As we welcome the New Year, Pakistan is grappling with several long-standing issues that should have been addressed by the end of 2024, but as usual, persist with us into the next year.
On the first dawn of the 2025, we faced the same issues with the same familiar faces of incompetent and unprincipled politicians, which raises the question of proficiency to fulfil the promises they make every time before coming to power. Terrorism, climate change, overdue education reforms, political polarisation, and the list goes on, are some of the biggest unmet challenges of this year Let us unpack these issues one by one.
Terrorism Eradication: This is one of the most serious challenges Pakistan has been grappling with over the past two long decades. Each day is bringing more attacks with military and civilian casualties, thus putting their families in inconsolable pain and financial burden. In November 2024 alone, there was a marked spike in terror attacks reported last month, taking the death toll from 100 in October to 169 in November, with more than 220 people critically injured. There are some proscribed outfits like Baluchistan Liberation Army and Tehreek Taliban Pakistan that have carried out attacks inside Pakistan from Afgh
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