Friday 10 April 2009

Of Struggling Times

People drag a pipe to get water from a government funded water supply along a drain covered with garbage at a slum area in Karachi. Pakistanis are facing shortage of clean drinking water due to lowest level of water in the country's dams, according to Pakistani Meteorological Department.

Children attend an evening class under poor lighting in a makeshift classroom set up in shops in slums of Karachi. There are hundreds of such private schools all over the country where students are deprived of basic facilities like desks and school buildings. The government claims it is paying attention to education and health, but on the ground the reality is different.

Pakistani farmers thrash their wheat crop in Dadu, 300 kilometers from Karachi. Pakistan is facing serious crisis of wheat shortage which soars up the prices of wheat flour and its products. Pakistan government import wheat to meet the shortage.

A firefighter struggles to extinguish a fire at a paint factory in Karachi

Pakistani children ask for food during food distribution in Rawalpindi. Pakistan is on a rapid trajectory to failure as a democratic and stable state, and needs a boost of $4 billion in aid and loans each year to begin turning around, a private foreign affairs group has concluded.

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