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HAHAHAA it is you southerners who let the Brits in, they learnt the language in the beds of southern ladies, do read Darylmple, as for the southerners resisting the Brits, it was these damn southerners that bought them in, then they expect Northerners to bail them out hahahahhahahahah and allowed them to colonise the sub-continent, and more resistance was offered in North than by damn southern flat nosed dwarfs, who physically are incapable men , see the research about condom size:rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl: you folks are not well endowed:omghaha::omghaha::omghaha:.As for Porus he gave a better fight than the mighty Persian empire, it was folks in Multan who wounded Alexander badly, his men were not terrified of the midgets of the South, it was the hard campaign in the North that too its toll on them. As for Mauryan empire it's vastly exaggerated and do not forget it is the Kushans who ended it, Kushans are the founders of Punjab martial classes, I mean be serious how could those short , narrow shouldered, pot bellied men of the south with their tiny little peckers come and colonise the heirs of the Kushans , unbelievable, now log of you flat nosed midget.

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Wait a min how a thread about IIT's descended into a history class? :D
 
HAHAHAA it is you southerners who let the Brits in, they learnt the language in the beds of southern ladies, do read Darylmple, as for the southerners resisting the Brits, it was these damn southerners that bought them in, then they expect Northerners to bail them out hahahahhahahahah and allowed them to colonise the sub-continent, and more resistance was offered in North than by damn southern flat nosed dwarfs, who physically are incapable men , see the research about condom size:rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl: you folks are not well endowed:omghaha::omghaha::omghaha:.As for Porus he gave a better fight than the mighty Persian empire, it was folks in Multan who wounded Alexander badly, his men were not terrified of the midgets of the South, it was the hard campaign in the North that took its toll on them. As for Mauryan empire it's vastly exaggerated and do not forget it is the Kushans who ended it, Kushans are the founders of Punjab martial classes, I mean be serious how could those short , narrow shouldered, pot bellied men of the south with their tiny little peckers come and colonise the heirs of the Kushans , unbelievable, now log of you flat nosed midget.

@Kaptaan @The Sandman @Zibago @Sarge @DESERT FIGHTER

★ First of all, I'm not a southerner.. So, addressing me as “You southerners" makes you look utterly stupid.. :-)

★ I asked you to name a few Punjabi empires... Why do you dodge this question..? If the potoharis and Punjabis are as martial as you claim, then they should've established at least one empire worth noticing in the last 2000 years...no? Give me the names.. And then we'll compare those names to the Mauryans and the Cholas and the Ahoms and the Marathas and Rajputana.. Zara him bhi to sunein Punjabion ne kon kon se teer maare hain..

★ LOL.. the Kushans were Central Asians, not Punjabis.. They came to India through Punjab and utterly ravaged it.. Actually I believe your claim of having some Kushan blood in you.. After all, they enslaved and raped your own female ancestors... I'm sure all that mass rapery must have yielded some results.. :-D

★ Those short shouldered, dark-complexionied, pot bellied Southerners actually managed to forge empires which spanned up to Indonesia and Vietnam... What feathers do the Punjabis and Potoharis have in their caps? Kabhi Afghan tumhe khod ke gaye, Kabhi Persians... Kabhi Alexander ne maar liya to Kabhi Turks ne... Thuuu hai!!! The Indian heartland got invaded time and again only because the cowardly feminine Punjabis never offered any meaningful resistance to the marauders.. Sharam bhi nhi aati is bezaan quom ko..!!

★ It wasn't the hard campaign in North India that took toll on Macedonian Army.. They never even crossed the Indus for fu¢k's sake..!! They fought for years against the Persians and the Scythians and other myriad tribes repeatedly. That was what took its toll on them.. The soldiers revolted and refused to march across Indus because they wanted to go home, not because they were afraid of Punjabis..!! Kya ul-julool history padh rakhi hai tum Punjabistanio ne? :-)

Next time tareeke se history padhio.. phir aana jubaan ladaane.. Chal bhaag ab!!
 
★ First of all, I'm not a southerner.. So, addressing me as “You southerners" makes you look utterly stupid.. :-)

★ I asked you to name a few Punjabi empires... Why do you dodge this question..? If the potoharis and Punjabis are as martial as you claim, then they should've established at least one empire worth noticing in the last 2000 years...no? Give me the names.. And then we'll compare those names to the Mauryans and the Cholas and the Ahoms and the Marathas and Rajputana.. Zara him bhi to sunein Punjabion ne kon kon se teer maare hain..

