Comments on: Slipping into Despair http://www.nadiazaffar.com/blog/slipping-into-despair/ Thinking Aloud Tue, 10 Nov 2009 19:38:01 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 hourly 1 By: Waheed Abdulla Tunio http://www.nadiazaffar.com/blog/slipping-into-despair/comment-page-1/#comment-424 Waheed Abdulla Tunio Mon, 09 Nov 2009 11:44:29 +0000 http://www.nadiazaffar.com/?p=39#comment-424 In response to your piece, I may add that ever since its caesarean birth our country has been striving hard for an identity. Successive governments, irrespective of their identities have failed in providing the people base and space to take off and find a place. Both our representatives and adventurers have jointly driven us away from having an identity. The nation after having experienced incredible governments with regular interval stands at the abyss of insecurity. Eventually, we have been made vulnerable to the insular world around to label us the way they please. I am afraid to opine that the DAWNNEWS message, “Unity, Faith and Discipline…………..and bring back the identity” invites one to ask “Did we ever take these words as a binding force towards an identity?” In response to your piece, I may add that ever since its caesarean birth our country has been striving hard for an identity. Successive governments, irrespective of their identities have failed in providing the people base and space to take off and find a place. Both our representatives and adventurers have jointly driven us away from having an identity. The nation after having experienced incredible governments with regular interval stands at the abyss of insecurity. Eventually, we have been made vulnerable to the insular world around to label us the way they please.

I am afraid to opine that the DAWNNEWS message, “Unity, Faith and Discipline…………..and bring back the identity” invites one to ask “Did we ever take these words as a binding force towards an identity?”

]]> By: nadia http://www.nadiazaffar.com/blog/slipping-into-despair/comment-page-1/#comment-30 nadia Thu, 02 Apr 2009 21:19:28 +0000 http://www.nadiazaffar.com/?p=39#comment-30 I see your point, a sense of morality or a lack of it to be accurate has a great deal to do with actions. Or the lack of action. Why I pointed out to identity, is because I am linking it to a set of principles, which by some can be understood as morality. A set of principles to live up to, to represent, to stand for. It is crucial that we figure out who we are, in order to realize what we should do. And once we know, maybe some will be stirred to do more, be more. I see your point, a sense of morality or a lack of it to be accurate has a great deal to do with actions. Or the lack of action. Why I pointed out to identity, is because I am linking it to a set of principles, which by some can be understood as morality. A set of principles to live up to, to represent, to stand for. It is crucial that we figure out who we are, in order to realize what we should do. And once we know, maybe some will be stirred to do more, be more.

]]> By: Darwaish http://www.nadiazaffar.com/blog/slipping-into-despair/comment-page-1/#comment-14 Darwaish Mon, 09 Mar 2009 22:48:01 +0000 http://www.nadiazaffar.com/?p=39#comment-14 i am afraid the problem is much more than just identity crisis. its the lack of morality in pakistani society. after decades of oppression and repression, we are now deep into a moral crisis which is engulfing our society. that's the mother of all problems which we tend to overlook. its not just the politicians who have no moral values or principles (and they call it reconciliation, NRO or flexibility in politics) but the entire society, generally, has the same problem. even the same people who are actually suffering (lower middle class or the 54 million living below poverty line) would waste no time in taking what's not rightfully theirs, when they get a chance. Unless the 90%+ people who are really suffering (the fruit sellers, shop keepers, mechanics, farmers etc etc) decide to do something about their lives.... we will remain in a crisis of injustice and inaction, a crisis of silence and acquiescence. everything else happening around us is just a by-product i am afraid the problem is much more than just identity crisis. its the lack of morality in pakistani society. after decades of oppression and repression, we are now deep into a moral crisis which is engulfing our society. that’s the mother of all problems which we tend to overlook. its not just the politicians who have no moral values or principles (and they call it reconciliation, NRO or flexibility in politics) but the entire society, generally, has the same problem. even the same people who are actually suffering (lower middle class or the 54 million living below poverty line) would waste no time in taking what’s not rightfully theirs, when they get a chance.

Unless the 90%+ people who are really suffering (the fruit sellers, shop keepers, mechanics, farmers etc etc) decide to do something about their lives…. we will remain in a crisis of injustice and inaction, a crisis of silence and acquiescence. everything else happening around us is just a by-product

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