Daily Times
June 28, 2021
Our public representatives of the country are debating on the National Budget. Unfortunately their speeches focus more on trifle political questions than the complex, data filled national document. While the opposition speeches revolve around the debt increase, price hike, climate change with doable suggestions on how to increase agricultural yield; fill the cavernous gap between exports and imports; get out of the debt trap; ensure food security, and above all, how to balance our galloping population vis-a-vis our shrinking economic resources.
Pakistan is at the tip of a population explosion. The political and social leadership has ignored this challenge and is impacting almost every sphere of our national life. Already a nation of 207.68 million and growing at twice the level of others in the region with resource constraints and potential threats to the national security, the livelihood and survival of our people, this menace has to be addressed on an immediate basis.