Eradicate the Child Labor

According to a government survey there are 3.3 million child laborers, including 2.4 million boys and 0.9 million girls. Out of the total 37.90 million labor force, 15.23 million are found child laborers in the country.

Child labor is existing in the sectors of carpet, soccer and surgical instrument manufacturing, auto workshops, fisheries, street beggars, coal mines and agriculture.

The main reasons for child labor are poverty, unemployment, lack of educational facilities, low literacy rate, negative attitude of family members, parent’s death, violence at homes and schools.

Parents are not dong their job and the second reason of child labor is poverty. No father and mother want to play with their children’s future. But due to poverty, numerous children are facing mental, physical and moral torture in workplaces.

So we Government, NGOs and Media have to play their part for eradication of the child labor. We have to take the steps to make the future of our country’s children prosperous.

Depletion of Ozone Layer

Ozone Layer has been the subject of much discussion. And rightly so, because the ozone layer protects both plant and animal life on the planet. The fact that the ozone layer was being depleted was discovered in the mid-1980s. The main cause of this is the release of CFCs, chlorofluorocarbons.
The ozone layer protects the Earth from the ultraviolet rays sent down by the sun. If the ozone layer is depleted by human action, the effects on the planet could be catastrophic.
Ozone is a bluish gas that is formed by three atoms of oxygen. The form of oxygen that humans breathe in consists of two oxygen atoms, O2. When found on the surface of the planet, ozone is considered a dangerous pollutant and is one substance responsible for producing the greenhouse effect.
Antarctica was an early victim of ozone destruction. A massive hole in the ozone layer right above Antarctica now threatens not only that continent, but many others that could be the victims of Antarctica's melting icecaps.
In the future, the ozone problem will have to be solved as it is the matter of survival for our world and our next generation too.

Destructive Effects of Terrorism and Pakistan

Terrorism has been a great threat to the country and the citizens too. From the last few years there has been an increase in the suicide attacks. Suicide attacks at malls, societal places, public places has destroyed the economy as well the social and psychological status of every Pakistani.

Any organization or even any educational institution is not save. Every one is under the threat. Suicide attacks at the public places is not only creating the absence of customers as well the bad effect on the economy. The people in the effected areas have seen migrations and their rehabilitation is always been a burden on the economy.

As being a front line partner against terrorism our economy has suffered a lot. We have our forces deployed to the tribal areas that are confronting the terrorists. We are already under the shade of loans and also facing a lot of expenses against terrorists.

Still time is in our hands we must take some steps and have some permanent solution. We have to save our country if we want to save our next generation from the terrorism, burden of loans and from the every time threat.

Primary Education in Pakistan Decline by 3%

Pakistan is one state among 200 countries on the global map wherein percentage of primary education has declined to the extent of 3 per cent during the last decade. Three out of five persons in Pakistan cannot read and write. Pakistan is at No 132. In the literacy chart, literacy in Punjab is below 46 per cent and eight million children between ages of 5 to 9 are deprived of primary education while 40 per cent of Punjab population up to the age of 14 years consists of children - of them 50 per cent do not go to schools.

The children population less than 18 years of age in Pakistan is 70 million. 20.60 million are of less than 5 years, and almost 20.30 million below the age of 18 years do not go to schools. The total strength of schools in Pakistan is 2,60,0095 out of which 1,44,724 are in the public sector. The total strength in these schools consists of 30.33 million children.

The lack of facilities in government schools force the parents to send their children to private schools where they have to pay higher expenses, which has always a heavy toll on the budget of families while their children do not get quality education.

One out of 40 schools do not have boundary wall, 1/5th are without electricity and drinking water facility and 1/4th do not have any class room furniture, 1/7th do not have labatories. Hundreds of schools can be termed as ghost schools as teachers are getting salaries but the institutions do not exist anywhere. Hundreds of primary schools in the rural areas are used for livestock.

That is the standard of basic education in Pakistan where the basic quality education is only for those who can afford. What the state and its ministries are doing. We must have to step ahead to secure the future of our Pakistan.

Deforestation rate in Pakistan highest in world

Deforestation rate in Pakistan, estimated at 0.2 per cent to 0.5 per cent annually, is the highest in the world, which accounts for a 4-6 per cent decline in its wood biomass per annum. The total natural forest cover has reduced from 3.59 million hectares to 3.32 million hectares at an average rate of 27,000 hectares annually. The natural resource is decreasing that all the forest area will be consumed within the next 15 years.

Household sector has emerged as the largest consumer with 81.8 percent than industrial sector with 14.9 percent and the commercial sector 3.3 percent. The annual wood consumption in Pakistan is 43.761 million meters and the annual forest growth rate is 14.4 million cubic meters.

Due uncheck over the deforestation only 5% area is covered with trees which is decreasing with a high rate.we have to save our trees if we want to our next generation. As we are leading the world in the race of deforestation. So we must to organize the alternatives to save our next generation, our country and trees as well.

