Saturday, August 28, 2010

They Must Be Given Their Rights

Pakistan is a very diverse society with various ethnic and religious minorities. Some of the religious and ethnic groups living in Pakistan are the Afghans, Ahmadi’s, Hindus, Sikhs, Christian etc.
Pakistan was achieved on the name of religion. At the time of the creation of Pakistan many people migrated to India and many migrated to Pakistan. There were some families who didn’t agree to leave their homes and were left here. Though right after the creation of Pakistan Quaid-e-Azam gave a speech in which he mentioned that all people are free and thus no one will be discriminated on the basis of religion, but despite this fact we can see people discriminating others on such basis.
The Hindus that were left in Pakistan were not given equal rights as the Muslims and are still deprived from their rights. The Hindus living in Pakistan are mostly poor. The jobs provided to them are mostly of sweepers and sort. They are made to work on low wages for long working hours.
The Pakistani people and the government of Pakistan may stop this discrimination towards the minorities and must give them equal rights as the other citizen. We have seen in history that the hatred between Hindu and Muslims started when the Muslims felt that the Hindus are being given more rights than the Muslims. Now it is the job of the government to make sure that history doesn’t repeat, because if it will did it will bring bloodshed along.

Friday, August 20, 2010

Character Building

Back in school, we used to have a class known as ‘Character Building’, it wasn’t a subject that we were marked on, but the major purpose of this class was to build up the character of the students. They weren’t any books for this class, but the lectures of the teachers were beyond anything written in any of the books that we read in other classes.
This class was different from other classes we used to have. The teachers in a friendly and funny way taught us many things that will not only help us in our academic life but also after it. It will be with us and will help us until we’ll die.
In this class we were taught many things from how to sit and walk, to the great lessons of love and respect, sharing and caring.
We have schools that take huge amounts of fees but are rarely concerned about the characters of the students. I believe that every school must have a character building department so as to build up the characters of the school going children’s and I m quite sure that this will help them throughout their lives. After all we may not forget that these children are the future of our nation and if their characters are well built only then our nation can progress.