Women, Conflict and Conflict Prevention

Nice!

Must read ``DaVinci Code``, it is a great introduction to the condemned soul of the semitic religions- ``woman``!!!

Sirjee, have u heard of Indira Gandhi? Enough said about women and conflict prevention!!

this is a first: a common interact for the following three boards
Women, Conflict and Conflict Prevention by Naveen Qayyum
Madrassahs and Schools by Xoheb Sheikh
Indian Troop Reduction in Kashmir: Merely Symbolic? by Abdul Naeem

---

…the common strand that runs through these three articles on the main page is the inability of the occupying army to deal with the looming crisis in Pakistan…ok let’s dispense with the white-wash…democracy and all that blah blah…and about how the power is transferred to the people..more blah blah…

…(came across these figures about four years ago from the then sec. education…a laeeq khan...am relying on memory and am searching for more current numbers)

…every year more than three million young Pakistanis are added to the school going age…between the stretched educational resources of the GoP (digression: the defense related expenses eat up between 48- 66+ % of the budget –depending on how you add up)…here is the low down:

number of new school age children......…….3,000,000
based on an average of 30 children
per class—number of additionalclass
rooms required.......................................…..100,000
new class rooms provided by govt............….10,000
new class rooms provided by madrasah...…....6,000
new class rooms provided by pvt groups.....….3,000

yearly class rooms shortfall.......................….81,000

...that is 2,430,000 plus children that are added every year to the numbers of uneducated…and this folly is compounded every year…millions of hopeless soul scurrying for petty existence and fodder for physical and mental slavery…is there any wonder the literacy rate is going down…(so much for Madrassahs and Schools …not to mention law and order…infra structure development…women issues, gender inequality, honor killing…heck, just about everything except nuclear aresenal and land grab by the faujis?

… am sure there are saner minds in the fauj that have figured this out have come to realize that the pie is shrinking and the occupying army’s share cannot be increased beyond a certain point…remember ..no Pakistan, no pakistan army…perhaps that is the driving force behind the fauji’s push for a solution to the Kashmir crisis (Indian Troop Reduction in Kashmir: Merely Symbolic? )…so that the meager budgetary resources can be allocated to developmental fields…a bare minimum level of economic prosperity is introduced to help the pie expand…and with a bigger pie the percentage yield for them will become bigger too…

rgds,

t

Women should first resolve their conflicts with their saas and bahu and leave the worries of the rest of the world upon us menfolk.

Great article!