Is Colonial Mentality Impeding Pakistan’s Progress Essay Outline
- Introduction
- Colonial history of subcontinent
- Colonial legacy’s impact in different sectors
- Sectors impact on Governance and administration
- Education system
- Civil service
- Legal system
- Sectors impact on Governance and administration
- Colonial impacts on economic sector
- Better transportation via rail system
- Canal system
- Colonial impact on political sector
- Emergence of political parties
- Election system was developed (participation of common man in choosing their government by using their right to vote)
- Colonial impact on social sector
- Social enlightenment of people
- Colonial impact on religious life of people.
- Question: Is colonial legacy really an impediment to Pakistan’s progress?
- Answer: The answer to this question is big NO : We as a nation have our own weaknesses
- Prove that colonial legacy is not a hindrance in our progress
- Factual proofs:
- Evidence from political and economic fields
- Evidence from social and religious fields
- Evidence from administrative fields
- Rational proof:
- Examples of other nations
- India (aspiring to be an Asian tiger)
- China
- Hong Kong ( they borrowed Pakistan’s development plan)
- South Africa
- Bangladesh (and many more)
- What factors are actually impeding our progress?
- Political instability
- Poor economic policies
- Illiteracy especially lack of technical training
- Rising population
- Non-employment of women in workforce
- Corruption
- No industrial development
- Brain drain
- An overall lazy and indifferent national attitude
- Sectarianism and Terrorism
- Provincialism
- Absence of “Federal Political Parties”
- Involvement in different wars
- Four wars against India
- Involvement in Afghan war of 1980’s and we faced its impacts in many different ways including burden of Afghan Muhajirs.
- War against terror
- How Pakistan can keep pace with the development countries?
- Conclusion
