Parents still prefer boys to girls when it comes to education

KARACHI: The mega literature celebrations concluded on Sunday because the ninth Karachi Literature competition complete with varied fascinating sessions.

Former Indian Ambassador Mani Shankar Aiyar, Amit Chaudhry and Anwer Maqsood were keynote speakers at the ultimate day of the competition.

Speakers at a give-and-take on ‘Education of Girls: Perceptions & Realities in a very ever-changing Asian nation’ explored the crisis of education in Pakistan, particularly for women and its variable dimension.

Veteran actor Sania Saeed, Nadia Naviwala – Wilson Center world Fellow and Freelance author, Sidra Saleem – MBBS & TCF scholar 2009 and Zaitoon Kareem – Lecturer & TCF scholar 2004 were among panellists. The session was qualified by Riaz Kamlani, VP at TCF.

Nadia shared some fascinating statistics, mentioning that the positive news was that oldsters wished their kids – each boys and women to urge education. “In urban geographical area, there are literally a lot ofwomen in faculties than boys. However, matters in rural areas may be a bit totally different. one amongthe most important reasons clogging women education in rural areas is that the issue of quality.”

Sharing her thoughts, Sania Saeed aforesaid, “It is true that quality may be a major challenge in obtainingeducation for each boys and women within the rural and remote areas of Pakistan; but, the discrimination still exists. folks area unit a lot of focussed on boys’ education than girls’ if they're given the selection. i believe we tend to area unit failing our youngsters by not providing them education that's up to this point. you would like to coach a baby at their level; education ought to encourage their dreams and aspirations rather than snubbing them.”

Another session on ‘Entrepreneurship today: Start-ups and Angel Investors’ was control. The session was qualified by Vaqar Ahmed. Nadeem Hussain, ruler Adnan and harem Bari participated within the discussion.

Amir Adnan aforesaid, “When i used to be growing up, this word didn’t exist. You’d either be a doctor or engineer, if you weren’t intelligent enough, you probably did commerce and if things area unit verydangerous, you move into arts.”

Nadeem Hussain recognized that sixty fifth of population was below twenty five years archaic in Asian nation and there merely weren't enough jobs. “We need to look towards entrepreneurship currentlyotherwise we’ll lose our demographic chance.”

A book ‘Cityscapes of Violence in Karachi’ written by Nichola Khan was additionally launched on the occasion.

The session regarding ‘The Literary Traditions of Sindh’ was delayed however participants, as well as Jami Chandio, Syed Sardar sovereign and moderator Izhar Soomro gave sensible company to the audience.

Jami Chandio aforesaid, “Most of the literary traditions area unit as dated because the language within which they're written. however sadly, we've no documentation of the earliest Sanskrit literature. Our 1strecords of Sanskrit literature area unit from the Sumho folk within the mid-11th century when the departure of Arabs from the region.”

“With the arrival of English within the landmass, Sanskrit literature saw Associate in Nursing explosion of recent ideas and topics, borrowed from English, French and Russian literature,” aforesaid Chandio

Amin Hashwani had a language with Salman Ahmad in session Dil Dil, Boom Boom, Jazba Junoon: The Impact of popular culture on Pakistani Society and therefore the World.

“Growing up as an adolescent in America, i used to be bring to an end from Pakistani culture, therefore the1st Pakistani hit I detected was Nazia Hassan’s ‘Aap Jaisa Koi’. If I hadn’t seen her I wouldn’t have thought-about being Associate in Nursing creator,” aforesaid Salman Ahmed.

He added, “We need to decide as a nation on however we are able to outline ourselves. we tend to can’t outline ourselves by our nuclear bombs. we should always outline ourselves with our soft power, our music, humour, fashion, food and film.”

Salam Ahmed performed live before the audience and he created a very important announcement that Junoon can do a reunion this year.

Rosinka Chaudhuri spoke regarding Indian poetry in English wherever moderator was Ilona Yusuf and that they mentioned the explanations for spatial relation.

There was a really informative session relating to “Love thy neighbour” wherever speakers were former Indian Ambassador Mani Shankar Aiyar, Ashraf Jehangir Qazi and Asad Sayeed and moderator was Khalida Ghaus. They talked regarding bilateral relations between Republic of India and Asian nation.

Mani Shankar shared his expertise that it had been regarding 20-25 years past that this sentence came to him that there was only 1 thanks to resolve Republic of India Asian nation problems which was by uninterrupted and uninterruptible dialogue. “And I’m terribly proud and extremely unhappy that this phrase has been accepted as Pakistani policy however has not been accepted because the Indian policy.”

There was a another session inclined ‘Sneak Preview: Beloved metropolis : A Mughal town and Her Greatest Poets’ within which Saif Mahmood, Arfa Sayeda Zehra, Saif Mahmood and Sania Saeed participated.

Arfa said, “There area unit countless poets in our country, however nobody will ever be Ghalib,” adding: “I don’t suppose Urdu belongs to a bunch or a rustic rather the Mughals brought it with them.”

The closing ceremony of the KLF was followed by Associate in Nursing fascinating dance performance by Shayma Kirmani and qawali performance by Saami brothers, that was wide acknowledged by the audience.