If only someone as capable as you were in the development authority
Thank you for your kind words brother but I am nobody special. I just love Pakistan, and as a Pakistani-American living abroad I can contribute time and thought to my motherland. We the generation of today must contribute what we can if we hope for Pakistan to stay strong and independent. The largest threat to Pakistan's strength is people from within, especially those with the most, not playing fair by their fellow countrymen and women, and paying their fair share. As an outsider there is a limit to what some may say I have the right to say, so I leave it to you brother to let this be an inspiration for you to study and motivate those around you to develop Pakistan.
If you live there motivate the people to build up the country.
The easiest first step is putting out trash cans in public areas and
organizing a small group to clean up your area. It may take time, but if everyone sees all levels of society picking up a broom and pan and cleaning up there area it will give people hope. The people, from every level of society, need to feel ownership of Pakistan again, like they did at independence. Once you have motivated enough people in your area, and every week people come out to keep your are clean by themselves, you can post your success on social media. motivate your neighboring areas to do the same.
As a group you can buy a plot of land your colony and set it aside for a children's public playground. If success keeps growing and your colony can raise enough money,
buy an un-used house (such as Overseas Pakistani owned homes) and turn it into an adult learning center where people can give their time to
help other learn to read and write. small steps like these will make your area clean, happy, and educated in a small amount of time. Don't feel overwhelmed, but
start by cleaning the neighborhood and planting trees each day you clean up the area. stay hopeful, because those around you will notice then the change you make inspires them to change as well.
You can see what this one man did in 35 years as an example of persistence. Another is the clean up of a beach in Mumbai lead by one man; Afroz Shah.
Another project that can
help people earn a living is recycle their own garbage. You can watch the following video. If you separate all the items mentioned in the video and send them to a place to be recycled, and
put the bio-degradable things in a bio gas generating system.
With time a more efficient system can be built to feed Pakistani industry so we can cut imports and help the people earn back a little of what they spend.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14r7f9khK70
finally, we can even
share our unfinished meals, clothes, and books with less fortunate neighbors. You can put this
community refrigerator in public area.
You can see this one example has taken off in India. There is no reason a small charity can not raise money to help both people from not wasting food (that would otherwise become garbage) and helping people who are hungry get a meal.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tx4wrCzolxk
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A lot of my older colleagues say that when Pakistan was born and the people were willing to sacrifice, it was a different mindset. Unfortunately they are right, from what I can gather.
We must rebuilds that mindset.
We must learn to
"Serve Pakistan"
Watch this scene from the Jinnah movie (from 1:10:00-1:13:45) and you will understand the mindset.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuUJ9uQ4pks
1:11:30
"I am nobody's Emperor, but a
solider in the service of the birthright of Pakistan"
