What I am questioning is our own conduct.
My concern is how our own military and political leadership treated the Founder of Pakistan, Muhammad Ali Jinnah, in his final days. When he was gravely ill in the late 1948, he was removed from Karachi the largest city in the country, where proper doctors and hospitals were available and taken to a remote area that was barely a town at the time. Even today, that area lacks adequate medical facilities.
Off topic and I hope the moderators will allow one final post.
Facts and the history of the cruelty wrought by a savage enemy in our nation must be told,
We must examine the conditions prevailing in Pakistan to understand why medical care even to the Founding Father of the nation was inadequate.
In late 1948 Pakistan was completely and utterly bankrupt and was officially a failed state, with a worthless currency that was merely rubber stamped demonetized British Government of India bank notes,
The industries of British ruled India were mainly in the areas that remained in India. Pakistan was a tribal, agricultural economy and after independence was militarily attacked, sanctioned and blockaded
literally into the stone age.
Pakistan was critically short of medical supplies, and doctors, and the hospitals were rendered useless without power, or functioning ambulances. There was no funding to import these. Hundreds of thousands of babies and pregnant women; millions of sick, and elderly ( including injured refugees from India), perished because of lack of medical care.This was a fearful toll, far worse than the Coronavirus pandemic of 2020-21 .
It was not just civilians, but ill equipped army personnel fighting a war unleashed by a seven times superior well armed enemy in the freezing mountains of Kashmir who also suffered from lack of medical and surgical care.
Tens of thousands of soldiers died in those fateful months because their injuries couldn't be treated in the gutted Army hospitals.The official civilian and military toll due to the embargo on medical supplies has never been counted or acknowledged by any government since 1947.
The pain of those who suffered has been recounted by the survivors of the horror. My family personally suffered in those fateful months There was only one female gynecologist in the then East Pakistan and in the primitive conditions of the filthy Dhaka hospital labor room, she performed a cesarean section without adequate anesthesia on my aunt, She delivered the baby, but my aunt died of infection and trauma. Shortly afterwards this gynecologist herself died because there was no one to deliver her baby.
Medical conditions in Pakistan were primitive, so primitive that even the Qaid e Azam could not be given adequate treatment for his medical condition.
Pakistan's ambassador to the USA had received an offer from the US government offering assistance to fly the Quaid-e Azam Jinnah to the USA for treatment. A special long range aircraft would be provided by the USA. Qaid-e-Azam Jinnah refused saying he couldn't put such a burden of expenses on his bankrupt nation. (Note: This incident has been recounted by Air Commodore Khalid Chishti in a recent interview )
On the Jinnah monument:
It is ironic that the mausoleum of the Qaid-e-Azam is far more elegant and beautiful than Nehru's own memorial which is frequently vandalized by Hindutva fascists.
it is equally ironic that if as claimed Pakistan's Founding Father, wasn't honored in his last days, India's Founding Father Mr. Mohandas Karamchand fared far worse with three bullets in his head ( said to be punishment for getting some funds released to Pakistan).
The most ironic of all is the fact that Nehru and Gandhi are both cursed today by their own people and their monuments, statues and memorials vandalized globally, The Qaid e Azam's memorials have so far escaped vandalism