‘Pakistan’s poverty rate higher than India, B’desh’

[El Sidd]

I think 2 days ago a family of 4-5 did suicide, it was in karachi I guess. The male (head if family) was only 28, married with kid and had one sister. All did suicide. Because they were struggling and no one came to support. Close family members even blocked their contact numbers.

It's a countrywide phenomenon. People have lost all hope amidst this cannibalism.

 

[Watandar]

The article is new .... however........... The data behind it is not.

Pakistan’s 38.3% figure comes from the 2017- 18 household survey. even the article admits that each country was measured in a different year, so this is neither current data nor a proper like-for-like comparison.

I never said poverty does not exist or that Pakistan is raining money. I said you are presenting almost decade-old data as today’s reality. A new publication date does not magically make old data new.

also it is now coming to light how deeply PTI’s KP government may have been involved in appeasing and facilitating the TTP. with murad saeed being hosted by TTP.

So spare us the usual one line dictatorship lecture. Pakistan has serious problems, but selectively blaming everything on one institution while ignoring the mess your own party helped create is not analysis.

The one institution that has ruled Pakistan illegally since 1958, the army, absolutely bears responsibility for the deepening poverty in the country. The data is also for all of Pakistan, not just KP.

Your other comments are attempts at denial and distraction.

 

[SoulSpokesman]

@F.O.X

Pakistan’s 38.3% figure comes from the 2017- 18 household survey.

While you are technically right, unfortunately doesn't change things for the better. Because Pakistan actually worsened in the period after that especially 2020-2024, partly because of issues that were beyond its control.

Your other point that it is unwise to selectively blame only the Army is on the money. Civilian administrations have shown no greater wisdom in handling development matters.

Regards

 

[Watandar]

@F.O.X

Pakistan’s 38.3% figure comes from the 2017- 18 household survey.

While you are technically right, unfortunately doesn't change things for the better. Because Pakistan actually worsened in the period after that especially 2020-2024, partly because of issues that were beyond its control.

Your other point that it is unwise to selectively blame only the Army is on the money. Civilian administrations have shown no greater wisdom in handling development matters.

Regards

Yes civilian administrations who were weak , sabotaged and dismissed by the same army ruling illegally are equally to blame. Lol bohot kamzoor propaganda hai.

 

[Mighty_Dragon_Strike]

nahi sir, Pakistan mein poverty nahi hai

pakistan mein ghairat mand kam or selfish or nikhatoo or kam zarf loog zayda hein

maltab bohot zyada hein..


poverty tu uska nateeja hai

 

[ustaad]

Again with the youtube videos. Mumbai has as expensive a real estate as anywhere in the world - think NYC, Hong Kong etc. - that doesn't mean that people in Mumbai have same living standards as NYC.

Similarly, because the real estate is expensive doesn't mean that people in Mumbai are "less" rich/well-of vs. Karachi or other similar cities. This kind of stupid comparisons aside, look at the real poverty number across the vast population of respective countries. Or you can live in la la land where Pakistan doesn't have any poverty

You can't pay me enough to live in this biohazard



Thanks to my forefathers for catching the right train.

 

[Blain2]

No military dictator ever told the agriculturalists and industrialists to not pay their fair share of taxes. This is while every single member of the military pays their due share just like the rest of Pakistan's MNC sector. Their pay comes into the account only after all the taxes are deducted.

If there is no money for poverty alleviation, what is the root cause? To this day, Pakistan's tax collection rate is the lowest in South Asia.

Everyone wants free schools, healthcare, roads, transport but nobody is willing to fork over the taxes owed.

"Lo kar lo gal" - Uncle Sargam

 

[Hazard]

nothing wrong with having such population as long as our economy is fixed, we can actually sustain such population
No need for any de-population agendas , let our people have fun and increase the ummah chummah no worries.

I'm not sure if you're being sarcastic or not. If not, this is precisely the mentality that is keeping our nation in stone age. For a country the size of Pakistan, our population is a drain on resources. We need to slow down the population growth, we have enough humans - and these humans need to learn to stand on their own feet, instead of relying on handouts.

The state of Pakistan is surviving due to IMF, World Bank, Aid etc...and a major chunk of Pakistanis are surviving because overseas Pakistanis fund their lifestyle. How is this sustainable?

 

[ThunderCat]

No doubt Pakistan suffers severe poverty. But claiming it's "worse off" than Bharat & Bangladesh casts doubt, considering their governments are notorious for fabricating stats, going back decades. Not to mention their overcrowded hygiene levels are worse; especially Bangladesh.