Growing crisis
AN emergency can be judged by the speed with which it draws an effective response. The National Population Council’s executive committee has declared rapid population growth a national emergency. But Pakistan has been warned about this crisis for decades, with little to show for it. People still struggle to obtain reproductive healthcare, clinics run short of contraceptives, and millions of…
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AN emergency can be judged by the speed with which it draws an effective response. The National Population Council’s executive committee has declared rapid population growth a national emergency. But Pakistan has been warned about this crisis for decades,…


