From the age of 10, Amina has been scrubbing, sweeping and cooking in a middle-class home in Pakistan's megacity of Karachi.

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As World Habitat Day 2025, which falls on October 6, calls for ‘Urban Solutions to Crisis’, Pakistan faces a stark choice.

This infographic shows the countries in which the proportion of the urban population living in slums was greater than 30 percent in 2022.

ISLAMABAD: The World Bank (WB) has projected Pakistan’s poverty rate at 25.3 percent, indicating more than 60 million people are living in the cruel clutches of poverty. The WB argAues that the growth ...

After 20 years of progress, a recently released World Bank report paints a grim picture: one in four Pakistanis now lives in poverty, with peaks of 42.7 per cent in Balochistan. This is driven by a ...

As Pakistan grapples with the increasingly dire consequences of climate change, the suffering of the nation’s millions of poor people worsens due to glaring negligence from the state. August was the ...

(Reuters) -Pakistan’s sharp decline in poverty has stalled in recent years due to economic shocks and a lack of structural reforms, the World Bank said on Tuesday. The international lender said that ...

KARACHI, Pakistan — Until recently, polio was considered a poor man’s problem in Pakistan — a crippling virus that festered in the mountainous tribal belt, traversed the country on interprovincial ...