★ LOL.. the Kushans were Central Asians, not Punjabis.. They came to India through Punjab and utterly ravaged it.. Actually I believe your claim of having some Kushan blood in you.. After all, they enslaved and raped your own female ancestors... I'm sure all that mass rapery must have yielded some results.. :-D

★ Those short shouldered, dark-complexionied, pot bellied Southerners actually managed to forge empires which spanned up to Indonesia and Vietnam... What feathers do the Punjabis and Potoharis have in their caps? Kabhi Afghan tumhe khod ke gaye, Kabhi Persians... Kabhi Alexander ne maar liya to Kabhi Turks ne... Thuuu hai!!! The Indian heartland got invaded time and again only because the cowardly feminine Punjabis never offered any meaningful resistance to the marauders.. Sharam bhi nhi aati is bezaan quom ko..!!

★ It wasn't the hard campaign in North India that took toll on Macedonian Army.. They never even crossed the Indus for fu¢k's sake..!! They fought for years against the Persians and the Scythians and other myriad tribes repeatedly. That was what took its toll on them.. The soldiers revolted and refused to march across Indus because they wanted to go home, not because they were afraid of Punjabis..!! Kya ul-julool history padh rakhi hai tum Punjabistanio ne? :-)

Next time tareeke se history padhio.. phir aana jubaan ladaane.. Chal bhaag ab!!
So called Mauryan empire with exaggerated history LOL and my anscestors ended it hahaha, and yes we are the heirs of Scythian tribes like the Kushans in the same manner as Rohillas are sons of Pashtuns, who eventually became the part of the fabric and culture of Indus area, how can they be alien to us,,,,only alien to you flat nosed dravadians and Punjab always fought against foreign invaders, sometimes successfully ie (Kabuli Shahi from Potahari and Hazara div ancestors) sometimes not so successfully, whilst they made their way down to the south with out any resistance,,,seriously how can you compare a tamil or midget bihari with a big boned well endowed Jat, Raja, Arain, Gujar, Awan, Malik etc from North west Punjab,,,,,as the brits stated it is not in the feeble blood of the men of the south to fight,,,,how true, now logg off Gangan boy.
 
Says the H!ndian pleb on a Pakistani forum LOL,
I'm Omni present, from American to Russian Military Forums, Indian, Chinese, British, Israeli, I'm a dedicated defence enthusiast.
:D
sorry to bust your ego young
Oh! Where did you post about NUST beating BIT?
fella but IITs are no MIT or Cambridge as much as you have been trying to convince me or rather convince your miserable self.:lol::lol:
:wave::wave::wave::wave:
Still less miserable than you!:lol:
India is surely behind Western Countries and East Asia and no one is denying that but it's still far more capable country than any other third world country in world.

India don't need to even be there where it is today to beat Pakistan. Not even top 10, top 20, 30, 50, 100, 500 or even 1000 because Pakistan is simply nowhere in the league.

As far as our rank is concerned, we have lifted ourselves here in throughout the time. We will take care of rest in upcoming times too. You don't need to bother about it.
Instead, focus on your Education Index, it's close to Afghanistan.
 
So called Mauryan empire with exaggerated history LOL and my anscestors ended it hahaha, and yes we are the heirs of Scythian tribes like the Kushans in the same manner as Rohillas are sons of Pashtuns, who eventually became the part of the fabric and culture of Indus area, how can they be alien to us,,,,only alien to you flat nosed dravadians and Punjab always fought against foreign invaders, sometimes successfully ie (Kabuli Shahi from Potahari and Hazara div ancestors) sometimes not so successfully, whilst they made their way down to the south with out any resistance,,,seriously how can you compare a tamil or midget bihari with a big boned well endowed Jat, Raja, Arain, Gujar, Awan, Malik etc from North west Punjab,,,,,as the brits stated it is not in the feeble blood of the men of the south to fight,,,,how true, now logg off Gangan boy.

Hahaha... Just imagine some 45-year old Bangladeshi enthusiastically claiming that his mother was gang-raped by Tiger Niazi's dogs, and therefore he has “superior" pushtun and punjaabi blood in his viens...lol... That's how pathetic you sound right now..

