Razina Alam Khan’s “Suno Pyari Beti”, is filled with advice for parents on how to raise their daughters and for girls on how to transition into adulthood. PHOTOS: CREATIVE COMMONS
Growing up is no easy task, especially for a girl in Pakistan. On Sunday, AQ Khan Auditorium at Aiwan-i-Sir Syed hosted the launch of a book which aims to help address that problem.
Razina Alam Khan’s “Suno Pyari Beti”, is filled with advice for parents on how to raise their daughters and for girls on how to transition into adulthood.
The book sheds lights on every aspects of a woman’s life, ranging from childhood to marital life, and guides them on how to tackle the problems which many women face on a daily basis.
The guests at the launch included nuclear scientist
Dr Abdul Qadeer Khan, who was also the chief guest, Higher Education Commission (HEC) Chairman Javaid R Laghari, and leading lawyer SM Zafar.
Zafar appreciated the book and asked the government to include it in the education curriculum.
“The girls have been advised in a positive manner. This book aims to steer them out of despondency and guide them on the right path,” he said. He urged parents to educate their children by looking at the children’s interests.
“I urge every mother to buy this book and teach it to their daughters,” he said.
HEC Chairman Laghari said the book’s emphasis on equal education for boys and girls “gives us the message to get education from the cradle to the grave,” he said.
He said educated women play an important role in building a society and the HEC always encourages them to get admission in universities.
“Female enrolment in universities has increased from 36 per cent to 48 per cent due to the HEC’s sincere efforts,” he said, while reiterating that society cannot be built up without women’s empowerment.
Dr AQ Khan appreciated the efforts of the writer and said it was due to education that Muslims once ruled over half the world, “But it is due to the lack of education that anarchy and disunity prevail across Muslim world and their resources are being exploited by the developed world,” he said.
He said the book highlights every angle of a woman’s life in such a way that it reminded him of the important women in his own life.
Published in The Express Tribune, February 5th, 2013.
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