Most of my conversations with drivers about the problems they face. Invariably, they are concentrated around the numerous deficiencies that the working class has to bear.
On my recent visit, every driver has expressed his frustration with the endless blackouts, most of them imposed by an out-of-control KESC union. Many also spoke of the lack of water in their neighborhoods, as well as their food to raise currency.
To them all, my answer was consistent: when the population rises at the rate they did in Pakistan over the last 50 years, then we suffer from lack of limits. After all, I have discussed, if the population of the country has arisen from 40 million in 1950 to a 190 million hours - a nearly five-fold increase - the availability of water has increased of course by the same rate.
Also, the urbanization rate was also higher than the overall rate of population increase, especially in Karachi. So what else can we expect but the lack of?
The above statistics, the population is just numbers: it's hard to see a five-fold increase of our population over 60 years.
But as a six year old from Karachi in 1950, I remember what seemed like the vast open spaces in Napier Barracks of my childhood, compared with the teeming multitudes, and traffic jams of today, the area I grew up in was a haven of peace and cleanliness. What is true of Karachi is also true for much of the country. Even in the countryside, people seem to be everywhere.Above all, most of them are very young: 42 percent of all Pakistanis are under 14 years old and therefore not contributing to the economy, unless they are forced to work. Add between four and five million to our numbers each year at the rate of around eight children per minute.
Since 2020, there will be 300 million Pakistanis are happy, most of them continuing to do even more children. At 30 percent, Pakistan has the lowest use of contraception in South Asia. Some of these statistics emerged during a recent conference in Karachi to mark the World Population Day and the brand that makes sober reading.
This was just one of occasions that our demographic time bomb has been discussed at a public forum recently. To our politicians and much of our media, the question was simply swept under the carpet. But it remains the elephant in the room.
One problem is that although there is a growing demand for family planning advice among many women, many of our doctors and our other health care providers are reluctant to give their information.They are probably motivated by religious interests, although there is little to indicate that Islam prohibits contraception. However, there is a lobby powerful ignorant clerics who insist that more Muslims there are, the better. Never mind that the vast majority of these believers is the illiterate, malnourished, ill-housed e.
Every time I asked someone asking for my help or ask to feed his or her small tribe of children because they had so many in the first place, I was told: "It is the will of Allah." It's hard to adequately respond to this expression of faith and fatalism, but certainly we have to take responsibility for their actions, rather than the dollar go up to the manufacturer for each aspect of our lives.
In the UK, there are voices being raised hour to place the population at the heart of efforts to help developing countries.Some politicians have questioned the effectiveness of aid when the recipient breed away, thus diluting the impact of foreign assistance.The continuous famine and drought in parts of Africa can be attributed to rapidly growing populations, and the resulting deforestation and desertification caused by intensive agriculture and grazing.
So far, the population was largely a taboo subject, with politicians who maintains that the measures of family affect personal choices.But now that the tax cuts begin to bite, people ask why they should support the social security to large families. Liddle rod, a bitter critic of liberal policies, he asked in a recent column that he, as a taxpayer, should pay for the young, unwed mothers, which produces several children and lives on benefits. He questioned the role of the state in support of a culture so dependent.
Take this line of discussion at a global level, the public and politicians in developed countries may well ask why their taxes should ensure that uncontrolled fertility countries such as Pakistan.Certainly the governments and the media have a role to play in reducing our consistently high rate of population growth.
But while endlessly debating the government fails a lot, I have yet to hear a conversation about the television channels one of our many TV critics Zardari and his government for not having a policy of population planning effective. It seems this issue is simply passed under the radar of our ancorari TV. I suppose a discussion on the demographics would require a bit of research.
More importantly, he needs the courage and honesty. To my mind, most of the political and economic problems we face today can be directly traced to our uncontrolled population increase. With some three million Pakistanis who reach working age every year, there is no way that our economy can absorb them. Nor can our system of education that cater to them creak. The result is a burgeoning population of young, uneducated people with no prospects and no opportunity. This has produced a growing number of Pakistanis frustrated with few options other than drugs, crime and extremism.
