Realizing Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): Need for an Indigenous Approach

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Realizing Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): Need for an Indigenous Approach

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Author(s): Khalid Rahman

Publication date (Print): 2016

Journal: Policy Perspectives: The Journal of the Institute of Policy Studies

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In September 2015, the United Nations (UN) General Assembly adopted a new global development agenda entitled, “Transforming Our World: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.” The new targets set under the agenda are assumed to guide the member countries in their decisions about development issues over next 15 years. Pakistan's performance in the past, in terms of achieving Millennium Development Goals or MDG's has not been very encouraging. Thus, the situation demands for devising a robust strategy, which would involve and actively engage different social groups of Pakistani society towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals or SDGs. To this, one important aspect relates to prevailing socio-political trends in Pakistani society, where Islamic beliefs and inclinations have always been an alive reality. Here, in this situation, the question arises whether these Islamic trends can help in developing a successful strategy for achieving the SDGs. This study is with reference to Pakistan only, however, its application may equally be valid for other Muslim societies considering local circumstances.

This paper is an extension of the two presentations that the author made on similar subjects in a UNOSD workshop held in Abu Dhabi from Oct. 27 to 29, 2015 and in Oslo University in a seminar on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Pakistan and Islam on January, 12, 2016. The author is particularly thankful to Syed Nadeem Farhat and Tauqeer Ahmad for their input during the course of writing this paper.

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Title: Policy Perspectives: The Journal of the Institute of Policy Studies

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ISSN (Print): 18121829

ISSN (Electronic): 18127347

Publication date (Print): 2016

Volume: 13

Issue: 2

Pages: 3-27

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Director General, Institute of Policy Studies, Islamabad.

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[1] Ahmad, Khurshid. “Man and the Future of Civilization: An Islamic Perspective”, in Encounters, The Islamic Foundation, Vol.1, No.1 (March 1995), p. 45.

[2] Pakistan Law Digest , various issues.

[3] Rahman, Khalid. “Towards Responsible Citizenry: Conceptual Framework and the Way Forward” in Policy Perspectives vol. 11 no. 2, 2014, Islamabad.

[4] Sahih Al-Bukhari (available at www.sunnah.com)

[5] Sahih Al-Muslim (available at www.sunnah.com)

[6] Sherwani, Latif Ahmad. Speeches, Writings, and Statements of Iqbal. Lahore: Iqbal Academy, 1977 [1944], 2nd ed., revised and enlarged.

[7] Stiglitz, Joseph. Making Globalization Work. 2007

[8] Sunan Abi Daud (available at www.sunnah.com)

[9] Sunan Abn Maja (available at www.sunnah.com)

[10] Sunan Al-Nisai (available at www.sunnah.com)

[11] Sunan Al-Tirmidhi (available at www.sunnah.com)

[12] The Constituent Assembly of Pakistan Debates , Volume V, March 7, 1949.