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Background & the Prevailing Circumstances
Pakistan is one of those countries that are trailing far at the back in the areas of socio-economic and human resource development. Country’s Socio-economic indicators declare that 65% people are illiterate, more than 17 million children are out of schools, 60 million people are left without of health facilities, 67 million people have no right to use drinkable water and 89 million are doing without proper sanitation and healthy environment (for table see statistics in annexure). In the face of of this dismal picture that speaks volumes of the depressing state of those who are bound to lead their life in Pakistan, it is more threatening that Pakistan is going to win the honor of being third most populous country in the world. Rapidly rising population is causing cruel competition of winning breads for families consisted of 6 to 10 members. Underage labour is rising day by day. Number of children who are forced to do work are 8-10 millions. Pakistan has witnessed decades of totalitarian darkness. Succession of the repressive dictatorships has created an unbridgeable gap between rich and poor in Pakistan. Coercive military laws have totally damaged the civil society institutions and minimized people’s interest in politics and development. Media, being spokesmen of authority, do not articulate people’s voice. Consequently, Pakistan is leading five South Asian courtiers with huge gap between rich and poor. Middle class, that has proved to be catalyst for change in European countries, has either been wiped out or barely hushed in Pakistan. Resources and power of decision-making have been concentrated in few hands. Self-styled parliaments have never worked with people centered or pro-people policy mode but their approach has always been profit-centered or partisan-centered. Therefore in Pakistan, there is dearth of pro-people institutions. Common people appear to be strangers in their own land and they feel as if they have been ostracized. Rich poor disparity can be seen in statistical facts that ratio of income distribution of top 20% to bottom 20% of the population is 4.7. The income distribution is even more narrowed in thin scale. The top 10% of the population have concentrated 25.2% of the income where the bottom 10 % has access to 3.4 of national purse. Ghost of unemployment is haunting youth of Pakistan. Privatization has snatched purchasing power by spreading the plague of underemployment. Rural areas have their own dismal stories to tell. In Pakistan, more than 96 million people live in rural areas where more than 90% of populace depends on arable land for wining their bread and butter. Out of 96 million souls living in rural areas, only 100,000 own 35% of total fecund land. Bonded labour, prevalent kind of slavery, is in vogue in rural areas and Labour Departments have failed to abolish this plague from the face of Pakistani societyIn Pakistan, ghost of unemployment haunts the educated youth and successive governments have been unable to disentangle them from it. The situation is expected to deteriorate in coming future. Majority of Pakistani youth cannot keep pace with rapidly shifting job market. Our youth is suffering for the myopic decisions of and lack of commitment of the successive governments and self-centered policymakers. Pakistan’s educational and vocational institutes are producing nothing but raw handed people. On finding no honorable means to earn money, the youth becomes hostile towards the very system that has produced them. These young people prove to be easy prey for firebrands and ultra-orthodox people who use them for spreading terror and horror in the opposite political or religious camp. Other, hopelessly commit suicidePakistan is, to some extent, leading the third world courtiers in corruption and per capita external debt. Pakistan has achieved 19 percent increase in corruption perception index in just one year. According to rating done by Transparency International, Pakistan is now 129th in the rank out of 145 countries. In Pakistan, about 45 million people are living below the poverty line; at least 6 million children between the ages of 5-9 are out of school, of the remaining 14 million, only few are enjoying the right for quality education. 40 % of total children are malnourished. Crime wave and suicide rate is alarmingly high, women (even little girls) are falling a victim to fossilized values and customs, ecosystem is in constant danger, forests are vanishing but lack of awareness reigns supreme. Law enforcing agencies are doing great job in Pakistan. In Southern Punjab, during last six months.police have killed more than 15 during extra-judicial violence whereas more than 30 people have been shot dead, 10 women have been raped and 280 convicts have been brutally tortured. Still, it is unfinished picture of Pakistan.
