“Not in this century!”
Sports and achievement
When will
When will we be the seventh largest winner of Olympic medals given that we are the seventh largest country population-wise?
When will we win major tournaments like
When will be counted in the world of sport commensurate to our size?
When will have professionalism? In the army? In the civil service? In business? In academia? Anywhere?
Learning and innovating!
When will we win the Nobel Prize?
When will we become innovators? When will Pakistanis start participating in the race for patents? When will we engage in serious research?
When will we count in education?
When will our universities be a destination of choice for foreign students?
When will professors and professionals desire to come to our country?
When will Nobel Laureate Abdus Salam be accepted and major landmarks and a university be named after him?
Cities and urban development
When will we have cosmopolitan cities that will be considered destinations of choice? When will we have dense and interesting city centers?
When will we host some world event like a serious convention or a trade show?
When will we have the tallest building in the world? Or will we ever a have a building that lists in the top hundred in the world in any terms, height, beauty innovation etc?
When will we contribute the world of architecture and design?
When will
When will we have cities that are not dominated by cantonments?
When will land development be free of the army and done on professional lines?
Corporate sector
When will we have a world-class corporate sector?
When will our companies be listed in the Forbes or fortune list of the best companies in the world?
When will we have serious multinationals like Tatas, Reliance, Taj?
When will we have entrepreneurship as opposed to rentseeking?
When will businessman spend more time running their business without running after government for subsidies and payoffs?
When will markets work well in
Society
When will we have a vibrant equal opportunity society?
When will we have public libraries in every neighborhood like most civilized countries?
When will our children know community centers where they can engage in social, learning and community activities?
When will we have classy parties and weddings rather than political and networking extravaganzas? Where we fete friends and brides and grooms rather than presidents and the spoilt powerful?
When will women and minorities be emancipated?
Governance and leadership
When will we have statesmen and learned men in leadership positions? People who are more interested in policy, reform and change than pure protocol.
When will our leaders value their tryst with history over merely running around the world collecting banquets and useless photos?
When will our leaders stop using inane and childish remarks like “I am not scared of anybody!”?
When will policy be made by our technocrats in positions of power? As opposed to merely aping what donors tell us? Or relying on ad hoc committees comprised of businessmen who benefit from the policies they design?
When will we have a serious professional civil service?
When will educated accomplished people get elected into parliament?
When will appointments be made on the basis of merit and not on your relationship with political bosses?
When will dynasties end?
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Do you have any more questions that can be answered “Not in this Century!”?
Please note that there are still 90 more years in this century. That means 3 more generations without dreams! How SAD!
i am hopefull
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