"Pakistan should have a national “Teach for Pakistan” corps made up of educated youth from across the country.
This corps should be sent to villages and towns across the country to provide basic literacy and math skills. Corps members should be paid decent wages for their work and the members ought to be treated as patriots playing a role for the country."
I love this idea, and considering the way our relations and major cities are all connected to numerous villages and towns, this should not be a difficult mission to undertake, but it will be difficult to initiate and come to terms with, will need solid leadership to implement adequately. In almost all developed countries, young kids work part time jobs etc., the concept barely exists here, this could be our way of pushing young adults into reality.
You have pin pointed the problems on which there could be a broader consensus. But for that to happen, there needs to be a political discourse in which all the stakeholders sit together, discuss and prioritize issues, formulate a strategy, implement it and then devise a performance evaluation mechanism to make sure that the progress is monitored. The boys should realize that this 'Hybrid Governance' model is not working. They need to take a back seat and allow the elected representatives of the people to govern. Parliament should be the place for these discussions, but we have seen in the past 2 and a half years that it has become redundant in conducting a meaningful policy debate. So moving forward, Political Stability is the foremost thing which needs to happen. It's the responsibility of the sitting government to create such an environment for debating these issues in the parliament and resolve them with consensus. Imran Khan should get off of his high horse and stop beating around the bush with irrelevant and non-sensical rhetoric of corruption and calling people thieves etc. There's always an opportunity in the crisis. He needs to demonstrate TRUE LEADERSHIP and unite people instead of dividing them.
First: Grand National Dialogue on political intervention of non political forces must take place and conclude. Frequent intervention has caused more harm than good.
Second: FBR has to reform and reform quickly. At the moment majority of the tax collection is at import stage and then from withholding agents. FBR is struggling to increase tax filers from 3M. Reform FBR to ensure atleast 20M+ new tax filers.
Third Power Sector reform must conclude.
Fourth: Education; Agreed. HEC must reinvent, explore what should be done to improve quality of tech universities.
Fifth: Health sector reforms. Health card is a good sign. There is a need to move for service improvement.
Sixth: Diversify the economy. Tech startups, Government should setup its own investment fund and closely collaborate with universities.
Seventh: Agri sector needs a review. Recent debacle in cotton production should be an eye opener. Olive initiative is a success story. We need more success stories.
"Pakistan should have a national “Teach for Pakistan” corps made up of educated youth from across the country.
This corps should be sent to villages and towns across the country to provide basic literacy and math skills. Corps members should be paid decent wages for their work and the members ought to be treated as patriots playing a role for the country."
I love this idea, and considering the way our relations and major cities are all connected to numerous villages and towns, this should not be a difficult mission to undertake, but it will be difficult to initiate and come to terms with, will need solid leadership to implement adequately. In almost all developed countries, young kids work part time jobs etc., the concept barely exists here, this could be our way of pushing young adults into reality.
You have pin pointed the problems on which there could be a broader consensus. But for that to happen, there needs to be a political discourse in which all the stakeholders sit together, discuss and prioritize issues, formulate a strategy, implement it and then devise a performance evaluation mechanism to make sure that the progress is monitored. The boys should realize that this 'Hybrid Governance' model is not working. They need to take a back seat and allow the elected representatives of the people to govern. Parliament should be the place for these discussions, but we have seen in the past 2 and a half years that it has become redundant in conducting a meaningful policy debate. So moving forward, Political Stability is the foremost thing which needs to happen. It's the responsibility of the sitting government to create such an environment for debating these issues in the parliament and resolve them with consensus. Imran Khan should get off of his high horse and stop beating around the bush with irrelevant and non-sensical rhetoric of corruption and calling people thieves etc. There's always an opportunity in the crisis. He needs to demonstrate TRUE LEADERSHIP and unite people instead of dividing them.
First: Grand National Dialogue on political intervention of non political forces must take place and conclude. Frequent intervention has caused more harm than good.
Second: FBR has to reform and reform quickly. At the moment majority of the tax collection is at import stage and then from withholding agents. FBR is struggling to increase tax filers from 3M. Reform FBR to ensure atleast 20M+ new tax filers.
Third Power Sector reform must conclude.
Fourth: Education; Agreed. HEC must reinvent, explore what should be done to improve quality of tech universities.
Fifth: Health sector reforms. Health card is a good sign. There is a need to move for service improvement.
Sixth: Diversify the economy. Tech startups, Government should setup its own investment fund and closely collaborate with universities.
Seventh: Agri sector needs a review. Recent debacle in cotton production should be an eye opener. Olive initiative is a success story. We need more success stories.