News Package - Shessha

News Package - Sheesha

Group Members :

1)Mamoon Tahir
2)Sofiaan Laeeq
3)Furqan Hussain
4)Ahmad Tashfeen
5)Rizwan Ullah
6)Meerab Irshad

Injustice in education gives birth to conflicts in our country

System of education is different for different classes of people. There are two major system of education. One for rich that is English medium chains of schools with expensive uniform, expensive school activities such as school functions. But schools for poor are government schools with Urdu medium of education and no updated syllabus no proper buildings and shelter for students, students gets education in open grounds. No schools for poor with proper seating arrangements or any facilities etc. Fee for poor and rich are different. There are different categories of schools with different fees for the same class and students. Rich feels proud to pay high fees and poor just pay with great difficulty. There are different fee schedules for government schools and rich private schools.Admission criteria are different for rich and poor. People with money are privileged to get admission anywhere in the world, whereas, poor seeks admission for basics with great difficulty. There is no place for poor in institutions of high standards.

This different education builds different mind sets of people which results in occurrence of conflicts in the society. A very common example for this can be seen that people who have studied in mudrassa have soft corners for Taliban and al-Qaida where as the people of English medium sees them as a threat to whole human kind

We should try to eliminate illiteracy and different education systems for rich and poor. we should introduce the education system through which the education is same for rich and poor. Our government should take proper and practical initiatives   to bring illiteracy rate down and give quality education and equal opportunity for students in urban and rural area. We should provide basic health facilities to the poor people which are living in remote area s so that we can reduce conflicts from our country

Zergham Khan

Sec F

United We Stand, Divided We Fall

Survival of Pakistan has never been as difficult as it is today, from the very first day of its inception Pakistan is surrounded by many challenges. Our opponent thought this state will not last long but Pakistan was made in the name of Allah; as the Muslims of subcontinent demanded a separate homeland where they can spend their lives according to the principle of Islam.

It is now our duty to respect the lives of our martyrs who sacrificed their lives for their generations. Today Pakistan is facing even greater threats. It’s a do or die situation for Pakistan, it’s Now or Never. Whether we safe Pakistan or lose Pakistan. Our enemies are getting stronger day by day, minute to minute. We cannot just sit on our hands, our thinking how worse situation have become. We have to do something and we got to do now.

Pakistan has more than 60% of its population which is youth. Youth is very important for the development of any nation. As youth is always considered as “nation builders”. Youth can not only impact its role in development of economy but also upbringing of morale and practically support their nation.

Pakistan is 7^th nuclear in the world and very mighty when it comes to weapon and army but very weak when the subject of unity comes up. Our people are divided, we have build up so much social differences that we now consider us separate nation. There is a huge contradiction in our thoughts. We should always remember the quotes from our wise men who said “united we stand, divided we fall”.

Our youth has a great responsibility to check the differences and stand united. For this purpose joints session should be held where representatives from different mindset should get along for a consensus. In this worse situation it is very important to remove internal disputes. It is the time now that we should start showing some maturity over the present prices and awake from lumber sleep. We should focus on gravity of problems and think for their solutions. To counter all the problem it’s our first duty to get educated and impart civil education to secure better future. Hence youth can play its significant role in education of our citizens. Education is one of the basic problems. Education should need not to be associated with high fi schools or over educated lecturers. Instead healthy education and passion to educate is required.

As we all know that Pakistan is surrounded by multiple crises and without the active participation of youth, challenges cannot be met. It is very encouraging that majority of our youth support democracy and they want peaceful change. We should always remember that peace is the road to prosperity. The scenario become even optimistic when studies showed that majority of the youth also want to get volunteer but only 17% want to work for existing political parties. It is the dire need of the our that a positive leadership likes Quaid-e-Azam to come up and lead the youth through example like Quaid did through his ability, skills, passions and hard work. Motivations and encouragement is very important to boost youth. A major problem our youth is facing is that our youth is being discouraged, exploited and humiliated by corrupt lobby but youth should keep in mind that our journey is hopeless but we should develop optimistic thinking.

We now have to work for our youth because youth is frustrated, they do not get jobs, no healthy entertainments. Our education lack quality and skills which is necessary to survive in the world which claims the survival of the fittest. Our education even suffers from discord; there is no single education system rich get different from the poor. Our universities have become degree distributing institutes. Recent studies have shown that Pakistan is the 7^Th most corrupt nation in world which faces poverty, child labor, suicide, unemployment and many other problems. As majority of population is youth hence these problems are also faced by youth. If youth is in problem the nation is in problem and on the other hand if the young majority of our nation work hard and fight for a good life then it will also help the country to rise up from destructions of poverty, unemployment, corruption and instability. It is now our youth to represent themselves and  their country through different mediums of communications including print and electronic media. Youth can bring the invaded heritage and culture back to its original place. Governments along with youth can boost up the process of development by getting good and encouraging teachers, avoid politics in education, start campaigns for education and target 100% literacy rate, prevent brain drain, providing right men for right job, youth should be at arm’s length from bad corrupted companies. We are surrounded by crises and problems but it should be kept in mind ‘crisis breed opportunities’.

