This document discusses social issues in Pakistan and provides suggestions to overcome them. It lists the group members and then discusses issues such as corruption, smuggling, healthcare conditions, education problems, terrorism, food crisis, poverty, and child labor. For each issue, it provides relevant details and statistics. It then offers suggestions to overcome each problem, such as strengthening laws against corruption and smuggling, increasing education budgets, promoting primary education, and enacting laws to prohibit child labor.

2. Group Members
 Rana Saad Iqbal (E10-064)
 Muhammad Ather Shehzad (E10-045)
 Ather Abdul Jabbar (E10-013)
 Qazi Muhammad Ubaid (E10-078)

3. Social Problems in Pakistan

4. Social Issues Of Pakistan
 Corruption
 Smuggling
 Health Care Conditions
 Educational Problems
 Terrorism
 Food Crisis
 Poverty

5. Corruption
 Corruption in widespread.Pakistan
is ranked as a 42nd corrupted country
of the world according to
Transparency International
Corruption Perception Index.

6. The expert sources indicate that the following
sectors are among the most affected by corruption.
• Police and law enforcement.
• Judiciary and legal professions.
• Power sector.
• Tax and customs.
• Land administration.
• Health and education.

7. Smuggling
 To import or export without paying lawful
customs charges or duties.
 Smuggling severly harms the economy of
Pakistan in multidimensional ways.

8. Smuggling undermines the local
industry, discourages the legal imports and reduces
the volume of revenues collected from duties.
Unfortunately a parallel underground economy has
taken roots in Pakistan.

9. Health Care Conditions
Even after decades of existence there is no equal
distribution of wealth and resources.
Many Pakistanis suffer from physical and emotional
problems but there is no proper health care system
in place.
Mental illness is still surrounded by visible stigma.

10. Children still suffer from malnutrition because of
pervasive poverty.
Many patients with emergency only see a
doctor when they get violent and have a
nervous breakdown.

11. Educational Problems
Pakistan illiteracy rate is decreasing
continuously as the schools have not kept up with
the population explosion.
Most people in villages cannot read or write.
There is no standardized educational system.

12. There is also a problem of different medium of
instructions in private and public sector.
In Pakistan there is also a lack of technical
education.

13. Terrorism
Pakistan play 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.

14. The major causes of terrorism in Pakistan are
 Political crisis.
 Economic conditions.
 Standard of living.
 Religious extremism.

15. Food Crisis
The world financial experts have placed
Pakistan on a list of 36 countries that face a serious
food crises.
It has two aspects
 Unavailability of edibles.
 Soaring prices due to gap in demand and supply of edibles.

16. Child Labor
The full-time employment of children who
are under a minimum legal age.
The last survey in 1996 figured out
3.3 millionchild labourers in Pakistan, out of
which 2.4million were boys and 0.9 were
girls.
Most of the child laborers are working in
ruler areas as compare to urban areas.

17. In Pakistan child labor is related to
 Craft and related trade activities.
 Brick making.
 Stone crushing.
 Carpet making.
 Agriculture sector.
 Factories and industries.

18. Poverty In Pakistan
Poverty is the main issue of Pakistan.
According to 2007-08 analysis,17.2 % of the total
population lived below the poverty line which is the
lowest figures in history of Pakistan.

20. Main factors of poverty in Pakistan
are:-
 Inequality.
 Natural disasters.
 Feudalism.
 Lack of adequate governance.
 Poor industrial standards.

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22. How To Overcome!!!

23. Suggestions To Overcome
Corruption!
 Parliaments can and should adopt appro-priate
legislation, take an active role in the ratification of
relevant international instru- ments and incorporate
their provisions in national legislation.
 They should also make maximum use of the
constitutional, parliamentary and other legal
mechanisms available to ensure full accountability
and transparency in government.

24.  In recognition of the important role Supreme Audit
Institutions, as well as other bodies such as
Ombudsman, play in combating
corruption, parliaments should lay down the
appropriate legal framework for the establishment
and functioning of such institutions including
through the provision of adequate resources and
proper follow-up to the work and reports of such
bodies.

25. Suggestions To Overcome
Smuggling
 A law was set that the vehicles will be
checked with help of fixed and mobile
laboratories.

26. Suggestions To Overcome Health Care
Conditions
 Reducing widespread prevalence of communicable
diseases.
 Addressing inadequacies in primary/secondary
health care services.
 Removing professional/managerial deficiencies in
the district health system.
 Promoting greater gender equity.

27.  Bridging basic nutrition gaps in the target-population.
 Correcting urban bias in health sector.
 Introducing required regulation in private medical
sector.
 Creating Mass Awareness in Public Health.
 Effecting Improvements in the Drug Sector.
 Capacity-building for Health Policy Monitoring.

28. Suggestions To Overcome Educational
Problems
Government 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

29. Suggestions To Overcome
Terrorism
 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 necessary.
 Education, Justice, Pour politics can stop the
Terrorism.

30.  Preventing and resolving conflicts with
Taliban 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.

31. Suggestions To Overcome Food Crisis
 Stop smuggling.
 Removing differences between provinces.
 Follow proper way of import and export utilities.
 To reduce unemployment.

32. Suggestions To Overcome Poverty
 Poverty arouse due to lack of discipline with
money:
 Live as close as you can to a budget and resist
the urge to spend frivolously.
 Stop discrimination of sex.
 By maintaining system of Zakat.

33. Law of Pakistan about Child Labor
 Article 11 of the Constitution prohibits all forms of
slavery, forced labor and child labor;
 Article 17 provides for a fundamental right to
exercise the freedom of association and the right to
form unions.

34.  Article 37(e) makes provision for securing just and
humane conditions of work, ensuring that children
and women are not employed in vocations unsuited
to their age or sex, and for maternity benefits for
women in employment.

35. Law of Pakistan about Education
 The Constitution of Pakistan framed in 1973 promised to its citizens in
Article 37 (b) & (c) that
“The State shall remove illiteracy and provide free and compulsory
secondary education within the minimum possible period; make technical
and professional education generally available and higher education
equally accessible to all on the basis of merit”.

36.  The Constitution also corresponds with Article 26 (1)
of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights which
says that
"Everyone has the right to education”.

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