Nilgiri
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Thank you @Nilgiri for opening this thread. While this should have opened eyes of my compatriots instead they are more concerned about your nationality while completely ignoring the problem at hand.
This thread is a manifestation of our national behavior that instead of accepting the ground realities we start telling others what is wrong with their country. A section of concerned people will start blaming one govt or the other.
The issue is mostly because of mismanagement in some cases and absence of systems/programs to address this issue. For example, in Thar (Sindh) there is a drought and famine situation. Sindh govt had wheat and medicines for the people affected however the people responsible for ensuring the delivery to people never did so. The wheat got destroyed and medicines expired but never reached the people. This is one of the example.
The second problem is of awareness in our country.
Vaccines, health programs and anything remotely backed up by UN goes under a Mullah's microscope who declares it a conspiracy against the Muslims. You would find how people were made averse to the idea of contraceptive, same is the case with polio drops. Family planning is being looked down upon and women are considered as kid producing machines in poor families.
The good news is that Pakistan has been making progress on corruption perception index...and hopefully that has come from some improvement of results on ground which will continue and accelerate.
There need to be some system of addressing as transparently as possible, those that are in the "middle"/"grey" area of govt...the bureaucracy basically....i.e each elected/selected (however ppl perceive that) administration needs to put political differences aside and reward those that are doing a good job (by all measures)...and punish/fire/replace those that are doing a bad or criminal job even.
Then and only then do crucial institutions take on an inertia of self improvement...so there is even some decent chance for the poorest people of our region to not live so hand to mouth and be devoid of a basic access to dignity.
Otherwise simply, it does not really matter who comes to power and who is out of power etc...because all the action/interest/energy (expended by people that could do something) simply becomes black and white absolute scapegoat/hero complex.
I must note the intrinsic+cultural system of Zakat is very noble one that has done a very good job in Pakistan (and muslim-majority countries in general) to address basic income poverty over time (so much so that Pakistan is below 1% poverty rate in current estimates). But to translate into really addressing the broader persistent forms of poverty, there needs to be a qualitative+institutional focus with of course those blessed to be private individual samaritans (like the hero Edhi) also helping and setting a good inspiring example.
A very interesting thing that I have noticed in India case for example, is in the oxford-undp MPI study, those that have escaped (thankfully) the defined scope of multi-dimensional poverty during the 2006 - 2016 era (estimated about 270 million people or so) are all more or less in the category just above it called "vulnerable to multi-dimensional poverty". So definitely a difference is made (in that they have access more than before to basic things)....but the process to get to proper middle-income zone (where people can finally operate on autopilot broadly in economic terms) is a very long one and likely generational (or even multi-generational) duration in length.
Thus its so key to focus as much as possible on the youngest (from inception itself), because their full life is ahead of them still and thus investment into them (body, mind and soul) is the best investment possible for long term heath, progress and benefit of society.
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