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P4 – PAKISTAN LINK – MAY 28, 2021 OPINION
Pakistan Link n By Akhtar Mahmud Faruqui ‘How Hard Can It Be?’
Editor
Pakistan Link
Advisory Board ualifications can be a dis-

Dr Sohail Masood qualification for a girl in

President QPakistan, came the terse
Arif Zaffar Mansuri remark from a Pakistani post-doc

ArifMansuri@PLpublications.org physicist as we
settled down to
Editor discuss life’s hum-

Akhtar Mahmud Faruqui drum affairs at a
afaruqui@pakistanlink.com simple Eid milan
party in the idyl-
Editor Urdu Link & Bureau Chief (Pakistan) lic surroundings of
Shabbir Ghori Trieste, Italy.

urdulink@yahoo.com The view was advanced by Dr X,
one of two female participants from
Resident Editor Urdu Link
& Director Video Operations Pakistan in the Summer School then
Anwar Khawaja in session at the UN International

akhawaja@pakistanlink.com Center of Theoretical Physics which
has come to serve as the hub of Third

Manager Sales & Advertising World science, thanks to the vision
sales@pakistanlink.com and strivings of the late Professor

Abdus Salam. The other participant
Regional Offi ces
in the School, Miss Y, a PhD student,
concurred readily. Her views were entists against a dozen male partici- lingers on. Mard ka complex jagta reer on a shelf while raising a family.
YKKB identical. pants in the Summer College aroused rehta hae. He is not prepared to ac- These women in their late twenties

ykkb03@gmail.com Qualified girls are generally not our curiosity. The explanation was cept the woman as his equal or to and early thirties appear too estab-

accepted in our complex-ridden so- furnished readily and appeared concede her finer points. This idio- lished in their career and lifestyle

Sacramento, CA

Sacramento@plpublications.com ciety, are ‘accommodated’ with men- convincing enough. Most qualified syncrasy must banish from our so- and therefore more difficult to marry
tal reservations even by the fair sex, girls in Pakistan have a great many ciety so that man and woman could because they will not fall into this

San Fransisco/Bay Area, CA and seldom admired by men. Their reservations while planning to leave co-exist as the proverbial wheels of traditional role. Many American
Sanfrancisco@plpublications.com commonplace failing: apni niswaniat the country alone because of inborn the carriage nursing mutual respect,” Muslim women want to be wives and
kho chuki haen! inhibitions and the unsavory social X observed. mothers while at the same time be re-
New York, NY
Newyork@plpublications.com Nothing could be farther from milieu abroad. A utopian longing? Could ideals spected for their profession. ‘One big
the truth. Experience testifies that X had to forego a Stanford fel- transform into reality for a whole- problem is that, rather than embrace

Houston, TX an educated girl is often disposed to lowship on this count. She got the some change? Seldom yes, often not. her ambition and success, men sim-

Houston@Plpublications.org be more feminine and possessed of a permission only after her brother This pessimism also stems from ply tolerate it and expect something

better perspective of life. To the great had made the pilgrimage to Trieste an article shedding fresh light on this in return,’ says Nagwa Ibrahim, a
Phoenix, AZ surprise of the Italians and the multi- and approved of her participation. issue in the United States. Entitled 25-year-old activist seeking a career
Phoenix@Plpublications.org
national assemblage of researchers at Y’s parents were more forward- ‘How Hard Can It Be?’ the article ap- as a human and civil rights lawyer.”

Ontario, Canada the UN center, X and Y covered their looking and welcomed her sojourn peared in The Minaret. The writer Munira Ezzeldine makes an im-
Ontario@Plpublications.org head with dupatta time and again to Trieste. Munira Ezzeldine, who has authored portant observation, one which is in-
at functions where the compulsive Once abroad, the two did face a book on the subject, says: “Many structive, inspirational, and perhaps,
Letters to the Editor habit could have evoked a mocking problems which proved to be rather Muslim women (in the United States) food for thought:
response. of a trivial nature. “Our upbringing is are successful lawyers, doctors, pro- “Current expectations of mar-
Readers are welcome to express their opinion

in these columns. Please keep your letters The two girls were not only qual- different. We are too dependent. We fessors and journalists. They are out- riage have changed for women and
brief and to the point. Letters without full ified but studiously religious. While cannot act independently, a prime spoken and active in their Muslim become more aligned with the ex-

