WHAT if we built a nation where education meant memorizing without questioning, where infrastructure was a luxury not a right and where civic sense was optional but still asked, “Why is extremism rising?” What if we taught children to compete, not to collaborate? To win, not to wonder? To obey, not to think? And then we wondered why they grew up either indifferent or radicalized? What if we never built libraries, but flooded the streets with tuition centers? What if we never taught ethics, but drilled formulas and dates into young minds until they forgot how to feel?

And then we ask, where did this mindset come from? It came from us. Take a drive down Islamabad highway. Observe the motorcyclist weaving through the fastest lane, helmetless and lawless. We shake our heads and say “no discipline.” But who built this culture of shortcuts? It’s us. We dump garbage outside........

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