Mumtaz Khaskheli & Nadeem Wagan

1. Social Problems of Pakistan
and Their Solutions
By Mumtaz Ali Khaskheli
Nadeem Wagan

2. Social Problems of Pakistan
 Poverty
 Illiteracy
 Terrorism
 Food and water crisis
 Population growth
 Poor health facilities
 Internal and international migration
 Discrimination of Sex
 democracy in shape of dictatorship
 unloyal leaders

3.  Foregin debt
 Child labor
 Deviant behavior
 discourage the rules of law from government
representatives
 inflation
 Injustice
 Smuggling
 Drug abuse

4. Illiteracy
 Introduction of the problem: Education
is considered as the cheapest defense of
a nation The Constitution of Islamic
Republic of Pakistan says,
 “The state of Pakistan shall remove
illiteracy and provide free and compulsory
secondary education within minimum
possible period.”

5. Contd….
 Literacy rate: 49.9% educated
populace ( Human development
Report Pakistan) placed at
136th position for having just.
 The primary completion rate in
Pakistan, given by Date Center
of UNESCO, is 33.8% in
females and 47.18% in males,
which shows that people in the
6th largest country of the world
are unable to get the basic
education

6. Reason :
 Unequal education system
 Different medium of instruction in Public
and private sector
 Regional disparity (standard of education
varies in different provinces of Pakistan)
 In FATA, the literacy rate is deplorable
constituting 29.5% in males and 3% in
females

7.  Gender discrimination: primary school
ratio of boys & girls which is 10:4
respectively.
 lack of technical education
 the allocation of funds for education are
very low. It is only 1.5 to 2.0 percent of the
total GDP.
 Untrained and non professional teachers

8. Solution
 Govt. should take following measures:
 Increase education budget
 Establish more schools and appoint
qualified and trained teachers
 . Technical education must be given to all
the classes.
 Promote primary education

9. Terrorism
 Pakistan plays a key and highly
conflicted--role in the global war
on terror. Today terrorism is
threatening the very roots and
fabric of Pakistan’s nationhood.
More tragically, terrorism in
Pakistan draws its justification
from the very faith which
provides the country its
ideological bases.

10. Reason
 The major causes of Terrorism in
Pakistan are:
 1- Political Instability
 2- Economic Conditions
 3- Standard of Living
 4- Religious Extremism

12. Solution
 The real solution is to kill the root of
Terrorism and systematically change the
attitude of those people’s who are
involved in terrorism
 - Military operations against terrorists are
also very ncessary.
 Education, Justice, Pour politics can stop
the Terrorism..

13. Contd…
 Preventing and resolving conflicts
with Talibans and other religious
groups.
 Strengthening the protection of weak
targets.
 A fully demarcated border with
Afghanistan which will prevent the
foreign intrusion in the country.

14.  The government should enter into serious
negotiations with Washington on the
issues of drone attacks so that our
sovereignty should be preserved as we
reserve the right to undertake actions on
our own land.
 A concrete time-table of withdrawal from
Afghanistan needs to be announced by
the U.S led forces

15. Water Crisis
 We are facing the crisis of water
nowadays.
 The increase in demand due to
population growth, and infrequent
rainfall, is aggravating the situation
day by day .
 Insufficient no. of reservior is also
one of the cause of water crisis.
 Perpetual silting of water reservoirs,
lakes, canals, rivers and waterways
is one of the major reasons of
shrinking water storage capacity.

16. Solution
 The problem has now reached a critical
decision-making stage. There are two obvious
solutions to the problem:
1. Make new water reservoirs to make up for the
depleting capacity of old reservoirs, as well as to
cater for increase in demand.
2. Maintain the storage capacity of old
reservoirs. Make new reservoirs only to meet the
requirement of additional demand.

17. Food Crisis
 The world’s financial experts have placed
Pakistan on a list of 36 countries that face
a serious food crisis
 it has two sides; one is unavailability of
edibles and second is soaring prices due
to gap in demand and supply of edibles.