Open AccessEducational Horizons of Contemporary Pakistan
Author(s) -
Syed Nomanul Haq
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
islam and civilisational renewal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2041-8728
pISSN - 2041-871X
DOI - 10.52282/icr.v4i1.497
Subject(s) - new horizons , intellect , treasure , population , aesthetics , epistemology , sociology , social science , environmental ethics , history , political science , philosophy , demography , engineering , archaeology , spacecraft , aerospace engineering
When we glance at the intellectual horizons of Pakistan, what appears before our eyes is an intractable melee of inconsistent and often conflicting systems, riven by deep fissures and pervasive discontinuities. This situation, not unlike that in practically any contemporary Muslim society, does not mean that there is any inherent or actual intellectual inferiority in these societies. Pakistan itself can boast a vast treasure of talents, skills, and rigor of intellect. But it does engender a marked fragmentation of the country’s population.