Letter: Underage drivers


In recent days, underage children are driving uncontrollable vehicles without any licenses. It causes numerous accidents and perishes many innocent lives. Unfortunately, Balochistan lacks traffic signals still parents have no care for their beloveds and allow their children to drive illicitly. Most importantly, when they are caught while illegal driving, their parents introduce their high power to poor policemen. Finally, It is my request to the government to stop it and parents should restrain giving vehicles to underage drivers.

Hatir Aslam
Turbat

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Letter: Ignoring our own culture

A nation is identified by its culture and Balochistan used to be famous because of its fantastic roles. Unfortunately, Balochs are neglecting the culture and following other cultures by utilizing the things of them.
A part from this, we are about to forget our own Balochi language. Most of the youths do not know reading and writing Balochi. Instead of our own mother tongue, we are trying to get English and other languages.

It is the responsibility of the each Baloch to develop the culture in all regards by emphasizing its importance to the Baloch nation. We need to teach the nation to promote the culture by highlighting the significances of Balochi nation and need to establish new institutions for the development of Balochi language.

Gulbano M. Naeem
Awaran

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Story: New year celebration

By: Noor Bakhsh Saleem,

Noor was very happy because it was the day that Noor was going to market with his father on New Year’s Eve to purchase various things, but all of his willing and liking.

Suddenly, he saw his younger brother who was looking very sad and sitting alone. Noor went to him and asked, “Brother, why are you sitting alone and very sad as well, is there anything wrong with you?” His brother replied, “No, I am fine. I just feel like sitting alone.” “ Brother, you know today is New Year day, I decided to go market for purchasing some special things, won’t you come?” asked Noor excitedly. “No brother, I am fine.

But I will come whatsoever I want you and my father must give me, strongly quoted by his brother

OK, let’s move.

When Noor with his father and brother reached to market, the market was quite lively and all the shops were decorated well with beautiful lights of different shades.

Just then, his brother Sajid noticed a shop where a good number of birds were kept in a cage. They were repeatedly hitting their beak on the cage and trying to get out. Many of them were bleeding too.

Sajid felt very pity for those birds. Because it was the New Year’s day, Sajid could not control himself any longer and he asked his brother, why these are kept in a cage.

“These birds are kept for selling dear brother, you can buy anything, leave these birds,” Noor said seriously.

“No, I don’t need anything, I just want these birds should be left too, because birds also have lives to live freely,” Sajid said strongly. Then Sajid went to the shopkeeper and asked, “Why have you trapped these innocent birds?” “Why don’t you let them to be free? It is not fair to restrict anyone’s freedom.”

“I don’t enjoy this,” the shopkeeper replied, “but I don’t have any other source of livelihood. I also need money to feed my family.”

What do you mean, selling these birds you can’t be a millionaire, it’s very injustice with these birds, I don’t need anything, just these birds must be freed, as sajid stated sadly.

“Until and unless I don’t get money, I won’t let them to be freed.” shopkeeper replied seriously.

Sajid felt puzzled for a moment, and thought deeply, and said to his brother and father,

“I don’t want to buy anything, just I want these birds should be freed and the freedom of those birds is more important for me than any celebration.” He reached out and held his father’s hand. “Dad,” he said, “I can enjoy New Year’s Eve with my friends, but these birds will enjoy it better in the free sky.”

His father handed over the money to the shopkeeper. But the shopkeeper felt ashamed and apologized to Sadij. The shopkeeper came to Sajid and said, “I am really thankful to you. Today you opened my eyes and told me about the voiceless animals’ values.”

I don’t need money, “You can set these birds free,” the shopkeeper happily said. Sajid said, “From tomorrow onwards, you can join me at the shop. I will convince the owner to give you a respectable job.”

The shopkeeper felt happy and handed over the cage to Sajid who opened the bolted cage door. All the birds started flying out one after another. Sajid with his father started clapping.

