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An ICXer in Peshawar

SEP 01, 1960
Louis R. Weber

“We so often tend to think of economic growth, to which we are all devoted, as an end in itself. It’s not. It’s a means to an end. The end is human betterment, human welfare,…greater intellectual freedom; greater opportunity to develop the individual and dignity of the individual, that man can become more creative; that his talent which his Creator has given him can be utilized…. We are trying to make a tangible advance down the road which leads to a finer human person in Pakistan—in the villages, in the cities, in the towns….” These remarks by Director James S. Killen at the end of a 4‐day All Mission ICA conference in Karachi in April 1959 more than justified our having joined four months earlier the Colorado State University Party at the University of Peshawar, a university which only came into existence in 1950.

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References

  1. 1. L. R. Weber, Phys. Today 6, No. 9, p. 4 (September, 1953).https://doi.org/PHTOAD

  2. 2. W. Churchill, The Story of the Malakand Field Force (Longmans, Green & Co., 1899).

  3. 3. Since the writing of this article the Commission’s report has been made and intense efforts are being made to have some of the major reforms effected with the 1960–61 school year.

  4. 4. Within the last year the government has been organized under a basic democracy system with Field Marshall Mohammad Ayub Khan elected as its first president.

More about the authors

Louis R. Weber, Colorado State University.

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