Thousands of people displaced by floods in 2022 in Sindh, Pakistan are still homeless, Feb 20, 2023. Credit: Twitter/Voices of Water Subscribe for ads-free reading It is when a natural disaster hits a ...

Rapid increase in population in Pakistan has been an alarming concern as the South Asian country continues to deal with ...

Pakistan's progress in poverty reduction has stalled after nearly two decades of steady gains, experts warned at the Fifth Annual International Conference of the School of Economics and Social ...

The World Bank has revised the global income thresholds used to measure poverty, resulting in a big increase in Pakistan's poverty headcount, which now stands at 44.7%. However, experts caution that ...

New Delhi: Pakistan’s once-promising poverty reduction trajectory has come to a “troubling halt” with the poverty rate rising by 7 percentage points between 2021-2022 and 2023-2024 to reach 25.3 ...

London, Oct 24: Pakistan is facing a deepening poverty crisis that reflects the convergence of economic mismanagement, structural inefficiencies, and environmental devastation. Poverty Rate Jumps, ...

Shahid Masih, a Catholic dressmaker, was struggling with decreasing customers during the pandemic when one of them offered his 14-year-old daughter a job. Saddam Hayat offered Mashi's teenage daughter ...

The rains began in June 2022, and soon afterward more than a third of Pakistan was underwater. Around 1,400 people lost their lives, including 458 children, and half a million are displaced. Pakistan ...

Without sustained efforts to introduce population control, Pakistan is unlikely to prosper along the lines envisioned by P.M. Imran Khan Writing in daily Dawn on Feb. 2, columnist Zahid Husain ...

ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan-China Friendship Group in Parliament convened its inaugural meeting at the Parliament House, chaired by Senator Sherry Rehman, reaffirming the “all-weather, time-tested, ...

In any functioning democracy, poverty should be treated as an economic and human challenge, not a political asset. Yet, in Pakistan, the persistence of poverty has increasingly been converted into a ...

Numbers often illuminate less than they obscure. In Pakistan, and official poverty statistics fluctuate dramatically —from one survey showing barely one-fifth of the population below the poverty line ...