poor governance is the main cause of corruption. if the governance consists of honest people
Causes Of Social Unrest
1. Energy crisis
2. Sugar crisis
3. Rising oil prices
4. Poverty
5. Terrorism
6. Illiteracy
7. Swat operation
8. Political unrest
9. Extremism
10. Drone attacks
Monday, November 30, 2009
Corruption
Unemployment Leads to Unrest
Fight Aginst Drug Addiction
Drugs have been part of our culture since the middle of the last century. They invaded all aspects of the society popularized in the 1960s by music and mass media. You probably know someone who has been affected by drugs, directly or indirectly now. People take drugs because they want to change something about their lives. They think drugs are a solution. But eventually, the drugs become the problem destroying and ruining millions of lives every year.
Lives are lost every day due to this disease, and they can be saved. While battling any addiction you should know that there is no easy way out. Lately researchers believe that they have found a way to stop drug addiction. Nanoparticles can be used to deliver specific molecules to the brain that can silence the gene that triggers drug addiction. DARPP-32 is a protein in the brain that facilitates addictive behaviors. Silencing of the DARPP-32 gene with certain kinds of ribonucleic acid (RNA), called short interfering RNA (siRNA), can inhibit production of this protein and thus, could help prevent drug addiction. The physical craving for the drug can be reduced therefore.
Tobacco smoking is today by far the most popular form of smoking and is practiced by over one billion people in the majority of all human societies.
Friday, November 27, 2009
Pakistan politics is all the time remained full of different political issues form past to present. Every time there is new Government with new political issue. These political issues are caused by natives of Pakistan sometimes and by the foreign politics. All of these political issues did nothing except making Pakistan more and more week.
Pakistan and its people had even sacrificed there lives just because of these political issues. But Still many of them are alive and eating the roots of Pakistan constantly. And everyone knows this thing but no one still able to discord them from the country just because of that power they had.
There are many issues but some famous political issues of Pakistan that are of past and still alive are Kashmir, Kalabagh Dam. The present famous issues are restoring of judges, North and South Waziristan tribal regions clashes & violence with foreign forces, human rights violation in Pakistan and Taliban forces. Now days Taliban’s are a big threat to Pakistan, government is fighting fearlessly and we are hoping that this issue will be resolved very soon.
There are also many others major & minor political and religious issues and problems that Pakistan is facing everyday. Pakistan government and politics are still unable to solve any of these issues.
Sunday, November 22, 2009
Inflation- general rise in price level
It means shortage of money or increase in the supply of money owing to such an increase in price. Actually it is a broad variable and complex term. In economics inflation means a rise in the general level of prices of goods and services in an economy over a period of time, resulting in fewer goods and services for a larger seen of money.
It has various kinds and forms, each having a different effect:
Creeping inflation: - healthy trend as it increases development.
Walking inflation: - affects savings.
Running inflation: - it is hard to control and it also affects consumption and savings. And it leads to economic recession.
Hyper inflation: -is disastrous and fatal to economy.
Cost push inflation: - it occurs when cost of production increases.
Demand full inflation: - result of aggregate demand of a commodity.
Inflation is usually estimated by calculating the inflation rate of a price index, mostly consumer price index. It is the percentage rate of change of a price index over time.
Its effects can be both negative and positive. Negative effect includes loss in stability in real value of money over term and discourages investment in savings. Positive effect includes a mitigation of economic recessions and debt relief by reducing the real level of debt.
Inflation can be controlled by a long term and short term sound economic planning. Market competition can bring about reduction or low rate of inflation. Indigenous industry should be promoted to reduce inflation. Accessible and cheaper goods can minimize the adverse effects of inflation. These can also provide people with alternatives. This may bring low standard of living but people are protected against adverse effects of inflation. Proper monitoring and regulatory control can help in reducing inflation. Retailers and hawkers sell things of daily use at their own will. They do so because there is no check and balance. There is nobody to enforce law and evaluate the prices at which things are sold.
Inflation can be viewed as an international phenomenon. Only sound planning by the government can avert it. Inflation is a misery and people can be saved from this misery through mutual effort.
Illiteracy Contributing To Social Unrest
Literacy is the best indication of a country’s educational status and education is the best path to a country’s prosperity. One of the major problem of
One more reason is that Pakistan cannot afford to provide a 12-year education system similar to that of the western culture for every one of its children. The government has opened many schools on city, town, villages with free education but still the literacy rate is low. However upon closer examination it has been found that many of these schools in rural areas are not being used for education at all.illitracy in
massive plans to significantly increase the levels of education as well as reducing level of disparity between men and women. Women’s rights have long been a global issue when it comes to
In Pakistan women education is very low because of honor issue. In this aspect, Taliban enforcement of a complete ban on female education in recent times in the Swat district, as reported in a January 21, 2009 Some 400 private schools enrolling 40,000 girls have been shut down, so the cause of illiteracy in Pakistan is not only poverty but also because of gender disparity.
