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Good Governance Forum invited to DESA-United Nations MDG Summit at General Assembly

Good Governance Forum, registered as a civil society organization/non-governmental organization with the Dept of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) of the United Nations received invitation from DESA to nominate 3 participants/speakers from the Good Governance Forum for attending the interactive MDG Summit at General Assembly in New York from 14-15 June 2010.

HOW DOES GOOD GOVERNANCE FORUM OPERATE?

Good Governance Forum is Pakistan's First and Only interactive Think Tank. It is the Largest, Most Diversified and Most Globally Searched platform for exchange of news and views amongst its 3000+ network members from all walks of life. Its blog http://ggovernance.blogspot.com ranks amongst the TOP 10 on Google, Yahoo! and Bing.

GGF conducts research on key national issues; collects data, analyzes facts and recommends measures to the federal and provincial governments. It also files applications in the Supreme Court of Pakistan as well as the Lahore High Court to direct the relevant government to take action. You can view applications on http://judicialpetitionspakistan.blogspot.com.

GGF regularly feeds the print and electronic media with its news and views for exposure to general public. It interacts with other civil society organizations and support their endeavours to improve governance in Pakistan.

GOVERNANCE ISSUES IN PAKISTAN

Good governance has been an over-riding, perennial, key issue in Pakistan during its 61-year history, starting from the 14th of August 1947. Without going into the past, the country is today faced with grave public issues of inflation, unemployment, poverty, law and order, electricity, water, gas, transport, housing, education, health, justice, corruption, maladministration, and political instability. The tasks ahead are gigantic and demand a high level of competence, courage and commitment from the political leadership, civilian bureaucracy, and civil society organizations to lead the country of 180 million souls to stability, progress and prosperity.

Pakistan is probably one of the rare countries of the world endowed with every thing. It has land, sea, rivers, four seasons, manpower, agriculture, industry, natural and mineral resources, oil, gas, vegetables, fruits, foodgrains, livestock, dairy farms, roads, railways, airways, shipping lines, telecommunications, coastline, and what not. It can meet most of its requirements from its domestic resources.

What Pakistan badly needs today is the WILL TO DO AND THE COMPETENCE TO DO to tap the country's vast resources. Nothing can stop the country from progressing fast once its will to do is put into full gear. Competence will come along. Money, technology, and foreign collaboration are no problem once the political stability is achieved, progressive policies are formulated, and well-designed programmes are implemented in all earnest to show to the world that we are determined to move ahead in the new century.

Under the country's Constitution, adopted by all political parties and provinces in 1973, the role of each organ of the state i.e. the executive, parliament and judiciary is clearly defined. What is needed is the adherence of the political government to the tenets of the Constitution. With Unity, Faith and Discipline in our heads and hearts, we can live together, work together and progress together. Sectarian, linguistic, and ethnic considerations cannot overtake the nation's determination to forge unity and live in peace.

The ongoing threat of militancy in the tribal belt is borne out of the absence of political government, equitable distribution of wealth and resources, economic, legal and social justice, respect for tribal traditions, customs and values and fair and firm settlement of issues agitating the minds of the tribes. The tribes are as good Muslims, patriotic and Pakistani as anybody else but like country's other regions, the tribal region also needs a different treatment. Once the government of Pakistan is fully conscious of the underlying stresses and strains and it determines with courage, confidence and competence to resolve the thorny issues, peace and tranquility are bound to return faster than imagined.

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How you can make a donation!

Citizens living in Pakistan can make a direct deposit into our bank account in Standard Chartered Bank in any of bank's branches in Pakistan for online transfer to our account as follows:

Standard Chartered Bank
M. M. Alam Road Branch
Gulberg III, Lahore, Pakistan
Account Title: Good Governance Forum
Account Type: Current
Account No. 01144245001

Citizens living outside Pakistan can make a donation via Western Union or Money Gram. OR ask their friends in Pakistan to make a direct deposit into our bank account in any branch of the Standard Chartered Bank in their city for online transfer to our account.

For further queries, please email good.governance@gmail.com

Upcoming Projects

Good Governance Forum's upcoming projects can be viewed at http://awamirabitacommittees.blogspot.com and http://goodgovernancecouncil.blogspot.com

HOW DOES GOOD GOVERNANCE FORUM OPERATE?

Good Governance Forum is Pakistan's First and Only interactiveThink Tank. It is the Largest, Most Diversified and Most Globally Searched platform for exchange of news and views amongst its 3000+ network members from all walks of life.

It conducts research on key national issues; collects data, analyzes facts and recommends measures to the federal and provincial governments. It also files applications in the Supreme Court of Pakistan as well as the Lahore High Court to direct the relevant government to take action. You can view applications on http://judicialpetitionspakistan.blogspot.com.

It regularly feeds the print and electronic media with its news and views for exposure to general public. It interacts with other civil society organizations and support their endeavours to improve governance in Pakistan.

CHANGE FOR THE BETTER IS POSSIBLE WITH COLLECTIVE WISDOM OF THE PEOPLE

We can definitely improve upon the lives of 70% of Pakistan's impoverished population by eliminating corruption from all levels of the state organs, particularly the higher echelons of the executive, legislatures, and bureaucracy.

The politicians, the business community and the bureaucracy have together ruined the entire pyramid of responsibility, authority and accountability over the past sixty years of Pakistan's independence. Overall maladministration has robbed the national exchequer of billions of dollars worth of assets in cash and kind.

The country is today indebted to the tune of US$ 60 billion in foreign loans and the total public debt including the domestic and external debts has reached Rs 10 trillion. Huge debt servicing, billions of losses from the non-performing state enterprises and the non-productive expenditure of the government leave only 25% of the budget for the public sector development. That means Rs 730 billion, out of the budget of Rs 2.7 trillion, for 180 million people in the fiscal year.

Change for the Better in Pakistan can come ONLY through the untiring efforts of the educated and enlightened civil society members. Moving ahead with courage, confidence and commitment is the Need of the Hour. Today's failures will be tomorrow's monsters for the new generations.

Come forward and Join hands to improve governance in Pakistan by ending corruption and eliminating the roots of terrorism originating from deprivation of the people at large.

GOVERNANCE ISSUES IN PAKISTAN

WHY People are Vulnerable to Extremism, Militancy and Terrorism in Pakistan?

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Extremism, Militancy and Terrorism are the violent modes of protest largely adopted by the people who are deprived of economic, social, judicial, ethnic and political equality, rights and privileges. These helpless and hapless people are vulnerable to inducement by certain non-state actors to indulge in violence and crime.

Good Governance Forum is engaged in improving governance in Pakistan. It has over 3000 members from all walks of life dedicated to change the status quo by peaceful and lawful means. The forum is ranked amongst the TOP 3 of 5 million listings on Google and 28 million listings on Yahoo!. Its key members can be viewed at http://www.goodgovernanceforummembers.co.cc.

Good Governance Forum appeals to the world citizens to help its struggle to improve governance in Pakistan to alleviate the sufferings of the majority of 180 million fellow human beings squeezed in poverty, unemployment, inflation, corruption, socio-economic inequalities, illiteracy and insecurity.

The forum does not seek nor receive funds from government, political parties and special interest groups in and out of Pakistan. It is entirely dependent on individual contributions from within and outside Pakistan.

Website: www.goodgovernanceforum.com

Email: good.governance@gmail.com

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