It's jolly decent of the Bollywood singer Sonu Nigam to offer to help with raising funds for a new boarding school for boys in Karachi called Hub — President Musharraf performed the "earth breaking ceremony" at the proposed site last year.
Businessman and former Pakistani High Commissioner in London Abdul Kader Jaffer recently presided over a dinner in London, where it was revealed that Sonu Nigam, Abida Parveen, the "queen of sufi music", and Fuzon, the Pakistani pop group, would all perform at the fund raising concert at the Royal Albert Hall in London on May 19.
The point about most Indian public schools is that they are so good precisely because their pupils are taught to be (happily) secular (which does not mean being against religion, only against religious bigotry). If the Hub School is to adopt a similar philosophy, then Musharraf and Jaffer are nudging their country in the right direction.
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