Empowering Women Empowering Economy on March 7, 2017Empowering women is the key to social and economic development in the world. In today’s world, around49.6 percent of the world’s population is female, giving a total female population of around 3.52 billion in the world as of 2014. Pakistan needs to take serious step for women’s participation in overall national economy because according to […]
Hunger in Pakistan on October 18, 2016“Our world is one of the terrible contradictions. Plenty of food, but one billion people go hungry. Lavish lifestyles for a few, but poverty for too many others. Huge advances in medicine while mothers die every day in childbirth, and children die every day from drinking dirty water. Billions spent on weapons to kill people […]
Barriers for socio-economic development on August 29, 2016Political upheaval, collapsing educational institutions, rising income inequality, terrorism, lack of good governance, unemployment, rampant institutional corruption, energy crisis and health are some of the leading challenges in Pakistan. Good governance is the mainstay for development of any country as it is accredited with general public welfare, health, education, standard of living, endowment of basic […]
Poverty: how I have seen it on August 7, 2016World Bank defines poverty in these words: “Poverty is hunger. Poverty is lack of shelter. Poverty is being sick and not being able to see a doctor. Poverty is not having access to school and not knowing how to read. Poverty is not having a job, is fear for the future, living one day at […]
Gender disparities in rural Pakistan on April 21, 2016To have an adequate appreciation of the far-reaching effects of disparities between women and men, we have to recognise the basic fact that gender inequality is not one affliction, but many with varying reach on the lives of women and men and of girls and boys. — Amartya Sen Gender disparity is global phenomenon, but […]
Gender insight in Pakistan on February 24, 2016The proportion of women in Pakistan is around 53 percent; even though they are in the majority they are living very miserable lives. The rural as well as urban woman in Pakistan has so much talent and aptitude but the predicament is that in a male dominated society, women’s abilities have been culled. Their potentials […]
Horrid state of education in Sindh on July 30, 2015Education is one of the essential mainstays of development and prosperity. It is a moral obligation of the state to ensure this fundamental right to all citizens. For centuries, human beings have been committed to education and knowledge. Socrates once said: “The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.” Plato once said: […]
Alarming state of education in Pakistan on August 25, 2013Education is a global human right and every country has a moral obligation to afford its citizens access to at least a basic one. Sadly, Pakistan’s education system is on the verge of collapse. According to a survey, approximately seven million children are not in primary school and half of the children aged 6-16 are […]