Day 11
Pakistan Gave Us: Habib Jalib (1928-1993)
Habib Jalib was a Pakistani revolutionary poet. A left-wing activist and politician, he was a staunch democrat who fiercely opposed martial law, authoritarianism and state oppression.
Habib Jalib was first imprisoned during the martial law regime of Ayub Khan for being critical of his policies. He wrote his legendary poem "Dastoor" during those days. Criticizing those who supported Ayub Khan's regime, he wrote:
"There is smoke of teargas in the air
and the bullets are raining all around
How can I praise thee
the night of the period of shortsightedness."
A humble man with limited means of livelihood, Jalib could never reconcile with the dictatorship of Ayub Khan. So when Ayub enforced his tailor-made constitution in the country in 1962, Jalib wrote a poem against it.
Due to his daring revolt against the order of the day, Jalib was banned from official media but he remained undeterred. He rather started a tirade against the tyranny with more resolution. It reached its zenith when Fatima Jinnah decided to contest elections against Ayub Khan. All democratic forces rallied around her and at her election meetings, Jalib used to recite his fiery poems in front of an emotionally-charged crowd. His most popular poem at that time was:
"The paradise is under the feet of the mother. So come into her fold."
During General Zia-ul-Haq's dictatorship, Jalib joined movement for democracy. He wrote the famous poem on Zia, where he asked how he could write darkness as 'Zia' (Zia literally means light in Urdu). Jalib himself remained a victim of a cruel social order. He was imprisoned for some time after being wrongly implicated in various crimes. With no regular source of income, he had a rootless existence, but he never considered compromising with his tormentors and coming to terms with established order.
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