ARM WRESTLING IN PAKISTAN

Arm wrestling is a cultural sport of Pakistan and this sport should not be ignored, and we should not only focus on cricket or hockey .The members of federation of arm wrestling do not have any fund from the government to promote it or even play it or organize and event about it and get this trend of arm wrestling back as it was played in few decades back and has been known as sport of strong men.I think this is happening in Pakistan that we are forgetting about our rich culture and just following the western cultures and their everything and their sports too rather than promoting our own culture and sports and arm wrestling is one of them.

In arm wrestling in Pakistan PEHELWAAN get official training and learn techniques how to do it and this can not be done by any one out there this must be learned first and then can be played so the point is this a formal sport and we should promote it and play it and should show our interest in it.And it has many rules and regulations to play this can be played by two people atleast at a time and they should be having same range of their weights so they would have an approximately equal strength.,they have set the range of weights in no to be qualify with each other in arm wrestling.And the one in the federation who play this sport are none as PEHELWAAN and they have good diet they do work out and have strong body and they give their life in this sport and at the end they get nothing I think media  also  hold this responsibility .they should capture and cover this sport wheever they held and show it to the public on television that we should also see this and appreciate this not only cricket to get sponsors and promote their single particular channel .Its federation is playing a major role to support or promote it with their own money in the pocket and they want to be as famous as cricket and other sports are here in pakistan .And even people in foreign countries wants to play with us and but there is no official platform to play this sport and sponsors and everything .Government should make some interest in this sport and make some academis and hire some trainers to train the candidates and make this sport big in Pakistan and not only in Pakistan but also in all our the world and let them see that what talent we got and how much strong we are.

Recently an effort or u can say an event had been organized of arm wrestling in “minar e Pakistan “ Lahore and candidates from all over Pakistan did come and participated in this event of arm wrestling and their were professionals too ove there and also many people or I should say a crowd was gathered there to see and enjoy this sport and the guys who won has been given some reward and prizes and I saw a little push to this sport.And they encouraged the candidates and their was a chief guest too from a politicial party who were there and enjoying it and promoting this game of Pakistan and supporting them and tell them that he would give a fund to this support and they wish them, good luck and said that u people should go in Olympics and this sport should be played over there too.

Rizwan Ullah

Sec F

CNG SECTOR WILL BE WIPED OUT GRADUALLY

Unfortunately folks, the time is here. The time to say good bye and look for some other viable option as a fuel is right above us. Minister for Petroleum Dr Asim Hussain, said that the past Government’s decision and policy for CNG promotion was false and that he has set his target to phase-out the CNG sector gradually from all of Pakistan so to save the industrial and domestic sector from gas load shedding.

“Pakistan Peoples Party government has evolved a policy to diminish the CNG sector by not issuing new licenses and not renewing contracts of operational CNG stations”, Government however aims to kill the CNG sector making way for LPG in its place.OGRA has already given permission to PSO and other for setting up of LPG filling stations at its current fuel stations. PSO will be setting up 100 LPG stations.

“The people of Pakistan will have to bear the gas shortage for another couple of years, after which things would start to normalize.

As Pakistan becomes the largest consumer of CNG as a fuel with Iran, Brazil and Argentina trailing our lead, has aimed to phase-out the CNG sector gradually throughout Pakistan in coming years to save the industrial and domestic sector from gas curtailments in future.

Ahmed Huzaifa

CNG Cylinders being sold in black market

The government has burdened the public by banning the import, buying and selling of CNG tanks which instead will lead to inflation of the prices of CNG tanks and also, prices of cars.

Car sales are expected to drop by 20% owing to the government’s decision to ban import of compressed natural gas (CNG) kits and cylinders. Suzuki being the largest car manufacturer in the small car segment is the worst hit from this decision to factory fitted CNG vehicles. KASB Securities lowered Suzuki’s earnings per share by 7%.

CNG Cylinders being sold in black market

Dealers in the city have started black marketing of CNG kits and cylinders by charging Rs5,000-15,000 more from the buyers in just 24 hours of the government’s decision of imposing ban on import of CNG kits and cylinders.

