Human flag

Pakistan youth has achieved yet another feat of creating a world record by making the national flag with 29,040 students of various schools. No doubt it was a gigantic effort by the minister of youth affairs and the other organizers to control such a huge number of students. But major share of credit goes to the students who faced the hostile weather and remained in the ground the whole day. One has to think of the parents of children who must be worried about the welfare of their wards in rain and hailstorm besides their meals arrangement. Of course the organizers including Hamza Shahbaz were sitting comfortably under a shade with regular service of tea/coffee to get a feather in their caps for a world record of no consequence. One has to think of the effort, time and the money which has been spent to create such frivolous world record.

The minister should hunt for talents in the youth to create any worthwhile record like in athletics events by providing them facilities of coaching. Our youth if properly trained may beat or equal the record of Usain Bolt in 100 meters or for that matter in any other field or track event. If country like Ethiopia with limited resources could win a gold medal in marathon or 10,000 meters race, why not Pakistan?

MUHAMMAD AZHAR KHWAJA

Lahore