People in Pakistan lack understanding of the concept of coexistence and mutual respect.
WATERLOO, ON, CANADA: Ejaz Haider’s article of June 28 titled “Pakistan’s fictional reality” is brilliant. People in Pakistan lack understanding of the concept of coexistence and mutual respect. Despite our ideological differences, we all have to work together. As much as we may disagree with one another, at the end of the day, our goal should be mutual respect even if the difference between two opposing viewpoints cannot be done away with. One can only debate the issues based on available facts and present one’s position.
Where I live, we passionately disagree with one another on issues. Yet at the day when election results emerge, we congratulate the opponents and accept whoever gets to make it to the top.
Regretfully, the stark difference between my adopted country and the one of my birth is political maturity. Democracy has to be adopted in earnest since it is the most liberating force of the present day and age.
D Asghar
Published in The Express Tribune, June 29th, 2011.
