Do you read Nadeem Paracha?

[hanibal]

Re: Do you read Nadeem Paracha?

@khoji

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Here is his latest piece: Smokers’ Corner
He talks about how teachers find it difficult to answer their students who ask questions inspired from his columns. One example is when a student called Mohammad bin Qasim an invader, when most Pakistanis would rather use the term ‘rehmatullah aleh’ with his name. The teacher’s simple answer was to stop reading Paracha’s columns.

I think Paracha is not totally offbeat when he calls MBQ an invader. But when I tried to put myself in the teacher’s shoes, I realized that even if a teacher agrees, it is kind of difficult for him/her to accept it in front of the student because the textbook claims MBQ to be sort of a holy figure. The teacher would then be going against the textbook itself.

Paracha seems to be after this right-wing attitude of our textbooks. And this is why teachers advice their students to stop reading him if they want to pass the exam.

The teacher might not been able to answer this because in Pakistan teacher is a person who either is in job search or who have not find any “decent” job…

there a vey simple answer to this, but lets keep it to the history section.. as for Paracha, if Mohammad bin Qassim was invader then what would you call Pathans residing in Indo-Pak region for 1000s of years and who were here mostly with an invader like Mehmoog Ghaznavi or Mohammad Khan Ghori or Babar??? what should we do to them??? or what should we do to Arians who invaded Sub-Cont. few thousand year back???