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Substandard road construction
Through columns of your esteemed newspaper, I would like to draw attention of concerned authorities towards issue of road construction in Kohi Village. After five years contractor came to our village to build the main road. The people became happy to have a proper road in the village. But contractor cheated the people and built a road by just stones and sand.
The road took more time to get ready but the moment it rained it was all washed up. Seeing this hearts of people broke and they blamed the government that was responsible for this substandard work. The government must apprehend the contractor and order him to build the road again in a satisfactory way.
PARVEZ MOULA BAKSH
Karachi
World AIDS Day
World AIDS Day, designated on December 01 every year since 1988, is an international day dedicated to raising awareness of AIDS pandemic caused by spread of HIV infection and mourning those who have died of this disease.
Worldwide an estimated 33 million people are living with HIV, including more than 1 million in the United States. As a foundation for understanding global impact of HIV/AIDS, it is helpful to consider biology and transmission of the disease, as well as how it can affect life on both individual and community levels. In HIV the immune system becomes too weak to fight off infections. Being unable to recover from infections like pneumonia or tuberculosis is usually the cause of death for people with AIDS. There is no vaccine for preventing HIV infection and no cure for AIDS.
Medications known as anti-retroviral (ARV) drugs can however, slow the destruction of an HIV-positive person’s immune system. Today, anti-retroviral therapy can give people living with HIV a near normal lifespan if they stay otherwise healthy. Still, most people who are infected with HIV, especially those living in low and middle-income countries, do not have reliable access to anti-retroviral medications or necessary health care services.
Having a high rate of HIV and AIDS can present serious social and economic challenges for communities in developing countries. People debilitated by HIV and AIDS may be unable to do their daily work, including growing food to meet their nutritional needs or earning income to support their families. Having parents with HIV cannot only put children at risk.
YOUSAF JAMIL
Wah Cantt
Double standard
The US on the one hand is blaming Iran for 5 days of internet blackout in areas where protests and riots erupted, whereas on the other hand the US seems to be turning its eyes and ears, except a lip-service, on the worst situation in Indian-Held Kashmir as result of history’s prolonged curfew of 116 days.
People of IHK are cut-off from rest of the world and spending miserable days of their lives. Isn’t it a blatant hypocrisy on part of a major world power that claims to be a flag-bearer of human rights?
ZAHID ALI ZOHRI
Gilgit-Baltistan
Missing quality education
There are many schools that provide education in good environment with best teaching services. A lot of private schools are working hard to make a child’s future and hence parents cooperate with these schools to ensure that their child is provided with the best. But it is pertinent to note here that only children hailing from prosperous background are able to avail such an education. Children belonging to low-income groups cannot afford tuition fees of these schools.
Private schools do provide good education, but they have become money making entity. The only other option for children hailing from low-income groups is government schools. But these are ill equipped to provide a good education. The environment of government schools is not conducive to good education.
There facilities are highly inadequate. In a view of this, the government should make government schools as good as private ones. Private schools should be asked to reduce their fees so that everyone, irrespective of their family’s income, can gain knowledge.
MAHAD ANSAR
Rawalpindi
Aramco shares on PSX
Saudi Aramco, one of the biggest and most profitable company is offering 1.5% of it’s shares to the public. They are looking to raise 100B$ but are faced with some unexpected problems that have forced them to avoid listing their shares on US and EU stock exchanges and instead only offered them on Saudi stock exchange.
In Saudi Arabia the locals know the value of these shares and already 44B$ worth of shares have been bought locally. There are reports that Saudis are selling their household things to increase their investment in shares.
Since Saudi Arabia has not reached it’s target investment they are looking to allow other countries to invest. Pakistan can use this opportunity to ask Saudi to allow the listing of Aramco shares on Pakistan Stock exchange.
Announcing sale of Aramco shares on PSX will attract new individual investors to stock market, while also attracts international customers. The Aramco stock will help individual Pakistanis earn regular income as profit dividend for decades and can help reduce poverty. It will also increase cooperation between the two nation’s and their people.
SHAHRYAR K BASEER
Peshawar
Poverty alleviation
According to Google, 39% people are suffering from poverty, 60%, people are struggle to find food, as being vast and biggest reason of a country’s backwardness.
In each batch, out of 1000 babies, 75 babies die before their 5th birthday just because of poverty. Poverty forces people to stealing, joining gangs and many more. Besides, almost 25 million people are involved in beggary. It’s my humble request to PTI government to work hard and remove poverty from the country.
MAHIKAN WALI
Via email
Marriage awareness
Know a days divorce rate has increased considerably. Is it just because of lack of awareness about marriage life? Every newly couple requires education and understanding about how to make their marriage life happier? Responsibilities as a husband and as a wife, how to care each other? Love each other and this all relates with Islam.
Because Allah revealed everything in Quran and the life of Holy Prophet (PBUH) is the best example as how to live a successful and happy married life? If we adopt these teachings it will help us to overcome rising rate of divorce in our country.
ALINA K AMIR
Islamabad
Child abuse
The rate of child abuse is increasing day by day. And I don’t understand what our law enforcement agencies are doing. Few years ago I read a news of 4-year child being raped.
Why there is no check on these criminals? Why our kids our going through this trauma? Where are our government and our justice system? So please enforce such laws that bring justice in society. And hang such people, as there is no place for such criminals. We want justice for our children who are going through such bad things.
JAVERIA ARIF
Islamabad
Annual population conference
Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad organised 20th annual population research conference on November 27-28, 2019. This two-day conference had been organised by the population council.
A new narrative on population based on promoting rights based approach developed by consultative process was introduced. The talk hosted the panel of parliamentarian, senators, civil society and media on a population narrative and the impact of rapid population growth on development. The government and society have a responsibility to facilitate people to achieve this balance by provide universal access to family planning information and service.
MAHNOOR TANVEER
Islamabad
Passive smoking
Passive smoking refers to inhalation of smoke, it is also known as environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) or second hand smoke (SHS) by others than the active smoker. It occurs when the cigarettes or tobacco smoke infuse with any environment and resulting its inhalation by people within that environment.
Passive smoking can cause dangerous diseases such as coronary heart diseases and cancer. Furthermore, it also increases a non-smoker risk of cancer of the larynx and pharynx and lung cancer by a quarter. Coronary heart disease can further leads to angina, heart attack and also increases the risk of heart failure. Moreover, it also encourages the risk of strokes. Second hand smoke adversely affects vulnerable group especially children such as asthma, cot death, respiratory infections and bacterial meningitis. Mostly children are exposing to passive smoking at homes. The 85% of passive smoke is invisible and these particles also build up on the surface of clothes.
Also, this smoke can reside in the air for up to 2.5 hours. It is need of the hour to quit smoking not only for oneself but for everyone in surrounding also. Moreover, Media should also play a positive role by spreading awareness among the people.
Hadia Aziz
Via email
