Up to 30 percent still live below the poverty line in Pakistan (Part One)

The ‘Feminization of Poverty’ can be defined as the increase in proportion and what an Islamic state is where every day passing is pushing the populace to more disgusting situation than a day earlier.

Here, less than one per cent of the people have stashed around $100 billion of their ill-gotten money in foreign banks and an overwhelming majority is living like sub-humans and the gap between the rich and the poor has been widening like a galloping horse.

Quite clearly, the dilemma as we know is yet to be overcome and areas such as defence get the better of development.

The more affluent areas are able to deny the less affluent in the name of sustaining themselves and the small change that reaches the marginalized segments is never enough to pull them into the promised mainstream.

Pakistan is certainly the only country which has stepped retrogressively in political and socio-economic conditions whereas all other countries, even those who got freedom much after Pakistan did, have dashed to progress.

Why Pakistan alone is destined to turn its unending problems assume the proportion of crises with the passage of time.

This is manifest from the report of an Islamabad-based NGO and quoted by the media as saying that nearly one-thirds of Pakistan’s population is poor as the incidence of poverty hovers around 33 per cent.

In absolute term 58.7 million people are living below the poverty line in Pakistan out of a population of 180 million.

Interestingly, the report came at a time, when the Planning Commission of Pakistan has worked out the poverty estimates at around 12 per cent.

Ironically, the government has not produced poverty estimates for the past five years although the chapter on poverty used to be an essential part of the annual economic survey.

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