A person dies if he stops to breathe; couldn’t be called human if he fails to feel the pain and agonies of other fellowmen”, is indeed a mind blowing quote. This dictum applies when societal needs of human beings are remunerated with equal distribution of affluences and riches by legislative and executive branches of government. However, the part of land that encounters unequal distribution of wealth and property have toughened man receive their daily requirements with ease and are left with only option to think wild of courses to earn their livelihood.
Poverty and unemployment are identified as the driving forces behind insecurity, and called for these issues to be addressed as a priority. Some people participate in insurgent activities to acquire an income. Joining anti-government elements or undertaking other illegal activities, such as drug production and trafficking, is often more lucrative, and with immediate returns, than struggling with farming or working in the informal sector for low wages. Afghanistan has the second highest maternal mortality rate in the world and the third highest rate of child mortality. Only 23 per cent of the population has access to safe drinking water, and only 24 per cent of Afghans above the age of 15 can read and write, with much lower literacy rates among women and nomadic populations. The practical dilemma in implementing the new strategy is that food and agriculture problems cannot be separated from problems caused by conflict, corruption, and narcotics trafficking.
The masses are constantly asking for economic relaxation, end to unemployment, better living facilities, peace, security and human rights protection who are turned a deaf ear to, instead are responded with vague declaratives like, concrete measure are undertaken to bring eminent changes, committees are formed to assess the causes of terrorism and corruption, people will be given economic incentives, the country will be made a prosperous in the region. Irrespective of the aforementioned promises, not a single plan is put into action that could materialize within desired course of time. The promises made volatile enough capable of easy evaporation.
The ruling class keeps on building castle in the air by making impracticable pledges. The masses are asked to wait and hope for the betterment and are instructed to earn faith in supreme creature deciding something good in their fate, at the end of day. We have been practically changed into a nation who is to just wait and hope for the best. The government and ruling elites relies on making promises, as if their hollow and fuzzy assurances could solace the relentless issues related with unemployment and poverty. The masses are fed up with the formless promises. The high degrees of disappointment are reflected from their sun burnt faces which are the timely manifestation to the underlying facts. It is an uncompromising reality that the escalating graph of poverty made it difficult for an ordinary person to make the ends meet.
Consequently, anybody striving selflessly to earn his livelihood with great earnestness does owe an undying virtue. However, the public departments and institutions are devoid of such pieties and are bursting with corruption, monopoly and nepotism and favoritism. Any public official enjoying a notable position competes his counterpart in drawing the greater benefits out of public assets. In the public offices an ordinary person has to wait and suffer until the officials is not paid a sufficient amount of bribe. You are not regarded amongst dignitaries unless you divert greater public resources and accounts into your personal use and subsequently claim them your birth possessions at the end of day.
Afghanistan is one of the most impoverished nations in Asia. According to a report published by the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), some 9 million Afghans – 36 per cent of the population – are believed to live in absolute poverty and a further 37 per cent live only slightly above the poverty line only second to Bangladesh as Asia’s poorest country, despite an estimated injection of billions of dollars in previous years. This report quit a lot tallies with formerly released financial report of World Bank. According to a joint survey by the ministry of economic and the World Afghan economic analysts say that the government must start investment in infrastructure projects to solve these challenges. They warned that if the government does not take serious measures, the people will cause the fall of the system. Some are said to believe that if the government and donor countries have invested in infrastructure projects in the past 14 years, the country would not have this problem.
The government earning confidence of international investors and door agencies can launch programs in areas duly identified as crucial in meeting its development goals, including education, health, irrigation, energy, infrastructure and rural development. The government got to stay focused on improving the government’s capacity to deliver services to its citizens, and foster business climate that unleashes the job-creating potential of the private sector. With inclusion to said propositions Afghan leaders too need to engender strong, inclusive economic growth, reduce poverty, create jobs and fight corruption whole heartedly.
The national and international financiers and donors are willing to extend their services, businesses and aids, provided the government ensures a corruption free and a transparent systems operating efficiently. The confidence installed in them, only then the government can attract the international investors –if safeguards to maltreatments are rendered. Following a transparent undertaking in governmental business, the financiers, donors and investors may actively contribute to poverty alleviation by creating job opportunities. The government is consequently held responsible to take poverty alleviating measures on war footing by making the use of all possible steps.