| A sportsman is a person who is taught to be fair till the | | | | Game should be tackled as game. |
| end of the game. At school level, students are | | | | Whatever our players do on the playground it reflects |
| introduced with sports just to make familiar with | | | | our national character. A defeat or success does not |
| changing situations of success and failure. The main | | | | show our national character. However, any thing |
| objective is to behave normally in both these | | | | unlawful can damage our identity. |
| extremes and to be fair during suspense like situation | | | | Have we ever seen an army general crying after |
| in game. | | | | defeat in war? No, because he is well aware of the |
| Now what Afridi has done is not | | | | fact that defeat is also a reality. However, we have |
| true sportsmanship. It was a blunder but under | | | | assumed that all the successes of the world are |
| pressure. Was it a pressure of defeat? No. it was a | | | | made for us. Success comes after hard work. If any |
| pressure of facing the Pakistani nation. A nation that is | | | | team has defeated our one, it means their struggle |
| never taught how to face failure. Moreover, it is a | | | | was far better than ours. |
| reality that we cannot face failure but still as a nation, | | | | For last 63 years what we are teaching our |
| we are not successful. We always opted for | | | | generations is not wisdom but rather it is totally |
| escapism. Escape from reality, escape from truth, | | | | emotions. We have deceived our young people |
| escape from our past, escape from hard work, | | | | emotionally. That is why whenever they see any |
| escape from knowledge, escape from popular will, | | | | failure they get emotional. Because they are taught |
| escape from rule of majority, escape from modernism. | | | | that we are the best, we have won all wars, India |
| If the players would be confident | | | | attacked like cowards in the darkness of night. Actually |
| in the playground, they could achieve success. But we | | | | all modern warfare is fought at night. How it is possible |
| Pakistanis are so narrow minded that our players have | | | | that India brought its army to borders in just one single |
| adopted such illegal methods to win for us. Have we | | | | night and our intelligence agencies were totally |
| ever said shame shame to our kids when they fail | | | | unaware. Have we ever thought about it? |
| their exams? We want to give them more courage at | | | | If we will teach these fairy tales to our people, they will |
| that time so that they may not loose heart and can | | | | surely behave the same. We must come out of the |
| work in future. On the other side if our players did not | | | | world of fantasies and we must have courage to |
| show good performance, they are treated like traitors. | | | | face the challenges. Challenges cannot be talked by |
| But surprisingly we only demand performance from | | | | emotions only. Rather we should be emotionally hard |
| our players. We have never thought about soldier’s | | | | working and intelligent to deal with the national and |
| performance, our education sector performance, how | | | | international challenges we are facing today. |
| many scientists we have produced since | | | | Our abnormal behavior regarding sports is easy to be |
| independence, how many inventions our scientists | | | | felt and criticize but the way we are dealing with other |
| have done in the field of civil technology, have we | | | | crises is also not based on reality and consciousness. |
| ever thrown rotten eggs on politicians? When we cast | | | | Why we Pakistanis are checked from head to toe in |
| vote what we have in our minds? Just few personal | | | | foreign countries? Why our democratic system is |
| demands and that’s all. Have we ever thought that | | | | always derailed? Why we always welcome dictators? |
| what is a politician performance at district level? | | | | If democracy is not working that is our fault. A dictator, |
| Have we ever protested when | | | | a judge, a pressure group cannot make the |
| these players are selected? Do we know their | | | | democracy work for us. Supporting a usurper cannot |
| characters? Do we know rules of sportsmanship? | | | | make our system strong. Democracy will function well |
| We are hypocrites. On one side on personal level | | | | if the conditions necessary for it are provided. |
| when we fail, we call it our destiny. While on the other | | | | Adopting unlawful methods in game, politics, economics |
| side, we criticize our players for poor performance. | | | | and diplomacy will only defame us as a nation. |