Poverty vs Expenditures of Pakistani Ministers

Pakistan is 15th poorest country of south Asia, and it has 96 ministers, a very ironical condition in which Pakistanis are suffering. More interestingly, these 96 ministers and advisers spend 90.7 billion rupees every year as their expenditures.

If we try to compare our self with other countries like in china, there is huge population of 1.33 billion people and they have only 14 ministers, similarly UK has only 12 cabinet ministers.

Poverty in Pakistan is at its alarming condition, especially in rural areas as two third of population lived in rural areas, where most of them depend on agriculture for their livelihood. In Pakistan most people have lack of health care, pure drinking water, quality food, education and other all services.

According to Pakistan’s planning commission, poverty rate has jumped from 23 percent to 37.5 percent. This commission reported that in 2005, 35.5 million people live under the poverty line and in 2008, over 64 million are living under the poverty line.

Moreover, 40 present of population live in the slum areas. Inflation and shortage of commodity as well as living standers becoming lower every day. People of Pakistan do not have sufficient amount of money, facing the problems of hunger, lack of shelter as well as unable to treat their disease. People are forced to sale their kidneys to eliminate their poverty.

If we see the other side, our ministers are living luxurious life, nearly 62 billion rupees are spent for ministers’ salary every year and 2070 air tickets are issued for them while each of them get Rs100000 monthly under cell phone and telephone expenditures.

Ministers have 50,000 units of free electricity per year for the last four years. Expenses on ministers’ hostelling, residence and on other things will be about millions of rupees.

This lavish spending on misters luxuries is not suitable when we see the worst condition of our poor country. Ministers are enjoying the all facilities of life while people of Pakistan are going to become poorer and poorer day by day. This is a very alarming and threatening condition.

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Posted by Zeeshan Gohar on Apr 25 2012. Filed under Pakistan, Politics. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.