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JulPakistan 27th in global population growth
By Shahbaz Rana Published in The Express Tribune on July 19, 2024 ISLAMABAD: The country’s population growth rate has accelerated to the 27th fastest in the world and its 79% people are young under the age of 40 years, revealed findings of the 7th Population Census that the government officially […]
Census 2023: Urban spurt, educational crisis and going ‘off-grid’
By Abdul Moiz Malik Published in Dawn on July 19, 2024 KARACHI: Almost a year after the Council of Common Interests (CCI) “unanimously” approved the results of the 2023 digital census, the country’s top data body has released detailed results of the enumeration exercise. The Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS)[…]
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JulBeating the Heat in Pakistan
Published in earthobservatory.nasa.gov on May 16, 2024 As heat waves become more intense due to climate change, people in cities all over the world are facing more challenging summer conditions. Among them is Lahore, a city in northern Pakistan where only about ten percent of the population has access to[…]
Miles to go
Published in Dawn on July 14, 2024 PRIME Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s budget for the present fiscal year has whipped up seething anger against his administration at home but won him a $7bn package from the IMF to temporarily shore up an embattled economy. An IMF statement says that it has[…]
