So Indian sports darling, tennis star Sania Mirza and Pakistan’s cricket star, Shoaib Malik finally got married on Monday 12, April 2010. But what a ruckus exploded, created by some people in both the nations.
Weddings are supposed to be personal human bonding and only, perhaps, the parents got any rights to criticize or approve directly. But here, political parties and associations from both nations got involved!
On the Indian side, some extremist political parties and medias scorned at the wedding, saying that if the Indian sports star married the Pakistani cricketer, she should not represent India, anymore, and her liberties in India should be curtailed somewhat.
Pakistan, of course, being the habitual doer of the opposite to rile India, took glee in the wedding. Politicians and celebrities wowed to make the occasion a great festivity. The marriage partners were congratulated in excesses and companies were even offering extraordinary honeymooning privileges.
My question is this. Why not the countries, which were one single nation at one time, throw all their differences out of the window for a while, and take this opportunity to join hands just as the sports couple did, and celebrate the occasion together. Must they be on the opposite sides, always? The Indians and Pakistanis should not forget that the same blood runs amongst many of them.
On the Indian side, some extremist political parties and medias scorned at the wedding, saying that if the Indian sports star married the Pakistani cricketer, she should not represent India, anymore, and her liberties in India should be curtailed somewhat.
Pakistan, of course, being the habitual doer of the opposite to rile India, took glee in the wedding. Politicians and celebrities wowed to make the occasion a great festivity. The marriage partners were congratulated in excesses and companies were even offering extraordinary honeymooning privileges.
My question is this. Why not the countries, which were one single nation at one time, throw all their differences out of the window for a while, and take this opportunity to join hands just as the sports couple did, and celebrate the occasion together. Must they be on the opposite sides, always? The Indians and Pakistanis should not forget that the same blood runs amongst many of them.
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