"Exploitation of Youth"

A student's stamina could be reasonably judged with a person's academic skills along with his/her extracurricular performance. Like always a great sector of pupils is deprived off such events taking place all-over around the country. But the question is how when the selection is on the basis of merit. A very simple answer is the fee the organizations charge for. The range starts from Rs.250 to even Rs.1.5 lakh or more which is unaffordable for a common man with a monthly salary of Rs.8000. Under the umbrella of recession and inflation major private educational institution opt to push back the poor brilliant student from the race of gaining experience and  self confidence. Isn't this an open discrimination? The major part of the ultra-talented future generation is sided to footpaths as the best renowned universities of the world require a good extra-curricular background alongside with an exceptional examination result.

It is not only a story of discrimination and uplifting a particular class but it is a mother of  "jealousy" and "agony" which is another barrier in between sects of a society along with religion, ethnicity and politics. I think that this is not a pedagogy to be taught and induced in the young brains. In this way we are ourselves trying to decline rate of social and civil development in our society by paralyzing a willing candidate who is exploited on the basis of his/her family's income. Several international competitions taking place only allow the few with a handsome bank balance to register while the competitions organized by the government are free of cost but the judgements are imprisoned by prejudice mind of thinking. 

But here what to say where the basic and dire right of education is not sufficiently provided and where several external and our national board intersect each other building tumors of differences. Still what I can hope for through writing this letter to the editor is a recognition and realization for the fact that a majority population of youth is deprived of better educational standards, co-curricular and extra-curricular participation just on the basis of affordability and the bank balance. So either democracy or martial law, education should be for all with equal and undisputed standards!

"Modern-day slavery and the inherited monarchy"

Man is born free to live but as we travel to the rural regions of Pakistan, we have to face few harsh realities of which one is modern-day slavery. Families or I must say cluster of villages are inherited by the royals. Now the question arises, who are the royals? For me, they are either the godly people or the landlords who inherited the slavery of thousands of locals. Here the locals are worthy of blame because their undue support and acceptance of the stone-age customs has resulted in the violence of human rights. Sadly, the worst part is that they are even not aware of the religious laws andcontinue to settle mutiny through a constitution given by their culture ruling a typical mindset for ages. The royals of the inherited monarchy fail to educate their people to avoid legal awareness and ensure zero chances of betrayal. This completely shows that in a country named Pakistan, few families are running their own dominion states with their own borders and constitution. Hence, during elections, even if it is 100 percent transparent, people will continue to vote their local lords. Therefore, education should be introduced alongside public awareness so that the locals could understand their rights. 

To initiate this, the election commission should introduce a public awareness mobile cell which consists of law-literate people who could teach people how powerful they are because of democracy and move into the rural regions because they need it the most. If we want a nation with the true democracy, we need to introduce such projects on grass-root level!

"Judiciary: The Most Supreme"

Judiciary mainly maintains and sustains the system being run in a country and it is widely accepted by the majority literate public to be the most supreme institution of Pakistan. Though the constitution is designed and passed by the parliament still, constitution continues to be a legal part of this institution which could be only treated in the court of judiciary.

It is a feather in the cap of this parliament to re-initiate a free judicial system so they should respect the judiciary by giving it utmost honour. The game is not of how supreme some institution is but how definite and fair it is!  

Rotten Tomatoes

Since decades this world, especially Pakistan, is owned by the elite class of its nation. The common man like always is exploited because of his mediocre nature and lower affordability. Many say this is the true face of the world but I surely believe human existence is bounded by the element of hope. You can achieve anything from money, from a false education degree to the utmost throne. Merit and dignity in our society is of no use because the world charges and marches on the roads of dollars. The best university is just now a dream for the majority but the ones lowest on their merits rise to such levels that we dignify them with a doctorate. Parliament is a reality for the masters but a hopeless institution for the general public, a public whose one-third wants to run away from this country and two-third in a state of dilemma.

This is not now a harsh reality for me but an extensive measure of human tolerance and handicapping. Truth scores denial or death and false words open channels to success, honesty pulls into lowest darkness while deception and hypocrisy is taught to be diplomacy and a pious action, a tall order honor is to have such a system. The poor majority of this population is enforced to starve and accept humiliation as their fate but the rotten tomatoes believe in the lie of being eternal, thus worsening the tyranny. The public is shocked, puddled and enclosed in the chamber of confusion while the others relish and delect luxury in this transitory paradise.  

We are paralyzed by our situations and require our rights, direly. We don't want to continue the system of request but inaugurate the way of ordering our civil servants as, emphatically, we are the establishment, the true stake holders of this nation. So why we obey and regard the rotten tomatoes?  

Vote for Education. Nothing else!

Since decades the people of Pakistan are listening to the different proposals and agents of change that could propagate the streaming revolution and induce self-reliance and courage in the commoners, but sadly none of them proposed a new system of education. Our education system is a true blunder and has proven this fact through its failure. You may call this as the beauty of the standards of our education that today we are the back-benchers in the class of discoveries and inventions. We still believe in a single exam which could judge a person’s destiny and either glorify or darken his/her future. Our syllabus is revised and further loaded, establishing the concept of rote learning as the only savior and logic behind any subject to be useless.

The solution which I propose is educational revival through revolutionary reforms! If we all desire progress and stability, we require an educated nation as the only safeguard of freedom. We should insist to find a way out, a method that has an efficiency of at least 90% production of successful and on track people. Countries like U.K and Australia initiated an education system with semester divisions where series of test, class participation, co-curricular and extra-curricular performance is judged, this means if a person fails to qualify for a single test, he/she has another chance to prove him/herself. This is the system which produced self-sufficient and efficient people who could credit victories to the nation. Every loyal patriotic nationalist should move on to the next level, raise voice for a better education system!

"Without education: it is Democralysis"

A word not a part of any dictionary but crystal clear with respect to its definition in the mind of the intellectual is "Democralysis". In a country where majority population is illiterate and others pose to be, the state of democralysis tends to induce. For those unaware of its meaning, Democralysis has been derived from the words democracy and lysis (a biological term meaning destruction). Education is a dire need of a society aiming to progress and prosper in all scopes of living which makes it quite important for the sustenance of a common yet fair governmental system known as democracy.

According to world bank, Pakistan's 54% population is educated which is too low for a nation as fertile as ours but even this percentage is of no use because the people falling into such category are unknown to their right and legal system of their country.

Why I state democraylsis is due to the fact that in Pakistan democracy is roared to be a basic need and right but the people unaware of its glory and esteem accept it as another hopeless system of governance. Therefore, either people opt to move back from voting or continue with the stereotype choosing. If the education was made common with awareness of rights and open exercise of the justice between the locals, this dilemma could be crushed from its roots.

A region where illiteracy is common, the spirit behind democracy dies while freedom of speech in the public forums turns uncommon leading to the destruction of the real essence of democracy. For some reason the public is worth blaming as they either because of conventional mindset or phobias deny importance of knowledge of human rights and worldly education.

According to a friend of mine, about 30 years of martial law and 200 years under British reign the Pakistani mentality is besieged by commanders and generals. This is another reason why we have lost democracy and chosen a half way between to comfort international community and our intellect. Favoring serfdom over freedom and loyalty without nobility has vanquished the concept of self-reliance from hearts of the majority.

Education with an indispensable coordinate specified as human rights education is a need to create an acceptable broadmindedness and a bond of trust over system of governance namely "Democracy" so that our future generation never add such a sarcastic word like Democralysis in their dictionary.