Pakistan Is Not a Failed State, but Its Current Leadership Is in the Hands of a Failed Generation: Hamid Mir
LAHORE (Daily Qudrat): Senior journalist Hamid Mir has written in his column that Pakistan is not a failed state, but its current leadership is in the hands of a failed generation. Here there is an abundance of leaders and a lack of leadership.
In his column published in Daily Jang, he wrote that Justice Javed Iqbal’s autobiography is titled “Apna Gireban Chaak.”
In this book, he wrote that Pakistan is not a failed state, but its current leadership is in the hands of a failed generation. Here there is an abundance of leaders and a lack of leadership. Pakistan is the product of a political and democratic struggle, but today in Pakistan politics and democracy have been made a joke. No one can understand that under a deliberate plan, the new generation is being confused about the concept of Pakistan.
If Iqbal’s relationship with the concept of Pakistan is weakened, what will remain?
پاکستان ناکام ریاست نہیں ہے بلکہ اسکی موجودہ قیادت ایک ناکام نسل کے ہاتھوں میں ہے۔ یہاں قائدین کی بہتات ہے اور قیادت کا فقدان ہے۔ پاکستان ایک سیاسی اور جمہوری جدوجہد کی پیداوار ہے لیکن آج پاکستان میں سیاست اور جمہوریت کو ایک مذاق بنا دیا گیا ہے
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— Hamid Mir حامد میر (@HamidMirPAK) November 2, 2026
Today India’s extremist organisation RSS, through its beloved Prime Minister Narendra Modi, can remove Allama Iqbal from the curricula of India’s universities, but how will it remove Allama Iqbal from the curriculum of Kabul University’s Allama Iqbal Faculty of Arts and Dhaka University’s Department of Islamic Studies and Department of Persian?
On the other hand, Trump’s supporters are troubled by the fact that Iqbal called Tehran the Geneva of the East, and Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei called Iqbal the rising star of the East in his book. Allama Iqbal was the standard-bearer of unity among Muslim countries and the elimination of sectarianism, but even today the ruling elite of many Muslim countries is afraid of Iqbal’s thought, because Iqbal, on one hand, was opposed to the Western capitalist system and feudalism, and on the other hand, also considered monarchy and kingship un-Islamic.
All of Iqbal’s enemies were spitting at the sky yesterday and are spitting at the sky today. The enemies of Iqbal will perish, but Iqbal’s thought will always remain alive.
