I often see people on QL accuse pakistanis' of 'turning a blind eye' to their internal problems and proclaiming pride for small achievements. to those, i say, please dont bother with this thread.
for those who have an open mind, being a pakistani, i can say that there are many problems in our country and we know what it is like to struggle against them. based on my personal experiences, i will mention a couple.
unfortunately pakistan is still a feudal society. feudalism has blocked progress and development in semi-urban and rural areas (70% of Pakistan). the biggest feudal lord is the president of pakistan these days. if we could get rid of feudalism (india did so), we could take power from a couple and distribute it to many. one wonders how? is there an infrastructure there? yes, in the entire rural region, there is a panchaiayat system (punjab/sindh) and jirga system (blaoch/nwfp). both are, in essence, very similar to the county system in Britian which is manageable and practical.
the second problem that i have come across is the interest-based banking system. there is a big population of people whose forerfathers took small loans and thanks to the compound interest system, the 3rd generation is still paying it back. for instance, say, your grand father took 100 rupees as a loan to buy a bull for ploughing the field. he could not pay it back as the amount doubled in no time. with the currrent interest system, you will be paying over a million back. what is the solution? we need to revise the banking system now. i know a step was taken by the state bank in pakistan recently that every bank had to set aside some form of quota for islamic banking http://www.financeinislam.com/article/6_31/1/431.
these problems are not unique to pakistan, efforts to fight them maybe are. all we need is proper leadership to help efforts yield. we do not have certain societal issues there such as racism. why not, because there is only one race there. we dont have 'caste-ism' in our society. i never knew the family names of most of my friends. it does not mean anything really if you are a cheema or chaudhry or hashmi. the only undertone is of provencial identities (i am punjabi or balochi etc). even that is not huge. i will write more..
I often see people on QL accuse pakistanis' of 'turning a blind eye' to their internal problems and proclaiming pride for small achievements. to those, i say, please dont bother with this thread.
for those who have an open mind, being a pakistani, i can say that there are many problems in our country and we know what it is like to struggle against them. based on my personal experiences, i will mention a couple.
unfortunately pakistan is still a feudal society. feudalism has blocked progress and development in semi-urban and rural areas (70% of Pakistan). the biggest feudal lord is the president of pakistan these days. if we could get rid of feudalism (india did so), we could take power from a couple and distribute it to many. one wonders how? is there an infrastructure there? yes, in the entire rural region, there is a panchaiayat system (punjab/sindh) and jirga system (blaoch/nwfp). both are, in essence, very similar to the county system in Britian which is manageable and practical.
the second problem that i have come across is the interest-based banking system. there is a big population of people whose forerfathers took small loans and thanks to the compound interest system, the 3rd generation is still paying it back. for instance, say, your grand father took 100 rupees as a loan to buy a bull for ploughing the field. he could not pay it back as the amount doubled in no time. with the currrent interest system, you will be paying over a million back. what is the solution? we need to revise the banking system now. i know a step was taken by the state bank in pakistan recently that every bank had to set aside some form of quota for islamic banking http://www.financeinislam.com/article/6_31/1/431.
these problems are not unique to pakistan, efforts to fight them maybe are. all we need is proper leadership to help efforts yield. we do not have certain societal issues there such as racism. why not, because there is only one race there. we dont have 'caste-ism' in our society. i never knew the family names of most of my friends. it does not mean anything really if you are a cheema or chaudhry or hashmi. the only undertone is of provencial identities (i am punjabi or balochi etc). even that is not huge. i will write more..