With August 14 approaching fast, Dawn.com would like to know your thoughts on Pakistan and the way forward.
In your opinion, what should be done today to fix the many problems Pakistan faces?
Please give your answer in one sentence along with your name, age, location and profession to qualify for the survey.
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INTROSPECT HONESTLY.
Education.
Education, education.
Punishing wrong doers without descrimination
The list is long and the task daunting but here goes in no particular order – root out corruption and put real accountability in place, impelment real education reforms at every level from primary to PhD levels, enact real land reforms, seriously stem the uncontrolled population growth, increase the tax collection manifold, find a way to bring back the original values of the people of this area and root out the foreign extremist ideologies systematically spread over the last 30 years.
M. Khan
46
IT Engineer
Virginia, USA
There are two most important issues need to be dealt with today:
1. Unity among the nation to create a nationalism that does not exist today. That is a job for a very strong leader.
2. Education Education and Education on all levels however very important to establish vocational education and move that in to higher level education this will only happen slowly.
I hope someone in the government leadership ready this.
Ramadam Mubarak.
Mohammed Murad
1, Provide better education to yonger generation.
2, Forget kashmir for ever
3, Don’t allow army and ISI as policy makers
4, Act as a responsible nation to the world,stop the denial
5, Allow democracy for a while
A secular, social revolution.
Satori
45
London
Finance Executive
By the way, as you have noticed, it’s difficult to answer the question in one sentence !
Every citizen should be PAKISTANI First & stick to democracy, allow it to grow.
Universal scientific education.
Must confront the true problems faced by the country, rather live in denial.
Atleast turn around the 50% of the defence spending in to ur education, that will make a big big difference in pakistan growth in a decade.
Absolutely!
The youth of pakistan needs to rise and start a peaceful campaign against corruption, religious extremism and ethnic intolerance. I think PTI chief Imran Khan’s “Jaag Utho” campaign is just what we need to start with. The youth of pakistan is honest,proud,energatic and peace loving.
We must remind ourselves what Quid-e-Azam,Liaqat Ali Khan and Allama Iqbal had in mind for pakistan and ofcourse not forgetting tens of thousands of those who gave the ultimate sacrifice before and after
the creation of pakistan.
Give democracy a chance to grow till the time comes that the decisions of war and peace are made by the elected politicians.
only 4 things needed and I bet Pak’s flag will be more greener than now.
1>tackle law and order.
2>electricity
3>roads
4>water.
that’s it. can u do it ???
When the system is there, these things are automatically addressed…
We need to get rid of corrupt politician which is the big problem Pakistan is facing.
one child family can bring around Pakistan like nothing else. look at China.
Successful nations have long term strategy to manage and run their countries, we have short term tactics (almost an hourly based) to manage the country. Three things can change Pakistan for the better, 1- Have a strategy and direction, 2- Competent people at the decision making positions, 3- not just Education but a better education system (your current budget for education is 5 billion Rs out of 2700+ billion budget).
Sajjad Khan
CEO
KSA
1) Respect women, empower them, give equal freedom –> without this nothing is gonna work out
2) Some correction in laws needed
3) be tolerant –> respect all religion
4) Give proper syllabus in schools
5) Powerful civilian government which the military will listen to and adhere
6) Wipe out violence lovers
7) control population –> no need to reduce it though
8) Spend more on education and agriculture.
and all those educated people who have left Pakistan and are enjoying their lives abroad. come back and be part in eradicating all menace in Pakistan not just running away from reality and talking bad things about our country when abroad.
Support Pakistan Tehreek-e-insaf
There is so much to say.Here are some suggestions that instantly come to the mind
1. Population control
2. Education for both sexes
3. Safeguarding womens rights
4. Job reservations foe women
5. Gradually reducing Punjabi dominance in Government and armed forces
6,. Change in thinking. Solving the Kashmir issue will not turn Pakistan into a land of milk and honey.
7. The government should stop catering for religious fundamentalism.
8. Respect and safeguard the rights of minorities.
9. Allow only people with clean records to fight elections.
10. Make a serious effort to fight all pervading corruption.
The list is endless and nothing new. What is needed is acceptance of shortcomings and action to redeem them.
THIS IS A TALL ORDER IN THE SUB-CONTINENT.
