Sindh and Sindhi people are being held hostage by the biggest mafia political dynasty in Pakistani history (PPP). This comes as no surprise, unfortunately.
Unfortunately Sindhis are docile by large. Many are controlled by corrupt feudals whose interest is to keep people ignorant, poor, illiterate etc. The weather does not help either. Any sane people had long ago rebelled and shunned the PEEPEEPEE mafia institution.
Anyway what to expect when the state spends barely 2% of the GDP on education. In a nation of 220 million with such a poor economy.
Many schools in rural Sindh are used as 'autaqs' of 'waderas'. No teachers either.
Increasing rural poverty in Sindh
Murtaza Talpur
NOVEMBER 16, 2018
Poverty is the state, where basic
human rights are denied. From which Sindh generally, and rural areas particularly have been longing to get rid of since decades, but live in grinding poverty. Sindh’s rural deprived conditions are highly embedded in incessant bad governance, institutional decay, and concentration shift from agriculture to service sector. In addition, there is a stronghold of feudal system, and improper infrastructure to access nearby markets, market monopoly, widespread corruption in relevant departments at grassroot level, politicized irrigation department, increasing urbanization and rural resources exploitation.
Sindh population-wise is the second largest province of Pakistan. According to the 2017, census Sindh’s population is 47.9 million, of that 52.02 percent lives in urban and 48.98 percent lives in rural areas. Sindh contributes 30 to 32.7 percent of Pakistan’s GDP. Its share in the service sector has ranged from 21 to 27.8 percent and in the agriculture sector from 21.4 to 27.7 percent. Performance wise, its the best sector in manufacturing, where its share ranges from 36.7 to 46.5 percent. Sindh produces about 70 percent of natural oil and gas production.
According to some studies over 70 percent of the rural population of Sindh is afflicted by abject poverty and 50 percent live below the poverty line. In a news bulletin by the State Bank of Pakistan a few months back, declared that Sindh is the second most poverty-stricken province, after Balochistan. Thousands of acres of agricultural land is left infertile due to water shortage, recent 13 districts of Sindh are declared severe drought-hit areas.
Poverty is the state, where basic human rights are denied. From which Sindh generally, and rural areas particularly have been longing to get rid of since decades, but live in grinding poverty. Sindh’s rural deprived conditions are highly embedded in incessant bad governance, institutional decay...
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