Pakistan’s Poor Province

Pakistan attained freedom on 14th August 1947 and then it was further divided into four provinces which are Punjab ,Baluchistan,Sindh and NWFP . However all of them are facing the problems regards to poverty level but one of them is in more critical situation regards with the poverty and that Province is Baluchistan.

Baluchistan is Pakistan's biggest province in terms of area but only has an estimated 10 million to 12 million of the country's 165 million people. It shares borders with Iran to the west and Afghanistan to the north. To the south is the Arabian Sea. Quetta is the capital of the province.Baluchistan is the largest copper deposits in the world.It is the province with different natural resources but they are not used by our government due to some security rezones and as well some contracts that our country have done with the other nations . For decades, separatists in Baluchistan have been waging a low-level insurgency for control of those resources which they say are unfairly exploited by richer provinces.
This province is much more dangerous then the others due to the presence of Taliban that came from Afghanistan in Quetta which is the capital of this Province. Now a days U.S is focusing on this province due to the presence of Taliban in this Province.
This province have many educational institutes but are failed to survive just because of the terrorist acts that are happening in Baluchistan . According to the survey, 8.6 percent out of the 10,381 educational institutions in the province are in a ‘dangerous’ condition. About 24.7 percent of these need major repairs while 36.6 percent require minor repairs. Only 30.2 percent are in satisfactory conditions.Baluchistan literacy rate is GPI 0.46 .So what I can suggest is that Pakistan’s Government should focus on this Province so that in future it will not create any type of hurdle for it to succeed in future .
By : Atique Ahmed