name, complete address, and a daytime

phone number will not be published. X contended that physics “confirms requirement for a girl in this setting. and non-Muslim communities. They amples of women during Prophet
Also, copies of letters sent to other news- religious belief, strengthens and The social values, the Western life- are intelligent and beautiful, and they Muhammad’s lifetime. The Prophet’s

papers are not encouraged. Letters can be

mailed, faxed or e-mailed to the Editor at supplements rather than negates it,” style, are surely unappealing, at times are unmarried. The same women first wife, Khadija, was an established
the Pakistan Link Headquarters address Y seemed to make the incisive point: embarrassing. Life here hardly ap- who are ambitious and focused on career woman who was 15 years older
listed below.
Pakistan Link (ISSN 1074-0406) is pub- “Understanding religion necessitates peals to us,” X remarked. their academic and professional suc- than her husband. Khadija was a very
lished weekly for $85 a year by JAZ LLC, a study of the sciences. Our knowl- “If one does adapt to this life- cess are finding it difficult to find a confident and successful woman who

DBA PL Publications, LLC. edge otherwise could be sketchy and style, he/she is rendered a misfit in suitable spouse… actually proposed to the 24-year-old

Periodical postage paid at Anaheim, CA misleading.” True. his/her own country. He/she cannot “Are women to blame for being Muhammad. Yet, the Prophet was

and additional mailing offices.

POST MASTER: Send address changes to Researchers in high-energy par- adjust in Pakistan,” she added. ambitious and educated? Apparently not intimated by her nor found her
Pakistan Link, P O Box 1238, Anaheim, CA

92815 ticle physics, their investigations were Such a course could surely be so. Women seem to be penalized for ‘unmarriageable.’ They maintained a
The management has the right to refuse not laboratory-oriented but more of calamitous. One could opt for the their ambition. Once a young wom- strong marriage as she continued to
to print any advertisement, news, article,
letter or any other material. In case of a philosophical strain: they related to American or the European lifestyle, an passes the age of 25 and remains be a businesswoman, as well as wife
any errors in advertisement the manage- the study of the cosmos, the universe, but the nationality-label, the cul- single, she is considered ‘old’ and and mother. Prophet Muhammad
ment will not be liable for more than the

amount paid for the advertisement to the its origin, past, present, and future. tural imprint, is hard to dispel. The often finds it difficult to find a suit- and Khadija were married for 28
Link. “We can think more rationally of the American does not accept you as a able spouse. Suddenly others tell that years, the longest of all his marriages.
Advertisements in Pakistan Link are

placed in good faith. The newspaper is not world, have a wider perspective and fellow-American or the European as she has become too picky and her The year that Khadija died was also
responsible nor endorses the contents of look at our surroundings in their en- a European. One remains a foreign- expectations of a husband are unre- referred to as the Year of Mourning
any advertisement. In case of a frivolous
lawsuit, the plaintiff will bear the total cost tirety. Our perception is fuller and er, a fugitive, a forlorn stranger, and alistic and she should hurry up and by Prophet Muhammad…

of the suit, including but not limited to the not fleetingly superficial,” said Y. “In begins to despair when the children get married… “The reality is that Muslim

Link’s costs and the attorney’s fees.
everyday life, our actions and analy- come of age. “Consciously or unconsciously, women have worked hard for their

ses are more realistically oriented, as The way out? “We should plan many men seek a wife who will ful- education and careers and they will

Information for precision becomes the hallmark of an enlightened, science-oriented so- fill the traditional role of a wife and not give it all up in order to get mar-
mother and one who will maintain
our judgment,” she explained.
ried.”
ciety, where gender does not matter.
Subscribers Since girls generally outnumber A Pakistani woman often accepts a a traditional home life. She should A laudable resolve. A woman’s

The printing of Pakistan Link is unfail- boys in most Pakistani universities, less educated man with little reserva- be educated, but she should be also qualification is an asset, not a liabil-

ingly completed by Wednesday every
week and its copies are handed over to the presence of just two female sci- tions, but the man’s complex, vanity, willing to put her education and ca- ity.
the mailing house for prompt dispatch
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