India And Pakistan
In a social networking site where Indians and Pakistanis meet online , discussion was going on about independence movement. During the discussion a Pakistani asked question -’yeh nehru kya gandhi ke bete the?’.. Initially most Indians thought that this pakistani is joking. But he was serious. When his question was answered in negative then he said -’ohh , mujhe laga yeh rahul , sonia sab gandhi ke family ke hi hain’…
When asked about hemu , who belonged to present day pakistan and sacrifised his life for freedom , most of pakistanis had never heard about him too.
I was reading article on reputed pakistan daily. The article was title -’Myths In Pakistan’s History’… One of myth was that in 1857 , muslims revolted against britishers and hindu cooperated with britishers to defeat muslims!!!!!!!!!!!!… That explains why pakistan keeps name of its missile as gauri….
Now why should pakistanis be aware about nehru , gandhi or raj guru?.. Why should Indian be aware that jinnah fought tilak’s case or jinnah opposed khilafat movement or jinnah opposed hanging of bhagat singh…
The answer is that we cannot change our neighbours. We have fought wars and we have lot of disputes. Terrorism is sponsored by pakistan and pakistan accuses us to support balochistan . There is lots and lots level of mistrust among us. But our history is common. Freedom was achieved due to collective efforts of our ancestors and more we know about it , more we would appreciate our common roots.
Lets hope that we do appreciate the sacrifices of our ancestors and make better our countries.
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