{"id":69647,"date":"2018-01-31T02:23:02","date_gmt":"2018-01-30T21:23:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/?p=69647"},"modified":"2018-01-31T02:23:02","modified_gmt":"2018-01-30T21:23:02","slug":"prime-ministers-youth-internship-program-and-the-youth-of-gilgit-baltistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/en\/2018\/01\/31\/prime-ministers-youth-internship-program-and-the-youth-of-gilgit-baltistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Prime Minister’s Youth Internship Program and the Youth of Gilgit-Baltistan"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mumtaz Jafary<\/strong><\/p>\n

Pakistan\u2014the land of pure\u2014sounds ironic when we repeat it for a while; now, don\u2019t take me\u00a0wrong, I am not an aficionado of anarchy or, God forbid, \u2018Secularism\u2019, but still, not all is pure in the land\u00a0of pure. Take corruption, for example, we all love to hate politicians in general and civilian governments\u00a0in particular, because of their unparalleled affection towards malpractices, as rightly pointed out by\u00a0Geoffrey D Langland in his tweet, \u201cIf you put the Pak\u2019s federal government in charge of the Sahara\u00a0Desert, in 5 years there would be shortage of sand\u201d.<\/p>\n

Hyperbole? Yes. Fiction? Not really.<\/p>\n

Any Pakistani\u00a0worth of his\/her salt can testify the fact that corruption has ingrained into the bones of our politicians;\u00a0therefore they are our favorite whipping guy. At the drop of the hat, media roast them, people on social\u00a0media want their heads on a platter. We leave no stone unturned to troll them. Fair enough. As the\u00a0saying goes, a fish rots from its head. Or Does it?<\/p>\n

The Prime Minister Youth Internship program, initiated few years ago with the noble ambition of providing fresh and unemployed youth an opportunity to gain professional experience for better future\u00a0prospects, has become a litmus test in order to check, do we really put the money where our mouth is?\u00a0We the youth, sparring few, have let the society down. The sordid reality that graduates are pocketing the
\nmonthly stipend without bothering to actually showing up to do the internship.<\/p>\n

The youth of Gilgit-Baltistan are better than this, we had our fair share when it comes to abysmal quality of education and\u00a0infrastructure, but to exploit such an opportunity, where one can really make a change in the society\u00a0along with honing one\u2019s personal skills, is disheartening. One can\u2019t help thinking that if gold rusts what\u00a0would iron do?<\/p>\n

The issue is lot bigger than just pocketing few thousands. The fact that graduates are justifying their illegal and immoral act by claiming that they are just taking their \u2018share\u2019, as everyone is doing it, is\u00a0pathetic and alarming. Such impunity and recklessness towards public exchequer not only show how far\u00a0we as a society have evolved and how long we have to travel as to become a civilized and democratic\u00a0society. The distrust toward government is also not misplaced for we know how crooked they are; yet\u00a0the scariest part is that it is the youth\u2014educated, the leaders of tomorrow\u2014who are becoming partner\u00a0in crime with the government. What sort of future leaders are we producing? It should be made clear to\u00a0all those people who are benefiting from Prime Minister Youth Internship program and such other\u00a0schemes that it is still immoral and illegal if majority of people are doing it. A wrong cannot become\u00a0right just because lot of people are doing it.<\/p>\n

Democracy, as they say, is the best revenge. Indeed, it is the beauty of democracy that we can\u00a0choose or reject our leaders with the power of votes. So, instead of decrying that our leadership is\u00a0corrupt, we need to make better choices while electing them. But if we ourselves indulge in corruption\u00a0then what excuse we have to accuse the government. It is strange that everyone wants to see a change\u00a0but nobody really wants to change. Charity must begin at home. We, the youth of GB, has been\u00a0bestowed with such good opportunity, so, it would be unwise to waste it.<\/p>\n

It is easy to judge people, in fact we all take immense pleasure while judging people and passing comments with such impunity. Yet the hardest part is to see our own flaws. We, the youth, are not only\u00a0the ambassador of our great culture in the north but also the torch-bearer of tomorrow, therefore, we\u00a0need to, seriously, check our priorities. We need to take a moment and ponder what good we are doing to our society by wasting such opportunity. We could have made a colossal impact on our upcoming\u00a0generation by collectively and honestly doing the internship and bringing change, no matter how small,\u00a0but we chose to let them down. Last but not least, Graduates who think that they are smart, as they are\u00a0bluffing government officials or think that people who are actually doing their internship are na\u00efve, then\u00a0it about time they looked inside. Are you doing any good to the society? If not then wake up!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mumtaz Jafary Pakistan\u2014the land of pure\u2014sounds ironic when we repeat it for a while; now, don\u2019t take me\u00a0wrong, I am not an aficionado of anarchy or, God forbid, \u2018Secularism\u2019, but still, not all is pure in the land\u00a0of pure. Take corruption, for example, we all love to hate politicians in general and civilian governments\u00a0in particular, 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