Three recent benchmark initiatives in Islamabad, the constitutional amendment, the Dawn Population Summit, and the PBS DataFest 2025, signal together a turning point for Pakistan’s population agenda. Together, they lay bare a simple but urgent truth that policy, governance, and development must begin with the rights and needs of the people. Population management is, at […]
Population
Finmin links economic future to climate action, population
Federal Minister for Finance, Senator Muhammad Aurangzeb, has underscored that Pakistan’s long-term economic prospects depend on effectively confronting the dual national challenges of rapid population growth and climate vulnerability. He made this observation during his address to the launch ceremony of the District Vulnerability Index for Pakistan (DVIP), organised by the Population Council in Islamabad […]
Health minister encourages confidence in HPV vaccine
Sindh’s Health and Population Welfare Minister, Dr. Azra Fazal Pechuho, issued a stern warning about the escalating cervical cancer crisis, decrying the dangerous spread of vaccine misinformation on social media platforms and highlighting the Cyber Crime Department’s uncompromising approach against perpetrators as the vaccination campaign is extended to October 1. While in an exclusive conversation […]
Joy, fear as India’s population becomes world’s biggest
Exhausted, elated and cradling her newborn daughter in a rundown government hospital, young mother Manu Bala had just helped make India the world’s most populous nation. Tears of joy and relief streamed down Bala’s cheeks as her as-yet-unnamed child – one of more than 67,000 born across India on Monday – rested on her chest. […]
China population to begin shrinking by 2025
BEIJING: Chinese population Officials say it will begin to shrink by 2025 as family sizes get smaller and citizens age. The world’s most populous country is struggling with a demographic crisis as it faces a rapidly aging workforce, a slowing economy, and its weakest population growth for many decades. And although officials have relaxed the strictness of […]
Ulema conference held on population issue
ISLAMABAD: The Ministry of National Health Services, Regulations, and Coordination in collaboration with the Council of Islamic Ideology (CII) on Monday arranged an Ulema Conference on the population issue. The conference was attended by a score of renowned religious scholars of different schools of thought. Minister for Health, Abdul Qadir Baloch was the chief guest […]
NIPS estimates country’s population around 215.25 million
ISLAMABAD: The National Institute of Population Studies (NIPS) has estimated the population of Pakistan as 215.25 million with the growth rate of 1.80 percent in 2021 and population density of 270 per km according to the Economic Survey of Pakistan announced on Thursday by Minister for Finance and Revenue Shaukat Tarin, The country has an […]
A third child? No, thanks, say young Chinese
China wants its women to have more children but for many young people, the government’s big promises of support mean little because of soaring living costs and changing mindsets about families. On Monday, the world’s most populous nation further relaxed its strict family planning controls, allowing couples to have three children after just 12 million […]
PMLN leaders accuse govt of ‘fudging’ economic figures
KARACHI: Pakistan Muslim League-N has said that the federal government of the Pakistan Tehree-e-Insaf has fudged figures to share ‘plethora of lies’ about its economic performance. Addressing a press conference, former federal minister for finance Miftah Ismail and former Sindh governor Muhammad Zubair said that the top three indicators of any economy were its GDP […]
Increased cooperation with Iran
Prime Minister (PM) Imran Khan’s visit to Tehran is a positive development. Not only is Iran Pakistan’s next door neighbour, it is also a major player on the world stage — despite repeated attempts by Washington to make it a pariah. Both Pakistan and Iran are also affected by many of the same issues, most […]