Local woman being granted an Indian visa for her cancer treatment is the kind of news we need on our Independence Day
KARACHI: The news of a Pakistani woman being granted an Indian visa for her cancer treatment is the kind of news we need on our Independence Day. After 25-year-old Faiza Tanveer requested India’s Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj to help her with her medical visa on Twitter, Tanveer was granted permission to visit Uttar Pradesh.
India and Pakistan has been in a state of war for the past 70 years and with every passing year the animosity between the two neighbouring countries only seems to grow, but all this at the expense of peace-loving people on either side of the border. Just a few days ago, in a rare welcome movie an Indian band sang Pakistan’s national anthem as a gift for us on our 70th Independence Day, proving that it is possible for the two nations to be good neighbours.
Many people in Pakistan and in India long for a time where there is more love between the two nations than hatred. But either state fails to recognise that together the two countries will only prosper. So this Independence Day, we can, perhaps, decide whether we want another 70 years filled with hatred for each other or a more prosperous and developed future together.
Bina Khalid
Published in The Express Tribune, August 15th, 2017.
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