Those CNG conversion centers, who were previously demanding Rs25,000 for new 50-kg capacity cylinder with kit depending on kit size, on Friday jacked up the rates to Rs33,000. The 60-kg cylinder with kit now carries a price tag of Rs42,000-45,000 as compared to Rs38,000. Some dealers at the new M.A. Jinnah Road were seen demanding Rs10,000-Rs15,000 extra for 60 kg cylinder with kit.

Central Chairman of All Pakistan CNG Association Ghiyas Abdullah Paracha has rejected the decision and has cried that the government must take back its illegal decision or they would move to Supreme Court, but no action has been taken. It has affected the public in two ways: firstly, no CNG fitted car they had to pay black money to get cylinders, secondly, this has resulted in increased prices of the cars.

Ahmed butt

CHILD LABOUR IN PAKISTAN: A SERIOUS ISSUE TO DEAL WITH

Allah has given man the wisdom and knowledge to think upon this world. Children are the flowers of heaven. They are the most beautiful and purest creation of Allah almighty. No doubt, they are the beauty of this world. Early in the morning when the children put on different kinds of clothes and begin to go to schools for the sake of knowledge, we feel a specific kind of joy through their innocence.

But there are also other children, those who cannot go to schools due to financial problems; they only watch others go to schools. It is due to many hindrances and difficulties; desperate conditions that they face in life. Having been forced to kill their aspirations, dreams and other wishes, they are forced to earn a living for themselves and for their families. It is also a fact that there are many children who play a key role in sustaining the financial life of their family without which, their families would not be able to survive. When a child in addition to getting education, earns his livelihood, this act of earning a livelihood is called as child Labour. The concept of child Labour got much attention during the 1990s when many countries announced a ban on the goods of the less-developed countries because of child Labour. 

Child Labour is an important and a serious issue in Pakistan, but, it is also very common in Latin America, Africa and Asia. According to some, in several Asian countries’ 1/10 manpower consists of child Labour. In Pakistan children aged 5-14 are above 40 million. Statistics  also show that 14% children age group of 5-14 years are working in Pakistan, out of which  fifty percent of these economically active children are in age group of 5 to 9 years. A large ratio of children were claimed to be working in the agriculture sector. 70% of these children are males.

According to research it was identified that most occupations and the categories of work are hazardous for the health of child of the age group. Which is given below:
1. Work inside underground mines
2. Work with power driven cutting machinery e.g. saws
3. Work with live electrical wires
4. All operation related to leather processing
5. Work with exposure to ALL toxic, explosive and carcinogenic chemicals.
6. Work with exposure to cement dust
7. Work with exposure to coal dust
8. Work on glass and metal furnaces 
9. Work in the cloth printing, dyeing and finishing sections
10. Work inside sewer pipelines, pits, storage tanks
11. Stone  crushing
12. Lifting and carrying of heavy weight especially in transport industry
13. Working at hotels and car workshops

Now we can easily imagine in the light of above mentioned facts and figures how the nation’s future namely children are deprived of pleasures of life, struggle has reduced their abilities of thinking right or differentiating between right and wrong, as well as their life-chances, to their prevention from education.

It is outcome of poverty, lack of opportunities, high rate of population growth, unemployment, uneven distribution of wealth and resources, outdated social customs.

Consider the point that if 30% of our country’s total population is leading life below the poverty-line wherein the people are deprived of basic necessities of life like clothing, shelter, food, education and medication, the children of these people will be forced to become Labourers or workers in order to survive. Another reason of child Labour in Pakistan is that our people don’t have the security of social life. There is no aid plan or allowance for children in our country. low education system is another reason for increasing child Labour; villages lack standards of education systems and as a result, child Labour is increasing in rural areas. The government has not put its laws into practice to stop child Labour in our country.

Child Labour is a serious problem which demands a urgent solutions. There is no better way to the present government in Pakistan has made elementary education compulsory. There is strict need to stop child Labour in this country. Awareness must be raised and the attention of parents should be education of their children. Child Labour Laws should be put into practice strictly. In addition, the educational system of the country-must be reshaped and restructured according to national development goals. The orphans and other deserving children must be helped financially. It is also essential to eliminate child Labour from the country, that the political, economical and social system of the country are need to be reshaped and such steps taken that make child Labour in this country a crime. So it’s the time of change and we should all get united and step up against child labour. Prevent child Labour than to make education compulsory.

