ISLAMABAD, From breaking boundaries in the field of cricket to assuming premiership, Imran Khan has a formula to success \u2013 Original thinking, free from the subjugation of mental complexes.<\/p>\n
A leaf from his golden cricketing era pictures Khan as a youngster from a humble Pakistani team, who was never \u2018overwhelmed\u2019 by the splendor of western cricketers, but instead relied on giving his best in the field.<\/p>\n
Imran Khan on several occasions recalls that starting his first-class cricket at the age of 16, he never agreed to the prevailing notion among his mates that \u2018western teams could not be beaten\u2019. Instead, he says, that he always encouraged the \u2018boys\u2019 to come out of such complexes and believe in themselves.<\/p>\n
The spirit of self-reliance and belief in oneself then drove Khan, the skipper of Pakistan cricket in 1992, to win the World Cup with a team dubbed as average by the critics of the time.<\/p>\n
In politics as well, Imran Khan pursues the same strength of mind and will.<\/p>\n
To the nation facing the challenges of social disparity, he, as a prime minister advises them to let their minds free from the mental slavery of other cultures.<\/p>\n
\u201cSubjugated minds can never achieve something big. Only innovative and original thinking can win you laurels,\u201d he said recently at the launch of the uniform national curriculum, the first-ever in the country\u2019s history.<\/p>\n
The national curriculum is the fulfillment of the dream of Imran Khan, whose party manifesto for over two decades is focusing on transforming the nation into a \u201cunified entity, rooted in common morals and ethos\u201d.<\/p>\n
Imran Khan is not in favour of promoting an education system where the result is creation of a wide gulf among different social classes with the ills of intellectual inferiority or superiority complexes.<\/p>\n
English, he regrets, has not remained limited to a language to learn knowledge, but became a status symbol.<\/p>\n
\u201cBreaking the shackles of minds is more difficult and we are determined to bring the nation out of such complexes,\u201d he said, stressing that no nation could rise until it relies on its original values and morals.<\/p>\n
\u201cUnfortunately, the way our system developed, we just don\u2019t learn English as a language for higher education, but we adopt the entire culture instead, which is most alarming,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Khan believes that adopting the culture of others could lead to mental slavery \u2013 a big impediment in way to original thinking and innovation.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen you adopt someone\u2019s culture, you believe it to be superior and you end up becoming a slave to it. It creates a system of mental salves that is worse than the physical slavery,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
He stresses that \u201ccopying someone ends up being a duplicate and a good slave, who is only good for adopting and replicating traditions and can never achieve more\u201d.<\/p>\n
Imran Khan, at the same occasion of the launch of national curriculum, referred to the fall of government in Afghanistan, to which he emphasized that ending merely the \u2018physical slavery\u2019 was not enough, but \u2018coming out of mental slavery\u2019 was rather more important.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe chains of slavery have been broken in Afghanistan just recently. But, breaking the shackles of mental slavery is the hardest nut to crack,\u201d he said, in view of the importance of access of the Afghan nation to education and their mental exposure to the world.<\/p>\n
One of the main causes of the region\u2019s problems is the lack of access to affordable education. Without education, it is almost impossible for a nation to advance itself, never mind the entire region.<\/p>\n
Legendary African leader Nelson Mandela had once said that \u2018Education is the most powerful weapon you can use to change the world.\u2019<\/p>\n
The recent statement of Imran Khan on \u2018breaking the shackles of mental slavery\u2019 is a guideline for the under-developed countries in the region, to pursue the agenda of development by believing in themselves.<\/p>\n
The key to the region\u2019s shackles surely is education, but in Imran Khan\u2019s words, the mission is about being the carriers of that key to unlock and break the mental shackles once and for all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
ISLAMABAD, From breaking boundaries in the field of cricket to assuming premiership, Imran Khan has a formula to success \u2013 Original thinking, free from the subjugation of mental complexes. A leaf from his golden cricketing era pictures Khan as a youngster from a humble Pakistani […]<\/p>\n
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