Agenda 2025

This year, we must responsibly design cities, prioritize sustainability, address human rights, and unite to support vulnerable communities, ensuring no one struggles alone.

Shabbir Hussain Imam

As we step into 2025, we are confronted with a profound opportunity—a chance to break free from the negative patterns that marred the year before. A moment to pivot toward a future where our society is not just green, but alive with beauty, prosperity, and peace, crafted through deliberate, positive action. Transformation starts with individuals, communities, and regions nationwide.

Pollution challenges us; rethink actions for a cleaner future.

Pollution in air, water, and soil is a major challenge. In the coming year, we can initiate change by rethinking our environmental relationship. Start with simple actions like proper waste disposal. This small yet vital act impacts not only you but also your community and our planet’s future, fostering a cleaner, healthier environment.

Nonetheless, it doesn't finish with waste. The ways we travel—be it cars, bicycles, rickshaws, or others—silently contribute to the pollution we encounter daily. If your vehicle emits smoke, take appropriate action. Then, there is the noise. How frequently have we encountered the intense sound of horns or the loud din from speakers on the street? Noise pollution is not just a nuisance—it disrupts the peace that everyone is entitled to. In 2025, let’s broaden our views beyond individual conveniences and take cues from advanced nations, where respecting one another’s space and peace is a core cultural value.

This year necessitates a reevaluation of how we design our cities and neighborhoods. The uncontrolled expansion of shopping centers at the expense of farmland, gardens, and agricultural land leads to adverse effects. We must strike a balance—appreciating both our ambition for growth and our responsibility to safeguard the environment. Future environments must prioritize sustainability, livability, and beauty. By 2025, we should address essential human rights often denied to our community's vulnerable individuals. No one should endure the hopelessness of lacking life’s essentials—particularly to the extent of considering suicide. And as we acknowledge this, let us not overlook the numerous young girls, especially in disadvantaged communities, who endure the sorrow of being unable to wed because of a shortage of dowry. In this new year, it is the moment for a united endeavor—not only from the government but from every one of us—to make certain that these families are not abandoned to struggle alone. It is our moral obligation, and now is the moment to respond to the call.

The year 2025 should likewise be the time when peace establishes a lasting presence in our community. The menace of terrorism, a persistent scourge on our shared morality, must be eliminated. Let us aim for a country where individuals coexist peacefully—where language, region, religion, or caste do not serve as dividing factors, but as the fibers that unite us as Pakistanis. It's time to rethink our identity—not as divided factions, but as a single united nation, robust and enduring.

Education is an essential element in this change. An equitable and fair education system is not a choice anymore—it’s a vital necessity. Education acts as the foundation on which the future of our community will be established. Let’s ensure that every individual, no matter their background, can achieve it. Only then can we start to break down the barriers of discrimination and promote a fairer and more equal society.

Simultaneously, we must eradicate the issue of nepotism. Merit should be our fundamental principle—applicable to employment, advancements, and chances. We should respect the ideals of Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah, who envisioned a Pakistan where all citizens, irrespective of their status, enjoyed equal rights.

The year 2025 should likewise be a time of acknowledgment and regard for minority groups. They are a vital component of our country's makeup, entitled to the same rights and chances as all other citizens. Let’s not just vow to defend them, but to elevate them—to guarantee they never need to fight for what properly belongs to them.

Women’s empowerment is essential; enforcing rights regulations and removing obstacles are necessary. This societal obligation advances all lives, highlighting that empowering women uplifts everyone.

Women must also be empowered. The regulations established to safeguard and advance women’s rights need to be completely enforced, and the obstacles they encounter must be removed. This is not merely a moral obligation; it is a societal one. By empowering women, we uplift all.

Thus, the challenge for 2025 is significant, yet the aim is clear: to restore a society that reflects the genuine essence of Pakistan. A location where the wind brims with pride, where the sun radiates brilliantly over a country that is united in its pursuit of a better future. May this be a place where every individual—regardless of their history—experiences the embrace of community.

The journey forward necessitates everyone's participation. Let this year be the time when we transform our shared aspirations into reality. Let’s commit, united, to build a community that is eco-friendly, attractive, thriving, and harmonious. For the benefit of 2025—and the future.

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