Oh dear Malala, oh poor baby what happened to you? You were such a bright shining star. You were destined to enlighten the world, you were a born hero, blustering with a disease called natural charisma. You were right on the right path. I knew you as the daughter of KPK, the symbol of Pashton pride. I always thought that you would prove all those exploitative females wrong. Those who, in the greed of changing the world, turn themselves into a pitiful display of westernised fuss. I thought to myself, this girl would carry our traditions, our way of life and show it to the world. Our girls, though traditional, have the will and ambition to change the world. But then you got shot. I never knew such despair, such loss of faith in my country. The only thing near to it was the killing of Hakeem Saeed. It was a joy to see you survive, but Malala, kiddo, are you even aware of the things that you are doing, the things that you say on the foreign media? The dirty picture you portray of your homeland and the place you were born, are you doing it intentionally, or what? You have become a symbol for female education and fight against oppression, every word you say is heard, aired and published. But whenever I see you on TV, all you have to say to the world is an ugly tale of Pakistan, and I have had enough of it! Last night I saw you in an interview, where you were telling about your new school in the UK. Of course it would be a great school but why would you mention that schools in your area beat students? Why would you pose that we treat our women and students in the worst possible manner? Why do you do that all the time? Women are oppressed around the world! Why don’t you stand up for global education and all the oppressed females of the world? Why your idols are mother Teresa, Joan of Arc, and Benazir Bhutto? You find heroes in the heroes of the west. Why, in your ideals, Obama stands higher then Quaid-e-Azam and Benazir Bhutto is more charismatic then Fatima Jinnah? You pose in interviews that women are subjugated to adjunct oppression, to the extent that they are shot in the country. Next time you mention it, don’t forget to mention that women around the world are subjected to oppression and its not only Pakistan. If you want to stand for female education, then do talk about India and Bangladesh, the state of women is far grave then women in Pakistan. Please for once mention the high achieving Pakistani women, those who worked hard, defied odds and stood against the social norms to win accolades in all walks of life, and those who earned it. Unlike those who shot to fame by western propaganda. I don’t know why don’t you see a starlet in Nasim Hameed, a girl from poor conservative class, taking part in athletics, and becoming the fastest woman in south Asia. Are you even aware of Maria Toorpakay Wazir, you are from Swat, she is from the tribal region of South Waziristan, hence from the Wazir tribe. She is Pakistan’s top ranking female squash player and worlds’ 49th. She use to train in Peshawar as a boy to avoid social predicaments. But you wont see her struggle and you don’t see her strive. I am damn sure that you don’t even know the name of Shahida Malik, the first female Major General in Pak Army. Shahida Malik served the medical core and she was the Inspector general of 31 army hospitals. Do you even know the number of men that saluted her everyday? Dr. Shama Khalid did free summer camps in the distant region of Gilgat Baltistan for over a decade. She started it alone until she became the first ever female Governor of Gilgat Baltistan. She is the first woman governor of Pakistan. But I assume her efforts to provide free health to the people of that distant region mean nothing to you. You wont ever mention them on any media. Namira Saleem became the first Pakistani women to go in space as qualified astronaut. She was there before the Pakistani men. I fail to understand that if people from your region of the country are this bad, then how and why badam zari contested the polls in 2013 election from Bajur. What about Aisha Gulalai, a name synonymous with human rights and education in FATA. She is tribal, she is a Wazir, her home is in South Waziristan. You don’t find them heroic or my be you’d do but you are too young to know about them. My dear Malala, you are too young to understand the fact that by mentioning ideals of different society, different cultural and different religion, you are letting down all the heroic females mentioned above. The name you take as your heroes or idols are missionary, it looks like you are bandwagging, it looks as if you are the speakerphone of the west, telling the world, how brutal, tyrant, chauvinistic Pakistani society is. Those, who you say you idolise, are so missionary, even by western standards that Rosa Park might want to shy away from the pages of history. When you say that Joan of Arc inspires you, you let down every woman in Pakistan who stood up against oppression, who stood for the rights of women in Pakistan. You let down Parveen Rehman of organi pilot project and many others. They think that they fail to inspire a young girl like you but I guess you don’t know that. Soon you will get the Nobel Prize, and I am sure in your speech you wont even mention any Pakistan women because they fail to inspire you. It was the responsibility of your dad to tell you about Fatima Jinnah and bi amma, before he told you about Oprah. It was the responsibility of your dad to tell you about the people of the east and their deep-rooted association with there culture. But I guess he is a shameful parent. hmkyz.wordpress/2013/10/10/shame-on-your-dad/
Posted on: Tue, 15 Oct 2013 13:56:36 +0000
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