It’s time to unite to foil enemy designs

If we go down the city streets in the evening we’ll find lower middle and poor people debating the internal and external situation after doing the day’s routine work. They can’t afford ‘doodh-patti’ (tea) cups during discussion because milk price is very high: so, they, many of them graduate and under-graduate, express their views freely out of patriotism inherited from their parents and grandparents. Most look not well-fed, but well versed as regards background of their motherland and sacrifices for its survival with dignity and honour and integrity at any cost.
What one gathered from a sitting with such citizens the other day was that they are really united, whatever the circumstance, to fight any enemy from within or from without: they’ll not lose time to put up a show of grand unity whenever needed as they and their elders had done in the past. “Poor we’re though but we’re rich in will power and courage to defend ourselves, we’re not shy of growing vegetables in backyard ourselves as soldiers do, we’ll also fight poverty collectively, so that we don’t face any starvation,” say the honest and hard-working citizens conscious of challenges ahead.
The fact of the matter is that citizens, young and old, have again started realising the urgent need for uniting in the national interest in the wake of what’s happening in some cities of the country’s. “We’ve to be vigilant in our Islamabad and Rawalpindi and even in Peshawar,” say old citizens.
They recall many sayings of Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him), his successors and Pakistan founder Mohammad Ali Jinnah while talking about the past, present and future of the country. City youths proudly assert they’re all Pakistanis all the time and “as Pakistanis we feel, we behave and act, and we should be proud to be known as Pakistanis and nothing else.”
Frankly speaking, we shouldn’t forget what the Quaid said in his broadcast talk to the people of Australia: “We follow the teachings of Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him); we are members of the brotherhood of Islam in which all are equal in right, dignity, and self-respect; consequently, we have a special and very deep sense of unity.”
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