Executive President IPS Khalid Rahman delivered a lecture titled ‘Poverty, Religion and Development (in Pakistan) – Islamic Concept of Combating Poverty’ on October 23, 2020 in a three-day training course ‘Poverty Reduction Strategies: Sustainability Issues and Way Forward’.
Organized by Akhtar Hameed Khan National Centre for Rural Development (AHK-NCRD) from October 19-23, 2020, the training was attended by various senior and middle level officials belonging to government, non-government and academic sectors from across the country.
In his detailed presentation delivered on the occasion, Rahman maintained that Islam attempts to eradicate poverty through a consolidated system to Zakat and Ushr. He further explained that Islam has provided many ways to cure the problem of poverty, handing over the responsibilities to the state in some cases and to the people in others, whereas there may also be some scenarios where the obligation would be shared by the state and the society mutually.