If we allocate and utilize or recourses efficiently then we can be among the first world nations too. More over we have to change our attitude and approach to be based on sensibility, responsibility, tolerance and patience.

Meerab Irshad 

Sec F

News Package - Hafeez Center

News Package - Hafeez Center

Group Members: 

1)Umair Javed
2)Mohammad Waqar
3)Mujtaba Watto
4)Shazain Aamir
5)Ali Raza
6)Zargham Khan

News Package - Nadra

News Package - Nadra

Group Members: 

1)Aqeel Javed
2)Shadman Khan
3)Tahoor Qureshi
4)Immad ud Din
5)Adnan Babar
6)Ahmed Tauqeer

SAVE Pakistan

Now or Never!

Pakistan is a beautiful country located in the heart of Asia with many advantages .However; this needs serious prospectation .For the past two decades, Pakistan has experienced a very serious problem regarding terrorism. Pakistan’s involvement in the War against terror created even more problems that it became a nightmare. Now in Pakistan no place is a safe place and the general publics have become numerical figures being bombed and shot every now and then. Pakistan has successfully coped with other countries when it comes to terrorism but a blame game starts when it is their turn to cope. Menace of terrorism is slowly eating the roots of a strong State. In addition to this, the problems like injustice, illiteracy, poverty, unemployment, food insecurity and political imbalance add fuel to the fire. Obviously this is a problem which cannot be ended in a fortnight thus a long time is required to combat this multi-faceted problem. Now is the time to save Pakistan. If not now than never. the question raise here what are outcomes and strategies which combat the sovereignty of Pakistan no one else come from outside and  resolve this problem only country lovers who are sincere with their nation and who serve their blood for  the contribution of Pakistan and these are the people who truly love this country. Here one question raise in my mind who are these bomb blasters? Think by your self are these individuals  belong from Muslim community or they don’t have inner feelings which feel the pain of victims Pakistan is the country which has lost many resources and minerals which strengthen the sovereignty of our country and on other side we have experienced and intelligent individuals who always serve for their nation but what are the circumstances which weakened our nation only one word come into my mind education why does we invest in this field and get better result in future but  we still unable to find reality that without this step Pakistan geared into darkness and our young generation divert their mind into other worst activities like criminal activities or drugs. Government of Pakistan does not subsidized for education department only 2% of total income set for educational institutes and rest of the amount spend to meet different irrelevant expenses. The expenses of the maintence of prime ministers house garden more than the educational expenses and still our Politian’s prove their selves that they always serve for country and their face expressions in talk shows reflect the sincerity with this country. 

Ali Raza
Sec F

Education - The major problem in Pakistan !

For any nation and country to be succesfull education holds the key, The emphasis of every country should be on increasing the litracy rate of the country because without any doubt it is education which makes or breaks a country.

Pakistan cane into being in 1947. Since then it has faced numerous challenges, All of these issues are major and are badly effecting our society. Perhaps the greatest loss comes in the area of education. Whether or not this is a direct result of Pakistan's economic problems,it is undoubtedly connected with so many resources directed towards the aforementioned debt payment,educational improvements are given and inordinately low priority. Without strong and good litracy rate a country can never flourish because it is education which leads the nation towards success. Education has been the major problem for pakistan right from the begining, There are many problems which Pakistan is facing due to poor literacy rate, A poorly educated population is unlikely to participate in family planning or any other form of population control. Secondary,a poor educated populace makes Pakistan a poor choice for the foreign investors that it so desperately needs. needs. Further more,the extremely low literacy rate among Pakistani women lends itself to a society where most women never enter the labor force,creating less incentives for them to limit the size of their families.

Without education one can not get a good job and can not even earn enough money to run his house or takecare of his family this in turn increases the poverty rate leads to many crimes and etc. The government however are just not realising the importance of education for the nation and for the country Education must be made a national priority no less important than national defence. Unfortunately, while most Pakistanis can proudly recount measures taken to protect national security, few know the state of education in Pakistan. This year the budget allocated for education was DISAPPOINTING, because it was very much less then what it was expected to be. Pakistan today has got derailed and can only get back on track if the government promotes education, educated people will surely help Pakistan to change in a positive way and will surely lead the country towards prosperity and success.

Muhammad Saad Saleem

Section F

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Pollution In Pakistan

Pollution is contamination of air, water or soil by substances that are harmful to living organisms, which is one of the major problem due to which Pakistan is suffering from decades.

