After 1947, culture was what joined Pakistan with India. Pakistan has killed culture to face India more effectively in the battlefield. Two contaminations are to be fight. The first is the local accretions that Islam suffered when the Muslims were ruling India; the second is the entertainment that comes across the border in all manner of ways.When Pakistani singers, musicians, actors, cricketers, commentators and some writers go to India, the Indians pay them good money for Pakistan’s ‘slow invasion’. Nor are they upset by the dominance of Persianised Urdu in Bollywood songs. Indians, in fact, buy glossaries to make sense of Urdu words in them. Instead of using this as Pakistan’s ‘soft power’, some writers want the door in Pakistan shut to regional culture. Bangladesh and Sri Lanka are strangely not bothered about India’s ‘slow invasion’.

Indians know that they cannot defeat us in ground war. Therefore, they are trying to cut our roots. They are trying to detract our youth from their original path. This silent invasion is coming through Indian movies and the channels, which are silently, paid by India. E.g. there is a Pakistani TV channel promoting the slogan of “parhny likhne ke siwa, PAKISTAN KA MATLAB KIA?”... In here they are trying to change our basic slogan for independence but In shaa ALLAH it will remain as it was.

When the Musharraf regime lifted the ban on the import of Indian movies in February 2008, it gave the assurance that “religious and cultural norms and values” of the country would be protected. However, this commitment has not been fulfilled. Since most Pakistani viewers watch pirated (and therefore uncensored) Indian movies at home, there is no way to ban unwanted films or to excise undesirable material, other than by penalizing their illegal sale in the country. However, this has never been done. The truth is that the government has an unwritten policy not to enforce its declared policy to ban Bollywood movies, which are offensive to our values and culture. 

SILENT INVASIONSAVE ‘US’ FROM IT

In addition, the home screening of pirated Indian films brings Indian culture and language right into our living rooms across all barriers of law and policy. As a result, our distinct way of life, values and language, which we have successfully preserved through the centuries in an alien and hostile environment, are been challenged as never before. Children and young people are particularly susceptible. These movies provide a generous serving of what a recent Associated Press story on Bollywood described delicately as “swelling songs, innervating rain storms, and giggly dances” which transgress the bounds of decency and good decorum. The titillating scenes, which are their main attraction, promote vulgarity and obscenity, as the

Supreme Court has remarked on a petition by concerned citizens. Because of lack of action by the government, the Supreme Court has now taken the matter in its hands. The government does not have any policy to counter this threat. It is perhaps not even alive to its existence. Even that government can do what when its own PM says “mujh par VISHVAS Karen” during the hearing of Supreme Court. Also the programs like “AMAN KI AASHA” are a slow poison for Pakistan and our government is also involved in this. However, it is not the government alone, which has been remiss. The civil society, which is quick to take up causes dear to the West, and the political parties, have been remarkably silent on the challenges posed by the easy availability of uncensored Indian movies and the airing of Indian TV programs. Besides, the media, especially private TV channels, has contributed to the problem by idolizing Indian film stars and giving extensive coverage to gossip about their lives.

The government would have to enforce a complete ban on the import, production and sale of DVDs and videos of Indian movies and of films and children’s programs of other countries, which have been dubbing in Hindi. The government should provide financial support for the dubbing of quality foreign-produced movies, educational films and children’s programs in our own languages. In addition, the National Language Authority should have given the task of popularizing and, if necessary, coining Urdu words to substitute foreign terms that have crept into our language.

This is neither a difficult nor an overly ambitious agenda for the government. All that has needed is the necessary political will but what do we say, our politicians are now forgetting their culture. All that we can do is to pray in front of Allah and personally boycott Indian movies, songs and dramas. This is the need of time, if we want our country to survive like what it was made for than we have to take some immediate steps and should say no Indian culture and this should be started from our own selves because ‘charity begins at home’.