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2003-11-09 India-Pakistan

Pakistan sees poverty as biggest challenge

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Posted by Fred Pruitt 2003-11-09 13:32|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 i.e.: education in something other than the Koran

Posted by Frank G 2003-11-9 1:36:29 PM|| 2003-11-9 1:36:29 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 All it takes to eradicate poverty are three things: respect for private property; a general education that includes things like HISTORY, SCIENCE, and MATHEMATICS, instead of harping solely on religion, religion, religion; and personal freedoms, including freedom of expression. Guess which one is missing? If you said all three, go to the head of the class.

Posted by Old Patriot 2003-11-9 3:09:49 PM|| [http://users.codenet.net/mweather/default.htm] 2003-11-9 3:09:49 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 Shutting down the Madrasses would be step no. 1. OP---you summed it all up. All the rest is window dressing. Some rational thinking skills will help the position of women in their society. The only thing holding Pak up economically is US and Saudi money. And oiiiiiiiillllllllllll. Take a look at literacy rates in these areas and you can see what a hole these Islamocracies have dug themselves. (CIA world fact book is a good source)

Posted by Alaska Paul 2003-11-9 4:18:43 PM|| 2003-11-9 4:18:43 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 âa multi-dimensional approachâ and "efforts by states, civil society organisations and the international community" hmm...let me put this through the Babelfish... ..."first we're gonna beg the UN for money.Then we're going to beg the Merkins,may Allah slay them,BTW,for money.Then we're going to beg from the EU.Did I forget anybody?"

Posted by El Id 2003-11-9 5:17:06 PM|| 2003-11-9 5:17:06 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Get your head outta the Qu'ran, support your females getting a higher education (half their brain power's gone when they shut the women up in the homes), & quit encouraging your already poor to have more kids then they, the economy, or the environment can support........

Posted by Jarhead 2003-11-9 6:49:11 PM|| 2003-11-9 6:49:11 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 Let's just have NEC run a recruitment drive...No Madrasses Left Behind. (Hey it worked in public schools!)

Posted by john 2003-11-9 8:06:19 PM|| 2003-11-9 8:06:19 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 In the last decade and a half, poverty has increased in Pak from around 20% to around 30%; while India has experienced the inverse (or close to it)

Posted by Paul Moloney 2003-11-9 8:22:39 PM|| 2003-11-9 8:22:39 PM|| Front Page Top

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