Munsoor Ismail

Sec F

Wall chalking: Bad reflection of our culture

This article aims to shed light on the issue of wall chalking in Pakistan. Research has been carried out to know whether wall chalking helps in creating awareness of different things people or not. It can be gathered that 60% of the general public think that wall chalking is a way of creating awareness and the other 40% think that it’s not the tool for creating awareness. Pakistanis basically indulges in wall chalking due to lack of platforms for them to express their emotions, combined with a lack of awareness. Advertisements are done through wall chalking to avoid the expense, and the government cannot root out the problem since it itself consists of political parties largely involved in wall chalking for political purposes. There are laws against wall chalking and illegal.

Most of the people agree that it is a heinous activity that destroys the beauty of the city to a great extent yet we see that the city’s walls are filled with all kinds of wall chalking. Hence, everyone would like to see this source of ugliness vanished but does not know what to do since our government is also not taking any hard action against this issue. And these are the people who think that wall chalking is not the best way of creating awareness.

Wall chalking is one activity that has rendered almost every boundary wall of streets. The outcome of wall paintings, chalking and sprayings is an overall increase in pollution. When this exercise is undertaken with some reference to artistic considerations, it reflects the creativity of the people in a certain context. When unrestrained tarnishing of built surfaces is done, it displays the inherent conflict, contradiction and confusion among the various classes in society.

In modern times, paint, particularly spray paint, and marker pens have become the most commonly used graffiti materials.. Wall Chalking may also express social and political messages.

An example of things written on walls:

“Zaroori hay zaroori hay, Mahajir sooba zaroori hay”

“Koi dekhay na dekhay shabeer tw dekhega”

“Ek se barh kar ek zaleel, amreeka aur israeel”

“Dunia ka pehla Perfume Chowk, khushboo sub k liye” etc etc etc…

Yes, you can find out these kind of chalking everywhere in Lahore.

Even the political parties find wall chalking a source of awareness for public.

 “Chalo Chalo Nishtar Park Chalo” or “Amreeka ka jo yaar hay, ghaddar hay ghaddar”. Many unethical things are often posted on walls which are not acceptable at all. We aren’t among those nations who keep on spending their money over institutes and universities or colleges, but that nation who already is literate and educated enough to write on the notebooks, but on the walls so that each and everyone get a benefit of whatever one has learnt.

Wall chalking is a tool which is often used by people for creating awareness of different thing because it’s the cheap way of advertisement.

This method is mostly used by lower class or middle class people. During the survey carried out on wall chalking people said that it is a tool for awareness but it’s the wrong tool of creating awareness. Educated people say that wall chalking must be stopped and a more educated Pakistan must be established.

TAKE A STEP FORWARD

Seerat Mughal 

Sec F

I Wish for a Pakistan!

I am a 20 year old boy, living just like many other people of my country, studying in a university and living a normal steady life. Let me just take you on a small tour to my past so that I can clearly put forward my wishes my dream and my aim and goals.

As a young teenage boy I was learning a new thing about the real world on every passing day. For me it was exciting yet confusing. I use to had so many jumbled up queries and questions in my mind that sometimes I just had to stop and try to freeze my mind for a while. However there was this one person always there for me, always ready to answer the most senseless questions that I had. This person was my Father (AGHA JEE). Every person has one role model, a person they wish to become like, in my case it was my father. As a kid I tried to adopt all his actions, listen him actively and ask him questions on any matter my mind use to come up with. This eventually resulted in a way that for me was truly beneficial. I learnt a lot of stuff from my father about the way of life and about my country Pakistan.

So, coming back to the present date. I would not call myself patriotic because what I analyze of myself is that so far I have not done a single thing that benefited my country and its people and the overall progress of my country Pakistan. However, I have a thought, a wish, a dream, a desire , what I want Pakistan to look like, what I think should be done and what should not be done. Taking it in this manner I sometimes feel proud on calling myself a small patriot with a dream to change a big nation.

