Need for philanthropists
By Zakir Qadir Shams
Rightly a philosopher states that in life of human beings, there comes a period when they formulate and define their traditions and principles and abide by them .These values, traditions and principles include truthfulness, justice, tolerance and unprejudiced leadership. Then such values take firm root in the society and region, the people begin acting upon them and consequently they are able to lead a happy and peaceful life.
Pakistan is more than half-a-dozen decades old now, but is still refusing to grow up. The drastic issues like illiteracy and poverty are still sandwiched in the region consequently the lack of prosperous utopia. It is impotent to catch up with the developed countries. The pressing issues on the minds of our rulers have been only the country’s ‘security’ concerns and then their petty selfish interests, like the swimming pools and firing ranges in the President House and the Polo grounds in the Prime Minster’s residence etc, which in my understanding, detain them abstracted from unprejudiced leadership and invite chronic poverty.
Poverty is rife in entire Pakistan, more then half of the county’s population is poor and the heaven kissing prices of the daily commodities are soaring day by day which has a significant impact on country’s poor cohort. More and more folks are coming underneath poverty line, who become powerless to bestow their children their future and exclude them from schools to accompany them to the factories and farms, where they assist their parents to support their families. And then their burden of labour increases significantly and will have high rates of illiteracy.
Illiteracy has retrospectively jammed the wheels of the country to move towards progress. The mendacious literacy rate is only found in the official documents. They set down it is 60 per cent but it is totally absurd, in accordance with independent sources and educational experts, it is not more than 26 per cent. We can also conjecture it from the inane buildings of the schools and libraries. The library culture has not been cultivated here. There is no trend of perusing books in our libraries, that’s why in other countries the libraries remain unclosed for 24 hours but ours just for few hours and why they should remain open while there is no lad to visit them?
The young cohort has utterly become the victim of poverty and is always thinking to locate ways to win his bread; the children are selling newspapers and flowers on the road crossings or washing and repairing cars. Then who should cultivate library culture? How can we affirm that the literacy rate is above 60 per cent? And how can we promote it to 100 per cent while our two children out of five go to school and three out of five are so unfortunate that they have never seen the inside of school?
Who should bother to bestow thought upon this tragedy?
These are only discernible to the politician pre-elections; they are ace in disremembering things, when they come into power they’ll have no recollection of these all because they become so bustling in spending more budgets on arms than on the elimination of poverty or cultivation of education.
We own oodles of weapons of destruction but also have a scarcity of teaching materials and food for living. The Creator and Sustainer of the universe has blessed us with fertile land and a large variety of natural resources but the tragic point is that our rulers have not fully utilized them to eradicate poverty or cultivate literacy. They have decorated thousands of school buildings but no equity and quality in education.
We have no good scientists, teachers, industrialists, engineers, academicians and even good doctors, then how can we progress?
No prospect of it can be seen proximate. I obviously want to utter that we will deal and brook the same complexities tell that time when a philanthropic leader becomes a ruler and starts eradicating our these drastic issues which have taken place because of the mismanagement of the wrong politicians. This only can be potential later then a prosperous utopia on this abode.
