All of us admire one or the other person who made his name and fame in this world with his hard work and other physical or nonphysical traits. Such people of a nation are called role models for the youth of the nation.

Such role model personalities are available in every time and clime and in almost every department of human life. As such, these can be found in sociopolitical, scientific, or humanities fields. Youth admire such people and wish to inculcate all such characteristics of head and heart among them so that they could also maintain the same status or find the similar kind of love or success.

But these days because of the multiple influences of colonization, postcolonial and globalization, the youth in Pakistan has begun to look towards the likes of Steve Jobs, Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg or Bill Gates because of the most probable and misunderstood dearth of any such mega personalities in our country.

Muslim history is replete with role models which have been venerated over time but unfortunately only warriors and fighters have been presented as role models while ignoring the contributions of socialists, psychologists, scientists and travelers and if at all they were mentioned, were done so only as a passing reference. The world has gone much ahead where only warriors were eulogized. Now the world has a different protocol of role models.

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