A Dream Transforming into Reality

                                                                  "Educated Gwadar”

We have seen nations developing, dominating the world and bridging distances toward prosperity. Nevertheless such great revolutions grew into realities after immense efforts of the rising nation’s youth. Their uphill struggle for a better future and continuous resistance against underdevelopment, poverty, economic crisis, illiteracy and social disruption eliminated all barriers between their nation and 21^st century development.  

Generally, throughout the world history when ignorance and underdevelopment dominated the situations of a nation, young people of the specific nation were the ones who moved forward and took a stand.

Living in a province with the presence of every barrier and hindrance, the youth of Balochistan has consistently been taking a rise. Today, when we are aware that with the existing pace of growth, according to the British Council Pakistan’s Education emergency report, Balochistan won’t be able to reach the UN’s Millennium Development Goals for education in the coming one-hundred years!

If the emergency report about education didn’t bother our provincial government, it did bother the people living in the province and specifically its youth. Hence, the youth initiated a number of ways to drag the nation towards development.

According to a Balochi proverb, a rope splits from the weakest part. Today the young people from Gwadar are aware that their port city stands at the last steps concerning Educational growth in the Makran division thus their present rise may help Gwadar to link all distances in the way of development.

The recent initiatives of “Gwadar Youth Forum” may enlighten the future of this small town with a big name with its flames. The dream of “Educated Gwadar” or more broadly “Educated Balochistan” that once our great revolutionaries such as “Baba-e-Balochistan” Meer Gaous Baksh Bezanjo and other activists traced might someday turn out to be realities if the youth and the youth forums such as Gwadar Youth Forum continue their transforming efforts.  

  

For the first time in the history of Gwadar, if any seminars had the largest participation of youth they would definitely be the last two week’s Gwadar Youth Forum’s seminars about Career Counseling and International Scholarship Opportunities.

Both events encouraged the youth to move onward for educational opportunities and achieve more with continuous and earnest hard work and struggle. And no doubt the dream of educated Gwadar or educated Balochistan as whole will be a reality.