Thursday, August 25, 2011

Topics that one can't write about.....

There are topics that despite of urgency, we can't make ourselves to write about (Because writing don't change anything) However, sometimes people come out that you respect from deep down and you want to write to show your solidarity with. Pakistan is the country of my birth and the love for place of birth is natural but it seems that Pakistanis don't belong to Pakistan. As much mouth is there so are the number of claims and no one is ready to make any concession and move from their current positions. In simple words, all citizen belong to this country and the country belongs to no one.... We read everyday, people are questioning what went wrong that we all became aliens....there are many answers but none is satisfying...

Dr. Attaurahman's answer is definitely convincing. It is the ignorance that have alienated the people from the country. How can one expects to have a mature and educated nation when the country is spending only 1.2% of her GDP on education? Of course where there is big gap in demands and supply, the black marketers fill the gap and so are happened in Pakistan. The religious extremists filled the gaps by funds from Middle East and turned the minds that had to serve this country into extremists that are determined to enslave this nation to their ideology.........

In comparative study of economical growth, the Professor compares Pakistan's exports to that of a company (Nokia). Nokia's exports are twice that of Pakistan's total export. Nokia is a Finnish company and only Karachi (A port city of Pakistan) has a population four times bigger than that of whole Finland... This is an astonishing comparison....

It is not only small European nations that surpass Pakistan's export; Singapore an island, city nation that is very small to that of Pakistan both in terms of population and area has 18 times bigger export to that of Pakistan. In 1960's South Korea's export was 32 million US $ and now it is 466 Billion US $ while Pakistan's export has seized at 20 Billion US $. The main reason is education, South Korea's University Students has increased from 5% of 1960 to 95% up to date and Malaysia spend 30% of her GDP on education.

Not only Professor's these comparisons are eye opening, he rightfully suggests solutions to Pakistan's main problems. Don't just focus on your resources (Some foolish Pakistani "expert and leaders" looking to natural resources as Messiah that will save Pakistan)... the main solution is to Educate the nation by increasing expenditure on both quantity and quality of education and also by making availability of speedy justice to People.......

The truth is that Pakistanis need education and speedy justice at urgent basis....otherwise all those who have the ability to serve this nation will escape and those who don't will remain to suffer from a cycle of to eating each other...

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Let's beat the drum!...!...!...!

Yeah, Let's beat the drum...In month of Ramadan, some people beat the drums going street to street to wake up the people in predawn time...I was always fascinated by their jobs; they wake up people from sleep in a time when they are in deep sleep... Socrates were thinking that most of us are in deep sleep like that of predawn time, so he was going from street to street in ancient Athens and cross-questioning people to show them that their lives are un-examined...When we do not analyse our beliefs and world views then it is like living in sleeping mode...The stronger the certainty in unexamined worldviews, the deeper is the sleep.......

As there is no Socrates to stop us on the streets to cross-question our worldviews, keeping diary is way to open yourself for your examination (it is famously known as self-accountability).....so here I have started beating the drums...let's see how much I am going to be committed to my diary :)