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Harmful effects of video games
Playing video games has become favourite an amusement experiences for teenagers today. Some of the severe downsides of video games on our children’s typical well-being are hostility, wrong-doings and anti-social conduct resulting from digital video games with violent content that goes towards ethical values, psychological issues such as anxiety, less concentration, insomnia, social isolation and depression. Low academic performance when doing homework becomes replaced by another round of game and physical health problems including obesity and chronic back pain due to lack of movement and vision problems.Video games cannot cause damage to our young people as long as we, as mothers, keep a careful eye on the first-class matches we purchase for our young ones and the time they spend participating in them. Encouraging our young people to build social networks is also fundamental to ensure that they are no longer addicted to the digital world.
SONIA KANWAL
Karachi
Financial literacy
The Standard and Poor global financial literacy survey shows that only 26 percent of adults are financially literate here. This is an alarming situation for a country with more than 63% of its population below 30 years age. As majority of population is youth which is going to be the next generation of Pakistan and are going to lead Pakistan in future. If Pakistan wants to be out poverty and economic crisis then in schools of every province of Pakistan financial literacy should be added as a subject in the course and students should be financial literate so that they can take correct and informed financial choices.
This will benefit our country a lot, but when it comes to financial literacy five major components that students need to be taught: earning, sending, saving borrowing and protecting. But only school going children aged 13-17 and youth aged 18-29 years should be targeted only because they can process all this easily and implement it in their lives. Lastly every Pakistani should contribute to this initiative. Together, we can make a more financially literate and inclusive Pakistan.
HAANI MUSTAFA
Karachi
PTA charges
Rules and regulations are framed to facilitate common people of the country world over but unfortunately some rules and regulations here in Pakistan are not facilitating common people such as PTA approval charges of cell phones which are brought from any foreign country to make them useable as SIM does not support such cell phones and PTA approval charges to unlock these cell phones are very high. In some cases, PTA approval charges of cell phones, especially of iPhones are higher than the actual price of the phones, thus people are deprived to pay PTA charges to unlock these phones and compelled to opt other ways such as call patch approve to avoid to pay official duty to make the phones useable. PTA should revisit their decision to charge huge amount of money for approval charges instead reasonable charges should be introduced so that people could pay easily to make their cell phones useable and do not take other unorthodox ways. By that way, PTA would receive reasonable tax duty from general people of the country.
FAISAL ANSAR
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