From abducting civilians and journalist’s to banning books, there lies a bewildered dystopia. A Punjab Assembly board has chosen to boycott appropriation of three books by various writers, other than a day by day paper, and start lawful activity against in excess of hundred online networking IDs for supposedly containing irreverent substance. The Special Committee-6, which met at the get together secretariat here on Thursday under the seat of Law Minister Muhammad Basharat Raja, chose to boycott distribution as well as dissemination of The First Muslim and After the Prophet, the two works by outside creator Lesley Hazleton, and History of Islam by Mazharul Haq. The melancholic history of burning and banning Books has its roots back to when the Chinese emperor Shih Haung Ti buried alive 460 Confucian scholars to control the writings of History in his time. In 212 B.C, he burned all the books in his kingdom retaining only a single copy of each for the royal library. In the case of Pakistan, ideas of intellectuals that are allowed into the mainstream are sublimated through the meniscus of state ideology.
This truly depicts the Fascistphysiognomy and preconceptions of this totalitarian and authoritarian government lead by Imran khan. The so called intelligent morons of this land of pures and the harbingers of single curriculum had vanished the critical voices from the discourse of History. The decision of banning books reminds me of the Nazi’s in Germany when in 1930, they organized book-banning ceremonies. Books considered to be against the intrigues of the “Father land” were set on fire by the followers of supra Nationalist Adolf Hitler. Now, officials claiming that thousands of books are being banned in Punjab. This is the result of the critical nexus between the Military and religious establishment whose pre-eminence is to breed the politics of hate, repression, racism and misogyny.
The prosperous and democratic nation’s of the world disbanded the matters of extremism, Fanaticism and racism and we in the 21st century are banning books to get rid of un Islamic and anti Pakistani content. Instead of banning Books, we should have banned the dystopian elements and instead of following Hitler we should have followed the ideologies of Voltaire, Rene Descartes and Thomas Hobbes. Since 25 July 2018, this selected government has ruined the country in every way possible. The Punjab government in order to let people forget about their callous and incompetent policies decided to ban more than hundred books for having the picture of pig. As predicted by Pakistan’s renowned physicist and columnist DR. Pervez Hood boy earlier this week. He said and I quoted “ be prepared, Pakistan! Imran Khan’s government is poised to inflict damage upon this country’s Education system in a manner never seen before”.
The stage is all set for propelling the country into instability, turmoil and chaos. The maximalist behavior of this regime has hurt the social life of masses. Instead of erasing the male practices from society, the government looks more concerned about removing critical voices from the curriculum. The victims of Pakistan studies wants everyone to fall in their category. Banning books wouldn’t help in propagating the state’s Fascist ideology. It will further reveal the filthy and acrimonious attitude of the tyrants. Here in Pakistan Islam is not in danger because of tiktok andbooks accused of containing blasphemous and anti Pakistani content but what is more menacing is sectarianism, extremism and terrorism. Therefore instead of adding fuel to the fire, the authorities responsible should halt all these social and ethical evils that are plaguing the society. So in order to make this country a democratic one this system of repression and suppressing freedom of speech and freedom of expression must be ended. Believing in miracles is the biggest miracle as an enlightenment philosopher lament’s, so looking for a miracle in case of this land of pures. In essence and to cut this debate short, the decision needs to be looked upon and allowing full freedom to the citizens will yield better results.
