Unemployment in Pakistan

Unemployment is a term refers to the situation where a person searches for the employment but fails to find the work. Unemployment also used as the measure of economic health of a nation. However, its alarming situation for Pakistan since its rate of unemployment is steadily increasing year by year. According to economic survey 2015-2016 unemployment rate of Pakistan is 6% which was 4.3% couple of year ago.

Causes of Unemployment:

(i) Energy Crisis:

Because of energy crisis the industrial and corporate sector is damaged badly. Factories and mills are forced to shut down because of no power supply. This situation is the core participant of unemployment in Pakistan.

(ii) Corruption:

Corrupt administration is another contributor to unemployment where the one offering bribe is prioritized over deserved and/or worthy candidate. Asking for bribes in recruitment process is so common practice in Pakistan which discourages and causes frustration in youngsters.

(iii) Population:

The rapidly increasing population of Pakistan is unpropitious. The scarce resources are unable to fulfill the needs of increasing population so as the corporate world. The supply and demand of labor is imbalance in Pakistan since the supply exceeds the demand of labor, which causes unemployment.

Impacts of Unemployment:

(i) Poverty:

Unemployment leads to poverty, and poverty leads to social and economical destruction. Poverty refers to a condition when people don’t have resources to fulfill their basic needs to survive. Poverty has destructive results on nation which may lead to civil wars.

(ii) Crime:

This is the subsequent level of poverty where unemployed person opts to get into criminal activities to fulfill his basic needs for survival. Such criminal activities lead to serious crimes.

(iii) Terrorism:

This is the ultimate threat from unemployment, when an unemployed person, sick & tired of poverty, joins the terrorist organization or rebellions. Such activities directly go against national interests. This is the core reason behind increasing terrorist activities in Pakistan.

(iv) Drug Addiction and Trafficking:

Unemployment leads to a frustrated state of mind. For peace of mind mostly people (who are unemployed for a longer time) start doing drugs. A drug is any substance other than food, that when inhaled, injected, smoked, consumed or absorbed causes a physiological change in the body e.g. Marijuana, ecstasy, cocaine, LSD, and heroin etc. The excessive consumption of drugs leads to drug trafficking where the consumer starts drugs-trading for the sake of money.

(v) Suicide:

It is an unfortunate situation where unemployed person feels helpless and tries to end his life by committing suicide. There are thousands of reported suicide cases relating to unemployment in Pakistan.

Conclusion and Recommendations:

It’s an established fact that the results of unemployment are horrifying and it must be controlled as soon as possible. The government must take some serious steps in order to curb the increasing rate of unemployment, out of which some steps are give below.

· Provide consistent energy supply to industries so that industrial revival can be possible and jobs could be created for unemployed persons.

· Control corruption and increase transparency in recruitment process so that eligible and on-merit candidates could be selected.

· Provide unemployment allowance to fulfill basic needs for survival.

· Control increasing population by initiating governmental family planning policies.

· Specifying a part of annual budget to be spent on “Public Sector Development Programs” so that adequate jobs could be created for unemployed persons.

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