1. Send the army to the barracks and disband ISI.
2. Become a moderate Islamic country and respect other faiths.
3. Promote free trade with India and kick start the economy.
4. Forget Kashmir for 50 years. It brought only misery to millions on both sides of the border
5. Never lose hope. Good days will come. Pakistan will one day become a pure state.
6. Long live Pakistan
1. Education, look at future more educated we are better we can fight with ignorance and more we understand our religion.
2. Right people at right places from top to bottom i.e. our FM has degree in hotel management and she is our foreign minister.
3. Investing in the Research and Development in all fields including IT, agriculture, transportation, science, technology etc this will enable us to have good future at the expense of present.
4. Exploring our Nature resources and using it them to meet our needs.
5. Improving our current tax system on more tax on rich and relief on poor. Currently its other way around.
6 Law and Order, very important, by police must be equip with modern machinery and weapons and also by making a chamber of Scholors from all Sects (Shia, Sunni etc) in the religious Ministry so we have one unique ruling against any thing.
7. Closing down all Madrasas and include that education in Schools.
8. Improve the education system in Pakistan having joint ventures with the private schools so all students have same education.
I know its easy to say but difficult to implement but if we all work together we can achieve all the above. No developed nation was developed from the beginning they worked hard and so as we Inshallah
1) Shariah should be the law in Islamic Republic of Pakistan.
2) Get rid of all the present and previous corrupt leaders and dissolve all parties.
3) More involvement of educated people in elections.
4) Give Baluchistan its rights. And sorry we cannot forget Kashmir as its ours. why cant India instead of asking us to forget Kashmir hand it over to us and all the rest will be fine.
5) Good relationship with our neighbors.
6) We need to be honest as citizens in whatever we do. The government needs to be honest as well as caring for people.
7) Support our military in eradicating terrorists from our country. as they have given too many lives for our country and we owe them a huge debt.
8) Bring patience, virtues, self-belief, honour, dignity from within and that can be done when we follow Islam properly. The law can only be supreme when its Islamic. so implement Islamic law and not British made law that we change as per our taste.
9) Be fair to all and do justice as well as provide shelter to women and give them their rights as Pakistan has been declared the worst place for women. change this fact.
10) Respect all and God will give you respect.
I love the passion with you say “Kashmir is ours”. Wonder if you could see the other sides perspective and realize that your nebouring secular nation via its constitution grants equal rights to all its citizens and its citizens find it bizare that a part of its country could be given away just because in that particular area there is a majority of people who follow same religion as yours.
Its not because ‘people follow the same religion’, its because the rules established by British Raj at the time of partition were not followed in the Kashmir state.
By the same token when Nizam of Hyderabad joined Pakistan, India stormed the state and annexed it in a military action …. Why was Hyderabad annexed into India ‘just because the people there followed the same religion as rest of India? If that argument is valid then Pakistan has every right to support Kashmiris.
If Hyderabad was taken because the populace there wanted to join India then by the same token populace in Kashmir wants to join Pakistan.
If India had not made it a pride issue and had dealt with it honestly we would have been peaceful neighbors all this time, progressing economically.
R. Shah
Well said.
It will take much more than one sentence to cure what has taken decades to destroy..
Start by doing whatever is your own responsibility. Fix ourselves, fix the country.
Every 2 years half of parliament should come up for re-election so the politicians have to face public every 2 years. Also Those parties should not be allowed to contest election as a party if they do not have internal elections under neutral observation.
1.Provide good education to young generation.
2.Eliminate extremism.
3.Build better ties with India.
4.Keep ISI and Army away from international affairs.
To improve the ‘halaat’ in Pakistan, much awareness is needed. The basic step would be to have corruption-free leaders and to implement a good tax system in the country given that the masses also pay. Further use the money from the tax in the betterment of Pakistan and help create jobs for the “awaam”.
A lot of education, awareness, job opportunities and better monthly salaries are needed to have a Better Pakistan.
Mariam Jamshed
27, Norway.
Trend Analyst.
1] Have true democracy
2] Educate
3] Religion should be a matter of the individual and not of the state
4] Use Kashmir as an umbilical cord/a bridge to connect the hearts,minds & souls of our two nations. Let
Kashmir become a obsession/a reason, to get us closer.
LET US NOT FORGET THAT WE ARE BROTHERS
Actually we are neighbors, not brothers.
Forget Kashmir. That’s the only way.