Fakhar Khan: Pakistan Day Celebrations 23 March 2014 (My Speech on Unity )

The contents of my speech on unity delivered in the event of Pakistan Day celebrations in Seoul, Korea under the management of Pakistan Community Korea. Here is a link to the speech
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4dq_Li_rwk Although I deliver this speech in national language Urdu, here is a translated version.

I always feel happy when I have an opportunity to visit such gatherings where people from my nation have a get together to share their happiness and discuss their common issues. Sitting under the shade of green flag, conferring on how to bring more happiness and harmony to our community here In Korea always bring me an internal peace and is a source of recreation for me. I always feel proud when I see people of my land representing the green flag in different international forums and becoming a source of earning good name for my beloved Pakistan. Whenever I see a Pakistani guy getting a good job abroad, representing our adored nation among the other nations of the world, my heart is filled with pride and pleasure and I feel alive. That is a reason why I fell in love with all those people and unintentionally my respect increase for them. I can see many people in Korea who are a symbol of pride for Pakistan and among many of those I would name Dr Asad, Dr Sabir, Zahid Hussain, A.B Saim, Ikram Khan, Dr. Gul, Saeed Khan, Tanveer Abbasi and Wali Khan.

At the same time I feel dishearten when I see destruction, disrespect and self-centeredness among the members of Pakistan community. I really feel surprised when I see people of my nation quarreling for their own name and don’t care about the image of their beloved nation. It really make me upset when I see people being slaved to their egos ruins the good name of a nation. It kills me softly when I see that people of my nation are dividing themselves on the basis of provincial, ethnic and bilingual groups. Sometimes our quick decisions bring us down not only destroying our own image but the whole nation. All these situations lead to disrespect and disbelieve among the members of community and I can see some of us are moving towards this situation which will bring the whole community to its knee sooner or later.

Few months back our student’s community has some problems which have divided the community into many groups and a situation of disrespect was created among the students members. Thanks to the special efforts of Pakistan Community Korea and the honorable Zulfiqar Khan and Khalid Khan who managed to bring both the groups to sit together and solve the common issues in a peaceful discussion. That was a great day of my life when all the students’ community members agree to the same chartered of life under the one and only green flag and for the betterment of our nation. Hats off to all the individuals whose efforts made it possible. I am very thankful to all of them personally to bring all the students to a single platform named as Pakistani Students in South Korea (PSAK). That was indeed a great example of unity and respect for the mutual honor of country.

One thing is worth mention here that I wrote a blog about the Pakistan Community Korea in which I mentioned about the three pillars of Pakistan community Korea i.e. the Students, businessman and workers community all together working under the umbrella of Pakistan Community Korea. This blog get a viral read in different countries and become very famous as was published in a renowned website of IAG 2014. Many of my foreigner friends were surprised as they said we didn’t know about such an organized community of Pakistan in Korea. This was really proud moment for me to get this kind of response but “all was not good as we can see all is not good”. Facts cannot be changed with the use of pen. And the fact is that we still need a lot of improvements to be one of the most organized communities of Korea. We people are divided in groups on the basis of our personal likes and dislikes. We love our egos more than anything else. And that is why we are unable to keep our progress in the right direction. As Iqbal Said”

“Khud Badalty Nahi, Quran Ko Badal daithay hain”.

We know our loop wholes, we know what our discrepancies are, but we don’t want to change our selves, we don’t want to bring a positive revolution in our lives. In fact we don’t want to surrender our egos toward our mutual benefits. We are doing politics even sitting abroad. In this respect we keep our priorities first putting the national interest behind. Look, what we are doing in Korea, these days spreading an environment of disrespect and haters through face book and internet. We are spreading rumors against each other’s. There are solutions for every problem but we are doing the opposite things.

For God sake my friends, it’s not time to be divided, rather it’s time to put our hands together to bring peace and prosperity to our community and our country. Let us make this day (the 23 March) a day of commitment with ourselves that we would always prefer the interest of nation putting our ego behind. As a matter of fact, to go to a high status, we need to forgive on certain issues and things. Sometimes we need to absorb all those things which are against our mood, to gain respect we need to give it first to every person around us.

I would present my own poem specially written for this occasion,