The makers of the Pakistani Handicrafts: Culture & attitudes of the people

Posted: April 9, 2011 in Pakistani People
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Bristish P.M. with Pakistani Students ( Credit: Times of Lahore)

Currently, Pakistan is facing the toughest economic and law & order situation since its birth in 1947, in wake of “so called” war on terror. Pakistan use to be and still inherently is a peaceful and a talented nation but unfortunately this country never got any sincere leadership that could guide and navigate her through domestic and international challenges. This nation can build satellites, high tech missiles, fighter jets, and nuclear bombs but can’t build any good roads, sewerage systems, hospitals, research universities and hospitals. The primary reason for that abnormality is the lack of sincerity, national pride, responsibility and accountability towards people.

A recent example of callousness make from the country-wide strike of doctors working in governmental hospitals who let patients die while bargaining for their salaries. Useless ostentatious mentality of the Pakistani people digs them into this situation. Non-productive spending is unusually higher in Pakistan than any other developing nation. This general habit of living beyond means put this nation under crisis. I would blame the lack of education and intolerance of this situation in Pakistan.

Pakistan is a diverse nation and there was a strong need for trust development, mutual respect and tolerance but I think the ill wisher of Pakistan really did a good job of baffling the Pakistani to never focus on these vital national building principles. As a result one can observe all kind of social problems over there. This situation induces a typical attitude in the majority of Pakistani to think for them first and for their nation never. Consequently, the difference between haves and haves-not are getting larger day by day and more and more people are getting frustration and hopeless from the future and even existence of Pakistan.

Question is, can we trace the effects of this situation on the handicrafts produced? Really weird to think this way, but I’m certain that this question has some degree of correlation and can be answered by using this matrix. Why Pakistani not feel proud to use their indigenously produced products? Why there are always two grades of every commodity available? Why good quality handicrafts are intended to be made for export only?

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Comments
  1. Maira says:

    its a great article.

  2. sameer says:

    Dear Asim!

    Reading this piece of writing is really interesting and knowledge enhancing activities. Article contains some grammatical mistakes but I appreciate your efforts and presenting some suggestion for making it more refined and effective.

    The first sentence: war on terror has not been in Pakistan since 1947, so need to separate the clauses into two separate sentences.

    Use to be structure is very rare: used to be is in practice in second line

    Historically we got the very sincere leadership: Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Liaquat Ali Khan, Ayub Khan, Zulifiqar Ali Bhutto and many more personalities in different fields of life. So stance of article should be realistic: both aspects should be included in the article good and bad.

    We have good roads in the shape of motor way, good hospital and medical colleges due to that Pakistani doctors got popularity not only in Europe, Middle East, but also in USA.

    The primary reason for that abnormality is the lack of sincerity, national pride, responsibility and accountability towards people. (Conditions are not abnormal but irregular)

    Doctors’ strike is slanted in media. They are the citizens of Pakistan.
    If you have no option to resolve your problem then what would you do? So in this article you should include the doctors’ point of views.

    Last paragraph is totally irrelevant.

  3. Nice Blog about handicrafts

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