Your logic be like -- “Yaaay!!! A horde of scythian barbarians raped my female ancestors.. So I have the blood of conquerors in me..!!". Saala doob maro... :D

And BTW, once again you've dodged my question... Why is it that your “martial" and “moojahid" punjabistanis never managed to forge a single empire in the last 2000 years..?

Even the “flat-nosed" , “pot-bellied" Dravidians and the “midget" Biharis created great Empires... Why couldn't you? :D

Agli baar reply karna ho to is sawaal ka jawaab de dena... Warna reply krne ki koi zaroorat nhi h... Chup-chap ghisak lena..lol.
 
Hahaha... Just imagine some 45-year old Bangladeshi enthusiastically claiming that his mother was gang-raped by Tiger Niazi's dogs, and therefore he has “superior" pushtun and punjaabi blood in his viens...lol... That's how pathetic you sound right now..

Your logic be like -- “Yaaay!!! A horde of scythian barbarians raped my female ancestors.. So I have the blood of conquerors in me..!!". Saala doob maro... :D

And BTW, once again you've dodged my question... Why is it that your “martial" and “moojahid" punjabistanis never managed to forge a single empire in the last 2000 years..?

Even the “flat-nosed" , “pot-bellied" Dravidians and the “midget" Biharis created great Empires... Why couldn't you? :D

Agli baar reply karna ho to is sawaal ka jawaab de dena... Warna reply krne ki koi zaroorat nhi h... Chup-chap ghisak lena..lol.
Kabul shahi extending from North of subcontinent too Amu Darya, learn history you little southerner and as for ancestry, we are descendants of polytheistic settlers from central asia who over time started to take local women as wives in a similar manner to the rohillas who married local women in territories they seized and no the Rohillas did not rape the women of the south which they easily conquered, most feeble resistance southern boy

Why Delhi and Mumbai? Why not New Mumbai, Vikhroli, downtown Bangalore, Chandigarh, GIFT City or Dholera? Simply because they.are beyond comparison with Islamabad?
Why not compare national average?

You know, India is also hiding a secret fleet of starships to conquer the galaxy!:partay:

(Calling some sort of "hidden" power? I can also fart anything from mouth like you. :D)
At first place, scientific research needs money, infrastructure and manpower (educated manpower I mean).
Three things which simply Pakistan doesn't have. India spends 25 times more than Pak on research, budget nearly 3 times of Pakistani government's total budget, unlike Banana Republics like Pakistan, India spends more on research than defence which is a matter of fact. Stats speak louder than your rants, go and read MTCR annex documents or WIPO reports from last 3 decades.
Aah! You'll deny that too.

5 press conferences in 24 hours to change the statement!:lol:

What happened to these Tauheeds in 1971 then? Was your Allah sleeping then?

Tauheed believing "lions", my @$$.:disagree:

Brits started with Southern India?

You guys are really smoking something strong there.

Entire world knows who's artificial nation, still struggling to find identity that who they are.:D
Arabs, Turks, Persians, Mongols, Mughals or descendants of Indus Valley civilization.:lol:

Genetical issue (still our population! :lol:)
And if I tell you that East Asians and southern Asians have same penal size? (I can provide source).

Adding for Indian Men, cuz they at least use those rubbers. So, we know about them. Indian Women don't have to breed like animals.
Our parents invest in these "rubbers" that's why lesser retards like you are born in India who can't talk with arguments.
Pakistani fertility rate is 3.5 against world average 2.5 and Indian 2.4 which is a huge gap.

It's very clear, Pakistanis aren't having this problem because they don't even use these "rubbers" unlike India who emphasized vasectony or contraceptives sincs early 80s to control population. I can provide statements from your experts, family planning has been proved an utter failure in Pakistan.

You are descendants and Arabs, Turks, Persians, Mongolians, Mughals, Kushans, Rashtrakutas, Qings, Mings, Romans, Africans, Europeans, Australians, Americans, Chinese, Koreans, Latinos, Japanese, Russians, Scythians and probably even aliens but such idiots can't be Indians for sure.:enjoy:
@Samrat420 stop arguing, he must have been molested by some sheikhs in KSA, so trying to blow out frustration here.

