Articles : By Dr Shahswar KNo culture and society will flourish if the youth of that nation are not allowed to realize and able to express their potential in whatever productive direction that their talent and aptitude may lie. Division of labour and employment is served most efficiently when barren and fake barriers to fulfilment of youth’s potential are removed. Finding one’s talent and cultivating it requires a free and democratic environment. That ability can be refined in science, art, philosophy, business, industry, music, sport, writing, painting, journalism and so on. As said in the earlier section, the Baluch youths have purposely been deprived from fulfilling their full potential in all these walks of life. One hardly sees a Baluch who has been allowed to reach at top of the echelon of any of these lines of profession in their homeland. It seems, on the face of it, that comparative underdevelopment of Baluchistan compared to her neighbours is a self-inflicted order. But this claim is merely a clairvoyant guesswork, which can be challenged on many grounds. Baluch nation was not considerably behind many of her neighbours in many of its social, cultural, legal, political and economic development, particularly her Arab neighbours in the South even after the Second World War. Considering the availability of resources in Baluchistan and in these countries, both natural and human wealth, how come Baluchistan has remained one of the poorest and most under-developed nations in the world? Try to imagine for a moment and contrast economic development, standard of living, infrastructure, education, media, health, legal and financial institutions and so on between Baluchistan and these countries. Now try to name merely a few Baluch journalists, scientists, doctors, musicians, mathematicians, artists, biologists, physicists, engineers, philosophers, economists, sociologists, historians, lawyers, industrialists, entrepreneurs, writers, sport men and women and so on and so forth. At its worst state of affairs a potentially rich nation such as the Baluch nation surely could have afforded to train a few of each of these professions if not as many as we find in these Arab countries in the last six decades. This general fact says more than enough about the destructive nature of colonial powers in Baluchistan. It is this geopolitical structure that is in essence the principal cause of Baluchistan’s underdevelopment. It is this system that prevents the Baluch youths to fulfil their dreams. By spelling out this distinction clearly we will be able to discover the right solution to Baluchistan problem and our youths. The most disparaging barrier that has prevented Baluch youths from realizing their full potentials has been the colonial geopolitical structure that they have to grapple with on a daily basis. It is impossible to dissociate the high rate of Baluch youths unemployment and under-achievement from the colonial climate created by occupying states of Pakistan and Iran.
Posted on: Mon, 08 Jul 2013 12:25:44 +0000
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