I applaud Caitlin Malik and her positive spirit.
DUBAI: I applaud Caitlin Malik and her positive spirit. If I am not wrong, it was the absence of this tolerant spirit which drove George Fulton to write his ‘shikwa nama’. Another issue that I would like to address is Ms Malik’s belief that nothing has really changed. For starters, the name of the country was changed from Republic of Pakistan to Islamic Republic of Pakistan, thereby disenfranchising the minorities who voted in favour of Pakistan. Then we lost half of the country in 1971. We have a privileged class in Pakistan which rarely interacts with the rest of the 179.9 million people. Members of this class have little or no idea of the problems of ordinary Pakistanis, yet they feel qualified enough to have an opinion.
Arif Qadri
Published in The Express Tribune, March 16th, 2011.
