Peace

Peace is the most elusive of goals in present times as war mongers are in power!

Pakistan

I will quote some examples to show that not all things are on decline.

1. Pakistan's tele- density has been most intensive throughout last 2 decades, well before this mobile frenzy... it was spearheaded by PTCL... a Civil Institution.
2. Pakistan's women engineering ratio 16 % is higher than even USA 10 % ( see rozee.com's survey of employment.)
3. The doctors, Chartered Accountants, engineers produced by our institutions work in whole of the wolrd and their quality is not lower than any one. Despite all our efforts to politicize our institutions.
4. In last year's CERN's landmark experiments to ncreate Big Bang particle collission there were four Pakistani scientists who participated in the experiments... they were from Government Departments.
5. Late Zafar Ullah Khan worked in International Court of Justice for about one decade showing great admiration from all and sundry.He was Pakistani!
   
6. An agriculturist in Agriculture department developed 7.5 mm Basmati rice , the largest kernel size in wolrd , later on it was sold to Guard rice and Guard rice is earning lot of money by selling this rice through exports.
7. In Pakistan the ratio of lawyers is the highest in the world about 400 per 100000 persons even higher than USA about 350 per 100000 persons. It was one of the reasons for recent active Lawyers Movement in Pakistan.
8. Since many years Pakistani students are performing excellently in World Debating Competitions .... although more students are from Public schools!
9. Pakistan is one of the countries whose expenditure is highest on higher education , that is the reason that in high professions wolrd wide a lot of Pakistanis are seen.
   
10. Jamshed Marker, Agha Shahi, Munir Akram,and many other people worked in United Nations system and earned a great name for country and Pakistan.
11. Dr, Nafis Sadiq rose to be Head of UNFPA ... she is Pakistani.
12. in NASA and other institutions of research there are many Pakistanis who studied in Pakistani Universities .
    
13. Many new varieties of wheat, maize, rice and citrus have been developed in Pakistan.
    
14. IBA in Karachi was one of the first Business Schools in Asia in Public Sector.
    
15. Family Planning at Public level was initiated in Pakistan.

These are some examples, my point is not that all things are green, there are problems and they need to be sorted out but it does not mean that every thing is doomed and we have done any thing. Life is amde of controversies and healthy debate is a way to get clearer. In next e-mail I will write statistics . We need confidence... not over confidence. We are experts in knowing our weaknesses and short comings but at least we should try to learn our strengths also. I have intentionally mentioned a few things , the point is too see the both sides of the picture.Glass in not always half empty , it is also half full!