Saturday, September 24, 2011

چلی ہے رسم..... Zameer Awakenings

Listening to the cricketer Shoaib's allegations on everybody except him, I realized that such "zameer's voice" ( ضمیر کی آواز  ) is becoming a regular phenomenon in our country. In recent past we have witnessed the [in]famous zameer of Zulfiqar Mirza, then counter-zameer of MQM; going a little back the zameer of ex-foreign minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi; moreso zameer of some ex-spy masters who manipulated elections. And don't forget the zameer awakening of a foreign minister after the Shimla accord with Indra Gandhi (with thousand apologies)... where we are going?
The common things in these zameer awakenings are:
  • These zameers were sleeping like a dead frog unless some personal interest was directly affected.
  • These awakening caused (or made to cause) attraction of masses, and a massive response in terms of people in the streets was expected.
  • These zameers were ready to play dead again, on call of 'his beloved leader', or some mufahimat مفاہمت .
  • Awakenings are staged in a way that our media frenzy population forgets every other issue; Timing is always very critical.
  • Some of the awakenings are money triggered (our cricketer would not have got the same money from Pakistani media).
  • Zameer awakening of media anchors make them hop between news channels.
These awakenings have played an outstanding role to divert the attention of mass media and awam from the current and core issues directly affecting them (this was done with danda ڈنڈا and censorship previously)

The results of these zameer awakenings are:
  • Political parties and their splinter group who are ready to 'cross the floor' on their zameer's call - origin of lotacracy لوٹا کریسی
  • Culture of hatred and extremism among people; and worst type of depression ( ناامیدی  ) for my young Pakistani.
  • Lot of money in the hands of exploiters and lastly the 'ever confused awam ( عوام  )'.
Are all these awakenings are bad? Not at all. صبح کا بھولا شام کو گھر آ جا ے تو اسے بھولا نہیں کہتے .
And Tauba ( توبہ  )  is granted by Allah to the sinners. Condition of tauba is nee'at نیت   . It is not possible to see nee'at outrightly but time would definitely tell. However, as a nation we have a very small memory span. One should always remember the awakening of our  قائد اعظم  who left All India Congress and very high paying job to lead Muslims of this area.
I hope this make us curious to differentiate کہ یہ  ضمیر کی آواز ہے ، یا ضمیر کا سودا ہو رہا ہے ؟

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