Pakistan was established in 1947 and since its inception, it has been surrounded by countless issues including but not limited to ill-formed/missing infrastructure, insufficient refined resources, barren or obsolete factories and technologies, imposed conflicts at Kashmir and other fronts and an ever-ready enemy to underscore all the efforts towards progress.
Despite it being rich on raw resources, thus far Pakistan is a developing country with limited development in every era due to the problems it faces.
Statistics shows that poverty has increased roughly from 30% to 40% during the past decade. Consider that if 40%of a country’s population is living below the poverty line in which the people are deprived of basic necessities of life such as clothing, shelter, food, education and medication, such families and their children will be forced to think of their survival only.
Pakistan has officially 50 percent literacy rate which means half of its population is illiterate. With such family backgrounds, inflation, poverty and child labour this rate is expected to increase in future. Even for those who are termed as “literate” are only able to read and write, which in today’s technology oriented world is still considered as illiterates.
It is interesting to note that due to the international interference and manipulation the very same people that we label as corrupt just some time ago, blame and rebuke, come back to govern us after a couple of years again and people welcome them with open arms.
This is probably also the main reason why the political process in Pakistan is not let to prosper. Soon after its inception the sincere and loyal politicians were removed from the mainstream and only dummy agents and rubber stamps were put in place, while all the decisions are made outside the country.
MADIHA SAFDAR
Lahore
