{"id":11470,"date":"2011-01-07T09:50:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-07T04:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jworldtimes.com\/old-site\/jwt2015\/?p=11470"},"modified":"2017-05-09T09:55:20","modified_gmt":"2017-05-09T04:55:20","slug":"crisis-of-good-governance-in-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jworldtimes.com\/old-site\/studykit\/essay\/crisis-of-good-governance-in-pakistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Crisis of Good Governance in Pakistan"},"content":{"rendered":"
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An essay outline regarding the CSS and other competitive examinations relating to the topic of crisis or bad governance, essentials, causes and remedies.<\/span><\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Introduction<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Good governance is a prerequisite for social harmony, public order, political stability, economic prosperity and certainty about future. It delivers the fruit of progress and development evenly to all and sundry. Good governance is required at all levels of society and state.<\/p>\n

Essentials of good governance<\/span><\/b>
\nPromotion of national cohesion
\nNational integration
\nInstitutional supremacy
\nIndependent judiciary
\nConstitutional supremacy
\nRule of law
\nPolitical stability
\nEducational opportunities
\nSocio-economic development
\nEqual distribution of resources
\nWelfare state with provision of social securities
\nStrong writ of the government on all fronts<\/p>\n

Situation of governance in Pakistan<\/span><\/b>
\nForces of disintegration — stronger than forces of cohesion
\nWeak writ of the government
\nAbsence of independent judiciary
\nNo rule of law
\nPolitical instability
\nInterprovincial conflicts
\nUnequal distribution of resources
\nPakistan presenting a picture of extreme bad governance on all national fronts<\/p>\n

Causes<\/b>
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\nPolitical causes<\/span><\/b>
\nParliament, a toothless tiger
\nPolitical instability due to constant military interference
\nIssue of provincialism on revenue, resources and demand of provincial autonomy<\/p>\n

Administrative causes<\/span><\/b>
\nBureaucratic hold on all institutions
\nPolitical interference on bureaucracy
\nCorruption, mother of all evils
\nAbsence of culture of accountability
\nMismanagement of resources
\nPakistan, a soft state because of inability of implementation of policies due to lack of consensus<\/p>\n

Economic causes \u00a0<\/span><\/b>
\nFragile economy – FDI shrinking on account of terrorism and political instability
\nCrisis of energy, food, water
\nCorruption from top to bottom creating burden on the government exchequer<\/p>\n

Social causes<\/span><\/b>
\nPoverty’ 40 per cent population living below the poverty line (UN reports)
\nOver population -16.6 crore ( Economic Survey of Pakistan 2009)
\nIlliteracy leading to socio-economic backwardness<\/p>\n

Remedies<\/span><\/b>
\nPakistan is in dire need of truly capable leadership
\nStrong anti-corruption campaigns strengthening National Accountability Bureau
\nStrict accountability of all government servants in particular and common masses in general
\nInvestment in socio-economic development
\nAllocation of seven per cent GDP for education
\nThree per cent for population control
\nThree per cent for poverty alleviation
\nGeneration of new employment opportunities
\nEqual distribution of resources
\nEnsuring freedom of press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An essay outline regarding the CSS and other competitive examinations relating to the topic of crisis or bad governance, essentials, causes and remedies. Introduction Good governance is a prerequisite for social harmony, public order, political stability, economic prosperity and certainty about future. It delivers the fruit of progress and development evenly to all and sundry. …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":919,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[33,8031],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jworldtimes.com\/old-site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11470"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jworldtimes.com\/old-site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jworldtimes.com\/old-site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jworldtimes.com\/old-site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/919"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jworldtimes.com\/old-site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jworldtimes.com\/old-site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11470\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jworldtimes.com\/old-site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jworldtimes.com\/old-site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jworldtimes.com\/old-site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}