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Bahrain
after UAE
It is Really heart breaking news that Bahrain has normalize its relation with Israel. Before this, the UAE recognized Israel as state and normalize the ties with. This decision has saddened the Muslims particularly Palestinians as they’re living under brutality of Israel. America has played most important role in such negotiations as both these announcements were first made by President Trump.
It’s really strange for the Muslim world especially the OIC that the Gulf countries have started recognizing Israel before resolution of Palestine question and no condemnation has came so far. America, being Iran’s anti, has started engaging Gulf countries to simply accept Israel as State. Iran, Turkey and Pakistan have condemned the move by saying that Bahrain has stirred the instability within the region by normalizing ties with Israel. Muslim world should condemn collectively such moves for Palestinian’s cause.
SANAULLAH KALWAR
Kashmore, Sindh
Nepotism in Pakistan
It is said that nepotism is the paralyzed part of our system that has been destroying the country’s progress rapidly since its independence. It’s acutely the wrong use of power by giving best positions and jobs to their family or their close contacts even though some people do not deserve. Irony is this that it takes place at the cost of other talented ones. Nepotism is an axe that cuts the roots of merit leaving the deserving people pass the miserable life . Isn’t it unfair and unjustified to promote a person on the basis of personal contacts and relationship?
How would it feel when one is not selected for job or best position in spite of having skill, loyal service and hard work? Does relation outrank the merit? Nepotism is nuisance for nation it is not only destroying it by providing oppertunaties to skill less and inapt person but also badly infringe the rights of skilled people if we talk about Pakistan so we can find all around such things that the members of same family work in the same field and every place in Pakistan while Pakistan is said to be a sacred land that came into being in the name of Islamic. Despite it, we are not treated as equal as taught by Islam.
Since the independence of Pakistan, people have always been a victim of nepotism and favouritism where the powerful figures are also busy in promoting their kith and kin rather than country’s boon and development our leaders. It’s believed that nepotism and parchi is main hurdle in the country’s progress. It’s nepotism which ultimately opens the gate and welcomes wrong, incompetent and unskilful person, who later leaves no stone unturned to drown the name of the country.
Promoting nepotism is sheer amount of injustice done to young and talented youths. It’s a slap on the face of our society that we have received happily without recording any protest . Stakeholders must stop the practice of nepotism in the country so that the rights of talented people can be protected.
NARESH SAJLANI
Karachi
Better purvey the disabled community
Another largely marginalised community in Pakistan that anyone hardly seems to talk about is the disabled community. However, with the increasing awareness, people try more and more to de-stigmatise the word, of its implication; that people with physical and mental disabilities are somehow less human, or are ‘abnormal’ when in reality anything becomes normal the moment we start accepting it, beyond the status quo.
To do so, ASL and Braille should be introduced in public places. Sign language should also be taught in households that do not have people who need it. Elevators should also be built to cater the physically handicapped.
To further normalise this, rather than making special needs school that are scarce in resources, and not as common, which further alienates the already marginalised people. Rather, the teachers should be better equipped to include disabled children. Another stigma that needs to be sorted is that, mental illnesses like autism, and ADHD etc which should be treated as such.
An emotion inducing hashtag would be “mazoor hain lachaar nahi”, it implies that yes while there is a disability, it does not make them weak and powerless. A tagline to assist it can be ‘our differences, should not hinder our lives’ which is what disabled people go through everyday a physicality they cannot change, hindering their lives every turn, and it needs to change for the better.
SAKINA RIZVI
Via email
Patient safety
All patients, patient advocates and carers should be committed to prioritising patient safety and make healthcare safer. This means that all governments should recognise patient safety as a health priority in health policy and programmes, making it a key component for strengthening healthcare systems to achieve Universal Health Coverage and establish systems to engage and empower patients’ families and communities in delivering safer healthcare.
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the huge challenges health workers are currently facing globally. Working in stressful environment exacerbates safety risks for health workers, including being infected and contributing to outbreaks in the health care facility, having limited access or adherence to personal protective equipment and other infection prevention and control measures, and inducing errors which can potentially harm patients and health workers. In many countries, health workers are facing increased risks of infections, violence, accidents, stigma, illness and death.
HANDSEN CHIKOWORE
London