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Poverty, unemployment fuel terrorism

Prof. Dr. Asmatullah Khan


Pakistan is at the worse stage of unemployment, poverty and socio -economic devastation. The reason is that the country is without sincere leadership and fair accountability system. The open corruption, ill planning policies, energy crisis, delay in justice and lack of quality education and proper innovative research have made the country at the verge of collapse.
“According to the Transparency International Corruption Perception Survey conducted in 2012, corruption and bad governance caused over Rs. 18 trillion losses to the nation, while Pakistan dropped from the 47th to the 35th position on the most corrupt countries list from 2008 to 2012.
In regard to the provincial governments, the TIP noted that the Punjab, which has been the most corrupt in the 2008 survey, has emerged as the least corrupt during these years; where as there has been rampant corruption in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Baluchistan and Sindh. According to the National Corruption Perception Survey conducted in 2010, the Punjab was ranked as the least corrupt province, while Khyber Pakhtunkhwa emerged as the most corrupt province”. Where corruption is common and commission and bribe is claimed as a legal right, there, economic development and human prosperity will remain at stake, because, priorities of the governmental machinery have been changed.
Therefore under such poor and corrupt governance, the economic issues like, inflation, unemployment, poverty, energy crisis, low industrial and agricultural productivity, poor investment, imbalance in export and import, low per capita income and unfavorable balance of payment is the definite and certain outcomes. The growing inflationary spiral and unfavorable balance of payments are the results of our weak and unstable trade, investment, monetary, fiscal and industrial policies, which has almost collapsed the socio economic situation of the country and living of the poor’s are quite miserable. 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 on account of growing unemployment and businesses deterioration. 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 people.
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 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 have been directly appointed in the previous coalition government but meritorious and hard workers, honest candidates have been deprived from their due rights of appointment due to which they are in the state of extreme disappointment.
In addition, the poor quality of education and lack of real technical education are other causes of producing thousands of unproductive graduates living as parasites on the already debilitating economy. Today thousands of graduates are having degrees from educational institutions without quality insurance and quality control system.
Such educational institutions are either run only to make money at private sector or to ensure employment as a side business at public sector without any check and balance systems. Such educational institutions generally are having less qualified and inexperienced teachers and poor labs facilities and are mostly working without proper accountability systems.
Most of such institutions are paying salaries to their teachers less than Rs. 6000/ per month and they are running their institutions under semester systems, where teachers are all in all and the students are getting good grades without knowledge, skill and even without attending their classes. Therefore, their graduates are having poor performance in all respect.
The Higher Education Regulatory Authorities have been constituted almost in all provinces but they are usually headed by the irrelevant non professional bureaucrats.
Consequently, such authorities are less effective and are not achieving the desired objectives of quality control and quality assurance.
Therefore, as a result, such educational institutions are having free hands to determine their own fee structure, appointment criteria’s, syllabi, credit hours and awarding degrees and running the institute under their free discretionary powers.
Again thousands of such ghost educational colleges and universities can be seen around us, where only degrees are awarded and huge fee are collected.
Today, the West has declared their educational institutions a rich source for their foreign exchange earnings on account of their quality education.
Educational Institutions even in some Muslim countries including Malaysia, Turkey, Iran, Saudi Arabia are also enjoying good reputation and are attracting a good number of foreign students, which is a good source of foreign exchange earnings for them as well, but unfortunately our educational institutions are declining day by day on account of our poor educational policies and lower standards.
Appointments, and transfers are almost made on political grounds, including the appointments of Vice Chancellors, Principals, and Directors in our educational institutions, such political interferences have adversely affected the quality and standards of our education. (To Be Continued)

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