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Confused
The youth are definitely confused about the condition of Pakistan. The political, religious, social and economic prospects of the country are in a terrible state. All of us are worried about it but what do we do? We are so confused about what is right and what is wrong. We do not know which school of thought or group we should support. Whenever we listen to any one on television or radio or read someone’s comments about a certain thing we get influenced and then when we hear/read a different point of view on the subject we close our minds and do not even bother to give a thought to others’ point of view.
We, the youth, do not know who to follow and who not to follow. At this stage we should learn to see both sides of the picture and with an open mind listen to every one’s views and develop our own opinion on the basis of that.
I would like to request everyone that we should not only work for our personal objectives but also work for our country with determination and passion.
Fatima Khan,
15 years, Lahore
Incorrect details
This is with reference to the review of the game Red Alert 2 by Ramish Hussain (YW, August 18). I appreciate his effort but actually his observations are quite incorrect.
Firstly, C&C: RA2 is not by EA games, it was developed by Westwood Inc. Furthermore, RA2 is not a new game it was launched at least six years back, even I do not remember the exact date but I have been playing it for more than five years.
Moreover, after C&C: RA2 there was another game launched it was called C&C: Yuri’s Revenge, and after that the title Command and Conquer was bought over by EA Games which then introduced C&C: Generals and then C&C: Generals Zero Hour. Then C&C: The First Decade was launched about one and a half year back which had all the C&C series games starting from Red Alert1 to Generals Zero Hour.
The last game launched in the Command and Conquer series was about six months back which is C&C3: The Tiberium Wars.
I have played almost all of them but my favourite is still Red Alert2 as the later games are much slower and with too many details of upgrades.
Adeel Gohar
Patriotism or the lack of it
This is with reference to Sehar Sheikh’s article “Partiotism or the lack of it” (YW August 11). Firstly I would like to appreciate her for shedding light on the phenomenon of fake patriotism. I agree with her that at times we just fool ourselves by believing that we are patriotic whereas in reality we aren’t.
Sehar mentioned an educationist who delivered depressing comments regarding the 60 years of Pakistan. I agree with the educationist, as he said what he thought. He takes a pragmatic view of the current situations and affairs. It sounds bitter but that is what we call truth. The speaker didn’t want to build castles in the air and I guess that was the reason for his harsh comments.
What if the speaker had presented a fake story that Pakistan is on the road of development with pace? There is a chance that you wouldn’t have been motivated to write this article. In short when we hear such comments we should not feel bad but try and better ourselves so that by working hard we can avert the inevitable.
Danish Us Salam, Karachi
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