5% people hold 64% of Pakistan’s farmland

[My-Analogous]

5pc people hold 64pc of Pakistan’s farmland, moot told

Speaking at the workshop, SCOPE chief executive officer Tanveer Arif said poverty and food security issues were closely linked to land, therefore, land and agriculture reforms should be made in the country.

KARACHI: Five per cent bigwigs possess 64pc of Pakistan’s farmland while 50.8pc rural households are landless.

This was stated at a workshop on ‘Status of land reforms in Pakistan’ organised by the Society for Conservation and Protection of Environment (SCOPE) in collaboration with the Sindh High Court Bar Association and the National Peasants Coalition of Pakistan in a hotel.

Justice Faisal Arab, senior puisne judge of the Sindh High Court, lawyer and farmer leaders attended the programme.

Speaking at the workshop, SCOPE chief executive officer Tanveer Arif said that agriculture was the mainstay of Pakistan’s economy, accounting for 25pc of the gross domestic product, 60pc of export earnings and 48pc of employment.

He said poverty and food security issues were closely linked to land, therefore, land and agriculture reforms should be made in the country.

He said Pakistan inherited feudal system from the British Raj. Land distribution in Pakistan was highly unequal as 5pc of large landholders possess 64pc of the total farmland and 65pc small farmers held 15pc of land. He said corporate farming was initiated in Pakistan during former President Pervez Musharraf’s government which was against the rights of farmers. Some Gulf countries had purchased lands in Pakistan, particularly in Sindh and Balochistan, that would cause water scarcity and deprive local farming community of their rights.

Mr Arif said 50.8pc of rural households were landless while the poverty among rural landless people was high. He said land reforms were necessary to alleviate poverty, hunger and malnutrition in Pakistan.

The farmers in rural areas were living under extreme poverty due to unjust crop share being given to them by landlords.

The peasants were facing malnutrition and severe economic constraints due to that injustice.

Large landholdings should be distributed among landless farmers and atmosphere of land equality be created to make farmers prosperous, he concluded.

Akhtar Hussain, a Supreme Court advocate, said agriculture income tax should be imposed in the country while land reforms were also a must for development. He said that agriculture income tax was opposed by landlords, which was unjustified.

Mustafa Lakhani, president of the Sindh High Court Bar Association, said that feudalism was big hindrance in land reforms in Pakistan.

He sought a role of the present government in making land reforms in the country. Excessive powers had caused corruption in Pakistan.

National Peasants Coalition of Pakistan representative Noor Nabi Rahujo said the country could not make progress without land reforms. He urged all stakeholders of society to join forces and play their due roles in making drastic land and agriculture reforms in Pakistan.

Advocate Qazi Ali Athar said a relentless struggle should be launched for land reforms in Pakistan. He said Sufi Shah Inayat was killed in the Mughal era for his struggle for rights of the farming community. There was a need to follow his struggle for brining about agriculture reforms in the country.

He said land reforms not but actual need was to get land rights.

Comrade Ramzan Memon called for a result-oriented struggle to get land rights. He said Zulfikar Ali Bhutto had tried to make land reforms but his plan was reversed during the Zia era.—PPI

And plus point is that they don't have to pat taxes. Taxes is for working and white collar class

 

[GURU DUTT]

I am not completely negating the divide and conquer part but seriously you're claim that Mr Jinnah and Iqbal were just pawns in the game to divide India is a little too much as if the Brits could ensure their hold on south asia by dividing a land into two and supporting feudals. Anyways i quoted you because you claimed nobody is against feudalism here while most people i have met are don't know about PDF though.

ok look it at this way what happened after you got independence how were the last days of both iqbal and jinnah and how were they treated and what did they say to there close ones about the benfactors of divison of india

well maam pakistan was made so that british/west could control south asia as this was the biggest market for them then +it was also a gateway to mallaca straits which led them to there other colonies

so bitish in order to have a strategick hold here divided the india and your greedy nawabs/jageerdars & other feudal elements helped there cause as there was no place in congress ruled independent india for feudalism and feudals

and since all there riyaya hated both british and there feudal stooges they roped in one of indias best poet(iqbal) to boost emotional hysteria and a very able and staunch british loyalist @ barister Mohammad Ali Jinnah to control leagal implications

now after 65 years pakistani society is in even worse state as it was in 1947, poor are still very poor but so called milltarry elite & feudal's are filthy rich and use and abuse every law/resource/people of pakistan but giver nothing in return

so tell me what do you think why and for what was pakistan created in the first place and what did it achieve as a modern sovriegn islamick nation state and what did it lost and why just be briefe and please do answer

 

[SarthakGanguly]

In my opinion The Congress and the Muslim League both fell for the promises of power. Hunger for power blinded both. But for India the power was wrested by the Dynasty post independence though this jagirdaary was abolished.

