Problems of Pakistan and their Pragmatic Solution
Social Problems
- Chronic illiteracy
- rampant corruption
- increasing population
- domestic violence
- women victimization
- child labour
- problems of the youth
- generation gap
- fast urbanization
- feudalistic mindset
- conservative thinking
- age-long caste system
- sinking moral values due to foreign culture and media invasion
Political Problems
- Unstable democracy
- incompetent political leaders
- frequent military interventions
- onslaught on judiciary
- absence of accountability
- lack of political education
- curb on media
- religious warlords
- strong feudal lords
- profit oriented industrialist
- distrust between the centre and the provinces
- ethnicity (Balochistan crises)
- quagmire of ‘Front line State
- personalization of politics
- patchworks in the constitution
- jeopardized sovereignty of the state
- crisis of good governance
- distrust among the politicians
Economic deprivation
- Huge Defense budget
- budget deficit
- low industrial
- Declining value of Local Currency
- agricultural production
- high cost of production
- energy crisis
- foreign debts
- discontinuity of reforms
- inflation
- unemployment
- poverty
- trade deficit
- low HDI
- brain drain
- misappropriation of funds
- economic disparity
- consumer market instead of productive market
- negative effects of global business
- Chinese factor
- low FDI
- tax evasion,
- absence of micro financing
- corruption in the state institutions and misappropriation of foreign aid
Pragmatic Solution to Overcome these Problems
Social cures
Awareness by media
Financial security
Social justice
Fulfillment of basic needs
Providing food, cloth, shelter and education
Reforming schools as well as madrassahs education
Role of NGOs
Positive role of scholars and educationists and women
Development programs
Economic cures
Business friendly tax culture
Consistency of economic policies
Maximum incentives to local and foreign investors
Construction of dams
Exploring natural resources
Equal distribution of income
Strict accountability on fund utilization
Technical and research based education (more budget for education)
Search for new markets
Seeking peace to lower down defense budget
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