What was the Pakistan our great Quaid-e-Azam wanted?

•  A Pakistan full of Peace
•  A Pakistan that reflects one and only one thing *UNITY*
•   A Pakistan with every minority right
• A Pakistan which was indestructible
• A Pakistan a place every single human being would dream to live in.

What I see Pakistan to be today?                                                           

•        Unstable
•        Unsafe
•       Under developed country

Few days back due to transport unavailability, I had to walk back home from a friend’s house. Those 15mins of walk were the main motivating factor to me for writing this article. In those 15mins I saw a society of so much hatred, jealousy, anger and greed that it cannot be expressed in words. Everyone just wanted to get the maximum comfort in everything regardless of the harm and hinders they were causing to other people. As I started my walk the very first thing I noticed was the wild traffic. Traffic sense was something the traffic was unaware of. Nobody was willing to give a chance to other vehicles on the road and everyone just wanted to fill the space they find on the entire road. 3 lanes are created keeping in view different styles of transport and the speed of the vehicles, but what I experienced showed that 3 lanes and a little rough space at the end of the road was created only because people could show their extra ordinary skills of getting wild to the maximum of their capacity. Anyhow I continued walking towards my destination, and the next thing I noticed was that a big black pole with red, yellow and green rings was standing right beside the road. To my sadness however it was exhausted and was sleeping, ignoring it immediately I looked right underneath it. A man with sky blue uniform was standing with a clear confused expression. This police officer was alone vs. approximately 50 cars. I stopped to look at the conclusion of what was going on. The police officer was trying to control the uncontrollable traffic and was clearly failing in his attempts. At this moment I had a mix feeling, I was sad because of the illiteracy the traffic was showing, I was angry because I was thinking if I was driving one of the cars stuck over there, I would have been doing the same thing. With these mixed feelings still in my mind and heart, I decided to leave it up to the police officer to handle and I continued my journey. on the foot path I was walking on, I saw broken pieces of glass, I saw litter and the most unusual thing I saw was a drug addict sleeping in the middle of the foot path care free about his life, and the whole world. I crossed everything thinking that in what way I could have helped that man. Anyhow before reaching my house there were millions of small issues that I saw and noticed and thought of. I saw fights, animal abuse, discrimination at every level; richer proving his ownership on poor, public transport loaded with people to such an extent that I guess even air could not pass easily from it. people were throwing things out from the window, small poor children were bare foot, naked sitting at the road sides,  traffic signals were not working, child labor was at its peak, there was in short mess and mess and mess everywhere. I entered my house and I all I could see was cleanliness, all I could hear was silence, all I could smell was fragrance. What was all this? Why was my own personal house so beautiful? Why was everything so messy outside my house?

These were the questions that struck my mind like an atom bomb. A unexplainable but a very strong urge grew in me. I needed the answers to these questions immediately. Through my research and my experience the answers I could come up with were very simple. In fact to all the questions I had one answer. Look highlighting issues of Pakistan just to present a negative image of it is very easy, but I am highlighting the issues of Pakistan so that we can work together on it and IN SHA ALLAH remove them from this country. The answer I generated is very simple:

FOLLOW THE TEACHINGS OF HOLY QURAN!

HOLY QURAN is a book without a single mistake. It is a book in which you can find even the solution to the smallest issue. It was told 1400 years ago that there is a Moon, a Sun, Planets, Stars, and about earth, about the shape of Earth. It was told that the most pure water present on this earth is ABB-E-ZAM ZAM. And in recent times through study the western scientist have authenticated all these facts. The thing I want to explain over here is, that we are blessed that we have a country named on Islam, a country made for Muslims majorly. Why are we not following the teachings of our religion about society, about rights of others, and about the way to live this mortal life? The people of the west are prosperous, intelligent and extensively developed just because they are following exactly the same things our religion ask us to do.

Patience is the first thing to be developed. Have u ever thought that if you stop at a signal, maintain your lane, and give way to others, and in this process you loose 2 minutes of your life, what is going to happen? Nothing!! Right? Islam teaches us to provide ease to others.

What will happen if we pack the litter in a shopping bag and throw it in a just bin? Just a little effort!! Right?

