Sir: Our population has exceeded 220 million growing at the two percent rates showing in 2017 census and due to which our country’s name is among the highest growing population of the world. Such rapid population growth makes the country more susceptible to various challenges prevailed from poverty, unemployment and energy crises to the issues of homelessness and transportation. Presently, around four million youth of the country is unemployed and the number will reach upto 8.2 million till 2020 according to estimates if the population growth rate remains same and the government fails to provide jobs to the unemployed youth of the country.
Thomas Robert Malthus postulated a theory in 1890s that can help Pakistan out of its present multifaced crises that mainly linked to population in some way or the other. The policy makers of the country should revisit that theory and then they should plan for combating other challenges of the country. Otherwise, the government will end up nowhere in the last if it fails to tackle the issue of population.
ALI HASSAN
Mandi Bhauddin
As Pakistan reels from the latest round of by-elections, the specter of electoral malpractice looms…
In the intricate ballet of Pakistani politics, where every gesture and word is a move…
Stretching back several decades, the bond between Beijing and Islamabad is both old and strong.…
A fresh cycle of controversies has marked the end of yet another chapter in the…
The rogue state of Israel, after unprecedented devastation in Gaza, seems determined to expand the…
Leave a Comment