Where Are The Green Flags?
Is it really 14 August tomorrow? Why are the spirits so low? Where are the rooftop flags and the ubiquitous stalls selling them? Why isn’t the town ‘green’ yet?
I, and almost everyone else, can recall those good ol’ Independence Days, when every car had something green to participate in the 14 August celebrations. No house was seen without at least one flag on its rooftop. What about those stalls selling little badges, paper flags, masks, huge flags, Azadi melodies, etc. and played music at annoyingly high levels? Everything seems to be part of some distant past now.
On my street where people used to compete for putting up the flags first on their rooftops, I haven’t seen a single flag this time. I didn’t manage to spot a single flag-selling agent on the main Rashid Minhas Road (Karachi) which used to be crowded with them from the first day of August.
Something has changed or some things have changed. Is this the worst Independence Day we are to witness or the worst is yet to come?
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Lets hope for some flicker of light around.
Though we haven’t left much of Pakistan, the Pakistan that was anticipated and the one we’ve made out of it.
Hmmm there can be numerous reasons for that. it may include political instability in the country.may be people have lot of other stuff to think about. may be governement is not so supportive this time..may be……
What ever it is, i don’t like the feel of it…..i am still in the office and hope to go out on the road at 12 am(as that is the closing time)…i wish i could see the same old spirit.
I think the people of Pakistan have realized that despite winning independence 61 years ago, they still might have to fight again for their freedom.
well things were not that bad after all….i had a chance of roaming Lahore’s street at 9 am…surprisingly the roads were empty with few travellers here and there. the good thing was most them have some thing on there vechile representing it was the independence day. what was not good was that i didn’t saw all thoese flags on the roof tops. on my way to my native city Gujranwala i saw many people celeberating independence day by weraing green shirts…having flags on there bikes/veichles…ispite of all that there were no flags on the roof tops. in our local wapda town park people were having a picinic (thats the best people in gujranwala can get other than gulshan iqbal park)….In all despite of all the uncertainity and price hike there were still people who were enjoying the day as it ought to be….May Pakistan live forever…Pakistan Zindabad