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Khawaja Nazimuddin, Pakistan's second Prime Minister, argued against equal rights for all citizens in an Islamic state. [23] However, The Constitution of Pakistan establishes Islam as the state religion, [24] and provides that all citizens have the right to profess, practice and propagate their religion subject to law, public order, and morality. [25]
A political and constitutional crisis emerged in Pakistan from, 3 April 2022 to 10 April 2022 when, National Assembly's Deputy Speaker Qasim Khan Suri dismissed a no-confidence motion against Prime Minister Imran Khan during a session in which it was expected to be taken up for a vote, alleging that a foreign country's involvement in the regime change was contradictory to Article 5 of the ...
Pakistan still has a low literacy rate relative to other countries. [9] As of 2022 Pakistan's literacy rates range from 96% in Islamabad to 23% in the Torghar District. [10] Literacy rates vary by gender and region. In tribal areas female literacy is 9.5%, [11] while Azad Kashmir has a literacy rate of 91%. [12]
2022 Pakistan floods in summer cause over $30 billion dollars in economic losses in Pakistan. [26] At the end of March 2022, the State Bank of Pakistan's reserves stood at $11.425bn, but they gradually tanked to an almost four-year low of $6.715bn on 2 December. Pakistan's foreign exchange reserves equal to just five weeks of merchandise ...
Since 1994, the Pakistan Polio Eradication Programme has been fighting to end the crippling poliovirus from the country. The initiative is driven by up to 339,521 trained and dedicated polio workers, [15] the largest surveillance [16] network in the world, quality data collection and analysis, behavioral change communication, state of the art laboratories, and some of the best epidemiologists ...
A global value chain (GVC) refers to the full range of activities that economic actors engage in to bring a product to market. [1] The global value chain does not only involve production processes, but preproduction (such as design) and postproduction processes (such as marketing and distribution). [1]
The Pakistan Economic Survey is an annual report on the performance of the economy, focusing in particular on major macroeconomic indicators. Finance Minister Shaukat Tarin briefed on 10 June 2021, the Pakistan Economic Survey 2020-21 at a press conference in Islamabad on Thursday, revealing that the industrial and services sectors had helped the economy rebound and post GDP growth of 3.94 per ...
Poverty in Pakistan has been recorded by the World Bank at 39.3% using the lower middle-income poverty rate of US$ 3.2 per day for the fiscal year 2020–21. [1] In September 2021, the government stated that 22% percent of its population lives below the national poverty line [2] set at Rs.