Thursday 3 May 2018

The renaming game


I would like to thank Captain Safdar Saa’hib & all of our august parliamentarians who are responsible for changing the name of Quaid-e-Azam University’s physics department. It is a very farsighted initiative which should have been taken many years ago but better late than never.
The news is that upon the instigation of the dear Captain (nothing to do with the dead poet society and rationality), the name of Quaid-e-Azam University’s physics department has been changed from some Dr. Abdus Salam to a renowned physicist Kaifi Azmi.  This is our greatest achievement in the field of physics since that infidel Zionist agent Dr. Abdus Salam won us a Nobel Prize. The initiative will immensely contribute to the field of physics in fact it will outdone the theory of relativity or any other landmark achievement in the field of physics ever made or will ever be made. It will have far reaching impact on the local physics scene as it will surely improve the quality of science education in the country because you do not need teachers, labs, home-grown role models or encouragement to opt for science; mere a change of name can do that for you. All these years we lagged behind in science especially physics because the physics department of our most prestigious university was named after some pygmy but now everything will change as Azmi will bring the azmat (glory) or more precisely azmat-e-rafta (past glory). While we are playing the renaming game, the national assembly should be called Capone, NAB should be called Nawaz Sharif, and cricket should be called gulli danda.