Abstract
This review paper attempts to examine the causes and its underlying consequences of unemployment in the province of Balochistan. Following a short and critical description on Balochistan and the status of employment, the paper claims that Balochistan nevertheless with a vast and resourceful landmass lags other federating units (provinces) of the country in terms of alleconomic and social development. The theme of the paper is to discuss the overall situation of unemployment in Balochistan and to provide an understanding of the failure of past and current polices of the governments in addressing it. The paper argues that compared to other provinces of Pakistan,not only unemployment is high in Balochistan but also poverty, illiteracy, disease and misery, and latter are directly related with unemployment. This has been a persistent and critical issue for the last many decades and succeeding governments at federal and provincial level have failed to address thesethem.It is hard to believe that all ruling class both at the federal and provincial levelsince creation of Pakistan have felt exactly the same about the issue ofhigh level of unemployment inBalochistan and made the same promises to provide employment opportunities, yet without any tangible policy interventions.The paper suggests numerous areas for attention and action, through which the problem of unemployment can be resolved.
Keyword(s)
Unemployment, Political Economy, UNDERDEVELOPMENT, Balochistan’s economy