Comments on: Disdain for history

By: Irony

Irony — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 02:57:19 +0000

The indus valley civilization and other pre islamic era heritage belong to India and its people. More so to the subcontinent. Pakistan only has the land on which they belong. The entire culture and history is of India. Only the ticket sales go to Pakistan. Anyways u guys are embaressed by non islamic heritage in ur country rite!!!

By: Ashish

Ashish — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 21:24:18 +0000

The author is right – why keep a piece of crappy India? why keep a piece of crappy ancestors in the backyard?

By: BRR

BRR — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 19:42:12 +0000

It is clearly more than mere disdain, it is an attempt to erase collective memory, to deny any connection to an pre-islamic past, to make sure the future generations have absolutely no link to their heritage. It is not mere inefficiency, rather it is a systematic attempt to erase a past, with the active connaivance of those incharge of such monuments. It is an attempt to setup an Islamic republic on the ruins of old heritages, and ensure no one remembers the past.

By: S. Baluja

S. Baluja — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 18:51:45 +0000

Your editorial has said it correctly-you don’t learn history, you don’t learn from it.
Those who do not learn from history, are comemned to repeat it.
It is beyond belief that there is so much disdain(nafrat) from learning history other than Islamic history. There are and were civilizations ,other than what is taught in Pakistan schools. Children’ horizon will never broaden and they will remain KOOP- MANDUK( kuain ka maindak/ a frog in the well). A sad commentry on a religion, which once was on the pinnacle of science, discovery, progress, power and prosperity. How far , it has fallen behind ! Nobody is to be blaimed, but oneself.

By: Dr. D. Prithipaul

Dr. D. Prithipaul — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 17:53:39 +0000

One cannot but laugh at the irony contained in the article. There is no need for Buddhist artefacts in an Islamic country, as the Taliban demonstrated in 2001, when they dynamited the Bamiyan Buddhas for the sake of preserving the integrity of the Islamic state. After all it is an important part of the history of Indian Islam that Buddhism had to endure genocidal obliteration. What the developers are doing in Taxila is only a continuation of what was initiated some 6 centuries ago. The irony is evident in what now is Heritage was once. that is, yesterday, deserving of elimination according to the dictates of God. So where is the harm? What relation does the Pakistani have with Buddhism? Did not Pakistan, with Saudi Arabian collaboration, foster the rise of the Talibans? Is not the Taliban a preferred substitute for Buddhist ruins?