“Dad, now they will also enjoy the new year with their family and friends. I am thankful to you, there could not have been a better gift for New Year’s,” said Sajid, relieved.

The shopkeeper hugged Sajid and his father too, and said you are the real hero of this year, 2022.

So what do you think father? Like the birds, we should celebrate the New Year together as well.

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Blog: Dream of an educated Balochistan?

By: Ahmed Bashir

Education, believed to be the most powerful weapon a person can use, can change an ignorant person into a genius being by taking him to sky from the land. Sadly, Balochistan, Pakistan’s biggest-by-area province, is kept illiterate for last seven and a half decades with more than 70 percent of people uneducated in the province. A report further unveiled that 2.5 million children in Balochistan are away from schools. Although Balochistan is the resource-generating province of Pakistan, it is the poorest province in the practical sense.

According to a report of Alif Ailaan, Balochistan owns nearly 13845 schools with 11627 primary schools. If we measure the distance according to the provincial territory, after every 30 kilometers we reach to a primary school in Balochistan. Despite the fact that primary schools are the basic step of education, most villages and towns lack primary schools. If there rarely exists one, that too goes through lack of facilities and other issues.

Coming to middle schools, Balochistan possesses 1271 middle schools, which means a person has to travel 271 kilometers to stand in a middle school in the province. It again remains a dilemma that how can a student, amidst growing poverty, afford to journey 271 kilometers to continue his education on a daily basis.

The situation worsens when we come to high schools which are only 947. In other words, we have to go through 371 kilometers to approach to a high school in Balochistan. Poverty ratio is already touching the sky with more than 70 percent of Balochistan’s residents as living below the poverty line, pursing education with such issues is a daydream for the people. Resultantly, Balochistan has 2.5 million children out of schools.

The schools mentioned above are also not facilitated well. From these, 1835 schools have no classrooms. 1800 to 2513 schools were constructed during 1960 to 1970 and are weary by now, but government never repairs them. 6228 schools are deprived of buildings; 9000 schools are with a single room. Nonetheless, in every district of Balochistan, 30% schools are deprived of fundamental facilities like water, grounds, buildings, washrooms, electricity etcetera.

With the given queries in Balochistan’s education system, how can we dream of an educated society? Ghost teachers even add more to the inhabitants’ question for a better education. All we have to observe is if the newly established provincial government takes the matter seriously or leaves it as previously.

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Letter: Growing inflation in Pakistan


Inflation is considered one of the social problems which is sure enough being faced in every part of the world. However, inflation in Pakistan is rooted in a crust as the country is having 11% inflation rate. In Pakistan, inflation has effected every citizen, but most importantly the poor people who are in very serious condition. Moreover, it has increased the number of beggars in our streets and roads. Inflation is simply defined an increase in the general price levels of goods and services. Pakistan is the 6th most populated country in the world. On the other hand, inflation is going above day by day due to the people. It is my request to the government to stop the inflation in Pakistan and allow the poor to buy their necessary materials.


Hafeezullah Raheem Bakhsh
(Turbat)

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Book review: The Gift: Pages through the ages

Reviewed by: Jahangir Jameel

The Gift is a dramatic story by Danielle Steel. It is attention catching and an addictive story once you go through it. You may not be able to leave reading it till you finish it. The suspense of the story is praiseworthy. It grasps the attentions and makes a strong attachment. It won’t be wrong to say it will hook you once you read the first page.

It is an informative story. Good to be read in your free time. The story relates to the social life and it is coherent to western culture. The story is based on teens’ life. It can be perceived as a lesson for girls who step out of norms and want to walk free from the frictions. It reveals a factuality of social world the characters of different types of people. It indirectly, arises and answers some social questions relation to actual societies.

The events which pass by are somewhat predictable and not much stunning. There isn’t any fantasy to it it is whole based on the story of a middle class families.

However, as a fiction story to push the time, it is one of the best you can get. Overall it is just like the story of a serial.

