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Culture of Peace in Pakistan

BY:  AIMAN KHURSHEED 

 

KARACHI: A culture of peace is both a dream and a procedure that needs a visionary leadership to get going.

 

It needs clear understanding and solid devotion to nurture such culture. The aim of developing such culture should be to enable future generations (inclined towards militancy) realize the importance of peace and hazards of clashes in the region and the world. 

 

This will encourage people practice tolerance and live together in harmony promoting the message all over the world leading to universal peace and security.  However, radical changes are must to transform the culture of war to the culture of peace.

 

Violence at home or at the border (between armed forces) inevitably affects our children – physically as well as mentally.  Pundits at the helm of affairs here should realize that kids are Pakistan’s future and facilitators of peace and thus the procedure should begin from basic level at schools.

 

Parents and teachers have the ability to encourage children (who would eventually lead the nation) appreciate the culture of tranquility. Young brains will harbor the message forever and as adults they will propagate it  further, contributing towards peaceful world that is presently soaked in blood.

 

Cynics hold that a culture of peace can’t be created in the world because clashes are inescapable. In this scenario one of the most ideal way to cultivate the value of peace is through religions and edification. But  due to carelessness and false policies of various governments in Pakistan our education system  drags way behind many other countries.

 

Moreover, here a number of governments attempted to impose their doctrine by means of modified curriculum. Due to increase in the level of intolerance and extremism in our youth it is high time the culture of peace prevails.

Aimen KhursheedWriter is a fresh Media Sciences Graduate.

 

 

 

 

 

 

M M Alam

M. M. Alam is a Pakistan-based working journalist since 1981. Karachi University faculty gold medalist Alam began his career four decades ago by writing for Dawn, Pakistan’s highest circulating English daily. He has worked for region’s leading publications, global aviation periodicals including Rotors (of USA) and vetted New York Times as permanent employee of daily Express Tribune. Alam regularly covers international aviation and defense-related events including Salon Du Bourget (France), Farnborough (United Kingdom), Dubai (UAE). Alam has reported thousands of events and interviewed hundreds of people in Pakistan, UAE, EU, UK and USA. Being Francophone Alam also coordinates with a number of French publications.