Celebrate "unsung" Pakistan!

Pakistan has a whole lot of ‘unsung heroes’ that youth is unaware of. They are struggling or have struggled to bring creativity, positivity and betterment to Pakistan. 

They are paying back to Pakistan in their own unique way and youth needs to get inspiration from them.  

We bring you these heroes with the short descriptions of their contributions, pick your hero, support them, spread them and get inspired to payback Pakistan

Payback to Pakistan!

When it comes to paying back to your nation, it is not only and all about volunteering in social organizations, establishing NGO’s and being a social activist. When we glance upon our heroes, the inspire us to believe that pursuing your own way to payback is all that has ever made a difference and colored the canvas positive. Today we have handful of NGOs, social organizations, youth movement platforms, well-invested infrastructure but so does we equally have on contrary ever-increasing social evils, intolerance of every sort, hopelessness to seed good, oppression, biases etc. why is it so then?

Someone finds it in music, someone in writing or others in dancing. No matter what ‘Payback act’ you pursue, your passion leading you to struggle for doing good ends up becoming your comPASSION!

NGO’s or social organizations are not the start or whole point but just a happening develop a strength globally place to in order to give way to work. It is not the ultimate goal, for example, we see Bono (Paul David Hewson) world-renowned musician; lead vocalist of U2, is a world’s great humanitarian, and it is his music that leaded him to goodness, his music enlivened in masses a sense of compassion. Ultimately, he established his nonprofit organization ‘ONE’ to fight world poverty.

Point is we are pushing our youth to pursue good only when they are capable of joining some social work instead of making it easy for them to pursue goodness and find spiritual meaning into their own unique interests, having passion for their talents and being creative to payback to nation.

Just as religious fundamentalists often try to find God in their sacred places(churches, mosques, temples, cathedrals) but not in their own self, heart and as their friend ,so does ‘goodness’ is being confined to only NGO’s , social organizations and community groups. We need to get our facts straight on seeding hope and serving humanity if want really to make this country a better place to live and this nation as world class.

If world needs to believe in this and get inspired by such people, Pakistan is an amazing source for compassionate talented heroes, who no matter what, did strive their way to make difference with their passion. We have world-renowned sportsman like Imran khan (tehrik-e-insaf) and classical dancers like sheema kermani (tehrik-e-niswan) who with their compassion and hard work have brought about positivity in society. 

“Mere philanthropy or million dollars charity can never worth more than an individual’s good deed that inspire its surroundings”

It is not another school system of ours where we would suppress learners’ creativity, restrict their critical thinking and intellectual growth by spoon feeding in fact imposing on them knowledge that ‘we’ think is best for them not realizing that they don’t need a bit of it, it is on contrary ridiculing it. Instead, we need to pave way for our humanitarians to pursue ‘goodness’ in their own way to mark their identity.

A simple act of delivering truth and resisting to wrongdoing or simply doing your duty rightfully sometimes a big act of serving humanity, we should encourage this concept in youth if we are to bring about social change to payback but not the bloody massacre to kill those who we do not conform with.  

This independence we are pledging to payback our nation on same lines and its moving our SELVES

Avoiding junk food; gulping junk media

Given that children now spend more than seven hours a day with their TV's, computers, cellphones, and other electronic media more time than they spend in school and more than many of them sleep parents have got to get smart about our children's media use and how it affects their physical and mental health, and we need to develop a family strategy for managing media. Good luck figuring that out from the research, which is confusing and incomplete. For instance, the health effects of cellphones have been barely studied, despite the fact that most teens seem to text more than they breathe. But there's some help in a new article in Pediatrics, which evaluates the state of the science and lays out the good and bad.

Most parents are clueless,They have no idea about media effects. They probably have no idea what their children are watching. Parents need to understand that media can have an impact on everything they're concerned about with their children's health and development: school performance, learning disabilities, sex, drugs, aggressive behavior.

Parents work hard to protect our children from harm, but they do not often think of taking low grade school kids to an R-rated movie or letting middle school kids play violent video games like Halo for hours on end. We are trying to cut the junk food out of their diets while letting them gorge on junk media.

At the end i would like to share an anecdote which left several questions in my " I saw a six year kid jumping on the car's bonnet wearing big combat boots , six pocket trousers and a tee tucked in his trousers , then upon the call from his friends he jumped over the car and ran like an officer chasing robbers and during all this he was yelling at his pitch "dekho ray aa gya body guard , sab ki shaan; bhai jaan" you can very well imagine how Bollywood it is affecting the thinking horizon of our innocent kids it made me think several questions i would really like to share.

