Since evolution of civic life on the planet Earth human beings have been facing innumerable issues. Nature of such issues vary from country to country. To be more precise, the variation directly depends on the status of the country. As far as feminism is concerned, intensity of its propagation changes with change in geographical boundaries. In third world countries like Pakistan, idea of feminism does not hold ground when compared with issues that geoparadise their survival. Therefore, it is quite evident that third deals with more severe and serious issues than feminism. The third world countries do not have access to the basic necessities of life. A major piece of evidence is that majority of the third world countries struggle to get clean water and food. There are economic and security issues. Moreover, malnutrition, corruption and misuse of natural resources further the miseries of underdeveloped nations. Leadership has not been able to deliver their promises because of incompetency, insincerity and absence of will to put their government on right track. Third world countries show reluctance when it comes to investing in human capital. This is quite evident from the statistics: continuous increase in unskilled population, ignoring women education increases the burden on the economy and most important of all lack of quality education irrespective of the gender. These are the issues third world countries including Pakistan face. For Pakistan it is high time to take action to curb these issues otherwise future is in serious danger. This is the issue of the entire world not just third world countries because in globalized world prosperity of one nation affects the entire world. World need to come together to fight hunger, corruption malnutrition, ignorance and poverty.
Pakistan's economy was developing during first forty years of its formation while its decline since 90s is crystal clear. Holding just one factor responsible isn't a wise approach. Various factors contributed in her deteriorating economic condition. Relation between market and state is upside-down. Market allocates resources while state equitably distributes them. In Pakistan, both state and market are under the clutches of few elite families. Democracy in Pakistan is used just to cover the dynastic politics of few haves. Political parties are headed by one family; dissent in parties isn't tolerated at all. Biradri system dominates the electoral politics. Politicians manage to grab the votes en bloc rather than enfranchise. That's why same families rule over the downtrodden masses. Then military intervention and imbalance between civil-military relations during democratic government further worsen the situation. At the end all the burde falls on the weak and dow...
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