Tag: Poverty

World Bank warns climate change could add 100 million poor by...

Without the right policies to keep the poor safe from extreme weather and rising seas, climate change could drive over 100 million more people...

Trillions of dollars needed for anti-poverty plan, says UN

The 17 goals and 169 targets to end poverty, ensure healthy lives, promote education and combat climate change are even more sweeping than the UN's Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) that expire at the end of this year

Poverty alleviation on SAARC’s top agenda: Sharif

PM says SAARC countries can learn from best practices of each other in various fields for collective welfare of SAARC states Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif...

Poverty alleviation top priority of government: Jatoi

ISLAMABAD APP   A consultative workshop was launched by Federal Minister for Industries and Production Ghulam Murtaza Jatoi on Saturday which aimed at delineating a framework for...

Unemployed man kills wife, commits suicide

A poverty-stricken unemployed man committed suicide on Monday after strangulating his wife. Police said that the man, a resident of Kohluwala area of Gujranwala, was...

Widow involved in suicide case sent on judicial remand

Local court has sent the widow, who attempted to commit suicide along with her 4 children by jumping in the canal, on judicial remand. Police...

Poverty or gender: Two newly born girls abandoned in Lahore

In two different incidents, newly born baby girls were thrown away by their parents. The first incident took place near Reevaz Garden in Lahore....

What life could not give…

 With rising unemployment and crushing poverty breaking the public’s back, the government has been unable to provide its citizens the most basic of needs:...

Rape and murder of three minor sisters points to poverty and...

As India celebrated the One Billion Rising movement to fight violence against women on February 14, three little sisters aged five, nine and 11,...

US supports reduction of rural poverty in Pakistan

The United States government, Thursday, launched a two-day annual conference to review a range of policy issues to reduce rural poverty in Pakistan. ...

US supports reduction of rural poverty in Pakistan

The United States government launched Thursday a two-day annual conference to review a range of policy issues to reduce rural poverty in Pakistan. ...

Hyperreality of services

Pakistan is, by every definition of the term, a developing nation. Illiteracy, poverty and corruption are rampant, while economic, social and political reforms seem...

SAARC countries urged to collectively work for poverty eradication

The South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) countries should collectively endeavour to find the solutions of the common problems of the region such...

Denying girls school entrenches poverty

Millions of girls worldwide are not going to school, an education gap that condemns them to lives of hardship and entrenches broader extreme poverty,...

Poverty ratio soars to 37% ­as over 18m become poor

More than 18 million people had been added among poor in the last six years raising the poverty ratio to 37% of the population...

Poverty compels girl to attempt suicide

A young girl, attempted suicide on Tuesday after her father disallowed her admission in a college. Mehwish, a resident of Sarwar Colony, wanted to...

PPP has given only inflation, poverty and load-shedding: Munawar

Jamat-e-Islami (JI) chief Syed Munawar Hasan on Thursday said that the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) has given nothing to the country except inflation, poverty...