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Pakistan Will Break Up: Ardeshir Cowasjee
Pakistan Will Break Up, Get Out When You Can: Columnist Cowasjee
Saturday 21st of July 2007 Pakistan ‘is going to break up in the years to come and everyone who can, should pack up their bags and leave’, celebrated columnist and writer Ardeshir Cowasjee has advised.
‘Pack up and leave if you can. There’s no hope for this country. Jinnah said, ‘Each successive government in this country would be worse than the previous one’, and his prediction is coming true,’ Cowasjee said Friday at a get-together in Karachi.
‘In the very first article that I wrote after the entire judicial crisis started in March, I told Musharraf: ‘A good soldier always knows when to retreat.’ Retreat, damn you, the time has come!’
Cowasjee, a Parsi (Zoroastrian), from a renowned family of shipbuilders and businessmen, is among the few families practising that faith who chose to remain in Pakistan after India’s partition in 1947.
Both India and Pakistan will celebrate 60 years of independence next month.Cowasjee writes a regular column in English language daily Dawn.
Disapproving of his candour, Daily Times said: ‘A major portion of Cowasjee’s conversation was peppered with remarks about religion that seemed a little out of place, especially as the audience had mostly turned up to hear him talk about Old Karachi.
‘His tirade was weak in argument, disappointing for a columnist who has championed the cause of justice over the years. It was also disappointing to hear him comment on people’s religious practices,’ the newspaper said.
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Pakistan will never break. These rumors are since its independence from India. After every major and minor event in Pakistan, the whole world propagates “Pakistan will Break” Because both historically and physically this area of Pakistan always remained a single unit.
Actually India has the most separation moments in the world, Khalistan, Tamil Nadu, Assam and Kashmir. If these moments will get world acceptance at any stage, India will break itself. As historically India was never a “Single Country”.
No doubt Pakistan will Break up, The ferderation which people calling it a country “Pakistan” was never a nation, But in name of nation people were looted,killed and used.People in pakistan are divided in different colour,race and culture they are not a nation.
The topic is being digressed into a Indo Pak battle ground, we have enough media coverage and cricket fields for the same.
The crux of the matter is if the fundamentalists succeed in their endevaour in Pak or India, how wud the zoroastrians cope up and help each other..
You know this might sound far fetched but with the sucess the Zoroastrian community met thru hard work and sacrifice after leaving the shore of Iran, we could have set up our own small nation…..an island….and with the Parsi enterpreuneurship could have made it a thriving part of the world as we did to Mumbai and other places.
Alals the last hundred years have been wasted by the ones that bickered, contributed towards the break up of zoroastrian foundations like dokhmenishini, aided in further fusing the small community into larger ones thru intermarriage and basically rubbishing the deeds of the saviours of zoroastrianism.
With global shrinkage yet religious fervour increasing in other communities and land wars based on religion, history is repeating itself be it the west or asia, Im sure the younger generation will find a way out to survive the next exodus
If we (Balouch) would have been against pakistan from the biggening then we would never have accepted pakistan as a a country. They cheated us by saying they are a muslim nation. But u all know wat they are. Cast system, raises, (and in panchayat) raping girls in panjab as a mean of justice and many more. Creating a country with he name of islam and cheating people - then behold the country will die one day. Its not me saying that, it is the time saying it.
Thank you
This is not a surprise….Pakistan is breaking…soon we are going to see a seperate Punjab,Sind,Balochistan,NWFP. Muslims in erstwhile pakistan wud still keep claiming that they are saviours of Islam..
Pakistan will survive and prosper long after Cowasjee is dead.
As a born Pakistani it breaks my heart to read stuff like that. But Mr Cowasjee has a very valid arguement. Unless Pakistan treats its provinces with justice(unlike it did with former East Pakistan)the break up would be inevitable. Also Pakistanis have to learn to become secular and just in their thinking. Islam is corroding their hearts and minds.