In Pakistan - the jagirdaari system is still in practice!

 

[GURU DUTT]

In my opinion The Congress and the Muslim League both fell for the promises of power. Hunger for power blinded both. But for India the power was wrested by the Dynasty post independence though this jagirdaary was abolished.

In Pakistan - the jagirdaari system is still in practice!

quite right the greed of nehru to become first PM of independent india and rejecting differnt balots on basis of relegeon and other such issues and failing of cabinet talks in shimla are an open testimony but at least nehru was a patriot and a socialist who was instrumental in abolishon of fedalism as soon as india got independence

while in pakistan as soon as it got independence PA & beurocracy backed by feudal elite took over and jinnah & iqubal were left to rot and passed away too soon while good people like Liyaquat ali khan were assasinated and no one was blamed

while india progressed deu to land reforms and a new socialli and economicalli independent class which paved way for an educated and industrious middle class which took decisionsin national and social interests while in pakistan feudalswrested the power as soon as indendence and kept mases poor / ignorant to national and social politicks and used and abused them and dint led masses get decent education so they dont ask for there right s and kept them dependent on there feudla lords which dint led to creation of an independent thinking and economikalli free middle class which could have a considarable say in natuional poloiticks

what an irony a secular jinnah made a pakistan on relegeous basis while a staunch hindu ghandi & nehru created a secular india

 

[AnnoyingOrange]

5pc people hold 64pc of Pakistan’s farmland, moot told

Speaking at the workshop, SCOPE chief executive officer Tanveer Arif said poverty and food security issues were closely linked to land, therefore, land and agriculture reforms should be made in the country.

KARACHI: Five per cent bigwigs possess 64pc of Pakistan’s farmland while 50.8pc rural households are landless.

This was stated at a workshop on ‘Status of land reforms in Pakistan’ organised by the Society for Conservation and Protection of Environment (SCOPE) in collaboration with the Sindh High Court Bar Association and the National Peasants Coalition of Pakistan in a hotel.

Justice Faisal Arab, senior puisne judge of the Sindh High Court, lawyer and farmer leaders attended the programme.

Speaking at the workshop, SCOPE chief executive officer Tanveer Arif said that agriculture was the mainstay of Pakistan’s economy, accounting for 25pc of the gross domestic product, 60pc of export earnings and 48pc of employment.

He said poverty and food security issues were closely linked to land, therefore, land and agriculture reforms should be made in the country.

He said Pakistan inherited feudal system from the British Raj. Land distribution in Pakistan was highly unequal as 5pc of large landholders possess 64pc of the total farmland and 65pc small farmers held 15pc of land. He said corporate farming was initiated in Pakistan during former President Pervez Musharraf’s government which was against the rights of farmers. Some Gulf countries had purchased lands in Pakistan, particularly in Sindh and Balochistan, that would cause water scarcity and deprive local farming community of their rights.

Mr Arif said 50.8pc of rural households were landless while the poverty among rural landless people was high. He said land reforms were necessary to alleviate poverty, hunger and malnutrition in Pakistan.

The farmers in rural areas were living under extreme poverty due to unjust crop share being given to them by landlords.

The peasants were facing malnutrition and severe economic constraints due to that injustice.

Large landholdings should be distributed among landless farmers and atmosphere of land equality be created to make farmers prosperous, he concluded.

Akhtar Hussain, a Supreme Court advocate, said agriculture income tax should be imposed in the country while land reforms were also a must for development. He said that agriculture income tax was opposed by landlords, which was unjustified.

Mustafa Lakhani, president of the Sindh High Court Bar Association, said that feudalism was big hindrance in land reforms in Pakistan.

He sought a role of the present government in making land reforms in the country. Excessive powers had caused corruption in Pakistan.

National Peasants Coalition of Pakistan representative Noor Nabi Rahujo said the country could not make progress without land reforms. He urged all stakeholders of society to join forces and play their due roles in making drastic land and agriculture reforms in Pakistan.

Advocate Qazi Ali Athar said a relentless struggle should be launched for land reforms in Pakistan. He said Sufi Shah Inayat was killed in the Mughal era for his struggle for rights of the farming community. There was a need to follow his struggle for brining about agriculture reforms in the country.

He said land reforms not but actual need was to get land rights.

Comrade Ramzan Memon called for a result-oriented struggle to get land rights. He said Zulfikar Ali Bhutto had tried to make land reforms but his plan was reversed during the Zia era.—PPI

This calls for serious land reforms... I wonder why Pakistani leadership has been so stupid and incompetent in this regard...

Farming land belongs to farmers and not to Jagirdars and Zamindars...