Village Life in Pakistan

A typical Pakistan village is a remote place showing very little sing of Modern progress and development. It consists of mudhouses with a Mosque and a few other houses built with red bricks and cement.Narrow paths and lanes wind through it. It has no connection with the Other villages or towns except a small track which, in rainy season Becomes muddy and impassable. Sanitary conditions are hopeless . Dirty water runs everywhere in the lanes and breedsmosquitoes. It is Only natural that diseases like influenza, cholera and dysentery kill Hundreds of people every year. The population of a village consists Of farmers and a group of artisans like carpenters, blacksmiths, Shoe-makers etc. the main occupation of the majority of the people Is to grow food and other necessary crops. Most of their time is spent In trying to get enough food from there land. They rarely, if ever, goTo large cities. They have few requirements and the nearest market-town Can supply their needs. They also sell their surplus wheat, rice and other Commodities there. The villagers are dependent on climate and rains. A Good timely monsoon means prosperity and happiness. But when there is No rain, or more than what is good for crops, they are ruined, for all they Have is their land and the crops it grows. When the crops fail, the money Lenders prosper. The villagers are hard workers. Men and women bothWork in the fields while the children look after the cattle. Their life is A life of struggle and poverty. But struggle and poverty have

not dampened Their spirits. Our folk songs and rural romances show the courage and gaiety Of the villagers.

Village Life in Pakistan

Breathing in a air which is free of contamination and pollution is a dream which every person living in a crowded city sees throughout his life. This dream comes true whenever one avails a chance to visit a village away from all the noise, pollution and hustle and bustle of the cities. Pakistani villages have their own charm, there was a time when people did not even have the electricity and water connections in the villages but they lived happily. Lush green fields, pure food and mind it (pure milk) are the main characteristics which you can not avail in the cities in your whole life time. Every person knows the other. People share in their sorrows and joys. Whenever a stranger enters the village the whole population comes to know it within no time. Today even the hospitals and public schools are being built near the villages so that the trend of urbanization could be minimized and people of villages could get the facilities not very far from their houses. Life goes at a slow pace and one enjoys the natural scenes and natural foods and what not? I shall never miss an opportunity to visit my village.