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Pen is mightier than sword
The power of a pen is much larger and effective than that of the sword, which means, the power of writing is stronger than the power of war, hatred, and conflict. While the power of sword ends with death, loss and destruction, the power of a pen brings in inspiration, motivation and transformation to the soul.
A sword conquers the physical existence of a man while the pen conquers the mind and heart of people. The control over people should be achieved through their minds and not against their will at force. This is why a sword can never be mightier than a pen. The pen is mightier than the sword is a famous adage speaking about the power of writing. A pen can achieve a lot more than a sword does. It means that the power of writing is eternal while the power of the sword is short-lived.
For instance, the great achievements of Alexander, Napoleon and other rulers ended up in oblivion. However, the great preaching and writings of philosophers and authors have lasting effects that lives forever in the hearts of people. This is why it is said that a king can rule only his kingdom but a scholar rules the world with his writings. In short, it might be easy to control through armed forces, but that will only be a temporary victory as it becomes ineffective when another mightier force enters. But when you conquer someone through their heart and soul, it lives until their breath, continuing forever in the form of writing to generation after generation. This is why it is said that a pen is mightier than a sword.
AZHARUDDIN KHATTAK ZAHIR
Jallozai Nowshera KP
Deceptive Govt of Modi gunda
Modi’s govt has proved itself a curse for Muslims in India. His behaviour with Muslims community is odious. The rights of Muslims of India are under topsy-turvy due to worst intentions of Modi Gunda. Their rights have been crushed and also worship places have been devastated. Recently an incident took place in India a mosque named “Babri Mosque” was demolished and established a temple. Not only Modi’s Govt but also international originations are involved in this sin.
Nowadays Pak-India conflict has become very common worldwide owing to Kashmir issue. Cruelty of Modi on Kashmiri Muslims is too shameful to be defined. The Hindu community of India is also against Modi because of his ill activities. This Government is also called a duplicitous Government.
HASNAIN ASAD MEMON
Sukkur
Rise of private schooling
The rise of private schooling in Pakistan on one hand and the quality of education on the other, appear to be paradoxical to good education. Almost, after every fifth street today, one would find a primary educational institution in urbanely-developed areas. This, in one way, ensures accessible education for the residents of the towns, whereas, it also lays down long-term academic disadvantage for the juvenile students when it comes to the teaching quality.
Quality education is delivered by good teachers, enabled by good teaching, learning processes and facilitated by a conducive learning environment. In private spheres, majority of the newly built or under-funded private institutions have mobilized the tendency for enrolment procedure of teachers to be subjective to their lesser pay and not to their educational credentials.
This attracts the inexperienced undergraduates and other unemployed and less educated individuals even including ones who are yet to make their way in matriculation, become spiritual guardians of students. With such uncultivated staff, what could be expected from such institutions to provide for better uplift of their pupils? Developing a clear thought process among the students, inculcating in them the inclination for exploring science, logic and reasoning, and the spirit of inquiry, humanism and practical or experimental knowledge to create a scientific atmosphere is what should be the top-tier priority. Certainly, the govt with its new educational model, must reform and set promising conditions for the private educational organizations to prioritize the quality and greater methodologies in order to deal effectively with the student’s learning as such that they meet a certain minimum academic standard.
Required govt regulation should also balance the salary standards to improve the teaching quality, and fees structures to guarantee the affordability of education for those with poor background to obtain equal opportunities so that better fortunes be expected.
FARHAT ULLAH
Peshawar
Environment of Karachi
Karachi has many environmental issues, severely affecting its biophysical environment as well as human health. The industrialization as well as lax environmental oversight has contributed to the problems. The various forms of pollution have increased as Karachi has caused widespread environmental and health problems. Air pollution, lack of proper waste management infrastructure and degradation of water bodies are the major environmental issues in Karachi.
The two-stroke engine on rickshaws and motorcycles are one of the major polluters of air in Karachi and rest of Pakistan. The two-stroke engines as well as defective or poorly maintained vehicles, are major polluters by producing carbon dioxide emissions. Two-stroke engines as well as defective vehicles using substandard lubricant are major emitters of sulfur dioxide and smoke. Karachi has drinking water pollution and inaccessibility. There is dissatisfaction with garbage disposal in Karachi. Instead of disposing garbage at the solid waste management plant, the people have been throwing and burning it at various residential and commercial points in the city, causing immense pollution.
MIR MEHARULLAH
Karachi