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Letter: Child labor

There are children who are out of school, college and university because their families are financially strained. Economic hardship can lead to family dysfunction and, ultimately to child labor including commercial sexual exploitation and forced domestic work. Children are also engaged in forced labor in brick kilns. Advance the legal commitment for ending child labor promotes decent work for adults and young people of legal working age. I request the government to enroll the out of school children into schools and finish child labor.

Zakria Lal

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Letter: Unemployment in Balochistan


The province Balochistan is suffering from enormous issues including poverty, child labour, electricity, unemployment and many more. Every passing day, unemployment is rising up and it has increased from 5.1 to 5.7pecentage. Apart from this, every year almost 25,000 students graduate from different universities of Balochistan, however, maximum 2,000 students hardly secure jobs. Similarly, other all remaining become jobless for long time. It is a request to the concern authorities to make concrete step toward all these menace that are causing unemployment and provide jobs and other facilities which are needed for the survival.

Pervaiz Elahi Baloch
( Awaran)

Letter: Food inflation

The current government of Pakistan has been failed to control the prices of commodities. Each and everything is unapproachable for people to buy them for surviving. However, inflation is as common as it is present in every side of the country where people are affected by inflation. People are compelled to commit suicide because of inflation.
The only way which can solve this problem is the utilization of natural resources. According to reports, Pakistan has enough resources through which our government can make inflation low. But unfortunately, the PTI government is too weak enough to utilize natural resources. The only way to control inflation is to use national resources, therefore, the government should use the national resources for the sake of bringing some relief for citizens.

Kareem Jan
Kolwah

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Book review: Eat pray love tells that an unexamined life is not worth living

Reviewed by: Bakthawar Khaliq

The soul of human being is complementary oversees in the materialistic world to decorate the artificial look and remind the world of your picture. The look and the picture can be once sorrow and happiness. These both are the real agendas of life of everyone. Most of us consider our lives as ending when we face sorrow.

Therein, Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert one of the inspirational books to inspire and put in the picture in spiritual sight filled with sorrow and a great sense of humor. This book of her teaches the legitimizing rules and principles of an effective life through its magical consequences. This book got published in 2006 and became a marketing book throughout the world. This worth piece of her proclaimed the lesson of her life to those people who lack the potential to compete with challenges of life. These are her life experiences that draw the pathway towards meaningful life.

This story is based on the life of her own. She had everything an educated ambition, a husband, a house, and a successful career to pass through them. She was a married woman who wasn’t satisfied with her life because she wanted to see the beauty of world and its glorious nature. She was enthusiastic for the progressiveness of her ambition towards the expectation and she was determined with her sentenced goals of life.

Additionally, she had managed to have the divorce from her husband as for the formulating her aspirations. Finally she succeeded to get divorced. After the divorce she visited many countries where she spent more time in tours. The only ultimate object of her was to find out the real happiness in her life by stopover of numerous places.

Eradication of everything she ever thought she was supposed to be. To rescue from all this, Gilbert took a radical step to maintain the situation which gives her the time and space to find out who she really was and what she really wanted to be. She gets rid of her belonging guide, her job and undertook a year long journey around the world all alone. Her aim was to visit three places that year. After visiting she planted her flower of love. However, in those places when she went, she observed alternative and different kinds of culture and traditions.

Gilbert experienced so many ways and process of loveliest ways of people such as how people are showing their traditions including reading mantra and how people are eating different kinds of food and how people love each other.

Hence, these ethnicities show the duration with best norms such as utopian of the perfect society. But for her, she has loosened many good things from her life. Even though she was so upset still she made many nice friends in each place where she visited. In spite of this, she was funny. She got the good idea to know the meaning of life. In such events and conditions which people suffered terribly in life hardly ever quit from those difficulties? Intensively, her efforts articulate the memoir of self discovery.

Eat Pray Love is about what can happen when you claim responsibilities for your own contentment and stop trying to live in imitation of society.
This book declares that life without problems is unexamined. Therefore, it is my recommendation to all of those to read this book who just think that life is not worthy for them.

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