Why Pakistani People Have Lost a Sense of Nationality

person-to-person identity element may be defined as a distinctive characteristic of an individual or a particular group of individuals. For ones survival in this human it is very crucial to sound out his identity. If we expand the criterion of identity to state of matteral level it is of utmost importance because it is nations identity which distinguishes its people from the rest of the world. The importance of national Identity can be better analyzed by the fact that it is the base of all the policies, i. e. domestic and foreign policy and hence the brotherly. economic cultural and good development of each country partly dep deceases upon its national identity.In other words actions of a nation are determined by its identity. As far as Pakistans identity is concerned, it may be divided into three phases, i. e. pre-partition, post partition and largess daylight. The term identity crisis is used to de none a particular situation where by an individual, group of individua ls or a nation faces conflicts regarding its identity. These conflicts occur when ones ideologic basis and preponderant circumstances contradict in such(prenominal) a way that the prevailing circumstances dominate the ideological basis. . With reference to Pakistan the history of identity crisis have its roots in the deep Mughal dynasty.The comfort-loving attitude of the rulers, bloodsheds for the throne, aban tangle withed faith, mismanagement of domestic economic and semipolitical matters, absence of updated foreign developments and other moralistic, ethical and social weaknesses were the major forces which contri excepted in the identity crisis of the Muslims of South Asia. In pre partition era where by Muslims of southern Asia have woolly-headed their regime and British rule tighten the span of their social , cultural and political life. Actually they lost their rule just because of the lost identity.After a half degree centigrade of submissive life they began to find the lost identity and they succeeded. The heartbeat phase of identity crisis began very afterwards on the inception of Pakistan. The Shia/Sunni crisis at the time of partition was the first of all. But luckily at that time, the crisis was pragmatically mulish by Quaid-e-Azam, so it was buried in a hatchet at that time but later on it burst up from different grounds. The second case of identity crisis in the chronology is the crisis of East and double-u 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 linguistic communication controversy, where by Urdu was declared as the national language of Pakistan while Urdu was the influencing language unless in West Pakistan. This language controversy and both(prenominal) other strategies which lead to the deprived feelings among the natives of East Pakistan and the ultimate consequence was an identity crisis in the form of separation of East Pakistan in 1971.Not only the separation of East Pakistan but, a smorgasbord of identity crisis cases stood in the post partition era. The list contains delayed constitutional development, unstable political conditions (due to personal likes and dislikes and lust of power), Social injustice and negative stove of Pakistan on global screen. Constitution is the base of any new born state but in case of Pakistan this base couldnt be naturalised even after about a ten 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 stay part of delayed identity development. All these factors further participated in corruption, national disharmony, rigid attitudes, misconceptions about the piety (partly the role played by mullas), blind 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 arena. Domestically we couldnt achieve the social status which weve dreamt during the Pakistan movement.Economically we stood at the back end of the spherical economic stage. And above all we were entitled as a terrorist state due to some mismanaged and scattered groups. until now 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 present day crisis may be classified as political, social religious and economic ident ity crisis. The social and religious crisis work in collaboration. On the religious part, the extremist group has developed misconceptions about the religion. On the other hand 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 fashioning them unaware of their ideological basis. In the second step the attractive evil (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 load the young mind (as hes not getting the proper guideline and he has not been trained in such a way that he can find the roots the draw a bead on 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 always been rule by reigns in hands of few influencing groups.No such political platforms were built for the coming generations, to go over their society 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 run the country in the future. unfortunately our youth didnt get any such training at any stage of our 59 years history. The ultimate result was that, the administrators belonged to a specific group, making others so annoyed that others even take upt care to have a look at the mismanagement.This imbalance in the political radix restricted the educated 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 devise the identity goals of the nation till yet. At international political arena we are still facing the vicious circle of terrorism. Even our government ensured Paki stans 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 right 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 common 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 disregarded the basis on which we have to develop our inner 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 conk out of the peace against identity crisis. In this regard the most important step is identity command.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 change magnitude the possible 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 connection we can spread the true essence of our religion which is peace.