And yet, despite the seriousness of the issue, almost completely ignored in Pakistan. Faced with a small but vocal minority with clerics and religious parties, successive governments to make a difference away from public discussion and guidelines for each properly ResourceDir. The result is there for us all to see in the form of numbers and the shortages resulting swarming
On my recent visit, every driver has expressed his frustration with the endless blackouts, most of them imposed by an out-of-control KESC union. Many also spoke of the lack of water in their neighborhoods, as well as their food to raise currency.
To them all, my answer was consistent: when the population rises at the rate they did in Pakistan over the last 50 years, then we suffer from lack of limits. After all, I have discussed, if the population of the country has arisen from 40 million in 1950 to a 190 million hours - a nearly five-fold increase - the availability of water has increased of course by the same rate.
Also, the urbanization rate was also higher than the overall rate of population increase, especially in Karachi. So what else can we expect but the lack of?
The above statistics, the population is just numbers: it's hard to see a five-fold increase of our population over 60 years.
But as a six year old from Karachi in 1950, I remember what seemed like the vast open spaces in Napier Barracks of my childhood, compared with the teeming multitudes, and traffic jams of today, the area I grew up in was a haven of peace and cleanliness. What is true of Karachi is also true for much of the country. Even in the countryside, people seem to be everywhere.Above all, most of them are very young: 42 percent of all Pakistanis are under 14 years old and therefore not contributing to the economy, unless they are forced to work. Add between four and five million to our numbers each year at the rate of around eight children per minute.
Since 2020, there will be 300 million Pakistanis are happy, most of them continuing to do even more children. At 30 percent, Pakistan has the lowest use of contraception in South Asia. Some of these statistics emerged during a recent conference in Karachi to mark the World Population Day and the brand that makes sober reading.
This was just one of occasions that our demographic time bomb has been discussed at a public forum recently. To our politicians and much of our media, the question was simply swept under the carpet. But it remains the elephant in the room.
One problem is that although there is a growing demand for family planning advice among many women, many of our doctors and our other health care providers are reluctant to give their information.They are probably motivated by religious interests, although there is little to indicate that Islam prohibits contraception. However, there is a lobby powerful ignorant clerics who insist that more Muslims there are, the better. Never mind that the vast majority of these believers is the illiterate, malnourished, ill-housed e.
Every time I asked someone asking for my help or ask to feed his or her small tribe of children because they had so many in the first place, I was told: "It is the will of Allah." It's hard to adequately respond to this expression of faith and fatalism, but certainly we have to take responsibility for their actions, rather than the dollar go up to the manufacturer for each aspect of our lives.
In the UK, there are voices being raised hour to place the population at the heart of efforts to help developing countries.Some politicians have questioned the effectiveness of aid when the recipient breed away, thus diluting the impact of foreign assistance.The continuous famine and drought in parts of Africa can be attributed to rapidly growing populations, and the resulting deforestation and desertification caused by intensive agriculture and grazing.
So far, the population was largely a taboo subject, with politicians who maintains that the measures of family affect personal choices.But now that the tax cuts begin to bite, people ask why they should support the social security to large families. Liddle rod, a bitter critic of liberal policies, he asked in a recent column that he, as a taxpayer, should pay for the young, unwed mothers, which produces several children and lives on benefits. He questioned the role of the state in support of a culture so dependent.
Take this line of discussion at a global level, the public and politicians in developed countries may well ask why their taxes should ensure that uncontrolled fertility countries such as Pakistan.Certainly the governments and the media have a role to play in reducing our consistently high rate of population growth.
But while endlessly debating the government fails a lot, I have yet to hear a conversation about the television channels one of our many TV critics Zardari and his government for not having a policy of population planning effective. It seems this issue is simply passed under the radar of our ancorari TV. I suppose a discussion on the demographics would require a bit of research.
More importantly, he needs the courage and honesty. To my mind, most of the political and economic problems we face today can be directly traced to our uncontrolled population increase. With some three million Pakistanis who reach working age every year, there is no way that our economy can absorb them. Nor can our system of education that cater to them creak. The result is a burgeoning population of young, uneducated people with no prospects and no opportunity. This has produced a growing number of Pakistanis frustrated with few options other than drugs, crime and extremism.
And yet, despite the seriousness of the issue, almost completely ignored in Pakistan. Faced with a small but vocal minority with clerics and religious parties, successive governments to make a difference away from public discussion and guidelines for each properly ResourceDir. The result is there for us all to see in the form of numbers and the shortages resulting swarming
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