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- Newsgroups: soc.culture.pakistan
- Path: sparky!uunet!gatech!destroyer!cs.ubc.ca!uw-beaver!hasan
- From: hasan@cs.washington.edu (Shams Hasan)
- Subject: Pakistan, a nation waiting to be borned...
- Message-ID: <1992Dec24.174804.16734@beaver.cs.washington.edu>
- Sender: news@beaver.cs.washington.edu (USENET News System)
- Organization: Computer Science & Engineering, U. of Washington, Seattle
- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 92 17:48:04 GMT
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- Dear netters,
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- I have been speaking to an Indian friend who recently arrived from India.
- From him I learnt the steady rise of software programmers in India, who are
- making significant inroads in bringing high quality software engineering
- to the Indian infra-structure. Frankly I am envious. Not just because of
- the country being India, but more so because Pakistanis seem to be so much
- more resourceful overseas.
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- I know that in Pakistan literacy is not a priority for the majority of the
- landed gentry, LVQs, etc, as it works against their interests of keeping their
- slaves/servants in status quo. This I learnt in Aitchision College, Lahore,
- where I was a A-Level student in 1981.
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- However, literacy is a revolution that no power can keep under a lid.
- Thus, my question to you is, how can the fortunate ones, like the wealthy
- foreign students, the successful student/professionals who have benifited
- by going overseas to pursue money/education/honest way of life, make even
- a small difference to a small school in Pakistan ?
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- Any ideas.... ?
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