I want to be a politician

If you ask school going kids in Karachi or in any other city of Pakistan about their career aspirations, I can bet you’ll find a good percentage wishing to see themselves as Engineers and doctors. Then there will be some young bright students in the Clifton or Defence area who would (where the parents have inculcated in their kids the) wish to enter business, that’s what their parents have always pushed them for (promoted in). All these young brains hear on the dining table is how fascinating business is. Their parents have been prudent to some extent because that’s where you’ll find easy money; just kidding. People in business disciplines, marketing specially J (no hard feelings for the marketing maniacs) are always critisized by their engineering counterparts as doing nothing and making twice the money as they do themselves. The easy money part surely won’t be true but you can’t decline the fact that there is more money in business.

Well, here we’ve left a very special distinguished class of students who will be hard to find in Pakistan. It’s because they are studying in Harvard and Oxford, but they are very much Pakistani because they will eventually come back to Pakistan to take over the charge of the country. These kids belong to the elitist class, and their parents are the cleverest of all because they teach their children to enter a profession which many school going students, living in Pakistan, perhaps don’t even imagine. This profession, which is filled with glamour, power and money, is unfortunately accessible only to a few. But for those who have access to it, this is the best they can have.

Just imagine the beauty of this profession, whereas a bulk of our Pakistani brothers and sisters want to leave Pakistan and settle abroad, the few fortunate people who have access to this profession want to leave abroad and come back to Pakistan. Anyhow, the most amazing part of this profession still remains. You don’t have study rocket science, or be the brightest student in class to get into this profession. You just have to be a genius of the other kind. If you belong to this class, you don’t even have to go to Harvard or Oxford. All you need is a Bachelor in Arts, and you’re ready for the most exciting career in Pakistan.

Mom, I want to be a politician!!

By_ Prof.M.KAMRAN MUMTAZ