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NovBy Amin Ahmed Published in Dawn on November 05, 2025 ISLAMABAD: An analysis of a World Bank policy research working paper reveals that Pakistan’s true level of urbanisation is close to 88 per cent, based on satellite imagery and the Degree of Urbanisation methodology. According to the working paper titled “When Does a Village Become a Town?: […]
Published in Dawn on November 03, 2025 WOMEN shoulder the overwhelming majority of unpaid domestic and care work, a new report by the ILO has revealed. According to the labour body, of the 117.4m Pakistanis engaged in such work, nearly 67m are women. They cook, clean, tend livestock, and look after children, the elderly, and the sick[…]
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NovAzadeh Moshiri Published in bbc.com on November 02, 2025 Rescuers and relatives searched knee-deep in water for the body of one-year-old Zara. She’d been swept away by flash floods; the bodies of her parents and three siblings had already been found days earlier. “We suddenly saw a lot of water. I climbed up to the roof and[…]
