Volume 6- Issue 8, August 2007
Published by
Llumina Press
WHAT WILL HAPPEN
Everybody worries about what will happen tomorrow in Pakistan. Among many problems, one is the growing rate of inflation and the drastic increase in the rate of unemployment.
Pakistan is among those countries where getting arms and bullets are easier than getting jobs. Civil government is blaming army intervention and vice versa. But the question is, to whoever is responsible, how to overcome this problem.
Newspapers are full of job ads, but who are getting those jobs and how?
Scholars always say that getting education does not entitle a good job. But stop here, think:
A farmer – or any poor, ordinary person – lives hand to mouth, providing education to his offspring, so that they can get out of this feudal system and make their living better. But on completion of his education, he and his family know that he does not have financial, political, or social influence to get a job.
Then he thinks that the money used on his education can be doubled, if it’s invested in some business and his son could earn more money than spent on him.
It’s a serious issue when only one out of five educated individuals is employed. Many feel they should involve their children into small business rather than providing them education. Again, stop here: One should invest their money in business only if they can earn more money and can grow in the business. But the reality is that he is forced to live in these poor conditions because of strikes, bomb blasts, and killing on regular basis on roads and everywhere.
So the result is that educational persons are losing their credibility in the society.
No nation can progress when the education rate is increasing but literate people cannot make their conditions, and the conditions of society, better. Our politicians and leaders have to make necessary actions—or it may become too late.
Muhammad Haseeb Raza
Punjab