Wondering where to start in getting control of your children's media diet?
Have we failed to develop national heroes? children follows Bollywood stars?
Is electronic media becoming so powerful controlling our youth ?
why our playgrounds are barren and sheesha bars are becoming more popular day by day ?

The story of polarized generation

Once upon a time, there was a farm. A mineral rich farm gained by a group of farmers after a struggle. After the extreme weather ended and the perfect weather to cultivate the farm came, one of the oldest most sincere of the farm owners died. After the death, the other farmers decided to cultivate the farm in their own unique way. They decided to use their individual skills irrespective of others, and so the work begun. One after the other farmers came up with different seeds.

It was decided that 3 types of seeds will be sought. One ‘educated’, other ‘uneducated’ and the third being ‘mix breed’.

 At that time, the three seeds did not show much difference. So the cultivation began, the land was sloughed with much diligence, hard work and such an effort that foreign farmers took part too. Imported techniques were applied, latest machinery was imported and great minds worked. Therefore, being done with sowing, farmers waited for them to get a life. As time passed, the seedlings started to bloom and burst. As the plants started to grow so does their traits, habits, problems and fruits.
The educated plants grew more rapidly, followed by mix breed and at last came the uneducated ones. When young, all three of them played together, talked much and helped each other’s deficiencies, as it didn’t seemed much difference among them.
Once they were playing and the other two classes decided that they too would learn educated traits for their rapid growth and strength of farm. So that they all will be of same color and type with no little difference and farm will look beautiful. They shared it with their educated friends and they agreed to undertake this task.
Just as they were going to start the work of getting enlightened, the weather changed and educated class got a disease. The disease was ‘fear’. Every educated individual felt fear whenever he/she thought of transferring their traits of goodness to lower classes
gotcha!! The educated ones who were compassionate before and were ready to share the common good suddenly considered the other classes lower. With this disease of fear, the educated class started closing in their boundaries into a separate class and avoided interaction with its friends. A dilemma caught hold of that if they will interact they too would get their inferior traits instead of treating them with their own.
The other two classes watching this, felt deprived and due to lose of friendship caught a disease. This disease being ‘hopelessness’ some of the plants of the two classes did struggle to fight their disease off by starting to learn on their own but few were able to accomplish it.

Fortunately, the ones who strived their way learnt the positive traits of both types. This mostly comprised ‘mix breed’ and called as ‘middle class’.

Having both the positive traits of hope and knowledge, the middle class retained that beauty of farm. They were both compassionate towards lower class and adaptive to learning with upper class. Neither they feared of stereotypes as upper class does nor were they hopeless.
As seasons changed, the upper class’ disease grew rapidly too as they grew rapidly.
Fear bought with it, its different kinds.
Fear of awakening their conscience that they ought to work for common good of farm.
Fear of demonstrating due criticism to what wrong was inflicted on farm and much more. Ultimately, this gave rise to ignorance. The upper class gradually became ignorant, ignorant of current situation of farm, ignorant to what blasphemy came upon lower class.
Ignorant to fight off their own disease. Instead of fighting they got satisfied and accepted the disease as the part of their lives.
Ignorant to fight with traitors of their farm, and it was important since they were the only healthy grownups to save and others were still developing. At last, this ignorance changed to hatred. The upper class started hating the other classes especially the middle class, because middle class’ struggle was a constant reminder to upper class’ ignorance and threat to their conscience.
They make them fearful and realize that they too were a part of farm as before and that they should at least try to fight their disease for the sake of farm. This made middle class go shatter and they started to get scatter in both classes. Many of them moved to upper class and others fell back to hopelessness. Consequently, the only good of farm started disappearing.
The polarization of classes increased, and everyone got concentrated in their own classes. Neighboring farms also started disrespecting the farm but they wanted to help, but how?
During all this, there stood a hidden handful of plants and watched all this happening and reflected the remedy in their own way.

There was intellectual who left the farm with ‘farm saving theories’, musician who sung hopeful songs, artist who painted it colorful truth, poet who uttered a wakening piece, dancer who danced the melody of revival.

And the most adorably, the teacher who stood there delivering the positivity and knowledge that they needed at first place, and he did it no matter what it takes to be

A happy and not-so-happy ending

Moral: You don’t always reap what you sow, sometimes we need to fight and work the way out!