پس: خالد! تراشرم نہت کہ تہ مہمان آنی دیما چو بد تمیزی ء گپ جت؟
خالد: ابا! من چے گشت؟
پس تہ یک وانندہ ہء اگاہ ترا لیٹرین ء روگی اتت گڈہ تہ بگشتین کہ من پیشاب ہ کنین یا واشروم ء رین, تہ پرچہ گو کہ من چروکنین, ءمناسب این زبان ہ نہ انت
خالد: ابا! ءمےشاداین ذبان بلوچی انت ہہ بد تمیزی این گپ ء نہ ات…بلوچی ء تہا گڈہ ہمے وڑ گشنتء منی قصور چے انت؟
Centuries-old kharan fort is crumbling and needs preservation. No doubt, it holds an handsome archaeological significance, but has been left on the mercy of fate and has become a heaven for addicts.
The fort of kharan is considered the heritage of a princely state that is unfortunately fast decaying. The negligence on the part of government , NGOs and the department of archaeology has left it on the brink of collapse.
Kharan , once a part of Persian empire, was conquered in 1789 by Azad Khan Nosherwani. It had the distinction of being one of the four princely states prior 1951 when it was merged into Balochistan state union. It was ruled by Nosherwani tribe.
Additionally, azad khan was the founder of the state. He built a total number of eleven forts to successfully defend his state against foreign invasions. Amongst them , the biggest were the fort of Karez and the fort of kharan city. Painfully, only a few of them are still erected, though in deteriorating Condition , whereas the others have been razed to the ground.
The fort of kharan city , located in city’s congested locality , is stunning and its construction modus oprerandi is said to be mughal alike design. It is a two storyed fort and is spread on an area of approximately 400 square yards. It was built in three years with a workforce of 400. It is made of mud and small bricks. However, some locals are of the opinion that “gutch”( a contemporary constructing material ) has been used in its construction.
Moreover , an archaeological heritage is a site which the people visit to contact with past, but on the contrast, the fort of kharan has never caught the sight of visitors as the government’s ill treatment towards the fort has barred the latter to be declared an archaeological site.
From all round the clock, not only the castle itself , but its archaeological importance, wealth of information and artifacts are in greatest jeopardy.
For a long time, the fort has been exploited in the name of knowledge and treasure, looted for objects, destroyed out of idle curiosity and plundered for material for new construction.
oSumming up, the purpose behind the erection of the fort might have been stationing troops , strengthening the Power of kingdom, but above all , the security of kings and their families . However , in this day and age , the fort itself is in dire need of security .
A prompted and substantive action on the part of government , NGOs and the department of archaeology is much needed for the purpose of fort’s safety and protection. There is no time better than now to take initiatives rather than analyzing the causes in the aftermath of its collapse .
It is pertinent to request the provincial and district authorities to implement the orders of Supreme Court of Pakistan, issued couple of years ago , to build a backyard for the fort’s protection and preservation. Proactive policies should be made so that not a piece of heritage but the whole of the fort is preserved.
No doubt, education plays a vital role in every compartment of life. It richly contributes in development and prosperity of a nation and/or country.
as for as kharan’s education state is concerned, it is totally abysmal. Many of the schools have become “ghost schools”. teachers do not bother to go to their concerned schools to teach their classes even in headquarter, then how do they go to remote areas??
Students, living in kharan, have an extra ordinary interest in education, but either the absentees of teachers, lack of building or schools’ closure becomes the cause of assassination of their desire to be educated. the state of education in headquarter is worse. It becomes worse to worst in rural areas. the schools, in scattered villages, are closed throughout the year and the presence of the concerned teacher is once in a blue moon.
while talking to a student in this regard, he said, “most of teachers, who have their duties in villages, do not go to their schools to teach their classes because they have been appointed on political basis. they receive their salary while staying at home. He furthermore exposed his reservations that how the state of education in district can be escalated if teachers are appointed on the basis of nepotism and favoritism”.
the condition of degree college is further abysmal. there is dearth of lecturers of key subjects such as, chemistry, math, physics, computer etc. the premises of college shows a silence picture. students do not go to college, as there is an acute shortage of lecturers.
kharan, the backward most district of Balochistan in the field of education, has always been the victim of ignorance by government.
Higher authorities are responsible to take stern and uncompromising action against the fleeting teachers. Much and more has to be done for the abatement of teacher’s absentees. pay heed to the infrastructure of schools. New teachers to be appointed in dense-populated schools. Fair and free appointment to be ensured. Teachers have to be well-equipped with latest technologies to mount up the graph of education in district..
Facebook is a tool of social media. It was introduced for the first time in 2004. From the very first beginning it kissed the feet of success and became popular by leaps and bounds worldwide. It is one of the easiest, cheapest and accessible source of communication. By time and age it has become the apple of every one’s eye. People of different ages voraciously use it in common, but the youth in particular.
Our youth has, to such extent, drenched in it that they have made it the real destination of their lives. They pass most of their time with it. Though for a time being it lets them have a sort of entertainment, but they are unaware of the underground realities that how much it wastes their time and causes a great havoc to them.
“Facebook has created a gigantic gap between the students and their books”, revealed a report by a private TV channel. “the students, However,fail to fill in this segregation space” , added the report.
It(facebook), though is a two sided picture as negative and positive, but our youth has only been indulged with it’s negative side. It has so many points that can be counted as positive points, but heart- rendingly , our youth has steeped in it negatively to such extent that they have given up consulting their respective courses and confined themselves just with this time consuming technology.
If one interconnects with it once, then one becomes addicted to it.
To conclude, in the beginning the students may find abundance of fun in it, but on the contrary, it drags them miles away from their books, which are the real friends and companions.
the heart- wrenching and nerve shattering attack in peshawar,the capital city of province khyber pakhtunkhwa, on 16th of Dec 2014, claimed more than one hundred precious lives of school children. It might be a defining moment for the state of Pakistan and the democratic political process in Pakistan. The attack took place in the same day when the Pakistani nation was already numbed with the grief of dhaka tragedy 1971.
The responsibility of one of the worst- ever blood shades in the history of Pakistan, was claimed by tehrik-e- taliban Pakistan(TTP).
The attack killed more than one hundred students, the proud sons and daughters of nation, along with teaching staff and many more people sustained injuries.
This is not for the first time that the country has met with a blood shade, but it has been witnessing such a horrifying carnages for a decade and the land of Pakistan has many times taken bath with the blood of innocent people.
Pakistan has plethora of issues with it’s security. It is rather unfortunate knowing that the terrorists are knocking us down in every nook and cranny of the country, but the government has not prepared any proper strategy to protect the public and eliminate the terrorism from the country.
The aforementioned attack has hit the minds of parents to such extent that they fear to send their children to school in other parts of the country, as the TTP has threatened to blow up schools in rest of the country. But we must realise that it is only aware and willing parents who can ensure that such a deplorable incidents do not happen again. If we desire a healthy and educated future for our country, the first step is to inculcate awareness.
Here the responsibility belongs to government to lead the nation from the front so that the attack does not influence the education sector, which is already the victim of shabbiness. But it is distressingly said that every individual from government has played his part just by condemning the attack.
It’s of course not the time to condemn a such a huge problem(terrorism), but it is the time to wake up, to make effective strategies to eliminate terrorism from our country.
May Allah Almighty help us in this sacred mission to restore peace, prosperity and the supremacy of Islamic laws in our country. Ameen
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