QUETTA: The development indicating the importance of education for women in Balochistan, female students of Mir Chakar Khan Rind University, Sibi, received a long-awaited transport facility after raising their concerns during a recent jirga.
The traditional jirga session, several Baloch daughters mentioned the persistent challenge they faced due to the absence of a university bus service.
The very next day, the district administration responded by providing a bus at the university’s main gate, ensuring that young women could attend their classes with ease and safety.
This initiative has been widely welcomed as a practical step towards promoting women’s education in the province.
Furthermore, it raises a critical question for the community: who should be regarded as the true heroes of the Baloch nation? Is it those who enable their daughters to study, equipping them with books, pens, and opportunities to build their future? Or those who exploit young women, depriving them of life and dignity by pushing them into violence for short-term gains?
Moreover, the community leaders and education advocates stress that progress in Baloch society depends on nurturing education and ensuring facilities for students, particularly women, who face added challenges in pursuing higher studies.
In this sense, the provision of the bus service has also sparked conversations about the broader definition of leadership and heroism in Balochistan.
So far, the commentators focus on the fact that the real well-wishers of the nation are those who brighten the lives of the youth through knowledge, rather than those who trade in violence, hatred, and destruction.
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The development at Chakar Khan Rind University is being seen as a symbolic reminder that education, not extremism, is the true path for the progress of Balochistan.