If we mute the sound system while crossing a mosque, if we stop the car for some pedestrians to cross, if we just take out 3minutes to offer SALAT, if we start taking action against child and animal abuse, if we start getting knowledge and start spreading awareness, if we simply start caring about our country, city, society just as we care about our houses we live in. what will happen? Just a Little more effort!! Right?

I, Faizan Ahmed Khan wish for a Pakistan! Do you?

Think For Pakistan!

Think For Yourself!

Think For Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah!

Faizan Ahmed Khan

Sec F

Metro Bus Service relief or waste of resources?

Metro Bus Service was a unique public welfare project in Pakistan and would be a gift to the people of Lahore. 11 park and ride stations would be set up along the Metro Bus Service route for commuters. Security must be provided at these parking stations. Two bus lanes have been allocated for operation of the buses in the middle of the road. For better safety and uninterrupted flow of traffic, fences have also been installed on both sides of the track.
Twenty seven bus stations are being built on the curb side of the MBS lane and in order to avert congested traffic, one of the world’s longest metro bus fly-over is being constructed for MBS, which is almost 8.6 kilometers long.

The first fleet of 45 buses was expected to arrive from China soon for the 27-kilometre-long Metro Bus System (MBS). LDA sources said that the buses had been manufactured by Volvo China and were expected to arrive in Karachi within the next few weeks. They would be dispatched to Lahore after customs clearance. 

The MBS project is expected to serve around 18,000 people every hour by providing them with a mass transit facility. The Metro Bus System is being constructed over Ferozepur Road from Gajju Matta to Shahdra via Lytton Road, MAO College, Lower Mall, Data Darbar, Niazi Chowk and Shahdrah. 
Chief Minister is also trying to finish this work as soon as possible because right now traffic of the city is disturbed due to construction work in the city

Syed Furqan Hussain

Sec F

NADRA’s Major Achievements: Unknown to Majority Pakistani Population

Established in the year 2000, NADRA, the National Database and Registration Authority, is Pakistan's state-owned IT services company that specializes in implementing multi-biometric national identity cards and e-passports, as well as secure access verification and control systems in both public and private sectors. It is recognized amongst the Top 50 IT firms in the world by the ID World Congress.

 NADRA’s database is among the largest, fully integrated databases in the world that supports both an Automatic Finger Identification System (AFIS) and a Facial Recognition System comprise, National Data Warehouse, Storage Capacity of 60 Terabytes, Processing Speed of 18 Trillion Instructions/ Sec, Multilingual Support of English/ Urdu/ Sindhi, AFIS with a matching speed of 16 million/sec, World's largest Facial Library of 83 million images (ICAO), Network Infrastructure, Highly redundant, scalable and mission critical, Connected with more than 8000 computers equipped with Pentium Three and Four Processors, Equipped Terrestrial, VSAT, and DVB RCS/2 network Links.

 NADRA some of the achievements that most residents of Pakistan are unaware of are its INTERNATIONAL PROJECTS.

The international clients of NADRA are as followed

Government Of Sudan	Civil Registration Project
Government Of Kenya	Passport Issuing System
Government Of Bangladesh	Passport & High Security Driver’s License
Government Of Nigeria	Civil Registration Project

 Government of Sudan

            NADRA was handed over the Civil Registration Project by Sudan’s Ministry of Interior in the year 2007 because of maintaining an excellent track record over the past seven years on international front in the field of Data Acquisition, Secure Identity Card Production, Data Warehousing, Networks, and Software Development and Integration. The warehouse will be integrated with multiple internal and external interfaces, which records all events of births, marriages, divorces, deaths and family certificates.

Government of Kenya

The e-passports were not successful or limited to the boundaries of Pakistan but the Kenya government has awarded contract to NADRA to design, develop and implement this project. On 13th February, 2009, it was reported that Kenya has issued 85,000 passports using NADRA's Machine Readable Passport (MRP) system and still counting.

