Pakistan passing through critical phase

Pakistan is passing through a challenging phase causing a negative impact on the country’s economy due to variety of issues including worse state of social sciences, medicine systems and energy crisis. I believe we must take time out for an accurate diagnosis. In Pakistan our best students “traditionally” chose to study either medicine or engineering. Here, the low wages for social sciences means that social sciences are not very valuable and productive; all we need to do is to change the minds of the nation.

A person in Pakistan cannot easily afford all the resources provided so we should also concentrate on improving sciences, technology, prices and infrastructure as the route to the poor people. The poor health of social sciences is an extremely serious problem. Moving towards the system of medicine, 70% of the population of Pakistan still depends on the complementary and alternative system of medicine.

Culture beliefs and practices often lead to self-care; the traditional medicine center has become an important source of health care, especially in rural areas and tribal areas of Pakistan. Solving these issues regarding the betterment of Pakistan is a high priority and our approach to the solution will significantly  impact the future of Pakistan.

by: Maham Anjum 

Me, Myself and I

      My name is Minahil Rana, and I’m currently a second year student in Marketing and Media at Lahore School of Economics. I love travelling, hiking, reading and art; whether it is in sketches, watercolors or photography. I have spent most of my life in Canada mainly around the greater Toronto area. I came to Pakistan almost two years ago and I really like it here except for the blistering summers. I have a few notable achievements that I am proud of. Firstly, I got accepted into all the Universities of my choice after appearing in my high schools honor roll (similar to Deans List). I even attended one university for a whole year (the campus was beautiful!). Secondly, I did a summer internship with a Toronto based Fashion Designer in which I learnt a lot about the artisans in the Classical genre of music, and best of all, I helped design their gowns. Currently I am working in AIESEC in their Outgoing Exchange department. My most recent achievement is related to AIESEC, I was chosen as Vice President Communications of an exchange campaign for 6 different universities in Lahore.  It turned out to be the best and most successful campaign that this organization has had since its inception in LUMS Lahore. 

Alex, the African Grey

My cat: Spooky

I have a lot of pets, I absolutely love animals. At the moment I have 2 cats, a Guinea pig, an African Grey Parrot and various other Australian large and small birds. Animals give me a sense of calm and really like observing their behaviors. 

    With my current experience in Pakistan, I feel we lack community values, which is not surprising since we live in such a hierarchical, status conscious society. But I think our youth has the ability to overlook these differences and help children with disabilities, minorities and those whom suffer with poverty. In today’s Pakistan we have a hundred and one ways to help such individuals integrate into society, but we lack consciousness or motivation to do something about the prevailing issues. I have started to try and do my part as a Pakistani citizen, some weekends I go and help dyslexic children at Paidal (if anyone’s interested in helping, message me!). If everyone starts taking out 2-3 hours from their week and helps in some sort of social development initiative I believe our youth has the ability to do anything. It is then that we will strive and actually bring change to Pakistan. 

 “I feel like I am either on the cusp of something great, or standing on the edge of my abyss, discovering something brand new, or uncovering somebody Else's lost imagination.”
― Carroll Bryant