October 7, 2026
Almost half the people living on under $3 a day across the Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan and Pakistan are Pakistani — a share matched only by the region's three war-torn states combined.
July 26, 2026
Ninety-seven people have died in this monsoon season, and the single leading cause is not flood water. It is houses falling down. Aflatoon considers what it means that the deadliest thing about the rain in Pakistan is the buildings, and why that fact never makes the headline.
June 29, 2026
A nation among the most savaged by climate-driven floods is racing to burn ever more of the dirtiest fuel beneath its own feet — and the contradiction is not hypocrisy but a confession about who is permitted to think about tomorrow.
June 19, 2026
A report launched by the National Commission for Human Rights and UNICEF — the country's first nationally representative child-labour dataset in nearly 30 years — maps the scale and drivers, with Punjab bearing the heaviest burden and poverty the strongest cause.
Fiscal, labor and social reforms can prevent Pakistan from slipping back into poverty trap after 20 years of progress, says expert Pakistan will soon be on a path to reduce poverty and improve other socio-economic indicators, says Dar. PHOTO: REUTERS KARACHI: Pakistan’s progress in reducing poverty has stalled after nearly two decades of steady gains, experts warned at the Fifth Annual Conference of the School of Economics and Social Sciences (SESS), Institute of Business Administration (IBA), held on November 13-14, 2025, themed ‘A New Global Order, Yet A’. During a panel titled “Pakistan at a Crossroads: Poverty, Development and Global
The lender bases the rating on simulation data. Floods in Punjab deepen losses of rural households World Bank. PHOTO: FILE Islamabad: The World Bank claimed on Tuesday that Pakistan’s poverty rate fell to 22.2 percent and will sink further to pre-Covid levels this year, but reiterated that the country’s current rate of economic growth was not enough to reduce poverty and improve living standards. The lender’s paradoxical statements underscore the urgent need for the latest reliable data, as the World Bank has assumed poverty reduction by running a simulation exercise on Pakistan’s 2019 consumption data. The Washington-based lender released its
Karachi: Pakistan today is at an impressive crossroads of perception and reality. On the surface, head numbers tell a revival story – the stock market by escalating high records, inflation has cooled from recent peaks, and the government proudly highlights a stabilized economy under the IMF program. However, under these optimistic indicators there is a harder truth: millions of Pakistans flock deeper into poverty, their livelihoods abused by inflation, weak social protection and limited opportunities. The latest assessment of the poverty and resilience of the World Bank determines this gap expanding, showing that the triumph in macroeconomic charts covers the
Pakistan’s sharp decline in poverty has stopped in recent years due to economic vibrations and the lack of structural reforms, the World Bank said on Tuesday. The international lender said that between 2001 and 2015, a wave of urbanization helped reduce the national poverty rate from 64% to 22% by 2019, as agricultural workers were transferred to informal urban jobs in areas such as transport, construction and trade. However, this progress has since slowed down, with poverty rising to 25% by 2024. “The development model that supported the initial decline in poverty has proved inadequate to maintain progress,” said a
An image of a representation showing a child receiving foods distributed by a charity organization. – Reuters/file Pakistan’s poverty level increases by 7% in three years: WB employee. 85% people work in low -income areas, 95% in informal. Wages rose by 2-3% from 2011-2021, AMGAABAZAR says. ISLAMABAD: World Bank (WB) has called for reforms with intense, preserved and focused people to reduce poverty, strengthen resilience and protecting vulnerable populations in the midst of an existing 25.3% poverty rate in Pakistan. The lender’s report “inhibits the impulse of prosperity: poverty, equality and evaluation of Pakistan’s resilience, is based on 25 years
—فائل فوٹو ایران نے اسرائیل کے ساتھ ہونے والی 12 روزہ جنگ کے بعد افغانیوں کو ان کے وطن واپس بھیجنے کی کوششیں تیز کردیں جس کے پیشِ نظر ہزاروں افغانیوں کا ایران سے انخلا جاری ہے۔ غیر ملکی خبر رساں ایجنسی کے مطابق 31 سالہ افغان خاتون حبیبہ جو طالبان کے دورِ حکومت سے بچ کر ایران میں انجینئرنگ میں ماسٹرز کرنے گئی تھیں، وہ گزشتہ ماہ جولائی میں اس وقت افغانستان واپس بھیج دی گئیں ہیں جب وہ اپنی تعلیم مکمل کرنے کے بالکل قریب تھیں۔ افغان بارڈر کی پوسٹ پر انٹرویو کے دوران افغان شہری حبیبہ نے ’بین
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