Personality vs Character


**Note:** *This is just a fictional story (obviously) which I wrote while travelling. So do expect mistakes.*

Our hero is sitting at the counter in an empty bar. He is a well-dressed innocent-looking man. He has a whiskey glass in his hand. He looks calm, constantly smiling yet still in some thought. The bartender comes and initiates the conversation with him, which our hero commences with ease. A few police guys enter the club and order soft drinks. They are out investigating a gruesome murder that occurred just a few blocks away. Our hero looks at them calmly. He gives them a toast and drinks whiskey from the glass. After his glass is empty, he asks for more. Then he walks towards the police and asks them why they are here. One policeman informs him about a murder of a woman whom they think was a prostitute. The killer is at a run. They tried searching for the killer but all in vain. So they called the night off and were having the night drinks before going home. While they are talking, they get a ring on their walkie-talkie from their colleague that they have apprehended a black man who ran after seeing them. A knife was produced from him, and he even tried to attack a policeman when he inquired him where did he come from. The black guy kept asking them to let him go. He even resisted his arrest. Upon asking him about the murder, he clearly denies the murder. He doesn't even cooperate when asked about the knife. All of a sudden they all hear a gunshot. This shot was fired by a policeman out of self-defense as the black man became violent and began attacking the policeman.

When the policemen in the bar heard the gunshot, they all rushed to the crime scene. Everyone in the bar is shocked. Our guy then pays his bill and walks out.

In the flashback, it is revealed that the woman who was murdered, was caught red-handed cheating on his lover. Her lover then talks to her, but she becomes violent, resulting in her lover getting mad at her and then killing her in anger with a dagger hung on the wall. When her lover realized his mistake, he cries and walks away, and along the way threw the dagger away.

The black man has a poor ill daughter. He doesn't have any money to pay for her medicines. While he is coming back, his foot hits upon an object. Upon close inspection, it turned out to be the bloody dagger. He puts it in his pocket, thinking that he will sell it in the morning and get some money for his daughter’s medicine. But unfortunately, he is caught by the police. He told them many times that he wasn’t the killer, and he just was going home, but the police didn't listen to him….

Our guy is then revealed to be the killer.


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It is 14th August 2017 today. Every Pakistani within and outside the country; be they are rich or poor; is celebrating it with full zeal and enthusiasm. I don't know about the others. But we overseas Pakistanis feel proud by wearing a Pakistani flag badge and celebrating in the evening. But do these celebrations even have the true essence?

![Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah](Quaid-e-Azam.jpg)

70 years ago we got freedom from the British Raj; India or Hindustan at the time was divided into 2 pieces; India and Pakistan. Due to its geographical distribution, Pakistan at that time was referred as East Pakistan and West Pakistan. Pakistan was the victim of atrocities right after some months of its creation; the first tragedy is the death of its founder Mohammed Ali Jinnah. The tragedies further proceeded with the broad light murder of then Prime Minister Liaquat Ali Khan; The Indo-Pak war in 1965; Separation of East Pakistan then becoming a separate country called Bangladesh in 1971, the formation of Taliban, country level corruptions, bomb blasts, school shootings, honor killings, inflation and so on...

Our beautiful country which in the 60s and 70s was considered as a beautiful country. Tourists used to come here. But then religious fanatics took over this country. They imposed their extreme Ideologies among the people. If someone refused to accept those, they were labelled as not Muslims and infidels. Most of these victims were resulted in them being murdered.

Yet another category of the extremists exist in our society in the form of liberals, whom we normal people call as "Desi Liberals", they do speak ill about Pakistan and Islam citing it as their freedom of speech, but they cry out in pain when someone talks about them or their international masters. They claim themselves to be the ambassadors of human rights, yet they don't care about the people who don't follow their ideologies.

Both above-mentioned categories in their own way consider themselves to be correct and another wrong. Though such group is a tumor for our country; but the main reason for such condition we have in our country is us. Yes, we the people. We do claim ourselves to be true patriots. But are we really sincere to our country? We do corrupt and try to loot our own people. If we don't agree with someone or something, we try to sabotage our own properties.

Being the only Islamic country as a nuclear power, Our country still has the second worst passport in the world. All thanks to the corrupt system of Pakistan where from a low category clerk to an upper-level manager does some sort of corruption.

People attacking their fellow people for a rice plate is not a rare sight in the political gatherings. Give such people some money or a promise to give him a plate of biryani, they can even sell their precious votes to the corrupt person.

Some months ago, an oil tanker overturned and spilled the oil all over the road. Instead of calling someone to the rescue, people gathered there in the greed of free oil. Their greed was short lived as they all were killed in the explosion caused by that oil. It indeed was a shocking incident which shook the country. This could have been prevented had the people would have minded their own businesses and had called the rescue teams or at least the motorway police.

Some days ago, our PM got disqualified. Instead of being ashamed of what he did, he came back again protesting again the Supreme court. Though it would have been excused. But not baiting an eye on the child who was crushed to the death in his rally and calling it as a sacrifice. It really hardened my heart. Some of our own fellow Pakistanis follow him like sheep. It is their right to follow whom they want, but defending him like nothing happened indeed is the sign of how their minds are still slaves.

 We are bound to follow the order of our masters. These masters could in any form. They could be either in the form of money, a superior, or even the chairman of a certain party.

Maybe we have a separate government and a separate piece of land partitioned by a border. But we are still the slaves. Initially we were of the Britishers, and now of the bureaucracy. If we want to, we can indeed break this chain of slavery. But we don't want to do that.

Though it indeed is a blessed day for us Pakistanis. But by observing all such stuff indirectly affecting me. I always used to ask myself that "Are we really independent?"


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