“The world is coming down….who rules the world” – with goose bumps - is what we used to sing, running around our school court yard, planning our next sales strategy – in our minds we were selling something. We would visit family and friends, distant and close; just for selling our tickets – we were at the heart of the biggest charity project of our time, collecting donations for the Shaukat Khanam Memorial hospital.
We were too young to understand the phenomenal scope of the disease, for most of us the incentive was Imran’s signed cricket bat – I still haven’t managed to get mine. It was not until a few years later that we started to feel the sense of association and achievement out of what we had done; a world class hospital was built in Lahore and we felt we had contributed to it.
So where did Khawaja go wrong?
What Khawaja failed to realize is that this association is not political, instead it’s a nostalgic one.
Khawaja and other politicians of his times did not delivery, and have undoubtedly contributed to the current state of the country. Today, Pakistan offers difficult life choices to its citizens, and most Pakistanis are left to simply cherish the good old times.
Would Mr. Khawaja let us cherish these times atleast?
We were too young to understand the phenomenal scope of the disease, for most of us the incentive was Imran’s signed cricket bat – I still haven’t managed to get mine. It was not until a few years later that we started to feel the sense of association and achievement out of what we had done; a world class hospital was built in Lahore and we felt we had contributed to it.
So where did Khawaja go wrong?
What Khawaja failed to realize is that this association is not political, instead it’s a nostalgic one.
Khawaja and other politicians of his times did not delivery, and have undoubtedly contributed to the current state of the country. Today, Pakistan offers difficult life choices to its citizens, and most Pakistanis are left to simply cherish the good old times.
Would Mr. Khawaja let us cherish these times atleast?