Well, there is one good news, Dr. Pervez Hoodbhoy, renowned Pakistani scientist and a former professor at Quaid i- Azam University, has been appointed as member advisory board on dis-armament matters at the United Nations. He is one of the nine member board which includes representatives from Jordan, South Korea, Ghana, Philippines and Egypt. UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon has confirmed his appointment.
Members of advisory board are selected on the basis their personal profiles and cannot represent their governments. Dis-armament board members are appointed for three years.
He is one of the best professors Pakistan has seen and a scholar way ahead of his time. Unfortunately, we in Pakistan will never be able to give due respect to people like Hoodbhoy, Eqbal Ahmad or Dr. Abdus Salam.
Anyways, in these couple of weeks, we saw a controversy of how Dr. Hoodbhoy's contract was NOT renewed by a university where he was teaching for all the stupid reasons that one could think of and that too when that private university's VC is no other than Adil Najam. ..it came as a shock and a disappointment.
Anyhow, people like Eqbal Ahmad, Pervez Hoodbhoy, Dr. Abdus Salam, Dr. Akbar S. Ahmad are the people that Pakistani bureaucracy and military would love to get rid off!
I am happy that he has been chosen from Pakistan to do this important job. I hope he stay strong and stay safe. Amin!
Pervez Hoodbhoy's columns can be found HERE.
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