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Zaheer Abbas Junejo

NEVER TRUST BLINDLY

Never trust blindly

I Was in my final year


of high school in 2018, and
focus on my field of work
like my uncles and
I had a keen interest in brothers, who were also
studying hard and solving graduates but couldn't find
math problems. Learning any job despite getting ‘’A’’
new things was always grades continuously from
enjoyable for me. However, Matric to intermediate.
a turning point occurred Currently, they are working
when I met some people in scorching heat under the
from my village who rays of the sun. At that
questioned. Why I was moment, I started to
spending my time and my question myself, what they
parents' money on buying were saying was correct,
books and going to the city and considered giving up
for studies. They on my studies.
suggested that I should
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Zaheer Abbas Junejo
NEVER TRUST BLINDLY
When I was enrolled in at the age they should be
school and started going to holding a pen and a paper.
the city regularly, but after It was at this point that a
considering advice of my friend advised me to apply
village peoples I stopped to Sukkur IBA. I was
attending class, and this hesitant as I didn't have
continued until I reached enough money to study in
intermediate. I managed to my own city,
pass my secondary But my friend told me that
examination by copying, in Sukkur IBA offers a
2020, at the age of 18, I scholarship called "STHP."
passed my Intermediate This scholarship program
examination. aimed to select the top 300
I have to accept the bitter students from all over
truth – villagers are cruel Sindh through a test and
peoples. In rural areas, provide them with six
children as young as 8-12 months of free education at
years old work in the fields Sukkur IBA, along with free
with tools and instruments, stationery, hostel

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Zaheer Abbas Junejo
NEVER TRUST BLINDLY
accommodation, and a Encouraged by my friend's
monthly stipend of 4000 advice, I decided to go to
rupees. At first, I laughed at Sukkur IBA. The
the idea of being selected experience was a game-
among 300 students, as I changer for me as it taught
didn't even know what a me the real importance of
scholarship was. However, education. Education is not
my friend insisted that I just about getting a good
take the exam and gain job or position; it's about
experience. The exam gaining awareness and
experience was hilarious values of humanity. The
because I could only real value of education is
answer 30 out of 100 that it makes you
questions correctly when I independent. Looking
checked the answer key. back, I regret the two years
To my surprise, I was I spent aimlessly, taking
selected for the scholarship the advice of people from
program, and I received the my village without much
acceptance letter. thought.

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