Sir: History not only tells us about the past but also gives insight to understand the present. In Pakistan, history has become a tool in the hands of the custodians of the ideological frontiers of Pakistan to ensure that we all become worshippers of the past. For this purpose, they have distorted history to fit their own vested interests. They have portrayed Muslim rulers and leaders of the Pakistan Movement as divine beyond any criticism so that our youth becomes nostalgic about past glories, forgetting the present. The distortion of history has blocked the doors of free inquiry and has promoted jingoism and extremism. We are still fighting over the interpretation of our ancestors’ dreams without giving any heed to the desires of 200 million people of Pakistan today. Once again, the people are being told by a few political demagogues that they want to rebuild our Quaid’s Pakistan. The irony is that they are bent on destroying it. The lamentable fact is that the people have, once again, let themselves be deceived by these hollow slogans of change. It is their right to determine their destiny but why have they given this right to a few politicians only? Now the time has come to give up worshipping the past by repeating it continuously and to struggle for what we want rather than for the past.TAYYAB BUTTSialkot