Roshandan

“Almost always, the creative dedicated minority has made the world the better.”

                                                    (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.)

I remember my school days. The dose of patriotism was inseparable from those of religion and so the green color of the flag was my favorite color, the emotional ideological slogans were my favorite phrases in literature, Iqbal’s community poems were my favorite poems by far, military was my favorite profession and emotional anthems were my favorites in music. But even in those days I remember whenever I listened to “Sindhi hum, Balochi hum, Punjabi hum, Pathan hum . . .” I was innocently irritated over the absence of any mention of my Hazara ethnicity. Years later I realized there were far more deserving communities whose names…

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