by Akram Saqib

Created on: July 13, 2008   Last Updated: August 29, 2008

Poverty that is the conglomerate of bad luck and worse circumstances is a main headline of the news magazines and journals. Poverty is a dragon that has many ugly facets.These varied shapes of this anathema are a source of filling up the pages of the news journals.
There are manifold reasons that make poverty a news story.The first of these is the curious nature of man.He always wants to know about others.Poverty quenches the thirst of a man in this regard. He always sees odd, weird and strange happenings due to poverty. He reads about a mother who killed her children due to hunger. He watches that a father slaughtered his family because he was not able to feed it. He reads that a brother ate to his fill while his little sisters and brother died due to famine.All these unholy happenings fulfill the curiosity of a man. If one is hungry, he can sell his honor his homeland and even his loved ones. It is a curse that gnaws at the very roots of the humanity. That is why it is the main stream story of all the news channels of all the times. It is not only shown in the media but also discussed in the meetings and seminars. It is put forward in the parliaments and the cabinets. It is so important phenomena that the UNO had to include it in its millennium development goals.

The ever hot issue is the poverty that is present everywhere in the world. The most powerful nations of the world are not devoid of this anathema. A lot of people die due to hunger and non availability of eatables in the advanced countries of the world.
According to the facts and figures of the UNO about 25000 deaths occur daily due to non availability of food .It means that one person is dying in every four seconds. The children are the worst prey to the dragon of poverty all over the world.

Irony of the situation is that there is plenty of food present in the reservoirs of the world. In spite of the presence of the stock piles the food is not available to the hungry and the poor of the world. The major cause behind this non availability of food is the money. The poor have no money to buy this food and are not able to live. Constant starvation makes them weak and they did not remain able to work. This unemployment breaks their neck and they get down and down in the abyss of poverty and hunger.

This vicious circle ends in unfortunate deaths of these pitiable people. Whole the world remains watching these hapless human beings dying only due to lack of few dollars. Not only the one man dies but also his

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