School Days

Re: # 25

... and there are, of course, decent folk too, hamidm and tahmed being the obvious examples right here

Re: # 23; madani sahib

These are the true "brown" heirs of the "white" man! ... they take pride in their ability to read, write and converse in someone else's language (their colonial masters of course) and actively deny the same previlege to millions of others in the name of Islam and Pakistanism. This way, they maintain the upper hand.

Quite clever I reckon!

Re: # 5
tahmed sahib to add on Zardari also went to St. Pats don't think he ever graduated though.

Why all elites want to send children to "english establised schools". I have observed these student develop snobbery and have diminintive attitude towards ordinary or religious / muslim schools. I agree the people gone through these "english school " have advantage. But feel sad also after white people left still our slavary is now in our blood.British people left and returned to their lands we are still Ghulam in our own lands. May be we desserve like that.

when i was at Uni in London I knew someone from St. Patrick's...some fellow called Haroon although I'm no longer in touch....

good write-up but a bit long perhaps?
i loved my own school days in Oxford...

btw what are the best school in pakistan apart from KGS, Aitchison? which pay the best? as a teacher i got an offer from the British School of Karachi last year to work there but i turned it down although the money offered was very good indeed. How much do Iinternational) teachers at Aitchison make?

so we have another one from St. Pats

ijaz_gul: well, I agree with you that she needed to be arrogant.

... of-course in her exile days in London. Not in any public places.

#16 Posted by ijaz_gul,

... err ... no. But been around her several times.

did she shout at you?

#14 Posted by ijaz_gul,

Benazir was arrogant as hell. Scornful is the word I think. And this is first-hand.

but do you really feel she was snotty?

Afterall she had to live and fight in a man's world.

I think she studied in quite a few different schools... Jennings and CJM in Karachi and then presentation convent and then murree and finally kgs. Maybe I'm wrong about cjm, but I have heard of her mentioned as their most famous alumna.

Rabia,
She studied at Presentation Convent Rawalpindi and not J&M.
Tahie,
I was Zubair's Colleague, but he did Matric.

tahmed32: BB's character flaws could also be blamed on her later education (at Convent of Jesus and Mary and Karachi Grammar School!). All the girls I ever met from CJM were actually exactly as snotty as she was, come to think of it.