Future in Pakistan |
Though every other day, every event affecting the public and the powerful, every queue at the airport, every desperate effort and struggle for justice and survival, every legal and constitutional tweak, and every other move of powerful circles in the country might be suggestive enough of what and who has and hasn't a future in Pakistan, suggestions sought, or questions asked by aspirants, students and their parents about promising career paths open one to brutal truths and bleaker realities. Over the past few weeks, I have come across many an instance of grim thoughts and realities that are seemingly and increasingly encroaching on the hopes, dreams and efforts of many a person around us.
Recently, a couple of students and their parents connected with me and sought my suggestions on their potential career pursuits in or outside Pakistan. What I have seen and observed in them is gloom, hopelessness, desperation and weariness of the de facto and de jure rulers. Honestly, though not........