We all perceive how important education is for us – for shaping our careers, equipping us with knowledge that will help us thrive in this world. Educational curriculums are designed every year for us that have to be followed by every school, college and university. This is really brilliant, helping us getting imperative knowledge and competing with rest of world.
Healthy activities hold equal importance as our studies and all educational activities. The sheer ignorance about sports and health has made our nation lag way behind other countries in terms of the sports champions we produce.
Take a glance back to 1992, where we won the Cricket World cup. After that things have gone terribly wrong. Sports events, which were occurring on regular basis during that time, are now non-existent. The term “Sports” in itself is now an alien term in most of our schools, colleges and universities. Drug addicts and criminals are coming out of them, instead of patrons and heroes.
The need of an hour is that our government and educational institutions should think of sports and regular education on an equal level. The government should allow sports centres and design a sports curriculum which need to be implanted and looked after each year. And I believe that students should be allocated 25 percent of marks, on the basis of sports activities he or she has participated in.
Taking these radical steps will help us in achieving the lost glories we once use to achieve. Only healthy individuals can sustain Pakistan to gain its lost prestige.
NOFIL JAMIL ANWER KHAN
Islamabad
