Asma Mirza
The video to the right is from BBC urdu and is making runs on Internet these days. It shows the Independence Day events of August 14, 1947. One can see rare glimpses of people and events here including Mr. Jinnah, Lord Mountbatten, Liaqat Ali Khan, Fatima Jinnah, Lady Mounbatten etc.The video does not have any audio. I wish there was some sound to it too.Other historic videos of 1947 and Pakistan’s creation can be seen in earlier ATP posts, here and here.
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I watch with fascination, Jinnah steps out of the car and waits for his younger sister to join him and then seemingly is a step behind her as they enter the Sind Assembly Building.
Mountabtten exits and his wife takes her position two steps behind him.
And I am told endlessly Muslims have a problem with women’s rights?
A minor foot note to history. The car Jinnah rode in was repaired only a few day earlier. It was yellow RR of “considerable vintage”. It was borrowed from Nawab of Bhawalpur and was in need of “massive repairs as it had not been used for years.” Jinnah had forbidden rental of a car as the new (Tin Roof: Jalal) nation could not afford one. This car brought Jinnah and Mountbatten back to the Governor General’s House and caught fire moments later. It had to be pushed out of the way. Source: Memoirs of Lt. Gen. Gul Hassan Khan.
Pakistan Zindabad
Pakistan Paindabad
As others have commented on, something went awry along the way - there are certainly enough personalities to blame. The fact remains that here we are today, let’s make things better from here on out - history is, by construction, in the past. Lets not lose sight of our goals which are, surely, a better tomorrow.
Fascinating video.
PMA: With such a promising start, where did we go wrong?
Hard to tell. Pakistanis born in the 50’s, 60’s and 70’s seem a lot different from the ones born after that. Maybe Dewana Phir Say is right, and Zia was indeed wrecker-in-chief.
We started off as WE and stand firm as I now …!
Seeing the ground realities around, sadly, nothing is right around.
ps: obliged for the post :~)
Looks like we were more enlightened then.
Zia really messed us up with his religious dogma.
Fatima Jinnah could have been Pakistan’s and the worlds first Women leader of a country back then.
Damn those generals with the exception of Ayub Khan and Musharaf
I like them.
PS: Time to rationalise and secularise our society somewhat to attain some sanity.
PMA,
It’s the overdose of religion that we keep giving ourselves form time to time that has paralysed us from doing simplest of improvements to our society. Giving women some rights via the recent women rights bill is just one example where if it were for the religious groups the bill would have not passed.
With such a promising start, where did we go wrong?