In any healthy society, there are plenty of people who seek higher education. They come from a variety of social and economic backgrounds, and demonstrate both the capacity to perform, and a desire to further their education at institutions that are better than what is available locally. Our society is no different. It has plenty of students who are eager to seek better opportunities to learn and shape their ideas and use that training for a better life.

Then there is this other reality that in the same society someone, working as an individual or as part of a group, would exploit this fundamental love of learning. This person, or a group, would defraud the students and their families of their life savings, cause extreme distress to the student, and unimaginable pain to the loved ones. As we grapple with the immense loss of a young and brilliant student in Islamabad, whose life ended so tragically, we must ask questions of how can we allow this to happen?

The purity of seeking higher........

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