It provides you and your family a home, security, it provides you the freedom to express yourself, it has provided you with a nation.
Please Judge yourself based on reality, not perceptions. Go and look at other Muslims in South Asia, I know you are better off in every way.
Your taxes do not stand alone, they are part of the collection that came before you,
That country of yours had nothing in 1947.
Please, for a moment think what is a country, it doesn't exist in thin air, there are requirements that need to be fulfilled to have a functioning state, which can provide essential security and services to it's citizens.
In 1947, India had everything intact, they literally just swapped chairs.
they had a mature industrial base,
their first steel plant was built around 1900,
they had over a dozen modern armament factories from the 1800's onwards,
they had a modern ship building industry started in early 1800's,
their nuclear program was started around 1945 I think, by 1947 even their nuclear program had an existing basis,
India was in the top 10 economies in the world in 1947, possible number 11 but it was in the top ranks even then,
They had research institutions,
No refugee problem as such, the refugees they received amounted to about 2% of the population, that's nothing. The Afghans we received in the 1980s were 4% of Pakistan's population.
I could go on but my point is made, it was a fully functioning state, ready to go, combine that with large numbers of effective national leaders, and the father of the nation Nehru lived for 17 years to guide their nation.
In contrast, Pakistan had this,
Two equal sized units separated by 3000kms of hostile territory,
virtually no national leadership, Jinnah sahib died after the first year and the only other capable Liaqat sahib murdered within 4 years, by an Afghan, possibly with foreign support, my personal believe is India and Afghanistan collusion because they had the most to gain.
No industrial base at all, except few small light industrial units,
refugees that amounted to almost 25% of the population, think for a moment, 25%, that amounts to today India accepting 300 million refugees at once, America accepting almost 80 million refugees at once, Germany accepting almost 20 million, these countries would collapse overnight.
But your nation, your country, your people managed without any resources, that's what your taxes, your energy and your love has achieved, tell me that's nothing.
Pakistan had only half a university, university of Punjab had two campuses, one in Lahore, the other in East Punjab, so only half a university in the entire country with around 700 total enrolled university students in the whole of Pakistan, today you have well over 2 million I think, that's what your taxes have achieved, you are part of that overall system, you can cry, but it has delivered.
Pakistan today has a nascent industrial base, which only requires a period of peace to flourish, it cannot flourish if you continue infighting and crying about everything under the sun.
You are a developing nation, still on a journey, it's not suppose to be easy, it is not going to be easy, but you have to carry that burden, you can do that by crying all the time, or accept the fact things are not perfect, but I will play my part.
You had no banks, no central bank, it is important,
you had no capital city
no organised civil service,
no organised armed forces to defend you, can you imagine how difficult that is?
America the most powerful nation in history and the richest, together with NATO the most powerful military alliance in history spent tens of billions building and training an Afghan army, they were supremely confident they had done a good job. it did not last a week without their active support.
Your military defended you from day one,
without their share of the weapons, without an organised command structure, without high number of top tier officers, without defined borders, your country did not even know where the border was till I think 17th of August, but they fought a war within months of formation and defended YOUR nation, holding on to 1/3 of Kashmir without weapons and money, just jazba, where is yours? don't insult their sacrifices.
The first address to the nation by Jinnah sahib could not be recorded till we had the required radio equipment, it had to be bought from Delhi, that's how less you had, the original recording was taken back to Delhi, only after numerous request it was given many decades later.
I could go on and on
the civil servants we complaint about, use to write with pens made out of thorns, yaar if only you guys knew the sacrifices, the efforts put into giving you this beautiful nation, if only you knew how much has been achieved.
Sadly this country has fallen into the habit of being constantly ungrateful,
bas hum he gunaghar hein, only we are the sinners, and the world is in heavenly peace, the biggest bullcrap I've heard in my life but every Pakistani is stuck in that mindset.
Your taxes, and all that came before has achieved far far more then you recognise, please don't be ungrateful.
Fight your fight, the country belongs to you, hate individuals if they follow the wrong policies, be it in the government, army or whoever, but take care before you blame institutions, because you throw stones at your own house, at your own family.
