Pakistan after 62 years and overview of today’s problem

On 14th august 1947 two states emerged as independent countries from one single nation. One of them was pledged to be the land of peace and harmony and where the laws of Allah will be followed. Like all newly founded nation this nation was faced with some early crisis but somehow it emerged as a prosperous state which was on the road of development. As years passed it turned from an agricultural country to semi industrial country and many reforms were introduced. But along with all the development several problems were arising. Most of them were due to the growing power and economy. Better standards of life were introduced and naturally everyone desired to get the best of these luxuries.

A system of hierarchy was formed in Pakistan: an upper class which possessed immense wealth and power; a lower class which labored away in poverty and substandard conditions and a middle class having some facilities and not others. The upper class hoarded all the wealth while the lower classes worked all their lives to gain nothing. This desire to get power and wealth than gave rise to corrupt rulers who lacked in education and skills required to run a country and wanted to acquire wealth and property by hook or crook. Corrupt rulers lead to corrupt ministries to corrupt administrators to corrupt workers and hence the entire society was based on corruption.

Pakistan, a state made to free the Muslims pf the subcontinent so that they could develop in all fields of life and their rights will be given. In this very country we see no development in any field of life and no rights are given to anyone. In every department there is an immense amount of negligence. Electricity for instance is a major issue nowadays. One would ponder that in 62 years a country was not able to develop a system to generate electricity and the people in charge believe that they could use the few dams they had built to generate electricity forever.

Water another major problem. In 62 years a proper system of water supply and sanitation could not be developed. Even after 62 years the people of this country are forced to drink unhygienic and unclean and mixed with sewage.

The greatest issue of them all; food. An agro based country cannot even produce enough food to feed its own people. In 62 years agriculture has developed in such a way that the people of this country are unable to get wheat, rice, maize and meat. And the prices of food have gone sky high.

Education, so what else is new? Except for the fact that in 62 years the syllabus and pattern if papers has hardly changed. Students are forced to give an exam which requires rote learning rather than intellect. And the system of taking exams is so poorly developed that students are not even provided with staplers to join their sheets.

Politics by far the most wildly discussed topic. Who is in power? Who will be the president, the prime minister, ministers, member of assemblies? A government with so much diversity as the Malaysian culture. One government to be made from six seven diverse political parties, with different views, who have no mood to cooperate with each other and have no intention to improve the conditions of this country. All they rely can do is make hollow promises. Judiciary which is a laughing stock nowadays. What kind of a country are you trying to run where there is no proper system of justice? And whatever happened to the country in which the rights of people will be given, if there is no judiciary than who is supposed to give all these rights? A country with little export and a great deal of smuggling .what would you say about the economy of a country whose import greatly exceeds its export. Provisional separation is another major problem. A country with only 4 provinces cannot work in collaboration for the betterment of this country. Does it really matter if Punjab has the capital of the country or that sindh has sea ports? Why are we so against development in other province when we are the part of the same country? I cold go on and on about the various problems faced by our country because apparently they are too many to count. However I would like to direct the attention towards a problem which is often overlooked i.e. the people of Pakistan. 16 carore population and each person possess different views from others. Yet they tend to follow the views of different political parties which really do not have their interests at heart. I say this because after a party comes into power it does not in anyway improve the standards of the people? What about all the rallies in which the civilians take part and many are killed in terrorist attacks and bomb blasts? (I won’t go on to discuss terrorism in Pakistan because we all are used to it by now so what is the point of discussing it?) So the civilians of this country do not have interest in the betterment of the country. Instead of voicing their ideas they voice the ideas of various political parties. Instead of uniting under a single slogan, they disperse under various political parties. Why that is the people have lost the spirit to do anything for this country. All they can do is sit and discuss all the problems without ever bothering to do something about them. How much longer are we going to sit with our hands in our laps and watch our country get destroyed like silent spectators? In 62 years all Pakistan has become is a corrupt country whose rulers has lost the lust for development and grown hungry for power and whose people have lost the voices and emotions and have become silent dummies. A country which took a wrong turn on road to development and ended on road to destruction.