In children’s story book a famous story says once there was
a city on fire. There was chaos and panic. Everybody was running. They were
leaving the city to save their lives, when meanwhile a little bird was carrying
some water to the burning city, all of the birds were mocking and making fun of
the little bird, they said when everyone is trying to leave the city how do you
think your little water can save it, and the bird replied I’m doing it so that
I won’t regret tomorrow that my city was burning and I couldn’t help it. I
couldn’t play my role. Pakistan and India, the two mighty nations of the
subcontinent if are not on the fire but they are at least nearer to that. Whether the lack of sincerity from the
leadership or the lack of understanding of the masses, whatever the reason is,
they have had more than a century to live with prejudice and animosity. .It is
when more people are threatened and fear is injected to them a large army is
formed and we both nations have huge number of people “ready to fight”.
As both nations are progressing in education people are
getting smarter to be cheated. Living in a family under the same roof we fight
with our brothers and sisters. We yell at them, we hit them but deep inside us
we also know that we are one. We share the same blood and whatever we do to
each other we cannot be separated. The
same thing goes with these two nations. When there is a cricket match we want
Pakistan to beat India but when India is playing against any other nation all
Pakistani becomes Indian fans. Then there prayers goes with Indian team.
Building peace project by Red Elephant Foundation, may be
not known to many. most of the people may have not heard of it but it is an
initiative that is determined to work like that little bird. It is an initiative
to start dialogue and getting to know each other from a very common ground.
There are 20 people so far under this project but how great it will be when
this number reaches to hundreds and thousands. Because by neglecting the
differences and acknowledging humanity and that common spirit which made us to
live for more than hundred years on the same land can bring peace and harmony
to our people
