On August 14, 2025, Pakistani nation is celebrating its 78thIndependence Day with a renewed fervour, devotion and novel passion.
This year, Independence Day is being celebrated by Pakistan as a victorious nation through Marka-e-Haq where the Pakistani Military gave a befitting response to Indian military aggression. Under Marka-e-Haq, Pakistani Military Operation “Bunyan-ul-Marsoos” has added new dimensions in modern warfare. It was launched and accomplished against an enemy state, whose military is three times bigger than its size. Pakistani Military defeated all Indian war strategies and its hegemonic designs of becoming a regional hegemon in South Asia through its military might, bigger geography, massive population, booming economy and disillusioned Hindutva ideology.
The forefathers of the Pakistani nation paid a huge price and gave unprecedented sacrifices for a separate homeland for the Muslims of South Asia in the form of Pakistan. Sequel to the War of Indian Independence-1857, the Muslim population of India was alienated by Colonial British rulers and the Hindu majority. This deep sense of alienation, discrimination and humiliation compelled the Muslims to think for their separate identity and ultimately a homeland of their own. The Urdu-Hindi controversy-1867 was the first major event, which forced Muslim leaders like Sir Syed Ahmed Khan, a great advocate of Hindu-Muslim unity to take a different stance and different course of action. Despite his efforts for reconciliation with Hindu leadership, Sir Syed Ahmed Khan had to say, “When even the language of a nation is not safe at the hands of other nations in a region, it would be unwise to continue living with them.”
In the later years, Muslims had to face apathy and discrimination even from the platform of ‘Indian National Congress’ established to take care of political rights of native Indians. Hindu leadership totally dominated this so-called liberal platform and used it for their political and socio-economic gains. Establishment of All India Muslim League in 1906, the fourteen points of Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah-1929 and Allahabad Address of Allama Dr Muhammad Iqbal-1930, gave further impetus for the establishment of a separate Muslim identity and a separate homeland for the Muslim of India.
The Pakistan Resolution (Lahore Resolution-1940) was a decisive moment and a milestone which paved the way for a Muslim homeland and in later years, Pakistan became the destination of Indian Muslims, living all over the subcontinent. Seven years after the Lahore Resolution, on August 14, 1947, Pakistan became a reality. This indeed was the consequence of hectic efforts of our forefathers and painful history of discrimination from Hindu and colonial rulers.
Today, after 78 years of independence, Pakistan is facing a number of challenges. These challenges being faced by the state and society of Pakistan are even more crucial, uncertain, hostile and dangerous than our forefathers faced during the crucial days of the Pakistan Movement. Today, the anti-Pakistan forces are more in numbers and lethal in effect. They have both covert and overt presence inside and outside Pakistan. These challenges are both internal and external, having intimate connections and linkages with enemies of Pakistan. The elements of extremism, radicalization and terrorism are only their tangible forms.
The old rivals of Pakistan are now regrouping in a number of new forms and formats. The strategies, these forces are adopting, are very treacherous, aiming to destroy the very basis of the state and society of Pakistan. These forces want to defeat and destroy the social filament and the ideology of the Pakistani nation. The social structure and ideological bondage of Pakistani society is being shattered through the promotion of ethnicity, sectarianism and radicalization. These factors have damaged the traditional coherence and harmony that Pakistani society enjoyed for centuries.
Whereas, the rival forces could solely and gradually proliferate into the roots of the peaceful Pakistani society to create a fissure and exploit those subsequently, the political leadership, the religious scholars and intellectual and academics are found wanting in playing their desired role of maintaining the harmony and coherence in the society. They could not develop a counter narrative against the covert and overt strategies of the anti-state forces.
Through a number of military operations, the defence forces of Pakistan have destroyed the organized bases of militants; however, with the return of the Interim Taliban Government in Afghanistan in 2021, TTP and BLA have started re-grouping inside and outside Pakistan. Indian RAW and Afghan Taliban Government are fully supporting TTP and BLA for conducting terrorism in Pakistan. Both have carried out thousands of terrorist attacks against Pakistani military and civilians. Pakistani security forces deserve a special appreciation for countering the organized terrorism of anti-state TTP, BLA (Fitna al-Khawarij and Fitna Al-Hindustan). Indeed, Indian RAW and Israeli Mossad are fully funding, training and abetting these terrorists. Through hectic Military Diplomacy of Field Marshal Asim Munir, Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA) and its alias-Majeed Brigade, has been declared as Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTO) by the US.
On the eve of 78th Independence Day, let’s promise that we will serve our beloved country Pakistan by all means by bridging internal fault-lines; ethnicity, factionalism, provincialism and sectarianism. As a promising nation, let’s utilize all our energies for the promotion of unity, development of our nation through educational excellence, social cohesion and harmony, development of youth, economic wellbeing of the country and above all through technological advancement in line with modern nations of the world. Besides, let’s defeat all the conspiracies being hatched against the state, society and ideology of Pakistan.
