A well-known Kenyan philosopher and author Ngugi says that the colonial masters attempted to erase the history of the people and enforced their history upon the colonized people to do away with colonized identities and to create hybridity and confusion in the identity of these people. His point of view proves that without history we cannot maintain our culture and our identity and in the absence of history it is difficult for any nation or state to relate with its people, culture and its status in the world. In today’s world, the subject of history is being ignored in the sense that we teach more other subjects and less of history. Consequently, our young generation is forgetting what their history is, who their heroes were and whom they should follow and refer to to get the answer to who they are. Pakistani people are already in a confusion because of the multiplicity of characters, cultures, languages and multiple races and colours they feel confused about their identity especially because of their different colonial backgrounds. And above all many of the Pakistani people have stopped thinking about their history and as it deserved. They are unable to relate themselves to their past and even to their present. So much so that we have stopped paying attention to the history of English literature which enabled us to understand multiple movements literary and non-literary movements which made the possibility of English literature as a dominant colonial phase but now because of decreasing attention towards the history we are unable to understand and unable to predict what literature possibly can do. The same we have done with our literature. Not only has the production of literature dwindled but also the healthy debate on literature has also lost its vigor and enthusiasm. Our young generation is forgetting what their history is, who their heroes were and whom they should follow and refer to get the answer to who they are. This background and the sociopolitical scenarios of Pakistan have made it impossible to grow like a nation which is culturally embedded in history. This is reflected by George Orwell also with a similar tone in his dystopian novel 1984 where the writer explores how history has been erased and reinvented to suit the totalitarian regime. Most people know only the historical events that are told to them. So, in this novel, people find it difficult to realize their identity as a community and live instead like a group shaped and organized by the controlling regime. Similarly, the ‘fiction department’ keeps engaged in erasing real history and instead incorporates the devised historical ones. It means that literature produced over the years of a nation also becomes a part of the national history which perpetuates the sociopolitical identity of society. In Pakistan, the literature could not play that role because it has neither been debated positively nor has been produced for the same purpose, which has assigned us the identity of multiple groups’ identity, not the identity of the nation and so, we lack a lot of sociopolitical cohesion. Had the literature been produced and debated upon creatively and originally, we would possess a literary history which would play a significant role in shaping the national scene as a unified whole, instead of fragmentation. Not only literary history but also sociopolitical history shapes our culture and helps it sustain also. Culture is the combination of traditions and customs, songs and celebrations and the commemoration of the national heroes. Culture also means sustainability and the continuation of events and celebrations. It is a fact that the altering sociopolitical realities also shape and mould cultural representations. It is during the process of historicizing culture that some aspects of culture lose their significance while some retain the same by their persistence. These persistent aspects become cultural traditions and customs and formulate and determine the identity of the people. The acculturation caused by the colonial, decolonial and postcolonial processes made the Pakistani nation undergo the loss of such cultural institutions and hence a large portion of history and there the confusion in determining the identity. We need to deal with this section through a two-pronged strategy. First by linking ourselves with our history and letting the people know our true history from the school to university level along thesociopolitcal debate in the community. Secondly, we may strengthen our cultural roots and social institutions, especially moral institutions. As a corollary to this, our literature in Urdu as well as regional languages must be encouraged at all levels. The translations of regional language literature may be made available throughout the country. We must not forget our colonial baggage because we need to make our people clear that the legacies of colonialism have their impact but at the history and cultural level we must decolonize our minds. We must also acknowledge that the global technological fronts are offering and confronting us with ever-new and formidable challenges which are moulding and reshaping a few of the cultural patterns at the industrial and social levels. We may absorb these trends at the level of the global financial system but not at the cost of erasing our cultural and historical patterns to maintain the identity of our nation. The writer is a professor of English at Government Emerson University, Multan. He can be reached at zeadogar@hotmail.com and Tweets at @Profzee