Bettering Pakistan through education

It may not be so appropriate for me to place this topic in the "Comments, Suggestions, etc." section of the forum (so mods, feel free to move it where you wish).

In light of some of the previous posts about mutual animosities between the numerous ethnic, linguistic, and political groups in Pakistan, let us discuss how improving education can solve this and other problems.

Literacy (as imran and others said) is a major component of education, because when people can read and write, the world of the academia is open to them; through literacy, people have the opportunity to contemplate any of the arts or sciences with not only their contempory academics, but also of the vast number of geniuses from all the previous generations.

One possibility that I have been thinking about is: why don't we modernize/standardize as many of the languages we can.

Urdu, Punjabi, Sindhi, Pashto, Balochi, etc. can all benefit from a healthy and lively scholarship of the masses. I mean these languages are the various tongues of Pakistan, but they are spoken by relatively few people in this world. In this modern age, we use English to communicate about anything (especially academic/scholarly). Even online, we transliterate whatever native phrases into the Latin alphabet.... and then after the novelty of the phrase, we continue in English.

But if we modernize these languages, may be one day even significant scientific and literary works will become commonplace in Pakistan. In history this was very true. The region of Afghanistan and Pakistan produced significant philosophical works from the ancient times in linguistics, religion, mathematics, law, and a variety of sciences in Ancient Sanskrit, Avestan (Ancient Persian), Greek (the Graeco-Buddhist civ.), and in the Medieval era in Persian and Urdu. But in the modern era, we only looming over the conflict, strife, and disunity.

So let us start with something simple... we know the Arabic script was efficient and beautiful in the Medieval times, but it is extremely cumbersome in the era of technology. Can we abandon nasta'liq and stardardize a Latin-based alphabet for all the languages and phonemes?

An alphabetical script can significantly speed up typing and allow for any variety of texts old and new to be uploaded onto cyberspace. (And what's better? This script could be made to be easily convertible to nasta'liq using a preprocessor.)

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