As winter migratory birds descend across Pakistan’s shimmering wetlands, conservationists on Sunday feared that one of nature’s oldest migration stories is expected to approach a breaking point if Indus Water Treaty’s violations by India continue for a longer period of time. From the mangrove forests of Sindh to the tranquil waters of Keenjhar and Haleji […]
Population
Provinces urged to deliver on population commitments
The Population Council, in collaboration with the Information Service Academy (ISA) and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), convened a Media Coalition Meeting in Islamabad to strengthen the media’s role in advancing Pakistan’s National Action Plan on population under the Council of Common Interests (CCI). The meeting brought together senior journalists, communication experts, and public […]
Senate body deliberates on population, reproductive health bill
The Senate Standing Committee on National Health Services, Regulations and Coordination convened under the Chairmanship of Senator Amir Waliuddin Chishti to deliberate on key legislative, policy, and administrative matters pertaining to the health sector. The Committee considered the Private Member’s Bill titled “The National Population and Reproductive Health Bill, 2026”, reviewed issues relating to the […]
Tarar stresses multi-pronged strategy to curb population explosion
Minister for Information and Broadcasting Attaullah Tarar on Tuesday urged a comprehensive, multi-pronged strategy to address Pakistan’s surging population, calling for coordinated cross-sector efforts and intensified public awareness campaigns to curb the explosion in growth. Speaking at the Population Summit 2025, Tarar underscored the importance of engaging Ulema and parliamentarians in shaping the discourse, stressing […]
Azma calls for clear population management strategy
Punjab Minister for Information and Culture Azma Bokhari has said that achieving balance in population growth is fundamental for national development, social stability, and public welfare. She emphasized that nations across the globe-particularly Islamic countries-have implemented clear and effective population management strategies, and Pakistan must move forward with the same level of clarity and commitment. […]
Population Bomb
The government of Sindh has unveiled the “Greater Karachi Regional Plan 2047”, promising a coherent long-term framework to guide the megalopolis’s growth over the next two decades. It sounds visionary. Yet for residents navigating grid-locked streets and overflowing neighbourhoods, these pronouncements ring painfully familiar. The city has seen a century of master-plans–from 1950s resettlement schemes […]
Pakistan’s Population Promise Amid Political Reforms
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 […]
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. […]