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Rural areas
Pakistan is an underdeveloped country of the third world. The realization dawns when you notice the need for development just about everywhere specially in the rural areas. There is hardly any social service there.
Our villages need electricity, drinkable water and good sanitary conditions. The children living in these areas need better education. Some organized efforts have to be put forth by the big landlords of the rural areas and the government too to bring about some kind of positive change.
MAZIA JAWAID. Karachi.
IT in colleges
This is in response to Ruba Athar’s letter (YW, February 1) about IT as a compulsory subject in 2nd year. I totally agree with her. The subject should be cancelled now that the students haven’t had a chance to study it properly.
There are so many government colleges that are still without computer facilities and yet the students are expected to take IT.
Through this letter, I would like to plead to the board officials that we don’t have to prepare for IT alone. We have other subjects such as Maths, Physics and Chemistry also. You can’t burden us with this dilemms as well.
M. FARHAN SIDDIQI, Karachi
Computer virus
A computer is an expensive machine. It becomes even more valuable for a person once he or she enters important files into the hard disk of their computer. But all your software and files can be destroyed by compter virus.
Nowadays security on the internet has decreased to such an extent that just about everyone who owns a computer has been a victim. Trouble makers are sending viruses via e-mail to just about every address.
Now the thing is that an e-mail carrying a virus will always have an attachment. The virus is in the attachment so never open an unknown message with an attachment. There are programmes that scan attachments for a virus but still it is safer to just not open a file.
ARSALAN KHAN, Karachi
Are beggars really what they seem?
One day on my way back home from college, I happened to travel by bus. A beggar entered the bus soon after I did and took a seat near to mine. He was wearing torn and tattered clothes and was cotinuously moving his head from left to right. He seemed to be mentally retarted or so I thought.
Another person who entered after us happened to recognize the beggar and tried to strike a conversation with him. But the beggar just ignored him and kept on moving his head from one side to the other. I told the gentleman to leave the poor chap alone as he wasn’t normal. But I was wrong in my assumption. That man knew quite a bit about the beggar. He told me that there was nothing wrong with the beggar. He was just putting on an act. I was informed that this beggar had just constructed a house worth Rs 2 million. Other than this, he also owned a new car.
This got me thinking. How foolish of us to quickly hand over our hard-earned money to such people.
MALIK NASIR ABDULLAH AWAN, Islamabad
Tuitions
Is tuition another name for O-Levels? When a student enters O-Levels, it is pretty obvious that his next step would be to get admission in some tuition centre or take private tuitions.
The tuition businesses is expanding quite rapidly. Pick up any advertisement section of a newspaper and you’ll get proof of this. There are hundreds of advertisements offering tuitions.
One may have noticed that these people offering tuitions are all O and A-Level teachers in schools. Most of these teachers use their schools to advertise their services. Not explaining the lessons well during class, they do it later at their homes or a tuition centre. The poor students are left with no other choice but to take tuitions. They cannot risk any kind of failure at this important point of their lives.
If only the teachers go about their job honestly, the students will not have to suffer.
TAYAB CHINYOTY, Karachi
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