I've given my contribution but I've not seen reactive feedback on the issues I pointed out, lot of lazy repetitive comments, so I feel my part is done, I have a feeling I've given people food for thought, but they have not comprehended it fully, except you and mastersahib, maybe few others that I don't know yet. A new approach takes time to absorb and I'm happy that it's opened new lines of thought in people who've read it.
One issue you've raised about which I have totally different take, CPEC.
It is indeed transformational for Pakistan, but I don't think it is for the reasons generally reported and generally accepted, everyone including the academics are being lazy. As it's a different topic I will leave it for another time.
One thing I will say, with regards to Pakistan, China is not creating a backroad on which to take its containers. I strongly believe China recognizes the need for a strong ally that can back it up when required, a strong partner, and CPEC is an avenue to achieve that goal. But they will not spoonfeed us, we have to grab the opportunity. Our strength has to come from within, not outside, never outside.
No man is an island, that also applies to countries. America is powerful, but that power is magnified by its alliances, it has applied to every power through history. The only country China has been able to rely on through its modern history is Pakistan, Pakistan is a giant, and growing fast, 5th largest country in the world, soon largest Muslim country in the world, that matters.
The only people who don't see that is ourselves, the world is waiting for Pakistan to wake up. Too much evidence. I remember seeing Obama telling Indians in India that Pakistan is a large country, poor guys went quiet as it was not the answer they were expecting. lol, I wish I was there.
The Sino-Islamic alliance is only going to get deeper and more powerful.
Pakistan's rise as a power will be coupled to China. Already Iran has joined up.
When Turkey joins the Sino-Islamic alliance, it will be the biggest game changer.
Thanks for your thoughts.
Off topic, but I had to reply to your excellent post.
If we look carefully The Two Nation Fact is still unfolding... it is more like a continous 1000yrs Old War of Civilisations... and its ongoing....
Toheed.
So this is my take.
Fatih Makkah was a monumental event in human history. It marked the death of idolatry as a worldview and foreshadowed the demise of the old world.
The light shone through the dark clouds and that light kept marching quickly across the ancient world. Old idols, temples, and superstitions fell, as if on their own to the sound of naara e takbeer.
Finally it reached our Holy Land, Ard e Pak, and the final fortress of Islam in the east was established in the IVC heartland and Afghan/Kashmir hills.
This Holy Land became the launch pad for numerous civilizing campaigns against the last bastion of Mushrikeen, the intellectual descendants of the Qureshi ones, who lost in Fatih Makkah.
Our ancestors unfortunately did not finish the job, became complacent with their wealth and comfortable lives. They compromised with the spiritual descendants of the Makkan mushrikeen.
When the tide turned, Nadir shah, Sikhs, Marathas, British devastated our homeland. As our back was broken, one after another, these invaders came and devastated us, finally the British came to dismantle our civilization and drown us in sorrow and regret, exemplified best by Bahadur Shah Zafar's life and shayri.
Somehow, during occupation, Muslims again recovered some form of a backbone and had the gall to demand Pakistan. The Indian Congress (progenitors of both Nehruists and Modi'ists) tried everything to stop Pakistan from forming, as they understood what it meant for them.
The massacres, the intimidation, the terrorist funding, genocides, and theft of East Punjab and half of Kashmir could not dissuade the Pakistanis.
The simple idea of a return to ancestral greatness, the example of Rasoolullah saws, and an Islamic state was too much to stamp down.
We paid our lives to live in a country free of these evil and vile creatures, who committed unmentionable crimes against our people in the killing fields of East Punjab, Jammu, and Kashmir.
Alhamdulilah, today Pakistan has found sure footing. This time we will finish the job.
The second Daulat Madani will compete the second Fatih Makkah (figuratively,) erasing the Mushrikeen as a political force from samawati wal ard.
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