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Two hundred thousand years ago when homo sapiens start living together in the form groups for hunting and protection purposes social hierarchies also started to develop, and it remain indispensable reality of human history that every society reflect the behaviors of it powerful stratum and remain in the influence of its ruling minority , who mostly exercise their power in negative manner and whoever stand against the ruling minority and try to tell truth to the people against the established order and norms of the society their voice get suppressed. The ruling minority who are the beneficiary of the system don't want the masses to be aware of the reality and stand up against their ruling minority and the masses can be exploit easily as long as they remain unconscious of the reality, many example of such incident can be narrated from poisoning of Socrates by Athens to killing of Jamal Kashoggi by kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
In late 18th century when the wave of nationalism ripple into the palace of monarchies some power full people tries to take advantages of the new system, they tries to induce the passion of false nationalism into the mind of people and thus the suffering and exploitation of the masses take a different direction.
The creation of Pakistan and India in mid 20th century is a good example of this false nationalism. when the British came to the subcontinent they bring inclusive economic and meritocratic social system with them, these systems greatly damage the interests and monopolies of the powerful stratum in economic and social realms of the subcontinent, but it make them aware of the reality that the officialdom which was prevailing from the time of their distant forefather will not further work in the modern and rapidly industrializing world, therefore they try to take advantages from the wave of nationalism, so they increase their involvement in the active politics, the formation of Congress in 1885 and Muslim league in 1906 by Nawabs was part of the same series.
After their formation both these political parties propagate a passion of false nationalism among the people of subcontinent. Congress who was advocating for the independence for the untied India was deliberately ignoring the the multi lingual, ethnic and religious diversities and pandemonium in the subcontinent and the Muslim league who was advocating for the division on the basis of only two religion was not only creating hatred and further bustle between the Hindus and Muslims but also putting in danger the fate of many million Sikhs, Buddhist and other religious minorities. nationalism which mostly based on ethnic and lingual background cannot sustain and develop in such ethno lingual diversity nor solely on single religious background.
Khursheed Khalil Aziz in his book "The Murder Of History" also mention the camouflaged fact behind the formation and development of Muslim league by power Muslim elite of subcontinent, specifically of central province and how they created hatred among Muslims for other religion with the help of molvis and ulamas to propagate their vicious ideology of two nation theory, and how this deviously induced hatred and false nationalism ultimately resulted in the formation of pakistan .one such incident he mention was during the election of 1946 where Muslim league rhetoric urged people during the Friday sermons that their vote for the Muslim league will be the confirm ticket of paradise in the after world . After the independence of Pakistan the powerful elite hijack the country and continue it on the track of hatred and false nationalism, and mislead it citizen by distortion of the fact and figure of history. for this purpose they used their education system specifically their Pakistan study curriculum as weapon to target the young mind in the early stage of their development , he mention that how in our curriculum the historical fact about the 1965 war is distorted marking it as India's aggression which resulted in Pakistan victory and it is still celebrated with zeal as the defense day every year but the reality is totally opposite to it .he is of the opinion that those Pakistan study curriculums are the one who has murdered our history .it is due this eye open book he is designated as traitor by powerful elite and his book is still banned in Pakistan
As he rightly mention that distortion of historical fact to make the citizen unconscious of the mistake made by the state will not strengthen the national cohesion between different ethnic group of Pakistan rather it will only increase injustice, intolerance and further division, which will ultimately result in more poverty, bad governance, economic insecurity, internal and external security challenges for Pakistan. to furthermore precarious situation or even to disintegration of the state. so if we want to sustain and develop as successful nation we should be truly aware of our real history celebrate it but at the same time feel guilty on mistakes which we made in the past and try to rectify them instead of deliberately falsifying and glorifying them.
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