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Deadly diagnosis
Educating the educators WITH reference to the article Educating the educators (August 15), instead of introducing new methods and techniques to raise the standard of education in the so-called private schools, effort should be made to reform the management of private schools as well as most of them are only interested in collecting revenue from helpless parents. ZAKI ALAM Karachi Bemoaning Buddha WITH reference to the article Bemoaning Buddha (July 11), the question here is not of forefathers or children but of farsightedness. All the living nations feel proud of their heritage, therefore they take pains in protecting it. But we, being an amalgam of countless identities, are sworn into playing with history and disowning anything else. WAHEED TUNIO Karachi So much for nothing WITH reference to the article So much for nothing (August 29), we hope much from very little. We cannot achieve glory and prestige by spending just Rs10 million. In Atlanta 96, a French official said that each medal costed France no less than $1.5 million. As we all know that our ace boxers Meharullah and Asghar Ali Shah were defeated by Cuban world champion and an Olympics gold medalist. We also should realize the difference between the structure and standard. Cuba spends a quarter of its budget on sports sector. There, every second boy plays boxing. They come up from the grass root level. Boxing and baseball are played in almost every school there. We have no any regular indoor boxing stadium in our country while in Thailand, Bangkok alone has 25 indoor boxing rings. So, instead of criticizing and discouraging the boxers and the boxing federation, we should advise the government to promote sports, especially boxing, from the grassroots and build at least one indoor stadium in Karachi. SYED SAAD AHMED Karachi Nothing but the truth WITH reference to the lead story Gone with the wind (August 15), I would like to quote something regarding the predicament of Pakistani film industry. “It’s better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.” The ill-conceived and garden-variety themes coupled with ersatz plots and musical compositions seem to me to be one of the major causes of this ongoing rapid loss of interest in Pakistani movies. We simply need to be truthful in portraying the dilemmas and to be a bit sincere in delineating the human plight pertaining to our culture and society, either tragic or comedic. M.U. REHMAN Gujrat | ||
WITH reference to the article Deadly diagnosis (August 15), the people of my village, once took a young girl for some treatment to a doctor nearby. The doctor, a declared MBBS enjoyed good reputation and even had an ultrasound machine, a rarity in rural Pakistan. The doctor upon examining the girl declared her pregnant. Immediately the laws of the village kicked in and the girl’s relatives decided to punish her under the banner of Kari. Thank God, one of the girl’s uncle’s was suspicious of the doctor and decided to get a second opinion. The subsequent two different laboratory results showed that the girl had nothing but a tumour in her abdomen!|
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