What does Our Generation Require Today?-letter
What to talk of urban and relatively developed areas, even remote and far flung areas, like Gilgit and Baltistan, realizing the fact that prosperous future of generations lies in better education, graciously accepted every kind of help in this regard, extended by anyone without discrimination of cast, creed and sect. Today they have more opportunities of quality education for their children as compared to Chitral.
The people of Northern Areas have accepted high challenges and strived for goal oriented studies. They have established institutions like Karakuram International University, Cadet College Skardu, Army Public Schools and Colleges at Gilgit, Skardu and Astor, Public School and College at Gilgit and Skardu, Aga Khan Higher Secondary Schools at Gilgit and Gahkuch, and above all the world renowned Professional Development Centre of Aga Khan University in Gilgit city, that has contributed positively to groom up their teaching community irrespective of sects or public and private sector discrimination.
Resultantly you find people from Northern Areas in very high positions in all fields. But the situation is contradictory in Chitral where a small group of politically motivated people have always created hurdles in the way of educational progress of the area.
It is mandatory on each and every person of Chitral in general and that of politicians in particular to take keen interest to boost up the academic institutions.
All the leaders, irrespective of their political games, must work for establishment of a Cadet College, Government supported public schools like the one working in Jutial Gilgit and Skardu for the last many years, post-graduate degree colleges and above all the Professional Development Centre to provide extensive training facilities to our teaching community who are devoid of such exposure.
Without providing solid educational foundations in the form of quality educational institutions we should not expect to live gracefully in the twenty first Century.
Tariq Khan
Islamabad
Ismailimail 