Government of Bangladesh

One of the Major international projects contracted to NADRA was creating programmed Driver’s License for the Bangladeshi’s general public in 2004. In this regard a contract signing ceremony was held in Dhaka, Bangladesh between NADRA and Bangladesh Road Transport Authority (BRTA) at ministry of communications. The contract was signed by Chairman NADRA Brig. (R) Saleem Ahmad Moeen and Dr. MA Memon Chairman Bangladesh Road Transport Authority. This was done in order reduce the use of fake driver’s license and have a proper record of the registered drivers. Apart from the driver’s license, a delegation of Bangladeshi officials visited Pakistan in 2004 and sought help from NADRA officials to introduce machine-readable passport (MRP) system in Bangladesh. Brig (r) Saleem Moeen assisted the Bangladeshi officials and Technical facilities for MRP project were provided by NADRA that include software, hardware and staff training for Immigration and Passport department.

Government of Nigeria

 In 2009, Nigerian government appointed different top IT firms from all over the globe including USA, UK, Germany and India, but Pakistan was the one that gave the lowest bid and was chosen to construct national database registration for Nigeria. The contract in this regard was signed in a prestigious ceremony held in Abuja, Nigeria between Mr. Gohar Khan, Chief Project Officer NADRA and Mr. Chris Onyemenam, Director General, National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) Nigeria, for the completion of the back-end of Nigeria Identity Management System.

“This is a landmark achievement that will further strengthen the ties between Pakistan and Nigeria. The system has been indigenously developed by NADRA and its delivery will empower the Government of Nigeria to issue tamperproof and secure Computerized ID Cards to Nigerian citizens” said Chairman NADRA.

NADRA’s expertise in IT solution has earned international acclaim due to which international projects were conferred to NADRA. Its ability to perform and deliver is recognized by many countries. The I.T sector of NADRA over all is much occupied. It has also offered solution to many problems of national level which were previously thought to be insoluble. NADRA with its I.T sector so strong and yielding with such mobility it is really an epitome of its kind. Collecting managing and evaluating with such hegemony a database comprising of millions NADRA IT sector is absolute.

Adnan Babar
Sec F
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Youth of Pakistan

Youth of Pakistan constitutes a major part of population of the country. Services of the youth can contribute in raising the economy of the country. At present this is not possible because of the existing policies of education, health and provision of jobs. The funds allocated by the government for health and education are very less including job opportunities.

Therefore this issue should be taken up on top priority by the government. The existing health, education and job opportunities policies should be revised to encourage and secure the future of the youngsters in the interest of the country. This will also help in strengthening the prosperity and development of the country by the contribution of services of the qualified youngsters in different fields such as medical, engineering and education etc; when along with better working conditions, benefits and facilities are provided. This will further discourage our qualified talent going to serve in other countries.

Our youngsters are energetic, hard working and ready to meet any challenge, emergency and natural calamities as earthquakes, floods and managing blood donation camps. They are managing under the present circumstances. The youth has a vital role in the development and progress of the country. Contribution of their services can be achieved only when the existing policies of education, health and job opportunities are revised on top priority by the government.



Ahmed Tauqeer
Sec F

Loadshedding In Pakistan

While nations in the western move towards enlightenment, Pakistan is going towards darkness. The nation struggling at the arms of ruined and corrupt political figures and terrorism has much graver problems and one of them is fill losing. It is the Modern day and there is no power in Pakistan! People are weeping their minds and hearts out at the front side of the govt to provide them with the primary requirement of power but the govt seems to have no idea about how to fix this problem.

From day one of the load shedding till now there is no end t it. The use of electricity generators and UPS have increased but the people who can't afford such things are still living their life in darkness. they face a lot of difficulties like studying at night when there is no light or even in the morning time in hot summer days studying under no fans is really a hard job for the students and they are then unable to focus completely on studies . How the children of such poor and middle class people will get education correctly.?

Attributing the shortfall to previous governments, Information Minister Qamar Zaman Kaira said that the real cause of load shedding was that no electricity projects had been initiated between 1996 and 2008, adding that since 2007, there has been an annual increase of 1,600MW in electricity demand.

Kaira, however added that Pakistan faced little load shedding compared to other South-East Asian countries. He stated that these countries were facing a shortfall of around 4,000MW.