Seriously guys, I'm still laughing!
"False numbers from a delusional; H!ndian babu, as for Panipat, the men of Ganga region were exposed for their lack of manliness, despite having a massive, massive, massive numerical superiority they were defeated by Tauheed believing lions even the Brits considered the Ganga dwellers as physically inferior, it is well known HAHAHAHAHAHA, now log of H!ndian babun"


This is one of the reason that I wanna carry out a chemical attack on Pakistan.:rofl:


Whoa! @django you were right actually!:woot:

LUMS and NUST together finally have developed "bulbs" and calculated Planck's constant (a top secret project).
https://lums.edu.pk/news/general-news/lums-physlab-shares-educational-technology-nust-islamabad

If your top universities are at such levels, think about average institution in Pakistan!:omghaha:
@waz @Rafi Blasphemous content from this blogger, deserves a ban
 
I suppose with a population of a billion plus, a few bright cookies will emerge, even then I say these IIT students and institutions are vastly overrated, a typical example of IIT student being Mainak Sarkar who was intellectually out of his depth once he arrived at UCLA for his engineering course, his resulting depression made him shoot dead his American professor:disagree::disagree::hitwall: These IIT kids may be real book worms but make no mistake about it, they cannot think out of the box, in fact they would be completely lost outside of the box, they would be as blind as bats, I say NUST, LUMS and QAU are more than a match for these institutions despite what one may hear from some H!ndian trolls on PDF.
Recently there was a change in the US regarding h1b visa. No longer can they use that to find work there. This is not a brain gain . The west is starting to realise Indian engineers are not good compared to international standards. They're hiring elsewhere...
 
Recently there was a change in the US regarding h1b visa. No longer can they use that to find work there. This is not a brain gain . The west is starting to realise Indian engineers are not good compared to international standards. They're hiring elsewhere...
Absolutely agree.
 
Hahaha... Just imagine some 45-year old Bangladeshi enthusiastically claiming that his mother was gang-raped by Tiger Niazi's dogs, and therefore he has “superior" pushtun and punjaabi blood in his viens...lol... That's how pathetic you sound right now..

Your logic be like -- “Yaaay!!! A horde of scythian barbarians raped my female ancestors.. So I have the blood of conquerors in me..!!". Saala doob maro... :D

And BTW, once again you've dodged my question... Why is it that your “martial" and “moojahid" punjabistanis never managed to forge a single empire in the last 2000 years..?


Even the “flat-nosed" , “pot-bellied" Dravidians and the “midget" Biharis created great Empires... Why couldn't you? :D

Agli baar reply karna ho to is sawaal ka jawaab de dena... Warna reply krne ki koi zaroorat nhi h... Chup-chap ghisak lena..lol.

In a span of over 2400 years forget empires there are very few kindgoms that have origins within geographic boundaries consisting of modern day Pakistan. ;)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soomra_dynasty

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rai_dynasty

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ror_dynasty

Rest of the time they were part of larger external or empires of Indian origin.

And the funniest part is --- None of these conquerors were Punjabis...lol.. No people in the whole Indian subcontinent has been enslaved and raped more than Punjabis in last 2000 years..!!! Punjab ki zameen kaise hizre paida karti hai jo saala jise dekho jab chaahe khod ke chala jaata hai?
Its over 2400 years to be more accurate

The earliest recorded instance of Pakistan side of Punjab being subjugated is as early as 518 BC by Persian Achemenid empire.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Achaemenid_invasion_of_the_Indus_Valley
 
Kabul shahi extending from North of subcontinent too Amu Darya, learn history you little southerner and as for ancestry, we are descendants of polytheistic settlers from central asia who over time started to take local women as wives in a similar manner to the rohillas who married local women in territories they seized and no the Rohillas did not rape the women of the south which they easily conquered, most feeble resistance southern boy
Just amend it slightly, invaders were known for setting up harams and raping women, not marrying. Rest is okay.
On a lighter note, there's a similar story in settling of Muslim majority in Kashmir or you agree that those "self proclaimed Kashmiris" demanding for "azadi" aren't real Kashmiris.
@waz @Rafi Blasphemous content from this blogger, deserves a ban
Now, this is called touching a raw nerve, that's why such a face hiding response from you.:lol:
"Tauheed believing lions" calling posts "blasphemous" and religious book as constitution, still trying compare NUST with IITs.
Pakistan is simply nowhere in world of research and science.;)
It was based on religion and ideology, it is still ran over it and projected to remain so.
Less than 1% of Pakistani population is irreligious, religion and science can't ever be ran together and Pakistan was made for serving a religion only, not scientific services for mankind.

