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Posts Tagged ‘Pakistan Population’

Opportunities and Challenges of Population Boom

By Alam Rind • Apr 29th, 2010 • Category: Worth A Second Look

The nature has gifted Pakistan with lofty snow clad mountains, gushing rivers, fertile plans, beautiful beaches and above all a huge wealth of human resource. Out of all, human resource is the most important. It is through proper management of this precious resource that we can optimize growth of a country. On the other hand, [...]



Demographic Overtures

By Khalid Khokar • Mar 11th, 2010 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

WHILE the Government is confronted with host of emergent problems relating to restive Balochistan, suicide bombing, political tug-of-war, it has not put Pakistan’s fault lines in the backburners - economic development, abject poverty, water concerns, urbanization, environmental hazards.  In fact, demographists and economists have established a causal relationship between over-population and scarcity of resources like [...]



Happy Wedding of 64 Millions Eastern Sheep…Applause!!!!

By Engr. K. Shahzad • Jul 10th, 2009 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

Let’s talk about 80 of 170 Millions sheep who were the registered voters to elect their representatives in Election-08, out of which approx. 36 Millions (46%) bothered to voice their choice through vote. And taking the hint from literacy rate (50%) the half of these 18 Million were illiterate, leaving the 18 Million literate to [...]