Poverty leads to many social problems in Pakistan according to the document. Rising inequality causes frustration that leads some into crime, drugs, or corruption to survive. This damages security and the welfare of society. Poverty also forces children to work in poor conditions and prevents education. Women face social injustices like being killed for suspected relations or not being able to marry due to high dowries. Overall, the document argues that poverty exacerbates social issues in Pakistan more than directly causing problems.
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Poverty leads to many social problems in Pakistan according to the document. Rising inequality causes frustration that leads some into crime, drugs, or corruption to survive. This damages security and the welfare of society. Poverty also forces children to work in poor conditions and prevents education. Women face social injustices like being killed for suspected relations or not being able to marry due to high dowries. Overall, the document argues that poverty exacerbates social issues in Pakistan more than directly causing problems.
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Pakistan is a developing country characterized by rising poverty which is said to be the mother of all evils but apart from
apart from that there
are social trends,customs, norms and practices are more harmful for the mankind than thepoverty related issues. Let's discuss both briefly: Poverty leads towards a gap between poor and rich and this gap get widenand the poor becomes poorer and rich, richer. This situation leads the poorpeople towards frustration and to get normal they harm their own self orsometimes society. Thus, this frustration leads the young people towards theaddiction of drugs or crimes. They start smuggling, commit thefts to snatchtheir so called right and this leads towards societal insecurity and safetyproblems. People are killed and robbed and the concept of welfare state isdestroyed. Moreover, pressure of rising inflation and the social inequality,where people see their fellow citizens using luxuries lead poor people towardthe evil of bribery which is common feature of the public sector offices inPakistan. This increases the greed of the people taking bribery and the wholemachinery of the public administration get corrupted which is the case inPakistan. The frustrated people seek refuge under the shelter of drugs andthe healthy nation get close towards the doom of destruction. This situationis very much common in Pakistan where unemployment is on the peak andwithout reference or bribery the good jobs cannot be secured and the tiredand frustrated educated representative of the young nation starts takingdrugs. This story do not ends here. The children are abolished to go to schooland are forced to work for their livelihood. The work conditions and wagerates for such children are shamefully worst. Yet they are forced to do thework like beasts. Due to poverty fathers cannot afford another social evil thatis 'Jahez' and the poor daughter remains unmarried and sometimes commitssuicide by taking poison or burning themselves and if unfortunately she getsmarried she has to live with taunts or her in laws kills her and simply say that"the stove get blasted. Moreover, she is tortured for the doings she nevercommitted in her life. The women have been the subjected to the social evils before the slam wasspread on the earth. The Arabs use to bury their daughter alive. But in caseof Pakistan this tradition seems to be prevailing in other ways. 'Karo Kari' isan old tradition prevailing in the Sindh province of Pakistan according towhich when a man and women are found suspected to have relations the