By: Deedar Ali Bangwar
Around the world, the youth is the driving force of society, which can lead it towards prosperity, and progress. In Pakistan, the youth make up nearly 63% of the total population. Unfortunately, however, it receives little support, investment, or backing to play an active role in the change and development of the country. Resultantly, the youth find themselves trapped in uncertainty, fear of failure, depression, parental and peer pressure, drug addiction, and mental illnesses. This further prevents them from realizing their potential and undertaking initiatives to work towards the improvement of their prospects.
Without an empowered youth, a country can never achieve success or progress. An educated and empowered youth is responsible and willing to steer society towards change on their own. By integrating the youth into the political and economic spheres, the youth feel a sense of belongingness and are willing to lead and resolve problems. They are dedicated to their motivations and want to work for the betterment of everyone.
The evolution, from the hunter-gatherers to the dawn of industrialization, every society put the youth before facing the cataclysm. Among all, the youth is the driver behind the apparatus that lead society towards the pinnacle of prosperity, technology and advancement. Since the youth, surely is, full of potentialities and capabilities, does the best to put forward any nation. Ostensibly, nonetheless, our youth — about 63 per cent of the total population — is lacking the way, support, investment and backing to underpin or get involved in the process of development and betterment of the nation. Resultantly, after the partition, nothing has changed, but the time. Correspondingly, it is the only youth that can conspicuous and uplift the murky scope of progress, integrity, development, and pragmatic flaunt of a nation despite facing provocative hampers in its way. Being persistent having tolerance and keeping perseverance guarantees success individually as well as nationally. The country’s delinquency, to provide means and ways, to unfold the potentialities and capabilities they are gifted with, is but, so far, a distant dream, leaving his asset —youth — to be obsolete. The endeavors to endow or fulfill the lacking attention has never taken place. Thus, the youth, for now, is suffering, involving itself in indigenous crafts, and, undertaking to be self-sufficient in this hyperinflation.
Rusticity is tightening his paws, peculiarly among youth, immensely. The ways and means for knowing the potentialities and capacities the youth is blessed with would not be bestowed or provided as long as we are tacit. Being the asset of Pakistan, the youth is quite quiet and quit to be painstaking owing to no solution or techniques to work for the country being sight so far, and how long, the government would run from its responsibilities by providing or delivering the due declarations for the youth.
A thorough glimpse in history demonstrates that when and whoever provides youth to let their potentialities put into the practice, has all the ease that was a dream a long ago. Despite the fact, that the youth we have is nowhere, the nation is struggling from all the miseries, sufferings and woes, a low-level country faces.
The days had gone when the human, in ancient times, was striving merely for its survival, but the very dawn of technology is because of the youth, that makes humans possible to attain every ease of life or all the things that were a pipe dream for humankind is an exhibit now. From rocket science to that trivial things, is all feasible in the score of painstaking youth sans any dilly-dally. And this post-industrial world everything is a long hanging fruit in contemporary times. This means, that the society that never compromised youth, or never gets hesitant in investing youth to unfold the potentialities of it, is superior to others.
The government should take measures to include the youth in the social, political and economic spheres through educational scholarships, training workshops, fellowships, and more as it would significantly benefit the country. In the short term, it can help curb issues such as drug abuse and the youth’s involvement in criminal activities. In the long term, the country can benefit from increased labour productivity and innovation. The youth can bring new ideas and perspectives into organizations, share responsibilities, and increase an organisation’s credibility amongst different segments of the population. This will support the youth in building self-confidence, and other interpersonal skills, which will ultimately result in an educated and disciplined population.
The writer is a freelance columnist based in Kandhkot, Sindh. He can be reached at [email protected]