Adil Najam
Mai Jori Jamali (Mijori) lives in Goth Ghulam Mohammad Jamali. She is an illiterate mother of nine children. She travels 2 kilometers to fetch water for her family. She and her husband farm a small piece of agricultural land. Mai Jori is also a candidate in the Baluchistan Assembly bye-elections for the PB-25 Jaffarabad-1 seat.
Reportedly, she hails from the village/area where, in 2008, three young women were brutally and barbarically buried alive on the pretext of criminal ‘honor killings’ which, in fact, were baighairati personified. Readers would remember how we were all horrified even further when two sitting senators – Israrullah Zehri and Jan Mohammad Jamali – shamed all of Pakistan by actually defended this horrible act in the Senate in the name of ‘culture.’
The PB-25 Jaffarabad-1 (old Nasirabad-1) seat became vacant after the killing of Baluchistan Minister for Excise and Taxation Sardarzada Rustam Jamali and the elections for the seat will be held on March 10. Mai Jori is running for this seat on a ticket from the Awami Party Pakistan, and she appeared before the Returning Officer accompanied by her proposers and seconders and her papers were found complete; her covering candidate, Abdul Karim, also appeared with her.
In this post we will talk about two topics. One is the dearth of technical books in Urdu and second is the dearth of text books in any language by Pakistani authors at undergraduate and graduate level. 
It was first published in 1978 and it used to be one of our text books in First-Year of Engineering(1990). Most of you may know that students in Pakistani Engineering colleges go through 40+ courses in their 4-year degree program but what may surprise you is that none of the text books for these courses are written by Pakistani authros — except for two that I know of. One of them is the bunyaadi (Basic) Engineering Drawing. This was also the only text book written in Urdu which was taught at undergrad level.
