Alas! The world is changing and changing for the worse. We have acquired many pleasures of life, we have stepped on the moon many decades ago, and we have achieved a million milestones of technological advancements, but on the other hand we have acquired more barbaric attitudes, parochial environs of thinking and shorter tempers leading to a world that is unsafe for the mankind like never before. We are ready to slit the throats of brothers on slightest possible political, religious and social differences. This imbecilic and insane attitude has led the mankind to fight two World Wars, in which millions of people were killed, but still nothing was achieved instead of bloodshed and long serving havoc. In Pakistan, the things are not less different. Hundreds of innocent people are killed each year because of our shorter tempers and parochial attitudes. Shia-Sunni religious rivalry, ethnic strife and political differences have claimed thousands if not millions of innocent Pakistanis. Most of these differences are minute, and can easily be resolved through table talk/negotiations, but unfortunately we have become so much imbedded in fighting on petty issues that everyone seems to turn a deaf ear to the calls of rapprochement and reconciliation. We should school our temper in order to bring peace and humanity in vogue.

Islam is a religion of peace and Pakistan was created in the name of Islam. Being a Muslim and Pakistani we should strive to become the torch bearers of peace, tranquillity, humanity and brotherhood. Quid-e-Azam, while delivering his historic speech said:

“You may belong to any caste, creed or religion, but this has nothing to do with the affairs of state”

In light of above statement, we should nip the evil of escalating parochial thinking, religious strife and political difference in the bud to create a humanitarian society where our behaviour will be dictated by our social and religious norms instead of the whims of temper.