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On 23rd March New Metro City transform itself in "Green" for Pakistan Day. Come and Visit the Green lights show to New Metro City for the celebrations of Pakistan Resolution Day.

Timings : 6PM Onwards

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If it is not dead already, then it surely is dying fast. Ask the 11 Hazara miners who were mercilessly assassinated – in a continuous wave of ethnic cleansing. This was the same community, who refused to bury their dead after a brutal attack on their people back in 2013. Ask the long persecuted Ahmadi community, who was excluded a government commission aimed at safeguarding the rights of the country’s minorities. Ask Uzma, who was beaten for taking a bite from the plate of the youngest daughter of the household; she ultimately succumbed to her injuries and her body was very callously disposed of in some random drainage system. Ask Dr. Ali Haider and his twelve-year-old son Murtaza, who were gunned down in Lahore because of their Shia faith. There are countless others you could ask. Ask the beggar on the street every day, or the person who collects your trash. Look at the woman (at your neighborhood bus stop) selling 14th August flags, that you oh so proudly wave, every Independence Day. Ask them whether this was their dream. How could it have been? The promise must be dead.

Every Pakistan Day is a reminder of a dream – that became a resolution on March 23, 1940: committing every life to one of freedom, dignity, self-respect, prosperity and ownership.

“That it is the considered view of this Session of the All India Muslim League that no constitutional plan would be workable in this country or acceptable to Muslims unless it is designed on the following basic principle, namely that geographically contiguous units are demarcated into regions which should be so constituted, with such territorial readjustments as may be necessary, that the areas in which the Muslims are numerically in a majority as in the North-Western and Eastern Zones of India, should be grouped o constitute “Independent States” in which the constituent units shall be autonomous and sovereign.”

"That adequate, effective and mandatory safeguards shall be specifically provided in the constitution for minorities in the units and in the regions for the protection of their religious, cultural, economic, political, administrative and other rights of the minorities, with their consultation.”

And this is what made the resolve so strong – that any price to make it a reality was acceptable. Families were separated to inhabit this land, lives were uprooted to make this country, and countless other sacrifices were a part of the reality that ultimately brought our Pakistan into existence.

But with our claim on it, came a sacred responsibility: to make the sacrifices of our forefathers count, to fulfill that commitment. Resolution Day is a reminder of a commitment that has yet to be fulfilled.

That is where an irony comes into action. Because you see, when those 11 coal miners died in Mach, the promise was broken – yet again. We seem to have become so “possessive” about Pakistan, that no space exists in it for anyone “not amongst us”. And as our definition of the “us” becomes increasingly narrow, our own space tightens herein, as we snatch the rights of ownership from anyone outside our ethnicity, religion, caste or creed. In a sense, this questions the certainty of tomorrow and the recognition of our own significance – or not.

Desperate, we look for either straws to hang on to, or reasons to leave.

And this is exactly where the story of our creation awakens with inspiration. Pakistan was made in the face of unfathomable odds – where the Quaid-e-Azam tapped into the hopes and dreams his people held. He famously spoke English while they understood only Urdu, yet he spoke to them and for them. And it was because he spoke to and for them, that they heard and were heard. It was because our forefathers refused to give up on their dream, that they succeeded. They offered their own blood, certain that their struggles would result in a country, that would make the world a freer place for generations to come. Their toil taught us one simple lesson, against whose validity Pakistan stands testament: never give up and you shall succeed.

Standing at almost 74 strong years of independence, we must reclaim our country and its promise. On the one hand, maybe it’s unfair that this should be asked of us or that we pay for the callousness of “other” people. We have a choice: to either run away from it all or own and end it. We cannot undo the years of intolerance and violence we’ve faced. But we can refuse to fear it, refuse to succumb to the temptation of retaliatory intolerance, and refuse to forsake our courage in the face of it all.

Admittedly, we cannot “control z” a lot of things. But we have a choice. By giving up on Pakistan and / or leaving, we can ensure that our forefathers’ “sacrifices” were stepping-stones on the way to completely destruct Pakistan. Or we can own their dreams and earmark their struggles in an attempt to construct the exact Pakistan that they had laid down their lives for. It may not be what we want, but we must ensure that their sacrifices counted towards making this country better.