Pakistan, its politics, its people, and its system is slipping into despair. Most Pakistanis are appalled and embarrassed by the attack on the Sri Lankan team. Eye-witnesses, traders, and citizens are upset. But what can they do? While we all cringe at Indian media’s onslaught against Pakistan, and our sense of hospitality gets a harsh blow by comments from Chris Broad, what is it that we can do and say to make the world realize? Realize that we are not the fanatics the world is thinking we are, that our country has a great deal to offer even now, and that we really really appreciated the Sri Lankans who stood by us, and we wanted them protected. But its not the world’s fault. When elected representatives of the people cannot realise what the people want, how can the world know it? It is simply not possible.

Then why is it that Pakistanis continue to choose or allow one non-representing representative after another? For one thing, education has never been allowed to breathe in Pakistan, let alone be given the chance and time to develop into sense. But another major lacking seems to be a continuous identity crisis. Who is a Pakistani, what does it mean to be a Pakistani. Does anyone have any idea? Perhaps at the time Pakistan was created we relied on an identity so inherently alien to daily lives that we were not able to connect it to our inner personalities. After that, its all been downhill. With an obligation to uphold certain sensibilities in order to secure a place in the after life, people of Pakistan have been buffeted from one side to other. Utterly confused, with a vacuum where it really matters. And whenever there is a vacuum, an empty vessel jittery and unstable, it easily and forcefully fills with whatever comes its way. 

Confused, cast away, and castrated, the Pakistani wanders. What will come next, he seemingly has no power to understand, prevent or change. 

Is it too late to change this?