Causes of Poverty in Pakistan

People interested to listening and watching news, it is good thing to listen and watch news. People usually likes listening spacially good news but in Pakistan nowadays they listen in news some unusual things. In 2011, there was flood coming in Pakistan, which destroy many houses and the properties of people. It makes above hundred people homeless and create the poverty in their life. Everybody, in this world is much familiar about the word poverty. If they don’t know the meaning of poverty but they listen this word in their life many times either it is related to their lives or not. In simple words poverty means lack of money. In other words,  poverty is that where a person has not enough money to complete his basic needs and wants. The basic needs include food, shelter, cloths, health, education and extra. In this world there are many countries, areas and families suffering from poverty. 

Pakistan has been suffering from this problem 1947, when it came into existence. According to the situation of Pakistan, Pakistanis define poverty as a situation where a person does not have enough money to survive. For example, food is one of the main things to people needs to live. In Pakistan there are many places where people do not get clean water to drink and they do not have food to eat. Approximately 0.25% dies annually due to lack of food and do not getting clean water. There are many reasons which become a cause of poverty in Pakistan the history, Natural disaster, Lack of education and the lack of concentration of Pakistan government.

The major reason of poverty in Pakistan is the history of Pakistan. Before 1947 Pakistan, India and Bangladesh were one country. Due to different miss understanding they were distributed in there different countries. Initially Pakistan and India distributed into two countries. They distributed the economy of Barsagar (the name of the country before distribution of Pakistan and India). According to history of Pakistan it tells people that at that time Pakistani do not get their rights. Thus they had faced financial problems. After that the stuffs which they have, they start it to use and improve their economy. But unfortunately they improved and come out from the poverty they had face other problem. The problem is that Bangladeshi’s wants their county so it separate from Pakistan in 1971. Hence history is the main cause due to which Pakistan faced the poverty.

The second cause of poverty in Pakistan is natural disaster. Natural disaster means the people who are affected from the flood, earthquake, tornado and etc. in recent years Pakistan effected from earth quake and flood.  Gilgit Baltistan was affected from the flood in 2010, which become a cause to increase in poverty in Pakistan. In 2011 there were many areas where flood came and it destroys above thousand houses. Due to which above three thousand people become homeless, some of them lose their whole property and some of them lost their families. Therefore the natural disaster is also main cause to have poverty in Pakistan.

The third cause of poverty in Pakistan is the lack of education. There are many reasons to lack of education in Pakistan. The first main point is that In Pakistan there are some areas where no schools, colleges, and universities. The second reason is that Parents haves not enough money to send their children in cities and give them education. If there are schools then parents have not much money to provide books, uniform and fee of school on each month. Some parents try their best to get education their child and they sell their properties to give education to their children.  In Pakistan there are some places where schools and parents have enough money to provide education to their children. But parents do not went to get education their children specially girls. Therefore if a person is not educated then how he does a job and how he improve himself financially? Consequently, the people who are in poverty last 50 years they are still in poverty because of not providing education. Thus education is the main cause of poverty.