09-24-2009, 10:35 PM
Odyssee
Mr. Bukhari had been a learned man but unfortunately you named a person who has passed away. I was expecting this name along with a few other names like Sir Syed Ahmed, Ashfaq Ahmad, Mumtaz Mufti, Qudratullah Shahab, Faiz Ahmed Faiz or Habib Jalib etc, all of whom have left us. I said there is no intelligentsia in Pakistan. Let us don't say in a combined voice, "Pidar-e-Mann Sultaan Bood".
I don't feel a need to discuss the acheivements of such renowned persons in detail with specific reference to the question under consideration.
The few names which can currently be quoted are Mustansar Hussain Tarrar, Anwar Maqsood, Dr. Waseem Ahmed, Rasool Bakhsh Palejo, and Aitezaz Ahsan along with some other names like Tariq Azeez who are not active enough to play any role. However, these have either been deliberately engaged in non-productive activities by the circumstances or they personally avoid to do what is required of them.
I hope you will not be interested in having a detailed chit chat on these or similar personalities.
You must be seeing the currently available intelligentsia which oftenly appears on TV channels that includes Gen. Hameed Gul. Gen. Nasir Javed, Gen. Asad Durrani, Col. Imam, Gen. Aslam Baig and few other generals and colonels. Do you feel our army can produce a single intellectual?
Other examples are of a few politicians who are the by-product of entirely a corrupt system. Do you feel our politics can produce a single intellectual?
Alas! we at large believe them to be the major pillars of our itelligentsia, on which, all the thought provoking process is supposed to be based.
At the end, the residual of our intelligentsia is found in Journalists. Again, Alas!!! Let me keep my mouth shut about them.
Do you wish to hear something else about intelligentsia? I think the above is enough for having a broad understanding.
Regards,
KAMRAN.
Mr. Bukhari had been a learned man but unfortunately you named a person who has passed away. I was expecting this name along with a few other names like Sir Syed Ahmed, Ashfaq Ahmad, Mumtaz Mufti, Qudratullah Shahab, Faiz Ahmed Faiz or Habib Jalib etc, all of whom have left us. I said there is no intelligentsia in Pakistan. Let us don't say in a combined voice, "Pidar-e-Mann Sultaan Bood".
I don't feel a need to discuss the acheivements of such renowned persons in detail with specific reference to the question under consideration.
The few names which can currently be quoted are Mustansar Hussain Tarrar, Anwar Maqsood, Dr. Waseem Ahmed, Rasool Bakhsh Palejo, and Aitezaz Ahsan along with some other names like Tariq Azeez who are not active enough to play any role. However, these have either been deliberately engaged in non-productive activities by the circumstances or they personally avoid to do what is required of them.
I hope you will not be interested in having a detailed chit chat on these or similar personalities.
You must be seeing the currently available intelligentsia which oftenly appears on TV channels that includes Gen. Hameed Gul. Gen. Nasir Javed, Gen. Asad Durrani, Col. Imam, Gen. Aslam Baig and few other generals and colonels. Do you feel our army can produce a single intellectual?
Other examples are of a few politicians who are the by-product of entirely a corrupt system. Do you feel our politics can produce a single intellectual?
Alas! we at large believe them to be the major pillars of our itelligentsia, on which, all the thought provoking process is supposed to be based.
At the end, the residual of our intelligentsia is found in Journalists. Again, Alas!!! Let me keep my mouth shut about them.
Do you wish to hear something else about intelligentsia? I think the above is enough for having a broad understanding.
Regards,
KAMRAN.
