The Politicians and Diplomats should compel their children to learn Chinese language instead of sending them to English speaking Countries

The policy makers sometimes become so nervous that they begin to talk in such a way as if they are playing with Pakistani nation. Sometimes it is said that Arabic language essential because by learning this language a person expected to know The Holy Qura’n in the real sense. Sometimes it is said that English language is essential because it is an international language and all the Modern Scientific research is in this language. Sometimes it is said that mother is essential as a person can learn a lesson well in the mother tongue.

Now the people of authority see the future of the Pakistani nation in Chinese language. It is nothing but a joke with this helpless nation. PPP leadership boasts that our relations with China have entered in the third generation. I ask from this leadership that how many daughters and sons of late ZAB have got education in China or how many other leaders of PPP have sent their children to China for education?

The Chinese are well aware of this duplicity of the high ups therefore love them in a calculated manner. If we have dollars for investment then they are our friends otherwise nothing. Our relation with them right from the beginning is based on partnership and in partnership there is necessity of having something for the investment.

In my opinion, a person would not be willing to jeopardize the future of his children for the sake of a Country with whom we have business relation. If a child be compelled to learn such a language which is only spoken in China and not else where, it is to destroy the future of that child because he would not be able to communicate with the people of the World.

At present, I see a gap in the thinking of the Government and the people. People wish to have better relation with India and other neighbouring Countries for the sake of their future. The people in the Government give an impression that India is our enemy No.1. The Government wish the people to see every affair with the eyes of the Government. First the Russia was kept rejected for six decades and used every weapon to destroy it and wish to see affairs with the US through the eyes of Foreign Office and Military.

I am not against of having relation with China but that should not be at the cost of losing our own specificity. We have our own religion, culture and way of life which totally different from that of China. The geographical contiguity does not means that we should merge in a big nation or we should link everything to a big nation inextricably.

The need is not of learning either English or Chinese but the need is to rectify every system where corruption has intruded like an infectious disease weakening our every organ and making us in such pitiable condition that we either look at America or China. One may accept it or not but it is a fact that America has poured dollars to our Country regardless of considering the purpose. It was depend on our leadership to make the judicious use of the wealth which was given to lavishly.

I request the Government not to take any such decision which may increase the burden of the satchel of a student which is already breaking his back. The number of the books of the minor students are increasing with every passing of class while the topics are also increasing in each book which known only to those who are related to the profession. Neither teaching is a joke nor is learning a joke. It is related to the future of a nation. We should not run after the develop nations but should strengthen our own institutions and should remove those impediments which cause delay in our progress. Our Government and people have yet to learn to respect the Judgments of the Courts whether related to the President or to an ordinary citizen.

Our Country will progress only when the Parliamentarians succeed in getting briefing from the Army in the presence of Media like the Americans when the officials are called upon to explain their positions before the Committees of the elected bodies. Secrecy is essential but over secrecy is not necessary because when you subject any State Institution to scrutiny and exempt the other naturally it creates doubts in the minds of the common man.

At present, the World Countries wish our credibility. They have put firm eye on our saying and deeds. The Chinese progressed only when they purged their every institution of evils. Here the Supreme Court in the hearing of every case remarks that the Government is employing the unfit persons on the top posts.

Manzoor Ahmad Yousafzai.

Sunday, 22 May 2011