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Dear Readers,
While All Things Pakistan has remained alive and online, it has been dormant since June 11, 2011 - when, on the blog's 5th anniversary, we decided that it was time to move on. We have been heartened by your messages and the fact that a steady traffic has continued to enjoy the archived content on ATP. While the blog itself will remain dormant, we are now beginning to add occasional (but infrequent) new material by the original authors of the blog, mostly to archive what they may now publish elsewhere. We will also be updating older posts to make sure that new readers who stumble onto this site still find it useful.
We hope you will continue to find ATP a useful venue to reflect upon and express your Pakistaniat. - Editors
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This is going to help so many people.
The examples really helped.
Just want to point out one thing, which sort of bugs me everytime I hear the quote about what you can do for your country attributed to JFK. Khalil Gibran wrote that more than three decades before JFK for Lebanon (Although JFK did make it famous).
Khalil Gibran in 1925 said the following in a work titled “The New Frontier”:
“Are you a politician asking what your country can do for you or a zealous one asking what you can do for your country? If you are the first, then you are a parasite; if the second, then you are an oasis in a desert.” Khalil Gibran
Beautiful and thought-provoking, Pakistan and Pakistanis need to launch a concerted effort to reward and exalt those who bring milk, and a similar effort to expose those who bring water. There needs to be societal pressure to do good, for good deeds to be visibly rewarded and for social fairness to prevail.