Poverty - the only war worth fighting for?

At present, the question is, that in a third world nation, like Pakistan, whether the only war worth fighting is the war of poverty, or not? I keep listening to people, I keep listening to news, and I hear quite unchanged opinions. I hear people say, that the government should fight poverty. Poverty is the main problem of Pakistan, the main reason why we don’t develop, is because poverty pulls us back. I keep listening that the government has done this, or this to ‘help the flood victims.’ The government has given this much ‘blood money’ to someone’s family whose brother was killed in a terrorist attack. The government has given ‘funds’ for the rehabilitation of the affected.
THIS, they think, is the war against poverty, and the only war worth fighting is this war. Come on, can’t you see this is it! People are dying, we have to help them. Government is taking action, thank God. It’s a crucial time, we are fighting against poverty, we have to free our people from this.

WHAT? Wait, a minute.
STOP.
Think.
Think again.
You are living in a third world country. Why did the floods even come? Why did polio affect so many children? Why did terrorism loom? Why did people get killed?
  

The war on poverty is to be fought, but the war you are fighting is not the war against poverty. It has its significance, but its not the ‘only’ war we need to fight. Even more pathetic issues and dilemmas prevail in our society. There are even deadlier problems, of the community, of the nation, and those deadlier problems are all the ‘causes’ of this poverty that is prevalent. To name a few, there’s corruption, extortion, terrorism, mafia, smuggling, conspiracies, under invoicing, drugs, adultery, obscene practices, offensive acts, impersonation, rapes, murders...

 Think, for a moment! Can you diminish poverty, when such practices prevail? Can you spread the ray of equality when dishonesty dominates? Can you stop the outcomes of a disease, without wiping out the causes? You can't...

Why didn’t we make dams to control, when we know floods come out every year, when monsoon rains fall. Why didn’t we supply enough polio vaccines to children, when we know children get affected every year. Now, India has warned Pakistan to not get Indian visas with bogus polio vaccination certificates. This is what we were waiting for? Why can’t we bring in loyal people, why can’t we make our institutions corruption-free? Why didn’t we fight terrorism? Its no use giving money to the ones who lost their loved ones. You can never pay the price of losing someone. You can not bring the millions of people back but can’t we stop that from happening again?
You all must be familiar of this Chinese proverb... Give man a fish and you feed him for a day, Teach a man how to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. Or government, our people do not seem to fancy that. They are trying to fight a problem without pulling it from the roots, instead, they're trying to cut its branches. It will grow again. How many times will you cut it, and keep watering the roots? It will grow again and again. All programs of war on poverty deal with former and not the latter. They deal with symptoms, not the disease. Distributing money in families, does not help in eradicating poverty. This money should be used to end joblessness, debts, loans, and ultimately poverty will deviate itself.

 If we turn back the pages of history, you will see how Americans fought a war against poverty and poverty won. Poverty will win, if you do not fight its causes. For once, think, Pakistan possesses tons of problems, which push us in the pit of poverty. Our fight is not against poverty! Its against the causes of poverty that predominate even now.