Bawaqar-Pakistan
By Ammar Jaffri
There are three types of people in this world, the first type is “who make things happen”, the second type is “who see things happening” and the third type is who say “what has happened”.
If you think that you are type 1 person, I need you badly for my concept. I do not know my own category so please do not think that I am suggesting to form a group after assuming its defacto leadership, just by chance I happen to open the discussion.
We all talk a lot daily on different type of problems in our society like Corruption of different types, Inefficiencies in our public sector organizations, Deteriorating pace of technology absorption in our society, Lack of equal opportunities to grow further professionally or economically, Economic disparities, Digital divide, Brain drain and many more.
Most recently terrorism and extremism displayed by some persons has further given a bad name to our country and as of Today new world order is talking about emerging of new maps in this part of the world. When all this is happening around us what we are doing. Just observing what is next or planning to leave Pakistan, if possible. We all need to think that is it a logical approach or we all are involved in taking the situation from bad to worst. Are we still entitled to be called as Pakistani or we have become an unguided mob having no vision or destiny. I suggest we should immediately stop blaming each other and start some positive campaign to promote the image of Pakistan, this is a now or never situation.
We are a nation having documented vision given to us by our great leader Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah. We stand united like a rock to protect our soil of the pure, we are capable of reminding the world that Pakistani nation has the potential and courage to be leaders in number of areas of human life. Muslims were the world leaders in every walks of life only few hundred years ago and we have the strengths to again reach to that horizons. To prove all this we would have to take a step further and to my understanding first step in this direction is to join hands together under only one objective i.e making of “Bawaqar Pakistan”.
I had read somewhere that if you are not a part of the solution you are the part of the problem. I have seriously started thinking now that I am also in one way or the other part of the problem. If I do not contribute doing something positive for removing or at least reducing the problems discussed above, I think I am contributing in expansion of these problems.
Having sufficient experience in implementing and supervising mega projects, I feel that I can contribute in organizing initial efforts of this initiative and subsequently such initiatives have their own course to follow. As an abrupt initiative, I have decided to form a group of persons (males and females) who have the vision to bring change for the betterment in our society. We will all do something immediately to make Pakistan a “Bawaqar Pakistan”. The only objective of this initiative is to project GOOD about Pakistan and tell it to the world that we are not terrorists or a nation with no vision for the future.
Initiative of “Bawaqar Pakistan” has been taken under a Government registered NGO with the name “Pakistan Social Association” having its branches in all parts of Pakistan and Headoffice in Islamabad.
To join this group there is no barrier or limit of gender, age, economic status, religion/ caste, your current residence in Pakistan or abroad or any other qualification. You must be only a proud Pakistani and in one way or the other even at a very modest level want to contribute to uplift the image of Pakistan in the ranks of countries. We have specific plans and road map. In first phase up to 23rd March 2009, our main objectives are:-
1.) To collect and project every thing GOOD about Pakistan.
2.) To educate every Pakistani National that how he or she can contribute in making of “Bawaqar Pakistan”.
3.) To project all existing efforts by government, NGOs, private sector organizations or any one else that could enhance the Image of Pakistan.
4) To plan collectively for the 2nd Phase
Interested to join the initiative, please email at ammar@brain.net.pk with the words “Bawaqar Pakistan” in the subject. Inform how you can contribute in one of the above three objectives. Kindly send this message to all you know just to prove that you also want to live in “Bawaqar Pakistan”.