January 02 2010
Pakistan Youth Revolution, Go Green Pakistan and Me
Pakistan is my soul, Pakistan is my life, Pakistan is my world. I am a Pakistani and I am proud to be one. Where ever I’ll go in this world, I will be recognized with my identity and my identity is the name of the nation to which I belong too. In August 2009, Farhan Masood and I started an online campaign called “Go Green Pakistan” which took a strange turn in the online community of Pakistan. The patriotism that we were losing in our busy life, started to return back. Oh, by the way Farhan Masood is not my blood related brother. Our last names matched by coincidence 
Beside Go Green I joined a group called “Pakistan Youth Revolution” (PYR) started by Muhammad Jahanzaib Khan, a youth community which started gathering people online who wants to do something for Pakistan. First of all, I would like to clearly mention that PYR is not a political organization nor it’s some kind of NGO. PYR is only a group of people who wants to put the positive impact of Pakistan on the map of this world. Daily we hear some strange news about Pakistan which creates a negative image of Pakistan, but no one is looking at the positive things happening in the country. I would only say, Pakistan is the land of opportunities. Yes, but only if you love your motherland and stop expecting things back from her. Isn’t it more than enough that Pakistan gave us space to live an independent and free life?
Many people contradicted and criticized us, and I became the target of many strange words from people I thought who are Pakistani. The first thing we heard was “You did all this to become famous” and then about Go Green Campaign some people said “GGP is collecting photos of people to misuse them“. I have nothing to say in return to them, because my Allah knows the purity of my heart better than people. About fame, I or anyone else who is the part of PYR or GGP are not looking for fame. If we appear on any TV Channel, it is only to deliver our message to those people who are just hearing bad news about Pakistan all day long. We want to deliver our message to Pakistan and the whole world. If you have any other better idea then tell us. Now I’m sure, everyone will get quite because there is no other medium to reach the 13 crore people of Pakistan and tell them that there are many young people in Pakistan who wants to work for their land and has a message of LOVE & PEACE.
One last thing that I would like to request to all the Pakistani people is to stop sharing bad news and videos of our country in online social network communities like facebook, orkut, myspace, etc. and also stop criticizing the happenings in Pakistan. Online community made this world a global village, but by writing such negative blogs about Pakistan puts a 10 times more negative image on the world as compared to a simple TV News. In my next article, I’ll write about “How online blogging community is powerful than electronic media” which will help you understand what I said in a better way.
Nice work! I wish you do more for your country with more enthusiasm and zeal. GGP and PYR are just the routes, which can lead us to our true destination of unity and strength. In the end, its us, who can make the difference in the society by changing ourselves for the better.
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nice writeup. and i just want to say that when you are moving towards a goal people may start throwing stones at you now its up to u that whether u use them to built a wall in ur bath or a bridge towards a goal.
@ Rumaisa .. Thank you very much. Yes, small drops of water makes the sea. I hope everyone gathers in this peace work and make a sea and then an ocean of love and peace.
@ Rai Azlan .. Very true, I guess I’ll make a bridge to walk over those hurdles and move forward
YOU ARE REALLY DOING A GREAT JOB……….
INSHALLAH WE WILL OUR PAKISTAN BRIGHT, MODERN, DEVELOPE …………WORLD WILL SEEEE……..
nice job.carry on