Pakistan needs to progress

For a nation to progress it must have a clear idea of its longer-term aspirations. Without this clarity it will neither be able to prepare a coherent roadmap for action nor adopt and implement the policies that would lead towards the objectives. A national vision is meant to provide clarity to our shared vision of the future. Indeed, Pakistan was founded on such a vision—the “Pakistani Dream”, a vision of a prosperous, equitable, tolerant, and dynamic society—which was at the heart of the Independence Movement, even if, over the years, its clarity has diminished.

After passing 74 years it has emerged that real rulers of Pakistan is its establishment. Instead of watching apart borders on one side India on one side Afghanistan on one side China and one side Iran. Only Pakistan can depend on China apart from others.

Now Pakistan Vision 2025 has been designed to represent an aspirational destination. It will serve as a critical guide-post for the development of an effective strategy and road-map to reach our national goals and aspirations. It is not meant to represent the resultant strategy and program itself. The Vision will be realized through strategies and program defined in associated five-year and annual plan by different stakeholders.

Pakistan today faces formidable social, economic, security and governance challenges. Many nations have faced similar challenges in history and successfully turned them into opportunities through sound economicplanning, good governance and consistencyin policy implementation that are missing in Imran Khan Government.

Today Punjab has become tug of war within establishment along with other political parties leaving aside PML N. They want PML N to minimize in Punjab. Other provinces are altogether with establishment.

But the question remains that when establishment would move to border instead of working on political parties and that would be the turning point for Pakistan.

Our ultimate destination is to see Pakistan among the ten largest economies of the world by 2047 – the
centennial year of our independence.

Our maturity shown by the political parties is the passing of the 18th constitutional
amendment by consensus. It is a proof of greater political maturity in our leadership. However it has never been worked with sincerity. Local Bodies elections have never been held. Health and education is on decline. Cities have become like mohenjodarowith no plain road or perfect living hood.

Pakistan’s population is projected to increase to over 227 million by 2025. The population will also comprise a much larger proportion of younger people (63% below the age of 30). These demographic projections raise a number of issues for the country. First, other than oil-rich economies, no country has been able to break into the high-income club without a radical reduction of its population growth rate.

Second, on the positive side, the declining fertility rates during this period will create a demographic dividend, in which the dependency ratio (the ratio of working to non-working people, i.e., adults versus children and old people) will fall. A critical component of these investments in human development is catering to the food and nutrition needs of the growing population. Given the prospect of climate change and depleting water resource, this will constitute one of the major challenges faced by the country in the coming years. The recent National Nutrition Survey noted that approximately 60 per cent of the country’s population is facing food insecurity and nearly 50 per cent of the women and children are malnourished.

A new knowledge revolution era in technology marks a paradigm shift in development and wealth creation models, by placing knowledge as the most strategic asset in the developmentbalance sheet. Rapid changes in technology and the introduction of disruptive new technologiesare enabling and catalyzing massive increasesin productivity and giving birth to entire new sectors of economic activity. Six technologiesare likely to drive the future of developmentnamely micro-electronics, computers,telecommunications, human-made materials, robotics, and biotechnology. Specifically, thegrowth in ICT has shifted the world to a virtualspace, particularly for the delivery of services, and has given birth to a new global operating model forbusinesses.

Pakistan has to follow these footpaths otherwise its mafias would make it a failed state.