Anyway, since start of your pathetic trolling, you just ensured your ban by tagging mods!
Recently there was a change in the US regarding h1b visa. No longer can they use that to find work there. This is not a brain gain . The west is starting to realise Indian engineers are not good compared to international standards. They're hiring elsewhere...
Probably the reason, Indians still hold a huge fraction of employees from foreign PSUs, they are CEOs to supervisers of top firms, they have become Prime Ministers & Ministers of Portugal or Canada.
In fact, put aside H1B Visa criteria, visa on arrival and bigger diplomatic network has enabled even easy gain of visa.
Indians are everywhere, from world's richest countries in Europe to world's poorest countries in East Africa.
It's increment of wages, bigger R&D budget and improved ranking of universities.
That's the reason why India scored 45.6K in USPTO from that pathetic 1300 earlier and 15 spots up in Global Innovation Index.

6-7 years ago, the engineering graduate who could earn ₹25,000 is getting ₹70,000, salary of ₹45,000 has become more common in Indian cities in most field now.
Absolutely agree.
Not surprised, if a Chinese will say they discovered that pigs can fly, Pakistanis will agree with that too!:lol:
You are a Pakistani after all.

Indus valley Civilization was a Pakistani civilization, but first Pakistani was an Arab Muhammad Bin Qashim who invaded Sindh in 712 CE.:bounce:

Let's have a look at Pakistani EduSys.
Education Index:
India: 0.473
Pak: 0.302
Afghanistan: 0.365
Kickin off with worst level, I can get ever.
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A Pakistani Physics Textbook

Is it science or theology?
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The writer teaches physics in Lahore and Islamabad.
When Pakistani students open a physics or biology textbook, it is sometimes unclear whether they are actually learning science or, instead, theology. The reason: every science textbook, published by a government-run textbook board in Pakistan, by law must contain in its first chapter how Allah made our world, as well as how Muslims and Pakistanis have created science.
I have no problem with either. But the first properly belongs to Islamic Studies, the second to Islamic or Pakistani history. Neither legitimately belongs to a textbook on a modern-day scientific subject. That’s because religion and science operate very differently and have widely different assumptions. Religion is based on belief and requires the existence of a hereafter, whereas science worries only about the here and now.

Demanding that science and faith be tied together has resulted in national bewilderment and mass intellectual enfeeblement. Millions of Pakistanis have studied science subjects in school and then gone on to study technical, science-based subjects in college and university. And yet most — including science teachers — would flunk if given even the simplest science quiz.

How did this come about? Let’s take a quick browse through a current 10th grade physics book. The introductory section has the customary holy verses. These are followed by a comical overview of the history of physics. Newton and Einstein — the two greatest names — are unmentioned. Instead there’s Ptolemy the Greek, Al-Kindi, Al-Beruni, Ibn-e-Haytham, A.Q. Khan, and — amusingly — the heretical Abdus Salam.

Demanding that science and faith be tied together has resulted in national bewilderment.
The end-of-chapter exercises test the mettle of students with such questions as: Mark true/false; A) The first revelation sent to the Holy Prophet (PBUH) was about the creation of Heaven? B) The pin-hole camera was invented by Ibn-e-Haytham? C) Al-Beruni declared that Sind was an underwater valley that gradually filled with sand? D) Islam teaches that only men must acquire knowledge?

Dear Reader: You may well gasp in disbelief, or just hold your head in despair. How could Pakistan’s collective intelligence and the quality of what we teach our children have sunk so low? To see more such questions, or to check my translation from Urdu into English, please visit the website http://eacpe.org/ where relevant pages from the above text (as well as from those discussed below) have been scanned and posted.

Take another physics book — this one (English) is for sixth-grade students. It makes abundantly clear its discomfort with the modern understanding of our universe’s beginning. The theory of the Big Bang is attributed to “a priest, George Lamaitre [sic] of Belgium”. The authors cunningly mention his faith hoping to discredit his science. Continuing, they declare that “although the Big Bang Theory is widely accepted, it probably will never be proved”.

