Brilliance of 13-year old boy's 'Statesmen' now in book stores.

KARACHI -- A nation seeks to find some boosters when they are in the state of despair. When the media is pre-occupied with sensation and mass hysteria, confusion and disinformation, there to find such a news that a 13-year old boy, Syed Muhammad Saleh, hailing from Karachi, has compiled a book, which is about 196 countries across the world and their relevant key features, is a moment for a respite in this politically-charged environment .

Before getting into the distinctive features of the book, let us take a minute to realize how important and commendable step Saleh has taken, at a time when book reading is regarded as a herculean task, leave alone authoring it. When a teenager is expected to be indulged in squandering his/her time on social media and all the related negative aspects of it, Saleh was brave enough to realize that the precious time, which he had at his disposal, could be utilized for something productive.

This does not mean to demean or play down the extra-curricular activities which a young blood is ought to participate, however, sporting activities make into the headlines, but does authoring a book can be in the spotlight? This may answer our priorities and a line of action we have taken as a nation anticipating what the future would be like.

The book titled 'Statesmen' is a compilation of invaluable insights about the geographies, population and some other useful information which may help historians, researchers and journalist to take as a prelude to initiate any thorough research of countries which they want to discover and dissect their various facets.

Sharing details of his struggle, Saleh said that since the outbreak of Covid-19, he took the responsibility over himself to do a research-based-work on the countries and did not rely on just scattered information on the internet, which many times lacked veracity.

He said that he checked from multiple sources before incorporating it into his final draft. He went on to add that the book has 196 pages attributed each to a single country, therefore a reader would remain not distracted or feel less...