As Pakistan faces several problems, the problem of load shedding too should be given top priority by the government officials. It's time the politicians start acting in order to solve the general problems of the people of Pakistan rather than fighting for getting into power and doing nothing.

Usman Masood

Sec F

Young man falls to death from burning building

A fire broke out in the duct, housing electric cables on the second floor of the 12 storey State Life Building housing offices of the Karachi Electric Supply Company on the 28^th of November 2012. As the fire had broken on the 2^nd floor it quickly spread to the top floors. Although 800 of the people in the building managed to escape through the emergency exit the young man did not make it. Due to the serious situation at hand the man panicked and to escape went out through the vent and clung to the window. The police and rescue resources came to the site but nothing was done and all watched the man fall to his death.

The large crowd that had gathered at the site, instead of just standing there could have done something to prevent the man from suffering such a horrendous fate. The job of the police and the rescue departments is to protect people and control the situation, not just stand and watch. An inquiry has been ordered by the government and has ordered the administration to take all preventive measures for the safety of the employees and provide medical treatment for the affected.

To conclude it is time for the people of Pakistan to wake up and start to help each other rather than doing nothing, and prevent such problems in the future.

M. Shazain Aamir

Section: F 

Patriotism in today’s youth

Patriotism in today’s youth is a mere feeling. There is possibly huge variety of reasons behind it. For instance the youth may not be content with the ruling elite or may be they are more eager to flee away from their motherland, exploring and adapting the western world. In either of the instances, patriotism in youth is becoming obscure. 

Realizing this major issue, I Own Karachi planned an event. Sponsored by Dawn News, an activity by the name of Paint the Change was organized. It aimed towards a positive change in the young generation and also a healthy change to Pakistan.

This novel activity commenced from 17^th December 2009 and still is in its brightest swing today. The task is to paint the graffiti ridden walls of Karachi. Most of the roads are carpeted with posters that do not give an appealing look. Painting these walls with beautiful art work and various illustrations would depict a positive image of Pakistan. Besides this, it will also revive the enthusiasm if youth towards building Pakistan and making it a better place to live. School, universities and even individuals can take part in this patriotic gesture organized by I Own Karachi, sponsored by Dawn News.

'Paint the Change’ planned to collect students from various universities, colleges and schools and even individual youth to paint the wall opposite Shah Ghazi’s Mazaar, Karachi. It is a 7 x 1350ft wall. The theme of this painting task was Positive Pakistan. However, the theme was further divided into twenty categories including art, fashion, sports, business and commerce, tourism music, theater etc.

Many students participated in this activity including students from The City School. They rendered the wall beautiful and presentable. The enthusiasm of each and every student could be seen from their faces. It revived their love for their city, their country.

This event not only enhanced the beauty of Pakistan but also pushed up the youth to be more passionate and more enthusiastic toward their very own country. The painted walls not just apparently show drawings, pictures or art but also reflect the unspoken love subsiding in young generation. A country can only have a dazzling future through passionate youth. Paint the Change event demonstrated how fervent this youth is and hence how flourishing the future of Pakistan can be. The concept of Paint the Change is victorious and fruitful. Long Live Pakistan.

Tahoor Qureshi
Sec F

Implication of the language used by the Pakistani celebrities in public

It is very well said that “A word from mouth and arrow from a bow once released never return”. So following the saying we must take care of our words and sentences because every word and sentence has its own effect on the listeners.

Selection of words and sentences can change the meaning of the whole idea what you want to say. So the selection of words plays important role while communicating with someone. Many times it happen that when you are communicating with a person during  that communication misuse of words gives negative interpretation what you want to say.

Use of language and accent used in language is also reflecting the image of a person.  The first impression of a person is built by his looks and appearance and in the mean time second thing which built once impression is language and accent used by the person. Language and accent also varies according to listener, place, occasion, mood and many more reasons.

We cannot ignore the above things but even then a normal and ordinary person can cooperate with it. One can even ignore the words of an ordinary person but is difficult to ignore the words of celebrity. When a person becomes a celebrity then his life is not his personal property but it becomes the public property so being celebrity is not easy to spend their lives. The lives of the celebrities are monitored by the public.

