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پاکستان کے تعلیمی نظام کی ایک بڑی ناکامی

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پاکستان کے تعلیمی نظام کی بڑی ناکامی یہ ہے کہ بجاءے معاشرے سے جہالت دور کرنے کے، اس نے جہالت کو ڈگریاں اور سندیں دینی شروع کر رکھی ہیں۔ ہمارے معاشرے میں زوال کی شرح میں جو تیزی آءی ہے، اس کی ایک وجہ "تعلیم" کی شرح میں اضافہ بھی ہے۔ چونکہ ہمارا تعلیم نظام جہلا کو سندیں اور ڈگریاں تھما کر معاشرے میں بھیج رہا ہے اس لیے جہالت ہی معاشرے کی قدر بنتی جا رہی ہے۔ اجڈ پن، بد تہذیبی، گھٹیا پن اور گنوار پن، یہی ہمارے معاشرے کا طرزِ زندگی بن گیا ہے۔

Was Bhutto a Secular Person?

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Very often it is claimed that Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto was a secular person. It is completely wrong. Even the information of Benazir Bhutto about her father was not correct. He was far from being a secular person, at least in his concepts. Here is a passage from his book “The Myth of Freedom”. It shows how did he look at his faith: "What was more important was the fact that the Muslims were not barbarians at a low level of culture who would consider admission to the Hindu fold as promotion. On the contrary, not only were they themselves the creator and defenders of a new and aggressive culture, they had a fanatical conviction of its superiority to all others, and thought it was their duty to propagate it even by force. Their religion did, in fact, make this one of the essential, though optional duties of a Muslim. They were the first people in history to put forward the idea of an irreconcilable conflict between a particular way of life and all others, and to formulate a theory of perm