British not our heroes. They came here uninvited: Sanaullah

[Edevelop]

The Punjab Assembly was disgruntled when during Tuesday’s session treasury member Sheikh Alauddin tabled a resolution demanding road between Kutchery and Neela Gumbad be named after Dr Gottlieb Wilhelm Leitner, former principal of Government College who also laid the foundation stone of Punjab University.

The assembly did not like the notion of naming a road after a Hungarian professor who although served meritoriously in the field of education for the betterment of the masses in this region.

Alauddin tried to prove it to the house that Dr Leitner deserved all the respect since he provided an opportunity for their forefathers to abreast themselves with education in 1800s but the assembly was not happy with naming the road after a non-Muslim.

The treasury member detested the fact that the government was changing the names of various monuments earlier named after sub-continent’s non-Muslim heroes.

“What are we achieving by renaming institutions? We changed the name of Balik Ram Medical College to Fatima Jinnah Medical College and Lawrence Garden to Jinnah Garden. We are not doing any service to anyone by doing this. If we don’t like the names of non-Muslims then why are we educating our future doctors in King Edward Medical College?” he continued explaining paying a tribute to the non-Muslim heroes of the region.

Soon after Alauddin’s speech, Law Minister Rana Sanaullah barged in the discussion saying, “Who invited the British to come to this region and plant their saplings? No one did. We cannot accept them as our heroes. Our heroes are those performed prominently in the fields of social services, civic development and in the freedom movement. Leitner was born in Hungary. He can not be the hero of a Muslim nation.”

Jamaat Islami’s Dr Waseem and Pakistan People’s Party’s Faiza Malik also opposed the resolution and thus the resolution was rejected with majority.

The PA session on Tuesday entertained four resolutions out of which three were unanimously approved. While the assembly rejected naming road after Dr GW Leitner, the House accepted that hepatitis vaccination be made compulsory for children up to the age of five years, Local Body Elections in all cantonment areas be held alongside other areas and beggars be kept in ‘shelter homes’.

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[PakPrinciples]

They not only came uninvited but they were detrimental to our economic growth and are the major reason why Pakistan and even India are poor today.

To give you an example of how the Brit's screwed us look at the case of the Mughal Empire which in 1820 had a per capita GDP (PPP) of about $533 (1990 International dollars) while Britain had a per capita GDP (PPP) of $1,706 as per the book "Contours of the World Economy, 1–2030" by Angus Maddison (so the difference in per capita GDP was about a factor of 3) and you should take into account that they had already colonized the Americas by this time and were exploiting its resources for their own gain (when the Americas were beginning to be colonized in 1500 AD our GDP per capitas were about equal). Lets assume that the GDP (PPP) per capita remained about the same until 1858 when the British Raj was established and, as per the book I referenced previously, the GDP (PPP) per capita of "South Asia" grew to $853 in 1973 (a 60% increase in 115 years) while the UKs GDP (PPP) per capita in the same time frame grew by about 700%. However, when British colonialism ended the GDP (PPP) per capita of both Pakistan and India grew about 300% in 33 years (five times the growth in about a third of the time).

Anyone who thinks the British were heroes or kind/generous knows nothing of history. They operated to keep us down and make themselves wealthy through a campaign of de-industrialization and attempting to rob Pakistani's of their culture (a proud people are a rebellious people) in the pursuit of raw minerals and cheap labor.

However, that said there have been non-Muslim Pakistani's of British descent (ex. Major Geoffrey Langlands) and Polish Descent (ex. Air Cdre. Władysław Turowicz) who were always loyal to the Islamic Republic, have done a great service to the country and are deserving of a road or public institution being named after them since they stayed in Pakistan after independence to defend the motherland and educate it's inhabitants.

 

[batmannow]

another stupid, history samasher?
somebody needs to tell him just kick the british ambassdor out of pakistan?
ohh 2mmarow his statment will be, edited again?
stupid just doesnt realize, the impotance of NOORA MANSIONS in london?

 

[SQ8]

FYI, Hungarian.

Ignorance is bliss for others , intolerable death sentence for some.

 

[livingdead]

and I thought renaming every institution is only we people do...

 

[Abu Zolfiqar]

im glad to know that tax-payers' money pays to have people debating things like names of institutions and other places and not debate petty issues like further increasing tax base and/or steps to help boost industry

who cares about those side issues!

 

[genmirajborgza786]

in my opinion the both the British long with Abadali are our heroes , with all their ills, we cannot deny the fact, that they saved us from the revisionists Marathas & the Sikhs, it is for them that today we have two sovereign & independent Muslim majority countries , close to 1.2 million sq km (394,000 sq mi) of land in South Asia is under the control of the Muslims 875,415 sq km (338,000 sq mi) of Pakistan & 146,000 sq km ( 56,000 sq mi) of Bangladesh