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Mail Box
A COMMON feature about most of the mails I see in the mail box is that they criticize the government. I just want to convey my message that, although the government is responsible, you are equally responsible too. First you should do the job yourself instead of criticizing others. I also want to bring to attention of the editor that some articles written by females are extremely gender biased. I feel this is ridiculous.
SAYYID ALI ABBAS RAZA,
Peshawar
Save the earth!
THROUGH the lines of Young World, I would like to draw the attention of the youth of Pakistan to the rising problem of global warming. The greenhouse gases like Carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, etc. are the main causes of the changing temperature of the planet Earth. These climatic changes bring drought, floods, storms and forest fire.
It is our responsibility to save the environment so as to lead a healthy life as these gases also cause disastrous health hazards like lung and heart problems, eye irritation and skin diseases.
To avoid these mishaps it is our duty to take care of our environment. We must stop or at least reduce the burning of fossil fuels (coal, oil and wood). Cars should run on CNG instead of petrol.
If we want our future generation to breath in a fresh and healthy environment we will have to take these preventive steps now.
BASIT RAZA FAZAL,
Karachi
Status of women
EVERY year all over the world Women’s Day is celebrated with great fervour, on March 8. From this we can judge that the world accepts the high status of women.
Even Islam has accorded great value to women and asks people to show love and affection to daughters, and treat her with respect as a wife. If she is a mother then paradise is laid under her feet.
So it’s high time that we give woman her rightful place in society — a place that she has been deprived from, since years.
SHOAIB NASIR,
Turbat
Futile policies
THE University Grant Commission, has made a policy that no computer science student will get admission in any engineering faculty not even in B.E. Computer Science.The only difference between a computer student and an engineering student is that computer students select computers instead of chemistry, the rest is the same. So why can’t they get admission in those faculties where chemistry is not even taught like electronics and most of all in B.E. Computer Science. I advice them to reconsider this policy as a lot of talented students would be deprived of their right to a good career in which knowledge of chemistry is not really needed. The decision of accepting or rejecting these students should be left to the respective Universities.
ADEEL KHAN
Karachi
Iraqi prisoners of war
THE treatment towards Iraqi POWs at the hands of US troops is totally inhuman. The prisoners at Al-Gharib prison are being treated worse than animals although they are completely innocent. They are given no food, are tortured, and even stripped. The US troops don’t even let them sleep and often tie them upside down.
Live wires are attached to prisoners’ tongue and limbs and on slightest movement they experience an electric shock. Even if these prisoners were/are involved in any so called terrorist activities then too, this is no way to treat them. The US likes to be know as the custodian of human rights. However, what we see in Iraq is a complete violation of human rights, freedom and honour.
MEHVEEN AIJAZ,
Karachi
Why Only Punjab?
THE Punjab chief minister Mian Prevaiz Ilahi has taken a vital step by providing free education up to matric for students in the government schools of Punjab.
Besides this, the Punjab Education Board is also giving a stipend of Rs200 to girls if they are able to manage an attendance rate of 80 per cent. I hope that the other provinces would follow suit and make Pakistan as literate as possible.
MASOOMA HYDER,
Karachi
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