Recent Energy Crisis
The economic engine and the wheels of industry, agriculture and business, need energy to move forward. On the social aspect, energy consumption per capita is a key indicator of the quality of life of the citizens and community. Unfortunately in Pakistan, inspite of tall claims by all governments, real solutions to meet the energy requirements of the nation have never been formulated or achieved. As a consequence, Pakistan’s economic, industrial and social growth has been greatly constrained. Due to an increasing gap in energy demand versus capacity, while
Successive governments put power generation and
availability of gas as a priority on their agenda, unfortunately, all plans of providing adequate and affordable energy to the citizens have failed to materialize.
The inability to implement energy projects has been attributed to inefficient planning and a commitment to national development.
The people of Pakistan are looking for positive change and relief from the burden
of a grossly inefficient & mismanaged energy sector. They are held hostage to the progressive increase in power load shedding, shortages of gas, and even petroleum products. The claims by the government that load shedding will end by December 2009 are nothing but illusions of the Ministry of Water and Power, while the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Resources has chosen not to make any claim on meeting the gas shortage.
Energy Crisis such as Load Shedding of Electricity in summers for the household
consumers and as well as the Commercial Units are contributing at large in the growth of Social Unrest rather making any growth to the Industrial or Agricultural Sector.
Summers of 2009 and 2008 in Pakistan were not less then living in
Hell. The Industrial Units were shut-off due to the lack of Electricity for which the owners of the private factories and mills suffered from great loss, and the households would mark this huge shortage of electricity as a benchmark for the coming years, in sense that they be well prepared for a larger Energy Crisis in the upcoming years.
Friday, November 20, 2009
Drugs Contributing to Social Unrest
Drug abuse involves the repeated and excessive use of chemical substances to achieve a certain effect. It brings about physical, emotional and behavioral changes. Every drug has its own different effects. Some, such as cocaine produce an intense "rush" and initial feelings of boundless energy. Others, such as a heroin produces feelings of relaxation and calm. Drugs over stimulate the pleasure center of the brain and as the time passes brain's chemistry is actually alters to the extreme where it becomes painful not having the drug. The need to use drug becomes more and more powerful and important than anything else, including job, friends and family, destroying work, relationships, and health.
In the last many years drug addiction has increased a lot in Pakistan and in South Asia general. It gets overshadowed by such as poverty and illiteracy which contributes to social unrest.
Today, the country has the largest heroin consumer market in the south-west Asia region. Pakistan is not only one of the main exporters of heroin, it has also become a net importer of drugs.
What is Energy Crisis...???
An energy crisis is any great shortfall (or price rise) in the supply of energy resources to an economy. It usually refers to the shortage of oil and additionally to electricity or other natural resources.
The crisis often has effects on the rest of the economy, with many recessions being caused by an energy crisis in some form. In particular, the production costs of electricity rise, which raises manufacturing costs.
KHUDHI KO KAR BULAND ITNA KE KHUDA BANDE SE KHUD PUCHE, BATA TERI RAZA KYA HAI
Poverty is an ethical concept, not a statistical one. Inherent in the term “poverty”,
When applied to human beings, is the notion of a life situation that should not exist.
It is not only lack of roti, kapra aur makan. Amartya Sen Aptly sums up many dimensions of poverty as lack of “capability” which includes capability to overcome violence, hunger, ignorance, illness, physical hardship and injustice. Poverty often lies in the absence of opportunity. It is not just the absence of food on the table.
Reports reveal that poverty in Pakistan has risen across time as compared to international level. World Bank has forced Pak government to revisit the poverty figures for the fiscal year 2008, due to the conflicting reports about the level of poverty in the country.
Subsequently, the World Bank re-visited the poverty estimates by Centre for Poverty Reduction and Social Policy Development (CPRSPD), which found a 4 to 5 percentage points increase in poverty figures in the last quarter of fiscal year 2008. State bank of Pakistan said that 25 per cent of the population is still living under the poverty line. SBP further said that there are chances of severe food crises and subsequent social unrest in the country.
This is expected to result in higher poverty levels in the country, while the causes of food crisis are thought to be widespread regional and socio-economic inequalities prevailing in different parts of our homeland.