While Georges Lemaître was indeed a Catholic priest, he was so much more. A professor of physics, he worked out the expanding universe solution to Einstein’s equations. Lemaître insisted on separating science from religion; he had publicly chided Pope Pius XII when the pontiff grandly declared that Lemaître’s results provided a scientific validation to Catholicism.

Local biology books are even more schizophrenic and confusing than the physics ones. A 10th-grade book starts off its section on ‘Life and its Origins’ unctuously quoting one religious verse after another. None of these verses hint towards evolution, and many Muslims believe that evolution is counter-religious. Then, suddenly, a full page annotated chart hits you in the face. Stolen from some modern biology book written in some other part of the world, it depicts various living organisms evolving into apes and then into modern humans. Ouch!

Such incoherent babble confuses the nature of science — its history, purpose, method, and fundamental content. If the authors are confused, just imagine the impact on students who must learn this stuff. What weird ideas must inhabit their minds!

Compounding scientific ignorance is prejudice. Most students have been persuaded into believing that Muslims alone invented science. And that the heroes of Muslim science such as Ibn-e-Haytham, Al-Khwarizmi, Omar Khayyam, Ibn-e-Sina, etc owed their scientific discoveries to their strong religious beliefs. This is wrong.

Science is the cumulative effort of humankind with its earliest recorded origins in Babylon and Egypt about 6,000 years ago, thereafter moving to China and India, and then Greece. It was a millennium later that science reached the lands of Islam, where it flourished for 400 years before moving on to Europe. Omar Khayyam, a Muslim, was doubtless a brilliant mathematician. But so was Aryabhatta, a Hindu. What does their faith have to do with their science? Natural geniuses have existed everywhere and at all times.

Today’s massive infusion of religion into the teaching of science dates to the Ziaul Haq days. It was not just school textbooks that were hijacked. In the 1980s, as an applicant to a university teaching position in whichever department, the university’s selection committee would first check your faith.

In those days a favourite question at Quaid-e-Azam University (as probably elsewhere) was to have a candidate recite Dua-i-Qunoot, a rather difficult prayer. Another was to name each of the Holy Prophet’s wives, or be quizzed about the ideology of Pakistan. Deftly posed questions could expose the particularities of the candidate’s sect, personal degree of adherence, and whether he had been infected by liberal ideas.

Most applicants meekly submitted to the grilling. Of these many rose to become today’s chairmen, deans, and vice-chancellors. The bolder ones refused, saying that the questions asked were irrelevant. With strong degrees earned from good overseas universities, they did not have to submit to their bullying inquisitors. Decades later, they are part of a widely dispersed diaspora. Though lost to Pakistan, they have done very well for themselves.

Science has no need for Pakistan; in the rest of the world it roars ahead. But Pakistan needs science because it is the basis of a modern economy and it enables people to gain decent livelihoods. To get there, matters of faith will have to be cleanly separated from matters of science. This is how peoples around the world have managed to keep their beliefs intact and yet prosper. Pakistan can too, but only if it wants.
Copyright: The Dawn

Promoting anti-science via textbooks
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The writer teaches physics and mathematics in Lahore and Islamabad.

The writer teaches physics and mathematics in Lahore and Islamabad.



A BIOLOGY textbook is normally expected to teach biology as science, meaning a scientifically based study of the structure, growth and origin of living things. But what if such a book instead says science must follow ideology and loudly denounces the core principles of biology, condemning these as wrong and irrational?

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Published in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa last year, a biology textbook declares that “The theory of evolution, as proposed by Charles Darwin in the 19th century, is one of the most unbelievable and irrational claims in history”. Ridiculing the notion that complex life evolved from simpler forms, it claims this violates common sense and is just as “baseless” as assuming that when two rickshaws collide “a motor car was evolved”.

Colliding two rickshaws will, of course, never result in a motor car. That’s common sense. But what does this have to do with the prokaryote-eukaryote transition (which the authors are trying to refute)? More importantly, common sense isn’t good enough for science. Didn’t common sense once tell you that the sun moves across the sky, the earth is flat, and that being out in the cold produced colds? Common sense didn’t tell you that smoking was dangerous. Evidence did.

