National Leaders Be printed on Rupees!

Apart from the issue of the devaluation of the Pakistani Rupees due to the down sliding economy, the issue of the images of our national leaders be printed on the rupees is not something often discussed. All of our rupee coins and notes have the image of Quaid-e-Azam, and probably it is evident that so far Quaid-e-Azam is the only national figure that has able to survive in the minds of the youth and masses in general.

What if we have the images of our other national/ historical leaders???

“The minister for Defense Production Sardar Abdul Qayum Jatoi has urged for the print of Allama Iqbal image on 100-rupees currency note as this will be a good message for youth.

He said most of the countries have printed the images of their national heroes on currency notes so we must print the image of our national poet Allama Iqbal on 100-rupees currency note.

Having just Allama Iqbal’s image on 100 rupee will be a small step, but a better step. It is important more than ever in these times when the youth of Pakistan have absolutely no connection what so ever with creators and pioneers of Pakistan. In the United States, each note of a Dollar has an image of one of the unanimously great President. The first President George Washington is on the 1$ note, and then other Presidents. Although, we do not have any Prime Ministers that we can their images on, we do have plenty of national leaders who fought and shaped the image of Pakistan- The Land of the Pure.

I am here suggesting some of the names:

Allama Iqbal,

Liaqat Ali Khan,

Mohtarma Fatima Jinnah,

Choudary Rehmat Ali

Ali Brothers

If you think others should be please do write it in the comments, inshallah.

Our government should try to have one national leader per note of our Rupee. That way the illiterate people as well as many educated yet ignorant youth of Pakistan would also know or at least remember the names and faces of our great leaders, without whom Pakistan would never have existed!