Social Work in Pakistan

Social work Profession is not a newly born profession around the globe and not a very new profession in Pakistan. After the independence of Pakistan in 1947, its people had to face numerous problems including rehabilitation of migrants, hunger & poverty, structural and administrative problems etc. to combat with the problems, considering it the emergent need of the time, the very first batch of skillful social workers was trained in 1952, with the support of U.N.O. later on a 2 years master degree program was started in 1954 at Punjab University, Lahore: Karachi University, Karachi and Dhaka university, Bengal (which was a part of Pakistan then, and now it is an independent country, Bangladesh). Every year hundreds of professional social workers are being trained from different universities of the country since last six decades and Social Work Profession has not attained the deserving status among other contemporary Professions¿ why??? This book is an effort to know the root causes, hindering in the way of understanding and recognition of Social Work Profession in Pakistan.