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MAIL BOX
Private vans
This is in response to Rujmaan Lodhi’s letter “Private van commuters’ plight” (YW, March 13). She complained about the van drivers who take fees of even those months when the students don’t go to their colleges. Her point seems to be correct but has she thought that if these drivers aren’t given any money for those months, then how will they be able to earn their living? They are also human beings and have children who study in school or colleges like us.
About her point of dropping students to their examination centres, I shall make it clear that your van driver has taken the responsibility to drop you from your home to your college not to the examination centre.
As far as the point of insulting students is concerned, I think this is really unacceptable and they should not do this.
Maisam Mehdi, Karachi
Destroying the future
In our country, schools are increasing by the day, although some of them are not providing students with good education. It would be right to say that establishing such schools is becoming a good source of earning a living.
I have a friend who is studying in one such school. Once I was playing a writing game with her, in which she wrote sparrow, as “sparo”, instead of writing fan, she wrote “fen” and spelled egg as “eeg”. These are easy words for a student of class three to spell, but she was unable to spell these too.
Owners of these schools are ruining the future of their students. The Government should take necessary steps regarding this problem. The standard of these schools should be improved, otherwise we’re better off without these schools.
Faiza Shams, Karachi
Child labour
Pakistan has banned child labour but even today we can find kids working in different fields such as shops, workshops, garages and factories, etc. all over the country.
Children are architects of a nation but if the future of our nation is in this condition then how can we dream of a prosperous future. Here another question arises as to what are the main reasons that our government fails to curb this curse? What are the anti-social elements that are playing with the lives of these children?
These kids whose lives are diminishing under the pressure of labour, also have the right of enjoying a happy life with a bright future. It is our duty as a nation to help our children out of this menace.
Shay Shahadad, Turbat
Be more careful please!
I appeared last week in the Urdu examination of SSC part II. Me and my class fellows were astonished to find a question carrying five marks carelessly instructed.
The question comprised six lines of poetry in which we were asked to explain and elaborate the so-called Khad Kasheeda Alfaz and you wouldn’t believe that the words we were supposed to explain were not underlined or made prominent in any manner. Some students explained the whole sentences, some only the difficult words not even knowing as to how many were to be done.
I think that this is really shameful for the Sindh Board of Secondary Education.
Akbar Dawood, Karachi
Illiteracy
The main reason of our backwardness is certainly lack of education. The world has stepped on Mars, but our country does not even have a forty five per cent literacy rate.
Women are being slain and killed in cold blood in tribal areas of Pakistan. Whenever they make a mistake or they are doubted, their husbands or relatives kill them with no pity and give it the name of honour killing. All of this and more happens due to illiteracy. Our Holy prophet Mohammad (Peace be upon him) said, “It is obligatory of every Muslim men and women to get education”.
If we had acted upon his saying, we would not have to bear these grave consequences of not being educated.
I request the government of Pakistan to look into this matter seriously and build up some more educational institutions so as to educate the people and end ignorance.
Ayaz Hashim, Turbat
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