Ideological discomfort with science largely explains our near total absence from the world of creative science.
Evidence through years of patient observation — not common sense — led to Darwin’s theory of evolution and to Newton’s laws of motion. Take them away and biology, as well as physics, instantly collapses into a meaningless jumble of facts. Robbed of fundamentals, biology ceases to be biology and physics ceases to be physics. They cease to be branches of science.

If the quoted textbook was just one of a kind, I would not have written this article. But almost all books have this attitude. Another KP textbook says “A person in a stable and proper state of mind” cannot accept the wild theories of Western science. By corollary, only mad people can. A physics textbook of the Sindh Textbook Board categorically states that the universe sprang instantly into existence when a certain divine phrase was uttered.

Anti-science does not live in our textbooks only. Many Pakistani science and maths teachers are uncomfortable with their vocations. Whether in schools or universities, they obtained their jobs by possessing requisite certificates and degrees. But not all agree with what they are paid to teach, or even understand it. It should surprise no one that most biology teachers in Pakistan either do not — or perhaps dare not — touch upon human evolution.

Other teachers also feel torn between science and faith. Qari N. was a mathematics professor at Quaid-i-Azam University and my neighbour in the QAU housing colony. He was a soft-spoken and deeply pious man who wore his shalwar well above his ankles and would rebuff customary embraces after Eid prayers, declaring them to be bid’at (an innovation, hence disallowed).

His PhD in mathematics notwithstanding, the gentle qari would say to his M.Sc students that although it was his job to teach, yet mathematics was not to be trusted. He rejected not just mathematics but all Western cultural contaminations, including modern medicine. A chronic diabetic, he refused to see a regular doctor and instead put his trust in a hakeem who prescribed several spoonfuls daily of pure honey. Sadly, I was unable to make it to his funeral because of my busy class schedule that day.

Ideological discomfort with science largely explains Pakistan’s total absence from the world of creative science or technology. But there are other competing reasons, foremost among which is corruption and extreme incompetence in the field of textbook publishing. I do not think there is another country in the world that miseducates its young so badly.

Over four decades, I have collected scores of school science textbooks, both Urdu and English. Most have been produced by the Punjab and Sindh textbook boards. You can guess how many copies need to be printed for a population of 200 million people, as well as imagine the profits from even a small markup. These are ideal conditions for corruption and incompetence to thrive in government education departments.

One year ago, my article ‘Burn these books, please!’ was published in this newspaper. It pleaded that our students should be kept away “from the rotten science textbooks published by the Sindh Textbook Board (STB), an entity operating under the Sindh Ministry of Education. Else yet another generation will end up woefully ignorant of the subjects they study — physics, mathematics, chemistry, and biology.”

The article caught the attention of the current Sindh secretary of education, a man who appeared committed to change. He invited me to be part of the Sindh government’s education advisory board, an honorary position which I instantly accepted. A Karachi-based philanthropist offered to underwrite expenses needed for a massive revamp of textbook development and also paid my airfare to attend a committee meeting. There was some excitement, and a faint ray of hope that one hoped was not that faint.

The first meeting was duly held, and then subsequent ones. Unfortunately, the committee’s secretary made sure nothing would really move. Many promises were made but none were kept, critical issues were left unaddressed, and endless bureaucratic hurdles were devised.

One year later I see that our efforts — including those of a US-based Pakistani academic — had been neatly sabotaged. Now I hear over the grapevine that the committee has been dissolved. It doesn’t matter if it has — the lack of seriousness was apparent from day one. When foxes are charged with protecting chickens, the outcome rarely surprises.

The Sindh education ministry is beyond reform. It cannot deliver good textbooks for Matric and FSc. Adapting, subsidising, and translating internationally produced ‘O’ and ‘A’ level science books — used presently by only a tiny sliver of upscale Pakistani schools — is the only reasonable way to go. Those who protest that this amounts to a Western cultural invasion should be asked to produce their own science. In the meantime they shouldn’t use electricity or mobile phones, and travel only on donkeys and camels. Instead of antibiotics or insulin they could, like my former neighbour, opt to use honey.

Lahore School Girls on Atomic Bombs - Must watch.
("Hindustan se zordar atmi dhamake karke", kya baat hai, fission bomb beats fusion bomb, can Pak make something nuclear like IPWR?)

USCIRF: Pakistani textbooks filled with hate against Christians, Hindus & Ahmadis

Burn these books, please!

