theri choices and they decide about the choice of embelms and flags. It was adopted by a parliament and it is theri decison whihc we should respect.

What about when Harijans, low castes and Naxalites have theri own states along with Naga Land , mizoram and Kashmir. this is not isue of Pakisatn this centrifugal tendency plagues all of South Asia.

A good article mahmood, but irrelevant. If this kind of topics were discussed in the schools, it would have provided a unifying thread to the pak society.

A little like India, it is the ashoka chakra on the flag, it is the mythology of mahabarat, it is the ayurveda, and the pride about the pachatantra stories that has held India together from falling apart on the linguistic lines.

So when will the crecent and star on teh pak flag be replaced by some gandhara statues. Sorry, that will be haram, a human image. So when will be the partition along sindhi and punjabi and tribal lines.