Pakistan is a safe place

There was a misconception or it might be a reality that Pakistan was a dangerous place for foreigners who want to visit here for sake of tourism, educations, jobs etc. Very small number of people were visiting Pakistan from other places of world since War against terrorism stated. There was a perception of people around the world that it is the worlds most dangerous place because every second day we could hear news of killings, terrorist attacks, suicide bombs being exploded. 

              Not more than a decade before we can see foreigners in Pakistan and they used to be happy visiting our country. Specially on the roads of Lahore, Islamabad, Karachi and places like northern areas where people from all around the world could be seen for tourism purpose. It was an attractive place for them. But since this problem of terrorism all the tourists vanished and we can see hardly a foreigner roaming openly in our streets. We can see them but very few with hard security measures. They were never walking in streets.

             Court street is a street near lower Mall Lahore. It is completely a common place where you can see lawyer in the morning who are going to attend court from their chambers. In evening when office timing is closed you can students of New Hostel, Government College Lahore and from civil lines college walking through the streets and having chit chat with each other. It is not a place where you can say very special security measures are being implemented. It is surrounded by a lower middle class society including Dev Samaj and Islampura.

              This eve I was walking around in court street I entered a juice corner, I saw a group of students who were sitting at that place. I was shocked by seeing them as I was not in any five star hotel. It was an ordinary juice corner. They were students from a University in Lahore. As i was not expecting them here I went to them and asked about Pakistan. They were very glad and were very impressed by people and their hospitality. On my question relating security issues they said that never found any security issue neither in their hostels nor in university. This made me proud because I was witnessing the our comes of a long struggle which my nation had during this last decade against terrorism. The credit goes to this nation who remained united on this issue.

             The credit also goes to our Armed forces and the Political Parties. Armed forces who fought with their best abilities, political paties who remained united at this national issue no matter what was their ideology.