Our youth is very much attracted towards celebrities especially try to copy the media celebrities. They prefer to use and adopt the life style of those celebrities. If we look around in our society we will come to know that actors and actress have impact on the mind of youth. Even they have great impact on the children as well.

The language used by the celebrities in public or even in through any other source has great impact on the society. Celebrities must use good language in the society or in public because they are representing the public. Most important when they are out of country and representing their country at that time they have responsibility and respect of their country in their hands which they have to earn for their country.

They also have to use words and language so carefully because everyone is focusing on them and they try to copy celebrities. So if they use bad language and unacceptable words in public so those words are spread out in the public and then it becomes so common that nobody hesitate to use such words in the public. We can have a lot of such examples. Therefore, one should not use such type of language in public which is not acceptable publically. Secondly they must use their power of manipulation to make the society respectable not to make it disrespectful.

In our society a new trend has raised that any person wants to get fame and to be highlighted on the media he such a stunt that he use some abusive language or abuse some directly on media or have a fight or any scandal on the media . These days this trend has become short way to get the fame on media.  Such stunts are mostly done by politicians and government persons to come in the hot talks. Another reason is lack of education. Most of our politicians are less educated so mostly they cannot cope with the situations and do such type of acts.

To avoid such type of disgrace on the media government must take strick action that such type of stunts must not be shown on the media and they should not give boost to such topics.

Another issue in Pakistan which is coming from the beginning of Pakistan and it is exceeding day by day is that we take our national language as an inferior language.  The person speaking in a society is considered to be less educated or out of date. Why is it so? Why Pakistani hesitate to speak their national language? Why everyone prefer to speaks Britisher,s language? Even the celebrities of our country mostly speak English and avoid speaking Urdu. We know that most of our population is   uneducated they are unable to understand English but even then they use to speak English.

Even the politicians of our country speak in English in their seminars. This is difficult to understand much of the people. If does not speak English so he dominated by the others. This is not only happens in the politics but it also happens in the other fields of lives that English speakers dominate over Urdu speaker. This creates discrimination in the nation. This is all the impact of English language used by the celebrities.

During our research we concluded that more than 90% of the people are in favor that our celebrities must communicate in Urdu when they are communicating with public.

Ahmed Tashfeen
Sec F

Encroachments

Encroachments; a birth of poverty and corruption in Pakistan. By every street and road in Pakistan we find illegal shops, kiosks and vendors that are result of encroachments in the country. As a result general public suffers from issues such as; nuisance for the shop keeper and shopper due to encroachers in front of shops, problems for pedestrians due to vendors on the footpath,   parking issues, traffic jams and to top it all off they also create an increase risk of accidents.

Unfortunately, since its birth Pakistan has been a victim of a flawed law and order.  Even if efforts are made to design a system, the law makers themselves play the role of silent spectators when it comes to implementing it. This gives rise to a big question mark for the concerned public. After all what is the reason this issue has been ignored for years. There is only one I can think of; probably the same as for the thousand other things that we see around us and wonder why no one takes any action! Everyone just wants to fill their own pockets. There are spots for which deals are made under the table and even protection is offered in return by the same law makers –in local term ’hafta’-. I think in Pakistan, even crime is more organized than the law itself.

If we look at the other side of the picture, majority of Pakistani population is poor and just struggling to survive. Some even earn just enough to fulfil the basic necessities - roti, kappra, makkan- of their families on day to day basis. Hence it is not just a matter of wiping these people of the streets, it a matter of coming up with a proper system to give them alternate and legal mean of earning. I do not think that at the moment even using the word encroachment would be appropriate in our system. It means to advance beyond a proper defined limits, I seriously doubt if there are any defined limits in our system. This is one of the many over looked issues in Pakistan. This is the time for Pakistan to voice against this blatant violation of law so that not only the authorities take action against it but also to create awareness amongst the general public how their actions are creating disturbance for the rest of the society.  As there is solution to every problem I am sure if dealt with sincerely everyone one can be satisfied with in the restrictions of proper law and order, provided a system is designed and followed by all. PAKISTAN, ITS NOW OR NEVER!!!

Irtiza Ali Rizvi

Sec F