Pakistan is a very rich fertile country having plenty of cultivable land, talented people, minerals, deposits, forestry, and rich fishery but its knowledge economy and socio -economic growth are worsening day by day and miseries of the people are increasing tremendously. The issue of law and order, devaluation of currency, growing unemployment, increasing poverty, energy crisis, low per capita income, poor educational and health facilities and imbalance in trade and payments are some most burning issues, which is certainly the outcome of our poor and incapable barren leadership.

Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah and Allama Dr. Mohammad Iqbal dreamed to have a separate country for the Muslims community only to see them independent, prosper, qualified and self sufficient in all respect. Deprivation of the Muslim Community from education, employment, and human resource development and income generation remained an issue to be resolved before the two Muslim leaders of the Muslim Community. Therefore, their continuous efforts and fight gave birth to a separate independent country for the Muslims in the form of this great country “Pakistan”. Despite various burning issues of the newly independent country in 1947 like, settlement of the immigrants, lack of job opportunities, poverty, poor industrialization, energy crisis, lack of capital and investment, scarcity of food and lack of educational and health facilities and transportation etc., were the most challenging problems before the leadership, but the true and sincere visionary leadership of Quid-i- Azam, very wisely and boldly took decisions and formulated immediately planning policies to settle the issues appropriately within the shortest possible time. The efforts made and planning policies formulated under his brilliant and charismatic leadership brought a good change within a year, but the sudden death of the Quid -i- Azam in 1948 left a gap of sincere and visionary leadership, which is not yet been filled appropriately till this day.

In almost all the developed and developing countries a sincere, charismatic and visionary leadership have always played a vital role in bringing revolutionary changes through their planning policies, knowledge based economy and have substantially made an exemplary progress within the shortest possible time. China, Malaysia, Iran, Turkey, UAE, South Korea and Saudi Arabia are the most recent examples bringing socio -economic prosperity, stability and development through their knowledge based economy for their people under the gigantic leadership of their countries.

Pakistan also once witnessed a revolutionary change from 1958 to 1968 under the leadership of President Mohammad Ayub Khan. The almost 10 year’s gap of socio -economic and political deterioration from 1948 to 1958 was covered up by him through his appropriate planning policies and visionary and sincere leadership.

His true charismatic leadership certainly brought an industrial and agriculture revolution in the country and provided better employment opportunities and an appropriate educational and health system with an increasing per capita income in the country. The country was rapidly moving towards socio -economic prosperity and stability in a record shortest time period with great achievements. His era has proved that if sincere leadership is provided, the land of Pakistan is very fertile to bring drastic positive revolutionary changes.

But unfortunately after his deposition, the country never got a good sincere and visionary leader and since then the country is under great turmoil and hardships. The talented and highly qualified people of the country have already been kept deprived of even their basic rights and the fertile land of the country is still barren to feed the poor nation. The increasing brain drain, under utilization of the human capital, growing out flow of the capital and the issue of law and orders are such issues, which is certainly the outcome of lacking sincere and honest leadership in the country.

The low literacy level, growing poverty, low per capita income, inflationary spiral, energy crises, the poor law and order situation and unfavorable balance of trade and payments are the outcomes of our weak and unstable trade, investment, monetary, fiscal and industrial policies, which has almost collapsed the socio economic condition of the country. The prices of almost all the daily use house hold items have been increased ten times, while the per capita income of the household has been declined five folds. Increasing Unemployment and open violation of merit in recruitments has pushed the young generation to commit suicides and also to get involved in the terrorist and subversive activities against their own country.

The reason is that today, more than 60% of our young graduates are wandering in streets in search of jobs and are knocking at the doors of the corrupt politicians to buy jobs for their livelihoods and hardly 10% succeed in getting jobs either on cash payment to the corrupt politicians or on the basis of their approaches, political affiliations and nepotism. Thousand such examples can be quoted, where low merit and less qualified people and having bad reputation have been directly appointed on key positions but meritorious, hard workers, honest and highly qualified candidates have been deprived from their due appointments. It is not only the issue of unemployment, low income and inflationary spiral but numerous other issues like the growing corruption, exploitation of the poor’s and lack of justice have further been pushed the country at the verge of collapse, due to lack of sincere and charismatic leadership in the country.

Today most of our country leaders are under qualified and are lacking visionary aptitude either having fake degrees or degrees without knowledge, skill and vision. Leading and ruling the country with fake degrees with out appropriate substantive vision is the height of dishonesty, cheating and deceiving the nation.

Almost most of our parliamentarians and so called leaders, who were assigned quite responsible ministries and positions in the past democratic governments were either having fake degrees or degrees without knowledge and visions, which certainly indicate lack of their visions and poor knowledge to run the country affairs more appropriately and honestly. It is indeed the worse form of leadership which certainly made the country at the verge of collapse in all respect. Because almost all such under qualified and blind MNA’s and MPA’s lacking vision and leadership qualities have not only very brutally looted the country’s wealth but have very openly violated merit at every stage, depriving the poor’s from their genuine rights and by favouring illegally their near and dears every where. All the institutions and ministries under their command and control have totally been destroyed and have been made unstable permanently.

Despite all the corruption made by them, unfortunately, those entire well off MNA’s, Senators and MPA’s having good connections with the decision making high ups are still dreaming to be the leaders of this poor country in future as well.

They have always fully enjoyed their 5 years tenure with all the corruptions and injustices they have done in the past and are still enjoying even the portfolios of leading the country.

Ironically, how do we expect that this country will achieve the objective of knowledge economy, prosperity, socio -economic development, stability and peace and security under the command of such leaders? I doubt that they are not even familiar with the concept of knowledge economy and basic needs of the society. (To Be Continued)

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