The main cities of Pakistan such as Karachi and Lahore, air pollution is 20 times more than the world health organization. Pollution is generated from cars , factories , layers of smoke ,smog ,dust is covering these areas , industrial waste is dispose in into water bodies , agriculture  runoff, raw sewage, which is big threat  to Pakistan environment and no recycling plants are being installed for the recycling. There is no control on vehicular emissions which account 90 percent of pollutants.

Many health problems arise because of the pollution such as asthma, cough, lungs cancer, skin allergies, cardiac diseases and it is a root of many health problems. According to the survey 35 % of people one way or the other way is suffering from the diseases because of noise and air pollution in Pakistan.

The pollution is increasing because trees are being cut at a high rate , deforestation is taking place, population and industrialization is increasing. Hence, collectively pollution is increasing day by day in Pakistan and it’s time to take a step to control it.

 To overcome this major issue, Pakistani people should play a role in it, for the betterment of tomorrow. If we will not overcome it today then it will not be done in future, now or never, Pakistan!

“Because normal human activity is worse for nature than the greatest nuclear accident in history.” 
― Martin Cruz Smith

Khadija Saleem

Sec F

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

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

REJECTION OF CORRUPT ELECTORAL SYSTEM

As a democratic nation which has the right to vote a number of people are seriously considering NOT voting in the upcoming elections. There are a number of reasons for this, some argue that faces will change yet the system will remain corrupt. Others do not see a viable candidate to take Pakistan out of the mess it currently is tangled in. Finally a popular thought process is that the system itself is the root of all evil as it is allowing corruption to prosper and flourish rather than those people abusing it (in essence the system in place currently promotes and allows corruption to continue not the leaders themselves). I have heard from numerous people that the reason leaders continue to abuse is because the system allows them to do so. The undeniable truth is that unlike other democracies, in Pakistan only a select few can stand for elections, those who are rich or those who have vast extensive financial backing. The common man, or even a well-educated talented person quite clearly cannot run to represent their constituents and fellow people. As mentioned earlier a number of people want to reject this elitist, monopolistic system and protest until a new mandate is made where the politics is more transparent and is inclusive of all people.

Dr Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri is one of these people who wants the nation as a whole to fight against this. Dr Qadri himself has openly stated that neither PPP, MQM, PTI, ML and so forth are the enemy of the people but the enemy is this corrupt system.

Some points he has made are as follows
- The Severe decline in voting numbers from 1977 onwards is due to people's perception of an entirely corrupt institution which only breeds further corruption.
- That no politician has a manifesto which they rely upon- even those who do never fulfill those promises. In democracies across the world a politicians manifesto is regarded as his/her bible.
- The 5-10% elite in society have always benefited at the expense of the rest of the nation.
- The millions spent by candidates to ensure victory. If milloins are spent then inevitably that money will be recouped at the expense of the nation. Due to this people with no financial backing simply cannot compete.
- The need to implement proportional representation.
- The issue of winning horses whereby the winners whore themselves to the highest bidder to secure their alliance.
- That Pakistan is close to a failed state and that continual military intervention in the past has been due to the failings of poor leaders.
- That even 100 elections will not bring the desired result as the system needs an overhaul not the leadership.

There are a number of other issues highlighted by Dr Qadri, however I have just provided a taster of the picture he is trying to portray. He has hence instructed the nation to come in its millions to protest at Minar-e-Paksitan on the 23rd of December 2012.

Currently Pakistan lacks a leader. Sadly 65 years ago a charismatic leader with his people were in search of a nation. 65 years on a Nation is hunting for a leader. I will not say Dr Qadri is that leader, maybe it could be someone else- however the efforts of this man are unmatched and unquestionable. Although seen as just an Aalim, he has gone around the world propagating the true reality of Islam. He has authored in excess of 1200 books on various topics from classical Islam, Islam and Science, The economic downturn of Pakistan and so forth. He is widely regarded as a man of authority who is loyal, dedicated and trustworthy. He is well versed in economics, social welfare, humanitarian aid and this is evident in this organization Minhaj-ul-Quran. Dr Qadri's Fatwa on Terrorism alone has been given worldwide acclaim and appreciation. It has been translated in to numerous languages and as a great literary work can undoubtedly solve the issue of terrorism, state funded terrorism and the radicalization of youth. Should our nation not be looking at individuals like this to take us out of the abyss we are currently engulfed in?

I hope you will be in attendance to see what the 23rd of December will hold. It may or may not bring about the change a lot of people crave but will the stature Dr Qadri possesses and as a rare Pakistani viewed positively in the world media, would you not agree that his ideas should be given a chance?

M.Sofiaan Laeeq
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