Daily Times

In recent months, a Pakistani television drama ‘Ehd-e-Wafa’ produced with the collaboration of Inter Services Public Relations became very famous among people.

Many of you must have watched every episode of this drama but for those who haven’t seen the drama, a brief summary is that this is a story of four college friends, struggles and successes of their lives. All four belonged to completely different backgrounds and similarly in professional life they joined entirely different fields. Saad become an Army Captain, Shehryar become a Bureaucrat, Shariq become a Media Anchor and Shahzain become MNA.

Most of the people liked the story, characters and script of the drama and it got a massive recognition and viewership among audiences. As this drama truly exposed the negative shades of our politics, media, bureaucracy and society. That’s why some people criticized it saying that only bad image of these three institutions (Politics, Media, and Bureaucracy) is portrayed in drama and one institution Military is regarded as the best. There is a huge debate and discussions on social media platforms and even in drawing rooms that this drama was an attempt to defame the three institutions (Politics, Media, and Bureaucracy) and show of superiority of one state institution over other three. Unfortunately, we as a nation developed the habit of finding negative aspects in everything. It’s the negativity in our minds that makes us think and look on the negative points rather than focusing on positive things. As always, some social media journalists also played their negative role in influencing our minds and thoughts that this drama is anti-civilian or against civilian supremacy.

Unfortunately, we as a nation developed the habit of finding negative aspects in everything. It’s the negativity in our minds that makes us think and look on the negative points rather than focusing on positive things. As always, some social media journalists also played their negative role in influencing our minds and thoughts that this drama is anti-civilian or against civilian supremacy

If we can look deeply at the last episode of this drama, we can better understand the positive message conveyed in it. As we know that those four characters, represented different backgrounds and professions but still they were close friends. They sometimes fought and got angry with each other but they remained together. They preferred merit and professional principle during in their respective area of work and worked for progress and betterment by setting aside their personal liking, disliking and differences. With all the clashes that arose between them, they stood with each other and remained united for their common cause, which was to serve Pakistan.

The lesson which we (general public) and our state institutions as a whole can learn is that we all are the part of this country. We may belong to the different backgrounds and professions but we can work together on a common goal, which is the progress and development of Pakistan. All the four major institutions: Military, Bureaucracy, Media and Politicians could work and should work together for the development of the country. All these four pillar of the states can be friends and support each other for prosperity of the nation. I think from 73 years of our existence as an independent nation, we lack joint effort and collaboration between our state institutions and now we are in need of an “Ehd-e-Wafa” with Pakistan.

The writer is a student of Media & Communication Studies at the International Islamic University Islamabad. He’s also a freelancer and can be reached at chhaseebakhtar1993@gmail.com