Report reveals why 98 percent students failed in CSS exams
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This was the level of current affairs section of Pakistani CSS exam which couldn't be cracked by students.
 
But the point is we are on the right path and path breaking research is being conducted at LUMS whilst your IITs produce nothing but human robots, no creativity to speak of, just a whole bunch of myopic book worms.Kudos

Was it not a LUMS professor who was supporting that water car ??:woot:
 
Why Delhi and Mumbai? Why not New Mumbai, Vikhroli, downtown Bangalore, Chandigarh, GIFT City or Dholera? Simply because they.are beyond comparison with Islamabad?
Why not compare national average?

You know, India is also hiding a secret fleet of starships to conquer the galaxy!:partay:

(Calling some sort of "hidden" power? I can also fart anything from mouth like you. :D)
At first place, scientific research needs money, infrastructure and manpower (educated manpower I mean).
Three things which simply Pakistan doesn't have. India spends 25 times more than Pak on research, budget nearly 3 times of Pakistani government's total budget, unlike Banana Republics like Pakistan, India spends more on research than defence which is a matter of fact. Stats speak louder than your rants, go and read MTCR annex documents or WIPO reports from last 3 decades.
Aah! You'll deny that too.

5 press conferences in 24 hours to change the statement!:lol:

What happened to these Tauheeds in 1971 then? Was your Allah sleeping then?

Tauheed believing "lions", my @$$.:disagree:

Brits started with Southern India?

You guys are really smoking something strong there.

Entire world knows who's artificial nation, still struggling to find identity that who they are.:D
Arabs, Turks, Persians, Mongols, Mughals or descendants of Indus Valley civilization.:lol:

Genetical issue (still our population! :lol:)
And if I tell you that East Asians and southern Asians have same penal size? (I can provide source).

Adding for Indian Men, cuz they at least use those rubbers. So, we know about them. Indian Women don't have to breed like animals.
Our parents invest in these "rubbers" that's why lesser retards like you are born in India who can't talk with arguments.
Pakistani fertility rate is 3.5 against world average 2.5 and Indian 2.4 which is a huge gap.

It's very clear, Pakistanis aren't having this problem because they don't even use these "rubbers" unlike India who emphasized vasectony or contraceptives sincs early 80s to control population. I can provide statements from your experts, family planning has been proved an utter failure in Pakistan.

You are descendants and Arabs, Turks, Persians, Mongolians, Mughals, Kushans, Rashtrakutas, Qings, Mings, Romans, Africans, Europeans, Australians, Americans, Chinese, Koreans, Latinos, Japanese, Russians, Scythians and probably even aliens but such idiots can't be Indians for sure.:enjoy:
@Samrat420 stop arguing, he must have been molested by some sheikhs in KSA, so trying to blow out frustration here.

Seriously guys, I'm still laughing!
"False numbers from a delusional; H!ndian babu, as for Panipat, the men of Ganga region were exposed for their lack of manliness, despite having a massive, massive, massive numerical superiority they were defeated by Tauheed believing lions even the Brits considered the Ganga dwellers as physically inferior, it is well known HAHAHAHAHAHA, now log of H!ndian babun"


This is one of the reason that I wanna carry out a chemical attack on Pakistan.:rofl:


Whoa! @django you were right actually!:woot:

LUMS and NUST together finally have developed "bulbs" and calculated Planck's constant (a top secret project).
https://lums.edu.pk/news/general-news/lums-physlab-shares-educational-technology-nust-islamabad

If your top universities are at such levels, think about average institution in Pakistan!:omghaha:
Kabul shahi extending from North of subcontinent too Amu Darya, learn history you little southerner and as for ancestry, we are descendants of polytheistic settlers from central asia who over time started to take local women as wives in a similar manner to the rohillas who married local women in territories they seized and no the Rohillas did not rape the women of the south which they easily conquered, most feeble resistance southern boy


@waz @Rafi Blasphemous content from this blogger, deserves a ban

Abe Kabul Shahi Afghani hukumat thi, Punjabi nahi..!!! Kyon beijjati karwaane pe tula hai tu?

I asked you to name Punjabi conquerors.. I didn't ask you to list the empires who conquer'd and enslaved Punjabistanis... I know that list is waaaay toooo looong... hahaha..!! :D

Chal... Try again... :-)
 
Several people have ruined this thread. It's a good article, India does well in this regard.
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