Hats off to Sultan Abbas

Heartiest Congrats Janoo and very best wishes for FUTURE-

Wonderful Achievement.Keep it up.

ma heartiest congratulations to him on covering another step for his life………and i hope he will use his skill for people of NAs…
can somebody tell me …. from which village he belongs??

lots of congratulations to you, kako.

Many cogratulations for your acheivements and success.

Mohammad Ali

Dear Brother!

indeed it is pride for us having such extraordinary intellectaul from the region, definitely Hats are off! Congratulations! Congratulations to your family and to the people of GB for the cream of LSE !
your persistent contribution and commentory on Pamir times various issues has been commendable,it has been a source of learning,enrished an understanding level and shared innumerable facts of the time and among peoples across the globe , i am myself greatly inspired by your philosophical and logical writting,since appearing on this site. hope more in the future.

i do pray and wish you many success in the life ahead and this forum will be filled with the aura of fine intelligency.and assist us in fixing our gaol rightly in this tough time of mental excellence.
once again cheers and Congratulations
MirzaW
IsB

a lot of congratulation to u and we are proud of you and best of luck for your future keep it up
thanks

Great achievement!! we are really proud of you and praying for your bright future, may God bless you with all success and prosperous life. Cheers

Rahim
Almaty

I graduated from LSE last year and started work with AKF (UK) since December 2008. While I did not expect this news to appear on PT website at this point in time, however I am grateful to all well-wishers who have been kind and generous with their words of appreciation for me. On this occasion let me also share the good news that I am in no way ‘unique’ so far as attending an internationally reputed institution such as LSE is concerned. At least, according to my information, four other people from Gilgit-Baltistan have done their postgraduate work before me at LSE. One student from Baltit is studying at LSE currently. There are still many other untold stories of extraordinary achievement in higher education. If I may say with great humility, I am just one of those many people who have not only brought laurels for themselves but also for the whole community.

Taking this opportunity I would also like to add one more thing about the moral commitment of an intellectual in his role as an interrogator and critic of his Zietgiest, or the ‘spirit of his age’ a concept put forward by Fredrick Nietzsche.

Since some people might assume that a person like myself who has had the opportunity to study at a Western university naturally qualifies to become an ‘intellectual’, here I would like to differ with that notion and instead subject it to question.

Edward Said one of the most celebrated authors who dedicated most of his life in the service of questioning oppressive structures in society says that intellectuals are the those who seek to ‘speak truth to power’. He suggests that the role of an intellectual is not to be co-opted either by ideology, wealth or power. It is only through ceaseless, above-board, unwavering engagement and criticism of issues in society that one can hope to claim the status of that august position. It is through critical reflection that intellectuals actually open up new vistas, horizons and chart out ways forward for humanity. Now the process of trail blazing is not an easy task, it requires constant contemplation, and great creative powers. Poets, great novelists, and even great artists such as painters do have the elements of creativity in them and they may well be qualified to be considered as ‘intellectuals’. But I think unless intellectuals don’t seek to expose lies of governments, corruption of power and tear apart the tyranny of groups I would be sceptical to call somebody as intellectual. All of this must be done in a selfless fashion without regard to personal gain, wealth or status. The objective should be advancing the cause of liberty while fighting all odds. Why I would emphasis on liberty because it is the natural condition of man as Jean Jacques Rousseau famously said that ‘all men are born free but they are in chains every where. It is the responsibility of intellectuals to break these chains and open up the minds of the people to let them be what they want to be. It is only for a privileged minority that higher education provides the leisure, the facilities, and the training to seek the truth lying hidden behind the veil of distortion and misrepresentation, ideology and class interest, through which the events of current history are presented to us. And I think before passing the judgement on somebody’s character, intellectual outlook and moral commitment we must seek to assess his performance vis-à-vis his approach towards disturbing systems of power, so as to chalk out greater liberty for a greater number of people.

Once again I thank all of those who have congratulated me but I would say that my real happiness would lie not in achieving a postgraduate degree form a Western university but certainly in my ability to serve my people.

ali al-Hakim
London

well done ali al-Hakim i must say good mission and vision toward future.. and for those who want to be like you I can tell them “A life without purpose is a languid, drifting thing; Every day we ought to review our purpose, saying to ourselves: This day let me make a sound beginning, for what we have hitherto done is naught!”

regards
Nadeem
nadeemakbar@hotmail.com

heartiest congratulations

am not getting words for expressing my appreciation of such a great achievement . i ll just complet my expressions of apprecations in three or 4 words ……………that is ‘u make us proud kako’ .

great sultan sb