Distorted history being taught to youth, says Rabbani

Senate chairman laments information regime being imposed on youngsters

ISLAMABAD: Deliberate efforts are being made to disconnect the youth from the true history of the country and to create a situation where the younger generation does not question the state and an ‘elite nexus’ behind this disconnect.

“Rather, the youth are made to believe and accept that whatever is being imposed upon them from the proprietors of this nexus of the state and elite, ” said Senate Chairman Mian Raza Rabbani while addressing golden jubilee celebrations of the Islamabad Model College for Girls in Sector F-7/2.



“These forces fail to realise that if we sever our connections with history, we would become headless chickens,” the Senate chairman added.

“It is unfortunate that our history has been distorted and the sayings of the Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah, especially his address to the first Constituent Assembly, providing guiding principles for a democratic and welfare state, either went missing or have been changed,” Rabbani said.

“This is why our younger generation is facing problems to find its identity and is unable to set its direction.”

Regardless, Rabbani hoped that the younger generation would be capable of delivering stronger, democratic and constitutional values since many would not believe lessons being taught by
these ‘forces’.



He added that the country is facing terrorism and sectarianism because the people have been disconnected from the country’s history and have lost their identity as envisaged by Jinnah.

Renaming the college

The Senate chairman also discussed the issue of renaming the college.

The principal, faculty, and students of the college have been demanding that IMCG is renamed as the Federal Government College of Women (FGCW). Rabbani endorsed their demands. APP

Published in The Express Tribune, April 28^th, 2017.