Water Crisis in Pakistan

Pakistan’s water situation is extremely precarious. Water availability has plummeted from about 5,000 cubic metres per capita in the early 1950s to less than 1,500 per capita today.. Pakistan is expected to become water-scarce (the designation of a country with annual water availability below 1,000 cubic metres per capita) by 2035, though some experts say this may happen as soon as 2020, if not earlier.

At least 90 per cent of Pakistan’s dwindling water resources are allocated to irrigation and other agricultural needs. This is not entirely surprising, given that Pakistan is an overwhelmingly arid country with an agriculture-dependent economy.

Intensive irrigation regimes and poor drainage practices have caused waterlogging and soil salinity throughout Pakistan’s countryside. As a result, vast expanses of the nation’s rich agricultural lands are too wet or salty to yield any meaningful harvests.

Pakistan’s limited water supplies dedicated to agriculture, less than 10 per cent is left for drinking water and sanitation. As the country’s population has surged, large volumes of water from the Indus have been diverted upstream to Punjab to satisfy soaring demand for agriculture and for consumption in cities.

Perhaps the most powerful accelerant of Pakistan’s water crisis is global warming. The Indus River Basin — Pakistan’s chief water source — obtains its water stocks from the snows and rains of the western Himalayas. However, few — if any — areas of the world are suffering from the effects of climate change as much as this legendary mountain region.

Many of its glaciers are already thinning by up to a metre per year. This rapid melting pattern — coupled with another consequence of global warming, high-intensity precipitation — is expected to aggravate river flooding. Once the glaciers have melted, river flows are expected to decrease dramatically.

It means an exacerbation of the ‘already serious problems’ of flooding and poor drainage in the Indus Basin over the next 50 years, followed by up to a ‘terrifying’ 30-40 per cent drop in river flows in 100 years’ time.

The need of the hour is that we must have to take the immediate steps and our has Govt has to be active and play its part to save the country and our next generation too.

Global Warming and Pakistan

The adverse impact of the rising global warming on human and other forms of life is becoming clearer day by day, which is adding to man kinds’ fear for the future. Industrial states of the world are being the reason for atmospheric pollution that spurs global warming. And now developing countries like China are adding to pollution by heavily relying on coal for power generation.

Industrial states, led by the United States, add to pollution through gas and heat emissions from their factories and the fleet of big cars they use.

Now not only coal, which is being used by developing countries as a source of energy, add to global warming, but also the many automobiles on roads contribute a great deal to pollution and slow change in climate.

In the next 50 years most severe impact of global warming will be felt through its effect on water, glaciers as a result of the climatic change, would melt down, initially increase the risk of flood and would later reduce water supplies to a great extent.

Decline in crop yields could create a famine-like situation and there would be a world- wide increase in deaths from malnutrition and heat stress in lower altitudes.

Rising sea levels will put hundreds of millions of people at risk for being flooded each year. About 15 to 40 per cent of all species could face extinction as a result of global warming.

Fighting global warming would cost about one per cent of the annual global GDP by 2050. Initially the developed countries should shoulder most of the burden.

The tsunami in Southeast Asia and the further convulsions that followed are said to be the result of climatic changes. There were hints that the earthquake in the North-West Pakistan could be the outcome of climatic change. Even un-seasonal rains in Pakistan are being attributed to climatic changes.

When it comes to Pakistan, we have only guesswork instead of thorough research. What is known is that the atmospheric pollution is widespread and centres in large cities like Karachi are highly polluted by automobile fumes.

Rivers are polluted by industrial effluents dumped in them all over Pakistan. Even coastal waters around Karachi are polluted by industrial waste and chemicals dumped into the sea which poison the sea life as well.

The greater threat is yet to come and that will be from the mining operation of coal for production of power. The Thar coal is set to be one of largest coal mine based on using imported coal, and a coal port is being set up. The imported coal will be initially mixed with the local coal which will gradually replace the imported coal.

The automobile industry in Pakistan has set a target of half a million vehicles within five years. That is apart from the rising imports of cars which are gas guzzlers. All that will add to the pollution in a big way.

Right now an old rickshaw in the city emits more smoke than a medium-sized factory does, and the hope that such hazards would be removed seems remote. It has been suggested from time to time that auto-rickshaws should be banned, but when that would be done no one knows.

We live in a country where high-priced bottle water is not pure in most cases and even medicines are adulterated, not to speak of food items. That is not the kind of environment in which we can fight pollution which leads to global warming and climatic change for the worse.

As a result of global warming, fish migrate to better environments, birds fly off to suitable places and animals move to more hospitable climates. No country can afford such losses, so global warming has to be checked.

We have to begin an entire new chapter of our ecological life and improve it constantly instead of smugly presuming ‘we have lived with fumes so far and can live with some more’, which is a form of slow suicide.We have a ministry of environment, but nobody knows what it does? We have to save our next generation and our country.