Seraiki Identity
Seraikis have no doubt the pride of being the largest of Pakistani nations. Unlike Balochs, Pukhtoons and Punjabis, they have not any national relations, without the geographical borders of Pakistan. They are the inheritors of great Indus Valley Civilization. Buddhism, Hinduism and Islam flourished here and then spread to other parts of Indian subcontinent.
Seraiki wasaib bore the brunt of all invaders from North West in the span of history, but its civilization was so rich and strong that it absorbed all of them soon. Seraiki land was much larger than our present demand of Seraiki Sooba, which is further decreasing by the misguiding term of Janubi Punjab, and I am sorry to say that most of our Seraiki leaders are ready to accept this term and feel content with it.
It is irony that Seraiki wasaib was united in the period of much accursed One Unit.
At present Seraiki is the second largest language of Balochistan, NWFP, and Sindh and also the Punjabi is not the largest language in Punjab if Pothohari is excluded from.
As for as our demand for Seraiki province; no one can deny it. But we should be clear about the fact that the achievement of this end is not a sole solution of our national aspirations. Sindhis, Balochs and Pukhtoons: having their provinces since long and are fighting for their national rights. They are not satisfied with the present federation, and are contemplating about separation.
Can we think of it? Integrity of Pakistan is our integrity, and no one can claim to be more committed Pakistani than Seraikis. We want our cultural, social and economic rights to be achieved by our committed and sane movement and: in the same way we support the demands of other oppressed nations in Pakistan and expect of them the same.
Instead of chanting hollow slogans, we need a lot of research work in field of economic, culture, literature and history of wasaib. We have a splendid history religious harmony propagated by our soofi saints, and help eliminate the extremism from our wasaib.
(Users are invited to carry on this necessary) discussion)
Ijaz Bloach


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Post edited by: admin, at: 2007/07/23 15:15

Assalam O Alaikum! You are Completely right. But I think that the main cause of our backwardness is illeteracy. Most people of our wasaib prefer Work to Education for their children. This is not good. We* must Educate our children first. If our new generation will be literate and well educated, it will be able to want its rights more affectively. So our first and foremost mission must to educate our wasaib.

*("We" mean our Seraiki Wasaib)

Post edited by: Habib Ullah, at: 2007/07/24 09:07

Brothers and sisters,

Thanks for raising identity issues and this debate. I believe to see forward and not back, history and culture is always help us to identify and progress but sometime same things become tool of oppression as well. Therefore, we should be moderate, not leaving our ethics, culture, history and try to fill the gaps and try for more betterment according to our capabilities and resources. Obviously if seraiki soba campaigners had not done the work, we could not speak this time of moment but if (yes if) they had not done much, we should use our powers now to develop what they have left for us to do,

So action rather then reaction is better for progress. As far as seraiki people I had the illusion and I still hold it that seraiki people are intelligent, genius and able to do progress but not hard working, and the on top of that they “sabir shakir” on taqdeer. On the other hand, Punjabis are hard working and I do not want to comment on their intelligence.
We must try to raise profile of seraiki sooba without thinking that because Baluchistan, Sindh and NWFP still struggling for their rights, so we should give up demanding seraiki sooba. We should demand more powerfully and consistently and then obviously we will demand any other right if we need it, it is continuing process and not one off exercise

Keep working hard and help each other

i am

your brother

Mansoor Hassan