Author: Maryam Ghulam Jan
Poverty refers to the lack of basic needs such as food, clothes, shelter, clean water and other all facilities which are needed for a good life. It is one of the biggest problems which most of the countries and people are facing. It kills people’s desires, development even their bodies, and make them to commit suicide.
And Pakistan is ranked among 43 countries that are the most suffering countries of poverty. Almost 40% of the population is living under poverty line.
In 2007, around 35.5 millions people of the population were living under poverty line, but by 2010 a big increase came and it became over 64 millions.
There are a lot of reasons for the poverty of Pakistan which include government bad policies, lack of education, corruption, large scale of import, moral culture, unemployment, increase in interest payments, heavy defence expenditures, low level of development, vested interest of politicians, unstable laws and orders, unstable state welfare institutions, lack of zakat, unstable industrialization and many more.
Pakistan is very behind in education system, in governmental institutions there isn’t any quality educational systems. Unemployment is in very high rate, a lot of professional are unemployed, but the biggest problems are the governmental bad policies and corruption.
In conclusion, it would be better to say that with an individual these problems cannot be solved, the government must take notice, and must do some actions.
There are a lot of solutions, but first the bad policies and corruption must be solved and the government must take some steps because poverty can be a reason for the destruction of a country.
Published in Daily Makran Times
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